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So what amps do you guys all like fairly well that are priced reasonably low? Lets keep the ceiling at $400.

For $400 I'd take a Line 6 Flextone II head or a Marshall VS100R head.

How about you?

old Silvertones

Early Silverface Bassman amps, with enough left over for a Tubescreamer.

^ I'll agree with that

also, hmm, peavey classic 50 4x10

I got my crate vfx5112 for a little under $400 at GC's green tag sale a few years ago. I almost hate to admit it, but it's my favorite amp still that I've played over the past few years. I love it.

The Smokey amps are great little amps, and you can stick them in your pocket.

For a little biger amp, I like the Roland Cubes. I'm a tube snob, myself, but for a solid state amp these are pretty nice. Decent tone and very loud.

old silvertones and my sovtek mig 50.

Peavey Classics
Traynors
Sovtek
Yamaha T-100/50
Vox Valvetronix AD60 head or combos
L6 Flextone heads/combos
Carvin Legacy
Peavey 5150 used.
Marshall JCM 900's used
Fender Silverface's, even better if they've been blackfaced or re-capped.
Fender Devilles and Hotrod Devilles
Outdated Mesas like MK1-4, Subways, 50 Cal, scuffed and dinged, but good.

Laney AOR

those early mig50 amps are great and can be had dirt cheap

Trace Elliot Velocettes
Fender Blues Juniors
Peavey Classics

I'm admittedly Mesa biased (no pun intended), so the first things that I thought of were the Subway Rocket and the old 22 Caliber series amps.

Crate V30H

SOUND CITY
and Laney Pro Tube after hearing TO's clip.
and Silverface Fenders.

Blues Jr, Roland Cube 60, Vox AD50VT. A very short list.

Peavey Classics
Fender Blues Jr.
SF Fenders
Mesa F series (used)

Traynors, the mentioned Crates, old Peavey tube amps, PODxt's.

AVT 50, I got mine way cheaper than they normaly sell them.

Traynor
Tech 21
Peavey Classics

Get a nice little 15 watt laney mrk II, put in some new tubes and turn her all the way to 11.