tried something interesting today. Maybe not that interesting.

I've been toying with the idea of selling my laney amp and shopping for a fender (maybe) tube (definately) amp.

All I can reasonably afford is the Super Champ XD. If badcat's are the be all and end all of awesome amps, that's great, but I'll never have enough cash to spend on a purchase like that. I know I could save and all that ... but realistically I have about AU$7-800 to spend. We recently had out first daughter and we're down to one income ... gotta cover rent, food and bills first!

Anyway ... one of my concerns about a smaller amp like the Super Champ xd was the small speaker breaking up too early in a large-ish room like my church hall. I asked about running the speaker out to a quadbox, as we have a spare Hartke 4x10 (i think) quadbox sitting in the cupboard (un-used) at church. Looks like it's also got a smaller tweeter in the middle of the four speakers.

We plugged the super champ into a quadbox in the shop, cranked up the volume on the clean channel, and basically, it was AWESOME! Even better, the shop is having a 30% off sale as they approach the end of financial year.

Anyway, the setup had heaps of volume, and a really responsive tube sound. If I played soft or picked sort of lightly, it was clean, even at a deafening volume. But as I increased my attack, that tubey bite kicked in. Then there's a whole other 16 amp voices to play with ... I think setting 13 gave a nice 'more distorted/rocky' sort of sound. I'm not that good with descriptive language.

Coinciding with this, a guy who plays guitar at our morning service told me that he'd be interested in buying my laney from me and he agreed to a pretty decent price.

So hopefully...