Looking for new 50 watt modelling amps

[laxu]

Are there more amps I should be looking at? Can I use a normal footswitch with the Catalyst?

If you haven't made any purchases, I'd wait a bit. Apparently there's a 3rd gen Katana coming out.

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[pipelineaudio]

@Digital Igloo on the catalyst series it appears as if it uses a standard TRS input for the footswitch input. Would a regular 2 button footswitch work or is there something special in the catalyst pedal?

 

[dbagchee]

@Digital Igloo on the catalyst series it appears as if it uses a standard TRS input for the footswitch input. Would a regular 2 button footswitch work or is there something special in the catalyst pedal?

It’s uses a standard two switch pedal with momentary switches - a ton of em on Amazon for $20.

 

[pipelineaudio]

I got to try out the LT50 yesterday and it was awesome. Very very similar to the mustang gtx 50. Perfect speaker emulator out. But it shares the other mustangs Uber downside of proprietary footswitches. None of the momentary or sustained switches I tried worked. Does anyone know how the MGT4 switch is wired? It said there were two other fender switches that could work, the ms4 and the ult 4 or something

 

[JiveTurkey]

The Mustang GT switches are notorious for not working right.

 

[pipelineaudio]

Are they like resistance networks or something? Trying to figure out how they could work. I had the whole setup plus the expression pedal for a mustang 4, I should have taken it apart and had a look

 

[JiveTurkey]

Elastic at vguitarforums.com would probably know. They probably have a Mustang sub over there with the info.

 

[Moe45673]

The EX seems to be discontinued but I’ll see if there’s any used ones

It's baaaack

https://www.boss.info/global/products/katana-50_ex_gen_3/

 

[timbuck3]

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[timbuck3]

 

[bigmenace]

I used the VT20X for years (and demoed the VT40X as well). Whatever you want to say about Andertons reviews/Rob, the Vox amp felt and sounded really really good. I only ended up selling it early this year because of the lack of a FX-loop.

 

[pipelineaudio]

The only voxs I saw failed the requirement of having the speaker emulated out not mute the onboard speaker

 

[ragingplatypi]

Yeah - a couple of us here wish Vox would make a digital amp that’s gigable, but I doubt that’s in the cards.
Did you choose an amp yet?
I love my Catalyst for the plug-and-play experience. The deeper editing and line out are fine, but it’s definitely geared toward the non-tweaker.

 

[pipelineaudio]

Catalyst is at the top of the list, so far havent bought any, we've been buying Mustang 3's used and one new LT50

 

[GuitarBilly74]

If it exists, it will be turned to full. Unless I superglue the attenuators

I teach part-time here so I can relate.
Set the amp to the power level you want and take the knob off Lol

 

[timbuck3]

I still use my old box ad120 vax combos and head with box cab… as well as ad60vtx and vtx300 amps

 

[pipelineaudio]

Is the Sonicake IR loader ok? It could really open up the amps in this list just to keep a couple on hand

 

[Byrdman]

Catalyst is at the top of the list, so far havent bought any, we've been buying Mustang 3's used and one new LT50

I love my Catalyst 200, but I'm probably going to sell it soon. I'm just going in a different direction with tube amp heads and cabs and need the space.

Are you in Hawaii? If you were in the lower 48, I would make you a hell of a deal on it, but I think shipping to HI would probably cost about as much as I would want for the amp, lol...

 

[Snags]

Are you wanting a modeller so it has a bunch of built-in effects? If not, and you basically just need an amp that will do clean through to classic rock and no metal, the Blues Cubes are worth a look.

 

[Jarick]

I still use my old box ad120 vax combos and head with box cab… as well as ad60vtx and vtx300 amps

I remember always wanting one of the first gen Vox Valvetronix amps. I had a later gen cheap one that wasn’t great. I think the early ones used a tube for preamp and power amp gain right? They were also fairly well made with a quality cab and speaker.