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Location: Scotland | Spotted this in my local music store. Looked like a vintage low-powered tube amp, but was too pristine to be an old one. Turned out to be a new Chinese-made Epiphone. Great construction, incredibly simple design. Single-ended all-tube, 5 watt class-A amp. 1 power tube, 1 preamp tube, volume control and that's it. I'm using it as a lap steel amp. Up full it's loud and filthy, but cleans up nicely with the guitar volume backed off. Instant David Lindley tone. With my discount cost £89.00GBP, which at the current exchange rate is about 170 bucks. It's probably even cheaper in the USA. Ridiculous.
http://www.epiphone.com/default.asp?ProductID=254&CollectionID=13 |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | $139 with free shipping.....getting good reviews!
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Location: Scotland | $139 = about £75.00GBP. Man, you guys have it good.
Interesting that they've called it the "Valve" junior, which is a very nice and proper British term, rather than your vulgar colonial word "tube" |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I guess Epiphone has a Brit doing ad copy or marketing. Most Yanks won't recognize the term, unless the amp has an engine inside. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I gotcher "Valve" right here. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I gotcher "Valve" right here. Valve Jr. no doubt... ;) |
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You're back.
How nice :rolleyes: |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Always nice to be missed. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | .....only because you turned the corner before I could reload. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | As the owner of multiple cabs...2x10. 1x12, 2x12, etc....I think I am gonna splurge and get that valve junior head for 99 bucks. Reviews look good and I have pissed away that much money on a weekend without remembering where it went.
Lots of potential to play around with along with my Kalamazoo Model 2, the Fender Princeton and THD Univalve.. |
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Location: Scotland | Not sure about the head, but the speaker output on the combo is 4 ohms, which limits the choice of speaker cabinet a little |
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Location: Houston, Texas | The Epiphone website lists the valve jr. head as having 4,8 and 16 ohm outputs. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Tuppy--you could vastly expand your European market if you re-packaged them as "string valves." That must be why they didn't catch on as well over there.......
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I know a british linguist masquarading as a musician and sometimes professor, who is helping me with product developments targeted specifically at the euro market. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | So, how are his "English as a second language" classes coming, Dave? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He learned "Sod off" in the first minute of class... |
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Location: closely held secret | Sometimes when learning english it helps to listen to fook songs. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Tupperware:
I know a british linguist masquarading as a musician and sometimes professor, who is helping me with product developments targeted specifically at the euro market. Dave I know that guy. He's a cunning linguist. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... who's Colonel Lingas? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Dave, what's this 'string tube' thingy I've been reading about? I've missed something here. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Ho boy muzza..here we go...ya just had ask, didn't ya? |
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If you are interested in 'String Tubes', be sure to ask for a free promotional pack of 'GitWiped' sanitary guitar pads, the perfect compliment to 'String Tubes' to keep your strings and guitar clean and sounding great.... |
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Location: NJ | . . . but WAIT!! . . . there's MORE!!!! . . .
Order NOW and get a FREE HardShellCase Stretcher!!!
. . . a $39 value, but yours FREE . . . if you act NOW!!! . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | ...and don't forget the white bowl liner paint... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliff,
Is that a SAE or Metric case stretcher? |
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Location: N.J. | That head will do a great Ac/Dc-Marshall type of overdrive. A few friends of mine have them and i've heard it thru a 1x12,2x12 and a 4x12.With A pedal in front of it its actually a great little recording amp. |
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Location: NJ | Left-handed. |
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Location: N.J. | Originally posted by cliff:
Left-handed. DOH!!!
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I always say this: SRV used a fender version of string tubes. |
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Location: NJ | . . I was referring to the CaseStretcher.
This amp sounds like it would be good mic'd to the PA in a small club situation, que no?? |
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Location: New Hampsha | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
... who's Colonel Lingas? Didn't you know his wife Annie? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knew her as Anna Lingas. |
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| ...and her other sister Thememory.
Slightly back on topic - anybody ever play thru one of the Epiphone acoustic amps? I always thought they looked really cool. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Glenn, hard to keep track of you with all the name changes. |
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I know I've miss some others but I can't figure out how you keep the same member # when you change.....(and your post count!)
Glenn Hess Sr. member#2876 and Bad Gutz member#2876
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Trboy:
I know I've miss some others but I can't figure out how you keep the same member # when you change.....(and your post count!)
That's not so hard to do... |
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That means Tuppy could have bumped off that StandingO guy and still kept his post count! :D
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Glenn Hess Sr.:
so Waskel... sorry, but we'll have to get to know you again w/alterations. Ah, it's probably better this way, Glenn. A fresh start! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Silly Wabbit, your post count just keeps on climbing! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | an4340
It has been shown that you can edit your screen name while maintaining your post count. Might be the way to go! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | How would this amp perform with a hollow body? |
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Location: NJ | uh-oh . . . . |
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Location: Fairfax, VA | Saw Toby Lightman open for Jewel at Wolftrap this Summer. She was using an Epiphone Valve Standard from this line with an acoustic and it sounded fantastic--and was plenty loud, too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | My Epi Vinatge Valve Jr. arrived today. I farted around with it for about an hour with my 86 Japanese Strat. I am very impressed with both tone and volume...
I picked it up in anticipation of ther Hamer Ecotone arriving, for a little blues noise. I think the two will make a great combination for pluggin in around the house.
It's very well built as well. For under 140 bucks, I'm a happy guy. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I farted around with it for about an hour Breeze must be very proud. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I never know if its pride or resignation |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I picked up the head only version of the vintage valve jr about a month ago and have recommended it to several buddies. Great stuff for the money! |
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Location: Scotland | I had a studio call for a boy-band thing a couple of weeks ago. I used the Valve Jr combo for a lap steel solo. I found 2 things completely ridiculous. One that the engineer kept asking me to turn down a 5 watt amp, even though it was in a booth, and secondly that I found myself playing lap steel on a boy-band pop record. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
secondly that I found myself playing lap steel on a boy-band pop record. That pretty much white-washes Stephen's "AirSupply" indiscretion.... |
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Location: ranson,wva | a fuuny yet erie picture comes to mind..temp and boyband....temp's steel playing probly the best thing on the record..jason |
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Location: Long Island, NY | I bought the combo version (for $88 at a GC sale) a little while ago and was somewhat disappointed with the sound. I invested $25 in a new set of tubes and what a difference that made! The power tube that came in the amp was defective, so the new tube fixed that up. Also, I think that the Tungsol 12AX7 pre-amp tube I bought is a whole lot more responsive than the stock tube. The amp now sounds incredible. I even think that my Legend with the OP Pro sounds really nice through this amp. It's kinda hard to find fault with this thing for the price. I'd recommend it to anyone. The only thing is that the quality control on the tubes is poor. If you get one and it sounds OK, then you got lucky with the tubes. Otherwise start by replacing the pre-am tube, then the power tube. That should fix it.
One last thing. Epiphone has modified the combo version to cut down the hum at idle. The head version already has this mod. If you are looking for a combo make sure that is has only two black stripes on the face at the top and not the three stipes in the middle of the face, which is the older version.
This is definitely one cool amp. |
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Cool amp alert!