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Bogner Goldfinger: Broke within a week. Combo has design flaw and vibrates.
Fryette Sig:X : Broke within 2 weeks, refunded.
2 AC30 handwired combos - faulty.
Wouldn't have bought them if I hadn't.
apartnfrom the green crunch channel it was a disaster
everything else I've more or less kept apart from a couple of trades
Any of the victory amps. Martin Kidd was a genius at Cornford but the victory stuff is just garbage
Marshall SL-5: Such a thin lifeless tone. No bottom end balls whatsoever. Even when pushing a 4x12
Blackstar HT20: One of the worst amps I've ever played. Buzzsaw overdrive tone. A complete piece of shit amp. Belongs in a landfill
I keep hoping to find a two-channel amp to fit this niche, and recently I came across a Mesa Recto-Verb 25. Looked lovely—it was a custom color with burgundy tolex and a wicker grille—but I couldn’t get a sound I genuinely liked out of any of the modes. So off it went, too.
I’m beginning to conclude that I’m not going to find something I like for this purpose better than the YGL-1, so I might just have to pick up a second one and run it with an A/B box.
Apart from the two above mentioned I can usually tweak them to my liking a bit anyway.
VHT deliverance 60 - great amp, just not for me!
Bogner ecstacy 101b - great sounding but was literally falling apart, I don't rate bogners build at all.
orange rockerverb mk1 - to me it just didn't sound like an orange.
It had good reviews, would have fitted my needs. So I ordered one from Andertons.
I had it out of the box for five minutes. Horrible midrange honk , I mean super super noticable. Never heard anything like this. Also the master volume control had the worst taper of anything I've used - it had two settings - off and too loud to use at home. Phoned up Andertons and arranged a return "because it sounds like utter crap", which they were happy to sort for me.
I've owned all kinds of amps of high gain valve monsters to small modelling things, but the Spider Valve was the only one I hated instantly.