Traynor Amps (YCS50) and other

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I already have an old YBA-1, came across the demo below and I'm thinking, damn! In the world of expensive tube amps and boutique offering, this thing appears to have a variety of tonal options that appeal to my ear. I can see it easily going old school crunch AC DC right up to Skid Row. Built in boost with reverb that sounds pretty damn good. There is a head local going for 550$ . The combo goes new for 920$ with a vintage 30. Is it me or is that a good price for what appears to be a killer amp. I don't really need another amp but for the price and flexibility, I def. want to go give one a test drive. What are your experiences with the more recent Traynor amps?

 
They are reliable. Lots of tones, perhaps not one signature tone. Sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. The old YBA are great in that they are another bassman conversion to something else like marshall and Sovtek. The best new Traynor I've played was the YCV-50 blue, which is about the most Marshall-y of their offerings. Lots of blues/classic rock dudes love the YCV20 too. So yeah, ain't nothing wrong with Traynor.
 
I'm interested in learning more about these amps as well. I know Thornley was using YCS or YCV amps of some kind at some point and is still using the traynor cabs.
 
I used to have a ycs100 head. Sounded great, but didn't really get the lead tone I wanted out of it. YOu used to be able to get the ycs100 v1's for cheap used, like $350 or so.
 
I love mine...it was a combo but I'm in the middle of converting it to a head. I've had it for about five years, not long after they came out I think. I've read a lot of comments like the one above saying it doesn't have a signature sound. I don't know....its sounds good to me. I guess that is all that really matters. Good for crunch, 80's, hard rock, some metal if the "scoop" switch is in.

I recently bought a head and it sounds different enough from my combo through the same cabinet, I decided to convert my combo into a head.
 
I used to have a ycv50 blue and it was a nice amp with a great clean channel. The gain side was in the marshall camp but a little darker then I like so I ended up selling it. They are well built and nice amps. That 3 channel head they have looks very cool but I've never had a chance to check it out.
 
I hear more Marshall in the YCS than the YCV blue personally. Also not sure about it not having a signature sound. I thought in that demo the clean and crunch were nice and glassy and the boost was really nice.
 
I used to have a ycs100 head. Sounded great, but didn't really get the lead tone I wanted out of it. YOu used to be able to get the ycs100 v1's for cheap used, like $350 or so.
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Are you talking more the gain factor for lead or just the tone/quality of gain? (fizzy etc..)
 
It definitely had enough gain, the ycs100's had 3 channels, clean, marshall type od, mesa type od, but it wasn't smooth enough of a gain structure without using a pedal of some sort. I used a crunchbox for a while and liked that, and the rhythm sounds of the amp itself were really good, but I just upgraded over time.
 
All I meant by the signature sound thing was that I don't hear a tone and say "that's Traynor", or hear someone describe a tone and think "you need a Traynor to nail that". They're good amps, lots of good tones.
 
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