hillerheilman
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Hey all.
I recently completed a project guitar and I'm looking to upgrade from my current crappy squier starter amp to something more suitable for my new baby. I've looked at a few things, but my needs are fairly specific and nothing fits completely.
Basically, I want an amp that's focused mainly on clean sounds that I could put an OD or fuzz in front of if I need some more gain. It doesn't need to be very loud. My main intent is to record and jam with friends, and maybe eventually a very small pub gig or something. I'd like to have a way to do silent practice as well. For this I figured the easiest way is to get an amp with a headphone jack and run out from that to a cab sim like the neunaber iconoclast, and then into an interface to record.(Basically using it as a preamp with no cab when recording)
I'd also need to be able to lift it with one arm fairly easily due to a disability.
So far I've looked into:
Orange micro terror
H&k tubemeister 18
Bugera t5
Yamaha thr 10
With all these I've seen some okay demos. The bugera sounds closest to what I'd want I think, but not perfect.
I'd like something that has that voxy chime and gets to that sort of edge of breakup tone when maxed out, and then if I need more I can use an OD. I really like a lot of bluesy(Peter Green, Lowell George, BB King, Duane Allman, you get the idea) stuff being mostly a slide player, but I'd also like to get Clapton era cream and Hendrix esque tones if I can.
I know that kind of sounds a tall order but does anyone have recommendations? I've considered going the route of having something custom built for this purpose as I did with the guitar, but I'm not sure exactly where I'd go for that, nor if my $1200-$1500 budget can handle a custom job.
Any help is appreciated.
~Hiller
I recently completed a project guitar and I'm looking to upgrade from my current crappy squier starter amp to something more suitable for my new baby. I've looked at a few things, but my needs are fairly specific and nothing fits completely.
Basically, I want an amp that's focused mainly on clean sounds that I could put an OD or fuzz in front of if I need some more gain. It doesn't need to be very loud. My main intent is to record and jam with friends, and maybe eventually a very small pub gig or something. I'd like to have a way to do silent practice as well. For this I figured the easiest way is to get an amp with a headphone jack and run out from that to a cab sim like the neunaber iconoclast, and then into an interface to record.(Basically using it as a preamp with no cab when recording)
I'd also need to be able to lift it with one arm fairly easily due to a disability.
So far I've looked into:
Orange micro terror
H&k tubemeister 18
Bugera t5
Yamaha thr 10
With all these I've seen some okay demos. The bugera sounds closest to what I'd want I think, but not perfect.
I'd like something that has that voxy chime and gets to that sort of edge of breakup tone when maxed out, and then if I need more I can use an OD. I really like a lot of bluesy(Peter Green, Lowell George, BB King, Duane Allman, you get the idea) stuff being mostly a slide player, but I'd also like to get Clapton era cream and Hendrix esque tones if I can.
I know that kind of sounds a tall order but does anyone have recommendations? I've considered going the route of having something custom built for this purpose as I did with the guitar, but I'm not sure exactly where I'd go for that, nor if my $1200-$1500 budget can handle a custom job.
Any help is appreciated.
~Hiller