Looking at new amps what would be the best?!


Question: Looking at new amps what would be the best!?
Hey iv been playing guitar for bout a year and a half now with my fender frontman 15g (Greatfor the price by the way) and me and a few mates are thinking bout puting a bit of a (practise) band together so im in the market for a new amp iv been looking at the voxtronix range

we would probably play pop punk/punk/modern rock/hardcore some where in that range of genrer

so
1!.How many wats should i get
2!.whats a good brand/model

ps probably only spending up to $800 au not much but wondering what i could get with that!.

ps im playing a fender hss strat

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Answers:

For gigging or practicing with a full band you generally would need no more than 50-60 watts!. The whole 100 watt stack thing truly is overkill!.!.!. you have to remember that guitar amps tend to sound better cranked, that's when they get that saturated tone!.!.!. more watts = higher you have to crank it before it gets saturated!. If you want to sound better at lower volumes, get a lower wattage amp!.

A 2x12 amp is really ideal for both practice and gigging!. Yes, most people use 4x12's, and they are louder, but if you have a good enough 2x12, you don't *need* a 4x12, right!? 4x12's tend to have a little more bass and deeper resonance due to larger body size, but again, if you pick the right speakers you can get whatever you want, tonally!. I cannot emphasize how important it is to get good speakers, it really can make the difference between a sparkling, chunky sound and flabby boredom!.

If you get a tube amp your amp will sound louder than what its rated at!. It's due to how its rated and how tubes saturate, but whatever!.!.!.!. just remember that tubes can sound like an amp with 2-3 times the wattage!. A 30w tube amp with the same speakers as a 100w solid state amp will in general be just as loud when turned up!. That's why 50 watts is more than enough - for a tube amp, it's sooo more than enough!.

I've put a few links below to some amps that I think are a great buy for the dollar!. By staying below that 800$ mark I'm giving you the chance to invest in a new guitar or at the very least new pickups!.!.!. a strat style isn't truly ideal for the heavier music, although it can happen with the right pickups!.

!.!.!. Which now that I think about it, if you an afford it, I would urge you to upgrade your pickups, even if it ends up being just your humbucker!. Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio both make some pretty decent models!.!.!. you will want to look for something with a higher bass level, this will balance out your guitar's relatively anemic low end!. The Seymour Duncan Invaders are used in this way in strats by many punk and pop punk bands to get a tone that is still trebly and can cut through the mix, but with enough bass to still get some chunk n grind!. Invaders may not give you a clean tone on your bridge, you may need to toggle to your neck pickup for cleans!.

Duncan JBs and Dunan Customs are versatile pickups, the first favoring more pop and the second favoring more distortion (although I have a JB in my LTD and it works just fine more *my* chunk n grind)!. DiMarzio Evo 2's, D-Sonic's, possibly the Breed, and even the x2n are possibilities for you (although the x2n is like the Invaders!.!.!. mega mega hot)!.

Anyways, more heat in your pups = better tone overall, so if you can still score a decent amp and have scratch enough to get some better pickups (or a better axe!?) then I would take it!.


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Frontman? 212R made by FenderWww@Enter-QA@Com

i would save up abit more and get a mesa boogie combo thats what im doing going for the f30Www@Enter-QA@Com



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