Look who likes solid state

[glpg80]

I’m a huge proponent of solid state and tube. I’ll pick whichever is best at what I need the circuit to do. Low current noise, low voltage noise, both, or neither and just rely on gates.

 

[DanTravis62]

Yep 100% agree, plus it depends on the tone you are looking for.

I think a lot of guys would be surprised if they tried some of the randall SS stuff, especially lead tone focused guys

 

[japetus]

I like a lot of Fender SS amps, especially the ones from the 90's MIM ones

 

[311boogieman]

Grown ass men making faces like 12 year old schoolgirls pull your fucking socks up

 

[311boogieman]

I like a lot of Fender SS amps, especially the ones from the 90's MIM ones

Especially if you slam the front end with some good pedals

 

[japetus]

Especially if you slam the front end with some good pedals

My two current faves

 

[BABMusic]

Once you go tube, you don't go back.

 

[SpiderWars]

I've said it a million times and I'll say it again, it's the safety glasses. Not sure what the deal is but he reminds me of one of my high school shop teachers. I think the guy rocked the safety glasses in his sleep at night. Seemed like the face behind it was irrelevant as long as the glasses were there.

I read this wearing safety glasses…on top of my regular glasses. I’m in a lab…in a refinery…so I do have good reason. I hate wearing them too.

 

[Findthetone1]

I like a lot of Fender SS amps, especially the ones from the 90's MIM ones

Yep. I had red knob Princeton Chorus and loved that thing.

 

[skoora]

I need some kung pao chicken to go with the soy in this thread.

More Kung, less Pao.

 

[Techdeth]

Of course they do . Thst jon dude says every amp is the best ever time , of course he left RT after called out . He send nice enough but jeesh

 

[VonBonfire]

Yep. I had red knob Princeton Chorus and loved that thing.

I hate those red knob fender ss amps. They carried them at my local rip off shop and sold them at inflated prices to the parents of any little tyke who picked up a guitar. I had a Fender 85, it was an even bigger hunk of shit, sounded like it, and I was a hunk of shit player at the time so it was like a triple whammy of bad, lol. Your post gave me total recall hence the anger emoji.

 

[RaceU4her]

I have as many SS amps as I do tube, and for what i do I’d be perfectly content if all I had was my SS’s

 

[Smash]

I read this wearing safety glasses…on top of my regular glasses. I’m in a lab…in a refinery…so I do have good reason. I hate wearing them too.

I wear safety shades because i get them free at work. I feel so cool

 

[harddriver]

I loved my 1984 Marshall 75 5275 reverb Mosfet JMC800 1x12 combo amp with the 150 watt Sidewinder speaker. I gigged that amp when I didn't want to drag my 100 watt 2203 and 4x12 around all through college. It would keep up with any 100 watt Marshall 4x12 setup and kicked all kinds of ass.

I would drag it to jam sessions and other guitar players would laugh about this little 1x12 amp until I turned it up and they would just shake their heads....laughing at the volume coming out of that amp. I was bummed when it started having intermittent issues and no tech could fix it, after multiple trips to many different techs I just gave up, gutted it and made it my first tube amp build.

I like the amp now but I do miss the sheer brutality of volume and tones that came out of that little amp.......it was a trip.
I loved all my Randall RG100ES's as well!

I just don't think the new Class D output sections compare to the old Mosfets.

 

[skoora]

I loved my 1984 Marshall 75 5275 reverb Mosfet JMC800 1x12 combo amp with the 150 watt Sidewinder speaker. I gigged that amp when I didn't want to drag my 100 watt 2203 and 4x12 around all through college. It would keep up with any 100 watt Marshall 4x12 setup and kicked all kinds of ass.

I would drag it to jam sessions and other guitar players would laugh about this little 1x12 amp until I turned it up and they would just shake their heads....laughing at the volume coming out of that amp. I was bummed when it started having intermittent issues and no tech could fix it, after multiple trips to many different techs I just gave up, gutted it and made it my first tube amp build.

I like the amp now but I do miss the sheer brutality of volume and tones that came out of that little amp.......it was a trip.
I loved all my Randall RG100ES's as well!

I just don't think the new Class D output sections compare to the old Mosfets.

The strive for efficiency often eliminates the fun and pleasure in things.

 

[rsm]

FWIW, I like solid state....my favorite non-tube amp gear is my ISP Theta Pro Michael Sweet - it's like a rack preamp and effects in a floor board. It's not modeling, it's not IRs; it's old school preamp and effects and speaker emulation that just sounds good to me. I've used it direct to my powered PA; using a solid state ISP Technologies Stealth power amp into a Mesa 2x12 cab; and using my Engl E850/100 power amp into a pair of Engl 2x12 cabs.

 

[skoora]

FWIW, I like solid state....my favorite non-tube amp gear is my ISP Theta Pro Michael Sweet - it's like a rack preamp and effects in a floor board. It's not modeling, it's not IRs; it's old school preamp and effects and speaker emulation that just sounds good to me. I've used it direct to my powered PA; using a solid state ISP Technologies Stealth power amp into a Mesa 2x12 cab; and using my Engl E850/100 power amp into a pair of Engl 2x12 cabs.



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