Recommend me a good blues amp

[thiswaythatway]

I am looking for a broad, throaty crunch that even dimed sounds very rough and grainy. I'm looking for 2xfat clean with a 4xgooey reverb....... All in all very mellow, broad, and open sounds.

You can get that out of a Peavey Classic 30 (1x12). Put it side by side with a fender and you'll see. Pick them up for $350 used all day long.

Holy shit, someone else found out how good these little bastids can be

I stuck a Celestion Alnico Gold in my Classic 30, kept it off the overdrive channel, installed some sweet glass into it, and had it modded by Ho in Vancouver. Thing was up there with a Matchless in close-mic A/B tests. NO BS!!!!

Killer amp and with some mods and a sweet driver like the Alnico, dude, it's blissful for clean and semi-cleans, and it breaks up soooooooooooooooooo beautifully.

Mo

Just stay off the gain channel. I had a Peavy Classic 50 and thought it was muddy as all hell.

 

[srinivassa]

Man that Paisley clip sounds amazing.....

No doubt, Brad has chops, but Dr. Z's amps are top notch. He makes them here locally (Cleveland Ohio).

Yeah, that guy is responsible for some class A noodling there. Makes me want to check out his music. I hope it's not schlack.

A friend of mine has a Peavey Classic 30 .... it is not a bad amp.

Why not just use your Traynor ? I know what you mean .... but the Traynor will be better than most.

Yeah, I like the Classic 30. Basicly, it's the 12" version of the Delta Blues, or vice versa. I like the sound of the Delta Blues a little better, but I wouldn't mind hauling 13 less pounds a block and a half to the blues bar. Also, be nice to have much much more speaker options.

And yeah, the Traynor is fine. That's what I use now. With pedals, it can get pretty close to what I want. I was considering cutting a demo of me playing the Traynor, but it got a bit late on me. It sounds good though. I think I could get a little more raucous with a Delta Blues, but I might backburner the purchase. Probably just needless GAS.

The boutique amps were good though. It's cool to see what's out there. Don't know that I would save up for one now. That'd be a few years down the road. A couple of them sounded completely worth it though.

 

[EchelonEngineering]

I'm normally into 6L6/6V6 amps for blues and clean but that Zwreck sounds SICK even though it's running EL84 I'm in love!

how much is the ZWreck? anyone knows?

$4K I believe...amp and cab (they are not sold separately IIRC).

Yup you got it. awesome amp and I will have one, even if it takes me forever. lol

 

[Subclavian]

I am looking for a broad, throaty crunch that even dimed sounds very rough and grainy. I'm looking for 2xfat clean with a 4xgooey reverb....... All in all very mellow, broad, and open sounds.

You can get that out of a Peavey Classic 30 (1x12). Put it side by side with a fender and you'll see. Pick them up for $350 used all day long.

Holy shit, someone else found out how good these little bastids can be

I stuck a Celestion Alnico Gold in my Classic 30, kept it off the overdrive channel, installed some sweet glass into it, and had it modded by Ho in Vancouver. Thing was up there with a Matchless in close-mic A/B tests. NO BS!!!!

Killer amp and with some mods and a sweet driver like the Alnico, dude, it's blissful for clean and semi-cleans, and it breaks up soooooooooooooooooo beautifully.

Mo

I agree...The classic 30 is IMO the best value, blue collar, workingmans amplifier. For the $$$ it's really hard to beat.

I haven't modded, but i've put a Weber Silver Bell in it and changed the tubes and with a small pedalboard it can pretty much do anything and sound great doing it.

sub

 

[garlad1]

Hello,

One thing I did with my Traynor yba1 was get a treble booster with the OC44 chip. Plug into Channel 1 (where the tone 'hides'), set the volume around 3-4, put the booster in front, and leave on. Raunchy, bluesy guitar tone from a 1x12 with an old unmarked inefficient speaker. Drop the guitar volume, and you have great cleans. It's a neat trick. I don't even use distortion or ODs anymore.

My buddy who is a million times better player than I got the Blues Junior and sounds great through it. That is a nice amp. He also sounds awesome with his DR.Z Z28 (boosted with the Java, and keeley bd-2, TS). I'd highly recommend both amps.

You know what amp he can't stop playing when he comes to my house? A 1972 silverface Fender Quad Reverb w/Master Volume. No kidding. It has THAT sound (even though people say it doesn't). Transports you straight back to the golden age of guitar amplifiers. I would never in a million years BF it or change it from stock.

 

[srinivassa]

Hey, thanks for the bump. I am going to put some blues in action at Guitar Center tonight, maybe see what some of these amps really sound like. They are guaranteed to have some of the Fender Reissues, and maybe a Classic 30 or something.

I tell you, if you like treble clean, you'll like the Traynor. I keep the 'bright' switch on, and it stays really plucky. I have a volume/treble booster, but it doesn't quite overdrive the cleans. Then again, I play into an attenuator at about 3-4 on clean volume. As I remember from the in-store demo, it really doesn't start breaking up until about 7-8. Good breakup though.

 

[lester]

Louis Electric KR12....check out Lance's demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib3JA6i1 ... re=related