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Permalink Reply by Jim Woods on February 1, 2014 at 7:01pm

I have a Fender Mustang I that mimics many different amps ( a modeling amp)  - for under $100 has a great sound to my ear.

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Permalink Reply by Rouxdy Blues on February 2, 2014 at 7:34am

Agreed... money you won't regret spending.  

Doesn't mean you won't buy 4 or 5 other models in this price range and very much like them... it just means it's a winner.  

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Permalink Reply by Ice Bob on February 2, 2014 at 9:58am

i just got this for $125.00 on craigs list 22 pounds loud enough for a band light as a small practice kicks ass i retired my Bugera V5 tube amp to my buddys house so i gotta amp when im jammin at his house. this one is the club version ive heard good things about the Lunchbox

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 2, 2014 at 10:03am

Yep, I have the ZT Lunchbox 200W with the 6" speaker. It can out-loud many of my friends' more expensive amps, and really plays well with stomp boxes and multi-effects units. I use mine for playing out. It always shocks people when I barely crank it above 3 ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Blues on February 13, 2014 at 10:19am

I have on order a Fender Greta. They are being discontinued and Guitar Center have them for about $79 and they normally retailed for $199. I recon it would make a great CBG amp. I've tried mine on a Vox VT15, VT50, Vox Tonelab, Line 6 POD X3, Crate V5, a little Marshall MS4. I've liked playing on the little Marshall the best, oddly enough.

The nice thing about the Greta is that it's a 2watt tube amp with a aux input and looks like an old time radio. Looking forward to trying out the little rascal.

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on March 4, 2014 at 8:28pm

Well, I went for the Bugera. I am absolutely loving it! Such a warm, characterful tone. Very varied and plenty of volume. The power attenuator is the icing on the cake, 0.1 watt has lovely full valve sound at a low volume, and the crunch and breakup at 1 or 5 watts is gorgeous. Highly recommended!

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Permalink Reply by PKB on March 5, 2014 at 12:24am

I really love my Bug. I live in an apartment so the attenuator is a huge feature for me but to my ears it seems to suck some of the 'tone' out. It just seems lifeless and flat at 0.1 watt. I had an attenuator on a Sovtek Mig60 and I noticed the same thing when cutting the wattage.

The Bugera also takes pedals real well. I have a ton of dirt pedals, everything from OD, Blues Driver to more metal stuff and the little amp eats them up and puts a little tubey character to them.

One thing I do not like about the Bugera is the reverb. It's nice for a 150$ +/- amp but I would have rather had more tone control than digi sterile verb.

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on March 5, 2014 at 12:28am

Sounds like you're much more of an expert on these things than I! You certainly lose a lot of the distortion at 0.1 watt. But the clean sounds are lovely. I quite like the reverb too :-)

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on March 5, 2014 at 12:43am

Don't feck about, just buy a Roland MicroCube. I've got one, Hollowbelly has got one..anyone who is anyone has got has one. I've also got a Pignose 20..I used to think it was OK..but it's a P.O.S.  compared with the Roland. It's 3 watts... it's all you need for a practice amp.

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on March 5, 2014 at 12:57am

i had one....does that count..? (-;

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Permalink Reply by PKB on March 5, 2014 at 1:14am

Nah, just kidding. Kind of.

The engineer at the studio where my band records is a dealer for Roland. My drummer endlessly wants to re-record parts so I get to mess around with some of his stock. I have tried the Micro-Cube and the Cube Street and to be honest neither really seems terribly exceptional to me. Frankly they sound like modeling amps which is an amazing coincidence because that's exactly what they are.

I brought in my Hog 20 one day just to A/B them and I vastly prefer the one decent tone out of the HOG to the 50 sub-par tones ( to my ear) out of the Micro Cube. That said, my experience with a cube is pretty limited and I have had much more experience with the HOG.

I am pretty sure I will buy one at some point. They're not bad amps at all. I think I prefer the Cube Street over the Micro Cube.

In addition... Tube Wattage is much different than Solid State Wattage and is not even a real exact measurement of volume, just a decent indicator of a tube amp.

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on March 5, 2014 at 2:49am

Oh well now you tell me! Never mind I'm sure I'll enjoy the Bugera for a while. Never had a real valve amp before so its still a novelty :-)

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