Hey, I was just wondering if anybody here has played/owned a rocktron velocity 100 ss poweramp? I am in the process of building a "budget" rack setup. I have a modded ada mp-1 tube preamp that should be arriving in a couple days, along with a mesa 2x12 recto cab.

I was just wondering if my sound will be 'sterile' sounding if I use one of these as a poweramp, i know that ideally I should be running a tube poweramp of some sort, but I can pick up one of these rocktron poweramps for 250.00 from musician's friend, which includes free shipping.

Volume isn't a huge issue, I am just more curious about the sound.

Thanks.

Hey,

I can't speak for the velocity but I've been running a mosvalve SS poweramp in my budget rack for about a half dozen gigs now. Its 80 watts per side but only 100 watts mono. I've only two speakers in my cab at the moment so i've been running the 100 watts mono into that. I find this just barley acceptable volumewise for most of the venues you play where you don't get you amp miced, plus when you push it that hard it has a certain harshness. With less headroom available, only the most basic settings sound good, if you want an effect like a flange or a delay to be heard you have to overdo it which kinda ruins it. Unfortunatly going rack these days is pretty much all or nothing with most manufacturers only offering a few pricy models.