New Amp/Combo early next year...
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Re: New Amp/Combo early next year...
One of the main reasons I got the Katana was for the 'everyday use', no valves to wear out or warm up, and if you only have 10 mins for a quick noodle it's ready to go at the flick of a switch.
Obviously grunty enough for a gig too and takes pedals well.
I'd like to try out a Nextone one day as probably suits my use also.
Obviously grunty enough for a gig too and takes pedals well.
I'd like to try out a Nextone one day as probably suits my use also.
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Diezel VH4 then?
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Going back to original comment about getting your drive and effects from pedals, I asked Brett Kingman to do this exact test with a Nextone amp. It's a great pedal platform imo, and the versatility of the voicings means it's potentially 4 great pedal platforms (while still being really easy to drive if you don't care about deep editing).
https://youtu.be/5UttgNc1ZXI
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https://youtu.be/5UttgNc1ZXI
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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...
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That yellow guitar did nothing for me visually, especially with the tasty units right behind him distracting me..sizzlingbadger wrote:
I'd be really curious how far apart a normal Katana is from this amp in real life.
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That Nextone sounded pretty good. No mega X factor but pretty good. The power amp section was remarkably on point.
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Re: New Amp/Combo early next year...
Could change, but right now I’m leaning towards the Supro Blues King 15w combo
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Bugger! I want one now I've seen the demos.Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Could change, but right now I’m leaning towards the Supro Blues King 15w combo
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That's a cracking amp!sizzlingbadger wrote:Bugger! I want one now I've seen the demos.Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Could change, but right now I’m leaning towards the Supro Blues King 15w combo
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I thought I'd check it out and got twenty seconds into this demo before I heard the most horrible, fizzy, mushy-bass tone.... Am I missing something?codedog wrote:That's a cracking amp!sizzlingbadger wrote:Bugger! I want one now I've seen the demos.Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Could change, but right now I’m leaning towards the Supro Blues King 15w combo
Clean was nice.
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me too...buy both of them for stereo!sizzlingbadger wrote:I may sell my Mesa 5:50 Express 1x12 Combo in the new year, it has excellent Fender style cleans and some great drive options.
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Bandmate has a Katana 50. For slightly overdriven single coil tones, my rig eats it. But for crunch with a P90 Les Paul, it's excellent.
And within a band context, it works very well. Quite impressed, I am.
And within a band context, it works very well. Quite impressed, I am.
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Far apart in terms of which aspects? I've used both extensively of course, so I can try and describe the differences depending on what you're interested inchur wrote:That yellow guitar did nothing for me visually, especially with the tasty units right behind him distracting me..sizzlingbadger wrote:
I'd be really curious how far apart a normal Katana is from this amp in real life.
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