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okay let me explain
i'm a fan of the new traynor stuff
(say the guitar tube combos from last few years)
i know these things last forever,
i've owned a few of them myself
but
generally speaking i find the old tube models are often muddy sounding to my ears
i know they are really luved by young cats who are into arty college rock stuff
and old timers who remember them fondly
i'm just missing something about the
'cult of late 60's/early 70's traynor' i guess
is it just a matter of crummy tubes or the speakers or what?
i am way of base here?
opinions please...
-example-
recently i played a 100 watt guitarmate (maybe a bassmate)
through it's cabinet (2 by 15),
not only was the volume totally unmanagable
but it was a giant wall of mud.
i put the head through a marshall (4 by 12) and it was still mudcity.
the amp was serviced/cleaned and retubed by amp's plus (in k.w.) recently
so it's all running sweetly on the tech side of things.
i just don't know y'all.
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i'll admit i've gotten into amps 30 watts and lower in the past little while,
so i maybe biased.
i'm a fan of the new traynor stuff
(say the guitar tube combos from last few years)
i know these things last forever,
i've owned a few of them myself
but
generally speaking i find the old tube models are often muddy sounding to my ears
i know they are really luved by young cats who are into arty college rock stuff
and old timers who remember them fondly
i'm just missing something about the
'cult of late 60's/early 70's traynor' i guess
is it just a matter of crummy tubes or the speakers or what?
i am way of base here?
opinions please...
-example-
recently i played a 100 watt guitarmate (maybe a bassmate)
through it's cabinet (2 by 15),
not only was the volume totally unmanagable
but it was a giant wall of mud.
i put the head through a marshall (4 by 12) and it was still mudcity.
the amp was serviced/cleaned and retubed by amp's plus (in k.w.) recently
so it's all running sweetly on the tech side of things.
i just don't know y'all.
______________________________________________________
i'll admit i've gotten into amps 30 watts and lower in the past little while,
so i maybe biased.