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Practise / Club Amp

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Playing Les Paul & SH Tele - looking for practise/bedroom/club gig amp around the 50W size.

My requirements are for 2 channel, channel footswitch, headphones output, reverb. Dont care about onboard effects as I have pedals.

Looking at the following in the $500 range.
Orange Crush 35RT 35W, $429.00
Fender Mustang or Champion 40W, $399.00
Boss Katana 50W, $449.00
Marshall CODE 50, 50W, $499.00
Any experience, pros and cons with any of these?

Anything Ive missed I should know about?

There is also an older Peavey Bandit 1x12 I have my eye on, I do remember those sounded nice!

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If you're using pedals, maybe keep an eye out for a Peavey Classic series amp, tube goodness and cheap secondhand :)
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MakoGat wrote:Marshall CODE 50, 50W, $499.00
Any experience, pros and cons with any of these?
Only played one in a shop. Sounded OK at bedroom levels. Sounded like a sack of tin cans partially filled with rat shit falling down stairs when turned up.

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MakoGat wrote:There is also an older Peavey Bandit 1x12 I have my eye on, I do remember those sounded nice!
Factor in replacing the speaker as many of them are beaten to death.

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Post by Kris »

"nice" is subjective but id describe bandits more as "utilitarian". And thats coming from a peavey MANIAC.
What jb said.Classics are a lot of amp for the price-katana seems to be getting good noises though.

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DAMIT!! Katana 50W or Peavey bandit 112. I can play the Katana at the local Rockshop but the Bandit is out of town. I do remember the rock n metal sounds outa the Bandit were cool but Im also after bluesy tones such as at the later half of this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CT9tqogQ5M

Im guessing the katana would be a better allrounder tho

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One "Blue Stripe" Bandit on its way to me LMAO

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Boss katana or a BlackStar HT studio 20 :)

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I settled on the bandit, got it for a song

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how many notes in that song? :rofl:

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