Was a $100 amp when I got it.
3x12AX7 pre & two EL84 out for a rated 15watts.
The low/hi input, dunno if that's a tube switched and a plate/emitter
driven design (5/15watts).
Yea, I can hear the EL84 characteristics from a lowly claim to a
PigNose cloned Fender Bassman, which I swap out its 6L6s for
YeloowJacket EL84 converters.
What the Monoprice does do it does a lot better than the clone
Bassman, although that's still a Bassman, nevertheless, what with its
stock 6L6s for 40watts of more than respectable bass. With
YellowJackets substituted, it's markedly a narrow limit on power
width, for what EL84s sound like compared to the Monoprice.
The Monoprice lacks, as it should, the unpleasant YellowJacket tone aberrations driven past and over wider volumes and gain. There's also
a separate tone control to override its three others, Mid/Treb/Bass
with a startling tone-suck effect consequent, unless that tone cranked
wide open. I possibly killed the reverb if it ever worked. Notice
the included design below: Half an inch below the amp and all around
the speaker portion, I used a 7" buzz-saw the turned mine into a men's size-16 shoebox amp head. Came out surprisingly neat for a fast, new
and out of a shipping box, flash amp head conversion. Five minutes,
tops, no foolin' around and I want head, period. At half-an-inch the
white Tolex worked for the exposed cut areas, re-attach and mated the
bottom, bottom also cut flush from sides with the circular saw, and
mating being four of the chrome corner brackets. Gutted. Flipped the
amp for getting used to reading upside down chicken knobs, the way God intended, so the tubes no longer are a specialty toaster fried amp of
PCB, slid back in clean and neat with tubes facing up. Probably a
razor before the power saw, first to cut the Tolex, to get custom
instead of ratty-assed.
The thing that makes this amp not break is not its awesomely
commanding presence, instantaneously apparent for any conceivable
instrument plugged in. No, it's not a $6000 Marshall, but just $100
worth of imported Chinese labor at stated design allowance for
advertising as "a Laney", over assembled parts for more or less
doubtfully if not serious concessions.
So to arrive at what it Does Have: A Fx-loop, principally, which
opens up the amp considerably. A compressor in the loop levels out
several ways to approach tone balances, allowing for a good idea where
the noise is, if any, between preamp and amp, where distortion begins
and what that means in terms of tightening the headscrews into
15-watts output. A 5-watt "attenuator" as well does work decently
loud at clean or dirty headroom for a 4x12" halfcab. Haven't a clue
how many of these amps would be returned for anomalies between
production units and quality control, when or should they in fact do
break, among such things as what's involved then in the design. Seems
I heard Laney is a $2000 Class-A amp, and not quite what a 611815 from
an Asian warehouse in CA says, anyway, it is. . .
The Cheapest amp known:
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-611815-Amplifier-Celestion-Speaker/dp/B016JDJE9E
Beware of any advice he may provide
Nobody gets to talk anarchistic USENET shit
Currently unavailable.
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:13:19 -0700 (PDT), Lord Valve <ghost.raper@sniff-this.com> wrote:
Beware of any advice he may provide
There is no need to advise from a link to scores of Amazon reviews
others already provided. Nobody gets to talk anarchistic USENET
shit, and everybody has to preestablish their credit to buy one before getting hot about posting in the preassigned boxes.
Yes - this, from the dude who knowingly pontificated about
"Celestron" speakers and spoke authoritatively on military
"ordinance."
You're a fucking poser and you ain't foolin' nobody, junior.
The difference between Amazon reviews and the Usenet is that
on Amazon you can maintain your position as an "expert"
and no-one can call you on it, while on Usnet someone who
actually *knows* amplifiers (including the piece of shit
you're fumbling with now, since I was a Monoprice dealer
back in the day when they pretended to have a dealer program
and I had to fix every single one I ever got shipped just to
get it good enough to sell) from having fixed many thousands
of tube amps in the last fifty fucking years can say "Hey,
you are fulla shit and you are fucking WRONG, so shut the fuck
UP" without some pissant monitor telling him to cool it.
Plenty more where that came from, Mr. "solder-up these cheap-ass
Chinese right-angle plugs and they're just as good as a Switch-
craft,
On 7/28/20 4:23 AM, Lord Valve wrote:
fat ass
We are talking about guitar amps - something you have no idea about
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:23:32 -0700 (PDT), Lord Valve <sniff-this@you-poser.com> wrote:
Yes - this, from the dude who knowingly pontificated about
"Celestron" speakers and spoke authoritatively on military
"ordinance."
You're a fucking poser and you ain't foolin' nobody, junior.
The difference between Amazon reviews and the Usenet is that
on Amazon you can maintain your position as an "expert"
and no-one can call you on it, while on Usnet someone who
actually *knows* amplifiers (including the piece of shit
you're fumbling with now, since I was a Monoprice dealer
back in the day when they pretended to have a dealer program
and I had to fix every single one I ever got shipped just to
get it good enough to sell) from having fixed many thousands
of tube amps in the last fifty fucking years can say "Hey,
you are fulla shit and you are fucking WRONG, so shut the fuck
UP" without some pissant monitor telling him to cool it.
Plenty more where that came from, Mr. "solder-up these cheap-ass
Chinese right-angle plugs and they're just as good as a Switch-
craft,
I can respect electronics. When somebody says it will kill you, I
listen, only I do not to a friend who's actually damn good at it, who
doesn't scare from doing it all his life. Me, I can scare. I still
arc weld from a farm-grade Lincoln welder he helped me, rather did,
wire into a 220V dryer outlet on a 60-amp fuse I found in a
fire-&-storm recovery business. Just so, repair and warranty work,
that's him -- just not on guitar amps but of similar complexity in
another component electronics field. Not a problem. I've been on
business calls to people's homes for equipment work/swap, and know
what goes on both there and back in the shops. He worked them all,
one end of this big-assed city to another, so that's a lot of experts
wearing expert hats. Mostly domestic accounts, a few with distantly
related government contacts, though nothing contractual in any formal
sense binding.
I actually made my very own Last Guitar Cable from some ancient
Switchcraft plugs I found on Ebay. Big eyeball-popping bazookas, brass/copper and heavy. I use 000 steel wool to clean them before
plugging into an semi-hollow electric. They're from Army Signal Core
Radio Communications Field Operator, WWII, or switchboard telephones
between manually patched when Al Capone was running around. Whatever. They're great plugs in my book, though.
Just stop. Nobody cares if you can install dryer outlets
or arc-weld. I can arc-weld, MIG, TIG, you fucking name
it - I can gas-weld too, everything from a jeweler's
torch to a fucking plasma cutter. Why do I never mention
shit like that? Because these are alt.GUITAR/AMPS/WHATEVER
groups, not alt.farm.equipment.fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck, you
stupid shit.
Did I mention you were a stupid shit?
You stupid shit.
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:58:38 -0700 (PDT), Lord Valve
<eat-this@turd.com> wrote:
Just stop. Nobody cares if you can install dryer outlets
or arc-weld. I can arc-weld, MIG, TIG, you fucking name
it - I can gas-weld too, everything from a jeweler's
torch to a fucking plasma cutter. Why do I never mention
shit like that? Because these are alt.GUITAR/AMPS/WHATEVER
groups, not alt.farm.equipment.fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck, you
stupid shit.
Did I mention you were a stupid shit?
You stupid shit.
I've a Chinese amp, the first imported, that's lasted 30 years. Still
works fine.
another case of your worst nightmare: goods delivered that work
without breaking.
There *are* some Chinese companies which build to spec -
these are called "crunch lines" and they will take their
existing designs and crunch your logo onto them, or they
will take your specs/plans and build to those. That's
where the weenie in this roast comes in: if your spec
calls for a power supply with 15-volt rails, that's
what you'll get...but the caps on those rails will be
16V parts if you didn't directly specify something else.
An American/Brit/German/etc. engineer knows to spec 25V
*minimum* for those parts, with around twice the rail
voltage being the ideal value for longevity/reliability.
What's more, if the Chinese fabricator is allowed to
use 16V caps on those 15V rails, he will use the absolute
cheapest parts he can get in order to maximize profit for
his company. This spec/quality dance must be performed for
EVERY SINGLE PART IN THE UNIT, and any part which is not
scrutinized, specified and specifically ordered to be a
certain type, voltage, MTBF (etc.) *will* be a piece of
shit selected by the fabricator to maximize his bottom
line. Period. Warranty? Don't make me laugh - that's the
importer's problem, and he'll figure the horrendous failure
rate into his bottom line, often offering end users a
complete replacement unit in lieu of on-the-scene repairs.
(Many Behringer units, for instance.) Decent gear is built
UP to a quality point; Chinese gear is built DOWN to a price
point.
favorably disposed.
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