Right now I'm using a Marshall 100 watt solid state, but there are tone problems with it and i've noticed solid state amps, even high wattage ones, don't have a presence of volume. My friend's 40 watt all tube Fender blows away my Marshall.

Something worth pointing out, I like high gain distortion but I'm not a mid-scooped Nu-metal player. Vintage voicing, if it's powerful is awesome by me.

Clarification, I know next to nothing about power and watts rating, I just know more is louder and where the volume comes from. I'm guessing the power I need is 20-40 watts all tube, I'm not counting on any sort of micing, so keep that in mind. If the amp is higher wattage and has lower wattage selections ala Egnater I'm game (I'd probably get an Egnater if they didn't cost so much).

A must is a good high gain distortion channel and a clean channel that's not too bright and will take my Big Muff and other fuzz pedals well. All tube head, and the cheaper the better, I'd really like to keep it 500$ and under.

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I'm no expert but the amount of watts don't necessarily mean they are louder. Someone here actually had that in his signature. They just break up later when the wattage is higher. (is that the word?)

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Find a vintage Bassman head. You'd probably dig it for what you're talking about playing.

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Honestly, I'd say get a peavey classic 30 (or delta blues) and use a 4x12 cabinet, plenty loud, awesome od tones... I've done that with my Delta Blues which is a similar circuit and it was sweet. You can get a good price on a used classic 30 and an inexpensive, used, decent cab is pretty easy to find. I have the hartke 4x12, $100...

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I used to use my 40w Marshall 1x12 combo for pub gigs and it was fine. I could do cleans and overdriven without having to crank the volume up full - especially so if I were to do a revalve and run it into an extension cab (shame I'm not happy with the sound of the amp in general though).

In a nutshell, you'll have enough clean headroom through a 30-40 watt amp so there's no need to go any higher.

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I'd say a Peavey Classic 50 head. Good clean channel, good crunch channel. Reverb too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Peavey-Classic-5...item2a0b3530d6

http://cgi.ebay.com/Peavey-Classic-5...item35ad589b8b

Here's a guy demonstrating the amp:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmGONHcsN5k

Personally, I dig the look of a tweed head. Funky.

Peavey Classic thrity looks really good, theres a thirty and a fifty for good prices on Ebay, what would the volume for the fifty be? Maybe too loud, or is a fifty watt tube amp easy to control (I only have experience with my 100 watt tube amp)?

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not a big difference between 50 and 40 usually. either way, with something like a peavey classic, you would probably not need more than 20-30 for decent clean headroom (and still allowing for reasonable break-up with a little push up). the 50 might even be too much, but it should be easier to manage than your 100 watter. i've used a 40w fender 1x12 to play a club which can hold over 500 people and it was pretty loud even for that place; i only had the volume at 3 or so

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Beautiful, thanks for all the help guys.

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I used to use a Classic 30 for every gig - I don't recall ever feeling like it didn't have enough volume. Most gigs I did with it were mic'ed but there were still quite a few that weren't and it did well.

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If you ever saw the movie "Selena" based on the latin singer starring Jennifer Lopez, there's this scene where Selena's dad is auditioning Chris Perez for guitar.

I have no idea if the guitar playing was recorded on camera, but in the last few seconds of the video, I think it's a Peavey Classic 30 on the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDCBHflinU

I always liked that scene.

I picked up a Peavey Classic 30 for $369 off Ebay. it'll probably be in at the end of the week. I'll definantly let you guys know what I think, I'm really looking forward to it though, from the demos and ya'lls endorsement sounds like it should be a good amp.

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The Peavey Classic 30 doesn't have this.... If you're looking for chugga dug dug, I'd look elsewhere, definitely awesome for rock, and can do metal with pedals, but I don't know, if you're looking for the heavy stuff, a 50 watter will do you, due to the fact it uses 6L6s or EL34s which are cleaner running tubes... I've never been able to get a very metal scooped sound out of an EL84 equipped amp. I wish you the best of luck though, hope the classic 30 works out for you

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Got it in, toyed with it yesterday and have a positive opinion of this amp. Supergrunged is definantly right about it not getting metal at all, I'll still use my Crate to record any distortion parts, but the EQ pedal before the distortion help out for the live settings, and wah makes the leads worthwhile. All in all, good sounding and very controllable, which is what I needed. Thanks guys.

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I'd recommend a Traynor YCV40. It's pretty much designed from the ground up for this kind of thing.

Folks will say it doesn't have enough gain for metal, but I think it does just fine. It has a lot of authority if you set it up right.

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