High End Solid State Amps
- Whiny Minotaur
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
I heard lots of good things about the Blackstar ID series, which I'm probably going get down the line.
It's difficult to justify getting a tube amp when you need to start pushing them hard to get them sound good, being difficult to carry around, and requiring periodic maintenance.
It's difficult to justify getting a tube amp when you need to start pushing them hard to get them sound good, being difficult to carry around, and requiring periodic maintenance.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.
And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.
And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Chippertheripper wrote:I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.
And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.
That link doesn't work. Are you talking about these things?
Vox Version
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
I have the Thunder. Quite handy amps for practising without pissing off the neighbours too muchJaguar018 wrote:Chippertheripper wrote:I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.
And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.
That link doesn't work. Are you talking about these things?
Vox Version
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- Chippertheripper
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Yeah, them jisms.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
This just in: the mojo diamond sounds really awesome for an in the house headphone amp.
Plug all your effects in, and go bonkers.
Plug all your effects in, and go bonkers.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
I've always been Polytone-curious.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.
https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Quilters are all the rage on SG101marqueemoon wrote:This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.
https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
ifallalot wrote:Quilters are all the rage on SG101marqueemoon wrote:This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.
https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They are. I don't really know if it's because they're actually really good, or because they're also built by a surf geek, all those guys are getting old and don't want to carry a tube amp anymore, or a list of other reasons.
I've yet to play a quilter. One of my bandmates bought and returned one. I can only assume that I'd be fine with it, as I'm just a hack guitarist anyway.
- fat finger
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Not having the money to buy a Deluxe Reverb or other quality tube amp, I went looking for used amp bargains and eventually bought a Lab Series L7.
Designed by Bob Moog, the Lab Series were very high end in their day, used by BB King and others.
I would love to get a good guitarist with a good guitar to show me what it can do. It sounds good enough to me but I don't play well enough or know how to push it the right way.
I used to work for a place that did some class D stuff and the designers seemed to think they distorted like a tube amp. With that in mind I didn't have any type of tube amp bias in my head and kind of wanted solid state for reliability. I also understand CMOS much better than bipolar and never learned the first thing about tubes...
Any way, my L7 has 4 10's and about 100 watts power, it is real clean for its age and it was around $300. High end doesn't have to be expensive but the Lab Series was $$$ back in the day.
Designed by Bob Moog, the Lab Series were very high end in their day, used by BB King and others.
I would love to get a good guitarist with a good guitar to show me what it can do. It sounds good enough to me but I don't play well enough or know how to push it the right way.
I used to work for a place that did some class D stuff and the designers seemed to think they distorted like a tube amp. With that in mind I didn't have any type of tube amp bias in my head and kind of wanted solid state for reliability. I also understand CMOS much better than bipolar and never learned the first thing about tubes...
Any way, my L7 has 4 10's and about 100 watts power, it is real clean for its age and it was around $300. High end doesn't have to be expensive but the Lab Series was $$$ back in the day.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
So this exists now...
http://www.quilterlabs.com/index.php/pr ... roblock-45" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.quilterlabs.com/index.php/pr ... roblock-45" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- marqueemoon
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Dang. Too bad there is not a compact pedal power supply that will do 24V. There's this, but kinda spendy. http://www.thegigrig.com/electroman-c2x17796188" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Chippertheripper wrote:So this exists now...
http://www.quilterlabs.com/index.php/pr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... roblock-45
I'm definitely amused by the idea of an amp that would fit on a Pedaltrain Nano or Nano +. I know EH has been doing ,micro heads for a while, but the Quilter EQ seems a lot more usable.
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Re: High End Solid State Amps
Roland Jazz Chorus 120.
Shit is really expensive, to it's safe to categorize it as "high end", right?
Shit is really expensive, to it's safe to categorize it as "high end", right?
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I think the more I play guitar in professional settings backing someone vs "guitar featured" music the less I really care about solid state or tube amps. I think part of the lack of "boutique" is because it's really hard to convince guitar players to pay a lot for non tubes. Quilter to me is boutique, dv mark is boutique, most of their amps are affordable. Roland amps are affordable and I think still kind of the top end on solid state options