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Butch Colding
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 11:39 am |
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Looking at a Fishman Loudbox for my steel playing. Is this a good choice?
Butch
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Howard Parker
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 11:40 am
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Not for me. YMMV.
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 12:37 pm
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I have a Loudbox Artist that I picked up for dobro. It's not my main amp but I have used it with a black box in front for steel on gigs in small rooms and use it regularly for practice. If you plan to use it for an acoustic guitar/dobro/mando or something too then it's a reasonable choice, perhaps not if for steel only. I don't really care for the tone without the black box, and for the price of a Loudbox and a black box combined there are a lot of other good options for a dedicated steel-only amp.
It can be tweaked to work/sound fine for steel though, back off the tweeter to smooth out the highs, the reverb is decent. It's very small and light, easy to schlep around. It only has an 8" speaker so it doesn't move a lot of air but can still get pretty loud and very clean. It has a built-in DI to get you into FOH if you need to be louder on a gig. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 1:12 pm
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I used mine one time, and couldn't wait for the end of the gig.
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Butch Colding
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 3:01 pm
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I have acoustic guitars as well as electric plus Dobro and Mandolin with pickups so I thought It would work for all since I play in a a small church.
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Butch Colding
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 3:38 pm
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I was also looking at the Peavey Vypyr. Is this a better choice
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 6:25 pm
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For a compact amp that's not too expensive you can do far worse than a Roland 80XL. Is it the best steel amp out there? No, but it's tone is very acceptable, it's eminently portable and it's good with electric guitar as well.
I have three and I cover all my pro work with them. I paid around $350+ each. They're far better than a Loudbox (which I tried once).
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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mike nolan
From:
Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2015 9:29 pm
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| My wife uses them for pedal harp.... I tried one with steel, and didn't like it at all. |
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Bas Kapitein
From:
Holland
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Posted 1 Nov 2015 2:09 pm
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| I owned a loudbox 100 for a few years. Used a Realtube preamp to get a decent steel tone. Through headphones the tone was great, through the speaker, much less, so I sold it. |
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