The Steel Guitar Forum

I have no steel amp. Given that, what will suffice for home practice and occasional outside work? I have an older 70's tube type B12XT Ampeg (huge and heavy) that I used for jazz guitar, w/Johnny Smith Gibson and Tele thinline. I also have a small solid state 15" Polytone Minibrute IV and a Kustom III Bass head w/ 15" JBL bass cabinet. Generally, I don't need reverb, but will use a volume pedal.
Jim Thrall

Well it depends on the style you want to play.
A nice 110 Princeton or a vintage DELUXE are both nice
but quite different sounds.

I have a '60 Champ and vs drums it's
not loud enough for clean
but it screams for dirty sound.

The Princeton would go louder clean,
and the Deluxe the same again, but grittier.

I would say a small tube amp with chanel switching
if tyou want two available sounds.

David,
Thanks for your comments. I was not clear on my original question. I owned a late 60's Fender Deluxe and loved it till I started playing P bass and needed something bigger. The Ampeg B12XT was what I used for bass, guitar and later on for electric keyboards. It really did a fine job and offered twin channels w/ seperate controls and good spring reverb. Believe it or not, it is still going strong 40 years later! The solid state MiniBrute IV will be my practice amp around home I guess.
As for style, I was brought up playing "standards" 40's and 50's and some older-style western music when I backed up vocalists. I know I can't pickup what I've forgotten over 50 years but that's just age showing!
JimT

What sound are you looking for that you aren't getting from your present amps?

If it were me I'd take a close look at the TC Furlong models combined with a Tonic preamp.

Well sounds like an '60's Deluxe clone would make you pretty happy.

And a lot cheaper than buying a REAL '60's Deluxe too.