hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
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Zerberus
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Re: hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
Usually the preamp tube plays a minor role as well, because it´s often run at low voltages where it doesn´t really do anything but look good
Can´t remember which one it was, but I´m certain that there used to be a Valvestate head a long time ago (>10 yrs) where you could actually remove the tube and hear no difference
Usually the preamp tube plays a minor role as well, because it´s often run at low voltages where it doesn´t really do anything but look good
Can´t remember which one it was, but I´m certain that there used to be a Valvestate head a long time ago (>10 yrs) where you could actually remove the tube and hear no difference
shredaholic
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Re: hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
rotflmao :lmao:
Zerberus said:Can´t remember which one it was, but I´m certain that there used to be a Valvestate head a long time ago (>10 yrs) where you could actually remove the tube and hear no difference
rotflmao :lmao:
Re: hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
I have a Fender Cyber Twin. It has two 12ax7 (spelling??) tubes as a preamp. I think this gives some improvement in sound over other solid state amps. However, you are not getting a full on tube amp by any stretch of the imagination. Don't think that any hybrid is going to sound like a Marshall or Krank. I got mine because the price was right and it had a wide array of clean sounds.
I have a Fender Cyber Twin. It has two 12ax7 (spelling??) tubes as a preamp. I think this gives some improvement in sound over other solid state amps. However, you are not getting a full on tube amp by any stretch of the imagination. Don't think that any hybrid is going to sound like a Marshall or Krank. I got mine because the price was right and it had a wide array of clean sounds.
Kamanda~SD
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Re: hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
I got an AVT. Kills the Marshall MG and I love the tone. Obviously it's not a full tube amp but its better than pure SS.
I got an AVT. Kills the Marshall MG and I love the tone. Obviously it's not a full tube amp but its better than pure SS.
Animal
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Re: hybrid amps (AVT n stuff) please educate me
Whilst hybrid amps arn't actually REAL tube amps, out of all the tube pre-amp/ss power amps I've played through/heard, the distortion has sounded much smoother than the straight up transistor amps I've encounter.
Perhaps it IS all a marketing gimmick but tonally I wouldn't exactly jump at classing hyrbid amps in the same league as their solid-state cousins.
Whilst hybrid amps arn't actually REAL tube amps, out of all the tube pre-amp/ss power amps I've played through/heard, the distortion has sounded much smoother than the straight up transistor amps I've encounter.
Perhaps it IS all a marketing gimmick but tonally I wouldn't exactly jump at classing hyrbid amps in the same league as their solid-state cousins.
