Best low wattage tube amp? (Page 1 of 2)

There's tons out there now, but the Budda Superdrive 18 is one that I'm familiar with. Very loud for 18 watts, cut through like a knife, cleans up great with volume knob even with the gain maxed. Killer rock tone for about 1K or under used. Great master volume.

If you can swing the price this is the best low wattage Fender for a band practice type deal.  Its 22 watts.  I've tried tons of fender amps out and if I was in the market to buy one this would be it.  I've tried it out with Strats, Teles, PRS's, Gibsons, and even cheaper then cheap Epiphones and have yet to get a bad tone out of this baby.  Seriously if you want distortion turn it up.  You can push a tube amp as loud as it can go as long as you don't add boost type pedals in.  If you add a boost to an amp that is at its max you'll blow it.  Blues Jr's are good too, and I personally like the Pro Jr better if your going for distortion.  Keep in mind though if your drumer would just muffle that bass drum your practicing will get much quiter.  We built a lexan sheild for our drumer with some unused items at work and its crazy what all we can hear now during and after a practice.  BTW our drummer is the loudest drummer I've ever played with, he's 6'3" and around 280 lbs.  He also works funiture for a living so to say he's a hard hitter is quite an understatment.  He also goes though drum heads like I do Strings (2-4 months)
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Steer away from the Marshall Haze 15 head. Its bloody awful, Horrible built in effects that make the amp sound like it should be on a keyring.   

I say try a Mesa 5.25 head, Its switchable, affordable and sounds great ! I had one but the reverb started to hum so off loaded it as I need good reliable reverb.

Try the mesa ! ! you wont be dissapointed and best of all it switches down to 5 w from 25.

Nic, please do me a small favor and stop at Guitar Center and try out the Jet City 20 watt rig before you plunk down your hard earned cash on anything. These totally kick butt! $500 for the half stack. They have 20 & 50 watt combos coming out in the near future too.

Well I own a TSL100 ( and a JVM410H ), and the BH15HD as well and although it's by no means as loud or as versatile as those two heads being a single channel 15 watt amp, it's really loud enough for band practice and gigs ( in a 4x12 ) and sounds really vintage "marshally" to me... Best all around deal at the moment for me if you're looking for vintage tones at a scary decent price....

Honestly I wish Marshall would come out with 30/45 watt all tube heads w/ serial loop in full size cabinets... I'd be all over that....

Here are 2 video demos I made of this little monster. incidently you can check my TSL and JVM demos from my youtube channel as well....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9HFh8pX6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivU8vnXIBQ4

I just picked up a Egnater Renegade 212 and it sounds insane . I don't know if your looking for a combo or head but this thing rocks and has some great features , tube mix , 18 or 65 watts ,  reverb adjust for each channel , etc. I was looking into the 1974X , Rivera venus , Mesa lonestar and for the money and the sounds of these other amps I just didn't get that blown away by them especially for almost double the price . I went in leaning towards the Rebel 30 then I starting comparing it to the Renegade and I figured why not have the extra wattage for headroom etc. and then I decided why not go for the extra speaker and weight  and the rest is history . I've been playing it on the 18 watt setting and getting an awesome dirty blues sound . I also checked out the Haze and didn't like it at all . Good luck and thanks for always answering my posts , Paul

My brother has a Fuchs designer amp (about a gazillion $) and a custom shop Les Paul (about a bajillion $).  He winds up using his Blues Jr almost exclusively on small or practice gigs.  Evidently that bright Fword amp matches well with his LesPaul which is a tad dark.

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BJJ

I noticed the blues JR but what about the Pro JR?  I'm serious try it out before you walk away from it.  It having 2 knobs a volume and a tone actually help it tone wise because the circuit is simple you don't draw away from the voltage.  You can seriously turn this thing wide open and get the best slide guitar tone you've ever had if you play slide.  Its also around $100 cheaper then the Blues JR same output though.  Promise me you'll at least try it before you turn your nose up to it, but you got to turn it up loud or you'll just get clean sounds.  This video is what turned me on to them.  I want one bad now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErTyrhSUPGc