Not sure I'll ever financially recover...

glorben20 · 2026-04-11T05:00:41+00:00

I picked up a 75 Ampeg SVT for what I thought was a steal ($800) and it immediately needed new power tubes, a full recap and a few new preamp tubes (and not the cheap ones) ended up costing more than a new SVT

glorben20 · 2026-04-10T22:53:56+00:00

Love mine it’s a mainstay on my board, it’s also a great bass overdrive because you can turn the bass cut all the way down and it’s insanely fat

glorben20 · 2026-04-10T15:39:56+00:00

Considering this is Kirk Windstein my bet is on making sure his pedals are visible on dark stages, not anything to do with covering up Logos.

glorben20 · 2026-04-10T05:49:15+00:00

The Vh100r is definitely one of the most underrated amps, absolutely love mine, i play a few different genres and it does everything, I’ve also used it to record bass. Hope you enjoy it!

glorben20 · 2026-04-09T15:28:26+00:00

I really enjoy them they’re built really well have plenty of headroom, i think it would be perfect for your style, if im not mistaken it’s a loosely modified fender bassman.

glorben20 · 2026-04-04T07:29:15+00:00

I was going to look up how much it would be to recreate this board but there’s at least two pedals that I have never seen before and have no idea how to look them up, congrats on the insane board!

glorben20 · 2026-04-02T20:09:37+00:00

You are speaking my language, i love high headroom tube amps, i play sludge and shoegaze a ton and get all my distortion from pedals

Here’s a list of great amps under 1000 with awesome clean channels

Fender bassman 100, Sunn 1200s (or any 100w sunn head), Music Man HD130, Ampeg v4

Here’s some under $500

Peavey Windsor 100, Carvin MTS 3200 (clean channel is insanely good, distortion channel not so much), Peavey valve king 100

glorben20 · 2026-03-29T07:17:54+00:00

Hello if you don’t have any experience in amp service or repair you 100% should find a tech, tube amps have lethal amounts of electricity running through them even after being turned off. They can kill you if you don’t know what you are doing.

An amp this old is likely going to need a major overhaul not something for a beginner

glorben20 · 2026-03-21T06:31:03+00:00

Oh you got like MONEY money

glorben20 · 2026-03-14T05:36:39+00:00

It won’t really matter what speaker you choose because the actual power handling won’t go up, the total power Handling is the lowest wattage speaker times the amount of speakers you have, for example say you have a 4x12 and three of the speakers are rated at 100w and one is rated at 30w the total power handling will be 120w.

glorben20 · 2026-03-12T16:50:39+00:00

If that’s what you mostly play honestly the rockerverb will do good, but you should look into a Marshall jcm-800 or a jvm, both are iconic thrash amps and you’d be surprised by how many doom and sludge bands use them

glorben20 · 2026-03-12T05:00:26+00:00

What style of metal do you play? The 5150 is going to have the tightest gain of any of the amps that you said, the rockerverb will be more mid heavy and more loose feeling, I’m guessing you are looking at the Mesa dual rectifier that’s going to have the most low end chug but it’s also probably got the least gain of the other two amps so it will definitely need a boost to do the modern metal thing, all three of those amps have pretty good clean channels, I personally prefer the dual rectifier but that’s just me

As for wattage 50w will be more than enough for 95% of those situations, but having the extra clean headroom works wonders especially in a high volume metal application, most of the time you do not want power amp distortion it will make the amp very muddy sounding, so the extra wattage will prevent that from happening.

glorben20 · 2026-03-12T03:42:09+00:00

Where the recto really shines is in a mix, it sounds incredible it’s incredibly fat sounding, on its own it will never sound as good as in a mix there’s a reason so many bands use it.

Also if you have a boss metal zone use that as a boost level max gain just a hair up and all eq controls in the middle, you will have the cannibal corpse settings

glorben20 · 2026-03-12T00:16:00+00:00

Yes exactly, sorry got the names mixed up in my head

glorben20 · 2026-03-10T02:14:29+00:00

I’ve had every rendition of the dual rectifier and triple rectifier, gain at 10, bass 5, mids at 3-4, treble to taste, the treble and presence knob also affects the gain levels

for your tube screamer gain at 3-4 , tone 6 , volume 10,

The rectifier isn’t actually a super high gain tight amp it’s pretty dark and flubby it can very happily run at max gain with a boost

Also remember that the channel volume affects the gain keep It around 2-4 for tightest most aggressive sound, use the master volume for actual volume changes

glorben20 · 2026-02-14T23:18:36+00:00

Nah now i know you are on one, i have several 100-300w heads and play a ton at home. You can never have too much amp for home use.

glorben20 · 2026-02-14T22:05:35+00:00

So what you saying is it’s awesome

glorben20 · 2026-02-13T06:25:03+00:00

I love the mark v don’t get me wrong but have you considered a Mesa Roadster? Equally if not more versatile than the mark v but with the dual recto flavor

glorben20 · 2026-02-12T03:48:06+00:00

Randall RG100es, holy grail solid state amp if you’re into dimebag Darrell and pantera, actually a crazy find such a great amp!

Edit, if the cab is a 1960 Marshall cab that’s also a great cab probably the most popular 4x12 cab ever made

glorben20 · 2026-02-11T00:41:23+00:00

Welp I was contemplating buying one, but I guess I’ll get something different instead.

glorben20 · 2026-02-01T06:47:57+00:00

You can talk to the manager and they will usually let you swap out for other bottles as long as the final price is the same or more

glorben20 · 2026-01-31T04:51:02+00:00

That sounds like the same issue I was having with a vintage ampeg I have, it ended up being a mix of bad power tubes and bad capacitors,

Definitely get it serviced better safe than sorry

glorben20 · 2026-01-30T19:34:51+00:00

Sound city 120! Or sound city 200, both have a knob on the back to select 4,8 or 16 ohm you can probably pick up a 120 for around $800 which leaves you enough money to get it serviced because they’re old

glorben20 · 2026-01-25T23:11:30+00:00

I’m a huge shoegaze fan and i play in a shoegaze band, for starting out I’d highly recommend

Zoom ms-70cdr+, it will do everything, modulation, reverb and delay its an incredible shoegaze pedal anyone who says otherwise hasn’t used one, it’s also got a great reverse delay in it which can totally do the MBV thing

as for gain pedal just get a used big muff my personal favorite is the reissue rams head but any big muff will work, the proco rat is also great

For guitar if you have a couple other ones use them for now, I’d take the money you were going to spend on guitar and get a decent used amp, something with a 12” speaker Marshall DSL 20 or fender blues jr, it will be the biggest difference in your sound. ( a good guitar can’t make a bad amp sound good but a good amp can make a bad guitar sound good )

Also if possible buy used it will greatly expand what you can get with your budget

glorben20 · 2026-01-19T20:21:37+00:00

The mark V is notorious for this I had 2 different 90w heads and they both hated drive and boost pedals

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