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Edit: with the caveat that I know I have no taste and my guitar recordings aren't very good
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But in general I use solid state clean amps because of what @thecolourbox says about a recorded sound at lower volumes - and I tend to use so many effects that I just need a good, straightforward clean tone with plenty of headroom. That, and other reasons such as maintenance, weight and cost for my current circumstances.
When the kids are grown up I'll probably get another nice valve amp for the tone and use it generally without much in the way of pedals.
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But there are artists who have based their sound around amps like the Roland Jazz Chorus - you'd get a lot more valve naysayers if this was a jazz or soukous guitar forum.
I think for the noises I make if my valve amps were destroyed in a house fire I would probably replace them with solid state. Indeed I'd be tempted by a Jazz Chorus because that does do a thing valve doesn't do as well and then try to find ways to make that 'valve like ' when I wanted it.
I've never actually owned a valve amp though. I've owned some cheapish solid state amps (Blackstar ID, Katana 50), and I've owned one expensive and bloody brilliant solid state amp (Blues Cube Artist) and never felt the need for anything else as I was happy with my sound. I live in a small 2 bed house with thin walls to my adjoining neighbours, so am conscious about making too much noise so always felt a decent valve amp would be pretty much unusable at home.
I now use an HX Stomp for both practice (95% of the time through headphones) and gigging with it through my FRFR and FoH.
So no, I don't 'dislike' valve amps (although I hated the Blues Junior I played through at a jam night once), I just have no need of or desire for one at the minute.
A moribund technology for an increasingly irrelevant instrument.
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My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
No one needs more throwback 60's music played on exact replicas of 50's/60's gear.
Edit: I really like Friends too, but I remember when it was first on so it's not nostalgia.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.