Time to consolidate my amphs?

[Lev]

Oldguy I'd love to hear your opinion on the Statesman. Over here in Europe the Quad 40w is €580 where as something like a Fender HRDlx is €825 and a Peavey C30 is €635. So with that in mind would you recommend the Statesman given that it's the cheapest of the bunch here in Europe. Any negatives to report with the amp? So far I've only heard good things about it but there's no stockists that I can find to try it out so I'd be ordering blind online.

[oldguy]

Oldguy I'd love to hear your opinion on the Statesman. Over here in Europe the Quad 40w is €580 where as something like a Fender HRDlx is €825 and a Peavey C30 is €635. So with that in mind would you recommend the Statesman given that it's the cheapest of the bunch here in Europe. Any negatives to report with the amp? So far I've only heard good things about it but there's no stockists that I can find to try it out so I'd be ordering blind online.

I don't want to hijack the thread, but briefly I'd say the H&K sounds warmer, maybe more Fenderish in the clean side with the "twang" button engaged, than the C30. The OD side is not for heavy metal players, it works well for classic rock or rockabilly.
My unshielded Tele with the vintage Fender pickups makes the H/K hum pretty loud when you're angled wrong towards the amp, but that's pretty normal. The Tele's the guitar I like best through it though.
It's a little larger and heavier than my Traynor YCV-40, but that's not a negative so much as an observation.
The one thing I might pick on is that the OD seems darker than the clean side, and a little tone control/pickup selection tweaking seems to take care of that, as there are no seperate controls on the amp for the 2 channels.
I knew that when I bought it, and I've never had an amph yet that I was 100% happy with when switching from clean to O/D, unless it had eq for each channel.
Hope that helps.
Back on topic now, please.

[gatorbrit]

I don't want to hijack the thread, but briefly I'd say the H&K sounds warmer, maybe more Fenderish in the clean side with the "twang" button engaged, than the C30. The OD side is not for heavy metal players, it works well for classic rock or rockabilly.
Back on topic now, please.

You're not hijacking - this is useful info! I'd like to check out the H&K amph as well. Cheers!

[gatorbrit]

I reviewed a couple of amphs today.

First I checked out the Blackstar 20W combo today at Sam Ash. Hmmm. It was a little disappointing. It seems to be a bit of a two trick pony. Great clean thing going on and great overdrive, but not much in between. I found it hard to dial in a nice warm overdriven tone - the OD tones seemed more metal flavored than I would like. I am primarily a classic rock/blues sort of player.

SamAsh didn't have much else in that caught my eye so I went across the street to Guitar Center. Our GC always looks like a pre-school has been let loose in it. The place is always a mess. Anyhow I tested the Egnator Tweaker first. It was good, but a little overwhelming. Then I found the Egnator Rebel 30. Oh yeah. This thing is really nice. Plenty of really warm OD tones - great clean tones and a nice 1w-30w headroom attenuator which is great for different venues. I think this one is at the top of my list right now.

[Tig***]

Then I found the Egnator Rebel 30. Oh yeah. This thing is really nice. Plenty of really warm OD tones - great clean tones and a nice 1w-30w headroom attenuator which is great for different venues. I think this one is at the top of my list right now.

One of their best amps. It might be just what you are looking for. If my price limit was higher, I would have gone with the Rebel 30 over the Tweaker 15.