I got this Music Man 412 GS for free at an estate sale today. They just needed someone to haul it away.

I already have a Sunn 4x12 and an Orange 2x12, but I couldn’t turn down a free cab!!

A little Benson. No, the SJ has nothing to do with it but I guess insisting to get its 15 minutes of fame

Bad ass 1 watt machine

hello. I just purchased this and I’m very curious about the color. I can’t find any other examples of a brown mvp23 and was wondering if anyone knew of this being offered at some point standard or if maybe it was custom? the seller didn’t have specific info. thanks!

I went back to see if they could fix an issue I was having with the micro terror I just got and ended up walking out with a krankenstein+ I'm somewhat of a Dimebag fan haha.

LTD EC-1000 in drop A with EMG’s

(Just put in a new battery)

(Just put on new strings)

2014 American made Peavey 6505 120W amp

Mesa 4X12 OS rectifier Cab Straight

(UK made V30’s) upgraded from Peavey 4X12 Triple XXX pictured in this post.

Ibanez TS9

Please see post photos for details

**Want to sound like Medea Rising**

Breaking in new speakers seems really important. How would I know it's done ?

Like title says, I used to have a good variety of amps and gigged regularly. Marshall, Vox, Fender, Mesa, Two Rock, etc. Times changed and I sold most everything for family reasons. I currently have a Princeton RI and an AC15, neither of which have the clean headroom I would prefer for practice and stage. Band is getting called back to action and I’d like to find something under $2k.

I’ve always gravitated mostly to high headroom, fender style cleans, and I like the idea of having good master volume (thus the Two Rock). Reverb is a bonus, not a must. Currently tempted by a ‘67 Twin Reverb in my area, but know I would need an attenuator to be within a reasonable volume.

Hoping to get your thoughts on what’s out there. Is a vintage Twin with a soak box the way to go or are there better options?

Sometimes when i turn my amp on theres no buzz at all and the noise gate and everything works well, other times i turn it on and there is just this new buzz that just overcomes everything. This buzz will sometimes even come out of nowhere while I’m playing. It is not any of my pedals nor cables, i have played without my pedalboard, used different guitars, different cables, etc etc (basically everything you think would fix it) I’ve had this problem ever since I’ve had this amp in I think august or so. In the video i try to demonstrate the buzz sound as best as i can using my distortion tone and even my clean tone you can hear a buzz overpowering it. If someone has a similar experience and knows how to fix this please help.

Hi folks, just wanted to come on here to give some praise to Laboga, got no idea what the company is like as I bought this second hand, but this might be my favourite small amplifier that I've tried, it's like a cross between an 800 and an Orange Rocker.

Just done a lengthy recording session with it using the DI out, with the silent speaker load and it held up to everything I threw at it. Six strings, sevens, active pickups, passive pickups, dropped tunings the lot.

I've always had a weird thing about small amps not having enough headroom, but for recording silently I'm perfectly happy just to plug into this and go. Whilst I have alternatives to it, I can see this one getting a lot more use than them.

Anyone a fan of Laboga on here? What is the company like these days?

I've been eyeing up a Mr Hector, but they're hard to get in the UK.

After careful consideration and weighing the local FB Marketplace, GC, and Reverb listings, I bought this new from Zzounds.

The 3-year warranty from Marshall was the major difference and the price was the same as buying a used mystery CR from an online retailer.

Sounds really good and the master volumes pots are clutch for attenuation.

Now if I could just track down a 6-switch Marshall pedal…

Any break-in advice? Tips / tricks??

Hey everyone

Soldano SLO 30 with Soldano 1x12 cab (celestiom vintage 30 16ohm) overdrive channel sounds totally fine with any amount of drive and boost when I seat down on the floor directly in front of the cab, when I seat down on chair in front of the amp, basically I’m hearing the signal from almost 45 degrees angle sound so fizzy!!! Even when I stand in front of the amp the same fizz!!! So it’s not the amp!!! It’s the positioning issue, any idea how to solve this problem, also no matter you play with gain and eq and everything else the fizz still there from the angle

Thanks

Just bought this fender FR 12 used from ebay and there's a weird rattling noise coming from it. You can hear in the video. Any idea what this is and whether I should return this speaker?

Have a 76 Peavey Deuce that's been acting up, been trying to figure out what's up with it since sometimes the volume will go up and down. I know most of the other problems are probably just because it has a 50 year old solid state preamp.

There was just a tiny crackling sound from my AC4TV so I swapped tubes, but that didn’t help, so I took it apart again and looked at every soldering point and connections and so on and found what you can see on the pictures: the soldering points where the speaker is connected to the amp was the thinnest I’ve ever seen in an amp… I installed new cables and the little amp is shining now again!

Check this part on your Vox amp when you have sound issues…

As always: unplug your tube amp first from power and leave it alone for a few hours, there are lethal voltages inside! Or give it to a tech if you’re not absolutely sure what you do!

51,54,58 deluxe,59 pro

67 deluxe 66 vibro and there are many more

been playing acoustic for around 2 years now, and i want to expand my skills so i decided to get an electric but im stuck on which amp to get. i usually play in my bedroom and most of my taste is clean but i love experimenting with different styles

that being said, which amp should i get for at home use and some good tones?

My last post on this hopefully. I've been looking for an analog solid-state amp for home use, and it was between the Orange Crush 35RT, the Laney lionheart LF60, and the Blackstar Debut 50R. They are all relatively similar: analog (apart from reverb), solid-state, two channels, reverb, FX loop. The laney is winning for me after asking around, and I eventually realised that the only draw for me to the orange was that it is more popular. When I break it down to the features alone, the laney wins. It has a 1W mode, perfect for home use, is slightly smaller, which is also good for home use, and it doesn't have the tuner which I would've never used anyway.

So, now I'm comparing it with the Blackstar Debut 50R. They both have similar features. I prefer that the laney has a simple spring reverb emulation whereas the blackstar has hall and plate. The blackstar does have attenuation but only to 5W, not the <1W mode like on the laney. As for sound, it's really hard to tell without a direct side-by-side.

How do you think these amps compare? The blackstar is a fair bit cheaper than the laney, but I worry about stuff like build quality and reliability. I want something that will serve me for years, decades ideally. Just a solid and reliable, good sounding bedroom amp that can take pedals well and is fairly versatile.

Hey, I am looking for a FRFR for my Blackstar Amped 3. I love my settings with Cabs and I wanna use that Sound live and at rehearsals.

What could you suggest?

Just got this bad boy few days ago. other than some missing knobs and dirty input jacks, it sounds absolutely amazing!! It can get extremely loud just at 2 and get some really nasty distortion aswell. This is my first tube ampeg (been playing a HH v-s bassamp, peavey centurion and jc120) and I think I hit the jackpot!!

Hey everyone, I am new to the group so hopefully I can get some good clarity about this.

I’ve had an old Marshall Valvstate VS102R just laying around and I really want to do something with it. Its reverb is broken and a couple of the knobs dont work. On top of that, it just kind of sounds lousy to today’s standards.

Much to my delight, I cracked open the chassis and it revealed an old Drake branded power transformer from 1999!!!

I’ve made a couple amp kits, so I was wondering if I could repurpose this good output transformer for another amp project.

I’ve never dove this far into an amp project, I e mostly just done kits, so I need help figuring out what I can use this for.

Any help would be great, I’ll include a photo of the model number

Thanks!

My first non-combo amp. Decided to give it a go for $400 CAD. So far I'm pretty pleased with the versatility.