Goin' camping for a week

[cdub66]

Taking a week of my holidays and goin' camping w/ the family.

Anyone have any experience with the multitude of "mini" amps out there?
Battery powered or plug in (got a generator) advantages/disadvantages?
I don't need a bunch of volume, not going to be rockin' the campfire, just so I can hear it (good quality sound would be a plus) and small size is a must.

We've got lots of room, I could drag my 30w line6 along but setting up and putting away would be a pain. Looking for small and easy.

Any input appreciated! :food-smiley-004:

Happy Canada Day!! :smilie_flagge17:

[wnpgguy]

I have one that hooks on to my belt.. can rock out hard while walking down the street.

[Mooh]

Hmmm...an acoustic guitar comes with its own means of amplification and fits the camping scene a little better. Ymmv.

Peace, Mooh.

[Jared]

You could always buy a Roland mini cube. They are small and have a nice sound, in my opinion..

[Michelle]

Just got back from the camp for a few days and had a chance to play a bit with my 'old black' Hondo and my VOX DA-5, (camp gear). It sounded ok and enough volume to disturb the tranquility but I so missed the bass response of my Traynor.

The deck, (12'X16'), is almost done, big enough for a band! sdsre

[Balou]

I'm just comming from one week of fishing and naturaly i was not enable to go without my guitar. So i recently bought a nice gretsh tube amp 5 watt (and loud enought) that i bring with me. Where i go, there is no electricity so i bought a power inverter 400w at canadian tire, and i had already batteries for the electric motor.
And wow wow wow, what a pleasure my friend. Playing in the boat in the meddle of nowhere, what a nice experiences!

The experience does not tell if i take more fish but i'm sure they have apreciate it.

[JSX/6505]

I have one that hooks on to my belt.. can rock out hard while walking down the street.Well that all depends on what street you do that on in Wpg.largetongue

[cdub66]

Well that all depends on what street you do that on in Wpg.largetongue

OK-now that was funny :tongue:

[RIFF WRATH]

I have a small Eppiphone practise amp that runs on a 9V battery (also has an adapter)......I don't know if they sell them anymore, but loud enough for around the campfire........perhaps inquire at your local music store.


Michelle..........12X16 is perfect for a band....does it float...lol....that first step off is gonna be all downhill....lol

cheers
Gerry

[cdub66]

Well, found a Kustom Dart 10 little fella for $89.00

A-camping we go!!!!!!!!!!! :rockon2:

[Budda]

I'd honestly leave the elec at home and bust out that acoustic!

[cdub66]

I'd honestly leave the elec at home and bust out that acoustic!

No acoustic in the arsenal!

[Budda]

EGAWDS MAN!

remedy that!

[Michelle]

.....
Michelle..........12X16 is perfect for a band....does it float...lol....that first step off is gonna be all downhill....lol

cheers
Gerry

Well, it's made of wood but it's about 15' above the high water mark! There will be railing too. It sure is gonna be nice, I'll post a pic after this weekend. :wave:

[Diablo]

My vote would have been for one of these:
http://www.smokeyamps.com/Smokey_Pages/smokey.html
Bring a couple 9v batts with you and its all you need.

[KHINGPYNN]

this one costs a little more but is well worth it... takes two inputs at once and sounds suprisingly good... stereo too!

I just bought a red one for camping so we could play guitar and sing and have both amplified.

Defintly the best one on the market for this purpose IMHO.

http://www.roland.com/PRODUCTS/en/CUBE_Street/index.html

http://www.rolandus.com/corporate/press_releases/press_release.aspx?PressId=321

[biggreen]

Vox-DA5

For about $140 you can run it for 30hrs on batteries, it has effects and amp models and you can swap the stock 6.5 speaker for an 8" which makes it's 5 watts sound very big. great amp for this purpose and even with a speaker upgrade will cost only about half as much as decent cube.

[mhammer]

We drove across Canada in the summer of 2004, and I didn't want to be without an axe all that time, so I made a battery-powered 2W amp that was surprisingly loud (all docs/pics available here: http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Miniamp.zip ) and a Danelectro-style LP Custom with Mighty-Mite P-90s and an old Ibanez neck (photo essay here: http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Danotech.pdf ). Was happy to have my Hendrix-style rendition of O Canada ring out across Lake Nipigon.

The amp runs off an octet of rechargeable C-cells. The guitar is undergoing renovations including the installation of binding.

[Ripper]

I used to use a pignose when I travelled all the time, I always found it worked well for me.

[KHINGPYNN]

I used to use a pignose when I travelled all the time, I always found it worked well for me.
07-06-2008 05:01 PM


Hell Michael Schenker recorder with one... and everyone raved about the tone!

[Ripper]

Hell Michael Schenker recorder with one... and everyone raved about the tone!

often wish I still had mine, it was really a cool little amp and simple to boot, one knob, and a battery. I just had to keep blocking the fact that ralph macchio used one in crossroads..hehe

[Mogwaii]

I have a Danelectro Honeytone which sounds awesome! Better than the Marshall, but in my opinion anything with the Marshall logo is bound to set sail for fail.

[JSX/6505]

I like my Marshall Micro Stack with a Sansamp pedal in front of it. Turns heads that's for bloody sure!

[Wheeman]

We drove across Canada in the summer of 2004, and I didn't want to be without an axe all that time, so I made a battery-powered 2W amp that was surprisingly loud (all docs/pics available here: http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Miniamp.zip ) and a Danelectro-style LP Custom with Mighty-Mite P-90s and an old Ibanez neck (photo essay here: http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Danotech.pdf ). Was happy to have my Hendrix-style rendition of O Canada ring out across Lake Nipigon.

The amp runs off an octet of rechargeable C-cells. The guitar is undergoing renovations including the installation of binding.

I've built a 1W amp that screams through any speaker setup. Its the Little Gem MKII (http://runoffgroove.com/littlegem.html) and its a beast. If I could find a 386-N4 I could knock it up a notch. I've got access to a crap-load of 12V small car batteries, so that's what would power it if I needed a portable amp.

[shiva]

I'm looking for something like this, or at least something that allows me to plug the headphones in the guitar, so I can practise late at night without using the amp. Alas, I seem to be living right of the middle of retail hell, as no one has anything period. :mad:

Shouldn't be too surprised with the place I live, unless you like women's clothing stores. 3 "guitar" shops, not one thing, mini amp, adaptor etc. crazy...

Ebay has them, but these "retailers" have rather excessive shipping costs. I would love the honeytone, but don't think anyone actually sells them up here. The Vox model is 50 dollars, seems rather a lot for it.

I know Fender makes a micro as well, a couple models

[biggreen]

I have owned or tried all of the Fender Micros, the Marshall micro, the Honeytone, The Vox AC1. Out of all of those I like the AC1 the best, but at the end of the day I get pretty bored of any amp using a 1" speaker being pushed with a 9v battery in a micro plastic cab. Sure they are all really cool on you shelf and make great conversation pieces and something fun to pull out every once and a while, but if you really want an amp that is portable and will keep up with some loud campfire vocals / acoustic guitar and actually have some bottom end, don't waste your money/time and just get a Micro cube or a Vox DA-5. They are both real amps with effects that take up less than a cubic foot and run on batteries, not working tiny plastic models with phone speakers.