jimmyphye Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 im looking to purchurch a new amp please help , how bout a BC30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggy Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 The BC30 is a fantastic amp BUT before anyone can make any sensible suggestions we really need to know the following: 1. Style of music you play 2. Practice amp or gigging or both 3. How much is your budget That's just for starters. Look at this way, if someone said to you I want to buy a car, how about a Ferrari? Saying yep it's great wouldn't be much help if he was planning to tow a trailer. The more info you give us the more we can help. BTW Welcome to the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSDx Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 ......before anyone can make any sensible suggestions we really need to know...........The more info you give us the more we can help. ^^^^^This ^^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyphye Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 its for practice and small gigs and style is blues and rock also i play a g-400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-theory Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Ok, you've narrowed the search down to about 1,000 different amps now, ranging in price from $300 to $5000. Small gigs and rehearsal means you're looking in the 15-20 watt range or so. What's your budget? What's your voicing preference (Marshall/Fender/Vox, etc.)? What's your output tube preference? Do you want to run it clean or push it hard for output tube grind? Do you like "squishy" or "stiff?" Head or combo? Speaker size/arrangement? Reverb? Tremolo? Effects loop? Single channel or multiple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 BC30 is a pretty good first choice. If I recall it's 15Watts class A, and 30 Watts A/B. so ... 15 Watts is still loud for the house if you used them all, but you've got a gain control so you can certainly get practice overdrive distortion for blues and rock at a low enough volume. and either setting could be loud enough for small gigs with the volume up. One consideration here that may make it a better choice than something smaller, like a fender blues jr for example, is that you wont be trading up for quite a while as 30 Watts will cover most club type gigs small to medium for stage volume easily, and for outfront -no miced up- volume for sure at smaller gigs. It's got good tone nice features and comes in at a good price point by comparison to amps similar to it. Think about the things mentioned.. like trem reverb loop.. footswitching.. and try to rank them in a hierarchy of real time use.. If you're unsure of the exact tones you want. a good way to get a close idea is to look at what amps your favorite players use. look up the model, thier features, which tubes they use, and then you'll know better. But I think you've chosen a very good amp for what you are looking for as stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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