Gots me a new (used of course) amp

[Astral Traveler]

20 watts, a 12 inch Celestion one-or-other, a little box with boin-boing springs in the bottom and a few glowing glass bottles in the top. What can go wrong for $250?

The most intersting part was the guy selling it, in his 70's. He was a collector of guitars and vintage cars. Holy smokes, never seen so many vintage guitars and amps.

There will be photos.

 

[Ebidis]

 

[Clockworkmike]

20 watts, a 12 inch Celestion one-or-other, a little box with boin-boing springs in the bottom and a few glowing glass bottles in the top. What can go wrong for $250?

The most intersting part was the guy selling it, in his 70's. He was a collector of guitars and vintage cars. Holy smokes, never seen so many vintage guitars and amps.

There will be photos.

Want a Marshall? Getting ready to send this SLX to hell lol

 

[Astral Traveler]

Yeah, yeah...

 

[Astral Traveler]

The power thieves look like 3x EHX 12ax7's and 2x JJ EL84's. And a Celestion Seventy 70.

 

[Cadorman]

That looks like the same tolex I just pulled off my Blue Voodoo cab. Much better condition though. Yours seems to have missed out on the decades of spilled beer and puke.

 

[aon]

Congrats! Is that the SubZero Tube 20R?

Looks very Blues JRish. In fact I thought for a while that I was looking at a special edition BJr but the baffle is quite different and there's a standby switch...

@Astral Traveler want to buy my Blues Junior off me to compare?

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Congratulations AT what does it sound like ??
Looking forward to hearing some clips !!
Cheers
Mitch

 

[Session 5]

Congrats Astral! nice amp. looks like the fine fellow kept it in good shape..

 

[SG John]

Nice!

 

[heltershelton]

can we see some pics of the back?
you stole that thing at $250.

 

[Astral Traveler]

That looks like the same tolex I just pulled off my Blue Voodoo cab. Much better condition though. Yours seems to have missed out on the decades of spilled beer and puke.

It's not very old, you can still buy them new and they're cheap. Amazing value for money though.

 

[Astral Traveler]

Congrats! Is that the SubZero Tube 20R?

Looks very Blues JRish. In fact I thought for a while that I was looking at a special edition BJr but the baffle is quite different and there's a standby switch...

@Astral Traveler want to buy my Blues Junior off me to compare?

Bingo! I think it's pretty similar to the BJ but I like this better, I was never a BJ fan.

Congratulations AT what does it sound like ??
Looking forward to hearing some clips !!
Cheers
Mitch

Yuu will hear them

It sounds fantastic, I mean really great. It's a bit of a one trick pony in that it does really clean, clean, and almost clean. It does that one trick well though.

Even with the boost engaged it's hard to push it into any kind of serious distortion with Deathtrap. I imagine humbuckers or P90's will be different. It's not a high gain thing though.

can we see some pics of the back?
you stole that thing at $250.

I'll post some later. The price was OK but not great, a new one is around $350. That however is unbelievable value for money, considering it comes loaded with a Celestion and at least some brand name tubes.

 

[Astral Traveler]

can we see some pics of the back?
you stole that thing at $250.

I will have to put a pedal in front if I want some drive. With single coils at least. No other guitars aroynd at the moment so I can't try.
The back side:

 

[Clockworkmike]

I will have to put a pedal in front if I want some drive. With single coils at least. No other guitars aroynd at the moment so I can't try.
The back side:
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Thats a really nice looking lil amp

 

[steveb63]

Congratulations, HNAD.

Looks saweet!

 

[12Bar]

Congrats, man...looks pretty sweet

 

[syscokid]

I was never a BJ fan.

TMI... TMI...

 

[BFT Gibson]

Congrats on the new amp !! Enjoy

 

[Thatbastarddon]

I was never a BJ fan.

I am doubting now.....

Congrats on the new amp!