I picked up this amp for a few reasons. Cheap, small and light, and lower in room volume. The amp was on sale for $180, and I combined it with an online 20% coupon totaling $144 plus shipping. It is about half the size and weight of the Fender, so very portable and easy on the back. It has a 1watt mode making it perfect for closet room jamming.
This amp has almost zero headroom and begins to break up at very low gain settings. The overdriven tubes sound nice, however any dirt pedal or fuzz is dominated by the amp's tube overdrive giving little variation is dirt tone. Buying a boutique pedal like KOT, etc is a waste with amp because of the lack of head room.
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe MIM (2017.08.13)
Picked this amp on craigslist for $320 which included the amp, channel switching pedal with cable, amp cover and a spare monster cable. It was originally listed for $400 and bargained for $350. On my way to buy it the ATM only let me withdraw $300, so I could only pay $300 + $20 in my wallet at the time. Suprisingly he agreed, so I got a nice bargain on the unit.
2018.04.18 SOLD. After buying the Blues Jr and Monoprice amp, I decided to sell the HRD before the move to Solana Beach. I did not need the features like Dirt channel and Effects loop. The HRD Gain channel turned out to be an overdriven op-amp, and I run everything into the front end with my Wet-Dry setup with no use for the effects loop. Buyer paid $400, so ended up with an $80 profit.
Line 6 HD 150 (2017.07.02 - SOLD 2017.12.22)
Picked this in several deals on craigslist. I first bought a head and shortboard for $150. It included several guitar cables and Ethernet cables for the pedalboard. I then bought a head with cabinet for $150. I ended up selling that head for $130 on ebay ending up with a head-cab-pedalboard for $170. I will probably end up selling it and buy a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III.
2017.07.02.Sold the one amp on Ebay $120 ($135 minus fees)
2017.12.19.Sold the Shortboard on Reverb.com for $130.
2017.12.22.Traded amp/cab for Ibanez Art 300 with h/c and $65 (craigslist)
Payed: $300
Sold: $$315 + Ibanez Art 300 with h/c which I sold for $200, ending up with a $215 profit
Fender Champ Reverb [TC-10R] Made In Japan (SOLD late 2016 for US move)
Just picked up a Fender Champ with Reverb Made in Japan. I lurk on the craigslist often owners dump their stuff because moving out of the country, etc. This was the case. I bought the amp, pedals, a power supply, and some cables including a Providence LE501 all for 30,000 jpy. Pedals include Boss Flanger BF-2, Turbo Distortion DS-2, Compressor Sustainer CS-3, Dynamic Wah AW-3, Octave OC-2, ProCo Rat, Jim Dunlop Cry Baby, Arion SCH-Z Chorus, and Roland EV-5 expression pedal. Probably will sell most of the Boss pedals and try to get some of the money back from the purchase.
Below is the exact listed ad with original picks. The owner ('Will') was also offering a Fender Squier Strat, but offered to buy just the amp and pedals. He mentioned he will take a trip to the Caribbean with his mother for about half a year so he needed to unload his stuff and vacate his apartment.
"Fender Squier light and sounds great. Pedals: Wah Wah, Stereo Chorus, Compressor/Sustainer, Octave, Flanger, Rat, Dynamic Wah, Turbo Distortion. Fender Champ Reverb (Works fine but tube a bit loose.) Amp Info: http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mh61310/14353765.html
Can try/buy near Tsunashima Station."
I bought this amp for 100 jpy. Since I live in an apartment, I can't utilize a Marshall stack cranked up to 11 without having the cops called on me. So I picked up this el'crappo practice amp. The Bass/Mid/Treble are broken, but no worries. I plan to either fix it or replace the guts with a Noisy Cricket.
MXR Head phone AMP:
I also got a small enclosure for the Noisy cricket. It is a DC power supply that I stripped the guts. I ended up using it for a DIY MXR Headphone amp from FX Layouts
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