Low wattage hunt

[Dyllheaven88]

Currently back in an apt , between. A haze 15 a Marshall jvm-1 and a Diezel zerrer with headphones , anybody have some suggestions !

 

[nightlight]

What do you want to play with it? Metal or other genres? There are some good options for preamp pedals.

 

[Dyllheaven88]

What do you want to play with it? Metal or other genres? There are some good options for preamp pedals.

Mostly on the metal - punk side , nothing crazy , standard - c is about as low as I go tuning wise ,

 

[MadAsAHatter]

Low wattage doesn't always equal low volume. I have a 5 watt Class A amp that will pump out 110 dB of volume. If you're mostly playing punk and metal you're not going to be pushing for power tube saturation. You'll be getting most of your distortion from the preamp side. Don't worry about wattage and look at amps with a good master volume. Most amps these days have excellent MV's.

What's you budget?

 

[Wayniac3]

The ENGL Ironball & Fireball 25 are decent

 

[jchrisf]

I love my DSL1HR. It has a 1/4 watt mode too which is where I use it.

 

[GuitarVacation]

I can't recommend a Fryette Power Station enough. I'm picky and hard headed, and I want to hear my tube amps through a guitar cab. A PS allows this at low volume, or high volume.

And you can still line out into an interface. Solves so many issues.

 

[rsm]

Try a few computer plugins?

I can play my tube amps loud, and use my computer plugins more.

 

[acidvoodoo]

That new Laney Supergrace pedal might be worth looking at.

 

[griff10672]

Try a few computer plugins?

I can play my tube amps loud, and use my computer plugins more.

When I was in a apartment ....... I used Amplitube on my computer and headphones ..... worked great !! The same ... of course not .... but it worked better than I thought

 

[Dyllheaven88]

I went the interface route and was never really happy about it , budget is around 1-1500

 

[rsm]

When I was in a apartment ....... I used Amplitube on my computer and headphones ..... worked great !! The same ... of course not .... but it worked better than I thought

It's not the same of course, but it works great.

I usually just play through my nearfield monitors most of the time.

If I use my dedicated Dell tablet /audio interface into a powered PA, it can get very loud like my tube amps.

 

[S̷͖͑m̵͎͂á̵̺s̸͚̈́h̴̬̑]

I would get a little fender mustang gtx or katana artist and just have fun with it. I think both have headphone capabilities. I don't think you are going to get godly tone, but there is a lot of cool models on them.

I played a vyper vip2 about five years ago at guitar center and had a blast. They are fun for what they are

 

[rsm]

My Diezel VHX has a headphone and DI out; has cab sims and supports user IRs.

I've only used it with guitar cabs, so can't comment on how well the other outputs work.

My Mesa JP-2C has a cab sim direct out; never tried it.

There are probably similar options with other modern amps.

 

[RaceU4her]

love my randall 1w head as much as any of my big boy amps. the FX loop is great.

 

[japetus]

love my randall 1w head as much as any of my big boy amps. the FX loop is great.

Was about to suggest it

 

[VonBonfire]

Wish I could be more help but truthfully my only suggestion for that situation is to just quit playing guitar. You can list your axe in the marketplace here if you have 50 posts. GLWTS.

 

[skoora]

If anything the problem you face is too many options. Do you care about how well it records or might play with people using it? If you get an amp, definitely with a loop, so you can use preamp pedals if you want. If you don’t care too much about built in FX, go with a smaller tube amp that has one to two great tones, responds well to volume rolloff vs. something with 10 OK ones.
The Toneking Royalist (clean to mean plexi) and Imperial (clean to dirty BF Fender) pedals and the Friedman IR-d (clean to high gain) would probably all crush into the return of a small tube amp with a 12” speaker but also work really well as standalone, direct recording tools.