[atsonicpark]

Okay, I own 4 amps.. they're all of a decent size/wattage, but the crowning achievement is the 300wt Behringer amp with a ton of built in effects and it sounds pretty good, but ...

Today, I was playing through a Squire Champ15 which is basically a practice amp.. the distortion is just fucking AMAZING. Like, Big Black-type distortion out of that thing, just BUILT-IN. It was the best kind of distortion: it sounded like a fucking vaccuum cleaner sucking up a blender but you could tell every note apart still (so, it wasn't a "New Day Rising"-era Husker Du distortion, it was a "Zen Arcade"-era Husker Du distortion). Just unreal.

So, I went ahead and bought it for $40. Fucking great! I can see myself playing out of it a lot more than my 300watt Behringer amp for recording and perhaps for playing live (it may not be powerful enough to play live with actually but oh well; definitely using this for recording!).

So, while at the music store, I played out of a Line6 amp which was also 15 watts and $100 and it sounded fucking UNREAL. It had 4 distortion settings: clean, metal, crunch, and INSANE. Yes, there was a distortion setting called "insane". That amp sounded unbelievable, it had weird effects switches and a REALLY weird tremolo effect that sounded unlike any tremolo effect I'd heard. It was more tremolo-ey than anything I'd ever heard: everything I was playing sounded like a skipping CD. It was fucking amazing! Jesus, I almost bought that too! (instead, I bought a kazoo, some Ernie Ball strings, and a ukelaley -- however the fuck you spell it; total price: $37).

So, yeah, it's odd, I've played out of amps of many shapes and sizes, but the ones I am really attracted to are the small, quirky ones, often with built in effects or super fuzzy distortion and not the loud huge clanging banging ones. Eh.

[_slavo_]

I've got an Ibanez 15 watt and it sucks big time.

[Everyneurotic]

my my 15 watt crate practice amp had the most unbelievable tone ever and it was louder than my 30-watter, therefore, the speaker kept blowing up everytime i played with someone else; now it's shorting and that makes me sad.

once, i tried to stop my problem of constant amp blowups by putting a speaker with a bigger magnet. it had the bassiest, ballsier, fatter and most dark sound ever but, because the resistance was so big, it didn't have a lot of volume.

i need a 50 watter for gigging, i'll probably get a cheap bass amp or something.

[pbradley]

I used to have a mini amp. The kind that you could attach to your built. I forget the model.

I just remember sneaking up on my brother as he was watching tv, putting it next to his head, and then jamming out. I would get some decent dead-legs for that.

[Everyneurotic]

ohh, i also have a smokey amp; you put a paperclip on the speaker and you get the most dissonant, out of control distortion one can achieve. sickest thing ever!!!

[soapbars]

ive got a fender champion 30 and i fucking love it,

i can see what you mean but er those line 6s with 'insane' i dont like them so much

[nomadicfollower]

I have a V-Tone Behringer and your right, my Johnson Standard 15 watt amp has much better distortion. However, with you and me it's more of a matter between digital and solid state amps.

[floatingslowly]

people everywhere feel yr basement jam.