Yeah JCs are pretty much top of the line. Those quilter amps are cool but why not just get a good preamp pedal and a class d amp? Seems weird to abandon the standard guitar tone stack to me.
SS has a ton of different options and 70s Peavey's have so many features that you'd never see in a tube amp (built in fuzz, phasing, series or parallel inputs, etc). Guitarists are just really conservative
High End Solid State Amps
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Still loving my new Carlsboro Stingray Super...
It out-tubes quite a few tube amps i've tried...it's distortion circuit is better than a lot of tubey overdrive pedals by miles-so much that i want to clone it in pedal form. And reverb is huge.......It does its own thing though, all the while not making me feel like i miss a tube amp, which some excellent solid states can do. This is plenty rich, and lots of headroom...my band have received a lot of compliments on sound since we went fully solid state, from even expensive boutique stuff, down to cheap 70s (the other is a IC100), we are no blues band but go figure we use a lot of pedals/layers/reverb.
It out-tubes quite a few tube amps i've tried...it's distortion circuit is better than a lot of tubey overdrive pedals by miles-so much that i want to clone it in pedal form. And reverb is huge.......It does its own thing though, all the while not making me feel like i miss a tube amp, which some excellent solid states can do. This is plenty rich, and lots of headroom...my band have received a lot of compliments on sound since we went fully solid state, from even expensive boutique stuff, down to cheap 70s (the other is a IC100), we are no blues band but go figure we use a lot of pedals/layers/reverb.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
RolandJC120RolandJC120 wrote:Yeah JCs are pretty much top of the line. [...]
Yeah... no bias here
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I don't mind SS Bass Amps for some reason. They sound allright to me.
Some Hybrid Valve State Aps are not too bad.
I haven't heard the Quilter except for You Tube but wasn't overly impressed but I know that's not fair.
I have tried several SS Amps in the past. Didn't like any of them. For me they rated horrible to not too horrible.
I like Tube Amps. They just sound better to me. I can't see a reason to change.
Some Hybrid Valve State Aps are not too bad.
I haven't heard the Quilter except for You Tube but wasn't overly impressed but I know that's not fair.
I have tried several SS Amps in the past. Didn't like any of them. For me they rated horrible to not too horrible.
I like Tube Amps. They just sound better to me. I can't see a reason to change.
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This thread is reminding me to fix my Polytone Minibrute. I need the clean tones!
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JC120's are super sweet. The other guitarist in my band uses one and his tone is pretty great for what we do. When he's pushing the amp hard with pedals it has this great chunky lo-fi thing going on and the cleans are pretty great too. The chorus on those things sound great as well. The old Yamaha G100's are pretty close to the same amp for much cheaper.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Sunn yet. Depending on what you're going for, most of the old Sunn solid state amps sound pretty rad. They do the stoner/doom thing really well without any pedals, but they take pedals well too. The Traynor TS series can sound great with some tweaking as well.
I suppose none of this is really "high-end", but they are the best solid state amps that I've heard at least.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Sunn yet. Depending on what you're going for, most of the old Sunn solid state amps sound pretty rad. They do the stoner/doom thing really well without any pedals, but they take pedals well too. The Traynor TS series can sound great with some tweaking as well.
I suppose none of this is really "high-end", but they are the best solid state amps that I've heard at least.
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This is probably the Low End of Solid State, but a space I used to practice at had a late 70's Peavey Bandit, and when I didn't feel like lugging my JCM 800 back and forth I would use it. I always liked that amp, the only issue I ever had was that the 1X12 couldn't always keep up with that band.