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Re: Tubes in Pre-amps: your expertise and honest opinion.

Agreed...indeed different.  Though I think 20-50 years will engender 
indifference to these differences. :)

There are vintage SS amps, as you suggest below to. I emailed on of my 
favorite jazz guitarists last week, Lorne Lofsky, to ask him what he was 
using...and he said he was using one of those old Yamaha SS amps...like 
the 
G-50 or G-100.

K-
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Tubes in Pre-amps: your expertise and honest opinion.


On 4 jan 2007, at 15.41, Krispen Hartung wrote:
> I see tube amps in museums, with model Ts, computers the size of  rooms, 
> and two-headed cows.

L-O-L!  I'm not a vintage purist but to my ears the dinosaurs sound
differently compared to SS based gear. At least when talking electric
guitar amplification. When recording guitar tones for digital sound
designer products pitched at professional DAW based producers I have
found that a virtual guitar sample instrument boosted by software amp/
cab modeling plug-ins sounds a little better if the original guitar
was played through a 3x12AX7A top before digitized. However, as told,
myself I prefer my SS Gallien-Krüger, not for the sound but for the
accurate timing response. But I have not looked deeply into this, so
maybe my tube amp would respond with a better feel if I was using 10"
speakers with it? (I doubt that though)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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