Controversial Amplifier Hot Takes

[misterwhizzy]

Greenbacks are superior to Vintage 30s in every way except power handling.

Have a nice day.

 

[Demanic]

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12M-70's.
(Behind the bike)

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[GuitarStv]

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Greenbacks are superior to Vintage 30s in every way except power handling.

Have a nice day.

I like the v30 when it's mixed with other speakers, but not on it's own.

 

[chadd]

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I love greenbacks. I currently have a pair in an Avatar modern (slightly oversize) cabinet. It really helps add a bit more low mids and lows without being overbearing. Perfect for the grungy stuff I'm playing now.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Green amps sound better than Orange ones.

 

[misterwhizzy]

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^ Someone finally got where I was going with this.

Just say something disagreeable and not provably wrong. Have fun with it. It's not meant to be a Greenback v. Vintage 30 thread.

 

[Ascension]

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Greenbacks are superior to Vintage 30s in every way except power handling.

Have a nice day.

Depends on the cab they are in amp and music style could be or not.

 

[Mincer]

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Everything>Telecasters

Shots fired.

 

[Dave Locher]

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A lot of tube amps sound mediocre and some sound really bad.

 

[Synapsys]

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Everything>Telecasters

Shots fired.

Telecasters>Everything

Counterstrike.

 

[PFDarkside]

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A lot of tube amps sound mediocre and some sound really bad.

A lot?

 

[GuitarStv]

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There's nothing a high gain amp can do that a clean amp with a few pedals can't do better.

 

[Mincer]

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Polytones were built for size and convenience, and sound like ass. Every single jazz guitarist that uses them would sound better through a Princeton.

 

[bigcupholder]

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There's nothing a high gain amp can do that a clean amp with a few pedals can't do better.

Running distortion pedals into a clean amp is the worst way to get high gain tone.

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[Synapsys]

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Modelling amps > Tube amps

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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There's nothing a high gain amp can do that a clean amp with a few pedals can't do better.

Except metal. Metal sounds mediocre at best using even the best pedals into a clean amp. That's my hot take.

Oh! And also: Any incarnation of the 5150 sounds horrible with the mids set above 4.

 

[El Dunco]

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Great tone is worthless without good guitar parts and a song to be part of.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Great tone is worthless without good guitar parts and a song to be part of.

Wait, that’s controversial?

 

[GuitarStv]

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Running distortion pedals into a clean amp is the worst way to get high gain tone.

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Any high gain amp that's 100 watts is already doing this when you think about it. It's just using preamp tube distortion, virtually no power tube contribution. You can connect a tube pedal in the loop to effectively replace the preamp of a high wattage clean amp to get similar high gain tones.

 

[NegativeEase]

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Everyone hated JCM900s when they came out and now they are beloved.