DIFFERENCE

[Dejan Sajinovic]

What´s the difference betwen tube amp and transistor amp and wich ones are better for hardrock/metal kind of music?

[Tele Master]

Tube is better for anything in my books. Crisper sound, longer lasting, once you buy one, you will never have to buy another amp.

[PonyOne]

Tubes all the way for anything. Tube distortion sounds much stronger, and the reverb is much more.... well, better. Plus you get more power out of a 15 watt tube amp than you do out of a 30 watt non-tube.

[Lordathestrings]

Dejan Sajinovic, I don't mind repeating something if a long time has passed since a question was asked, but seriously man, did you even bother to look at the list of threads? :mad:

Solid State vs. Tube (http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=5925) is not exactly ancient history!

[Dejan Sajinovic]

Ops, I saw it guy´s sorry. It´s just that I sack big time on gear stuff and didn´t even know what´s solid state until now.

PS. It seems like most of you agree that tube better, am I right?

[SLY]

Originally posted by Dejan Sajinovic
...didn´t even know what´s solid state until now.


Tube : Vacuum Tubes that was used for electronics pre-solid-state era, and for some applications (like guitar amps) they are still used till this day.
Solid State Transistor was discovered in early '50s, then the SS era began.

Solid state : Those black silicon chips you find on every electronic board nowadays (diodes, transistors , IC's , etc.) .
I think in most high schools , they teach few things about the PN junction semi-conductors and stuff like that in physics classes ... In case you familiar with that , these are the fundamentals of solid state technology.

For the Tube Vs SS amps thing , most people agree that tubes are better in terms of tone, but I guess you should limit your comparison to specific models and give your ears a chance, just to be more reasonable dude.

[PonyOne]

Originally posted by trendkillah
Originally posted by PonyOne
and the reverb is much more.... well, better.

What does the reverb have to do with the fact that an amp works on transistors or tubes? It's a completely seperate circuitry.

As for the original poster's question, there's an identical thread going on. ;)

Doesn't really matter that it's completely different circuitry. It sounds better because generally speaking tube amps sound better. I was also going to put flange, wah, etc etc in but didn't want to drone on.

Plus, most of the tube amps out there seem to have better reverb circuitry, inasmuch as they are better manufactured (except the Fender solid state reverb models which are speciafically designed to have tube-like reverb, among others) in the first place.

[canuck7]

what kind of stuff is reverb used for anyway? i've never really figured out the big deal.

[SLY]

Originally posted by canuck7
what kind of stuff is reverb used for anyway? i've never really figured out the big deal.

Mostly solos or clean stuff ... I don't usualy like reverb with heavy rhythms (MHO).