Great amp for home and jamming with friends

[83SanDimas]

Looking for versatile. Love a VH sound, a stevie ray sound, maybe a boogie. I am using a tech 21 trademark 10. Thinking tube... what do you like these days?

[slayer]

I think the Boogie Studio .22 +(+ part being it has the Graphic EQ built in) is very versitile and is small but strong. I have heard great things about this amp. Jack.

[toejam]

The Mesa F-30 combo is very nice.

[RobRR]

Vetta Combo. Has EVERYTHING you could want plus its plenty loud enough for just about anything you could need it for. Seems like the Vetta 1 combos are going for around $800 on eBay.

[jgcable]

I think the Boogie Studio .22 +(+ part being it has the Graphic EQ built in) is very versitile and is small but strong. I have heard great things about this amp. Jack.

You are most definately not going to get VH out of a studio 22 +. Personally.. I don't even think you will get a convincing SRV out of one.
The 2 tones you are looking for are totally opposite from each other. The only way to do it is modeling.
Pretty much any decent modeling amp will give you EVH and SRV. Most of them have factory presets adressing both so you won't even have to tweak the amp much.

[jwoods986]

Looking for versatile. Love a VH sound, a stevie ray sound, maybe a boogie. I am using a tech 21 trademark 10. Thinking tube... what do you like these days?

Isn't the Tech 21 supposed to cover those three sounds - SRV, VH, Boogie? I know I've looked into the TM60 and it has settings for these specific sounds, but I'm not sure about the 10. I just wish there was a dealer around to check them out in person because I would really like to try one out, and the Power Engine also (with my Korg board).

I'm going to keep an eye on this thread for suggestions because it sounds like we're looking for the same thing. I want a combo that has a good clean, an SRV/slightly overdriven sound, 80s Marshall (VH, Ratt, Dokken), and a heavy Boogie/Engl/SLO sound. It has to sound good at very low bedroom volume but be able to play over drums whenever the opportunity arises (and not thin out). Am I asking too much?? Oh, and under $500!

So far, I'm considering the Spider II 1x12 ($199 new on closeout!) or maybe a used Flextone III.

[catzodellamarina]

My latest home and jam amp is a Zinky Blue Velvet 50. Two-channels, 50 watts of 5881's, nice O.D., plenty of power to pump a cab, sweet spring reverb. All tube hand-wired circuitry. EASY to operate and dial in. It nails most old VH and many guitar rock classics. Kicks ass on gritty blues and modern country. Not a speedmetal amp unless you got a pedal to add.

[fr0sty]

I'm very happy with my 20 watt peters dual channel. It has an excellent master volume and gets plent loud. Down side is price.

[data187]

epi valve jr head with pedals.
you can get a pretty nice sound for very little $$$.

[wicked_lester]

Try out the 15 watt Crate Vintage Club amp...now called "Palomino" at Guitar Center. Great, fat all-tube sounds at a very reasonable price.

[MBreinin]

The TM60 will give you these tones...but none of them will be "stellar". I had one and while I liked it, I found it lacking a bit in the very dirty stuff. The clean stuff was amazing though.

I can get SRV and VH in spades from my Voodoo VibroChamp...but you can't just go down to the store and get one...and Voodoo won't do the Witchdoctor mod anymore.

Vox Tonelab or Vox modeling amp.

Mike

[Flatpicker]

I swear by a line 6 pod and an Atomic amp.
VH/SRV no problem there and the newest firmware has a Marshal 18 watt sim that I'm in love with.

My reason for using the atomic over the vetta combo is longevity.
I can always add a new pod or vox or whatever and keep the atomic.
It's more economical in the ling run for me.

[jtr]

Fender Pro Junior.

[hippietim]

epi valve jr head with pedals.
you can get a pretty nice sound for very little $$$.

Kevin, don't do this. They are decent and they are cheap (price-wise that is, not cheap quality). But there are much better options. Having said that, if you change your mind I have two of them and I'll sell them both to you

[hippietim]

Fender Pro Junior.

This is my favorite combo of all time. Kev, this is still not what you want either though. It is better than the Epi Valve Jr. but you'd still need to use pedals to get the sounds you seek.