Tube amps have become obsolete

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and those crushes sound great. this band Spotlights uses them and sounds massive




 
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ghosty999 said:
He said "overrated", then backed up his opinion. And statistically speaking, they are becoming "obsolete" in touring applications etc.

Best way to prove Glen wrong is to provide evidence to the contrary. He does use alot of null-tests to prove his points, like with his tube swapping video. Again, lots of anger and emotions in response.... not alot of evidence.
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Oh boy, we've got a YouTube Skeptic ™

Facts® and Evidence©

Jesus Christ
 
Kyrpajyra said:
At least according to Glenn.

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I swear to fucking god, crush series sounds quite good for solid state, but clickbait titles like this basically show you how low Glenn thinks of his audience

And comments like ghostys show you that Glenn is probably right, and his audience is a bunch of retarded troglodytes who think using non-monosyllabic words makes a YouTube video Facts™ and Science®

He did a null test guys! *Tips fedora*

Christ almighty
 
One thing I've come to realize about Glenn is that his only perspective revolves around recorded tone. Which makes sense. However, there are a myriad of other factors that he disregards in reaching his conclusions.
 
Well blow me down popeye.....didn't know Admiral Levine was into this stuff.

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GJgo said:
One thing I've come to realize about Glenn is that his only perspective revolves around recorded tone. Which makes sense. However, there are a myriad of other factors that he disregards in reaching his conclusions.
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He's also only into one type of tone

The boring sneap nuthugger emg/boost/v30/57 thing

Literally every video is some variation of it or the In Flames post sellout Gayman tone
 
i can just picture glen sitting there with his assistant laughing as they go over a bunch of pictures they just took looking for the most obnoxious click bait face to go along with the equally repulsive title knowing its gonna drive forum'ers insane.
 
I think the true test is with pricing. Take a fender tonemaster super reverb versus a new super reverb reissue. If the two were priced exactly the same, which would you take? I still be the majority would take the tube super reverb.

And I like the fender tone master amps, I have tried. I could totally see using one, but if they were priced the same, I would take the tube fender every time, even if that means having to carry my Suhr rlir for silent stages.
 
blackba said:
I think the true test is with pricing. Take a fender tonemaster super reverb versus a new super reverb reissue. If the two were priced exactly the same, which would you take? I still be the majority would take the tube super reverb.

And I like the fender tone master amps, I have tried. I could totally see using one, but if they were priced the same, I would take the tube fender every time, even if that means having to carry my Suhr rlir for silent stages.
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Oh for sure on that.......but my judgement is polluted by my own dogma and bias being the cynical, senile old bastard and troglodyte I am.

But I tell them to stick those silent stages and IEM's up their asses.
 
Tubes have been obsolete for years!!!! LOL! But apparently they keep making them.

I've had Kemper, Helix, Fractal and they all do what they do very well.

However, for many of us, having that amp with those glowing bottles in it does something and it pulled me back as well.
Having them with a built in Captor or Captor X is an absolute bonus! 2 of my amps have this and it is so easy to get amazing sounding direct tone. It also enables me to avoid waking the dead late at night when an inspiration comes around.

I'm up to 3 amps now and very happy with what I have!

If I need a modelling tone and want to go direct, I'll run the Helix plugin. It is simple, easy to use and great sounding.
For live work though, I am just so used to having an amp as my monitor and just going to keep it that way.
 
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PBGas said:
I've had Kemper, Helix, Fractal and they all do what they do very well.

However, for many of us, having that amp with those glowing bottles in it does something and it pulled me back as well.
Having them with a built in Captor or Captor X is an absolute bonus! 2 of my amps have this and it is so easy to get amazing sounding direct tone.

I'm up to 3 amps now and very happy with what I have!

If I need a modelling tone and want to go direct, I'll run the Helix plugin. It is simple, easy to use and great sounding.
For live work though, I am just so used to having an amp as my monitor and just going to keep it that way.
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Having reactive loads in amps is cool. I always wanted to be able to have a built in power station in the amp. Take an amp with 4 6l6s, you could either have stereo 6l6 power, or use one half with the reactive load and the other as you slave power amp. 100watt amp when you need it or reamped setup when you need to have less volume. The big negative is the weight and needing two output transformers.

Maybe that will be my next build after I finish this 3 channel fender brown face build.
 
blackba said:
Having reactive loads in amps is cool. I always wanted to be able to have a built in power station in the amp. Take an amp with 4 6l6s, you could either have stereo 6l6 power, or use one half with the reactive load and the other as you slave power amp. 100watt amp when you need it or reamped setup when you need to have less volume. The big negative is the weight and needing two output transformers.

Maybe that will be my next build after I finish this 3 channel fender brown face build.
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I wonder if you could build a mini powerstation that ran on 12xx7 tubes or a 12BH7 in push/pull and stuff it in an amp
 
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