POLL POLL!!! AMPS!

Im gonna say a couple of well known amps and you guys tell me what comes to mind in terms of sound:

i.e.

Marshall: Clear harsh tone
Vox: blues fuzzy tone
Fender: crystal cleans
Matchless: expensive...
Mesa-boogie dual rect: metal
Crate: cheap
Peavy: hairbands from the eighties

I know there are many variations of these models but i wish to know what you guys think about the trade mark sounds or general characteristics of these amps

[Edited by Polera on 11-29-2003 at 12:37 AM]

The Vox and Matchless are the only ones that even come close to my Ampegs. But not close enough.

Marshall: great crunchy tone and blues tone but not super high gain
Vox: dont know
Fender: glassy clean channels with killer blues tones
Matchless:
Mesa-boogie dual rect: metal metal metal!!!
Crate: good at making solid state amps I am auctually kind of fond of the glx series and the blue voodoos are not that bad
Peavy: mostly metal amps and rock They have some nice models the 5150 and 5150 2 which eddie van halen designed, alot of metal bands use 5150's that are modded and the xxx series is nice to.

Marshall: Awesome. I love the tone of these amps. Wonderful quality of sound.

Vox: Haven't heard much from them...

Fender: Similar to the Marshall, I don't like it as much though.

Matchless: not as much as it would like to think.

Mesa-boogie dual rect: Bah

Crate: Wonderful amps. I really like the larger half stacks and full stacks that come out of this company.

Peavy: I own a really really awful Peavey, So I'd like to say all their amps suck. But that's really not the case. I think Peavey makes some pretty good amps, but I really like the fender and Marshall amps better.

VOX : amazing 60's and blues sounds

FENDER : Great clean, not so hot on the distortion though

MARSHALL : Great for classic rock distortion and alot of new age rock distortion too. I'm not a fan of the clean channel though

Marshall: classic rock. Heavy
Vox: Never played one, only thing I can think of is that ad with nickelback, lol
Fender: Best clean there is, awful distortion, awful!
Matchless: Never heard of it
Mesa Boogie: To $$ for me, umm heavy modern rock, king of amps, I also think PRS.
Crate: Solid State, I kinda like the GLXl, but I wouldn't buy one.
Peavy: Cheap Crap.

Marshall: Great distortion. Blows you away. Expensive.
Fender: Great clean tone
Matchless: no idea
Mesa-boogie dual rect: The best heavy metal-amp.
Crate: no idea
Peavy: Great tubes.

Fender- clean/blues. I've heard them used more for blues.
Crate- can be used well, but I would rather invest in a randall.
Mesa- Nofx uses them, so I don't think it's the best limiting them to metal.
Randall- rocks
Marshall- most commonly used by tone-deaf knob-crankers, but can sound very nice when used right.
Peavey- I've played one peavy amp and it was great for jazz. Past that I have no idea.

I don't think they sell those around here.

Aiwass, you are the sleeper king of unkown amps! WOW :)

i saw a really nice engl not long ago. I havnt heard one before but i know the good ones look very nice !

I saw engl stack at this show. The head on it looked so cool. Lots of buttons and lights :)

Marshall:Rock tone,very projective,with allot of bite smooth overdrive(can get distorty if desired)
Vox:Smooth Brian May'ish
Fender:Singing clean Bluesy
Boogie:Chunky,smooth,high gain tone
Peavey:A bad company that makes the others look all the better
Crate:Deluxe model Peaveys
Randall:Somewere between peavey and crate
Matchless:$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Orange:Same as Marshall for allot more $$
Hiwatt:Exactly what the name implys(ask pete townsend)
Roland:effect company that make one decent cheap amp in the 80s call a "Cube 30"
Park:Marshalls Son about as good as a cheap solid state amp can get