Recommendations for small solid state amp. Digital modeling maybe?

[Wrogsprit]

I have a Roland Microcube and a DV Mark Little Jazz. I'm not really happy with either. The Roland Microcube rattles when I hit low notes. This was an issue when I had a really old Line 6 Spider back in the day. I have tried lowering my pickups and it doesn't help. The DV Mark is okay, but there isn't any gain.

Some of the solid state amps I have looked into are the Yamaha THR series, Marshall MG15fx, Fender Champion, Orange Crush 20R.

Some of the digital modeling amps I'm considering are the Boss Katana and Fender Mustang. There are others I am interested in, but I haven't done enough research or listened to enough demos of on YouTube yet.

Some of the amps I mentioned work with a footswitch, which I consider a bonus.

Any recommendations on amps I should check out?

[rolijen]

I like the Katana. You can get pretty much any tone you want from clean to metal. My buddy gigs with a Fender Mustang and loves it. You really can’t go wrong with either.

[ScarTissue]

Long story short, I would try out Katana for sure.

[Peter C]

See if you can plug your Cube line out into the other amp's line/aux input, should it have one?

[ThatRhythmMan]

Will it be mainly for a clean tone? You could always go old school solid state. These sound pretty darn good.


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[ThatRhythmMan]

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[John A.]

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Some of the solid state amps I have looked into are the Yamaha THR series, Marshall MG15fx, Fender Champion, Orange Crush 20R.

Some of the digital modeling amps I'm considering are the Boss Katana and Fender Mustang. There are others I am interested in, but I haven't done enough research or listened to enough demos of on YouTube yet.

Some of the amps I mentioned work with a footswitch, which I consider a bonus.

Any recommendations on amps I should check out?

FYI, the Fender Champion series (Champion 20, 40, 100, 50XL) are all digital modeling. They're essentially the same as the mustangs, except that the mustangs can store presets. The Yamaha THR amps are also digital modelers.

I have a Champion 20, which I really like and find very useful. It's small, light, has some good sounds, is loud enough for some bands, and is very simple. Because of the simplicity, I prefer it to the Mustang amps. I recently got a Positive Spark Go amp, which is tiny (fits in a guitar case) and is good for practicing (it doubles as a blue tooth speaker for backing tracks), but is not loud enough for playing with other people. My "serious" amp is a Quliter Aviator Cub (US version), which emulates different Fender amps (not sure if it literally models circuits the way SansAmp purports to do); it sounds great, is light (for a full-sized amp, anyway), and loud enough for pretty much anything. i'd recommend any of these.

[rpjazzguitar]

I've read good things about all the amps you mentioned.

I have the Little Jazz and I also find a problem with clean volume. But, at low volume it's fine. I've also used it to feed a PA system while retaining the option to use the LJ as a monitor and to put some EQ where I can reach it. There are other ways to accomplish this, but the LJ works well in that role.

So, one thing I'd consider, depending on your situation, might be buying a powered speaker and using it with the LJ when you need more volume. More to carry, of course, so maybe you wouldn't want to do that, but it creates flexibility, especially if you have a mixer.

[AllanAllen]

I love my Vox Pathfinder. It was like $80 new. The clean is clean, the overdrive is standard small solid state trash if you crank it, so I don’t do that.

[Donnd]

Another vote for the Katana 50. This is a deep little amp if you also use the resources of Tone Studio editor.

[GuyBoden]

For anyone in the UK, I'd try a Laney Acoustic A-Duo amp combo in your local music shop.

About £270.

• 2 Channels
• 120 Watts
• Class D amp
• Reverb
• 2 x 8 inch speaker
• Studio Quality DI

A SERIES A-DUO Acoustic instrument combo - 120W - 2 x 8 inch coaxial woofers - Laney Amplification - Since 1967

[JazzerEU]

I recommend any of the Toob cabinets that Marku makes at Toob.fi and pairing that with a compact class D amp head.

They are built like tanks and what I like most is they don’t rattle and are still compact.

Back in my gigging days I paired the Metro 6.5GP+ cab with a Quilter Superblock UK. Now that I’m retired from gigging, I’ve left my Superblock in storage back home and have the even smaller now discontinued Quilter Microblock 45 with me as it’s smaller actually sounds better with the specific setup I have going on.

[sm80808]

I have been using the Katana Head (with built in speaker) as my bedroom amplifier. It sounds great for what it is and works great with my Toob Metro 6.5.

[jads57]

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