Hoot Owl

Good luck finding a mate, mate. 😉

Speaking of Dumble, I have the hots for one of these...someday. Leaning toward the Overdrive Reverb, at this point. Shop – Amplified Nation You can order them in various trims. I'm thinking black gator. But check out their custom jobs. Okay, what the hey, I'll put one below.

There are a lot of amps nowadays that have a Master control that is so good you don't need an attenuator. Friedman's are known for that, for example, but it depends on how much power tube saturation you like.

^ The bold. For sure! Every single connection, every cable, every stomp box, every little thing is yet another thing to go wrong. KISS, and I don't mean the band. And after playing for a while, I came to agree with others that simple sounds better. Guitar, cable, amp, cable, speaker. But if you play dirty, you need a killer amp to make that fly (to be pedal-less).

I hear you, it's nice to not have to worry about biasing. But for some people, they might want to be able to fine tune their bias. As you know, fixed bias amps can be adjusted hot to cold. But I have a MESA Lonestar, fixed bias, with no bias pot (which is why you are supposed to buy your tubes from MESA - they are all speced to work at one bias setting). Some guys don't like that. They say MESA biases their amps too cold, so they put in a pot so they can run the tubes warmer. The warmer you run them, the shorter their life, however.

Oh, him, Mr. Marshall Aussie. He's brilliant. For a tech, he can really play too. Cathode has slightly more character, IMO, especially at lower volumes. No need to rebias after replacing tubes too.

I don't know what your ohm calculation would be, but a lot of different options can be had with one of these: Z-Matcher 100w Impedance Matcher – Weber Speakers (tedweber.com) For more simple matching, I use one of these: Cab-Link - Radial Engineering Edit: I just noticed how old this thread is. Man, this place is dead (haven't I heard that before?). 😅

That's my new rig, stacked. I have a closed back ENGL 2x12 on the bottom, with a Vintage 30 and a WGS12L. On top I have a semi-open back MESA, with a WGS12C/S and a Weber Chicago. I'm still breaking them in, but so far, I like. I may sell my trusty Marshall 4x12, which is not something I ever expected to do. In the future, I hope to buy a Magnatone Panoramic Stereo and have two more cabs that I can spread out, 1x12's or 2x12's - not sure which yet.

Exactly. Good luck trying to figure out what he wants from the OP. 😉

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"Three-power tube" doesn't make sense. Do you realize that?

If that's what you want, then I think you might want to check out a Friedman Little Sister, or a JEL-20 if you like the higher gain side of Marshall, both 20-watts.

I got just about everything crammed into one corner, and here it is.

I'm interested in a Helios, probably a 50-watter. But I recently caught wind of this. The touch sensitivity is supposed to be off the charts. Too bad they labelled the front panel like a first-grader. PHIL X SIGNATURE - Friedman Amplification