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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
If you have a narrow view of what sounds great, you might not think the sound is great and therefore the amp is not great, but you would be wrong.
Just as long as it isn't digital.
It’s not that the amps would sound worse or better, I just wouldn’t have appreciated them or had a use for them…
I had a Matchless HC30 on tour in 2005/2006 and it was godly- it was the sound I heard in my head.
Before that I had heard Jeff Martin from Canadian band The Tea Party live and he was playing a pair of Matchless Chieftain's
which was also an amazing tone.
I then spent the next 18 years looking for that tone in the wrong place until I got my recent amps.
Why I did not just buy the right thing way back when I don't know?
Maybe the cost or the huge volume?
Or just their scarcity.
Now I've got them I don't want to play, or really own, anything else.
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I have watched audiences wince at the sort of 'tones' some guitarists seem to think are great - usually a cranked small amp that's too loud, too trebly, and too beamy - but not always...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
That sound does not work at all for me, and I am a big Neil Young fan so you would think it would.
Even more strangely I love the Victoria 5112, which is not a million miles away in some ways. (But I wouldn’t put a Blue in one.)
YMMV and all that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There's something that really grates on me with 5E3s, and the Blue makes it worse. I can never get a sound that isn't muddy or harsh somehow, and I've spent ages tinkering with both channels and the tone control... they just do not work for me.
And it does have to be said that one of the usual culprits for bad live tone that causes a 'parting of the red sea' effect in the audience is exactly that sort of cranked small amp pointing straight out into the room. Though I admit it doesn't clear the entire venue in the same way as a 100W stack turned up too far .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein