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Location: Portola Hills,CA | I will be looking for an amplifier soon for practicing in my garage. Looking for an inexpensive, versitile, good-sounding one for my Ovation 12 and 6 strings. Can anyone recommend one that sounds good with Ovations? I have a small 15W Marshall already. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I use an old beaten up Rickenbacher (1-10") studio amp... nice warm accurate tones... I also have a Crate... too tinny for my tastes...
Others will surely give better counsel...
tim |
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Location: SoCal | I've got a Crate, but the Fender Acoustasonic Jr's are pretty good. |
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Location: Florida | I've always wondered how they get all the bottom end out of the Fender Acoustisonic's with those puny drivers they have - but through some trickery - they do.
For the time being, I'm using one of the amps I built in the Fender Champ cabinet - gets about 18watts or so, and runs into a single 10 Eminence AL10K (a GREAT speaker if you can find one leftover someplace...no longer made with the Kapton option). The tone isn't great, but with some twiddling, its passable.
I'm thinking the D120's I've got in the Twin have doubled for sound reinformcent, when you add a high end driver to go along with em. They have a pretty flat curve, ditto a Fender tone circuit has a pretty flat curve when you go bass/6 mid/10 treble/4, and no bright switch on. So at that point, its about like a PA would be. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | This is a shameless self-serving reply, but I do have an Acoustasonic 30 for a good price: $175, shipped. |
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Location: SoCal | re: "shameless self-serving reply" from Paul B.
Nothing wrong with that. By the way, Mr. Blanchard is good to work with. I just bought an amp and one of the 30th Anniv Custom Legends through him. Check out his huge amount of feedback in eBay as roundback. |
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Posts: 1380
Location: Central Oregon | I have been very happy with my Genz Benz Shenandoah Jr. Great little 30 watt amp for about $350.
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Location: NJ | preferred practice amp?
none |
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Posts: 1922
Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I'm with Al. I've plugged in my ME 12-string and my Legend each exactly ONCE. Right after I brought them home to make sure they worked with my Fender Frontman 25R and that was THAT. My other two Os are straight acoustics(as God intended). :D
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Ovation 1777-NAT Legend 6-string |
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Posts: 13987
Location: Upper Left USA | OAO,
Taken from the lyrics to "Let There Be Light" by Andrew Peterson:
When the mandolin sang like a bird on the wing
In the hands of Bill Monroe
When Chet played guitar like a walk in the park
Like a prodigal son coming home
They spoke into being the work of their hands
From the void of the wire and the wood
And they stood on the stage
And they sang and they played
And they said that it was good
(chorus)
Let there be light...
I do like light bulbs and all this electrical wonderment but sometimes you gotta just keep it simple - and acoustic! |
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Prefered Practice Amplifier?