GK bass amps
Question: Can anyone tell me about their experience with Gallien-Krueger heads/amplifiers? Answer: used a GK 800RB head for many, many years. It sounded great, and was as reliable as a tank. Mou...
- One Tube In a Push Pull Amp .
...inition. However, the vast majority of push-pull guitar amplifiers operate in class AB, where the o...
- Laney Amplification
... trip I stumbled across a Laney electric/acoustic guitar amp. I thought its sound was decent but w...ification? Is Laney a recognized name in guitar amplifiers? Answer: Laney is known more for it...
- New [Car Tires, Amplifier Tubes]
Question: It seems that several high-end companies (ARC, C-J, ...) ship their amplifiers with Sovtek tubes, which are not often very highly spoken of in discussion groups, etc. Is this tantamount t...
- Tube Brands and Marshall JCM 900 question
...und. I am in an AC/DC tribute band playing rhythm guitar (Malcolm Young). Is there a brand of tubes ...h celestians? Or should I consider other Marshall amplifiers? Answer: Shoot for a four input Ma...
- Yamaha Amplifier (old) problems
...ises created by heating and airconditioning, appliances, computers, etc. often mask the noise that amplifiers make. On an unusually quiet day you may hear the amplifier noise for the first time. Ther...
- Amp type for piezo output?
Question: I'm getting a guitar with dual outputs--piezo and magnetic. The magnetic output will go...ove. Nonetheless, I've used stage keyboard combo amplifiers for piezo output with satisfactory resu...
- power amp vs. guitar power amp
... 1X12 boogie cab or do i have to get a six string guitar specific amp to do the frequencies properly...d by the speakers? Answer: A number of guitar amplifiers have or can have useful frequency respo...
- Bass amp verses guitar amp???
...? If it is, then what is the difference between a guitar amp and a bass amp? Is it just that the bas... need to distinguish between solid state and tube amplifiers. It seems to me that there is some diff...
- Mesa Boogie Mark IV
...speakers? Which does Santana prefer? (I want my guitar to sing like his) Answer: I'm not sure wh...I believe Santana had complained that all the new amplifiers were too complicated. I ended trading ...
- If Tube Amps sound so great . . .
...This is what now makes people eat up all those tube amps! The effect is most pronounced with triode amplifiers. But if you look at the cost factor of a transitor made amplifier made in Hong Kong and ...
- Acoustic/Electric combo amp questions
... trip I stumbled across a Laney electric/acoustic guitar amp. I thought its sound was decent but w...ification? Is Laney a recognized name in guitar amplifiers? I thought I had found a guy selling a...
- How widely are analog multitracks still being used?
...ultitrack machines. My company, Audio Dynamics, Inc., developed four upgrade playback and recording amplifiers for ITC cart machines (yes, cart machines!). With our playback board installed, a 1970 v...
- Fender Mini-Deluxe
...rt to name a few) at least had something to offer. Most of mini amp powerstages are built with chip amplifiers and the circuits are so simple that anyone can build or design them by just downloading t...
- Peavey Sp2
...one to run the mids and one to run the highs. You would also require an active crossover before the amplifiers to split the signal to each amp up. there are various benefits to doing this, it gives yo...
- Mini amp/headphones recommendations for 'sociable' practice
...ver, I never find that very inspiring, even using guitars with (IMHO) good acoustic properties like ...d hifi headphones in headphone sockets on various amplifiers (Polytone Minibrute, AER 60, Roland Cub...
- Which guitar should I learn on?
Question: I want to learn how to play the guitar. My question is which is the best guitar to learn on first - electric or acoustic? Your opinions would be greatly appreciated. Answer: What kin...
- Ampeg SVT Output Tubes
... have a lower primary impedance output tranformers. In simple terms this often means higher powered amplifiers. Leave the 6146's on board, they're a better tube, often cheaper and seem to be more dur...
- Do I NEED a tube amp? Which one?
...mplifier only. It's a boo boo to use those with a guitar amp of any kind. I learned something about...it!!! Guitar amps defy the convention of standard amplifiers. I'm back to the old school of tube gu...
- Amp Advice
...'rinstance...I read reviews on a Hamer solid body guitar...the reviews were mostly good, but several..., Marshall, and Roland are generally good quality amplifiers in the low-ish end of the market (say, ...