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Originally Posted by mrlizard
When you're talking about clipping they do, you can get around 30% more gain out of the pre and power stages of a valve amp before it can be percieved as distortion, it'll add even order harmonics (arguably distortion) but an effect that is pleasing to the ear, wheras with solid state when its clipping its clipping, and its clipping hard! so less volume before it starts sounding shite.
The bass amp comparison is not a good one, i don't know much about bass amps but if i owned an SVT i would try and run it within it's linear operating level, so i wouldn't be hearing that extra percieved volume. A well designed valve amp can sound just as clean as a good solid state one.
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Fair enough
Im not arguing that a valve amp cant sound clean, they usually have a much better clean sound that SS amps, with bass amps tho, overdriving an SVT is just mwah
I know the difference between hard and soft clipping, and i recon it must be a guitar amp thing with the 30% extra, either way surely that'd just be transient peaks? i wouldnt think the OTs would be able to take that much extra strain, probably wrong tho.
You could use an amp head, but, you'd still need a cab, and amp heads tend to be more powerful, there will be some about im sure, but i think you'll be hard pushed to find a valve amp head lower than 30 watts