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I drank the PRS kool aid, and it was tasty!
I got a used 2 channel 30. It's my fave when there aren't any stairs. Otherwise, it's a Tech 21 Trademark 60 for 16 years. It's a great grab and go amp.
I hear you. I've been rocking a Dr. Z MAZ 18 NR at the office with a boost train in front of the amp. Sounds amazing.I’m all about the clean amp and pedals thing!
I played a (first gen) HRDX for about 20 years too before finally taking the plunge into PRS amps. Indeed, it is a great clean channel platform for pedals - and I would use the lead channel when I wanted to do some Neil Young muddy-springy stuff. I still use it - I just swapped it out for my HXDA to use as my jamming-with-band amp, but may swap the HRDX back in: the HXDA is great for certain tones that I like to mess around with on my own, but with the band I am usually leaning more towards getting the sound I need from the pedals into a clean amp. The HXDA works at low gains, but that kind of defeats the purpose of that amp, eh?Couldn't agree more, great advice. I toted around a first-gen Hot Rod Deluxe on and off for 20 years, same approach but with a halfway usable drive channel for some material, and a wee bit more headroom than its little brothers. Great glossy clean channels on those suckers for the price point, they always cut through like a champion, but still sound pretty fat and warm at low volume. They're also so ubiquitous on the used market you can scoop and score.
The Peavey bandit - who didn't have one of those?
I don’t understand why anyone would play a piece of junk amp with a nice guitar like a PRS SE, when the PRS Sonzeras that are available are such terrific, reasonably priced, amps.
And they’re the real thing.
I didn’t. I always bought good amps.
I started playing guitar at 15. My income level was perhaps less than yours when you started playing. But I loved it and was happy, no matter what I was playing. YMMV.
...magician, not the wand(s). Your criteria for junk is anything under a certain price point or solid state I’d guess. Foolish.
Not exactly that Peavey amp, but my first amp was one of those little 10-watt Audition Chorus models with the twin 6" speakers. I remember it only sounded good with the chorus on, lol. Probably my fault, I approached it like a boom box when I was fiddling the knobs. Plus, I didn't really stick with the free lessons a teacher at school was giving on the side, so I really, really stunk and was learning everything the hard way after trying everything the wrong way first.The Peavey bandit - who didn't have one of those?
I got my first amp at 16. An Ampeg Reverberocket 2. Used it with a combo organ and guitar later. I had no income level other than meager gig or summer job $.
Edit: (#2) After two edits, I decided to take say nothing at all. For now. My problem is, I still have a little too much jock in me to just keep biting my tongue.
Making assumptions about someone you don’t know, and have no experience with, might not be the wisest thing.