Hi kids. So, my friend from Conrad Amps has built another incredible addition to the guitar amp world.

As best as I can describe it: It is is called 'The Pentode' and it has a dual pentode pre in it. As well as several other layers of slick guitar sound to it.

He's finally building heads only for all you Marshall cabinetted guys out there.

ok so due to some accidents and poor judgements i have to buy a new amp. I'm only working with about 350$ to 500$ dollars here.
I'm recording anything from pure clean to all out heavy distortion and possibly everything in between...

any suggestions?

Before I purchased the Minimee tube amp I would frequently record a guitar amped (solidstate) and direct by employing a Roland A/B/Y switch routed as follows Guitar to Roland switch A to amp B direct to one of my PreSonus FP instrument channels. This never gave me any problems. When I tried this same routing with the tube amp I encountered an unacceptable level of hum in the amp.

Curently i have a fender blues deville 4x10 from 1994. I record using a sm57, into a firestudio project to my software. My amp sounds pretty good when i play with it live in overdive..but when i record it..it just sounds weak and fuzzy. I have about 1500 to spend, Would i be better off with a great preamp like a groove tubes SuPRe, or would i be better off getting a mesa boogie amp.

I have been tossing around the idea of getting a small amp for recording and/or practice. Looking for some ideas. Could be something off the shelf or something that could be relatively easily hot rodded. requirements:
less than $1200 (including modifications if needed)
tubes
lightweight
Must have a good rhythm sound

Hello everyone, I have another problem for you! So, I am running my guitar totally clean straight into my PC through a firewire interface, and using only some VST plugins for guitar amp emulation, and an EQ and what not.

A guitar player at heart, I own a stack but I'm finding better results going back to basics. I recently bought 2 tiny guitar amps (Voice Da5, Fender 15 watt), I use a splitter and get decent results. The vox alone is quite the powerhouse with a 57 on it.

The title pretty much explains the purpose of this thread. Finding a guitar head and speaker combo that really works well for a particular purpose can be tough. Some of us may have found what we think is the perfect combination, while others accept the shortcomings of a certain head thinking that the warts are something that are just unavoidable.

I'd like suggestions for a guitar amp extension speaker cabinet that I could use to isolate my Matchless Hurricane (15 amp) or Fender Blues Jr. (after adding a speaker out jack). I'd be using it for jazz, folk, county, and blues right now. This would be used primarily for recording so I'd like it to be a single speaker and either have no grille cloth or a removable grille.

my friend and I got in an argument about whether recording guitars direct is a good idea. He thinks that its better to use a mic and crank the volume on his cab than using a direct box with his amp (he thinks a lot of distortion comes from overdriving the speakers of the cab). I keep telling him that it doesn't matter, but I need some backup :)