Best Guitar Valve amp?

Question

Whats the best Guitar valve amp new or vintage for around £500, keep in mind of sound Byrds,Beatles,Beach boys P90's pickups and Fender jaguar pickups

Answer 1

500 pounds is about $1000 USD right now

Some Amps in that price area worth checking out are

Vox AC30 Re-Issue ,,,

That's the "THE Beatles" sound...they used old AC30 TopBoost amps a Bunch.

It's a Different Circuit from most other amps ,hence different tone & response from most anything else.


BYRDS???
Good Luck.....they wen't gearheads at all,,,especially as far as Amps.

Many Recordings are Direct In to console,,,No Amp.

They did use some small Epiphone Amps occasionally.
Which ones??Who knows...?Not me for sure.

Old Gibson L-series solid state amps,,,and Roland chorus amps will probably come as close as anything to replicating Birds sound.

The 12String Ric's were a LARGE part of the sound,,and a few Gretch's they sometimes used.

Mostly,,,it's 'Studio magic"----the Byrds sound was in the recording/production.

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Beachboys = Fender


Some Current Fender Models around your price range(at least in USA mkt)

Bassman Reissue-has NOTHING for features.Plain Amp

SuperReverb Re-Issue--has Reverb & tremolo

Blues Deville 4-10
HotRod Deville 4-10
These have more "MODERN FEATURES"

Any of those would nail surf music,,do fine for Byrds,,,and can fake Beatles Tone well enough

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Actually...AMP-wise Byrds,Beatles,BeachBoys are 3 entirely different amp-sounds

Birds>Electronic processed
Beatles>Class A
BeachBoys>Class A-B

If you're around a place that has one of the Vox Valvetronic modelling amps----Check them out.
Vox Valvetronix AD100VT 100W 2x12's
Vox Valvetronix AD50VT 50W 1x12
They got 30w and 15w versions also.

They're "cheapish" priced,,and offer a wide variety of tones.
Most of any soundclips you can find online showcase a lot of hi-gain or overdrive tones

These things clean up pretty well ,,,and offer the Compression/Chorus processed type of BYRDS tone.

Beatles,,,It's a VOX and does a pretty good old VOX AC30TB impersonation.

Also has enough Beachboys-type Fender + Delay/Reverb/Echo Surf Music tone to make you wary of sharks

I'm not a fan of Silicon Chip sound,,,much prefer valves myself.

But the VOX Valvetronics Might appeal to you.

All ya can do is Take a Listen and see how it goes.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

to respond to your question succinctly: sure. Guitar amps are not geared up to take the low end from a bass. basic as that. this is why there are bass amps and guitar amps. The tubes ought to have been fried...yet you realize, i'm no longer a tech junkie. i'm in basic terms a bass participant.

Answer 3

call up a guitar center and ask them too!