Somewhere along the line a couple buddies and I lost our minds (or got caught up in the "craze") and started buying mini tube amp heads. One even has grand plans to build a frankenstein multi-head switch so he only has to use one cabinet but can still keep all of the heads ready to go at the stomp of a foot (Radial, Lehle, etc. only do A/B/Y at best...he has 10 different heads, I think).
General consensus is that the Mesa Mini-Rectifier is the non-boutique holy grail (they each have one) but I have held off because, well, it's $1k for a 25-watt head. Hell, I paid less for my '59 Bassman. Plus, there are so many controls on the damned thing that the two of them spend more time flipping switches and twisting knobs than they do playing!
Which is a shame since they both play a hell of a lot better than I do.
Anyway, I visited a different music store from my usual haunts and found
this little monster. I brought it home with me (damned near fits in my pocket) and I have to say it's impressive enough that everything besides the Bassman is going into storage. The best part is that it's so cute my wife didn't complain about me buying it.
Now I have to find a decent 4-ohm 1x12 cabinet. My Vox NT 1x12 at 16 ohms is not keeping up with this little thing. Any suggestions? Or should I just find a 4-ohm speaker and replace the one in the Vox with it?