i need a halfstack, head has to be 300-400$ and cab 300-400$ thats my price range, the amps i got now dont give me the sounds i want, im looking for more of a hardcore type sound, any suggestions.

I got a Crate GFX1200 head and a Crate CX4x12 speaker cab for sell if you want hardcore. It is all in great shape and comes with built in effects.

Ebay is the best place to find good gear though. You can get alot for the amount of money you can spend.

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If not Soul's stack ... then get an old Randall RG or Crate head, or a Peavey Ultra ... You can sometimes catch Crate Blue Voodoo cabs for very cheap. Or just cabs ... keep an eye out for ALL 4x12 cabs on E-bay, every so often you see a Marshall 1960b with several gashes in the tolex, and it sells for 300$.

thanks for the replys, i just remembered, theirs a place where i live, daddys junky music, their selling a Peavey XXX combo for 500$ New but when i put it at high volumes it squeels and sounded like crap. So i dont know what to do.. But is the peavey xxx worth the 500$?

What about something like this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...eName=WDVW&rd=1
I live right around the area so maybe i can just pick it up.

The squeel might be from the pick ups. XXX's are decent amps. I don't know about the price though because I don't know Peavey stuff that we. The Marshall looks good and if you can get it for a good price I would get it.

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is this any good lol
http://www.music123.com/Hartke-Pigg...--i230719.music

I have never played one but from the looks of it I would be scared of buying it. Then again it could be one of those things that kickass but no one realizes it until after they are out of production.

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yeah, I think crate makes some good halfstacks in that price range.
But also check out your local pawn shops. I'm sure your could find an excelent used stack for not so much money.

If 6-800$ is your price range, don't blow it on a Hartke!

its a decent SS amp for your price range it will do u ok, Good for metal

You mean the Hartke halfstack?

EDIT :

I see that you meant the Crate Shockwave. I own one and love it ... Its basically an Ampeg VH-140 but with a little over twice the wattage.

I still cant find anything interesting.
I want a winter solstice tone. But i doubt anyone on this forum likes them

I think they use 5150's.

Hmm thats what i was thinkin also,but i dont have that kind of money, or need something so expensive just to play in my basement.hmm

a 5150 combo can easily be found for $800.

Less than that, if you use E-bay.

i know, but i mean if hes willing to spend $800, a 5150 will easily be his

I looked at the Hartke link. It sounds kinda decent, until I realised it has no tube power-amp.
With an S.S. poweramp, you'll not get that nice saturated sound. And 60 watts would not be a lot of headroom then..

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with SS, you want to avoid the break up that happens at high volumes. With tubes, you should strive for the saturation that occurs at high volumes. Two totally different ball parks.

300 watt SS power is nice because of the extensive headroom.... less break up. 60 watt SS sucks because the break up occurs at much lower volumes.

Its opposite with tubes. 60 watt power is nice because the saturation occurs quicker. 300 sucks because you have to really fucking crank it to get the (sexual inuendo)nice warm sensation(/sexual inuendo)

NOTE: this is a reply to Brains' post, above.

Yeah, but with just a tube pre-amp, it's not realy crankable would it?

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Also i was just wondering what are some good extentsion 2x12 cabs that isnt so pricey.And does the extension cab have to be the same model as the amp i have or the same type? I was thinking this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...eName=WDVW&rd=1
I dont know much about this ohms stuff, if someone could take their time and explain it would be helpfull.
thanks

While the Genz Benz is an excellent choice, keep in mind that that ebay link is an UNLOADED CABINET. No speakers with it so you'll have to buy you're own speakers and install them.

Yea i realized that after, good thing i read the description first, got any other good choices for cab extentions i cant seem to find much, well i dont know much about how they go about and ohms and etc..

You can never go wrong with a cab wired for 8 Ohm. That way even if you use another 8 Ohm cab, together they will be 4 ohms. You ask why it works that way? I could type up a mathmatical explaination in electrical theory but no one really would read it anyway.

It is actually very easy to match a amp to a speaker load ( rated as Ohms ). Nearly all amps handle 4-16 Ohms without problem. When you get your amp look at the back to see if there is a switch for different Ohms. On some speaker cabs there is even a switch to set it at different Ohms. If there is a switch on the amp ( and on most tubes amps there is ) it will have a settings for 4, 8, and 16 Ohm speaker loads.

If it is a soild state amp then it will not need a switch. Just plug it up and play, but never use less then 4 Ohms unless the amps says it can handle it. Some soild state amps can handle 2 Ohm speaker loads.

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