[Music] Hi everyone, I’m Joe Fry and this is my channel Jojo Fry Rocks. And in this special two-part video, I’m going to be doing a deep dive into guitar amps because even though I’ve been playing electric guitar for over 30 years now, I’ve actually only ever owned three amps in total over that time. One was my practice amp which came with my Squire guitar. It was just a little solid state Fender practice amp, probably about 15 watts or something. Can’t remember. Uh then I had my Line 6 Spider 210 um which you can see in in this video. um still really fun and still works but um not really the best kind of amp that’s available now certainly. So last year I upgraded to a Boss Katana 50W combo amp digital modeling amp. So that’s it. my entire history of using guitar amps and I feel like this is something that I really need to look into more and get more knowledge about. And so I decided to ask some of my brilliant friends on guitar YouTube um a couple of key questions I think. Excuse me. I’d like to ask you a few questions which is what’s your favorite amp and why? difficult one, I know, but I got some awesome answers. And what tips or advice would you give someone who was maybe a beginner buying their first amp or maybe like me, not that knowledgeable and buying a new amp? What are the kind of things to bear in mind and look for? So, I got some brilliant, super interesting and helpful answers from Steve Cassidy, the lamb, John Oakley, Andy the guitar geek, and Brian from Searching for Tone. And then I decided to um quiz my friend Andy Mack from Guitar Stuff Studio, pick his brain for hours on end about everything that I’ve ever wanted to know about guitar amps. So, it was quite a long chat, which is why I’ve decided to break it up into two videos. So, I hope you’ll enjoy this first part and find it as entertaining and interesting as I did to make. and I’ll see you on part two. Hey Joe. So, my favorite amp currently actually at the moment is my Fender Princeton uh reverb that I got from uh Sweetwater and I’ve had so many amps over the years and I feel like that I always kind of like to have just a pedal platform and the Fender to me always does does a great job of it. So, something low wattage because I use it mainly here. I’m not a a gigging person. Hello. So, what’s my favorite amp? Good question. I don’t think I have a favorite amp, but if I was forced to choose, which I think is the scenario here, isn’t it? We’re being forced to choose favorite amps. Um, I would probably have to go with the Fender Mustang 3 version two, which is the second generation of the Fender Mustang amps. I’ve got one from every generation, so Gen One, Gen 2, GT, and GTX. And for me, that one just sounds the best. I don’t know what else is about it. It just sounds better than all the rest. Anyway, um what I like about it, it’s got a 12-in speaker. I’m looking at it right now. It’s lightweight. It’s just about loud enough for small gigs. And if you needed to do bigger gigs, you’ve got right and left XLR outs. So, you can go to front house or whatever you like. Um, we’ve got a we cheeky ground lift in there if you were needing that. It’s got an effects loop, which I would never use because I think the built-in effects and amp models are good enough for me. I’m not like super fussy with tone. You’ve got presets and amp models, and they all sound I think they sound good. What else have we got going on here? Oh, yeah. You can uh use a four button foot switch and the two button foot switch combined, which gives you a lot of versatility in your feet. And you can also connect the Fender EXP1 expression pedal. So you can use that for W volumes, whatever you like. Loads of options. So yeah, it’s super versatile and it even sounds good at low volumes at home, which is good. But I don’t even gig the amp anymore. These days I’m gigging one of these. I’m using my Line 6 HX Stomp XL for gigging, which again gives me a lot of stuff at my feet. That’s what I prefer. Hashampless 2025. Hello Joe. Hello Joe’s viewers. I’m Andy and you might know me on YouTube as the guitar geek if the we’re watching this on YouTube. Right. My favorite amp is this the Fender Deluxe Reverb. This I picked up used quite a few years ago now or it feels like a long time. Um this I kind of feel like we’re almost partners me in this amp because it’s my benchmark. Everything I play with generally on the channel goes through that at some point in a video or at some point in my personal time because I know what that amp sounds like. And I think that’s a big part to having a favorite amp is or any piece of gear or generally things in life is knowing how it will deliver its sound. I know how it will perform when you change everything else like the guitar that I’m reviewing or the pedal or the cab. Generally speaking, if I make a video, everything goes through that at some point. Um, yeah, it’s it’s got a great inbuilt reverb. There’s a tank in there. It’s Fender uh Fender Reverb. The tremolo in there is not my favorite because of the clickiness. It it ticks. And I think there’s a mod for that. Or if you get the handwired version, then it doesn’t do that. Mine does, which is why I don’t tend to use it. But apart from that, um, that’s my sort of ride or die. I do also have another kind of favorite, and that’s down here. That is a Boss Katana. Uh, they’re on generation three now. But if I had to turn up to a show, and I didn’t know any amp in the world, and I didn’t want to know if I could rely on tubes, then this would be my second choice. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hey Jojo and Jojo fans, thanks for asking me to be in uh a part of this little amp 101 thing that you’re doing. Uh my favorite amp, it’s the only one I’ve got. I got a Boss Katana MK2 100 watt. Um, I’ve had all sorts of amps over the years and things like that, but I’m I’m not in a a band or anything as such. Um, but I get called to do various things and this is like the cheapest way to get the most versatile thing you can. Um, I just had a look on eBay. You can get these for 250 quid used and uh they’re fantastic. Get the 100 watt one if you’re going to get one. Um, the top tip buying an amp. I did this once. I got persuaded by the beautiful tones um of an Ashdown 20 watt pure class A driven valve amplifier. Uh and what happens is you go in the shop and you play into oh it sounds glorious valvy goodness etc etc and I remember taking it to a jam night quite a good one uh in Swansea and sticking it next to the drummer and everyone fires up and the drummer fires up and you can’t hear the amp. 20 watts pure class A was not loud enough to overcome the drummer. So, top tip, don’t embarrass yourself like I did to go over the tail between my legs. Buy something that’s loud enough. But the 100 watt ones of these are great. Uh, the other thing is that when you plug it in, I mean, you got all the software on it. I know some people aren’t into fiddling. It’s quite accessible from the top, but you got like this as well. Um, the katana boss, whatchamacallit. Uh, what I’m saying is for 250 quid, you get 100 watt amp and the equivalent of like a I don’t like a GT 100 floor pedal. All the effects you could want to play with. It sounds pretty good, right? Well, you hear the demo. Here’s a more distorted one. See what you think. Thanks, Joe. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay, welcome back you beautiful people. Hope you’re having a great day and thanks very much for joining me. Now, today Jojo Fry Rocks has asked me to talk to you about amps. Where do we start? This is massive this question. What’s the best amp? What’s my favorite? What’s recommended for you? What should you buy? How can you answer that? You know, I mean, I’ve had my valve amps, my transistor amps, I’ve had modeling amps, big and small, all sizes, all shapes, stacks, you know. Now, if you know Paul Riches from My House Studios, he’s got a very small one, a very little one. Poor old Mrs. Richards. But anyway, getting back to these amps now. I personally have actually just gone to the dark side in the last few months. If you only knew the power of the dark side. Because these amps, I’m getting old. I’m getting old. We’re all getting so old. Why are you doing this to us? You know, I can’t carry around these bloody great things anymore. So, I actually moved on to digital modelers. So, I’m going to tell you all about that after this urgent warning message. Okay? I just need to warn you that in case there’s a little Scottish bloke called Steve Cassidy turn up on this video, ignore everything he says because the man, he wears skirts to weddings. What’s that all about? All right, you can’t trust a man in a skirt. So, yeah, even though he’s a lovely bloke and he’s a superb YouTuber, ignore everything he says. All right, it’s who wears skirts, honestly. Okay, so for me, this is the future, the Fender Tone Master Pro. I think this thing is phenomenal. The simplicity of use, the sounds that they get out of it, and the support they’re giving it as well. It’s been out for about a year and a bit now, and the amount of updates we’ve been given for this, which not just bug fixes and improvements in sound quality, but actually extra features, and they’re all free, and they just keep making it better and better and better. This thing is phenomenal. the connectivity on it, the the screen, the responsiveness of it, the sound, the feel, it’s just brilliant. You can Bluetooth audio stream your back and tracks through it. You know, you can connect your tablet, your PC, your Mac, your phone, all wirelessly straight to this with their own apps. And the apps are phenomenal. Okay, it’s all drag and drop and it’s all on screen. And it just it feels and looks like a real amp in front of you. And the real pedals, the screen has all the knobs. It just looks real. So you know exactly how to use it cuz you’ve already used amps in the past and you’ve used your pedals in the past. This thing is unbelievable. Now hopefully they’re going to bring out a smaller version as well cuz this is a beast which I love but I also like a smaller one sometimes when I’m just doing little pot and you know if you travel like a travel one so that’s where this one comes in. Okay so when you want something a bit a little bit more portable I reckon the Tonex is where it’s at. This thing is phenomenal. It’s had some major updates recently. It’s got a full editing suite on your Mac or PC. Okay. Now, it’s also got the ability to download any amp that’s ever been captured by the Tonex system. Okay. So, you can have Dumbles on air for free. You don’t have to pay a penny. They’re all downloadable, but you can also get paid ones as well if you want some pro ones. Um, but to be fair, many of the actual free ones are phenomenal. They sound just like the real thing. They feel like the real thing. And now you can even put reverbs and delays, distortion pedals, the choruses and so on in the signal chain within the editor. So it’s all saved per patch. This is ridiculous for 300 odd quid, you know. And also another one to consider, real great one. We’ve just had a massive update for the Nano Cortex. So Nano S2 has just been released in the last couple of weeks. Now that’s added all the same facilities as this, but with many, many more options on the actual effects. There’s a lot more effects than this. So, that’s a great option, too. So, for me, I would get a Nano Cortex or a TonX pedal if you’re on a budget. Or if you want to spend some big cash, get the Fender Tone Master Pro and you’ll be sorted for life. I hope that helps. Thanks very much for watching. Back to Jojo Fry. Morning, Andy. Thanks a lot for agreeing to come on the channel and uh give me a bit of a a overview today about amps because you didn’t give me much choice but I’m happy to be here. Um but I do appreciate it anyway and uh yeah cuz you’re probably the most knowledgeable person that I know really about all of this stuff. Um it’s something that I feel I’m I’m really kind of missing. There’s like a big gap in my knowledge about this because I’ve never really been that into it. I just when I started out, I just had a practice amp, a Fender practice amp that came with my Squire guitar and I just used that until I started uh gigging and playing in bands. Um, and when that happened, I just went out and bought a bigger, louder amp, but it was it was a digital modeling amp. It was a line six. And that was only the second amp that I’d ever had. And I had that until last year when I bought my katana. So that’s my entire history and experience and knowledge with amps. So I really don’t know anything about tube amps. I really don’t know anything about what different types of amps are available. I broadly know that there’s tube amps and digital amps or solid state. Solid state, but I’m not even I’m not even entirely convinced that I know what that means. So, okay. So, we’re really going to have to do a amps 101 here. I think amps are one of those things that unless um I don’t know I suppose a lot of people’s amp knowledge is based out of necessity. You know if you are rehearsing regularly playing live shows um you know it kind of depends what you’re going for and what kind of sound you want. So, I would say like if you were like a blues purist, you know, if you’re a Stevie Ray Vaughn uh lover or something like that, then you you know, you’d want a a a good old tube amp, something nice and warm that you can drive. We we’ll we’ll we’ll we’ll we’ll go into that. Um. Mhm. But these days, especially with like plugins, um, pedals and everything, if you’re just playing at home and you just want something for the sound of your guitar to come out, then it doesn’t really make that much difference. Um, I suppose I first started getting interested in amps in my early 20s. Um, and I I was I I was obsessed with Andy Summers out of the place. Oh, of course. Yeah. Not in a weird way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not at all. As a guitar player. Yeah. He’s a genius. Yeah. Yeah. He’s he’s a genius. And I was like, I want to sound like Andy Summers. And um you know, the the the Roland Jazz Chorus was one of his uh one of his, you know, go-to amps. And I was like, "Yeah, I need to get one of those." And I I only got the small one to start with. And that’s a that’s a tube amp, is it? No, it’s solid state. Solid state, right? Okay. But not digital cuz obviously that was that was back in the Yeah, digital digital amps have only been around um as we know them now for maybe 25 30 years. So they’re still quite a new thing. Um Mhm. So, so what’s so what’s kind of solid state as opposed to Right. Okay. Well, the original amps, I mean, back in the 60s, um, you know, when guitar bands started getting big, like guitar amplifiers weren’t really that much of a thing. Um, you know, the bands used to play through their old radios and stuff and then guitar companies started coming out with amps that all, you know, the both guitarists, the basist and the singer could all just plug into the same amp and use that. Um, you know, loudness that loudness and clarity wasn’t really a consideration. Um and then obviously um you know the guitar companies got wise to the fact that guitarists wanted their own amps. So you know they started making amps specifically for guitarists and then you know um ones that concentrate on the lower end frequencies you know for bass players and stuff cuz the basis were just wrecking guitar amps and stuff. Um and back back in those days everything was tube driven. Um radios, televisions, guitar amps. Yeah. Everything was, wasn’t it? Cuz that was that was kind of the main that that was that was technology. Um and then obviously um the solid state stuff was when people started using transistors as opposed to using tubes in the amps. Okay. I don’t think I know what transistors are. Right. Trans transistors are basically um they were the microchip of the 60s. Yeah. I mean you remember like people um I nearly said something really mean like old people had the really big radios in their um front rooms and like the radio was the centerpiece of the living room and they they were full of tubes and stuff and then once the transistor was invented then you started getting you know the small radios the transistor radios. Okay. So, basically a transistor is like a a silicon carbon chip thing that will do what a tube does. Okay. So, so how come one of the questions that I have really I suppose is like how come because you know most of the time in technology when like a new technology is invented everything moves over to that and we don’t use the old one anymore. So like when you know think if you think about televisions and stuff like that um you know once we went to like LCD flat screens and everything you know you don’t have big massive cathode ray TVs anymore tubes you don’t get you know we we don’t use those we we all got rid of those and we’ve all moved on but it kind of seems like okay there was this development into solid state using transistors and stuff but yet tube um still carried on. Well, a lot of guitar players um and a lot to this day still prefer the sound of a tube amp. So, the thing is with tubes is like you’ve seen them. They’re basically like little light bulbs. Um when you turn the amp on, it’s quite satisfying hearing the tubes warm up. If you tune it, if you turn a tube amp on and you’re plugged into it, you’ve got to wait a few, you know, a good minute or so before you can play through it because the tubes need to get warm to pass that current around and everything. And the thing is, um, I mean, take the the the Ibanz pedal, the tube screamer. Yeah. The the the whole thing behind a tube screamer pedal is that is mimicking the sound of the tubes being turned right up and pushed, which causes the signal to then be start breaking up and become distorted. So, with a tube amp, when you’re driving it and heating the tubes right up, you’re kind of getting a a a natural distortion. Okay? So, that you are overdriv the tubes. You are driving the tubes harder, which makes you have the And some people just prefer that to, you know, the sound of a distortion ped. That’s why you’ve got the difference between the overdrive pedal and the distortion pedal. Okay, I see. So the overdrive is literally quite literally that mimicking overdriven tubes whereas a distortion pedal is a straight up distorted signal. Okay. And the I guess the whole the whole reason we have that or we want that is because of the because of the original tube amps and the way that they you know they kind of were pushed originally just by the gain um in terms of the guitar pickups. We’re we’re both huge Beatles fans. Um and and we know that, you know, Vox started making bigger and bigger and bigger amps for the Beatles because they just could not be heard, you know, over a stadium full of screaming. Yeah. So, um but obviously when they had the smaller amps, they were having to turn them right up. And obviously when you’re turning those amps right up, they’re going to distort because the tubes are hot. So um and obviously but they liked that you know that sort of musicians at that time sort of grew to u like that sound I guess incorporate it in their music. Yeah. Because then you started getting pedals like the uh the fuzz bender and the fud fud fuzz face and stuff like that you know to mimic um an an overdriven sound right. Um but obviously and obviously Hrix um comes to mind as one of the you know artists that made sort of loud distorted type guitar sounds really Yeah. Hendrickx was a Marshall guy. Hrix liked his Marshalls, but that’s again, I mean, you look at all the big amps of the 80s. It was the uh the the the Marshall JCMS and Super Leads that big fat tube amps and but they have the um the rectifier tubes in them which will make it start breaking up without having to push the tubes too hard. Okay. What’s What’s a rectifier? What does that It’s It’s a different kind of tube. So that’s still a tube amp. It’s still a tube amp, but the rectifier is a different kind of tube which instead of So if you imagine, say for the sake of argument, you’ve got three tubes. Mhm. Um and you have to really drive it to get those tubes to heat up. If you put a rectifier tube in front of it, it’ll drive those tubes without you having to put your amp up too loud. So you get Right. So you get the the nice sort of distorted sound that you want, but you’re not having to Now this is this is the difference between gain and volume. Yeah, cuz there’s that whole thing as well, right? But gain I think I understand. So I think I get that gain is um the signal coming from the guitar. You’re the the the the whole if you imagine with the gain is you’re heating the tubes up even further. You’re pushing the tubes with the gain. that is to give you the distortion and then you’ve got your volume on top of that. Unfortunately, part of gain does make things louder. So, it’s like the meme gain and distort uh gain and volume are not the same. No, no, they’re not the same thing. Um because you can Well, certainly on modern amps anyway, you can keep the volume relatively low. Yeah, of course. I mean, you’ve got um my Blackar HT5, I could just have that cranked down to one watt and still get a nice distorted sound out of it. Um, and that was that was super quiet. So, how how does that work then with a solid state amp with transistors? Because obviously you’re not then you don’t push it in the same way. It’s all done with microchips and everything. Um, it’s a it’s it’s a digital version of a tube amp. Mhm. Um, you know, the the the way you have the circuit set up is to mimic a is to mimic the tubes. um except you’re doing it with tiny little transistors now, which is why a lot of, you know, solid state amps um don’t take up the you know, don’t have the same footprint as a uh and not as heavy, of course. And not as heavy. No. Um the I think one of the big drawbacks with tube amps has always been for me. Um I I am not a tube amp guy. I’ve got a few tube amps. Um, I was going to say I thought you you had some some orange tube amps at least. Yeah, I’ve got orange and black star tube amps. Um, they would never leave the house though because number one, they’re heavy. Number two, you always stand, you know, you always run the risk of damage to the tubes. I mean, they’re basically full of light bulbs. Um, yeah, it’s actual like glass and stuff, isn’t it? Yeah. that I mean obviously they can take a fair bit of um bumping and dropping and everything but I you know it’s it’s it’s not ideal um but for the kind of stuff I play I I I prefer a very digital crunchy sound um the majority of the time. Um that’s the thing with amps these days as well though especially with like profilers and pedals. I mean I can plug my tone X into anything and dial it in and get a sound that I want irrespective of the Yeah, sure. I mean there Yeah, you can you can do anything now with things like that and with software. I mean that’s that’s I mean that’s me playing at home and not you know murdering the neighbors or anything. It’s um you know I can plug pretty much into anything and I mean with a bit of tweaking I can get a sound that I like working with. Um but let’s let’s say like let’s pretend that we don’t have any um sort of modelers or or software or anything like that. So if you were just sort of thinking about different types of amps, um what what is kind of really the difference in terms of the sound if you’re plugging a guitar straight into an amp and playing live? um say like the difference between having you know a tube amp of any kind and something like the the Roland jazz chorus then like what what would the main like characteristic differences be? Oh the thing with the jazz chorus is is a very I don’t know for me the jazz chorus has got a very very very specific um kind of sound to it. Um, see this is the thing, right? Like I this is the thing that sort of I suppose I’ve never I I’ve never really understood how how does an amp have a sound of its own. Okay. Uh, take uh I mean obviously the police. Okay. That that’s a very specific guitar sound. Yes. Um, that’s that that that sound comes primarily from a a jazz chorus with an electric a deluxe electric mistress pedal going into it. That’s that’s Andy Summers’s sound for for for my ears anyway. Um, if you listen to um what’s that song by Metallica? Nothing Else Matters. Uh, pretty much everybody knows that song. That’s a jazz chorus. Oh, really? That is Yeah. James Hetfield’s a jazz jazz chorus guy. Uh where’s Balland out of um Limp Biscuit? Jazz Choruses. Um See, I I would have thought that surprised me because I I would have just assumed that like cuz again I don’t know a lot about amps and I would have assumed that Metallica were probably using Mar. They they use other stuff and I’m I’m sure they do, but I would have thought like all the new metal bands used Messabooi. Um I a lot of the new metal bands used digital Marshalls. Okay. Um because number one, they’re a lot cheaper than the tube amps. Uh number two, they’re very replaceable. you know, you can you at the time you could basically walk into any music shop and pick up one of these heads and you’re ready to go. But, you know, when you’re using like Marshall, I mean, it’s like Angus Young and all these guys. Um, you know, they they’ve got people that just go around looking for vintage amps so that they can Ingue Malmstein, you know, with a whole wall of Marshalls behind them and stuff. Um, and you know, the the I don’t know how much truth there is in it. People always say, you know, the the old stuff is better. Um, but yeah, for a lot of the crunchy new metal bands and stuff like that, they they were just using MG series Marshall straight out of the the shop cuz if anything went wrong, they could they could just go and pick one up and they’re they’re good to go. And again, I like I love that digital crunchy Marshall sound which is um I’ve probably got way too many MG heads. And this is this another actually this takes me on to another question um because I know obviously you can get you know there are a couple of different ways of approaching amps. You can either have, you know, a head and a cab or you can have a combo amp. And I don’t really understand what what are the pros and cons. I mean, to me, it just seems like why why don’t you just use combo amps? Because that just seems like probably the easiest, cheapest, most practical thing. Have you ever heard the saying moving air? When you’re on stage, you’re moving air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. about the vibration from if if you’re standing in front of a full Marshall stack and you’ve got that thing cranked. I mean, you can really feel it. Um, and so you’re talking you’re talking about having a a Marshall head and a couple of cabs of speakers. Yeah. A flat and a wedge and then a a head. Um, yeah. If you’re standing in front of that plate, you you really really really know about it. Um my uh like I said I like using orange stuff. I always used to use orange stuff when I played live and even even with a half stack. I mean you can shift some air with that thing. And so what what’s a what what do you mean by a half stack? What what sort of cab would that be then? Like a like just a a 4×12 and a head. Right. Um that’s that’s generally considered a half stack is one 4×12. A full stack is two 4x12s. Um, these days because I’m old now, I usually use 2 by 12s. Um, but that I mean that’s that’s more than big enough for I mean at home. Yeah. No, I’ve I’ve played like hund you know 100 100 seater venues with a um a Roland um what’s the smallest one I used? I think I think it was a 30 W um Roland cube. Um, that was a brilliant amp. Amazing amps. Roland Cubes are digital modelers. And for me, um, like I just used to take like a 15 watt one to rehearsals and, um, you know, it’s more than like, you know, I’d never had have it be on three or four on the thing and that would compete with the drum kit. Um, and is that’s a combo amp though, isn’t it? The cube. Yeah. Yeah. The little the Roland cubes are fantastic. Um, I think they were kind of like the predecessors to the Bos Katanas. I was going to say I think that was the forerunner, wasn’t it, of Katana? Um, I might be They’re probably made in the same damn factory. It’s Roland and Boss, isn’t it? Yeah, it’s the same. Like say I’m not a Katana guy. I’ve never tried a Katana. I’ve seen no end of videos about them. I’m sure I would like them cuz I like Boss stuff. Um, I know. I think it is probably if you’re familiar with the cube then I think you would you would be sort of instantly familiar with it. It’s it’s literally like having you know a little pedal board and everything all in one handy little cube. Yeah. Where I think they got the name from. Um, like in terms of the digital stuff, I mean, I I just think boss are way way ahead of pretty much everyone apart from the if you’re talking about moders and things in terms of like the helix that that’s incredible. Um, but just amps wise, you know. Yeah. Um, I if you think about how much stuff they can get into an amp now is it is mindblowing. Um, I had a Vox Valronics amp. I think I had a 50 watt one. I mean, I’m going back like 15 years or something like that. And that amp was fantastic. It was um it honestly it was great. It was what I what I was trying to look for from an amp is something that’s warm sounding. Like it’s it’s got a bit of warmth to it and it’s it’s really hard to put into words. Um, but it’s like, yeah, I like this amp because it’s warm. Um, but I mean, I love ‘ 70s music. I love Prague and all that. Um, and I love trying to emulate those sounds. And I find for those sounds, an orange amp can’t be beat. Orange amps have got a really special place. And they look so cool as well. They do look cool. They they absolutely do. And they have got that 70s vibe. Um, like you say, kind of warmth is something that people talk about a lot in terms of I think I think as well with amps though, it’s a real personal thing. I mean, I can sit here and say, you know, explain for two hours why I think orange amps are the best things since sliced bread. And then somebody else will be like, "No, I I like Maboogies." Or, "No, I like Marshalls." Or, "Oh, no, I’ll only play through a Vox AC30." It’s it’s a it’s a personal thing. Um, and it’s each to their own. It depends what you want from an amp. Um, so let’s say I mean there’s pros and cons obviously to to all of the different types of amps. Um, so like what what would you say are like some of the things that you could get from from tube amps that you can’t necessarily get from solid state or modeling amps. Do you think a lot I’m probably going to get a lot a lot of hate for this. Done with this sort of thing. Careful now. Well, you know, people will have different opinions and and that’s fine, but I’ i’d like I don’t think there’s anything that you can get from a tube amp that you can’t get from modeling these days. Um, not even that like break that sort of everyone always talks about this, but edge of breakup kind of. I know, but what what is an amp modeler? It’s, you know, it’s modeling, you know, it’s capturing the I you’ve seen how they work. They capture the sound of an amp and then replicate it. Um, I don’t a lot of purists prefer tube amps, and I kind of get why in in the same way that I prefer orange amps. Um, but I I just like the sound of an orange amp. Um, so there must be something about that sound that you don’t think you can get out of the Roland Q or something. Not necessarily. Um, I think it’s a lot easier to get the sound that I want with an orange amp than to sit there fiddling about and trying to dial stuff. I mean, obviously, okay, an amp that I’ve paid £2,000 for is going to sound better than an amp that I paid 80 quid for. Um, it’s, you know, it’s just the way of the world. Um, but then you’ve got to take your speakers into consideration. You know what? It’s Yes. And and I do watch so you know, uh, Spectre uh, Sound Studios, Glen Fricker, you know, I’m a big fan of of his channel. It’s very, very funny. And um I just like him and I like I like the way he explains things. Um and he to be honest, you should have got Glenn on instead of me. That that would have made a much better video. I’ll just ring my mate Glenn like Well, you’ve asked everybody else and they’ve come on. No, I know that that is true actually. They And thanks everyone for for doing that. You don’t get if you don’t ask Joe. True true. Well, this level of stupid is honestly kind of inspiring. I didn’t think it was possible to be this wrong and still operate a keyboard. He always goes on about the speakers. How your your guitar sound in his opinion is all about the speaker in your amp. Um, yeah. I mean, I was never Yeah, we were talking about guitar sound. I mean, you can’t just say that your guitar sound comes from your speakers or that it comes from your tone wood. Definitely not tonewood. Definitely not. Um, but speaker seems to be or Glenn seems to say that that is probably the most important thing. I don’t know if if you if your speaker suck then yeah, you go and and all right. So, how do I know? So, let’s say if I was going out tomorrow and I want to buy a new amp. Um, how do I know whether or not the speakers suck? Celestian is pretty much a good benchmark. I mean, some of them go for like seriously, you know, like some of the vintage ones go for seriously silly money. I I saw somebody selling a pair that were out of an old Marshall cab from the 60s. Um, they wanted £500 just for the the two speakers. It was it was crazy. There’s cobwebs and everything on them as well. Um, it just comes down to personal taste. It’s like who are you and what do you like playing [Music]
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