Sound City - Concord 2x12 are they worth much?

[ICBM]

Well i just tried MEhelper's amp and the reverb is nice and lush. i like to look and i like spaghetti Western sounds would be great if it had a little dirt, i don't know if that's an easy mod.

Yes it is.









Put a pedal in front of it .

Most of the people I've come across who do like these amps use them as a platform for pedals, they work quite well for that. I still haven't heard one I like the reverb on though, except for deliberately crashy stuff.

I doubt modding it for onboard dirt would work well without a major rebuild to a completely different circuit, which would pretty much defeat the point if you like the amp.

[parker_knoll]

nooo, not pedals

[ICBM]

nooo, not pedals

Why not? If you were to use a completely valve-based pedal (there are some), how is that different from modding the amp's preamp to cause distortion? Other than being in a separate box.

My experience with modding other members of this amp family (Sound Citys) is that the only way to get a conventional valve-amp overdrive sound is to completely gut the amp and rebuild it to a Marshall-type circuit, or something like that. Given that this one doesn't even have the right number of controls relative to the channels, that's either a nonstarter or so much work that it would be far simpler and cheaper just to buy a different amp.

[parker_knoll]

yeah, i was bidding on a hughes and kettner valve pedal that went amazingly cheap yesterday, should have bid more.

but mainly because most of the pedals i've tried changed the sound in a way i didn't love, and didn't get that touch sensitivity i could get with good valve amps where it's all in the picking dynamics.

[impmann]

Okko Diablo.

That is a pedal that has dynamics in spades, sounds amazing and works well with clean amps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIeuc...feature=relmfu

[parker_knoll]

does it cost the same as the £200 amp?

[impmann]

Yes. And?

[ICBM]

Yes. And?

And it's probably less expensive than having the amp modded while not halving its value at the same time, and you can sell the pedal and try a different one if you don't like it.