Tagged As: Solid State Amp
Question:
Looking for a solid state AMP that's a tube-alike sound.. I want something versitle that can sound vintage and Hi-gain I choosing between Peavy xxl combo or Tech 21 trademark60 any suggestions?
Answer:
Take a good SS amp, and ruin its low output impedance with a series power resistor whose resistance is in the 0.33 to 4 ohm range. That will give you a fair approximation of tube amp sound. Been done. Doesn't really work very well. The nonlinearities in a severely overloaded guitar amp-speaker system turn out to be quite hard to model. They include not only active device overload (preamp and power stage) but passive device overload (transformer) and back EMF from the speaker making its way back into the amplifier. A highly complex dynamic system, one which we really don't have a handle on, at least not well enough to model it.
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