I started using this head again recently with two ampeg 1x15" cabs with 100 watt speakers.
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Big Amps will come back one day!!!
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Every class D amp I have tried sounded exactly the same as any other amp I like. The power section didn't change anything.
IMO this is a common rumor about class D amp that has nothing to do with reality.
I'm well aware it's the preamp that it is in question but for educational purposes please advise us how we should distinguish the preamp section between all the various classes without using the designated letter that assigns then to each class?
As for hearing or not hearing any differences, Conditions determine everything. Obviously our hearing conditions are world's apart.
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But... then there is the cab. Let's move some air, and thump... YES?
Why is the assumption that they want electric amplification? I see lots of acoustic geetar equipped singer songwriters and ukulele orchestras in our future instead.
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Looking at the prices vintage tube amps are selling for I don't think they ever went away...
I have yet to play a Class D amp that will gives me the tone/feel of a real tube amp. If anyone designs a lightweight amp that will sound/feel like a DR201 I will reconsider my options. But so far nothing has come even remotely close.
Class D is certainly more convenient with regards to weight/size, but better? If Class D is better, why are do so many Class D amps come with tube preamps, simulated tube drive and marketing that hints at a "tube tone" (if not saying downright that the design is "based on" some older tube amp)? And why do people pay lots of money on modelling preamps, simulating a real tube amp in front of their Class D amps?
I'm not saying Class D amps are bad, far from it. But I have yet to find a Class D amp (or any kind of modelling amp/pedal) that makes me want to get rid of my tube amps.
I have yet to play a Class D amp that will gives me the tone/feel of a real tube amp. If anyone designs a lightweight amp that will sound/feel like a DR201 I will reconsider my options. But so far nothing has come even remotely close.
Class D is certainly more convenient with regards to weight/size, but better? If Class D is better, why are do so many Class D amps come with tube preamps, simulated tube drive and marketing that hints at a "tube tone" (if not saying downright that the design is "based on" some older tube amp)? And why do people pay lots of money on modelling preamps, simulating a real tube amp in front of their Class D amps?
I'm not saying Class D amps are bad, far from it. But I have yet to find a Class D amp (or any kind of modelling amp/pedal) that makes me want to get rid of my tube amps.
Why are amplifiers "the real thing"? Why not going even farther back in time and say that electrical amplification cannot capture the true feeling of the moving of the air produced by the strings as "the real thing" which produces the sounds originally?
For those with extreme hearing damage, IEM’s are a God send!
I had to quit playing music after my hearing got wrecked. Even moderately loud stages were impossible. I went 8 years without being on a stage or playing music much at all. IEM’s with good sound isolation enabled me to play in a band again.
Now… I still like to feel that stage shake!!
I still like to feel that air. I just need a quieter feed to my head.
I had to quit playing music after my hearing got wrecked. Even moderately loud stages were impossible. I went 8 years without being on a stage or playing music much at all. IEM’s with good sound isolation enabled me to play in a band again.
Now… I still like to feel that stage shake!!
I still like to feel that air. I just need a quieter feed to my head.
Never been out of fashion for me... And never cared about trends at all...
I really thought that they were always in, how big is big? I’m probably more used to them because of school.
Big amps will never really "go away". They're still preferred by a lot of professionals who typically have roadies to haul their heavy ass gear around for them.
But for nearly everyone else, lighter, more compact amps - or even ampless rigs - are here to stay.
But for nearly everyone else, lighter, more compact amps - or even ampless rigs - are here to stay.
I had a Motorola brick in the 1980’s. It took decades for cell phones to match the audio quality. It was as good as a land line.
As a guy who restored and serviced expensive cars from bygone eras, I was not idle. On a side note, I drove cheap, efficient beaters to service things I'd never consider owning.
If someone asked me to help them spend more than the car was worth, I'd insist they say that they love it, as nothing else would explain such foolishness.
If someone asked me to help them spend more than the car was worth, I'd insist they say that they love it, as nothing else would explain such foolishness.
Y'all go your way. Do what works for you. I'll stick with what's worked for me / us until I'm done playing.
I own both extremes. When you play out with big, heavy, old, tube driven power, other bass players are drawn to it, admire it and ask lots of questions, always ending in compliments.
That has never happened even once, when I have used class D micro equipment.
That has never happened even once, when I have used class D micro equipment.
i was born in 89 and missed "the the guitarist has 2 4x12s and the bass player has 4 8x10s and 4 SVTS" god i wanna play that
