Is this the end of the tube amp?

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sounds spot on to me. im ready to invest in a profiler and profile all my amps just for peace of mind. who knows, i might like the thing and end up selling everything.
 
Nope. I remember 30 years ago when everyone was saying European and American tubes would dry up. Here we are today and I can still buy them. It will take another 50 years for the Chinese/Russian/Slovak tubes to dry up.

Kemper / AxeFx and “insert name here” just don’t have the same feel of sound as tubes.
 
Bro KV said:
I ran the latest AxeFX rig for the last year. The Herbie setting made me want a Herbert. Plugged into it and the Axe stuff went up for sale. My heart is with tubes.
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Same I have axe efx , I use because I love all the effects inside and a couple patches for leads . But I can only use my tube amps for riffs and rhythms.
 
Your never going to make a simulation of one thing better than the thing it's based off of. Ideally amp manufacturer's can pool money to contract out a company like western electric, or at the very least set up a new factory in a turd world country. All the modeling companies are going to face similar issues regarding material's shortages as it is.
 
Techdeth said:
Same I have axe efx , I use because I love all the effects inside and a couple patches for leads . But I can only use my tube amps for riffs and rhythms.
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It is a brilliant piece of equipment. Those effects at excellent.
 
I believe hearing from a Tone Talk with Dave Friedman that when Seimens stopped making EL34s they were the only producer of EL34s at the time and the reason Marshall starting shipping amps with 5881s. EL34s came back because there was a demand for it. There's still a demand for replacement tubes for guitar amps.
 
Spaceboy said:
I turned it off as soon as I heard Rhett Stull's voice.
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Yep, love how he walks back his handwringing around the 9:00 mark: "People will always love tube amplifiers...people will always play tube amplifiers...there will always be a demand for tube amplifiers..." ?‍♂️
 
Spaceboy said:
I turned it off as soon as I heard Rhett Stull's voice.
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What's wrong, you dont want to learn from a MASTER of the craft?

He's played uninspiring, inaudible edge of breakup guitar in whisper-girl ukelele hipster bands, I'll have you know.

You know, that type of music that effete, scrawny people with ironic facial hair and corduroys like - tiny desk concert and all.

He's kind of a big deal. Couldn't you tell by the YouTube channel!? Welcome to the future of "music."
 
Realistically, if they dried up, someone would see money to be made and start making them again. Im wondering how much it would cost to do small scale production of tubes. (like 500k units or so) :student:
 
I am still surprised that aside from Thomas Blug (Bluguitar Amp 1), no "big" amp manufacturer has come out with a tube amp with nano tubes..
 
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