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Some things make me so angry I want to punch a baby. Well, an ugly baby.
Refer to this post
Quoted here for lols.
"Don’t listen to the BS on from the UG tube snobs who can’t get off the bandwagon for these amps; tube amps don’t sound good if you have to keep the volume down. Get a modeling amp or a tube preamp and some monitor speakers. If you’re dumb enough to get on the UG tube snob bandwagon buy the Jet City so you can at least sell it later when you realize how bad tube amps are with the volume between .5 and 1."
Oh really dude is that your honest to goodness opinion about tube amps? Two things gave me the sads here. or maybe the sids.
1. It's just wrong. Refer to this article about amps.
Let's see what Mike has to say about the Soldano SLO circuit.
And instead of overloading the power section of the amp, “My whole deal from day one was I wanted to get it all in the preamp, because I wanted to be able to have this thing sound just as good at any volume. I wanted to be to turn it down, and play in my living room, and still have the same tone when I went to a club and cranked the thing up.
Let's see what Mike has to say about his Jet City based on the SLO circuit.
And instead of overloading the power section of the amp, “My whole deal from day one was I wanted to get it all in the preamp, because I wanted to be able to have this thing sound just as good at any volume. I wanted to be to turn it down, and play in my living room, and still have the same tone when I went to a club and cranked the thing up.
Glad we could clear that up.
2. The word snob is interesting. It's ever the insult of the proletariat, a real working class middle finger salute to those that enjoy the finer things in life. What's it about really? A wine snob, a car snob, a call girl snob? Really it means that you're the type of person that isn't satisfied by the commonly available...that you like the rare and the boutique. Now of course there are ways to do it wrong. But, how can it be universally bad to like better things? Color me confused.
Now the internet is an interesting place. We happen to live in an age where we are supposed to value everyone's opinions and everything is subjective and all that. To that I say...suck on a bag of dicks and die.
I'm a little bit more old school. It's not like people didn't have opinions before this great era of mass communication. No see before you could just ignore people because the people that were idiotic and wrong would be consigned to their hole in the wall and the people who were consistently right would garner more attention. Free market natural selection at it's best.
Not to too my own horn but I've done my damnedest to independently verify every bit of information I come across. Plexi power tube crunch? check. Class A low wattage? check. Class AB mid wattage? Check. Modern hi gain? Check. Line 6? Check. Marshall MG? double check.
So how about a quick history lesson so we can set this stupid which tube amp should I get bullshit to rest.
Some facts in no particular order:
Tube amps sound better when they are cranked. This is very much true if you were alive during the sixties. If you're favorite bands are Creedence and Van Halen you're good to go. You need to crank your amps. That sound is American tube (fender) or British tube (marshall) take to the extremes. Unfortunately, if that's your cup of tea...you should start piling some bricks in your bedroom. 5 watts at full bore will break 90-95 decibals easy. 1 watt at full bore will break 90-95 decibels easy. A 1 watt amp is only half as loud as a 10 watt amp is only half as loud as a 100 watt amp. Standing next to a 100 watt amp cranked all the way will blind you, shatter your eardrums and kill you. 1 watt will make your neighbors kill you. Don't believe me? grab a 1-2 watt amp, a 5 watt amp, a 10 watt amp, a 18 watt amp, a 50 watt amp, and a 100 watt amp and run them all at once and see how much volume difference there actually is. Oh wait. I did that.
If you were born in the 90s there's a 50 percent chance that the phrase cranked tube amp doesn't mean anything to you. If you are gross looking, wear all black, only know fat chicks, and/or still a virgin there's a 100 percent chance that cranked tube amp doesn't mean jack shit to you. The sound of anything past the mid 80s relies less and less on powertube distortion. As soon as Rivera, Smith, Soldano and the others hit the scene it was over. You want well designed preamp tube distortion. 4,5,6 stages. You don't want the power tubes to distort when your diming the gain on a 5+unity preamp gain stage. Your sound will turn into a sea of mud faster then your last hot carl. As long as the power tubes are doing what they are meant to do, amplifying, you're good to go.
Don't listen to that .5 on the volume doesn't work bullshit. If that was true everyone who owned a hifi monoblock speaker amp would be deaf as hell. Trust me. This baby http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/1300.asp sounds fine for some after dinner Stravinsky.
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