Understanding Tube Amps: Why Tube Amps?
The first video in a series of gear lessons I’ll be doing called “Understanding Tube Amps.” In this first installment, I do my best to explain why tube amps are considered by most to be better than solid state (transistor) amps.
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Or what are your thoughts on the
FENDER SUPER 112 Combo
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Anthony Stauffer reply on March 22nd, 2010 2:08 pm:
Hi Joel,
I assume that you’re referring to the Super Sonic 112. It’s a very interesting amp. My impressions of it are that it’s a bit more flexible than some of the other amps from Fender. The clean channel has 2 different ‘modes’ but I found the amount of treble difference to be very disconcerting between those two modes.
Also the gain channel has a good amount of available distortion and for preamp distortion, it’s probably as good as any other Fender amp, the amp in general is more powerful than what I need so power tube distortion isn’t really a factor.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Hello again Anthony, I wanted to get your professional opinion on the:
FENDER SUPER 112 TUBE AMP
Have you played through one, if so what did you think, and would they make a good blues amp?
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December 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Thanks for your free lessons.
You’re so far ahead of me with your lessons…
I’m an amature with such little hope of catching up.
I like that white, western, Jimi Hendrix sound.
Why you play your brothers’ guitar, instead of a real Strat?
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December 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am
What about hybrid amps? How do they compare with traditional tube amps & the performance of a solid state amp?
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Anthony Stauffer reply on December 28th, 2009 4:24 pm:
I’ll try to address that in an upcoming video.
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