Thursday, March 19, 2026

31 thoughts on “Find the PERFECT Guitar Amp For YOU | Guitar Amp Guide

  • I built a 1 watt tube amp from a kit, the clean channel emulates an old fender tweed and the dirty channel is a JCM800 style preamp, that thing is fucking perfect for home use. Get all the glorious tones of either amps cranked all the way up and its still just barely loud enough to annoy my girlfriend in the next room over

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  • I’m only a bedroom player but I just can’t help but love the tone of a tube amp. I just can’t go back to digital after using one for a while. The compromise I settled on was the Blackstar HT20. Solid tube tones, great pedal platform and has fantastic headphone emulated output. Mostly use the headphones, but when I can be a little louder it has tons of volume even at the lowest settings. They’re not the most reliable or have the best stock tones around but they do the trick for getting “best of both worlds” imo.

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  • get a used blackstar artist 30, $1100 when they released, now cost a fraction of the price used because the brand has no resale value. Thank me later

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  • Or just get a really good modeler like ill use a ua ruby and it sounds pretty dang close to the original it’s based off of

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  • Yeah just tell the drummer to turn down so who really needs a nice tube amp cranked sounding like all the tones we all were moved by, ah just use a plug in

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  • Dude a 5w tube amp at home isn't suitable if you have neighbours. I gig a 10w tube with around 200 people and it is plenty loud. 25w at home is wild.

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  • No. Buy a Harley Benton power amp for less than $100 then buy a 1×12 cabinet and put your favourite speaker in it. Job done. Don't waste your money for a logo.

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  • My peavy valve king 100 literally only goes up to about 2-3 during practice outside. Actually insane LMAO. However I love my Mustang GTX 50 for a practice amp.

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  • Do note that loudness is mostly from the speaker, if you have a speaker that's 96 dbW you can use a quarter of the power for the same volume on a 90dbW speaker. (So 100W/90dbW would sound like 25W/96dbW)

    (Here I'm using amp as amplifier not amplifier+speaker)

    With 25W you can go to roughly +14db, so you could use a 2.5W amp on a 96dbW wpeaker to get the same loudness as 25W on an 86dbW speaker.

    Rule of thumb, every time you double the power you gain 3db, so having a high base dbW (db @ 1W usually measured at 1m) will do a lot compared to using a high power amp.

    Also a transistor amplifiers will be about as loud as a tube amplifiers at the same output power, it's just that the tube amps due to their low power are usually paired with easy to drive speakers (high dbW)

    If you like the tube sound and want to play loud, you can also use a tube preamp.

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  • A 100w Katana will honestly work for anything. I’ve played my whole life an i’ve been trough so many amps and setups. The Katana sounds incredible, is pretty lightweight, is more than loud enough for band practise and gigs, and can be played at low volumes at home.

    The only complain for my is that it does not look that nice, but that is a pretty minor inconveniece lol.

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  • Marshall DSL40CR. 20 and 40 watts. You can use it in your bedroom, rehearsal, and live. Even a big show. If you are playing a big show, get a 50 or 100 watt. 😀

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  • Been rocking a 12 inch Tube Works (zz top) amp for 18 years now. Great for bedroom fun and recording. I’ve only used it live twice. I like a 4×12 + orange head for live.

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