Super CHEAP 50 Watt Tube Amp! // STAGE RIGHT is at it Again! 

Nice video! (I’m just getting into guitars and wanted to know, what’s the difference between a tube amp, and other amps?)

Could you swap a hammond tank into this amp or would you need to make it work with lots of mods?

@@ElJuicetin Tube amps have tubes (valves) to produce sounds. They are heavy, often expensive but often rated better sounding when hot. Others are solid state and modeling amp (often referred as digital). The quality of these have improved markedly. Most people feel they are very close to tubes amps these days: they are light, often cheaper.

Justin Huge difference. Most of the time a tube amp sounds better, and distorts much more naturally, think of it like a physical distortion vs solid state amps which have digital distortion. Besides, a tube amp is usually much louder than solid state amps. A 5 Watt solid state amp is perfect for practice at home with a controllable volume. On the other hand a 5 watt tube amp would usually be much louder, and needs volume/loudness in order to distort. In that case a attenuator is needed for the tube amp to distort but still maintaining low/desired loudness. On many tube amps that have a master volume switch, it doesn’t sound great at all when having the gain at 10 but the master at 1, it still won’t distort that much with the master down(according to the Marshall origin 50H I had) Currently I am using 2 tube amps, a 20Watt Marshall Plexi and a Marshall origin 5C. It is already too loud at 5 Watt, and it is still loud at 0.5 Watt with the Marshall Origin, but not as loud as at 5 Watt which ear-protection should be used. On the other hand I also have a Blackstar ID Core 100 Stereo which is a digital amp, and it is fantastic to use late at nights, I could have maxed out distortion + reverb at a controllable volume. So to summarize, a tube amp OFTEN sounds better and louder

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Yep it's a continual cycle of no reviews. I'm pretty interested in watching this.

Check out Jimmy Stewart's channel for looks at the 5 and 15w Stage Right amps.

@@milkandmeat it doesn't really matter man, most big youtubers think they are too big for little budget companies like this, still doing gods work

Really? Because this brand started popping up like crazy on YT a year or two ago. That’s how I know about the brand.

@@CMHobbies not specifically this brand, he reviews alot of smaller brands other times

Replaced the 70/80 with eminence swamp thang speaker. Sounds awesome

@@mikevega7740 toying with the idea of swapping a V30 in there.

@@jeremylove6594 I just ordered the 30 watt head and 12 inch speaker cabinet with cv30 in it

I got one 2 years ago and I love it!

Mine came with crap tubes, but they weren't going to stay anyway. Re-bias, new pre and power tubes, MojoTone British Vintage, extension 10" Bruce Weber blue AlNiCo cab. It's great as is, and it's a low budget modder's dream. I was able to beg, borrow, and eBay some somewhat coveted NOS tubes [Mullard, Tung-Sol, Sylvania] for my 5W SR and my 15W. I got rid of all my other guitar amps except my old Hughes & Kettner I gave my son, my keyboard amp, and my wife's bass amps. Careful of the voltages, tube amps can kill, capacitors can retain a charge for a long time, and it's always cheaper to ask a pro than to buy a casket or pay for a hospital visit. I do electrical and electronic work for a living, please be careful if you're messing with anything inside the chassis.

You should change the speaker to a higher end speaker. It will totally change the tone of the amp. The speaker is probably a poor quality speaker if it is low end Celestion. No need to spend a fortune, but it will dramatically change your tone.

gavin w Thanks! Yup! It’s on my to do list. The stock speaker still isn’t completely broken in just yet. However, from my experience thus far, I doubt it will change very much even once it is broken in. It’s not terrible, just lacking that special something that will always be holding this tiny beast back from its full potential.

@@jasonpalmer8163 check out weber speakers. They have a massive variety and will give free speaker recommendations and the like. They also have tube amp kits that are probably the most highly customizable kits around. These amps seem to be pretty great for the price! A speaker would really take them to the next level.

These have been put for a while. They didn't address anything. These are their own thing. If they addressed the 15w power cord, there'd be a new 15w with a detachable power cord. They wouldn't address an issue with one model on a totally different model 🤔 Oh this speaker in Amp A sucks. Let's change the speaker in amp B that's already been built for multiple years to address the speaker in amp A. Yea. That makes zero logical sense. None.

Yeah it does sound perfectly fine but I wouldn't expect it to last very long.

People give the Monoprice rave reviews, so…. I dunno. I ordered one. It was $200 so, like, why not?

How was it?

@@mvyper from what I gather having cancelled before delivery for a real Vox on impulse… it sounds cool and unique with the stock speaker, but you pop a greenback in, and it sounds very near the Vox. I can totally confirm that. Look up the stage 50 v Ac15 and you’ll see 😄. Almost made me regret the extra money I spent, but I’m a sucker for branding, and they’re both got different EQ character.

But expensive amps have the same issue. I guarantee they are using the same kinds of parts

I have my old reliable Roland cube 80 or my 40 chorus

Or you can buy a better amp with the money you spent trying to make a cheap amp sound like a more expensive amp. If there was a way to beat the system everyone would be doing it

@@stevem5139 exactly…and the branded amp will have much better resale value. This is where SR could upgrade themselves with THE most important feature, the speaker, and sell it for a little more. Why bother with JJ tubes and use a crappy speaker? No logic to that.

@@JPMonstie or you could buy the head and the cabinet they are selling which would be a nice setup. I own both the 15 and 5 watt guys and why talk resale? I put a wgs 75 watt 12 c/s model maybe with tubes like telefunken and I set the bias correctly, they had it set at -7 volts not -12 and I must say it sounds better than my ampeg jet but not because of the tubes, just the speaker but they are making a good product, are they cutting some corners, yep but I like their products and for the money can't be beat. I am going to surprise myself with one of these for Christmas. Now, the big question, if I was in a working band would I use this? Well that is the question.

@@stevem5139 What better amp? Most of the stuff out there is crap. Like VH said it can be fun to upgrade and you don't have to spend a lot to make this amp better and you can't find anything like this for the price. The 15 watt 1X12 apparently is a Laney Cub so I think this amp is better than people think and you can use the Laney schematic to fix it.

Does this amp hood up over time? I’m thinking of running it through my 212.

The 15w gives great SRV tone at lower volumes.

i wonder if you can upgrade the spring reverb to a better one like mod brand

How it going so far? It’s down to this head or a Bugera.

@@LEON4PRES I now have two of these and think they are really nice. One of mine had a problem and died. Monoprice processed my complaint, had me ship them the bad amp and then they sent me a new one. Great service. But they are really nice.

Cool, I have katana 50 and am in same boat. Hoping to try tube amp to own for the first time. Hope you remember to let us know how you go and what you got!

@@Tone-Oz I bought the stage right 50 watt tube amp And the first one I bought played for about 10 minutes and I heard a pop and then I got static so now I know what happens when a tube blows. I had Amazon replace it and I am pretty blown away by the sound of this amp. This sounds so much better than the katana and you can feel the air coming out of the speaker and you can feel the sound going through your chest when it’s turned up which I’ve never experienced before with a digital amp. Hopefully these tubes don’t blow but stage right has a one-year-old replacement policy. I’m totally happy with it so far but I can’t turn it up too far or it is really loud. It’s definitely worth the cost and you might want to get one before it gets too expensive to have a tube amp or are you just won’t be able to find them.

Same hear. I would have appreciated hearing It with humbuchers.

I agree. Chords on the Humbuckers would've been a good test, with the bright switch on & off.

Mine cracks and stuff too. Pisses me off. I think it's the switch from clean to dirty that makes it do that.

Wish these manufacturers would stop using mdf all together.

Thanks DH!

That ot looks kinda small for a 50 watter. The pt looks good though

It's all completely subjective. I have once directly compared a Seventy 80 to a GM25 Greenback, and I personally have strongly preferred the Greenback. Those are two very differently voiced speakers, and the Seventy 80 sounded too scooped for me. But do I think it's a bad speaker? No, I'm sure it has it's strongsuits, it just doesn't fit my taste. While I'm sure that the price tag also has to do with it's bad reputation (I love how some people look at a "cheap" price tag, like it's a bad thing. I mean as long as the product delivers, it's always better to spend less...) but I guess It's reputation is also due to it's voicing just not appealing to the masses. Many people want that classic british mid-focused sound, which it's just not suited for, so it gets a bad reputation by these people. But for people who like very modern scooped high-gain sounds, it might be a great and very affordable option. The funny thing is, in videos demoing the Seventy 80 it always sounded fine to me, like it could be just what I was looking for. I can imagine that many people shared this experience of liking it in videos, and then disliking it when they actually play one

@@Scoaster86 I fully agree with you, just a matter of taste. I had that 70-80 in a Ibanez 15W tube amp, that I replaced with a G12H for more 60s and jazz voicing. And also appreciate the G12M in a Vox 15W tube for blues-rock voicing.

@@Scoaster86 I have 10"/12" greenbacks, a Creamback and Celestion blues and the gold alnico across my amps. I agree, I prefer those too. But the Seventy 80 is anything but bad and the reason people hate on it is because its cheap, not because it is a poor performer. Its way better than the stuff I had years ago when I started playing... and certainly doesn't deserve the rep it has. And if you are looking for a slightly different tone, it is different from the 'standard' Celestion speakers. But people giving these away or selling for $30 makes no sense... they don't suck.

I have the 70 80 and it is fine like who cares tones in the fingers not the amp right .So who cares 😴

I wouldn't call the 70 80 bad, but the V Type is also very inexpensive and sounds 10x better

I love my Blues Junior!!

Miss my blues jr.☹

$399 for a new combo from China. I’d rather pay a little more for a used Fender.

@@sneifert1968 Right?

The Peavey valveking is built in the United States and it doesn't sound anything like this amplifier I have owned two TVs mini Fender amps solid state tube digital everything no you're wrong

​@Iain Johannesburg valvekings were never built in the usa. 5150 abs 6534 were though

​@Iain Johannesburg valvekings were never built in the usa. 5150 abs 6534 were though