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Stage Right™ by Monoprice™
15‑Watt 1x12 Guitar Combo Tube Amp with Celestion Speaker and Spring Reverb
World's best reviewed and and most affordable 15‑watt 1x12 all‑tube guitar amp
The Monoprice™ Stage Right™ 15‑Watt 1x12 Guitar Combo Tube Amp has gained fame and incredible praise for combining superior tone and unparalleled affordability. With its dual EL84 and triple 12AX7 tube design, the Stage Right 15W Guitar Combo Tube Amp delivers the tone and features of guitar amps costing several times its price. It includes a genuine spring reverb, 3‑band EQ section, 1‑watt mode and switch, and a Celestion® Seventy 80 12" speaker. Simply put, the Stage Right 15‑Watt 1x12 Guitar Combo Tube Amp is the best‑reviewed and most affordable all‑tube guitar combo amp in the world, for good reason.
All‑tube design, driven by two EL84 and three 12AX7 tubes
Features a Celestion® Seventy 80 12" speaker
1‑watt mode for quiet playing without compromising tone
Genuine spring reverb with foot switch control
3‑band EQ section
FX loop and external cabinet output
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I have both, and valve/tube amps have their place. They move air in a way that modelers just don't. Especially in a band setting. They are like a classic car with a manual transmission: flawed and take effort to get to know and drive smoothly. The best tones in rock history used them. Modelers are great for recording for sure though.
Tubes are even on Amazon now. Several places like tube depot are great. The Chinese made ones are awesome and preferred by many. There are those tone sniffers out their chasing holy grail tubes, but it's kind of a waste of cash when you can invest elsewhere on gear.
2. I almost bought into the modern solid state, rather the do all digital solid state; but then I realized it's not putting a blown tube (Usually just the two power amps tubes, after years of hard use or miss set bias); but it's the new digital amps that are in danger of being yesterdays news and dropping like a rock in resale value. So you got the latest Katana 50 and it's even the Mk II version; well it's not the new EX version, see? And that's with nothing blown and working fine.
3. Power amps on new digital amps go out sometimes too, and when they do then trashing the thing altogether is the least costly option. Most repair shop tell you the total charges would be MORE than a new one. So they are disposable and that is poor design.
4. Fix it yourself and eat the labor huh? Once the part(s) you need is deemed unworthy or "obsolete" for to supply then the you are cut off. And that is the history of so many aging digital amps. We've seen it already.
Tube amps anew:
Have you ever replaced a light bulb? A tube is easier.
Have a blown tube amp? Maybe you forgot to connect a speaker. Maybe it was rode hot in the summer sun and this repeated for a few years. It's a simple, well known classic circuit. If you are not able then just about anyone who owns a soldering iron can. And the Internet is your friend.
There are tube amps to avoid; due to being overly convoluted to repair (Like Mesa), and some, like many favored Fender classic style amps need some simple pro mods, for the long haul.
Basically if you don't want this MP 15W tube amp then save up about $600 for a used Marshall DSL 40CR; tat you have a tech check out. But pros and cons, as usual.
The tube amp says: It thinks the rumors of its death are a bit premature.
Oh, and I am not one to say the tone is necessarily better or worse on the best of top tone digital amps, vs a great select tube amp. It's all good and the audience doesn't care. But I have a decent digital tube emulated tone with my Cube Baby effects (etc...) pedal and also a decent tone with my all tuber MP 15W by its self. Or together! Including USB out. I can adjust ether to match; when the effects used are the same, of course. The Cube Baby giving a few more pre-amp tone styles (and cabinet IR's); but the MP is amazing at several tone and more than most.
Once you can adjust each to a match then it seem the only real difference, not matter all the hype, is the tube amp has a tiny and slight advantage playing/picking at low, to load (easy to hard strumming) volumes, with the bit more range on the tube amp (tweaked).
It's all about the knobs you turn with these two. I have noticed the Cube Baby controls will over ride at certain settings.
Notes: If you gain up the MP (It's badass) and at the same time set the Cub Baby to a clean "Surf" type amp then Cube Baby pre-amps tones override. Meaning it's clean. I think that's as it should be; when you tell it "clean". I'm not quite sure how it does that. LOL. But I'm telling you, so you will not wonder why it seems the MP gain is not overriding(with both on). And if you put the CB in the effects loop it's different. Perhaps the other way around.
I also note the Cub Baby does not have to be in the effects loop for it's time based effects; as is normally best. So it basically does all(boost, noise cut etc...), up front.
Anyway; there some great old solid state amps out there; but the new do all digital amps are temporary. They work great; but it might be better to get what will last, and is easy to repair. And if it's a blown pair of tubes then I'd say you're better off.
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The noise probably is coming from the tubes themselves. I've heard co flirting reports of the amp having JJ tubes out of the box vs. no-name tubes. Do you know if the amp came stock with JJtibes?
Other than that its a great entry level tube amp
And with new digital amp, they get kicked down the road in as little as a year, for new models out-dating the former. Even if working fine. So you're kinda stuck with it. That is not the case with a good all-tube amp; with known classic circuitry and parts.
And you are not going to stop seeing replacement tubes(Just 2 EL84 power tubes usually, after years and years of hard play); because of the demand for tube amps. AND an all tube (Analog) can be supplemented with a inexpensive (Digital) multi pedal, including USB out to DAW etc... on and on... Best of both worlds. A Cube Baby can be had for about $39!
Oh, the readability does suck; about the labels. But it takes no time to learn the order and then just put a sticker on one of the knobs, like "Tone"(Power amp room presence) and you know what next to it. Some just put tape on the top of the case with all the knob labels. Some order colored chicken head knobs for pennies. I'm surprised some enterprising company doesn't offer a stick on panel cover with high visibility. But I certainly would not miss buying this amp due to this easy to fix issue. I might wait for an even better price though. Prices should be lower soon(after); to meet recession. Economical C19 hangover is next. Get ready.
A $39 Cube Baby would have just a pre-amp(s) or line-level, like a regular guitar pedal and works well into the front(or else effects loop) of a tube amp. A power amp head you'd probably want to connect to the tube amps effects loop properly, just to use it's (EL84) power amp. So your Katana head would do all it's effects and tone to an excellent power amp and Celestion 12" mid-range guitar speaker. And time based effects can have advantages/differences into the effects loop instead.
You might be able to put some line-level only into the front of a tube amp, to boost your real tubes awesome pre-amp tones, but remember it's made for guitar-in; which is not even line level! So don't blow it.
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The noise probably is coming from the tubes themselves. I've heard co flirting reports of the amp having JJ tubes out of the box vs. no-name tubes. Do you know if the amp came stock with JJtibes?
Oh and it will fill a room, and a lot more. Or can be real low volume for practice. The 15W all tube amp is a one, do all value amp.
That's not to say it can't benefit from the affordable Cube Baby. Yes the their are countless ways to build a system. This is the way.
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