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I got a 5 watt Monoprice Stage Right tube amp, it’s the first tube amp I ever own. And it’s the best sounding amp I’ve ever owned. It has two settings, one for 5 watts and one for 1 watt. I mostly keep it on the 1 watt setting, that’s loud enough for my bedroom.

I have a Donner Noise Gate, a Tech21 Comptortion, and a Tech21 XXL overdrive/distortion pedal hooked up to it.

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Congrats! New amp...ah, the feeling.

Nice, I've heard those are nice little amps. You're not likely to get lost fiddling with the controls, either.

HNAD!

Well hope you enjoy yours at least half as much as I enjoy mine. I mugged them when I got mine 20% off and free shipping with no tax. I've considdered a lower gain tube in the v1 position but keep holding off. The one thing that made a huge difference in the sound was a cabinet with a 12" speaker, sounds much bigger. You could use the came cab speaker for your Hotone I spied. It does get more than loud enough for bedroom practice.

fatjack wrote:Well hope you enjoy yours at least half as much as I enjoy mine. I mugged them when I got mine 20% off and free shipping with no tax. I've considdered a lower gain tube in the v1 position but keep holding off. The one thing that made a huge difference in the sound was a cabinet with a 12" speaker, sounds much bigger. You could use the came cab speaker for your Hotone I spied. It does get more than loud enough for bedroom practice.

Thanks for the tips, fatjack, I may do that.


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Jhull54 and JeffBeck, thanks for the replies, guys!


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[mention]SXLuvr[/mention] I'm a fan of small tube amps like that. I was tempted to order one a little while back, but I just straight up don't need, and can't justify acquiring one. So, I have to live vicariously through you! You're making me want to go look up reviews/demos of them on youtube.

[mention]JeffBeck[/mention] I belive our own nick souza has a youtube on it I know he does on th 15 watter. If I recall correctly he gifted the 5 to his dad or F I L who enjoys it.

That’s a really cool amp! Congratulations

I always put cooler preamp tubes in my amps.

HNAD!!!

fatjack wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:53 pm Well hope you enjoy yours at least half as much as I enjoy mine. I mugged them when I got mine 20% off and free shipping with no tax. I've considdered a lower gain tube in the v1 position but keep holding off. The one thing that made a huge difference in the sound was a cabinet with a 12" speaker, sounds much bigger. You could use the came cab speaker for your Hotone I spied. It does get more than loud enough for bedroom practice.

I don't know if I got mine during the same sale, but I got the same deal (Monoprice is always throwing 20% off something). I run mine through a 1x12 too, tho I never thought the internal speaker sounded all that bad. I did swap the tubes in both positions. I don't know if I had a bad or noisy power tube originally, because swapping the power tube made a huge difference in clarity (I honestly don't remember what's in it, but it's some NOS GE tube I think). I played with the preamp tubes too, but it had less effect. Tried a 5751 and a few different 12AX7, stuck with one of the 12AX7, but again I don't remember which.

It's perfect for what I use it for: low powered, low volume clean platform for pedals. I like 5 watt mode, with the volume around 11 ish; it's a little louder than the television, but really rich and full sounding clean. I never really crank the amp loud enough to break up that much (which is probably why the preamp tube swaps mattered less to my ears), I get dirt from pedals. And because I dont' use amp gain, I don't care that it doesn't have a loop. Enjoy!

JeffBeck wrote:[mention]SXLuvr[/mention] I'm a fan of small tube amps like that. I was tempted to order one a little while back, but I just straight up don't need, and can't justify acquiring one. So, I have to live vicariously through you! You're making me want to go look up reviews/demos of them on youtube.

Hey JeffBeck, I would put up a sound clip or video or something, but I’m not very good @ that


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Okay, I couldn’t resist. Here’s some noodling with the tone I’m digging from it right now. And I also get my dirt from a Tech21 XXL and a Tech21 CompTortion. It’s on the 1 watt setting with the volume @ about 8 O:Clock. Please excuse my sneeze @ the end




https://youtu.be/cWKGMk3KOkk


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nothing quite like the sound of a tube amp

I have a similar amp. The Vox AC4TV8. Love it.

peskypesky wrote:nothing quite like the sound of a tube amp

I have a similar amp. The Vox AC4TV8. Love it.

Nice


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fatjack wrote:Well hope you enjoy yours at least half as much as I enjoy mine. I mugged them when I got mine 20% off and free shipping with no tax. I've considdered a lower gain tube in the v1 position but keep holding off. The one thing that made a huge difference in the sound was a cabinet with a 12" speaker, sounds much bigger. You could use the came cab speaker for your Hotone I spied. It does get more than loud enough for bedroom practice.

I hooked up the Randall RG8 speaker cab I have to the Monoprice, and it does sound a lot better. Thanks for the tip, fatjack!


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Here’s pic




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