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Not heard much about these amps, but they seem to be getting a few good crits here and there... so what's the story, knowledgable people? What's their sound like interms of fender, marshall, mesa, vox, etc etc and what kinda music can you use them for??

I don't want you to buy it so that you'd never know how good it sounds. j/k

It has a great clean channel and a great dirty channel. The dirty channel is not per se a highgain channel. So if you are looking for mesa recto type of distortion channel, this may well not be for you. However, if you are looking for a medium gain, blues/classic rock voiced dirty channel, my Traynor 40W would kill most of the amp out there under $1500 price range. I had JCM800. Traynor ate it alive. I had Soldano Lucky 13. Traynor killed it. I have Rivera Chubster. Tryanor is kicking its butt.

Please don't ever buy it. I want fewer people know how good it is.

interesting.... any artists use them?

Well I have an old Traynor Bassmaster. A point to point, non master head. It's the best sounding amp I have ever owned. It has a real full Bassman sound to it. Check one of these out, they rock!
MCG

I have played Brisk's Traynor. I can sum it up in one word, AMAZING!!!!

I can't believer Brisk thinks it kills the chubster. Amazing for Traynor. I want one of the new blue models, but definitely don't need another amp now.


Originally Posted by presa_titoI can't believer Brisk thinks it kills the chubster. .

I can vouce for him!! I have played both of those amps he has. I have major gas for a Traynor!!!!!

These new Traynors are nice affordable tube amps! These are not the same Traynor amps of the 70's that most remember as being tone-less! I want the 20 watter in Wine Red with a real GreenBack speaker!!!! Cool amps for the cash. I did find the new Blue soaped up higain model a bit noisey but they are just as noisey as the Marshall 2000 combos

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Originally Posted by JimbojsrNot heard much about these amps, but they seem to be getting a few good crits here and there... so what's the story, knowledgable people? What's their sound like interms of fender, marshall, mesa, vox, etc etc and what kinda music can you use them for??

They are Canadian amps.
Here in Canada, you see Traynors EVERYWHERE you go. Every jam, every gig is powered by Traynors. They are good sounding amps. I'd say they're more like the fender Hot Rod, but better. That's all I can really say about Traynors LOL. If it sounds loud, thick, and warm - I'm in.

I have to say though, that once I played through a JCM900 halfstack, nothing will ever be the same again.

Oh. and the best thing about Traynors here in Ontario, is that they're always cheapest. Our largest music chain: Long amp; McQuade endorses Traynor amps. You can get an 80 watt 4x10 combo Traynor for 940 bucks (Canadian that is).

I played both amps. Traynor 40w and Fender HRD.
Traynor have better feature than Fender and the dirty channel is much better than the HRD.
But, I chose the HRD for his clean channel. Traynor is good but the HRD sound much better when you want to play Pop or Blues. I love the tone of my HRD but would not mind to play with the Traynor cause it a very good amp.


Originally Posted by BluesmanI played both amps. Traynor 40w and Fender HRD.
Traynor have better feature than Fender and the dirty channel is much better than the HRD.
But, I chose the HRD for his clean channel. Traynor is good but the HRD sound much better when you want to play Pop or Blues. I love the tone of my HRD but would not mind to play with the Traynor cause it a very good amp.

What about the actual amount of clean headroom between these two amps? Which amp has more room to work with? I have yet to try a Traynor, but when I did try a HRD I was disapointed with how fast the clean channel broke up. Not much headroom. The tone itself was great, just broke up too fast.

well, I have to mention that I use NOS tubes and celestion g12 Centry Vintage.

MIKE M.= You're right about the headroom but the HRD was made with the purpuse of playing Blues mostly and Fender wanted to get good natural overdrive with the clean channel. There's some brand of tubes that can get a bit more headroom though.
Also, the reverb on the HRD is much better compare to the Traynor. Overall, the Traynor is very good but the clean tone of the Fender was a must for me.

Brisk
gotta aska bout the chubster again
I've played the ycv40 and while the cleans were phenomenal, the dirty channel just didn't get enough gain for me
i recenlty played a rivera quiana and lthought it was fantastic
did the traynor really beat the chubster on the marshall side too


Originally Posted by Bluelinei recenlty played a rivera quiana and lthought it was fantastic
did the traynor really beat the chubster on the marshall side too

Chubster has two EL34 and Traynor has two 6L6. So Traynor has smoother and more balanced dirty channel (not really marshall sound). Chubster has darker thicker fatter dirty channel (dark british sound = marshall). If you are up for marshall sound, I'd go with chubster. If you are up for more articulate and transparent distortion, I'd go with traynor.
They are just different amp but I am really really impressed by Traynor.
Cheers

Also, Chubster is not per se highgain amp. It's more of medium gain blues/classic rock type amp. If you felt Trynor doen't have enough gain for you, you'd feel the same way to Chubster. That's why we need good OD pedal.

1971 voice master 1 head

Amazing cleans, no gain channel. The natural distortion from it I don't like, so I use a pedal. It's meant as a PA though. If I boost the cleans to drive it, I can get good overdrive from it but it takes pretty radical EQ to get it right.

So.... if I were to stick my Epi 335 through a traynor tube combo (possibly with a boss overdrive pedal in front - reckon the results would be good? I'm a clean-to-medium gain blues rocker - oasis, white stripes, radiohead, that kinda thing. Thanks for all the contributions, by the way.