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I need some advice regarding practice amps. I’m looking at the following amps and any experience, good or bad, which you could share, would really help:

Crate GLX15

Marshall MG15DFX

Line 6 Spider II 15

Vox AD15VT

I just need a good sounding, fairly flexible low watt amp for my apartment. Which of these sounds the best for the money? Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

CJ

The best practice amps I've tried are the Roland Cubes. They're so good, in fact, that I wouldn't hesitate recording with them. I was SHOCKED when I found out they were digital...SHOCKED, I tell you.

I'd go with the Vox. I think they offer the best cleans and the overdrive can be tweaked to be decent enough.

Crate will work for some metal, but the cleans are pretty dry and sterile.
The Line 6 Spider gave me a pretty great Marshall tone, but I needed the built in fx to make the cleans livable.
Marshall's stuff isn't bad, but I prefer the versatility of something like the Line 6 or Vox, here it all depends on what you lean more towards, cleans or overdriven tones.

from what i'm hearing, they say that the vox ad15vt is a very sweet amp. very versatile. it has like 11 different amp models and several effects. a one box solution

Marshalls are ok, but i love my Cube-15.

I'd also recommend the Roland Cube. It's small enogh to fit in your suitcase and there's lots of cool tones.

But if you want something bigger the Vox Valvetronix is a good choice as well.

also... the micro cube is cute

Out of those options, I'd chose the Vox.

Haven't tried the Cube tho, but now I've got to see what all the fuss is... too bad its so darn ugly...

Go with the Vox. Wattage has one and it sounds killer. If you needed anything louder to gig with, you could always mic it.

Hi -
I had a tech 21 trademark 10 which i recently got rid of for a vox ad15. It works/sounds great for me, also an apartment player.

jeff

Thanks very much for the replies! I’ve narrowed it down to the Crate and Vox because my favorite local shop stocks them and I can give both a good test run. I’m leaning towards the Vox but I’ve read about some reliability issues. Anyone know anything about the Vox and its reliability?

Cheers,

CJ

If you get the Vox, consider the AD30, it's a few dollars more, but has a 10quot; speaker and a power reducer on the back so you can crank it but keep the overall volume down to apartment friendly volumes. The AD-15 is way cool too, though. It really cranks and you can get that speaker moving. I think of them as good cheap fun!!!