Amps :D

Ideally I want a 20-30watt head for my 212 with v30s. My budget is £600 max because I need new pick ups and wiring etc for my Epiphone because I broke a pot, tried to replace it and they have retarded pcb electronics soldered to the dpdt on the push pull pots so gunna do it myself with some Seymours and dimarzio push push pots and all that lovely stuff.

I was looking at the Laney irt60 but decided too many knobs and too loud for me. I want like 1 or 2 channels and just a gain, master volume, bass, mids, treble and maybe a reverb and that's it as far as amps go for me otherwise I get bored fiddling around getting my sound

I really like 1 knob anymore... on my HC30 I keep the click tone control at the brightest setting for a closed back cab not to get too thumpy, leave the cut wide open for max chine and disable the MV (this control is just a frequency selectable HP filter that achieves its sound by carrying the stage 1 coupling cap values), then I just turn the amp up until I like the tone and use my guitar from there. I just use her like a 1 knob amp 90% of the time. If I want clean I set the volume low and run in 30 watts. For drive I do 15 and crank her up past 5.

Awesome! Pretty cool way to use a amp! What you think of the Palmer fat50? Its 50w head or 112 combo and has two master volumes. Ones on the back of the amp and works kinda like a attenuator by lower how loud the amp can go, just seta the highest volume you can get then the one on the front panel lets you dp the usual master volume stuff, very cool! 4 12ax7s and two 5881s. Built in Germany too. I'm tempted by it that's for sure and everyone with one seems to love them!

everything Palmer makes is good sounding and roadworthy.... I am not familiar with that amp though. I am sure its awesome.

All I have to go is sound clips and reviews, don't know anywhere in England that sells them but they are great value for money! £550 ish so reckon I'll grab one of they're road worthy. Just been looking at amps in my price range and it seems like a great amp really for the money

Most of my experience with Palmer is with their peripherals like the attenuator/DI that's been so popular since the THD hotplate and Ultimate attenuator fell outta favor with the bedroom tone cork sniffers... its expensive as those products go, but its a swiss army knife of useful features and its built like a tank. One of my hot plates absorbed so much heat from the ehad it was loading that parts of the fan assembly melted and warped, and the Hotplate was considered to be the ebst and most roadworthy attenuator/loadbox at the time.... the Palmer doesn't have those problems. Roadworthy. If the amp is built to that standard I think you'll be good for a billion shows.

Guess I'll go for it in a few weeks when my savings have recovered from buying a 212. Also Thomann have a awesome 3 year warrenty on all their products and if its fucked in those 3 years they give you a new one and they'll fix it as many times as needed in 3 years which is awesome justy has to be posted to germany which sucks haha

Germany is closer to you than LA is to me. I bought tons of stuff from session guys in LA, shipping wasn't terrible on amps and cabs as long as I didn't do it priority. 5 day shipping usually worked well. DHL is pretty good for international.... I've gotten stuff from the far east before through them. One of my guitars came over from japan using EMS and it was fast (under a week)and relatively cheap (about 100 bucks Tokyo to Philadelphia). It showed up delivered by a guy in his personal car who was super gentle with it. Apparently he licenses out to deliver musical instruments door to door in phlly for this company ... guy was a musician and took great care with my old guitar.

that is true and damn that is awesome, nothing beats a guy who respects equipment!!!

and odds are you will not need to send your Palmer back to Thomann... I will bet it gives solid service at rehearsals gigs and home for years as long as you bias her properly every tube change and respect her output impedance.

I looked at the fat50 specs, looks solid enough.... definitely in the hotrod deville camp.

The EQ on it is something really cool, you turn down the bass to zero and no bass frequencies will get through same with the mids and treble, turn all to zero and theres no output, never seen something like that before. I just wish the bright and normal switch was also switchable via the amp controller thing, totally forgot what you call those. Everything is footswitchable but the bright switch, the bright switch makes it almost vox like, sounds very good! actually the mp distortion etc all sound amazing to me! and has a spring reverb which I love! a very good spring reverb on it. SHame I can't demo one but youtube videos will do for now till I order it in like 3 weeks ish

Odds are you want bright or not. Toggling would screw up your tonestack settings. Also, bright and deep controls are volume dependent. The higher the gain knob the less effect a bright cap will have. I am not even sure it could effectively controlled via a relay because its such a primitive design