I want to buy a tube amp. Or a bright solid. What's the best economical option?

the douchey guy in every "Norm's Rare Guitars" video is has everything running through a "hot rod deville"? Thought I saw one for about $500?

Might have been used and beat to shite though?

I really want to hijack this thread and ask about digitals?

But I will just sit in the corner and see what happens.

VHT special 6

Fender Super Champ X2

$379 you can probably can pick up a used one for $250 - $300

Great sounding amp. The blues Jr is great as well. For its size it has a lot of power

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Can I get one for less than $500 that's worth a shite? 

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Got excited about talking with you about this till I read that.

I recently started using a Randall Satan. Waiting on my new cab to get in. Orange ppc412. Going to throw that on there. Have a mesa triple rectifier on a bogner uberkab that I've been recording/touring with.

If I were you I'd save about $100-$200 more and find a good used peavey 5150 or 5150II on eBay/reverb. Tried and true amps that Eddie Van Halen made known. Also have been used in a lot of other technical metal music, impressive bright gain.

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That's just for the head. I'm sorry, I'm a little high right now.

If you're looking for a combo? That's a whole new ballgame. Look to buy used though, from a reputable seller.

Eta 2: Edit Lives.

Dude..save up though and get a stack. frick a Marshall for the most part btw, that's an expensive piece of white plastic. Unless it's a 2203. Those are legit. But yeah, you could get a upper mid range head on 4 12s, as long as they're real celestion vintage 30s..its so worth it.

Picked up the new cab today.

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Got excited about talking with you about this till I read that.

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Yeah I will certainly have a nice tube stack one day but I can't spend that money right now. Baby Breesus comes in 2 months.

I had an eggnater tourmaster 4212 that i liked but I had to sell it. And I just cannot go back to this crate. It sounds like I'm drowning everything I play.

I need a brighter amp than my crate. Some thing that can run a clean channel. It is just always heavy and low and droning.

What do you need the amp for? Any gigging at all or just jamming at the house? If just jamming at the house, you dont neee much wattage at all. Also what style or music are you after and do you have anything invested in pedals? This is way too broad of a question really to recommend anything. Just throwing a few cheap options out there low wattage and in your price range, I would look at the Marshall DSL5C or the Slash Combo model, Blackstar HT5c, Fender Pro Junior (not versatile, great pedal platform), Fender Bassbreaker 007 (absolutely incredible). What exactly do you mean by a bright tone? I can make a rather boomy and low mids type amp like a Mesa Rec sound bright as hell by shaping the EQ. I would look into all of the Peavey Micro heads as well as Orange Tiny Terrors.