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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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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Oh....
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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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Muzza,
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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Cool amp alert!
