WTB ~5w combo for home

liamon

Looking for a high-end combo for home use. Think rift, lazy j, Victoria etc. Let me know what’s in your attic. 

Fuengi

Bargain Eli Abbott 5e3 in the classified section ATM (not mine).

liamon

Fuengi said:

Bargain Eli Abbott 5e3 in the classified section ATM (not mine).

Looks lovely but too much heft at 20w. 

hoops

Fender 57 Champ in classifieds 

mattacjones

liamon said:

Fuengi said:

Bargain Eli Abbott 5e3 in the classified section ATM (not mine).

Looks lovely but too much heft at 20w. 

I've have had both, not really much difference in volume. 5w is pretty loud (did a couple of smallish gigs and loads of rehearsals with my 5w)

greejn

Hi- have a nice Victoria 2-stroke, £700. Cheers, Jon

greejn

Just checked, it's 15w and a bit noisy...

DrCornelius

Have a word with Barry over at Vyse Amps. He can do you a fantastic tweed champ clone (4w I think, high and normal input plus vol and tone) for around £250. Crazy value for a hand wired uk built amp. I love mine

hamfists

I have tone king falcon I’m thinking of selling if your interested it’s 13 watts but has the a
ttenuator

Fuengi

hamfists said:

I have tone king falcon I’m thinking of selling if your interested it’s 13 watts but has the a
ttenuator

Very nice amp. I've got the 10" version and it's compact, light and looks great. The attenuation means you can play it whisper quiet to gig level. 

RevMatt

It may not be high end enough but I have a lovely Blackstar Artisan 10 (AE10) in Burgundy. 

AlexHunter

Cornford Harlequin. Early version with small logo and metal grille. Handwired, 6 watts, Hi/Lo inputs.

welshboyo

Bogner Atma Combo?

can do 1 watt, 5 watt and 18 watt.

Jimbro66

DrCornelius said:

Have a word with Barry over at Vyse Amps. He can do you a fantastic tweed champ clone (4w I think, high and normal input plus vol and tone) for around £250. Crazy value for a hand wired uk built amp. I love mine

+1 for Vyse. Barry made me a blackface champ style 4-5w amp but with full bass/mid/treble controls, high and low gain inputs, a 10” alnico speaker and a headphone output win level control. It’s perfect for home use.

freemeat

Jimbro66 said:

DrCornelius said:

Have a word with Barry over at Vyse Amps. He can do you a fantastic tweed champ clone (4w I think, high and normal input plus vol and tone) for around £250. Crazy value for a hand wired uk built amp. I love mine

+1 for Vyse. Barry made me a blackface champ style 4-5w amp but with full bass/mid/treble controls, high and low gain inputs, a 10” alnico speaker and a headphone output win level control. It’s perfect for home use.

How much was that, roughly? Sounds exactly what I'm after. 

DrCornelius

freemeat said:

Jimbro66 said:

DrCornelius said:

Have a word with Barry over at Vyse Amps. He can do you a fantastic tweed champ clone (4w I think, high and normal input plus vol and tone) for around £250. Crazy value for a hand wired uk built amp. I love mine

+1 for Vyse. Barry made me a blackface champ style 4-5w amp but with full bass/mid/treble controls, high and low gain inputs, a 10” alnico speaker and a headphone output win level control. It’s perfect for home use.

How much was that, roughly? Sounds exactly what I'm after. 

I think the regular price is round about £350 but when I spoke to Barry he had a chassis already finished sitting around so he sorted the cabinet out to my specs and did a deal. Think it worked out about £250 all in.

I loved mine so much I went out and bought a tweed deluxe so I can use it out of the the house too. I’m now flipping a mental coin in my head whether I need the cub too as they sound pretty similar.

The cub overdrives at home volume nicely but is exactly that , a home or recording amp rather than one you can take to a jam (imho)

Jimbro66

freemeat said:

Jimbro66 said:

DrCornelius said:

Have a word with Barry over at Vyse Amps. He can do you a fantastic tweed champ clone (4w I think, high and normal input plus vol and tone) for around £250. Crazy value for a hand wired uk built amp. I love mine

+1 for Vyse. Barry made me a blackface champ style 4-5w amp but with full bass/mid/treble controls, high and low gain inputs, a 10” alnico speaker and a headphone output win level control. It’s perfect for home use.

How much was that, roughly? Sounds exactly what I'm after. 

It worked out around £550 in the end which is about £200 more than the standard Vyse 8" Champ but it takes account of the larger cab, 10" alnico speaker, more comprehensive tone controls and the headphone outlet. I also had mine finished in blonde Tolex. It's a lot of amp for that money being all hand wired with quality components. Does the job perfectly for me.

bacchanalian

If you can find one a Victoria Regal II can run from approximately 2.5 to 55 watts depending on what valves you put in it.  All valve tremolo and spring reverb. They are 1x15 as standard and are about as overkill as possible for a home practice amp but can be gigged if you put in the bigger bottles.

gringopig

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