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From: "Barry B. Bean"
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 98 08:16:38 -0600
Subject: Re: Amps/mics

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:03:18, Rich Lyons wrote:

>My question is about amps. I see that vintage amps or the sonny Jr. or
>Sonny Jr. II are popular, some more so than others. With the cost of these,
>it would be very easy to buy a super clean power amp, latch it to a studio
>clean speaker, and use digital equipment for distortion and the like. This
>way, you could tweak the distortion and feature mixes any way you want for
>any song you want, and always have "perfect" sound. I am new to harps
>(starting to get pretty clean single notes, except the draw 4, which sounds
>horrible... is it a nightmare note, or am I doing something wrong?) but
>know sound equipment pretty well. Has anyone tried this approach, and what
>were the results.

It has been tried, and there are players that do it. However, 20+
years of experience with all sorts of rigs and studio efects have
shown me that there's no escaping the difference between solid state
and tube amplification. Of course, if you're playing chromatic with a
bebop combo, you won't want that fat tube distortion. But for blues,
rock, and some country players, tubes and certain circuit
arrangements are simply the only way to go.

BBB
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