The 18-watter through a 4x12 or 2x12 is just great for studio and pub/club gigs. For that my preferred amp is an 18W TMB Marshall clone or my old Marshall DSL401. Hopefully by the time she finds the amp to be limiting, she’ll know what it is she wants/needs instead.Īs for me, I haven’t done gigs for quite a while now and the last time I was in a band situation (studio) was pre-Covid. For what my daughter needs right now, the Katana 50 MkII is plenty and I know she’ll enjoy it. But they're still less loud.Click to expand.Thanks. I agree though, most ss amp have unpleasant clipping (and risk blowing their speakers) when pushed to their limits. And my AD15 fully overdriven and maxed out probably puts out around 25w.
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Trust me, my 15w Orange AD15 can rattle the windows in my house in a way my old 40w H&K ss amp couldn't dream of. I think a lot of that comes from the fact that the norm for valve amps is to measure the output in watt rms, which is totally clean to to the ear (I think around 5% harmonic distortion max, which sounds clean). Valve amps are louder than solid state amps. I raise you a load of bull and call your bluff. All else being equal (which it rarely is), 55 Watts is louder than 10 Watts. A new $300 SS amp will run maybe 50 Watts with usable output a bit beyond that, say 55 Watts.
A new $300 tube amp will be maybe 5 Watts or so with usable output up to maybe 10 Watts. A $300 tube amp will not be "much louder" than a $300 SS amp. Let's also take price into consideration. A SS amp that's clipping sounds terrible a tube amp that's clipping will sound better but it's still clipping. Tube amps and SS amps clip differently once they reach max. A tube amp can go louder for a given Wattage as long as you don't care about super cleans. So do try to get out there and compare the two yourself. And then again, there'd be certain "as is" qualities I'd probably also prefer on the Orange, like the aforementioned clean tones. So take my comments with a big grain of salt since the Orange model you mention has been improved over my LDX and the Katana models are a bit more budget based than the Roland Cubes (plus it's an open back instead of a closed back design), but I do think the bigger speaker and power of the BOSS might give you a bit more headroom.
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I run my own OD, boost, reverb, delay and Sans Amp Character Series pedals into it and the bigger 12" on the Cube does a better job of handling the full warm tone of my Tech 21 "Blonde". Right now I'm using the Cube 80 just like a power engine in my man-cave. It's more capable of jamming with a band without being mic'd.
The Boss Cube 80 can take pedals that add bass to a higher output level than the Orange before hitting flubby distortions. I bought that one after I already had the Orange because the Orange had a limited amount of bass handling capability before it would get to sounding too woofy and I'd have to reduce the bass and/or output level. I got my Roland Cube on a blowout deal, cost me $220 after a rebate. The over drive sound on the Orange is a bit more metal/crunchy/fizzy than I like, but it does take pedals well. I find that my Orange has surprisingly beautiful clean tones with very deep digital reverb, but I prefer using an OD pedal for drive to get a "classic rock" over-driven tone.
The Orange amps have a bit of "their own thing" to the sound. (Roland and Boss brand names are under the same company). I have an Orange 35LDX, the precursor to the one you mention, and I also have a Roland Cube 80, which is sort of a forerunner of the Boss Katana series.
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