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I used to love seeing the toroidal bitch in my old Laney.
A small footprint valve power amp is the holy grail as far as i'm concerned and have been looking for a way of reducing my rack in size for a couple of years now.
I use a JMP-1 into a Peavey Classic 60 x 60 power amp which is 3u high for a good reason
It has three transformers in it, 3 ecc83's and four 6l6's standing up right
There's no over heating problems with this design as the cooling is done from a large fan at the back of the rack which draws air from the vents at the front across the valves and out the back.
The nice thing about this power amp is you can run it in mono by just using the left input and turning the right input gain right down.
It senses no load on the right hand side and turns that side off.
I've seen mono 120 watt versions on this amp but they are pretty scarce
Back in the heyday of rack systems, bass player used to run these amps as well as guitarists coz they sound pretty pokey.
The JMP-1 sounds great with this power amp and the peavey definitely makes a huge difference to the sound coz when i'm in lazy mode at rehearsals, i use a little EH Magnum 44 power amp instead of lugging in the peavey.
Although the magnum is loud enough to gig with, it doesn't have that warmth or depth of sound you get with the valve power amp.
You can pick these power amps up for a lot less than £300 and they are worth it mate, mines never let me down ever.
Its a great amp but I wish there was something out there that would do the same job with less weight.
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I've owned two over the years, the first one was a 120 x120w and the second was this one.
I found out about the mono switching thing from peavey usa, its not well documented.
I used to put a dummy load on the right hand side until I found out you can do this.
<○> Big Norm Feedback
the Marshall 8008 Valvestate is a great power amp. 80W a side, and can bridge to a mono 160W
if you can find one you can find one they go for less than £300..
mine's been awesome.. I've toured it silly for more than a decade and it only failed once [after some particularly rough handling by airport baggage handlers].. for tone, power and reliability I'd highly recommend them
I've run my 4x12 cabs 4, 8 [1 cab in stereo] and 16 ohm through it and it's been fine..
the 8008 is majorly loud
if you do take the Matrix route, go for the GT1000FX because it's a newer model than the GT800 and has the more valve-like feeling
in the past I've used:
Marshall 8008 [still have it and love it]
Matrix GT1000FX [which is now my main power amp]
Mesa Boogey Strategy 400 [huge, heavy, loud and awesome.. but you need a wheelbarrow to move it around]
Marshall EL34 100/100 [which was surprisingly not much different from the 8008.. sure it was a superb, amp but I expected it to be so much better than the 8008.. and it just wasn't.. kinda popped the EL34 GAS bubble that I'd had for a year of so leading up to that moment]
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein