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Ok, aside from how to operate them, I know nothing
about amplifiers. I'm looking around for a good amp;
I want something decent sized in the middle price
range, (practice, maybe small venue one day, who
knows) and I'm getting advice from two schools of
thought. There's the tube guys and solid state guys.
Now most of you are tube guys, so I'm sure you already
know what you'd tell me. The solid state guys are all
saying, "lighter," "cheaper," "tougher" and "Don't buy
the purists line, you can't tell the difference." Now
outside of surf I'm also into punk rock and would like
as much of a catch-all amplifier as I can get. I have
very little experience as far as guitar amps go...I
haven't tried many. I've played one reverb reissue
(very nice) and a host of smaller, pretty crapped out
amps. I've been told that tube amps are most
certainly NOT for distortion. I use two digital
effects - I have a Holy Grail Reverb pedal and a Boss
Metal Zone pedal that I split time between. The
general question is, what are the major differences
and what couldn't I do with a tube amp that I could
with a solid state and vice versa?
~R
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