Solid State amp vs. Tube amp

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I have a Marshall solid state amp that I picked up used for a hundred bucks off Craig’s list. MFX30 - 30 watt amp. I have had it for about 2 years it makes a wonderful practice amp. Sounds good and since I use it at home I don’t need to really crank it up crazy loud, but it does handle loud pretty well. I mean it’s not going to play well in a stadium - but that was not its intent. No complaints with this Marshall SS amp and how it’s being used.

I also play with a Fender Twin reveb and a Fender Blues Junior IV - both tube amps. They are for sure different, but it’s subjective I suppose. I am a little partial to them, But honestly, that could be because I know the Marshall only set me back a 100 bucks

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Originally Posted by printer2

Well you had me go down the rabbit hole on this, pedal seems to short change it as a description. Over two hours looking into it, just from what I hear in the vids, it seems to be That Good. I would love to see the schematic on how they did things, they seemed to go down a route I would like to take and added things I would not have bothered that I am changing my mind about now. Shame it is that expensive but for a working musicians that travels and can not cart around a lot of stuff it might be the thing for them. I am pretty impressed with it.
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Origin Effects have a simpler model with fewer features, and models that target the sounds of particular amps.
https://origineffects.com/product/revivaldrive-compact/
https://origineffects.com/product/re...-bias-tremolo/
https://origineffects.com/product/ma...vibrato-drive/

Tech21 has been doing similar things for years with varioations of the SansAmp:
https://www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp/
https://www.tech21nyc.com/products/flyrig/

Custom Tones has been making the Ethos Overdrive and Ethos Clean for quite a while, both as preamp and amp.
http://www.customtonesinc.com/

Vox has a new and promising range of pedals that work either as drive pedals or as preamps, using Nutube
https://voxamps.com/series/valvenergy/

If you must have "real tubes", there are some options in preamps.
Two Notes from the Le Clean to Le Lead. Two Notes also does some of the best cabinet emulation boxes, in case the ones in the preamps do not suffice
https://www.two-notes.com/le-clean
https://www.two-notes.com/torpedo-captorx

Laney's little box apparently works fine at low gain too
https://www.laney.co.uk/products/iro...e-effect-pedal

Blackstar's HT range of pedals has cabinet emulated outputs, too. I like my HT Dual, with the "Clean" channel pushed a bit.
https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/ht-pedals


There's more but those are the ones that I can come up with without digging too deep.