Top 5 Tonex Captures for Punk
Tonex Vintage and LoFi Collection - Tons of punk bands just used whatever amp they could get their hands on. This includes old Ampegs, Silvertones, Airlines, Fender Silverfaces, Supros, the list goes on. Pick a random amp, throw an overdrive pedal in front of the Tonex and see how it sounds! Bands that used these amps include: Black Flag, Misfits, the Dead Milkmen, Green Day
Amalgam MRSH JC800 - The JCM 800 was the first Marshall with a master volume from the factory, so it's often associated with a higher gain than its predecessors, like the Plexi amps, which had to be pushed into that kind of distortion with actual volume. Bands that used this amp include: Minor Threat, the Cro-Mags, Jawbreaker, the Ataris (who got it from Jawbreaker), the Get Up Kids, and pretty much every rock and metal band from the 80s. Seriously.
Amalgam MES MKIV - Mesa Boogie got their start in the 70's when Randall Smith placed a 100 watt amp inside of a Tiny Fender Princeton. It was meant to be a joke, but soon the over-the-top tone became a favorite amongst guitarists, most notably beginning with Carlos Santana. By 1990, they were producing the Mark IV, which became a favorite amongst the pop punk and skate punk community almost immediately. Bands that used this amp include: NOFX, the Offspring, Pennywise
IK Multimedia Soldano SLO-100 - Soldano got their start in the late 80s from modifying Fender and Mesa Boogie amps to be higher gain, which is the perfect description of the SLO-100. Somewhere between a Marshall and a Mesa/Boogie. Bands that used this amp include: Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Dinosaur Jr. and Goldfinger
Hyde Street Amp Locker - MESA/Boogie Dual Rectifier - The classic diamond plate metal grill amp everyone knows. A standard of most alternative genres by the early aughts, this amp has enough gain on tap for extreme metal while at the same time a very compressed and even sound. I once heard it described as "clean distortion." Bands that used this amp include: Blink 182, No Use for a Name, Strung Out, Foo Fighters
