So my brother is looking for a new guitar amp. Looking for:
- Budget > £200
- Portable
- Reliable
- Good with pedals
- Primarily for home use but would be good to have enough power for band rehearsals
- Headphone output (young kids at home. Alternatively, back me up and say that finding something other than the amp to tick this box would be better- he has a Zoom G3 that I think would be a better solution to the problem)
Please feel free to go as far
under budget as you like! No real preference for valve or solid state, but I don't think he's interested in modelling amps with loads of bells and whistles.
My suggestions were a Peavey Bandit, or maybe one of the 20W Jet City amps, both of which should be more than enough to keep up with a drummer, but don't have a headphone output.
What do you lot reckon?
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They do have a headphone output.
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EDIT: huh. It's got a 12" speaker. Ignore my size-ist comment. After all, it's not how big your speaker is, it's the sensitivity
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Else I might have to splash on something like an HT-20 or a Bogner Atma (gulp)
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EDIT: Bah! too late! I'm sure the HT5 is a good bet too.
If it's any consolation, if it had been my money and an amp for my use, I'd say that was a good shout. The VC15 is dead good. I just have that aforementioned phobia of speakers less than 12"...
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FWIW, I think the G3 is a really solid use of the £70 or so a used one costs- it'll work as a headphone practice tool (with a metronome/drum machine), a utility pedal to cover any number of effects you don't use much, a grab-and-go pedalboard for low-key stuff that you can't be bothered to take your full rig to, a DI, a recording interface, an emergency amp/cab sim in case your main amp shits it at a gig and probably a few more things besides. Easy to use, sounds good (except the pitch effects), costs very little. I don't know why everyone doesn't have one.
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We must be related - I too have a phobia of small speakers (although I am mostly a bass player) and I also rate the G3 very highly as it does almost everything pretty well. If it had an aux in it would be the complete practice tool, but that's a minor gripe.
On paper, the HT5 is a design triumph: how it ticks so many boxes and comes in at such a price point explains why it is such a best seller. I only hope it sounds good when it arrives. It's my first proper guitar amp as well (although I understand there is some debate about whether its a "proper" valve amp) as I've only had Cubes before. I might well have bought another Cube had a good deal come up as I really rate the clean tone, but I didn't want the fx or half of the amp models.