Perpetual Craig's List/Used Gear Thread

[Commodore 64***]

Yeah it is interesting. I'm having some issues with the amp tho.

[tunghaichuan***]

Yeah it is interesting. I'm having some issues with the amp tho.

Feeling ambitious? You might try rebuilding the amp on an eyelet board:

http://www.dreamtone.org/PJ.htm

Not for the faint of heart, though.

[Commodore 64***]

Meeting someone this evening to trade a couple of pedals (BD-2 and FZ-5) for an Epiphone Valve Jr. Should dovetail nicely with my recapping/retube socketing activities with the Pro Jr.

[Commodore 64***]

Valve Jr. Trade went nicely. Tomorrow I'm trading my Pathfinder 15R for a Lovepedal Amp50. I let a harmonica player borrow my Allum Modded Blues Driver, and traded 2 other dirt pedals for that Valve Jr. I'm down to a Polytune and the BYOC British Blues pedal as my only pedals.

Aforementioned Harp player brought over his 1966 Blackface Champ. Sockets needed retensioning. So I got to play on that for 15 minutes or so. Well worth the time I spent working on it for him. Someone had already put new electolytics in there. They did it the dirty ugly way though, there's no more cap can.

[Eric***]

Valve Jr. Trade went nicely. Tomorrow I'm trading my Pathfinder 15R for a Lovepedal Amp50. I let a harmonica player borrow my Allum Modded Blues Driver, and traded 2 other dirt pedals for that Valve Jr. I'm down to a Polytune and the BYOC British Blues pedal as my only pedals.

Simple is always good. What do you use for lead boosts? Do your amps have one built in or do you use guitar volume or what?

What's the Lovepedal Amp50 do?

[Commodore 64***]

I usually use the Allum Modded BD-2 for my boost pedal. I actually used the FZ-5 when we rehearsed Mr. Soul, so I'm gonna miss it a little bit. I haven't really made friends with the dirt channel on my Peavey Classic 30. In fact, I'm probably gonna gig that Pro Jr. (I understand our drummer is not a "beater"). That BD-2 actually works pretty nice for a booster.

I'm hoping that the Amp 50 has some good hair on it.

[Eric***]

I usually use the Allum Modded BD-2 for my boost pedal. I actually used the FZ-5 when we rehearsed Mr. Soul, so I'm gonna miss it a little bit. I haven't really made friends with the dirt channel on my Peavey Classic 30. In fact, I'm probably gonna gig that Pro Jr. (I understand our drummer is not a "beater"). That BD-2 actually works pretty nice for a booster.

I'm hoping that the Amp 50 has some good hair on it.

I saw that video after I posted my comment. I'm starting to think that pedals are a bit overrated, kind of the way you view pickups. I have a fuzz, OD/distortion, and boost pedal on my board, along with a Tech21 Sansamp for plugging direct into the sound board, and I could probably use any of them for any of the roles I listed. Sure, some might sound a little better at bedroom volumes, but when you're up to band volume it usually doesn't matter to me as long as the levels are right and you're in the ballpark.

It's nice to have pedals that work well and do their jobs, but I just can't see spending $200-300 on a boutique pedal unless you're talking about recording, and when you get into that it seems like modeling is beginning to take over anyway.

[Commodore 64***]

There's a Bronco amp (VibroChamp) on my local CL. I think the asking price is high, wanted to get your thoughts. I offered him $300, waiting to hear back. I'm thinking $350 is probably the max I'd go. Any thoughts?

http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/msg/2759769932.html

[Commodore 64***]

LOL. Look at the description of this Randall http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/msg/2760492938.html

This is a great working randall 100 sc guitar amp.. the amp is beat up but I've had it for about 5 years...been though hell and back with gigs but never has stop
....sad to give it up but I have enough gear.....well that being said. The amp has a missing volume knod on distrotion channel but is up eough to jam out .....I use the master control andit has only one 12in create speaker in it because I went to jail and my roommate thought it best to steal and used the speakers out of the amp for his car
messing up a 350 dollar i took it in and had them put in a speaker and used it for house jamming since then .....it still ever loud with broken knob( stated earlier)
which happen at b j's pawn ...never taking nothing thier again.....text for offers and more pics and info ....looking to move this so any resonable offer considered
amp has 2 channels one clean one distortion also has stereo chours and reverb and ect.... do your research great amps top dollar deal at a bottm barrel price

[Eric***]

Looks like that one was taken down. Good job on quoting it. Pretty funny stuff.

[Katastrophe]

There's a Bronco amp (VibroChamp) on my local CL. I think the asking price is high, wanted to get your thoughts. I offered him $300, waiting to hear back. I'm thinking $350 is probably the max I'd go. Any thoughts?

http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/msg/2759769932.html

I thought the Bronco amph was solid state??? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but even $300 sounds like a lot to me... I could be certainly wrong about whether or not it has tubes, though.

[Commodore 64***]

Bronco is a student version of the VibroCHamp. It's a 1968 Drip Edge Bronco. Seller got back to me, said he put it on Ebay, and will get back to me if it doesn't sell. I'd have driven down there today to get it, cash in hand, too. Check it: http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/msg/2759769932.html

[Katastrophe]

Oh yeah, now I see them tubes! Forgive my ignorance.

[deeaa*]

There was a post recently about the Behringer GMX110, V-Tone 30W Tech-21 clone, but with digital FX to boot.

Well I just bought one...picking it up this afternoon for 40€. Not a bad price, it's a nice amp indeed for the money especially...looking forward to playing it quite a lot in my livingroom in the future :-)

[Eric***]

Cool. I'm curious to hear what you think about it compared to the regular T21 amps. I thought the GM110 was the original TM30 clone. Is the GMX something different, or did they just tack on some FX?

[Commodore 64***]

Trying to nab a EH Holy Stain pedal (reverb, tremolo, pitch shifting). Seller is in my hometown, been trying to sell for a few weeks, but hasn't returned my email yet.

[deeaa*]

Short 110 review...okay...

Well it ain't no Tech-21 that's for sure, as much is immediately apparent.

Don't get me wrong, now - the amp can yield sshweeet tones very close to those of the Tech-21's do, actually in some ways perhaps even cooler tones...because of the issues, that is.

The first thing you notice is that the sound is very flat and incredibly compressed. It really 'pumps' even as if there was a compressor, and while this can be really annoying (I found it hard to dial in a decent, tight rhythm driven tone), there is a silver lining to that...leads really 'wail' and sound crazy because of the compression. Bend some high driven notes and apply vibrato and it sure sounds 'tubey' to say the least. Really cool screams.

But there are problems. Besides the over-the top pumping compression quality of the sound, it's nigh impossible to dial a decently even sound in; if you get the top end bright enough, the mids sound dull, or the bass weird...the EQ is even too effective going from really dull to glistening highs in a flash but doesn't affect the mids. This makes it really hard to find a driven tone that works for everything, one of the best qualities of Tech-21.

But it can still sound good.

Also, it has two channels, and the clean channel can also sound great; it crunches up very nicely for SS amp indeed, and on this side there's no compression as in drive side. Could work very very well as a crunchy rock sound amp and might accept pedals well. There are problems here too; if you set the EQ nice on clean channel, it won't work on drive side and vice versa. And also - and this is what I find with all Behringer amps I've tried - the channel switching is wayyyy slow making it impossible to switch channels nice and smooth and accurately. It just kinda goes...oh...channel change..ok...HA! Gothca! Didn't think it'd change just at that second, did you? (If it could speak...LOL)

Anyway...I would NOT say it's a good overall amp, but it'll work very well for some solo wailing or rock chording at home no doubt!

[deeaa*]

Played the thing last night for a good while, and yeah despite the issues, it really does sound great at very low volumes too...a delight to play leads on. Maybe just that crazy compression does it. It reminds me a lot of Dod Fx100 od pedals wail.

Also remember I play with active pups...it might not be similarly squashed with passives.

Anyway the verdict stays, it has obvious issues and is not what I would get for any other use than for playing at home but at that it can sound great!

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[cebreez]

Check this out!
http://nashville.craigslist.org/msg/2819707837.html

6 space SKB case for $50