Oh crap... Guess I stumbled into the wrong thread. Anybody know where the "Why is GK so popular" and "who honestly drinks Miller High Life" thread is meeting tonight?
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Why does everyone love AMPEG so much?
- Thread starter KrisWarrington
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- Nov 8, 2010
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Miller High Life > Coors Light
I mean it is the champagne of beers.
p.s. I also play GK, nothing against Ampeg and I wouldn't mind playing a few....
I have a 1972 Ampeg V4B that I have owned since 1974. An old school, pure valve head. Every time I have turned it on, it has delivered to me the sound that I want it to. For 37 years. Yes, I have experimented with different tubes in the amp over the years. Yes, I have played with it extensively, in locations with both good and bad power delivered to it. And it always delivered. While there are a lot of other amps out there that you can make sound similar to an Ampeg, and some that the individual player will claim he prefers to the sound of the Ampeg, you can't argue with reliability. I also own an Eden that I use when I want a sound other than what the Ampeg delivers. Do I trust it as reliably as the Ampeg? I don't think so. Please let me know when you have beaten the crap out of those heads for decades without a single incident, and played in venues with brown-out power with the switching heads without incident, and then we can have a rational discussion about why Ampegs are still used so extensively. They simply work for you when you need them to. And they sound really good doing it. And please don't confuse the reliability of the all valve heads with the B series stuff. Not even close to the same class of quality.
Refer to "See How We Are" by X,"This freedom of choice in the U.S.A. drives everybody crazy".....
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All tube > SS, imo. But that's an entirely different topic. To each their own. My SVT-VR is my first All-Tube amp, and it slaughters every SS amp I've played so far.
That said, I do like GKs, too.
I used to be all about tube heads, untill I played the 1300HD. It's probably the best (and only good) SS amp around IMO
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I think so, because on paper that thing looks terrible.
power rated at 5% THD?
noise at -60dB?
Yea I like High Life enough to drink 2.5 billion of them. Not really my favorite, but it works as a "comp beer" at those cheap venues.
And I love GK. Ampegs are nice, I prefer a B-15 to an SVT though. But I wouldn't turn down a Peavey VB-2, an SWR 350whatever, Hartke, etc. if it's provided.
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Hah. Sold the first revision, a 1200HD, about two years ago. It was my first "big" amp and I never looked back. It was teamed with the G410H cab before they inflated their specs on the cab without changing components. Gah, what a horrible sounding combination. It's actually why I traded away my absolute favorite bass. As it turns out, the amp was the problem. The bass is my favorite again, 6 years later!
I like Ampeg, Miller High Life, Redheads, and playing bass with a pick. I also enjoy the internet.
I like to equate Ampeg with Guinness. Both are dark, delicious, heavy, often warm, and the cause of many fights.
