Battery Guitar Amp?
Battery Guitar Amp?
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Gaspode

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4,167 posts

225 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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I am finding myself quite fancying taking an electric guitar up to our log cabin (fancy term for shed in a field) so's I can scare the st out of the local wildlife with my pathetic Jimmy Page impersonations. Trouble is of course is that there's no mains electric up there, and I don't really fancy running a genny.

So naturally I'm thinking of an amp that'll run off a 12V DC battery. Thing is, the obvious choice would be to go for a busker amp, but they tend to only have dinky little speakers, 8" or so. I'm not looking for portability as such, the thing can sit in the shed when I'm not there, but I would like a decent bit of sound - I had a little practice amp a few years ago and frankly it sounded ste, so I'm a bit wary of the small stuff.

So any ideas for a decent sounding amp/combo that I can power with 12V?

shirt

25,377 posts

230 months

Saturday 17th March 2012
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have a look on youtube at pig nose amps. they are battery powered and sound great for blues.

kev b

2,756 posts

195 months

Saturday 17th March 2012
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I have a roland micro cube, it has a really good range of features and sounds much better than it should for its size. I don't know how long batteries will last though as I always plug mine in.

vladcjelli

3,370 posts

187 months

Saturday 17th March 2012
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Inverter to run off your car?


thevikes

4 posts

197 months

Monday 19th March 2012
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Yamaha THR10

Gaspode

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4,167 posts

225 months

Tuesday 20th March 2012
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Interesting suggestions. I'm currently tempted by the Roland Micro Cube RX.