First of all, let me say that I am not unhappy with my current amp – a Reeves Custom 6. However, I recently came across a post on The Gear Page where a guy was looking to sell his Goodsell 5 combo. This is the amp that I was really looking for when I bought my Reeves, but I couldn’t find one anywhere.
If you didn’t know, Goodsell is a boutique amp maker in Atlanta who makes the Super Seventeen, which is a fantastic-sounding 17 watt amp. The 5 is based on a similar design, but it’s single-ended and it’s 5 watts instead of 17. Unfortunately, it was a custom piece and only 19 were made, hence my difficulty in finding one.
When I saw this one listed for sale, I emailed him and asked if he’d be interested in a straight trade for my amp/cab, since they’re roughly the same value. Since he didn’t say that he was looking for trades, I didn’t really expect a response. He emailed me back and told me that he would rather sell it, but that he was seriously tempted by my offer. He’ll probably sit on it for a few more days to see if it sells.
I’m kinda tired of the head/cab thing since I only have a 1×12″ cab. I would much rather have a combo at this point to make it easier to lug around.
Any thoughts?
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yeah I find the reeves amp to be too crisp and crunchy, at least from their audio clips. the goodsell sounds really smooth in comparison. it has a really nice breakup.
the audio clips of you playing on this site/worship site i assume were through your reeves right? they sound better then the ones on the reeves site.
Yeah, I don’t have my amp set up like they do. I keep the gain around noon-12:30 and I plug into the low-gain input. It sounds like they have it dimed on the high-gain input on the Reeves clips. I’d rather get some mild breakup from the power tubes and push the preamp with pedals. I think that my setup sounds more Vox-y than the clips on their site.
Oh, and I don’t think that I’ve ever actually recorded the Reeves. I typically run direct into the Mac and record with amp sims in GarageBand. The last little recording I did for the hybrid picking thing was recorded using a solid state Peavey keyboard amp. Not too shabby, eh?
Do you play with your amp on stage with you? In an iso box? Unfortunately I don’t know much about either amp you’re talking about but I know I couldn’t play with a combo. I always have my head next to me and the cab in another room via a 50′ speaker cable. If you don’t need the distance a combo would be great.
Holy crap! I’ve been going back and forth with this guy, too — if it’s the same dude (the pics are different). I’m thinking about snagging his to use in my pedal room. He says it breaks-up big time right out of the gate, though.
I don’t think it’s the same guy. The guy I was talking to ended up listing it on ebay with a buy it now price of $905 + $45 shipping. That seems pretty steep to me.
i have a goodsell super 7 plus. less than 10 where made. the plus model has reverb and tremelo. single 12 with 7 and 2 watt modes. looks brand new. let me know if you are interested. thanks, mike
Sorry dude, the Reeves is long gone, as is the amp that replaced it, and the amp that replaced it’s replacement.