Is your small amp loud enough?

I'm not counting monitors and Line 6 pod stuff but real amps. My smallIMG_5925.JPG est amp is a Vox little Night Train. That very cool little amp is two watts and I run it out of a Blackstar 1x 12 cab. The cabinet now has has a Blue Back speaker in it. That head and cab sound great and I use it for all the recordings. I practice with it and it loves my pedal board.
I rebuilt my Monoprice 15 watt amp, a good reverb tank, a Celestron Green Back speaker and a serious set of tubes it is not a little amp now. I saw people gig with 15 watt tube amps so my grown up Monoprice in on stage more than my really big amps. I run the Blackstar cab with it too. A 12 X 2 and it is miced turning it a bit wild. These two smaller amps do it all fine.
 
I have two old tube amps. 5w Fender and 20w Traynor. Can’t play either one of them unless I’m home alone. So yep. Mine are loud enough. Plus when I have used either one for worship band, they get a mic and run thru the board.
 
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eSGEe said:
Amp demos --- guitar demos--- pedal demos are only as good as you computers speaker ;)
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Yes of course there are! Like you said they really don't give a hint of your true tone. I use some good head phones. By the time the tone gets to my ears it has gone into wifi, the audio of a laptop or iPad, blue tooth and the inner mess of Sony ( made in China ) headphones. Far from the way you wanted me to hear your tone. That is the best we can do unless you want to have me over for a nice holiday weekend. I know that will never happen.
 
eSGEe said:
Amp demos --- guitar demos--- pedal demos are only as good as you computers speaker ( Nice Headphones in my case);)
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My Poor Little amps are only 50 and 100 watters. 1972 Marshall JMP , Laney AOR Pro Tube Lead, and my Red Knob Fender The Twin.
My other little amps are what I call babies.

My Ashdown 300H Bass head, my Solid State Princeton Chorus and my Peavey Envoy 110
 
If I had the $$$ Id have an ac30.....but I just cant justify it for "bedroom use" --- I am intrigued by the new ac10
But have not been able to comparo them side by side---
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Voxy swears by them and we have talked a bit over the years, but I will likely wait to get one till when I am a far better player.
On my short list of amps I'd like having are:

Bassman Head and 4x10 combo
Vox AC30/ AC15
Marshall JCM 800/900--- Marshall Plexi

Ampeg SVT Bass head
Mesa 400+ Bass Head

Roland Street Cube
Orange Mini/Micro Terror
 
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