Yeah, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just run an amp sim on your smartphone and put that through the PA?
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Tube snobs suck?
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Yeah, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just run an amp sim on your smartphone and put that through the PA?
Maybe a pantomine correspondence course and just mime to tracks and leave the bass at home.
yup, basic tools of the trade, it's hard to be taken seriously without one. (also, as a guitard myself, way more natural, responsive, and fun to play than ss guitar amps.)
as for bass, i dunno, tube amps are to bass players what brooks brothers suits are to plumbers?
For guitards SS amps are like fat chicks. They are fun to play around with but you wouldn't want your friends to see you plugging into one.
No reminder necessary. I am also a guitarist with 4 guitar amps, none of which containing solid state power sections. My practice guitar amp is a lil night train.
yup, basic tools of the trade, it's hard to be taken seriously without one. (also, as a guitard myself, way more natural, responsive, and fun to play than ss guitar amps.)
as for bass, i dunno, tube amps are to bass players what brooks brothers suits are to plumbers?
Yeah, I guess we can't take B.B. King seriously as a guitar player, because he uses a solid state amp.
Or the jazz guys, we can't take them as serious guitar players since many of them use solid state amps.... 
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My favorite guitar amp right now is a DrZ Maz 18NR. That said, I heard a Tech21 little combo the other week that blew me away and I almost picked it up. My old guitarist had one and I liked that one too. Also, the chorus on a JC120 is still to die for (and one hides behind the Metallica stage stacks).
I follow my ears, don't care about weight or maintenance and thus have a lot of sounds at my disposal that I love for both bass and guitar.
I follow my ears, don't care about weight or maintenance and thus have a lot of sounds at my disposal that I love for both bass and guitar.
Losers!Yeah, I guess we can't take B.B. King seriously as a guitar player, because he uses a solid state amp.
I am extremely proud to be a tube snob. I am the world's worst tube snob, having used a solid state amp on my gigs this week, but I am one nonetheless. Don't care, either.
I had a rehearsal for a play I'm doing today. We had to move venues and the keyboard player needed an amp to use. I thought I'd let him use my small SS bass amp that I've been using for years. I pulled out my '67 Fender Dual Showman head and ran it into an SWR 2-10 speaker. I recently switched my P-Bass to flatwound strings. Wow, what a sweet sound. I haven't used the Showman in many years... I'll switch back for gigs that don't require a lot of power.
Leni
Leni
Lol, yes. This. Although this affliction generally strikes females more often than males, IME.
I believe that head puts out 100 watts, right? Plug that into an 8x10 and it'll be loud as heck. Just gotta give it some speakers.
Yes, the ones who don't know any better think that they need them. The ones who do "get it" may have one or two if they fit exceptionally well.
Well I'll tell you...our guitarist has quite a decent collection of tube amps, mostly Fenders, but he also has this little Vox combo that he uses on our schlep-challenged gigs. I'll listen to him play through any of them. Sounds great in all of them, even the Vox. Clearly, he sounds better with any of his tube amps, the best being his old early 70's Twin Reverb. But that Vox amp has got a very respectable tone to it for something he picked up for $135 or so. He's not hurting for tone when he uses it. But hey...you can tell.
Yeah I like The Tubes. So what? Great band. How does that make me a snob? And who is this SS of which you speak. What are they some kind of Nazi skinhead band?
I love The Tubes too. Wouldn't it be ironic if Rick Anderson used a solid state amp?
http://www.thetubes.com
And it's usually a smart idea to show up for (an audition/a job interview) with a (tube amp/Brooks Brothers suit) even if you have a (solid state/Prada) one that you like better, isn't it?
