What's you favorite amp for at home/bedroom practicing?

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I'm looking for a good amp for at home and bedroom practicing. I had a Fender Mustang, but I'm not that crazy about it. I really like the demos and the stuff I've read about the Yamaha THR amps. Also, the Blackstar ID series. I'm looking for something that gets a really good sound, along with the feel like a tube amp. I play a Marshall DSL when I gig.
 
I use a Peavey VIP 2 for bedroom type amp. Great for metal with the 6505 model. Budda model is good as is the Classic model. Plus it has decent effects,and if you add in the Sanpera pedal you have tons of presets at your feet. Plus it has bass models to so I can play my bass through it too. Can't beat it for the money. Blackstar ID looks decent too but I find most of the amp model choices sound to similar.
 
BrokenFusion":1yu86kam said:
I use a Peavey VIP 2 for bedroom type amp. Great for metal with the 6505 model. Budda model is good as is the Classic model. Plus it has decent effects,and if you add in the Sanpera pedal you have tons of presets at your feet. Can't beat it for the money.

I had a Vyper before, one of the small solid state ones, and the tube 60. I didn't care for either of them.
 
I use a Marshall JVM1H.

At full power it is 1 watt, the low power setting takes it down to .1 watt. It has an effects loop and 2 channels (foot switchable). I usually run it through either a Mesa 1x12 or a Johnson Millennium 4x12 (depending on how much racket I want to make).

Advantages - Tube tone, I can crank it up and still be in the room. The feel/response is very different than high power amps at low volume. If you want, you can just use the clean channel and treat it like a single channel amp, crank it up into classic rock territory without a boost. Lots of gain available. Speaker emulated/headphones/recording output, silent recording is an option.

Disadvantages - shared eq, higher cost than most other 1 watt solutions (these are made in England and were limited, usually around $500 used), none of the effects that modelers have. Not much headroom on the clean channel, if I want a big fat clean sound I tend to use my Mesa Mark III.

Overall I'm thrilled with this amp. I work 3rd shift so a lot of my practice time is late at night. I can crank amp on the low power setting without waking the family upstairs. I still have a Johnson Millennium 250 head and Mesa Mark III if I want to get loud, but most of the time I play the JVM1H.
 
Yamaha THR10x - perfect. Ditched my Axe-FX II after this
 
Mark V (90 watt) or DSL 100H....or what ever other Hi Gain Master Volume amp I happen to own at the time.
Sometimes when I'm to lazy to get up from my desk to turn on my amp I use a Line 6 Spider IV 15 Guitar Combo Amplifier thats under my desk.

My old ENGL Powerball and ENGL SE got great bedroom volume tone.
 
peterc52":2qsz9om8 said:
Yamaha THR10x - perfect. Ditched my Axe-FX II after this

I haven't tried one of those but the YT clips sound pretty amazing and for all the options they have they seem like an amazing portable practice amp.
 
I've been in love with the Orange Tiny Terror for a few years.
 
most of my amps have a pretty good master so I just use those
 
For the guys using the Yamaha THR10X, can you get a good medium gain, classic rock tone out of them?
 
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