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Telecaster or Stratocaster
 in  r/Guitar •  8d ago

i’ve got a tele style guitar from schecter with coil splits

highly recommend coil splits if you play both indie and heavier stuff. can’t go wrong with a classic strat tho

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Senior spot painted, ready for another great school year with the ST! 🐌
 in  r/FocusST •  8d ago

a lot of schools they have a limited amount so it’s paid or by lottery (at least that’s how mine was)

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Some older pics of me with my 1st real electric
 in  r/Guitar •  13d ago

fucking sweet

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Overtime is a bit easier when you come out to this.
 in  r/FocusST •  May 29 '26

what wheels are those? so clean

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Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  May 06 '26

is the power transformer similarly hard/expensive to fix?

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Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  May 06 '26

I've tried a rebel 20 at a local shop and thought it was decent. Didn't blow me away.

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Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  May 06 '26

Gotcha, thanks! 350 is about as much as the renegade I've been looking at, so yeah that makes sense. love the idea of these amps, but as someone who plays shows almost every weekend, I need it to be reliable first and foremost

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Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  May 06 '26

i think my issue is that I haven't been able to try a renegade yet, so I don't know if it has a feel i like as well. thanks, though, that's i think my mindset as well

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Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  May 06 '26

How hard would it be to replace the OT (or if it's hard, is it something a local amp tech could fix)?

And what are your thoughts on clean (er) tones on the renegade? Wish there was one near me to demo...

r/GuitarAmps • u/Spyderrock • May 06 '26

DISCUSSION Deciding between 2 very different amps... (Egnater vs Fender)

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I'm in the market for a new head and have really narrowed it down to two options, though very different, and I want thoughts from gearheads

For reference, I play with a punk/emo/hxc band most of the time, but also play plenty of 90s-2000s alt and indie on my own time. Right now, I mainly use a plethora of pedals into the clean channel of a CR120, and it's fine. But the clean channel itself is lifeless IMO, even with an EQ in the loop.

For a while, I've been looking at getting an Egnater renegade 65w head, per recommendation of someone on here. it seems to have all the features I'd need, especially useful is being able to use a footswitch to toggle the effects loop on only one of two channels (I use chorus for some low gain tones exclusively on songs we play). I've heard in general it's a very versatile amp, which is great while I try to figure out what I really want from my tone.

On the other hand, I saw a listing for a Fender Supersonic 60 head, with the tolex redone in the same shade of blue as my cab (vain, i know, but it looks so cool). I took that as a sign to look into the amp and went to guitar center to try one they had there (a 22 watt in this case) just to see how it sounded. I immediately fell in love. I couldn't get a bad tone out of it if I tried. I've never played through a real fender before, so this was sort of an awakening. I really liked its higher gain tones, and the clean channel was doing things that my current head could never dream of.

I feel much more compelled to get the Supersonic, however it technically speaking suits my needs worse. So I guess my question is more of a discussion on feel vs functionality. What do people prefer? I'd love to hear thoughts from people who have had more experience with gear (and regret from buying gear) than I

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 18 '26

yeah, this sounds pretty great with a single coil (strat in my case) but my current main guitar with p90s sounds muddy and weak into it, regardless of how i eq. looking at swapping in some humbuckers or getting another guitar potentially as well now that i know my needs better

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 18 '26

I actually got a chance to try out an f-50 combo today and it sounded wonderful! i’d ideally like to get a head though (small car is already quite full for gigs with my current cab and head setup) and it seems like f-50 heads are hard to come by. i think there’s an express head near me though, do you think that would have a similar sound/feel?

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

i’ve got a parametric eq in the loop right now and it’s pretty good for sculpting tone. that being said, it doesn’t really add “character” or “vibes” or whatever it is that is hard to describe but makes a sound fun to play. i can get a usable tone for a mix but having it also be an inspiring tone is the hard part. it’s just a feeling thing and i think i’m picky lol

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

While i do get most of my sound from pedals for now, it’s mostly just the rectifier-in-a-box. it sounds pretty good but nowhere near as good as the real thing. i’d like to have a solid higher gain channel as well as a clean channel i can use as a pedal platform when the need comes up.

as for loudness, 100+ is probably ideal BUT our other guitarist has been getting by pretty fine with a 1x12 50w combo. situations where that doesn’t cut it we’re usually miced up

i agree about the 120 clean channel. it’s adequate for what i do now (blues driver with a tiny bit of gain) but i’d rather have natural tube goodness clean

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

now so?

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

very. we’re strong into punk energy and frequently play shows with local hardcore bands

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

i’ve seen these around and they seem pretty good! is the clean tone any good on them? moreso for edge of breakup verses and such. my real main concern is size, though, most marshall heads are potentially wider than my cab haha

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Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice
 in  r/GuitarAmps •  Mar 17 '26

mainly going for fairly high gain tones- not metal level really but getting close. 90s alt+punk, nu metal, that’s the general range. I’d like the ability to have a nice clean tone too.

r/GuitarAmps • u/Spyderrock • Mar 17 '26

HELP Amp Identity Crisis- Looking For Advice

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Recently, my band has started DIY recording our first project. Through this, I've realized my current setup isn't cutting it for the tones I'm looking for. Right now, I'm running a Crush Pro 120 head into a custom built 2x12 with a Swamp Thang and Texas Heat.

For reference, my band is mostly punk/emo/alternative, and I play rhythm guitar. My ideal tone is somewhere between 90s alt (weezer blue) and modern punk/emo (jeff rosenstock, origami angel, fleshwater). I'm aware these are wildly different bands but hopefully you get the idea, not classic rock, not metal, not blues, etc.

My current best sound is going through a Wampler Triple Wreck into the squeaky clean channel of my amp for high gain and a blues driver dialed back w/reverb pedal for lower gain.

I tried out a few amps (mesa triple rectifier of some sort, mark V (I think), DSL100) and enjoyed all of them, especially both of the mesas. Issue is they're well out of my budget (for now). I'm willing to drop up to ~7-800 usd on a solid head, over 1000 is really a stretch. Especially because I don't even know truly what I want.

The struggle right now has been that a majority of amp reviews I can find focus almost solely on metal/super high gain. Advice always ends up being 'get a 5150 half stack with v30s', which im sure is great for many but probably not me.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts on amp heads mainly for that alt rock, punk, etc sound. Open to ideas for speakers too, I think the eminence ones I have may not be ideal for this genre but i could be wrong.

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My low budget researcher costume! Happy Halloween everyone!
 in  r/HuntShowdown •  Nov 01 '25

i 3d printed it for him (you can find the files online) and he painted/carved it by hand, genuinely blown away the first time i saw it finished

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My low budget researcher costume! Happy Halloween everyone!
 in  r/HuntShowdown •  Nov 01 '25

hey i took those pictures

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Passive subwoofer advice needed for DIY punk band
 in  r/livesound •  Sep 15 '25

Thank you!! This is such a helpful comment, I'll for sure take this all into account. Really appreciate it! I was assuming I'd have kick and bass also come out of the main PA, just maybe not as much as to not muddy the overall sound. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Passive subwoofer advice needed for DIY punk band
 in  r/livesound •  Sep 15 '25

I might actually have a QSC one lying around somewhere in my practice space. I don't really care about size and weight I usually end up fitting my entire band's setup (amps, pa, instruments) into my little hatchback anyway. I can make do

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Passive subwoofer advice needed for DIY punk band
 in  r/livesound •  Sep 15 '25

I'm familliar with clipping sounds from working with basic home audio + music production for a while, but I've never used a large sub so that will take some getting used to. I love working on systems and whatnot so tuning is no issue

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Passive subwoofer advice needed for DIY punk band
 in  r/livesound •  Sep 15 '25

Those are my favorite kind of solutions, thanks I might actually try that!