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please give suggestions for tube amps if that’s what you say

Mesa boogie triple rectifier all the way just add on overdrive pedal and you can get some serouse distortion that can still usable for sweeping, and dosnt overwelm with massive feedback

im 14 years old and im really good at guitar but i don’t have the money to buy a nice tube stack or something and all the pedals and effects ive been looking at say they only go good with tube amps so i need some good advise on what i should do =/

coming from someone who has been playing over 30 years and plays shows almost every weekend i’ll give you a little inside information on what goes into good sound……

first, good sound isn’t a crate amp….those things are poor quality at best and worthless any other time but since you have one you just have to work with it.

your lack of a good sound is coming from the small speaker in the amp and the low wattage. i haven’t seen one of those small crates in awhile but i’m willing to bet it’s a 8" or maybe 10" speaker? ….with only 15 watts trying to drive it? there’s your problem.

good sound quality comes from wattage and from speaker size compatible with the wattage of the amp….having said that, you don’t have to go far above 15 watts to get good sound, but at 15 watts you have to drive that speaker too hard to get any good volume out of it, which is going to distort the sound and not in a good way. if you get a 3o-50 watt amp it will last you for many many many years

can’t say i’ve seen any effects either that are ‘only good with tube amps’? that sounds like a load of BS to me…..most pedal and/or effects units will play equally well with tube or solid state amps……i have among my many amps, a tube fender, a tube peavey, a solid state marshall and a solid state crown and i mix and match effects pedals, rack units and floor pedal combos with all of them with no ill effects…….

you will find that a ‘tube stack’ is a waste of money unless you are playing at the level i am in clubs with 200 or more people and you need to project the sound through a crowded bar…to play in your bedroom with one of those things is just overkill…..i played with 2 -100 watt marshall stacks when i first started and it was too much of a good thing lol…..

I have a cube -30 guitar amp. I wish to record guitar directly into computer. The recording plug option on the Cube-30 to the computer mike jack produces too much background noise. What hardware software is required? What are your thoughts.

Your going to get quite a bit of background noise if you not going to use a mic.

There is several things though that you can do. Try just moving everything to the kitchen. Everything there is grounded properly and will most likely cut hum down quite a bit.

If your using a pedal just direct the pedal into the computer and bipass the amp all together. Digital pedals like Digitech or Line6 work very very well. They have noise gate built into them. You can find a decent one used for $40.

yes

I mean, I do know acoustic electric can sound without amps.
but do i have to use amp to get the preamp effects?
and do all the acoutic electric guitars have output jack?

oh, and tapping acoutic electric guitar requires amp, right? i have an acoustic guitar, and i tried tapping ,and it doesn’t sound at all…

Yes, you do.

and how do they sound different?

Watts are watts, but it comes down to headroom. Solid state amps are clean to a certain point, but once they get pushed closer to their limit they clip and break up. tube amps are slower in this process and can use every ounce of wattage that they have. A 100 watt solid state may start to break up at 80 watt, while a tube head may be able to use all 95 to 100 watts of it’s power. Plus the quality of your cab makes a difference in this area as well. Poor quality wood or your choice in speakers plays a role in how clean the sound is coming from your amp, giving the illusion that the amp is not as loud. It may be that the cab cannot handle what the amp can deliver.

As for the warmth of an amp, that’s up to your ear. What’s warm sounding to you, may not be to others. I have a 100 watt Krank tube head. I can make it cut or I can make it warm sounding, just depends how I push it and what sound I’m looking for. You may think it all sound warm. Just depends on the player and the ear.

I am looking for a free guitar effects processor for the computer that will make your electric guitar sound distorted when you hook it up via the mic port. I am a musician and need one for recording purposes since It is a bad idea to distort your guitar through the amp then to the computer because that is bad news there. If anyone has any suggestions please anything will do but IT has to be free. NO demos and trials. Freeware is more like it. Thanks

ProTools. Get out your check book.

Just as simple as the the subject says. I want to know how to plug my guitar amplifier into my computer so the audio plays out of the amp.

You cannot use the speaker out of your amplifier to go into your sound card.
This amount of amplification will ruin your soundcard, Your sound card was designed to only have line level input, if your guitar amp has a line out then you can use that to go to the soundcard, but do not make a connection from the speaker out to the soundcard.

Two speakers cam with this. 125 watts ea. I bought an additional two speakers that have an output of 300 watts ea. Will my amplifier support these two speakers? Is there a mathamatical equation that I can use for this and what is it? I need to figure these questions out on my own using this equation if there is one. Will my system support these two additional 300 watt speakers/

first of all, did you mean an output of 250 amps or 250 watts…there’s a big difference. second of all, assuming you meant watts, it shouldn’t matter. speaker wattage ratings are for max power, meaning that the new speakers could handle 300 watts maximum before the get overpowered. the fact that your amp would only send 250 is probably a good thing, you shouldn’t have to worry about blowing the speakers. it shouldn’t really effect the sound. i have had one experience with the fender system where we had too many instruments running into it and i think we overloaded it. it kinda cut the volume of everything and sounded pretty crappy, so make sure you keep it away from the max power rating.

hope this helps.

Just wondering i was offered one today. I have a power acoustic sub 1800 wtts it work really good. So i was wondering if the amps are good also. What do you think about power acoustic electronics in general?

They are respectable. My bro has 2 power acoustic subs (12’s) and they were really nice, but the amp he was using toasted one of them (too much wattage). Power Acoustic may not be the #1 brand in electronics but i have always had good luck with it and it has never let me down. I have a different system now and i wish i hadn’t sold my power acoustic system.
Hope this helps some.