I'ma put on my flame suit for this. Anybody out there using solid state amps?
I've heard the fender FM series does the fender cleans very well. I have an old marshall g50r that has very nice cleans and actual spring reverb. It gets a nice poppy sound and is very loud.

Ok I'm ready. Let me have it...

I have a Vox Da5 solid state that is used for practice or travel. It is a good little amp and has some really nice built in delay and reverb effects. You can tell the difference between it and my '66 Princeton Reverb when they are side by side, but for $129 the Vox does a very credible job.

I will chime in! Our secondary amp is a Fender Eighty-Five red knob used for rhythm guitar live. It is small and light weight and sounds super clean. It's very loud. Tremolo and more reverb are added as it has none and little. The last of the American built Fenders, I have read several times.
On amps: In a room of people talking (shouting) and drinking I hear little difference when I see a band between who uses what amps and sometimes guitars. I think there are many guitarists who worry about having the "right" amp or guitar who should get over it...now. You ever stand next to that guy watching a band?
That guy says, "Good sound, but he really should be playing through a Showman. Wrong tone for this song. He should have brought out his Jaguar tonight."
Hey guy. Shut the eff up. Go home to your living room and be a star.

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I have been shopping CL for a Fender FM212. I would love to have a solid state amp. Ideally I would like to try a Fender Steel King, though that may defeat the purpose. Why? Practicing with a Twin Reverb and a reverb unit is silly. It is more than halving the life of the tubes. And there are crapload of them to keep in good working order: four 6L6GCs, one 6K6, four 12AT7WCs, and four 12AX7As. And one wacky Brimar recitifer tube of some variety in my reverb.

I can get the FM212 for about what a set of the Twin's SED winged C tubes cost. Thinking about it...

SSIV

A Roland Microcube that I mainly use as an output to my Alesis SR-16 drum machine and for recording bass lines. I sometimes play through the clean channel on it though, and it has some pretty good onboard Boss effects that I don't have pedals for right now.

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I use a Fender M-80 single speaker.

It's clean, has reverb and the way I butcher songs the best tube/tank/amp wouldn't make it sound any better!

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Peavey Reno 400
I use it for pedal steel mainly, but also works as bass amp for practice at my house and now Im using it for an acoustic gig. Very handy amp. Not to shabby with an electric guitar either.

There are some really cool solid state amps out there. We just had a 70's SS traynor amp in the store. 212 really cool surf worthy reverb and a very brown tone.
I kept talking myself out of it cuz I just don't need it.

Give me reverb or give me death!
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I have seen the guitar version with the 2 8"'s or 10's in the store. Tons of tone for something smaller than an outboard reverb unit.

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I own (2), a Vox DA-15 and a Fender Deluxe 90DSP. Instant on Instant off. Get some great tones out of those amps.

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OK, this is a weird one...

Gallien-Krueger MB150E micro bass amp. But it also works amazingly well as a guitar amp. I know...it surprised me too.

This tiny little thing is in a closed back aluminum (!!) cabinet that isn't much larger than its 12" speaker. 100 solid state watts, 150 with an extension cab. Built in chorus that rivals a good pedal. Built-in compressor/limiter. Headphone jack. Lots of bells in whistles in a diminutive package. Best known as a pro studio bass amp but it is loud, clean and crystal clear with a guitar plugged in after tweaking the EQ. And there is a master volume control if you like it dirty. Add a Fender tank or a Holy Grail pedal and you are ready to surf.

New ones are kinda pricey but I found a nice used one ebay for a good price. It is the best "Bass and Guitar" rig I've tried.

This sounds very interesting with this Gallien Krueger amp!
Worth to check this one out. I will try to get one for less money.
I like easy and handy solutions!
Of course a stage looks great with big Fender amps, but we all know they are huge and heavy as hell sometimes...

I have got two of those legendary Yamaha TA60 amps from 1968. I played one of my Yamaha TA60 amps on all our latest Kilaueas gigs.
It`s LOUD and CLEAN. And this Yamaha amp has got a real warm tone. Very very near to a good tube amp. Believe it or not: In fact it sounds similar to a Showman. BUT you need a good sounding reverb unit for the full surf sound! The built in reverb is shitty!!! The Vibrato is good, but not for live playing... because of less volume when activated.

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Twang cheers!
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Twang cheers!

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