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10-29-2010, 06:33 PM
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I really think that Class D amps and Neodymium cabinets are the wave of the future. Catch the wave! (Sorry I could not resist.)
I just see more manufacturers moving that way for shipping costs and manufacturing.
The two-ton Tessies will be a think of the past.
BTW, I love tube amps but don't want to schlep them back and forth to gigs! |
10-29-2010, 06:34 PM
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10-29-2010, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by faulknersj  Class D Amps and Neo cabs are so right now. | Next year, they will be SOOO 2010.
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10-29-2010, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Axtman I really think that Class D amps and Neodymium cabinets are the wave of the future. | When H*ll freezes over and the sun comes up in the West will what got us to this point in time ever become obsolete 
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10-29-2010, 06:45 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | there's a place for everything. for some, they will be the wave of the future. for others, nothing else will do but the big iron and big cabs with big fat magnets. me, i straddle the fence, but i'm finding it harder and harder to go without my ampegs.
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10-29-2010, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Axtman I really think that Class D amps and Neodymium cabinets are the wave of the future. Catch the wave! (Sorry I could not resist.)
I just see more manufacturers moving that way for shipping costs and manufacturing.
The two-ton Tessies will be a think of the past.
BTW, I love tube amps but don't want to schlep them back and forth to gigs! | Says you.
My amp is a tube monster built in the early 80's. The cab I'm going to start using soon is a monster built in the late 60's or early 70's.
Just because you don't want to schlep tube amps back and forth to gigs doesn't mean it's any big deal for a lot of us.
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10-29-2010, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Sartori Says you.
My amp is a tube monster built in the early 80's. The cab I'm going to start using soon is a monster built in the late 60's or early 70's.
Just because you don't want to schlep tube amps back and forth to gigs doesn't mean it's any big deal for a lot of us. | yea, after a bit of reading, you'll see most guys on here don't forget their panties when thinking about gear. light heads, small cabs, lightweight basses, super thin necks, etc, etc...no end! 
(no flaming intended, just pickin in good fun)
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10-29-2010, 07:21 PM
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10-29-2010, 07:21 PM
|  | Wish'n I was at the beach! | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville, TN | | | I ain't far from joining the old Geezer's club and love the new light weight stuff. Heck - if I can just tote my bass and preamp to the gig and use the PA I'm a happy camper.
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10-29-2010, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | I like some neo loaded cabs, but have yet to get MY tone from a class D amp.
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10-29-2010, 07:24 PM
| | | | I think that people who deny that tubes will pretty much go away one day need to take a look at the home audio market and it's lack of tubes, or the recording gear market and it's lack of tape. There's always a strong sentiment that things will never change... yet they always do, and a handful of regressives who refuse to change hardly counts as something still being a standard, but that WILL be the situation one day. |
10-29-2010, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | | As great as the new micro-super-light stuff sounds, nothing....I mean NOTHING will beat an SVT and an 8x10.
Don't get me wrong, I have an 5-lb 500 watt amp and Neo speakers. But I also have tubes.
I also like fat, baseball bat necks and basses that weigh at least 9.5 lbs. Nothing feels better than strapping a log to your body.
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10-29-2010, 07:29 PM
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10-29-2010, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago, IL | | | When I was 25, I could have given a flying rip about the difference between a 90 lb cab and a 65 lb cab. Even now at 50, I am not that excited about a 10 lb amp over a 20 lb amp. I'm glad to see the lighter cabs, though.
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10-29-2010, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | I'm 23. I use a 45 pound tube amp (probably around 65 pounds in its head cab I made for it), and am moving to cabs that weigh over a hundred pounds.
When I'm 64, and have a bad back or whatever, there'll still be lightweight stuff for me to use.
I don't see many solid state or class D guitar heads, either.
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10-29-2010, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by eastcoasteddie As great as the new micro-super-light stuff sounds, nothing....I mean NOTHING will beat an SVT and an 8x10.
Don't get me wrong, I have an 5-lb 500 watt amp and Neo speakers. But I also have tubes.
I also like fat, baseball bat necks and basses that weigh at least 9.5 lbs. Nothing feels better than strapping a log to your body. | +1 on every point. I have an svt and 810 but also have a micro head and neo cab. I also love heavier fender basses, hate the neck dive when using a light body and also hate the sound of light body basses. |
10-29-2010, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by username1 +1 on every point. I have an svt and 810 but also have a micro head and neo cab. I also love heavier fender basses, hate the neck dive when using a light body and also hate the sound of light body basses. | I'm not fond of light basses either. I guess because so much of the cheap crap some people I know have used was light weight, light weight basses I associate with cheap crap, and so am instantly turned off by the feel of them. I like the feel of something solid.
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10-29-2010, 07:41 PM
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10-29-2010, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by SlingBass4 .... and the sun comes up in the West | which, I recently learned, is apparently is how it works on Venus 
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10-29-2010, 07:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Detroit area, Troy, MI | | | Tube amps and heavy speakers will always have a market. It doesn't matter if they did come out with a 5lb amp and a 20 lb speaker cabinet that exactly duplicated the sound of an SVT with an 8x10 refrigerator hooked up to it.
Because people would still claim to hear the difference. There's a reason there's a market for $1000 audiophile speaker cables.
People love to feel special, they can hear a difference that you can't.
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