Opinions on the best SS Amps?

Creed_Clicks

PinstripePhil said:

Quilter with any good preamp pedal is killer.  I can recommend any sort of echoplex style pedal or the holy grail: a Nocturne JrBarnyard. 

I just use the Quilter 101 mini straight into a cab. Would you recommend a preamp pedal and then into the cab?

Voxman

sweepy said:

The old Sessionette 75 is a cracking amp also don’t rule out old Pevey Bandits etc as a pedal platform 

Had one of those (Sessionette 75) with the Mosfet - it was plenty loud, very portable, had reverb, & good EQ control - but it was sterile, lacked warmth and I just didn't get on with it. I sold it and bought a Mk 1 Marshall Valvestate 80V 8080 1x12 which was a much, much better amp and which I still use today.   

Grumpyrocker

I used a Hohner Marlin 50C all through university, played it plenty of times live. Mate I had bought it off had gigged it too. It was probably pish, but it did the job. 

gearaddict

ragingben said:

AMT Stonehead is great, covers a wide range of sounds really well, and is a very small but robust head.

Still got it then?

I should have held on to mine. Was a very cool thing.

Fretwired

ICBM said:

They do sound great, but you must have been one of the few people who didn't have trouble with them. A rehearsal studio I work for bought half a dozen of them at the time - every one died within a few months. Once they were out of warranty I modded the surviving ones to make them a bit more reliable.

Valve or solid state? I had a solid state Super Tramp that was mega reliable. I sold it on after 10 years and it's still going strong.

I currently has a Roland JC-22 which sounds awesome. Takes pedals and FX units really well.

ICBM

Fretwired said:

Valve or solid state? I had a solid state Super Tramp that was mega reliable. I sold it on after 10 years and it's still going strong.

All of them. The first - non 'Tube' - series was marginally worse, but none of them - or any guitar amps Trace ever made - are really reliable.

It's still luck of the draw to some extent though.