These guys aren't pulling any punches! Other than possibly the shared EQ section (can't really complain at this price), this is a straight-up great tube amp!

@tjnugent62

4 жыл бұрын

Have you reviewed the new Marshall DSL40CR? It looks like a large upgrade from the previous model around the same price as this. PS I already have a Fender Deluxe Tonemaster that I really like.. I would like one more amp. lol Stimulus, you know?

@davidkastin4240

4 жыл бұрын

@@tjnugent62 U.S.A. stimulus, $1200. I heard Canada stimulus is $2000 a month for 4 months. Tough times for most 😕

@davidkastin4240

4 жыл бұрын

@@tjnugent62 Are you buying a new amp when you get your check? 😆

@tjnugent62

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidkastin4240 Yes, I am right now waiting on a new pedalboard and TC Electronic Plethora X5 that I ordered, so the stimulus is a bonus. I am early retired and the house is paid off. Though older at least I can still shop a little for now. Good deals out there now.

@soapboxearth2

4 жыл бұрын

for 4 to 600 you can get a traynor yba1 or maybe a 4 . a hand wired vintage one. have you ever considered doing a demo of one? or should we keep them a secret? lol

It’s becoming a guitarists dream in this day and age, budget gear that actually works, looks, and sounds good. From guitars to cabs and heads, it’s possible to have a great setup without going thousands in debt. Great for someone starting out they can have good solid gear right from the get go. And if you don’t want those Canadian 5’s you can send them to PEI brother!

@craigjacob3704

2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother. I'm just starting out in retirement and can afford a hobby I never could before !!!

@JMac.

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigjacob3704 gotta love that! Enjoy the retirement, and the new hobby brother!

@Thearcherfl

Жыл бұрын

It’s so nice. When I was 17 I had a 100w tone blaster half stack that was $600. Used simply as a pedal platform. My first pedals costs me hundreds. If I broke a lead, new cables were $30 In January I decided to revamp my gear and play more. $600 for a full pedal board including power and a $400 catalyst 2x12. Plus a Monoprice 15 watt $251. Plus a peavey xxl head for $100 at a pawn. Nobody could dream of my rig for less than $4k in 2002.

"Let's be honest, these are canadian fives, they aren't worth anything." Best joke I've heard about out economy in awhile!

@landen.c

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Darrell!

@alanlevesque7180

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Foley said it was pretty but you can't really use it. 😄

@jello-tarzan

4 жыл бұрын

COME ON !!!! Try to turn any other bill into a Spock tribute. Give the 5 CAD its due, man.

@garyswann9842

3 жыл бұрын

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@telefunkenyou47

Жыл бұрын

They still work at the strip clubs!

As someone with a budget, I salute you for this showcase man! Cheers!

@happygolucky6331

4 жыл бұрын

wheres the gain?

After watching your demo and review I decided to buy one. Thank you for the time you spend to show us the inside as well as the outside and explain the tones.

I bought the Stage Right 15w combo a couple months ago largely because of your awesome review Darrell, and I'm extremely happy with it. They're making some unbelievable stuff for the money!

Really great look into this amp, thanks for your work putting it together!

I’ve watched 3 of these SR amp reviews back to back and this one is my favorite. Love the tones coming from it.

Loving the new intro. Also now looking very seriously at Valenti Guitars because of your last video. Awesome stuff you show on this channel.

Sounds great. I bought the 15 watt combo and swapped out the speaker with an EVH and put JJ tubes in and it sounds amazing, may look into this one also. Great video

Bounced from the Monoprice website. Great clean. Surprised to see you. I've watched dozens of your videos. Carry on!

Nice to see the chassis mounted tube sockets. Good construction technique. Thanks for the review.

Great video once again brother. I think it sounds awesome. Thinking about getting it

Been eyeing one of these so this review is greatly appreciated. Cheers from Alberta🇨🇦🤘

Thanks for these videos! It's great to get a pro opinion on equipment before buying! Love your playing too!

I can understand every single word that you said, and it’s sounds very natural for me. Thanks Darrell! I’m really happy!

Quarantine would be so easy with a room like that

Thanks for the great video. Going to get one. It sounds awesome and reasonably priced

i picked up a 2x12 cab along with a boardwalk and i love them. the boardwalk plays great and the cabinet is just as good as anything i ever tried at the guitar stores

That amp sounds great to me. For the price i can see gigging with it. Thanks. Great demo. 🤗

I'd have been interested to hear what it sounds like with an overdrive in front of it. Something comparable to a tube screamer, with the drive down and the volume up for that classic metal tone.

Your channel gets better every day. DBG makes 4-20-2021 a little better. mtw

This really is a great amplifier Darrel. Awesome tones.

Canadian fives: still worth more than Australian fives.

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@Troy Staunton WRONG Aussies! That's bogans!

@filosavage7475

4 жыл бұрын

@@DMSProduktions bloody bogans

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@filosavage7475 Yup. They SHAME me as Aussies!

@GearGasms

4 жыл бұрын

Troy Staunton oh my Lord! Lol Say what’s on your mind brother!! 😂

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@GearGasms LOL!

Hello from Niagara Falls Ont! Thanks for all the helpful videos DBG!

Thanks for your videos Darrell. Hands down my favorite guitar KZreadr. I love the new intro music too. Love from LA.

Well done D! Thanks for sharing brother! Be Well All!

Hey Darrell. I like your chuggy new intro. Thanks for all yer great videos.

Hi Darrell. Adam from The Blogging Musician here. Your channel has always been my fave for comparisons etc. You've also inspired my to start up my own channel to compliment the blog. Thank you!

Wow...love the new intro !

Love the new intro man

Dude that new intro sequence is off the hook!

Thanks DARRELL, love your reviews and videos! Trust your opinions and knowledge. Bought the mono price 15 watt after your review and love it. It’s a great take everywhere “knock around” amp that doesn’t worry me while out as if my HK Grandmeister 40 were left sitting around! Keep cranking out the quality Brother! Can’t get enough! 👍🎸😇

@emtkeithjohnson6748

3 жыл бұрын

I bought this used for 200.00 great amp but not as loud as my crate v30 head and cab kinda weird same wattage just less volume. But sounds good

Subscribed! Love the content. Especially the DIY kits. Definitely want to build me a Les Paul kit when I get the money. Always dreamed of owning a Les Paul.

Sounds great!!

Your videos inspire me to play more guitar

The amp sounded very good clean and distorted. A bonus,it didnt sound too thin and harsh like EL84 amps often do.

This channel is working in peak shitpost material and I'm living for it

The transformer you wondered "what was going with" is a Toroidal transformer. I used one in an amplifier kit I assembled years ago and this is the first time I have seen one since !! You would need to look up the full tech specs but they are better than the more trad type in a number of ways.

@YT-oy3km

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, toroidal transformers are often used in audiophile amps because of the better specs.

@R.Stridstrom

4 жыл бұрын

They put the toroidals in better hifi+ gear. I actually built a dual mono amp/power supply with 2 sized like big cheezes, and another for the low voltage stuff. Great sleeper amp.

The amp is basically the guts of a Laney VC30 in head format. Just as the SR combos are reworked Laney models. Thomann are now selling them under their Harley Benton brand. When/if this hits Harley Benton land, it'll be a struggle not to get spendy on one.

@coreycann6751

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out! I had a 2x12 laney v30 and it was my favorite amp. I was looking for a used one until i saw your comment. Gonna pull the trigger on a Monoprice

This thing could be dope with an overdrive in the front. Even amps that just break up ever so slightly can sound beastly with the right pedals.

Whoa, that sounds good. Lovely cleans.

I already have a budget V30 cabinet, but it's a 2x12 for roughly the same price by Harley Benton. At $500 for the head, I think I'd hold on to my money, save a little more and get a Hughes and Kettner head.

Was waiting to see the under chassis view! What the rear cover of the amp is made of is unimportant, what is under the chassis might be 😉

I’m impressed. Sounds good.

I received my 30 watt Stage Right head/cabinet yesterday. I got the pair for $358! Great amp! Thanks for the recommendation :)

Nice review, as always, Darrell. I'd really like to hear a selection of dirt pedals in front of it... A second video, perhaps?

The output transformer (the round thing) is a toroidal transformer. Although not traditionally used in guitar amplifiers, they are used in many other audio amplifiers, because they are lighter and smaller, are 90% to 95% efficient, are almost hum free, have 1/10 the magnetic field of regular transformers needing no insulation. However a torodial transformer is more expensive than the tipical laminated power transformers we normally see. That said because they are quieter you can do away with filters and insulation, and engineering placement problems that are a factor in some amps. The one downside is that for high gain junkies, torodial transformers have much different saturation qualities than laminated types, so for a low gain amplifier this isnt much of a problem. Darrell didn't try any overdrive/ distortion pedals with the amp so we'll have to wait and see. I noticed the input transformer was quite small on the StageRight, which is usually fairly close in size to the output transformer in most builds. This is only a 30watt amplifier, so maybe it's not as big a deal, but my Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe 40watt uses the same quartet of EL84's and three 12AX7b's as the StageRight, but the input transformer is nearly twice the size as the StageRight. I realize the H&K is more expensive, but a lot of that money is soaked up in features an aesthetics, in fact the tubes in the StageRight are marginally better than the Chinese no name tubes in the H&K. I would have liked to see inside the amplifier itself, to see the layout and components of the StageRight. My belief if that your looking at a very slightly modified Fender clone of sorts.

@powellwayne8107

4 жыл бұрын

So what your saying is this amp head has quality and has a fender like sound to it. Does that mean it would take pedals really well?

@shovington67

4 жыл бұрын

@@powellwayne8107, I'm fairly sure it will take most effects pedals well, my only concern is overdrive and distortion type pedals. Because of the saturation nature of toroidal output transformers matched with EL84 output tube ( made famous for their use in the VOX AC30 amplifier) it may not sound typical to a high gain amp which are usually endowed with EL34/6L6/KT88 type tubes and a laminated transformer. So for Jazz, Country, Rock, Pop, Funk I'm sure it's great for the price.

@0richbike

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, it's a clone of a Laney VC30 The torroidal tx is the mains power. I have the vc15 and a friend had the vc30 combo. As Darrel states they're not high gain beasts but they take pedals very well. And Laney also use the bloody mirror panel!

@shovington67

4 жыл бұрын

@@0richbike , excellent, I have a lot of respect for laney products and their invigorated business plan to create and sell more products. Great information.

@0richbike

4 жыл бұрын

@@shovington67 cheers. I'd like to think they liscenced the design but probably just ripped off. Main problem with them is the cab design of the combis really restricts what speaker you can use as there's bugger all clearance between the power tubes and the magnet especially in the vc15. I run mine into a bell and howell 12 inch alnico and it sounds fantastic.

Great review! Monoprice just put on sale for $415 so I ordered mine. No brainer. Yes, the 50 watt has separate tone controls for each channel but that’s not an issue for me.

Great review Darrell! I was seriously considering getting this until the PRS MT15 I was watching on Reverb dropped to $580 for a new head. May still try the Stage Right down the road though. Keep up the great work!

New intro is pretty dope haha.

Love the vids bro keep it up 😁👍🏻

I would want to hear it with a tube screamer or something to push it I guess I just like gain

@GearGasms

4 жыл бұрын

Fuzzy218 I’m with ya Fuzzy!

@closplayguy68

4 жыл бұрын

Ya EXACTLY

@timm.6391

3 жыл бұрын

Front end that thing with a Big Muff... lol

New intro? Love it

Love that intro!

I must've been gone a while. Love the new Intro 🎶🎸🔥. Stay safe in quarantine 👋🏾

Really pretty impressed with the non bright cleans on this. I'm impressed

Saw the new intro last video you newbs and you're right its amazing

Wow! This thing is incredible! If you run out of room for it, feel free to ship it to my studio in Nova Scotia! Haha

Darell! Dunno if you will see this but your channel is my favorite among the entire website 🙌

Kind of an average price point leaning towards low end for a 30watt tube amp. I would be more inclined to drop the 250 for the 15 watt than the 600 for this. If they could have dropped it into the 500 range they would have a winner but I can’t see spending more than that for this set up I would spend the extra going up from 600 for a more premium amp but for me the price just falls in between the cracks of a good practice or studio combo and a stage ready head and can for bigger rooms. I say this every time but I appreciate your thorough and honest reviews. Obviously most of us cannot go get different gear and test it out and tear it down. When we buy we either return right away or it’s ours good bad or other. Your channel has been extremely helpful to me as I am just returning to playing after a decade break and need to replace all the gear I had sold. Thanks

You got the first proper review out on this pile. Max guitar has one, but he only unboxed it. Hasn’t done a full review yet. I don’t know what you can get for that kind of money that is comparable, but it sounds great to me. I have the SR 15 watt combo, and can’t say anything that bad about it, although I do run it through an extension cab I’ve had for many years. It takes pedals well, and has great tone, especially for the $200 US I paid for it. Sounds wicked pissah with a distortion pedal.

I bought the head, it is a Laney VC30. The circuit board inside is exactly the same as pics on the internet of a Laney VC30 except for the connection points on one end of the main board relating to the power supply voltage options. There is black goop covering all the locations on the board where "Laney" is printed on the pics. A few of the parts (Caps?) are different colors than mine, but I don't know what year the pic was taken I saw. Hope his helps someone. MDF construction on the head if that matters to anyone.

YOU NEED TO DO MORE VIDEO'S ON AMPS, PLZ THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT !

In the future you will do a video on the SR 50W head I know cause I'm from the future and watched it which I immediately bought one. When our time lines catch up remember this. My 85 laney pro combo humms and I smoked a board in my H&K tube minster 18W this thing is a happy purchase thanks for video

You might try sticking a strip of white adhesive tape on the lip of the head below the knobs. The mirror will reflect white and make the letters more visible.

Funny man Darrell! That was funny!

Love that new introooo

Toroidal power supply is a nice touch - I believe it helps tame noise. Egnater used one in one of his heads.

I was literally looking at budget amps last night 🙏

Thanks for all the awesome guitar gear info man! You will save this hobbyist guitarist a lot of money and my marriage lol..

Always enjoy your vids, great info always. Ive got the 15 watt SR and i have to say that i disagree with your opinion on the speaker. After about 20 hrs of playing i felt like it bloomed. Dont know how else to express it. I did dump the chinese tubes for JJ's. I love playing on it and am thinking of buying another so i can play in stereo. Also dropping over 500 on the Harley Benton double neck. Been wanting one for years and this is the only way i ever will be able to afford one.

At 2:16 is awesome ! You made me laugh ! I would like to see that part and your thoughts about this Celestion speaker

Decent looking for the price. Thanks Darrell.

Looks great. However, would it have been better to put two 10" in the cabinet instead of one 12" ? I know it would make it a little more expensive, but I think it would sound better.

Love the new intro. It’s slightly demented. Yeehaw!

From Leo: The torodial wound power transformer is a very efficient design. They are not new technology, but they were harder to wind. Modern methods make it economical. No worries abut that transformer. I wish the SR amp had a spring reverb. but it sounds like an amp I would buy.

Also regarding shared EQ in 2-channel amps...I think a better option would be EQ section assignable to either channel alone. The only added cost is a switch, but would add tremendous flexibility.

Darrell, I wonder how it compares to say a sawtooth valve amp? I had the opportunity to check one out not too long ago and I have to say that it was indeed impressive for a 20-watt unit. I understand a 10-watt difference but that sometimes can be deceiving because depending on how an amplifier is wired 20 watts can get extremely loud and remain clear where a 30-40 watt unit breaks up and struggles. I would be interested in seeing you do a review of the Sawtooth 20w head and 1x12 cabinet set up. Then do a side by side because the cab is built using 9-ply birch but runs an RCF single 12" 8-ohm speaker which costs 189 USD. The head uses 2 6v6 output valves and 2 12AX7 preamp valves that comes in at about 389 USD price-wise. If you purchase them as a paired unit they run 579 USD with free shipping from Amazon. That is a very similar package and pricing. For 658 USD you can purchase the 20w head with a 2x12 speaker cab as a package deal with free shipping through Amazon. To be fair the SR has bright, reverb, and presence controls which the Sawtooth does not. The SR 30 also has a high and low input which the sawtooth does not. The sawtooth is about as bare-bones as they come but it does offer 4, 8, 16-ohm switchability for different speaker cabinet configurations and has two output jacks. I for one do not care about onboard extras but more about the natural tone of the amp and speaker configuration. That is what they make pedalboards for ;)

Noice, I need a budget amp, can't wait to see how this stacks up

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

4 жыл бұрын

buy used

This seems like a really nice sounding amp. Nice sparkling clean tone with the brightness on, enough gain for your classic rock riffs on the overdrive channel and a decent speaker. Not a metal amp per se, but if you want more gain, that is what a distortion pedal is for.

Looked at that....ended up with a Fender SuperChamp Tube Head and 1/12 cab. Both for under $1000 Can. Way awesome tone

I hope they come out with a 2 x 12 option for the cabinet. How would this amp sound with a OD or distortion pedal? Possible to get good sounding gain out of it? Thanks for the review. I could see how it can serve well with my Helix or POD.

Just ordered this from monoprice for 450 with tax and shipping. Got the 15 watt 12 inch combo tube amp. Thing sounds awesome. Upgraded the speaker to eminence swamp thang. Pretty good deal to me

You must go listen to Guitar Max pronounce your name in his video reviewing the same amp. It will make your day! Another excellent video!

Monoprice's idea here was basically a 2203-2204 circuit with switchable clean channel, unlike the jcm 800 where you don't have switching capabilities.

I have the 15 watt that I bought on that same site with a discount code back when they where cheaper to buy for $169 with out the tax yet. I really liked the 15 watt

You had me at Canadian 5's. :)

Looks great, sounds great. Agree with you for the mirrored plates. I love that more and more accessible products for beginners show up on the market, however, with no IR out and power soak, it is absolutely useless to me considering my H&K amp set on 1 watt with volumes set at noon is WAY too loud for my appartment. At 200$, that cab is not to be overlooked. Great video as always

Abertura engraçada, muito boa apresentação, parabéns !!

I have a Crate V30 head into a 2 12 cab of vintage 30s, how do you think that would compare to the SR amp in this review? By the way,, love your channel and dig the way you play,,

I have the Fender Frontman 15G amp that came with my Squier Affinity HSS Strat combo....as a beginner I feel it's good enough but I can tell there is room for improvement on down the road

A fan said this amp is a clone of the Laney Vintage 30 amp as the circuit board is a exact copy of the Laney ! I have the Laney VC-30 and that toneful amp is at its best with the volume at 7-8 where the power tubes breakup beautifully and this SR amp sounds just like it ! I am waiting for FedX to bring my SR 15 watt amp combo , i love lower wattage amps at home !

Current price as of 07/03/2020 on the Monoprice website is $499.99 for the Head & Cab. It is listed as a "SALE" price.

The bright and channel switches look full size instead of minis which I like. Never thought mini switches belonged on a front panel. Unbranded tubes don't bug me. I hold them next to a name brand tube - so often they're the same tube. Would have liked to see the guts. Actually I think 30 is the perfect club amp wattage.

Nice review, how do you compare this in terms of value with the Wangs?

Had no idea they are making these. I've been thinking of buying the Marshall on the SV20H. But for for less than half I can get this. He'll I could get a whole stack. I've got the 15 and swapped tubes and speaker so I like it and play it.

Hey darrel it would be nice to see a gutshot of the innards

@Darrell Braun Guitar hey love your channel. Have you ever considered doing an complete amp mod video? I know you put nicer tubes in a Stage Right 15w amp. I'm wondering...what about swapping out caps, really nice NOS tubes, say a Celestion Alnico Blue speaker, high end speaker cable, etc. Really do it up. Then take an off the shelf amp for around the same money you spent, and do a deep comparison. I think that would be super interesting to me. I currently play through a Hot Rod DeVille, but it has yellow jacket tube converters running NOS Mullard EL84's, all NOS preamp tubes, and I ditched the 2x12 in favor of a single Alnico Blue 12". I must say I can get some spectacular tones from this setup! Plus, it is unique and all me. Anyway, I think there are a lot of people out there that love the idea of spending less on the main product, but putting their own twist on it and investing a bit to make something unique and potentially really high quality. Food for thought! Keep doing what you are doing! One of my very favorite youtube channels!!

I like the amp but I was kinda hoping it had more gain on tap. The cabinet might be a good option to keep the overall price down on a higher gain head/ cabinet set up. It's still a good set up and price for its type.