Re: Tubes in Pre-amps: your expertise and honest opinion.

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 4 jan 2007, at 15.41, Krispen Hartung wrote:
> I see tube amps in museums, with model Ts, computers the size of  
> rooms, and two-headed cows.

L-O-L!  I'm not a vintage purist but to my ears the dinosaurs sound  
differently compared to SS based gear. At least when talking electric  
guitar amplification. When recording guitar tones for digital sound  
designer products pitched at professional DAW based producers I have  
found that a virtual guitar sample instrument boosted by software amp/ 
cab modeling plug-ins sounds a little better if the original guitar  
was played through a 3x12AX7A top before digitized. However, as told,  
myself I prefer my SS Gallien-Krüger, not for the sound but for the  
accurate timing response. But I have not looked deeply into this, so  
maybe my tube amp would respond with a better feel if I was using 10"  
speakers with it? (I doubt that though)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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