What's a great blues amp?

[viesczy]

I'd skip getting a whole new amp, grab either a Tech 21 Blonde or one of the Boss Fender Amp pedals. They'll get you 99% of the tone at 1% of the price. Just throw them in your loop and play, they really did a great job with those.

You know I completely forget about my Tech21 Trademark 300, that has some killer blues tones in it. Killer all tones in it truth be told.

Derek

 

[mnemonic]

The venerable Fender Blues Jr is great, as is the Hot Rod Deluxe, both easily obtainable under $500.

Other considerations are the Peavey Classic line. You can usually find a Classic 30 under $500 but they also have the new Classic 20 head coming out and that is right at $500. Benefits of that include a rocking attenuation circuit so you can actually crank the clean channel to get true blues grit at a reasonable volume.

Peavey Classics are cool little amps. I had a Classic 20 combo back in the day. Strangely enough, it was 15 watts. I could crank it up to poweramp saturation at loud bedroom volumes, which was fun.

That thing would get HOT though. I hear its common with EL84 amps. I ran a fan a couple feet behind it to circulate air most of the time.