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Originally Posted by mattyj  Do the tiny speaker sound tinny in a large room? Would an amp like this sound better through some larger speakers? Or would mic'ing it be good enough? |
Depends on the room... I've played in cafe's with this amp that were fair large (seats 50) and it sounded great (granted, I was just doing lead embellishments over an acoustic amplified guitar.
It will sound good mic'd, but you'll have to rely on the monitors to hear yourself in a large room.
Again, after SERIOUS research, if you want to buy only one amp for the rest of your life, get a BadCat....anything else if a stop gap measure. If I were in my twenties, the investment would be a no brainer.
I'll add that I've probably had more than 10 amps in my many years of playing, and if I add up what I paid for each one of them at the time (Boogies, Fenders, Roland, Marshalls) I could have bought a high end Badcat today. And yes, a Badcat is noticeably better than my class A Mesa Boogie at producing both clean and dirty tones...(that's what happens when the other guitarist in your band has one). A Badcat is the best guitar amp I've played through, bar none....only a handwired Vintage Marshall comes close (and yet only produces one of it's tones). A Badcat is what the original Vox & Matchless inventor/designer has refined to be the perfect amp.
That said, the Champion (volume set to 12) is the only amp I know of that sounds really close to the Badcat but at a much lower volume.