TRICK QUESTION ALERT! Fender DeLuxe 90, Peavey Valve King and Marshall JTM 60 amps are compared side by side by the author playing the same passage on a Strat. Two amps are actually tube while ONLY ONE is solid state. Can you tell which before the end of the clip? All amps are played "clean". The passage played is a simplified lick from the song "Cold Shot". The tone controls on all amps were set at the mid point to showcase the natural voicing of each amp. While the first and third amps were slightly off axis from the microphone in the center of the room, the volumes were set to compensate. The play back is "close" to the natural room sound. We love tube amps for their unique distortion, natural compression, and limited frequency response. Truth be told, there is little advantage to tube amps played clean. My Dad, a retired engineer, cut his teeth on tubes and dismissed any advantages of tube amps for guitar. He was amazed to learn that Carlos Santana's early signature tone came from carefully tailored tube amp distortion! Digital guitar effects, either on the amp, in a pedal, or on a computer, are becoming so good that even the great guitarists will soon abandon tube amps.
Friday, 28 December 2012
Which one is tube?
Which one is tube? Tube. Duration : 2.57 Mins.
TRICK QUESTION ALERT! Fender DeLuxe 90, Peavey Valve King and Marshall JTM 60 amps are compared side by side by the author playing the same passage on a Strat. Two amps are actually tube while ONLY ONE is solid state. Can you tell which before the end of the clip? All amps are played "clean". The passage played is a simplified lick from the song "Cold Shot". The tone controls on all amps were set at the mid point to showcase the natural voicing of each amp. While the first and third amps were slightly off axis from the microphone in the center of the room, the volumes were set to compensate. The play back is "close" to the natural room sound. We love tube amps for their unique distortion, natural compression, and limited frequency response. Truth be told, there is little advantage to tube amps played clean. My Dad, a retired engineer, cut his teeth on tubes and dismissed any advantages of tube amps for guitar. He was amazed to learn that Carlos Santana's early signature tone came from carefully tailored tube amp distortion! Digital guitar effects, either on the amp, in a pedal, or on a computer, are becoming so good that even the great guitarists will soon abandon tube amps.
TRICK QUESTION ALERT! Fender DeLuxe 90, Peavey Valve King and Marshall JTM 60 amps are compared side by side by the author playing the same passage on a Strat. Two amps are actually tube while ONLY ONE is solid state. Can you tell which before the end of the clip? All amps are played "clean". The passage played is a simplified lick from the song "Cold Shot". The tone controls on all amps were set at the mid point to showcase the natural voicing of each amp. While the first and third amps were slightly off axis from the microphone in the center of the room, the volumes were set to compensate. The play back is "close" to the natural room sound. We love tube amps for their unique distortion, natural compression, and limited frequency response. Truth be told, there is little advantage to tube amps played clean. My Dad, a retired engineer, cut his teeth on tubes and dismissed any advantages of tube amps for guitar. He was amazed to learn that Carlos Santana's early signature tone came from carefully tailored tube amp distortion! Digital guitar effects, either on the amp, in a pedal, or on a computer, are becoming so good that even the great guitarists will soon abandon tube amps.
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