Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
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Condemned soul
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Re: Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
Anyone try the Boss Nextone amps yet?
Anyone try the Boss Nextone amps yet?
donaldr
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Re: Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
Boss Katana is not overrated, it's a really good amp and better than most tube amp in the SAME PRICE RANGE. I have the Katana 50w because I wanted something for home practice (0.5w) and jamming with friends (25w or 50w), with some built-in effects so I don't have to lug a pedal board. It's 25lbs, so lightweight and convenient. You don't need the computer if you go with the Katana Artist, and possibly not if you want a basic good tone. I plugged mine to a computer only for fine tuning. Don't expect to have a Bogner or a Friedman or a Deluxe Reverb sound out of the Katana, those amps don't cost $229 (50w), $359 (100w) and $599 (Artist), and don't expect those high quality tube amps to have the same good sound playing when everybody asleep, which the Katana can do. There's no perfect amps, that's why we have more than one, the same for guitars.
Boss Katana is not overrated, it's a really good amp and better than most tube amp in the SAME PRICE RANGE. I have the Katana 50w because I wanted something for home practice (0.5w) and jamming with friends (25w or 50w), with some built-in effects so I don't have to lug a pedal board. It's 25lbs, so lightweight and convenient. You don't need the computer if you go with the Katana Artist, and possibly not if you want a basic good tone. I plugged mine to a computer only for fine tuning. Don't expect to have a Bogner or a Friedman or a Deluxe Reverb sound out of the Katana, those amps don't cost $229 (50w), $359 (100w) and $599 (Artist), and don't expect those high quality tube amps to have the same good sound playing when everybody asleep, which the Katana can do. There's no perfect amps, that's why we have more than one, the same for guitars.
El Dunco
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I sure as hell do. I use two tube amps per guitar track in tandem minimum for every production I do featuring heavy guitars because I love to get a unique sound by blending amps with different timbre qualities.
My band's latest single had one Marshall JVM and a Dual rec blended together for each guitar track and for song I'm currently working on, I'm running three. An ENGL/ADA rack setup, JVM and Dual Rec for each rhythm guitar performance. I know there are more compact ways to do this with preamp pedals, sims and impulse responses but nothing beats the real thing when it's all hooked up properly.
IMO nothing sits in the mix with the same punchy clarity for a live show as a good tube amp for the kind of music I play (not to mention the old fashioned eq knobs for real time adjustment over scrolling through menus), I just tend not to lug around 4x12s anymore and have a mini stack made of 2 oversized 1x12s.
I sure as hell do. I use two tube amps per guitar track in tandem minimum for every production I do featuring heavy guitars because I love to get a unique sound by blending amps with different timbre qualities.
My band's latest single had one Marshall JVM and a Dual rec blended together for each guitar track and for song I'm currently working on, I'm running three. An ENGL/ADA rack setup, JVM and Dual Rec for each rhythm guitar performance. I know there are more compact ways to do this with preamp pedals, sims and impulse responses but nothing beats the real thing when it's all hooked up properly.
IMO nothing sits in the mix with the same punchy clarity for a live show as a good tube amp for the kind of music I play (not to mention the old fashioned eq knobs for real time adjustment over scrolling through menus), I just tend not to lug around 4x12s anymore and have a mini stack made of 2 oversized 1x12s.
Re: Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
Hi, so did it had that tube feel and dynamics? the distortion didnt convince me. maybe because it was a usb/direct recording?
Hi, so did it had that tube feel and dynamics? the distortion didnt convince me. maybe because it was a usb/direct recording?
Re: Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
If i was playing in a band ill definitely get one. but now that i had tried a tube amp for the first time i want one
totally different than modelers.
If i was playing in a band ill definitely get one. but now that i had tried a tube amp for the first time i want one
totally different than modelers.
guitfiddle
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I think the Katana was much more tight, but the AC15 just had a directness between your playing and the sound that the Katana lacked. The Katana has to think about what you played, and turn it into the picture of the sound, if that makes any sense. The sound from the AC15, and most other tube amps, is just much more direct and in the room with you.
At any rate, I have 7 tube amps, and three hybrids. One of the hybrids has a tube power section and it will peel paint (Music Man HD-150), and the others are low watt but loud SS amps with tube preamps. The tube amps win in all areas except for one...the Orange Micro Dark is just a friggin beast. I did a Sabbath tribute show with mine a little while ago, and into the same speaker setup, it is louder than the Dark Terror it emulates. UnREAL.
All my tube amps feel better to play than my hybrids, and way better than any digital ones I've ever played. My Orange OR50 is such a beast, it would scare some of the more TGP low-volume crowd. I love it. :headbang:
I think the Katana was much more tight, but the AC15 just had a directness between your playing and the sound that the Katana lacked. The Katana has to think about what you played, and turn it into the picture of the sound, if that makes any sense. The sound from the AC15, and most other tube amps, is just much more direct and in the room with you.
At any rate, I have 7 tube amps, and three hybrids. One of the hybrids has a tube power section and it will peel paint (Music Man HD-150), and the others are low watt but loud SS amps with tube preamps. The tube amps win in all areas except for one...the Orange Micro Dark is just a friggin beast. I did a Sabbath tribute show with mine a little while ago, and into the same speaker setup, it is louder than the Dark Terror it emulates. UnREAL.
All my tube amps feel better to play than my hybrids, and way better than any digital ones I've ever played. My Orange OR50 is such a beast, it would scare some of the more TGP low-volume crowd. I love it. :headbang:
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Re: Are you guys still using tube amps? Are katana amps overrated?
Thats a good way to put it. thats how it felt when i played the Marshall dsl and the katana at GC..
Thats a good way to put it. thats how it felt when i played the Marshall dsl and the katana at GC..
