Don't make this any harder for me.Originally Posted by Rocket
When has it ever been otherwise?Originally Posted by just strum
Don't make this any harder for me.Originally Posted by Rocket
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
So it'll have tube reverb...very interesting!
Can someone with experience tell me the difference in tone between tube & spring reverb?
How do you think this compares with the H&K Tube Edition 20 that I just bought.
I have to decide whether to keep it & have the reverb fixed under warranty or send it back to Music123.
I pick a moon dog.
Spring reverb can be either tube driven or driven by solid state circuity. Tube driven reverb, much as with tube driven amplification in general, is warmer, thicker, deeper, and more organic sounding. Warm vs. sterile. Natural sounding vs. artificial that tries to sound natural. To the ear, tube driven reverb sounds much more natural. There are many solid state reverb units out there. Some sound pretty good, others awful. One thing they all seem to have in common, is in the way they all try to emulate tube driven spring reverb. That ought to tell you something right there...Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
Thanks Blooz, I was unaware that tube-driven reverb used springs...I guess that I thought that spring reverb was somehow string driven.Originally Posted by Bloozcat
Whatever "driven" might mean.
I pick a moon dog.
usually associated with "to madness"Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
The spring reverb needs amplification before being mixed in with the main audio. Solid state reverb, such as in my Fender amp, uses an op amp to amplify, while tube reverb uses a tube to amplify.
Guitars (All Lefty): Fender MIM Wine Red Telecaster
Washburn D10SCELHBK
Greg Bennett (Samick) Avion AV3/LH/CS
Franken-Strat (Maple Neck / Black Body & Pickguard / 2-Point Tremolo / GFS Alnico Single-coil Pups / Gold Hardware)
2 Fullerton Standard Strats; Sunburst w/ GFS Overwound P'ups and Black w/ GFS Lil Killer Rail 'Buckers
Fullerton Deluxe Dreadnought
Amp: Blackheart BH1HS Killer Ant Half Stack (Bitmo Ant Eater Kit)
Crate V18-112 (Goodsell RGM Speaker / Accutronics Tank / Switch R4 - R10 Mod)
Pignose G40V (Jensen MOD Speaker / DC Heater Mod / Pentode:Triode Switch)
Fender Champion 30 Reverb (Accutronics Tank / Jensen MOD Speaker)
Speaker Cab: Lopo 1x12 Tweed Convertible w/ Eminence GB128 Speaker
Pedals: Korg ToneWorks AX1000G, AX5G, & AmpworksG Modeling Signal Processors
Boss DS-1 (Rectifier Tri-Gain Plus Mod); CS-3 (Opto Plus Mod); SD-1 Super (GT Mod); GE-7 (Plus Mod)
Fender PT-100 Tuner
E.H. Big Muff Pi (US)
S.D. Pickup Booster
Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger
Alesis NanoVerb
ART Tube MP Studio (OPA2604 Op Amps) (On Champion 30)
Behringer NR100 & OD100
& also usually a very short drive.Originally Posted by just strum
Thanks WackyT that makes sense.
I pick a moon dog.
Resurrected this old thread, since the Valve Sr. does indeed now exist and is available.
The Jet City 20H has been getting plenty of attention, but this 6v6 powered head from Epi is worth a look as well.
Here's one of the better reviews, IMO.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
Looks like it should be a nice upgrade from the Junior. Sweetwater said it has four pre-amp tubes, which would have made me thought it'd have more gain. It actually has three and one of them is for the reverb, so that explains that. Found a gut shot here:
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=635300
The only thing I could really tell from the gut shots is that the one transformer didn't look anything like the size of the ones in my Jet City.
Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
"I wish Imagine Dragons would be stuck in an Arcade Fire for an entire Vampire Weekend."--Brian Posehn
The amp sounds great. It's a perfect match with a Strat. Speaking of the Strat-what kind of strat was that? The fretboard inlays looked like saturn with the fancy 12th fret inlay.Originally Posted by oldguy
LeadedEL84
I had a Jet City, now I have the Valve Sr. I really like the tone of the Sr better. I think build quality goes to the JC but the Sr is more versatile with more clean headroom. It also goes better with single coils than the JC. The one major drawback is the reverb sucks. But I don't use much reverb.