Recommendations for a 12" speaker amp

I think a great combo amp at home for practise is abit... how should a put it. Bo hua... LoL. Cos afterall its still gona stay at home... Who's gona hear your "great" tone.

If your budget allows, go for the Head and Cab options.

Pluses:
Can switch heads and Cabs easily, upgrades or downgrades or A/Bing in a snap.

Can bring the head to gigs and you'll still preserve all of the tone that you've tweaked for hours to achieve. Beats lugging around a 50Watt full tube Combo, (who does that anyway?)
 
seekz said:
Pluses:
Can bring the head to gigs and you'll still preserve all of the tone that you've tweaked for hours to achieve. Beats lugging around a 50Watt full tube Combo, (who does that anyway?)

Wrong. Whatever's tweaked at home and then matching the head to a cabinet fitted with different speakers at gigs will yield a different tone.
 
hmm .. the practicality issues aside.. i feel a good compromise will be the fender deluxe reverb reissue. Its actually not heavy.. i used bring it along with my pedal board and guitars to my weekly gig and actually found my pedal board more troublesome then the amp. Very hardy.. this amp has suffered many bumps and still works like brand new.

it works great with both acoustic and electric guitars. its clean is well .. FENDER all the way la.. to put it bluntly. Dirty tones will depend largely on the pedals you put infront of it.

Price wise should be in the 1.5-2k Range - do grab a second hand one if available.
 
almondx said:
Haha I need something to upgrade from my smarvo 40 watts 112. Very bright amp that one and not enough depth/headroom.

But have another guitar to acquire first 8)

The Smarvo 4010RC 2x10" is also not too bad for a little over $200...so is the 4x12" cab and head combo for $640 if i remember correctly.

The Drive channels on them dont really please me but the clean channels are superb for the price...one probably uses efx for boost anyway.

My 2 cents on these China made wonders.

:D
 
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