![]() ![]() It’ll cover a range of budget, and focus on tube-driven amps: these are the best! Let’s say your budget is $1,000: you can probably get an amp head with digital modelling (digital amps) that has a metal setting, that you’re never going to get to fully crank anyway, or, you can a decent tube-driven combo amp, that’ll come with a bit of warmth, and a generally rounder, fuller, and better quality tone.įor this roundup, I’ll take you through a few of the high-quality combos on the market that will be well-paired Famwith a metal player. A half stack rig will typically be more expensive than a tube combo. There’s also the matter of balancing cost with tone. A combo is much easier to fit in with a guitar, backup guitar, pedalboard, and that band member who doesn’t drive. ![]() Let’s face it: most of us are not playing ginormous stages, and have to lug our gear in and out of venues ourselves, and usually get there via an average car rather than a van or truck. To be honest, by “not always practical,” I actually mean “rarely practical.” Firstly, it’s not always dudes, and secondly, a minimum of a half stack is not always practical. There are two things about that imagined picture. When you imagine an image of a generic metal guitarist, I think it’s easy to go straight to an image of some dude in front of a half stack at a small gig, or a wall of stacks at a bigger gig. ![]()
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