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Unless you are perhaps in a Clash tribute band
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Though I have to say I think your unwillingness to consider a downloaded and unofficial Clash Dub download album as an amp back up just shows a lack of imagination lol
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Tech 21 Character pedals or the Joyo equivalents get a lot of love. The second generation Character pedals have the speaker emulation switchable so it could live on your pedalboard as overdrive but ready to pounce into action should your valve amp blow up.
not cheap, but is excellent as an amp in its own right, and allows direct out as well as working with a cab. I use mine for all rehearsals and plug and play gigs, and take it as a backup to all my gigs. Its small light, sounds great and reliable.
I've had a bunch of pedals etc that do the same. Taken along combo solid state amps etc as well. None of them have sounded as good imo.
In 25 years of gigs I've had amps fail on me 3 times in a gig. It has never been the speaker part or the cab that goes, always the amp side. As such having a small head that you can plug in quickly should allow you to carry on with the gig (appreciate some combo's hard to do that as the speaker is connected to the amp internally).
but if the cab does go then you can use the problock directly into the PA and it still sounds good (tho you'd have to sort out some monitoring).
whats it like? how much (and thanks for the suggestion @Keefy
I think I paid about £60 for it used. I also own the Behringer GI-100 (about £35 new) and a Whirlwind Mic Eliminator (£20 in a shop clearance!), both of which require power. The Palmer comes to gigs because it is the smallest!
EDIT: Another cheap and portable option is the Digitech Bad Monkey. It has a second output labelled MIXER which incorporates speaker simulation. You can dial in the gain and tone controls to roughly approximate the sound of your amp.
There was a guy on the old musictoyz forum that gigged constantly and his entire amp setup consisted of a Dr Z combo and a matching head as a backup.
Sansamp Flyrig? Richie Kotzen has a sig version.
http://www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp/flyrig.html
I've always carried a simple pedal that can just go through the PA in an emergency - it might not sound good but it would work well enough to get through a gig.
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