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Well I am looking for a practice amp as I do not like to carry my Vibrochamp everywhere and I worry about banging it up.

*Sounds Great- Doesnt matter if it is tube, ss, or hybrid. And I would like to do some recording with it as well.

*Small- 20ish watts max. I would prefer to keep it a around a 1x10 combo as well.

*On board FX or at least Reverb

*Reliable- I want somthing that is going to last a long time. I dont want to be replacing it because the amp decided to stop working.*Headphone jack so I can practice at night with no one getting bothered.

*Clean- It needs to have a really pretty clean sound.It doesnt need to distortion well or at all because I will get my distortion from my pedals.

*Cheap- I would like to keep it the price fairly low.

For my stuff I either play really clean or fx heavy with lots of mids.

My favorite guitar tone-I dont know if this helps any and I'm NOT out to copy this are- Smashing Pumpkins (Intro to quot;Everylasting Gazequot;-machina) and I guess that is it hahaha.

thanks,
edm

I think you should look at a Line 6 Spider. You can find a 112 model or 210 model with 50 watts, they have a headphones jack, on-board effects, a very nice clean amp model, for about $250-300 used. I've had mine for about 4 years and it's never had any problems.

Line 6 Spider 2 or the likes such as a Tech 21 i think? I myself have played the Spider 2's and heard them live in at minimum 3 bands. They are quite popular here. They sound quite good, the little practice amps that is. They are loud, have everything you require i think, and all the effects are on board. Give em a try, yes I know people here dislike them but they're so cheap and do so much that it's worth a try. Stock Insane sucks, make sure you reEQ it and back the gain off some.

The August '05 Guitar Player (Keef on the cover) has a review of the Epiphone Valve Special - basically an all-tube amp with some built-in effects.
The one they reviewed is a 5-watt 1x10quot;, but there's a bigger 15-watt 1x12quot;, too.

Their conclusion seemed to be that it was decent amp that suffered from a bad speaker, but that's easy to change. The prices are dirt cheap - $220 for the little one, $400 for the bigger. Check them out.

Hmmm... Thanks for the suggestions so far.

the 15 or 30 watt vox valvetronix amps are great, as are the 30 watt Roland cube modelling amps.

What about those Marshall mini-stacks?

Your going to laugh, that is until you play this amp...Crate V18

Roland cube

Vox Valvetronix 30 watt is decent...I still have mine in the closet ..the Fender and Dumble models do very nice cleans and the dumble model takes distortion pedals pretty well.

Fender Pro/Blues Jr? Decent cleans and ya can slam the front end with a pedal.