What is your 'prefered' amp to use with a strat? - Page 2

phildobbin · June 22nd, 2009, 04:24 PM

I use a Blues Deluxe + Hot Rod 1 x 12" ext cab paired with a Marshall AVT100 combo. Sounds great with the Strat ('96 50th Anniversary 60's re-issue MIJ with Hot Noiseless pups) but also with my Tele & Les Paul...

ThreeHands · June 23rd, 2009, 03:27 PM

Yeah you just cant beat a strat in the neck slot pluged in to a couple of fender bassman amps with the volume set to about 7 1/2.

Although back in the late 80's I used a WASP 200watt valve head into a couple of quads, I also had long hair and would try to fit a ritchie blackmore style solo inbetween every verse and chorus....

Now I find that I don't want to lugg that much gear around anymore and my style has evolved more of a SRV or Robert Cray flavor to it. So I now use a couple of smaller amps.

An old Fender champ and a Roland bolt60. (always mic'd up)

With the champ volume set at around 8, I roll off the volume on the strat so the little fender is just starting to clip. Then I bring the bolt60 up to around the same level.

Jii_ · June 23rd, 2009, 03:30 PM

I like the combination of Stratocaster and Vox AC30. (Telecaster and Vox is also good.)

dhb2000usa · June 23rd, 2009, 03:51 PM

I had a 66 Fender Bassman (In 66), a Blues Deluxe that I had to sell a few years back and I currently have a Fender Super Champ XD with 1x12 cab. They all sounded great so I gotta say Fender. I've also owned Vox (67 Super Beatle) and a 1969 100 Watt Marshall double stack. The Marshall sounded great, but it would always blow fuses on me.

Bangbang · June 23rd, 2009, 03:57 PM

I like my AD30VT....lots of fun playing Star Spangled Banner Jimi Hendrix Style.

ultraeconomike · June 23rd, 2009, 04:23 PM

1978 Fender Super Twin. Tattered snakeskin Tolex courtesy of former owner D. Boon of The Minutemen. Also 80's pro co rat box. Last rig was a Hot Rod Deluxe which I daisy chained with a 1968 Bandmaster.

ThreeHands · June 23rd, 2009, 04:44 PM

Oh yeah, you have got have an 80's RAT... it's the only thing that comes between my strat and the the amp...

hey ultraeconmike dose your rat glow in the dark?

Jimi Hendrix · June 23rd, 2009, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jii_

I like the combination of Stratocaster and Vox AC30. (Telecaster and Vox is also good.)

This is what i play

StratoBrew · June 27th, 2009, 10:55 AM

I'm a Fender guy at heart. You can play just about any style of music, or any guitar for that matter, through one and it'll sound right.

StratoBrew · June 27th, 2009, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ultraeconomike

1978 Fender Super Twin. Tattered snakeskin Tolex courtesy of former owner D. Boon of The Minutemen. Also 80's pro co rat box. Last rig was a Hot Rod Deluxe which I daisy chained with a 1968 Bandmaster.

Cool. That's a nice piece of rock history there.

rhh7 · June 27th, 2009, 08:02 PM

My preference is a solid-state, 30-watt amp with a single 12 inch speaker.

I want clean headroom, and 30 pounds is my maximum weight.

This amp suits my needs perfectly, practice at home, occasional basement jam.

BadBrad · June 27th, 2009, 09:25 PM

My Mesa/Boogie Mark III combo does it all. The clean channel sounds like a great Fender tube amp. The second channel sounds like a Marshall stack. And the lead channel really sings. It is extremely powerful for a little 1x12 combo, actually a little too powerful for a practice amp. It does have a lot of complex controls, so it takes some fiddling to get the best tone -- it's a lot easier to find the best tone on a Fender amp; but once you get it dialed in it is great.

I have a Fender Vibro Champ XD as a practice amp. Since it is 5 amps and more portable, it makes a great practice amp. It doesn't sound as good as the Mesa/Boogie, but for a 5-watt amp with an 8-inch speaker it sounds quite good, and the built-in amp models and effects are fun.

softmonkey · June 28th, 2009, 12:29 AM

EJ Strat into '65 Pro Reverb.

Scott L · June 28th, 2009, 08:49 AM

Any Strat through my old ampeg v-4s makes me smile

Offshore Angler · June 28th, 2009, 09:59 AM

Can't play a Strat without an 80's RAT. It's just required. If you don't have one, yo are missing THE famous Strat rock tone.

My RATS have the glow-in-the-dark markings, BTW.

Jimi Hendrix · June 28th, 2009, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Offshore Angler

Can't play a Strat without an 80's RAT. It's just required. If you don't have one, yo are missing THE famous Strat rock tone.

My RATS have the glow-in-the-dark markings, BTW.

I have a RAT strategically placed between my Strat and AC30

marlington · June 29th, 2009, 08:27 AM

I just picked up an Ampeg J20 Jet Tube. It's my preferred right now.
(Over my Frontman 25R).

Dave_O · June 29th, 2009, 01:12 PM

AC30. I just love it with anything. I reckon I could plug my food processor into it and it would sound good

Jimi Hendrix · June 29th, 2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by marlington

I just picked up an Ampeg J20 Jet Tube. It's my preferred right now.
(Over my Frontman 25R).

Nice amp, heard alot of good things about Ampegs.

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Originally Posted by Dave_O

AC30. I just love it with anything. I reckon I could plug my food processor into it and it would sound good

Haha, i think you might be right

phildobbin · July 3rd, 2009, 09:21 PM

Fenders' do sound the best (crank a Blues Deluxe with a couple of dirt boxes & nothing else compares) but, IMO, for reliability you can't fail Marshalls. I could throw my AVT 100 out the window, probably kill an innocent passer-by in the process, & it'd still fire up. Built like the proverbial tank. When I run them both together with a BD-2 & Rat II it scares women & small children & everybody else dives for cover ;-)...

StratMajik · July 3rd, 2009, 11:55 PM

I voted Fender because I have so many. My favorite sounding amp I have is a Torres Reverb King Combo, but it is basically a hotrodded Old Tweed.

Kevin

damiang · July 14th, 2009, 11:44 PM

I only play in the lounge-room these days so it's low-wattage for me. I have two amps - a Fender Princeton Reverb Reissue and a Cornford Harlequin. The Strat/PRRI combo is my clean option. It literally DRIPS with tone, especially with a nice hunk of reverb lard and judicious use of tremolo!

The Cornford/Strat combo leaves me a little cold. The Cornford really likes to be opened up, and the single-coils just don't bring out the best in it. For that I dust off my mid 80s Burny Les Paul Custom with its VH1 humbuckers and just tear the walls down. 6 watts is all it takes!

So it's Fender/Fender for me. I've had lots of guitars and lots of amps over the years but my 95 American Standard Strat and my PRRI just makes me weep.

Steve_2020 · July 15th, 2009, 12:40 AM

Deluxe Reverb

Or

Vox AC30

Really all you need. Add pedals to taste...

But...

wish list: some cool amps are derived from Fender and Vox/Class A designs and sounds. Today it would be a D'lite BlueMonkey for Fendery American and probably a 65Amps piece - like a London....or an original Matchless Chieftain- for the class A thing.

I'll keep buying those lottery tix.

fretbuzzard · July 15th, 2009, 01:15 AM

I play a Brownface Vibroverb clone and love it. Voxes do sound fantastic with strats, though--something about filling in the missing mids.

Teleblooz · July 15th, 2009, 03:35 AM

Personally I love my Blues Junior and, if I need a little more beef, my Crate V33 half-stack.

Whatever it is, for me it's gotta be tubes. Apologies to the Jazz Chorus fans.

Kuroyama · July 15th, 2009, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by phildobbin

Fenders' do sound the best (crank a Blues Deluxe with a couple of dirt boxes & nothing else compares) but, IMO, for reliability you can't fail Marshalls. I could throw my AVT 100 out the window, probably kill an innocent passer-by in the process, & it'd still fire up. Built like the proverbial tank. When I run them both together with a BD-2 & Rat II it scares women & small children & everybody else dives for cover ;-)...

Perhpas but Phil, the AVT is a hybrid amp. Your tone is coming out of SS hardware. (As is MY Marshall AVT). Its just been my experience that all effects sound better run through tube amps. I once tried to improve a Peavey Rage SS amp with a Boss metal distortion pedal. It never sounded any better than 60 cycle hum. But SS has come a long way since 1991...

Brian_C · July 16th, 2009, 07:42 AM

I suppose it all depends on the type of music you play. For me, if money was no object I'd go for a Vox AC30 Top Boost, or the Laney VC30 (AC clone). But given I'm only a hobbiest it'll have to be a Vox AD30 for it's AC30 modelling and crisp clean tones.

Scott L · July 16th, 2009, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by marlington

I just picked up an Ampeg J20 Jet Tube. It's my preferred right now.
(Over my Frontman 25R).

There are only a handful left, but if you are lucky to live close enough to a store, Sam Ash is blowing these out at $299.00. Retail store stock only.

j2b4osan · July 16th, 2009, 10:08 AM

mesa all the way. but if not Id say marshall. fenders overdrive just isnt my cup of tea. and I find it far easier to dial in on a mesa than anything else

67Strat · July 24th, 2009, 12:35 AM

I don't really thing in terms of brands as much as how an amp is built and what tubes it uses. I like the sound of a Strat through 6V6's in an amp with reverb, these days that could be anything with all the amps out there.

NicDoak · July 28th, 2009, 06:35 PM

So far, my Fuchs Overdrive Supreme (clean or OD) has been the sweetest sound to me!

Namelyguitar · August 5th, 2009, 06:08 PM

Why am I always in the majority on the forum polls? I used to be such an innovator!

+1 Super Champ XD

Bangbang · August 5th, 2009, 07:10 PM

Right now I am using my Peavy Rage. Man! That little amp is loud.

GuitarSmithTN · August 5th, 2009, 08:58 PM

How do you guys set your AC30? Clean? Dirt? etc.

bluesy · August 5th, 2009, 11:10 PM

Playing through a Marshall AVT, great versatility. I've used a blues junior too and thats great also. But there are a lot of quality amps out there these days and until you play them all ..... All I know is the Marshall's doin it for me ATM.

mw13068 · August 5th, 2009, 11:32 PM

I haven't tried a lot of different amplifiers. I play through a Peavey Ecoustic that I bought for my electro/acoustic classical guitar. It's got volume, 5-band EQ and reverb, and that's it. It doesn't add any particular color of it's own, it just makes the input louder. I've come to appreciate that.

BigNorm · August 5th, 2009, 11:33 PM

I'm very happy with my Blues Jr. I had more powerful amp ( HR Deluxe and Deville 4X10 ) but were so powerful, you could'nt use thet power ( I gig miced ) The Blues Jr. permit me to bring the volume to a good cutting point. The pair Strat and Blues Jr. is just perfect for me. I might try a 65 deluxe reverb shortly. I think it's the exact amp for the perfect sound with a strat.

rnrapp · August 7th, 2009, 07:42 PM

I like my Raven RG20 over my Frontman 25R. I only play my LP through my 25r now with a distortion pedal. The Raven for such a cheap amp has good clear crisp clean.

Jimi Hendrix · August 8th, 2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GuitarSmithTN

How do you guys set your AC30? Clean? Dirt? etc.

Depends what i'm playin' and whether the neighbours are home or not.

RocknSoul · August 8th, 2009, 02:20 PM

Either a Marshall Super Bass or a Fender Super Reverb depending on the situation.