I have around $450 to spend and was looking into a more powerful amp. I've looked into a few, and the V-AMP comes highly recommended from my drummer's cousin, who has been playin guitar for 10-odd years, and has been using his V-AMP for quite awhile.

What do you all make of it?

http://www.behringer.com/LX210/index.cfm?lang=ENG

Save more money, Buy a better amp. I have a v-amp pro, and its pretty much garbage

I have it. Good for blues/fusion type of stuff. Absolutely horrible for any type of metal. I am currently using it for an effects unit. You can swing a used Crate Blue Voodoo or Peavey 5150 for around $400-$600 bucks on eBay. Cheers.

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What makes it so bad? Is the Distortion really shitty or something?

Extremely horrible distortion. It's a great FX processor, but I wouldn't use it for your high-gain playing. Really muddy and the distortion sounds too "fake". If you do decide on getting it I would get a RAT or a DS-1 for some decent gain to push through it.

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If Distortion's the only real problem, couldn't you just use a distortion pedal? I already own a Metal Master cause the distortion on my current amp (Ibanez Tone Blaster) sounded horrendous.

Yes, I just said that you should use a pedal. But overall, for the money you'd pay for the V-Amp, you could swing a used Crate Blue Voodoo or Crate Shockwave, which is much, much better.

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I dunno why you would use a distortion pedal on a modeller, that's kinda insane.

Not really.

Are you fucking retarded? The gain on most modeling amps is horrendous. I know from experience. A modeling amp is not good for metal MOST of the time, so a distortion/overdrive stompbox is normally ideal when using a modeling amp.

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the moral of the story is DO NOT BUY THE AMP for that price you could probably get a new crate shockwave, my mate has one and it has insane distortion, a realy nice tone generally and it doesnt sound all thin and tinny like all the modeling amps.

i mean if you have the opportunity definatly get a blue voodoo or a 5150 but otherwise just get the shockwave

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Indeed. Well said. See, those of us who play Jackson's are just so intelligent. :P

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BRAND ELITISM FTW

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People who play RAN's are even smarter

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well that puts me into genius status in three months

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so why buy it if your gunna play metal in the 1st place?

It has pretty decent FX. I use it for my effects unit at the moment.

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This has already been said, but dude, theirs better shit for the money. My old guitarist had that head, and it was a piece of shit, in my opinion.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...Amps?sku=482242
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...Amps?sku=481443
a crate shockwave
crate blue vodoo
some marshall avoid the dfx series look into jcm series
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Ampeg VH140.

Randall Cyclone.

your fuckin crazy if you don't think the vamp pro can get good tone. Luke from Sleep Terror uses one on every single on of his recordings and his tone is crushing for just being a direct in recording.

www.myspace.com/sleepterror

yees but what rack gear does he use??

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Its still bad. He most likely uses a rack unit as well. Why don't you buy a V-Amp if you think they are so good. Their gain sucks an immentionable amount of balls. But their effects are good.

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