SS vs. Modeling

[Nightburst]

Re: SS vs. Modeling

Peavey and Randall have some real kick ass SS amps. It's not like every tube amp out there sounds great... IMHO digital things can never sound really organic.

[Chi3f]

Re: SS vs. Modeling

i know 4 differen't guitarists that have 1/2 stack peavy ss's... they have great tone at low volume but soon as you go up in volume they go to udder crap. but thats just what i hear...

so to me what's the point in having a 1/2 stack if your only gonna run it at low volume to get a good sound?

i haven't tried the XXL and maybe they have made great leaps in quality i will see

[RiffRaff]

Re: SS vs. Modeling

I've been a tube only guy since day one, at the NAMM show in January I was walking by the Kustom display and a guy was demoing a WAV amp, not a modeling amp per sey but the clean channel (with a little reverb) was very fender twinish and the crunch channel was very marshally with the gain cranked. I found a dealer locally who had one in stock, I think I was there every other day for a couple of weeks playing through the amp and comparing it with other tube amps he had in stock. Needless to say I wound up buying the amp - it has four individually programable channels (effects only) for the clean, overdrive and a boost channel for the overdrive channel for leads. The amp does have it's drawbacks, you can't program the drive selections for each channel - the pre amp and power amps are analog. But one of the things I like was the tube overdrive, it uses a 12AX7 tube for two of the drive selections - I popped in a NOS RCA blackplate in their and the drive is very blackfacish on the "classic" setting - anyhow, I guess my point is SS amps have come a long way in the last few years, to the point where if your playing a small club and you don't want to haul around a tube amp with a bunch of effects pedals the modeling and other SS amps with built in effects have much to offer.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: SS vs. Modeling

Roland VG88 ... I'll be posting a song I'm working on for a tribute CD when it's complete. All of the guitar tracks are VG88 and my ESP M1 Tiger.