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For example, Nuno Bettencourt used a Fender Vibrolux for most of the guitars on Waiting for the Punchline. Among other things, it had a microphonic valve in it; it finally died near the end of the recording, and after revalving it they could never reproduce any of those tones again.
'All Fender Twins' is not a sensible question really though, because there have been at least a dozen different amps called 'Fender Twin', some of which are quite similar and some of which are radically different from each other. It's a bit like saying that the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car of all time…
Even among apparently identical amps, there can be differences - generally the older and more hand-made the amp, the more this is likely to be true. Component tolerance variations and wiring 'dress' - how neatly the wires are laid out inside - can actually affect the tone quite noticeably.
Something like a modern digital modeller will only vary if the speakers are slightly different - which they can be, even of the same model.
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I think I will just go and try some out and see what I like best rather than buying off the internet...
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Probably not enough that you'd mistake it for a different speaker, but if you have a cab with more than one speaker then more than likely you'll be able to hear a difference between them.
So it stands to reason that two identically spec'd combos could sound different and that this difference could be down to the speaker.
I know for dead, bang certain they don't MEASURE the same! Even two identical models maybe just a few numbers apart can be a dB or two up or down at 100Hz or 5kHz.
Does this translate to audible differences? Yes, IF you have the facility to A/B them the HF difference can be spotted (need bloody good ears mind!) not so much at 100Hz. As IC said, this is down to component tolerances ("we" did not have a problem with lead dress, pretty consistent "looms" and in any case, signals tend to be moved about from low Z sources so capacitive shunting and coupling is minimal)
Guitar amps consist of several stages of "voicing" circuits. Each one gives attenuation/boost at various frequencies. Unless the response was "hand trimmed" for each unit they must vary a bit. But! The variations wrought by electronic component tolerance are as nothing compared to speaker inconsistences! Even in the hi fi industry it is VERY hard to keep pulp cones consistent batch to batch.
Dave.
It's quite common in the studio world for engineers to favour certainly channels on their desk for certain thins for exactly the same reasons. How far down the rabbit hole you want to go though is up to you.
In more modern electronics the tolerances are usually much tighter nut there will always be variation.
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we could then talk about different venues and voltage variance etc . In other words so many different factors
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/