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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16109 Registered: May-04 | . This is how a musician thinks about tube amps ... http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2011/May/Tube_Amp_Buying_Basics.aspx |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1306 Registered: Jul-07 | Jan, had you come across this before.... http://www.decware.com/newsite/zenguitar.htm |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16112 Registered: May-04 | . I have seen that on Decware's webpage. About all I could think was, obviously, if someone knows how to design tubes, they can design for either clean or overdriven sound. For the most part the "crunch" so desirable by many electric players is obtained through overdriving the front end of the pre amp with plenty of gain from (the vc's on) the instrument or from asking the pre amp to produce clean voltage beyond its limits and therefore sending a distorted signal into the power amp. In either an instrument or an audiophile system, the same tubes are asked to perform the task of applying gain. IMO it's important to recognize what might be being said about a tube when you read a review of, say, a specific 6L6 or EL84. It is also, as I suggested to Dan in another thread, important to understand how audiophiles speak about music reproduction vs how musicians talk about what actually makes the music they play and we try to reproduce. As an aside, I find it somewhat humorous to see a $695 guitar amp - without a speaker or speaker cabinet (though they suggest using at least one Celestion Greenback; http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Celestion-G12M25-Greenback-12-Spe aker?sku=660250 - being sold as "without boutique prices". Yeah, I agree, the true "boutique" heads for guitar can run into the thousands, but, still there are more than a few hand wired boutique guitar heads for under a grand. I'm kinda guessing Decware is marketing this to the audiophile who finds the conventional Gibson, Fender, Marshall approach to guitar sound to be less than satisfactory. I'm willing to bet though most of the buyers for the Decware product are running high end "boutique" guitars into them. . |