Yeah, I saw that mentioned and I totally can wait, but I wonder how much it'll be. I don't need the extra wattage, but the channels and MIDI switching are very interesting to me.Peevy2000 wrote:No experience with the Tubemeister but I'm considering getting one. You might want to wait until June/Julyish for the 36w version. Its still very compact for a 3 channel amp & comes with all the powersoak redbox options, plus it includes midi switching.zerocrossing wrote:I've been sans amp (Though not sansamp) for a pretty long time, but I just found out about the Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister 18. I'm inI might get the combo, but I think I could save a few bucks and just get the head and use the recording out. Anyone with direct experience with these amps?
Not too sure I can wait that long for a new amp myself....but I'll try.
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- KVRAF
- 18358 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
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- KVRist
- 492 posts since 2 Mar, 2008
Well Thomann are doing it for €789, about €300 more than the TM 18. Is an extra channel, 18 more watts & midi worth €300....maybezerocrossing wrote:Yeah, I saw that mentioned and I totally can wait, but I wonder how much it'll be. I don't need the extra wattage, but the channels and MIDI switching are very interesting to me.Peevy2000 wrote:No experience with the Tubemeister but I'm considering getting one. You might want to wait until June/Julyish for the 36w version. Its still very compact for a 3 channel amp & comes with all the powersoak redbox options, plus it includes midi switching.zerocrossing wrote:I've been sans amp (Though not sansamp) for a pretty long time, but I just found out about the Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister 18. I'm in
Not too sure I can wait that long for a new amp myself....but I'll try.
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- KVRist
- 492 posts since 2 Mar, 2008
OK folks, sorry to be doing this to y'all again. But I've had another...well maybe not so good idea I'd appreciate your opinion on.
One other amp I've always liked the sound of (being a long time Thrasher) is the Peavey 5150, which is now the 6505/6505+. But these Amps are waaaay out of my budget range (6505/6505+ amps are lot more expensive in the UK & Europe than they are in the US)
But I've been looking at the 6505+ 112 Combo
& maybe eventually modding it into a Head. There seem to be a lot of people doing this & while I'm not great with woodwork, I know a few people who are.
As usual I've done a bit of research of the pros & cons
Very heavy - I'll not be gigging it in the near future & weight isn't an issue if I convert to a head. If I was to keep it as a combo I suppose I could fit it with some castors.
The speaker's not great - If I swap it for something like a v30, I'm still saving a lot of money, & again the speaker is irrelevant if I mod it to a head.
The cleans aren't the best - I'm sure with a bit of tweaking you could coax decent enough clean sounds out of it, although I mostly play crunch to high gain styles.
I'm sorta thinking the 6505+ combo is so cheap over here I might just get it anyway & still eventually get one of the other heads I've been looking at. Anyone any experience with the 6505+ combo?
One other amp I've always liked the sound of (being a long time Thrasher) is the Peavey 5150, which is now the 6505/6505+. But these Amps are waaaay out of my budget range (6505/6505+ amps are lot more expensive in the UK & Europe than they are in the US)
But I've been looking at the 6505+ 112 Combo
& maybe eventually modding it into a Head. There seem to be a lot of people doing this & while I'm not great with woodwork, I know a few people who are.
As usual I've done a bit of research of the pros & cons
Very heavy - I'll not be gigging it in the near future & weight isn't an issue if I convert to a head. If I was to keep it as a combo I suppose I could fit it with some castors.
The speaker's not great - If I swap it for something like a v30, I'm still saving a lot of money, & again the speaker is irrelevant if I mod it to a head.
The cleans aren't the best - I'm sure with a bit of tweaking you could coax decent enough clean sounds out of it, although I mostly play crunch to high gain styles.
I'm sorta thinking the 6505+ combo is so cheap over here I might just get it anyway & still eventually get one of the other heads I've been looking at. Anyone any experience with the 6505+ combo?
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
300 for midi and 18 watts would not be worth it for me but I can see the midi being worth it for anyone else but me. All these years that I have had my xt live the only thing on the pedalboard I ever use is the wah/volume pedal..but then I often take odd paths to get to my destination and everyone should keep that in mind when listening to my points about my gear and what I like.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately with the amps I have now and I feel I need to make it clear whether you like how something I do sounds or hate it please do not use that to judge the amp. I'm very unlikely to ever plug my guitar direct into an amp to record a song (I might do a clip for demo sake) and even my guitars are freaks of nature to one extent or another.
I doctor nearly everything to my liking (not just music gear) and my liking is most often pretty
I've been thinking about this a lot lately with the amps I have now and I feel I need to make it clear whether you like how something I do sounds or hate it please do not use that to judge the amp. I'm very unlikely to ever plug my guitar direct into an amp to record a song (I might do a clip for demo sake) and even my guitars are freaks of nature to one extent or another.
I doctor nearly everything to my liking (not just music gear) and my liking is most often pretty
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- KVRist
- 492 posts since 2 Mar, 2008
Oh I forgot to add the reverb, which is also midi switchable.Peevy2000 wrote: Well Thomann are doing it for €789, about €300 more than the TM 18. Is an extra channel, 18 more watts & midi worth €300....maybe
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
my opinion on this yet againPeevy2000 wrote:OK folks, sorry to be doing this to y'all again. But I've had another...well maybe not so good idea I'd appreciate your opinion on.
One other amp I've always liked the sound of (being a long time Thrasher) is the Peavey 5150, which is now the 6505/6505+. But these Amps are waaaay out of my budget range (6505/6505+ amps are lot more expensive in the UK & Europe than they are in the US)
But I've been looking at the 6505+ 112 Combo
& maybe eventually modding it into a Head. There seem to be a lot of people doing this & while I'm not great with woodwork, I know a few people who are.
As usual I've done a bit of research of the pros & cons
Very heavy - I'll not be gigging it in the near future & weight isn't an issue if I convert to a head. If I was to keep it as a combo I suppose I could fit it with some castors.
The speaker's not great - If I swap it for something like a v30, I'm still saving a lot of money, & again the speaker is irrelevant if I mod it to a head.
The cleans aren't the best - I'm sure with a bit of tweaking you could coax decent enough clean sounds out of it, although I mostly play crunch to high gain styles.
I'm sorta thinking the 6505+ combo is so cheap over here I might just get it anyway & still eventually get one of the other heads I've been looking at. Anyone any experience with the 6505+ combo?
When it comes to guitars (not bass nor sound re-enforcement) I pretty much despise Peavey. There are few exceptions to this rule and mostly more modern amps like the 5150, the tweed classis and the 6505. (hate the VT series, transtube and the teal faced versions of any peavey) It's really Dean that got me to notice this amp and I think it's a killer sounding amp and a great value, I dont own a combo and I can a 6505 being the combo I want. (I also really like the Mesa/Boogie 5:25 express but it's over a grand, hoping I'll find a deal on a used one) Again the only drawback is the power as it's grossly over powered for my needs but I could get it it's own Weber attenuator and be done with that concern. (I do think this about the Bugeras as well from time to time).
The truth is you're looking at some great options imo and sooner or later you're going to make a choice, no matter what you choose imo you're going to be very happy...and there might be a little of.."but I wish it had/did **** like one of the others" and that's how you end up buying 4 tube amps in 18 months
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- KVRist
- 492 posts since 2 Mar, 2008
Hink wrote: The truth is you're looking at some great options imo and sooner or later you're going to make a choice, no matter what you choose imo you're going to be very happy...and there might be a little of.."but I wish it had/did **** like one of the others" and that's how you end up buying 4 tube amps in 18 months
Yeah I'm afraid of something like that happening. I've always been a bit of a collector of things (dvds, blurays, graphic novels etc) Fortunately I don't have much room for a load of Tube amps 
Someone said on the Peavey forum that there's a rumour of a new version of the 6505+ combo coming out very soon...we'll see....
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- KVRAF
- 20702 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
The Peavey JSX gets surprisingly good Fender-like cleans and edge-of-breakup tones, and the lead channel sounds similar to a dual recto. Come to think of it, that's the best sounding Peavey I've ever heard.
Speaking of amps that cover a lot of ground, I played a Framus Ruby Riot 1 a few months ago that sounded like an extraordinary AC30 on the clean side and an extraordinary dual recto on the dirty side. Every Framus I've played has been extraordinary.
Speaking of amps that cover a lot of ground, I played a Framus Ruby Riot 1 a few months ago that sounded like an extraordinary AC30 on the clean side and an extraordinary dual recto on the dirty side. Every Framus I've played has been extraordinary.
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- KVRAF
- 1624 posts since 14 Sep, 2007 from www.koeln.de/en/
^My next amp will be a Yamaha THR5, I need a little practice amp for my living room
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
once again, my amp for my living room? My POD xt LIVE, connected to my laptop with the usb so I can control the xt from there and the output goes into my Bose Acoustic Wave...though I have only used it that way 2 or 3 times over the 6 or so months I have had rigged that waydarsho wrote:^My next amp will be a Yamaha THR5, I need a little practice amp for my living room
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
not my next amp, but look what I did to my Jet City...doesn't it look cool? Just like Dean's Marshall ...for now
...for now The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
That album has the full version of "Someone Else"...both versions I love, great songhibidy wrote:
As long as tomorrow is a good paint drying day my Jet City will be a poor man's soldano or a wannabe soldano if you wish (I still have enough grate leftover for the Egnater if I want too but I doubt I will give it the same treatment)
edit: note the Yellow Jackets...I love them in that amp but this summer the amp gets a tube makeover. (most likely JJs unless I hit a scratch ticket)
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
You, sir, are a madman!Hink wrote:not my next amp, but look what I did to my Jet City...doesn't it look cool? Just like Dean's Marshall
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
not reallytrimph1 wrote:You, sir, are a madman!Hink wrote:not my next amp, but look what I did to my Jet City...doesn't it look cool? Just like Dean's Marshall
Even when the JC is retubed this summer, it has it's new face this weekend and the Yellow Jackets (that does have jj el84s) you're still looking at three very cool amps from 2 watts to 50 watts. The JC has two options for power tubes with the Yellow jackets, one Frenzel has a choice of like 7 different power tubes (but single ended) and the other has many options as to where it can fit in the chain (all three amps do)...all that and still less than a Marshall JCM800 Re-Issue.....I wouldn't call that a mad manI would call that "My Father"
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.