brian_krashpad's forum posts 3

Never heard a Peavey that sounded good? It's not my thing but obviously the 5150 was a popular model for that '80's hard rock sound. And I've never heard a bad word about their tweed "Classic" series amps.

Yeah, the Lead 20 was a first-gen Marshall solid state combo, in production during the '80's. It was a part of the JCM 800 Series: 1981 - 1991.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

Generally there is not as big a stress on using tube for bass as there is for guitar. Bass is my second instrument after guitar, so I have not bothered with paying extra for tube bass amps.

For guitar, my bigger amps that I gig are tube-- Sovtek Tube Midget MiG 50H (50W head), pre-'69 Sunn 200S (60W head), '66 Fender Super Reverb (40W 4x10 re-cabbed into 2x10 combo w/2x10 extension cab). I also have a 15W 1x10 tube combo, a Fender Super Champ XD, which mixes a tube signal path with digital modeling.

That said, whatever works. I also have a hybrid modeler Vox AD30VT-XL, and a bunch of the old '80s "JCM 800 Series" solid state Marshall combos: a Lead 20 (Model 5002, single channel 20W 1x10), a Model 5210 (dual channel 50W 1x12), and a Reverb 75 (Model 5275,dual channel 75W 1x12). I've gigged all of these in various combinations.

Not once when I was playing a hybrid or solid state did I have any tone problems.