Which is more important???

[ZiiopBoii]

So which is more important havin an okay guitar superb amp, or superb guitar ok amp????

 

[theblueark]

Playing feel wise, guitar.
Tone feel wise, amp.

 

[thor666]

General rule of thumb - it's better to have a good amp, average guitar than a good guitar, average amp.

 

[the_insomniac]

Yah.... a good amp will make a shitty guitar sound halfway-decent, tone wise. But your guitar has to be playable first, with good setup, decent frets and all, or else you'll just get frustrated.

 

[ZiiopBoii]

I am using a vox ad15vt is it gd enuff?? But wat i am doin is juz playin at home so wat kinda amp is recomendable??? I dun blast my amp dat loud either i seldom go past half da volume or maybe even quater.... So is gettin a bigger speaker n higher watt amp pratical.. and i seem 2 have read somehwere dat 2 det da full tone 4 dat da amp hav 2 offer muz atleast have da volume past 12 o'clock.. is it true???

 

[ciel]

if your playing solid state volume wont matter. Tube amps do sound better when they are played loud to let the power tubes cook a bit.

hurhurhur

 

[thor666]

If it sounds good to you, it is good for you.

There isn't one way to explain what amps is better or not. Test, test, test a lot. Learn from experience. Different people will have different opinions of the same things.

 

[subversion]

amps with default 12" speakers tend to give a more balanced output, frequency-wise.

 

[ShredCow]

if your playing solid state volume wont matter. Tube amps do sound better when they are played loud to let the power tubes cook a bit.

hurhurhur

Not true, there's gotta be a certain volume even with solid states before they start to push the air and open up, though there's no need to be some "12 oclock" rule and its not a obvious as tube amps.
You have to turn up tube amps to a certain volume to get optimum tone, just that with solid states, its not that much a difference.

And does it matter what type of amp if you run pedals for your distortion? So much for "tube-like" feel.

 

[edder]

minimum speaker size for amps... 10". my preferred speaker size 12".

A Vox Pathfinder 15 with a 10"(Needs a lot of improvising to make it fit) anytime sounds better than the 8" speaker.

I've tried connecting it thro my Roland JC50 "Cabinet" using an Electro Harmonix 12" whoa... even nicer.

Thats just me. I'm a solid state person till I ever get going on my tube amp project. Maybe I'll be a tube convert by 2020 and tubes will be outlawed by then!

 

[Guest]

why will tubes be outlawed by then?? :?

 

[edder]

I cannot respond to the query above.

 

[subversion]

I'm a solid state person...

i'm currently in your camp artyman:

 

[snuffleupagus]

JCM all the way!

My JCM 60 sounds wonderful enough for me artyman:

 

[ZiiopBoii]

wat r da few afforadable amps wif 12" speakers u guy can recommend???

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

it might be easier if you can state the budget for the amp as the degree of affordable might varies among different people

 

[edder]

artyman:

oh sub.... never tempt me with beer.... hur hur hur~

 

[ciel]

if your playing solid state volume wont matter. Tube amps do sound better when they are played loud to let the power tubes cook a bit.

hurhurhur

Not true, there's gotta be a certain volume even with solid states before they start to push the air and open up, though there's no need to be some "12 oclock" rule and its not a obvious as tube amps.
You have to turn up tube amps to a certain volume to get optimum tone, just that with solid states, its not that much a difference.

And does it matter what type of amp if you run pedals for your distortion? So much for "tube-like" feel.

for pedals it does. for me anyway. but as you always say your mileage may differ.

 

[ShredCow]

pedals as in, all distortion comes from the pedals, nothing pushing the amp.

I fail to see how that would manifest any form of "tube-like" feel. Its totally --> pedal.

 

[theblueark]

The amp is the final tone bender in the chain. It will affect whatever you put into it. It should be obvious enough by now.

It's extremely hard to make a good tube amp sound bad. You can put any pedal into it, but crank up the volume, let the tubes work and it will sweeten anything.

I would say it's like painting. Your pedals are the base coats, they help bring out the final coat that is the amp, into different shades.