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Why Do People Play With SWRs

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#21
The relavance of the fact that you do not play the tube preamped SWR models is that how can you brand the sound of an entire company when you've only experienced its lower end products. A view such as your's come out of total ignorance and therefore in my mind carries no weight.
 
#22
Originally posted by mark
The relavance of the fact that you do not play the tube preamped SWR models is that how can you brand the sound of an entire company when you've only experienced its lower end products. A view such as your's come out of total ignorance and therefore in my mind carries no weight.
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Mark: I have no idea what you are talking about. What company did I put down? Surely you don't think I'm really going to chop up my S.W.R., do you? What part of my "view" do you have a problem with?

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#25
I have a Workingman 15, I love the sound. I've heard their higher end stuff at NAMM and it really sounds great. I listened to quite a few differant brands before making my choice to go with SWR. I don't remember ever thinking that any of the ones I didn't choose "sucked". I just thought that SWR produced a clearer "sound" than the others
 
#26
Please help this old man understand. Iv'e played many brands of amps and I think the sound is in your hands. When I played music for a living for many years and was happy to have any amp that I could afford. So why would you say any amps is C*** or s****. The room you play in effects your sound as much as any amplifier. And the style of music decides what equipment you will use. If style is more important than substance prepare to change out your equipment a lot.
 
#27
I truly believe what is said in the above post: a very large portion of your sound is in you - you're style and how you play. Yes, of course the amp also plays a large part in this, but there are so many other variables such as the bass, strings, bridge, neck, cable, etc. that can also change the sound's character. For example, I play through a Crate BX-100, which is generally regarded as a low-end, cheapo amp. Yet I get the tone I want: how? Is it the bass, the cable, my strings, my style, what? I like to think that I can keep the tone that defines me no matter what I'm playing through - sure, I like some brands better than others (Eden and SWR come to mind), but there are a lot of other good products out there. Peavey comes to mind as one of the brands that I personally don't like at all, yet I've heard a large number of players who sound great through them. Peavey just doesn't work for my setup.

The summary: play through whatever works best for you. Don't play a brand because it's "cool" or "hip". Most of the people that I've met get the sound they want no matter what they're playing through (sure, some people always are in search of their sound, but that's another topic...). And yes, there's gonna be tonal differences, but they won't hold the same for all players.
 
#33
Originally posted by Munjibunga
I don't really think Ampeg sucks, though. But I'd sure never play one of those things. Doesn't Michael Anthony play 'em?
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Yep, I've seen his face on their website. But, hell, pay me those endorsement fees and I'll let you take my picture with a Hondo and a Gorilla amp with my arms around Hanson.
"F@#%!, Ah'm perfeshunul, ah'll do ennythang fur munnney."- Jimmy Carl Black in Zappa's "200 Motels"
 
#36
bassturd,

You're right, it is just your opinion. Problem is how you're saying it (as if your opinion actually mattered at this point) and the fact that there is nothing constructive about starting a thread the way you did.

It's like if I started a thread saying that Burger King tastes like crap and that McDonalds is the only true burger joint. WHO CARES?!

I play an SWR head through an Ampeg cab. Works for me. I lent it to someone once and they hated it. Someone else wanted to buy it off me. Again...WHO CARES?
 
#38
I have a mutt rig consisting of a SWR bass 350 head, and a Ampeg 4x10he cab. Besides being major under powered for the music I play the setup is portable (fits in a vw bug) and sounds killer.
I'm the guy that kept smoking Peavey heads! The one big thumbs up I have for the SWR head is the tone range at first I was upset because the valume, but I'm over that. It sure is nice to hear what my Warwick realy sounds like :)
I am almost certain that my E string played open through a SWR head distributes more low freq than any other amp I have tried.
 
#39
Hey Bassturd! Fellow Ampeg lover here.

However, I'm not going to bite into your Ampeg vs. SWR war that your'e trying to cook up.

Yes your'e entitled to your opinion, but you obviously haven't read some of these post. Try rereading Skip's post. That quote comes from our own moderator here and says it all. I would advise you to read the houskeeping thread.
 
#40
Originally posted by rickbass1
Originally posted by Munjibunga
I don't really think Ampeg sucks, though. But I'd sure never play one of those things. Doesn't Michael Anthony play 'em?
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Yep, I've seen his face on their website. But, hell, pay me those endorsement fees and I'll let you take my picture with a Hondo and a Gorilla amp with my arms around Hanson.
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He was endorsing Mesa/Boogie back in the late 80s before he hooked up with his Ampeg endorsement. Of course that was before Crate brought Ampeg back from the grave. What's up with that, eh?
 
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