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Old 09-04-2017, 02:48 PM
EasyEd EasyEd is offline
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Hey All,

To me amps tend to be well defined by the tubes they use.

Fender cleans and nice bass tend to be 6l6 based. To many a blues Jr does not sound like a fender well duh it is el84 tube based which to me is the vox sound. The other common tube is the el34 which is generally associated with the Marshall sound and overdrive. Of course amp circuitry and such does change the sound but you never get away from the basic tube characteristics to the extent you sound like a different tube.

As a guitar player what sound do you want and how purely do you want to replicate it?

If you are a purest you end up with multiple tube amps or you compromise and go to modeling amps which will probably never have the purity of a tube. Or you only play one kind of music.

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