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All about Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers (Book). Explores all manufacturers and de-mystifys the inner workings of tube amps. All new material from the amp guru Gerald Weber. Tons of empirical data that de-mystify the 519 pages Tube pdf file Guitar Amplifier Power Amps: Vacuum Tube Circuit Design pdf file. JOINING MY FORUM: In the Paypal “note” (box) please indicate your choice of login name for my forum // I will register you upon completion of order if you so desire “Inside Fender and Marshall Tube Amps”. By JC Maillet. ISBN 0-9684849-0-5. Modern Analysis of Vacuum Tube Amplifier Circuitry. 2001 Revised Edition. Four-channel Input-mixing Amplifier. August 1957 (TP319). Two-valve Pre-amplifier. August 1957 (TP339). Circuit for self-contained Tape Amplifier. August 1958 (TP356). *The section of this book headed `Design for a 20-Watt High Quality Amplifier' was reprinted from articles which were first published in Wireless World,.
'Claims that a solid-state amplifier cannot sound as good as a tube amplifier is utterly untrue and mostly heard from the mouths of three kinds of people: 1) people that have very little or no knowledge about electronics, 2) tube snobs who persistently claim that all transistor amplifiers must sound bad, yet would stick a Fuzz Face (or similar) in front of their tube amplifier without even blinking an eye and 3) experts of tube amplifier circuitry that unfortunately possess a limited knowledge about solid-state design.' I can't even find a digital model which sounds as nice as my tube amps sound when overdriven, let alone a solid-state amp that breaks up the way I want it to. For him to say it's 'untrue' that tube amps sound better, I say it's my ears that tell me he's full of it.
Now, I will acknowledge that a properly designed solid-state amp can produce CLEAN tones that compare favorably with tube amps. After all, most high-fidelity home stereo systems use transistors rather than tubes, and most listeners don't seem to mind. When using an amplifier for the traditional stated purpose of 'take this signal and make it stronger without messing it up', solid-state is fine.
But when you're looking for that creamy goodness that only comes when your tubes are burning bright and straining to squeeze maximum mojo into your tone. I've yet to hear any non-tube solution reproduce the phenomenon faithfully. I can't even find a digital model which sounds as nice as my tube amps sound when overdriven, let alone a solid-state amp that breaks up the way I want it to. For him to say it's 'untrue' that tube amps sound better, I say it's my ears that tell me he's full of it. It really depends on the amp. My zenTera has outlasted some of my tube amps.
I still have one tube amp left, but have sold many others. I've used many modeling devices -analog and digital- and the zenTera is pretty much the only one that not only captured the sounds, but also the feel and responsiveness of a nice tube amp.
And in terms of technology, it's already old. These are supposed to be quite good: And people like BB King and Albert King got great sounds with solid state amps. Reminds me of a friend who went to a studio to record the guitar parts for his band's album. When he arrived he had 2 JC-120s.
I thought it was going to sound horrible, since their sounds are pretty much overdriven and/or distorted. He plugged into a pedal, and got some tones with the Roland amps that reminded me of my old JCM 800. Within the next 5 years I plan on getting one of those Fractal Audio units. They look very promising, although I'm not thrilled about their pristine sounds.
Seems like there's something missing, and that's why I'm waiting. Many years ago, with one band I began using a JMP-1 instead of carrying around my JCM 800 head and cabinet. Eventually I got to play in a band with 2 other guitarists. One of them also used a JMP-1 instead of an amp, although he did use another Marshall power amp. A very popular guitarist famous for his Les Paul/Marshall tone asked my friend what was his secret to get such great sounds, and the secret was the JMP-1. The JMP-1 has (preamp) tubes, but the actual overdrive/distortion tones have little to do with the tubes.
IIRC, this was back in the 90s. There's good and bad gear everywhere, and this applies to solid state, tubes, analog, digital, etc. They say that this man used a solid state amp for most of his career,seemed to have influenced a lot of people with his tone too.
One of the amps i came across in a pawn shop a few years back was a fender deluxe 85, a solid state amp. I paid 150 dollars canadian for it,just needed a very minor repair and it was up and runing good as new.,man that thing is loud and powerful and cleans up real nice.very versatile little thing,I have tube amps and solid state amps, they all sound different, each has its use and things its good at.I cant say this is better or that is worse cause they are all good in their own individual way. I've used both tube and solid state amps over the years.
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In both cases, I've had both good and bad amps of either variety. One of my favorite guitarists (Ty Tabor), made the Lab Series L5 the cornerstone of his cool guitar sound on the first 3 or 4 King's X albums. Yes the order of harmonics for tube and solid state amps are different. The main issue though, is the clipping characteristics. Tube amps generally clip gradually.
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Solid state amps will clip quite suddenly, and in a very square waved fashion (think Fuzz Face on steroids) if they are not designed to prevent this. Unless they are into psychedelia, or extreme metal, most guitarists prefer the more rounded clipping of tube amps. Me, when I get through this latest money crisis, I'm going to be doing lots of control setup of solid state amps (for me that means keeping the highs and upper mids down, when running lots of gain), since I had to sell my killer Tiny Terror to help pay the bills, and won't have the cash for a several hundred dollar, or thousand plus dollar tube amp. Oh well, such is life. BTW, thanks for the link to the book. I downloaded it.
I had all of that electronic theory in college, but the book looks like a nice quick and dirty cook book on amp circuits. With the appropriate component changes (related to the different operating voltages), the book's content also works for tube amps.