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:	post by Niccolai is wicked pissed at 2008-10-17 09:56:55

grizloch said	[orig][quote]
while we have amp gurus attention... Im looking for a mid-priced tube amp, a guy I know is looking to sell his ampeg vl-502 for $375, I dont know if thats a stellar price or not, but I have heard good things about late 80s ampeg guitar amps, ideally Im looking for a 5150, but I cant find a decent one for within my price range, any thoughts or suggestions? hugs and kisses

I bought my Crate shockwave because it's pre amp is modeled after 80s - early 90s ampegs. the vh-140, ss-150, vts, etc

Here's a quote from scott hull of pig destroyer which basically sealed the deal for me and why I bought mine.

"I only really recently discovered the wonderment of the old Ampeg solid state guitar heads (ss-150, vh-140c) that bands like Suffocation, Assuck, Eyehategod, Dying Fetus, Death, Misery Index, etc etc have built their sound on and have scoured Ebay picking these things up. Sparky from MI told me he had tracked down some folks at St. Louis Music (the parent company for Crate, Ampeg) who told him they put the same circuitry into a new Crate head. Low and behold, I finally tracked down the only man that should be awarded a nobel prize (of metal) for creating an amp, Thom Kieffer, who told me he put the guts of his VH/SS series ampeg amps into the new Crate GTX3500H head (a 350 watt mother fucker). Steve and Matt sent two right over and I only just used them for our first gigs last weekend. They not only sounded WAY more amazing than anything I'd ever used (I've had Triple Rec, Mesa MKIII, Marshall TSL 100, Sunns), but they were even louder than the 1000 watt GK/Mesa Triaxis configuration I have been using since PD started!"

The Crate GT3500h is apparently a VH140 with a Crate logo.

I've got two shockwave full stacks now, which cost me a total of about 2 and a half grand.

and for that kind of money, if there were a tube amp out there that sounded better to me, I would have bought that instead.

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