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I know a lot of you guys are guitar players. What is your favorite tube amp. I've got this Crate Vintage Club amp or whatever the hell they call it. 30 watts the thing kicks ass. It's got a nice clean sound and it's got good crunch/distortion if I need more volume I just mic it. I wish some one had told me when I started playing a long time ago GET THE TUBES! I screwed around a long time playing a Roland Jazz Chorus and various other bullshit. Get the tubes. That rule still applies. You cannot emulate that sound, yeah there's a lot of stuff that comes close, but close don't count. If you are a young or beginning guitar player, skip all that emulation, digital effects, etc. and GET THE TUBES. Can I make that any clearer. Guitar players, tell me about your tube amp. BTW the Crate Vintage Club uses EL84 which I believe are the same as a VOX and a lot of other great sounding amps. GET THE TUBES! OK?
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An overdriven tube provides a very desirable distortion. My current favorites for guitar recording are a 1955 Fender Princeton, 1959 Magnatone Troubadour and a newer Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I recently acquired a 60's Epiphone Pacemaker and a '94 Fender Pro-Junior. For bass, a 1970 Ampeg SVT with both 8 x 10 cabinets.

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err, ahem. i dig my peavey rage. i run it at "1" through an onkyo custom speaker. it has a 421 bolted to the cab, surrounded in thick carpet. i use the amps clean setting with a ds-1 pedal and a metal zone pedal. bringing up on the mixer sounds, er, ahem, tits. my guitar playing friends with marshalls, mesa boogies, etc all are jealous of the tone. although, i cant play that setup live! only studio. for live sound, their amps kick my little POS's butt!
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Be sure and copy this thread over on the guitar forum. Myles Rose could talk tubes all day long. [img]http://www.crest.com/images/img_greatproduct.gif[/img] But seriously...there are times when a solid state amp is nice. Roger McGuinn advocates the use of a Roland Jazz Chorus for a Rickenbacker 360-12...and if you've ever played a Rick through a Roland you'll know why. A buddy of mine has a solid state Fender (he has a Blues Deville too), but actually, for clean sounds, that little solid state is sweet. Don't get me wrong...I'm mainly a tube guy all the way (my main amp is a Marshall TSL-122), for anything that requires at least a little grind. But, the solid state stuff can sound sweet for clean tones.
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