Been primarily a piano and keyboard player, so Iād been getting by using a multi-FX pedal with an amp simulator going into my keyboard amp. That thing is huge (a Roland KC-550, you can see it behind the below guitar amp), so I intended to buy a smaller amp, thinking maybe even a PA. Iād been using a Bluetooth boombox that annoyingly switches off with any silence longer than a second or two, so most anything would be better than that.
The first couple of amps were relatively inexpensive ones that sounded fine, although they had a lot of patches I didnāt need because of my pedal. However, once I tried a few of the tube combo amps, I was immediately hooked! The best sounding one to my ears was the Vox AC30 C2, but as that was too big and bulky, I ended up deciding upon the Supro Delta King 12 below!
Iāve been jumping up and down about it ever since.
Oh, Iāve never played or even seen this amp! (Shame on me)ā¦ But Iām sure it will serve you just fine. Are you satisfied with how it sounds with your guitar? Anyway, congrats on your purchase.
From my experience, getting a new piece of gear usually makes you play more
As I only play at home, Iāve decided to go into an amp modeller and a studio monitor which in my case is the most flexible and versatile solution, however, I always appreciate a good amp, be it a tube or a solid-state oneā¦
Have fun!
Way to go Felix!
imho, ya got some good taste.
But Iām prejudice. I play a Blues King 12.
I love itās sparkly cleans and the bordering on edge of breakup.
I used to use the boost switch, which I still do sometimes, but less often now a days. In the end though I find I like just the amp by itself preferring to adj. the master and volume knobs only. I mostly get the tones I want just using that. If itās a bit dirtier of a song I might engage the boost, once in a while.
I generally donāt use the gain switch (in my case, drive switch in yours). That switch surly is some real gnarly overdrive, thatās for sure. But even that switch has some use, in some songs.
fwiw, have ya tried bass @ 3/4, mid @ 1/4, treble @ 3/4. Some real sweet tones with them settings.
Also, fwiw, try tuning all tones to zero. Assuming your amp and mine are the same, just different generations. Turning the tones stack to all zero youāll get nothing out of the amp. No sound. Now turn the reverb all the way up and the master volume up (pre vol. knob will do nothing). With that setting Iāll get some super washed out reverb out of my Blues king. Not a particular usable tone, but ākindaā fun to see what itās about.
Congrats on your pick of a new amp. Ya did good imho. Itās where I landed too. Iāve had mine for a good three years now and I still dig it.
fwiw, I still wasnāt happy with my choice of tones, I thought. I got a Fender '65 Princeton Reverb reissue last year to cover that. It has some great tones in it too and aināt near as big as the AC30.
I love both of my choices and go back and forth as to which one to play today. Sometimes I play one this morning, the other this afternoonā¦ I canāt decide which tones I like better. The Blues King 12 is right up there with great tones as is the prri, itās just a different flavor than the prri.
The more I play the Blues King 12, the more I like it.
Itās also real portable. Try taking it on you back stoop on a nice day. A lot of fun playing on the back stoop drinking your favorite beverageā¦ Itās a real portable amp which is another benefit.
Thanks for all the tips. No, I havenāt tried those settings yet! Itās early, but Iāve also found Iām not using boost much, although I do really like that drive switch.
I have been really tempted to buy the same ampā¦ looks cool & the sound samples Iāve heard are definitely in line with what I want out of a tube ampā¦
I will probably contact you in about a month or so and see if you have any more comments about your ālikesā & ādislikesā with it!
Looks like Iāll have a lot of work to do editing my existing patches to work well with the new amp, but eh, thatās a fun project! Thereās 11 patches I rely upon most heavily, and Iāve updated 3 of them so far.
Main annoyance is the lack of headphone jack, so I need to plug it into my audio interface, which means three cables instead of one, but eh, I can live with that.
Perhaps thatās a plus?
Sounds like yaād be ready to record at any moment going that route. And ya get yer headphones to work too. A double plus. Short of the extra cables.
Suproās are superb amps, canāt go wrong with them except they can be a bit loud!
I have always fancied one but couldnāt justify the price of what I wanted!
ENJOY
Took me another couple of days to complete updating my main 11 patches, plus a few more. With one exception, they all sound lightyears better than before. The one exception is āLightning Crashesā which uses a phaser (I know Justin recommends a rotary effect, but the phaser sounds much more like the original recording to me). I get a rather unpleasant sound as the phaser gets to the higher end, so Iāve had to restrict its range, making it less dramatic. I think I just need to figure out how to use the noise suppression pedal of the GT-1 or something similar to get that one right.
But anyway, with that out of the way, I was able to spent the week or so after that just practicing/playing music, and wellā¦
Yep, I found myself playing pretty much every day (when previously, Iād play like once or twice a week). I also picked up the SFS2 footswitch so that I can make full use of the Suproās drive in the songs I know, which is awesome because that distortion is sooo sweet! Itās definitely versatile enough to musically and beautifully cover pretty much everything Iāve thrown at it so far (90s alternative rock, hard rock/metal, 80s rock, soft rock, country).
So, I know itās still relatively early, but I love it more now than I did when I first got it!
Very cool!
Glad itās working out for you and that your digging your new amp. Thatās the way ya hope itāll turn out after some play time.
Interesting to me is that your using your amp with many effects it sounds like. Opposite of how I use mine. I got the foot switch too but used it so little I put it in a drawer. I also hardly use either boost or gain (drive). I just love the cleans I guess. Will confess I do use the onboard reverb much (set @ 1/3 on generally) + I use tremolo and delay pedals a fair amount (2 of 3 tone changing pedals I got connected). Guess I got a phaser pedal too. Itās in a drawer tooā¦
Excellent. Ya did good.
fwiw, I go back and forth between a 65 princeton reverb reissue and my blues king 12. Sometime I like the Supro better. Not always though. The prri is to die for too. Just wish it werenāt so darn expensive. The supro is about half price compared to the 65 prri and imho, the prri aināt two time better than the supro.
The supro wins on cost effective with great tone I think.
If I were to change anything. The blues king 12 needs a onboard tremolo, the 65 prri needs a master volume. Then itād just be down to the tone for me. Iād find that hard to figure out too. They sound enough different that they both fill a unique niche. Both good I think, just different flavors.
Follow-up timeā¦ are you still loving the Delta King? I (very briefly) tried one & although I loved the sound, my wife & dogs didnāt!!! When I got the tone just rightā¦ it was way too loud. I ended up returning it after 3 days of play! Super-nice & very solidly built piece of gearā¦ great tone!!!
I was still shopping for something when I got a bit of a surpriseā¦ a Harmony amp with a built-in attenuator that Iād ordered about 2.5 years ago arrived on the doorstep!
Check it out here - https://community.justinguitar.com/t/been-waiting-waiting-waiting-nad .
Iāve only had time with the Holidays to play with it for one session, itās a super-sweet amp too!
