High power guitar amps are a dead issue
On Jan 29, 8:49*pm, "Phil Allison" wrote:
No one needs them anymo you mic a smaller amp.
** Shame how many of the are on sale and selling well.
* * 300 watt Ampeg SVTs are still popular with bass players.
No metal band runs
more than one or two of the array of Marshall stacks they like to have
** Still need some real ones to make that special noise and fill huge
stadiums.
But the reality is, the vast majority of Marshall stacks are sitting in the
bed rooms and garages of wannabes and near geriatric weekend warriors.
... * Phil
Bass players buy bigger amplifiers but bass needs bigger ones and the
amplifier per se is less a part of the "sound", they don't want power
distortion, so want larger amplifiers. Guitar players in rock want
power stage distortion, and to achieve it with big amps they need to
run them very loud. Too loud. So bass players can use headroom, which
is a defecit with guitar.
There are some types of guitar playing where they want clean, usually
they run solid state simply as it is cheaper per watt. Less
maintenance more durable etc.
50-100 watt amps sell very well. Bigger tube amps are rare except the
Ampeg SVT for bass. Stones and Southern boogie influenced/admiring/
imitating bassists buy 'em.
Aside from Dumble clones even the "boutique" builders are going with
6V6 or EL84 based amps more and more.
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