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Tone...is a very personal issue. Most of it comes from your fingers
(as Eddie Van Halen once quipped, Ted Nugent snuck onto a stage where
he and Van Halen were playing and asked a roadie to let him play thru
Eddie's equipment. He did...still sounded like Ted Nugent).
Take your guitar and play it through many amps. And decide what you
like best. Once you've narrowed things down to a half dozen or so,
take a friend who plays a lot and knows your style and preferences.
Then, buy the amp you really had FUN with, regardless. Period. You
have to listen to it, not the rest of us. If your talent is there, the
audience won't care if it is a Line 6 or a vintage Fender Bassman.
P.S. I have a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with a Weber Cali 12" speaker
mixed NOS pre-amp tubes, both Ei and older RCA. These amps are common
as dirt, but my Strat and ES-335 sound great and quite unique with
only these modest tweeks. I use a re-issue Fender Reverb tank for surf
guitar, although the built-in Hot Rod reverb is plenty wet. I'll put
my tone up against the Vintage amp/Vintage guitar combos anytime.
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., Richard <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
>
> 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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