Skunk wrote:
> I had a feeling that statement would pique your interest Pat. Thanks
for pointing out the article. The tubes are described as 'warm' and
'fat' toned in guitar amps, but I found them anemic in playback.
Well, did you turn it up into distortion?
Guitar amp tone doesn't happen until you get into the non-linear parts.
You want to drive the tubes into overload, and drive the output
transformers into overload, and sometimes drive it so hard that the
rectifier circuit sags. You want the speaker cones to be moving so
radically that they don't couple well with the air.
If that is too loud, then you are supposed to move. or at least
get something like a Sholtz Power Shot, which is nothing more than a
huge array of resistors to attenuate the signal.
If the amp isn't at 11, its not going to sound fat.
Which is not what an audiophile amp is about at all.
An electric guitar amp's sound is part of the instrument, it is not just
a Statocaster, or Les Paul, etc. it is the combination of the guitar,
amp, speaker, playing style, etc. Nearly everything changes the sound,
simple things like having a long lead (the wire between the guitar and
amp) has huge impact.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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