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I know your amp just kinda broke, and you're up next on the set....but.... NO YOU CAN'T USE MY AMP! JK I would let you use my amp buddy. Just don't mess with my knobs.
I appreciate any piece of gear that sounds good and is reliable however in this day and age people are trying to bring stage volume down, I recently tried a blackstar studio 10 and its louder than what you think it would be and it sounds so good and only weighs 30 lbs for a tube combo, when you put that on an amp stand you can really rock especially when you add some pedals to it.
As I become older, my back is begging me to lower the weight and gear anyway I can. If my rock band goes back out gigging, I will be looking for a lightweight tube amp, or a Strymon Iridium amp sim
I had the 2013 "carbon fiber" version, and I had to let it go because it was too loud to use at home. (I woke the neighbor's napping toddler while jamming on a lunch break. Oops. Sorry.) I now gig with the 50-watt Marshall MG50CFX using the Stompware 4-button footswitch (four channels w/effects + tuner), Morley Maverick wah, Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive, and EXH Silencer noise gate on my pedalboard. Covers all the bases from CCR to Gun n' Roses in my cover band. Thinking of experimenting with a speaker upgrade to tame the fizz--maybe a 65-watt Creamback.
Before my rock band and I went on hiatus, that 50 watt Marshall was the amp I wanted to buy for gigging. I love combo amps for the simplicity of travel. I wish I had bough a silencer pedal like your EHX for the summer when I was using single coil guitars
