[fenderboss7]

what do you have, and what do you prefer?

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Tube, have quite a few, and prefer them vastly, but not because they are tube.

Some tube amps are real stinkers. However, most of the well honed classic amps are almost all tube.

I have a few fenders, a soldano, mesa, a frenzel that is a take on a vox amp, and some other amps.

[fenderboss7]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

Tube, have quite a few, and prefer them vastly, but not because they are tube.

Some tube amps are real stinkers. However, most of the well honed classic amps are almost all tube.

I have a few fenders, a soldano, a frenzel that is a take on a vox amp, and some other amps.

what i your playing genre?

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by fenderboss7

what i your playing genre?

whatever I feel like...

Seriously I tend to use more distortion than average but I appreciate tones from pretty much any genre.

[fenderboss7]

cool.....do u play for church?

[Sean.thomson]

Right now the only 3 amps I use are a Fender Champ 600, Crate Vintage Club 50, and an old Reel to Reel recorder that can be used as an amp. All of them tube. I just love the sound of a tube amp that sounds like it's gonna explode, but then again I do love the sound of a solid state clipping so much that it sounds like frog farts...

I can get those tube busting tones from the Fender and the R2R, but the Crate has a little too powerful for me to get that with a reasonable volume. For the frog farts I usually use a rackmount parametric EQ into the Crate and clip the crap out of the EQ.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by fenderboss7

cool.....do u play for church?

I have in the past...

[fenderboss7]

Originally Posted by Sean.thomson

I can get those tube busting tones from the Fender and the R2R, but the Crate has a little too powerful for me to get that with a reasonable volume..

how often do you change tubes?

[jamforchrist123]

I currently only have one amp, a Vox AC30. It's tube, and I like how it sounds. There are solid state amps I like to play clean, but I haven't found many that I like to play with pedals.

[Stratopastor]

I use both, and prefer tubes. But technology has come so far that the practical real-life situations in which it matters are few, IMO.

(nice work - at the time of writing you've only made 18 posts, but already managed to hit on the one topic that's guaranteed to get gearheads going!).

changing tubes - preamp tubes can work well for years, sometimes decades under the right circumstances. Power tubes need changing according to (how many hours) multiplied by (how loud). Could be weekly for a thrash metal player on a world tour, or 2 years for a church player. One of those 'how long is a piece of string?' questions.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by Stratopastor

I use both, and prefer tubes. But technology has come so far that the practical real-life situations in which it matters are few, IMO.

I agree, but certain amps have different tones... There is to the best of my knowledge, no ss amp that sounds like my Soldano SLO. There is hardly any other amp that sounds like it to me. (The jet city ones that are pretty much a clone with the same designer come to mind)

That isn't to say there are not some darn fine sounding solid state amps. There certainly are, but my favorite amp sounds are some tube amps.

[gtrdave]

All of the above.
I have an all-tube Peavey Delta Blues 210, a hybrid Vox AC15VR and a Line 6 Spider II 112.
I prefer all-tube amps, but I try to make most anything work for me.

[Giga Hertz]

Not that I've been playing electric for long, nor have I played with many amps, I'm quite fond of my solid state V-Ampire LX210.

[Plexi8759]

Principles of Rock Guitar Tone

Here is an article I found online. "principles of rock guitar tone" I'd say I agree with 99% of it. I play only in church and I've got both tube and solid state amps. I definitely prefer tube amps over solid state amps and the article lays out many of the reasons why while providing some very useful information.

[Bushman]

I own and prefer tube amps. I do own a couple of smaller Solid State amps that I use for light, toss around, practice amps, but I don't use them for anything serious.
My Tube amps are: Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Fender Blues Junior NOS.