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Old April 29th, 2008, 09:59 PM   #64 (permalink)
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a smaller roland "jazz chorus" jc-55, smaller brother to the famous jc-120 which is akin to fender tube amps or marshall tube amps in the tube amp world, which are standards

the only other transistor amp from the '80s to now that is common, moderately priced, and venerated is the yamaha G100 series and G50 series

or you can get one of the roland cubes which is a simplified jazz chorus on a budget...they are very durable and solid

fender's frontman 25R is also a popular standard for a lot of players that can be found literally everywhere

outside of that, there are a lot of lesser known but great transistor amps like early VOX, most marshall mosfets, tech 21 amps, pearce, peavey, lab, polytone, and many, many others

clean and heavy distortion are wonderful on most transistor amps but few can get a lightly distorted, overdriven sound which is the territory of tube amps, but the ibanez tube screamer can get you there with the lighter distortion, warm overdriven tones

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