joewatch
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I was just curious - does recorded rock music played on electric guitars using tube amplifiers sound better when it is played back on a tube amplifier or solid state amplifier?
Recorded electric guitar with tube amp
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My guitar amp uses tubes such as EL84 and 12AX7. IMO, a home stereo tube amp makes the crunchy guitar sound come alive when listening to the recording. It's a beautiful thing actually-Tubes on both sides of the listening playback.
Redcarmoose
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Whatever the other members will write. You can read all kinds of tech talk. I still think there is a type of distortion that happens in the airy mids that is CRUNCHY! There is also a place that the guitar sits{soundstage} in a tube headphone amp that places it apart from the other sounds in the mix. Along time ago I used to try and run my low impedence Sony headphones on a Woo 3 which is really for high impedence headphones. The guitars were wrong and crunchy...... wrong but..{ I loved it.}! Rules what rules.
Whatever the other members will write. You can read all kinds of tech talk. I still think there is a type of distortion that happens in the airy mids that is CRUNCHY! There is also a place that the guitar sits{soundstage} in a tube headphone amp that places it apart from the other sounds in the mix. Along time ago I used to try and run my low impedence Sony headphones on a Woo 3 which is really for high impedence headphones. The guitars were wrong and crunchy...... wrong but..{ I loved it.}! Rules what rules.
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