What's a good gainy single channel on the cheap?

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Actually thinking bout it , a carvin legacy mk 1 might be worth checking , this has a very very thick sound and uses el34 .

The legacy also has a good clean channel and also reverb , it defiantly won't make a single coil thin on the drive channel though you my need n overdrive pedal for lead playing .

Just an idea .
 
The JCM800 is the only Marshall I've ever played, so it's the measuring stick when it comes to Marshalls.

Btw, not shrugging off any suggestions here, keeping them in mind in case I see them around somewhere so I can play before ordering online. Been spending late nights surfing YT and other places for random amp clips, heh. I post from my iPhone and can't respond to everyone.
 
all the YT vids in the world aren't going to answer your question. case in point: playing a Sunn Model T yesterday. ive heard endless vids, records, songs, shows recorded with that amp, but my experience of playing it was nothing like I thought it would be. do yourself a favor, find one of these amps you are looking at for a good price and just buy it. play it at home and decide if you like it, and if you don't, unload it and move on the the next amp on your list. only way yr gonna figure it out, IMO.
 
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all the YT vids in the world aren't going to answer your question. case in point: playing a Sunn Model T yesterday. ive heard endless vids, records, songs, shows recorded with that amp, but my experience of playing it was nothing like I thought it would be. do yourself a favor, find one of these amps you are looking at for a good price and just buy it. play it at home and decide if you like it, and if you don't, unload it and move on the the next amp on your list. only way yr gonna figure it out, IMO.
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I am trying HARD not to get trapped in the cycle of buying blind to unload with a month. I've been doing that for years with high gain amps, and now I'm trying to make sure everything I buy is a keeper. I won't let myself sell an amp without spending a good 6 months with it, just a dumb but practical rule I've set for myself. TY videos aren't how I'm making a decision. I won't buying anything until I play some things, but living deep in the Appalachians 2 hours from the closest sizable city, this is how I shop and entertain myself until I can get my hands on something. I'm using this thread to dredge up some suggestions I wouldn't think of checking out normally, like those Laneys. I wouldn't give one a second glance usually, but after checking out some clips, definitely an amp I'll have an eye peeled for.
 
The Laneys will also be bright with a Tele. I owned both at the same time and the Laney is purely a mahogany LP/SG humbucker type guitar amp.

The Single Recto or Rectoverb/Tremoverb are thick. They can bet bright or fizzy, but you can eq them to no be at all. Those amps also sound big and fat like 100 watters. $700-$800 used.

Also look in Blackstar. Wide range of modern and classic tones in those amps.
Loos for a 50w Soldano Avenger too. Not bright like SLO's. Thick, dynamic gainy with tonnes of punch. $850-$950 used.

Or order a Baron Snott Watt. HUGE sounding low watter with both vintage and modern gain levels. Custom made, $650 new.
 
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colimofsmoke":2in7cmrl said:
all the YT vids in the world aren't going to answer your question. case in point: playing a Sunn Model T yesterday. ive heard endless vids, records, songs, shows recorded with that amp, but my experience of playing it was nothing like I thought it would be. do yourself a favor, find one of these amps you are looking at for a good price and just buy it. play it at home and decide if you like it, and if you don't, unload it and move on the the next amp on your list. only way yr gonna figure it out, IMO.
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I am trying HARD not to get trapped in the cycle of buying blind to unload with a month. I've been doing that for years with high gain amps, and now I'm trying to make sure everything I buy is a keeper. I won't let myself sell an amp without spending a good 6 months with it, just a dumb but practical rule I've set for myself. TY videos aren't how I'm making a decision. I won't buying anything until I play some things, but living deep in the Appalachians 2 hours from the closest sizable city, this is how I shop and entertain myself until I can get my hands on something. I'm using this thread to dredge up some suggestions I wouldn't think of checking out normally, like those Laneys. I wouldn't give one a second glance usually, but after checking out some clips, definitely an amp I'll have an eye peeled for.
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got it. i can dig. the whole cycling through gear thing gets exhausting. I'm pretty stoked on my D60 and plan to keep it forever and its the first amp i've had that i felt that way about. only looking for a second amp to stereo with, and hopefully i land that one on the first try so i dont have to unload another amp. good luck!
 
not sure if they're hard to find anymore but the pre-production voodoo amps witchdoctors were AMAZING single channel heads and affordable,though they may have gone up in price a tad.
 
What about a jet city jca22h or if you want bigger the jca100hdm?
 
I`d go with Laney GH50L (or 100L) or Marshall VM.
Both great amps with lots of usable gain.
Marshall VM is not tight enough to my taste (I`m playing ENGLs), even though you can get nice metal tones also without the boost (played through 1960TV and ENGL212VH). For your kind of music it`s really nice amp.
Laney sounds very meaty (played through Orange PPC212) and its bigger brother VH100R is not expensive either. The only drawback is that it cannot be used as a practice amp. It gets too loud too quickly.
 
Budda SD80 works well with my tele. I thought there was a SD45 on the emporium for under a grand. Budda's are fat. :D

Get a Tonestyler for the tele. Love mine and fine it much more useful than a standard tone control. No matter what, if you're using true single coils in the tele, you're gonna have to roll the tone back some. No real getting around that, it's just the nature of the beast. Otherwise you're ripping heads off with one.

People mention the Laneys, but don't rule out an old AOR head. There's a video somewhere of me playing my tele through an old 50 watter without the extra gain stage kicked in. Not too bright at all, although you can get there with the AOR's if you need to.
 
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