![]() ![]() That does not mean they are bad products, just not the right ones for me. I don't like a whole pile of tube amps on the market for different reasons whether it's sound, feel, features, weight or some other things. Whether it's 1:1 to a tube amp is also completely irrelevant as long as you enjoy how it sounds/feels. If you don't enjoy it, get something else. If you wanted it to be more Fendery on the clean channel, plug it into a Fender style cab with Jensens etc. I use mine with a 4x10 with 10" Greenbacks and I'm sure part of that is why its tone works for me as they tend to be a smoother sounding speaker. I feel the Amp 1 is at its best with Greenback style speakers. What speakers you plug into it also matters like with any amp. The shared EQ will give you some limitations but generally a consistent sound between channels. It does do Marshall type tones extremely well to the point that I think any Marshall-derived amp can be found by tweaking the different channels and the shared EQ. ![]() It's not meant to be every amp out there. The manual is worth a read, you need to scroll quite a bit to get to the English version.ĭespite Thomas Blug demoing it against a lot of different amps, it's not a modeler. That's what lets you go from e.g a more old school Superlead sound to JCM800 and beyond on the Classic channel. Meanwhile the little fiddly side tone knobs for Clean, Classic and Modern channels blend between different preset tone stacks as I understand it. ![]() So if you are trying to set them like your favorite amp you are going to have a bad time. They're not interactive, they are not like a typical tone stack on most amps. It's a low and high shelf filter with a midrange control. The EQ on the Amp 1 is also distinctively different from most amps. Feels like a nice Superlead or JCM800 type amp to me and I don't find anything different in its response to volume knob, picking dynamics or pedals vs the tube amps I've had. It's not going to be saggy in the way some amps with tube rectifiers are nor is it as super tight as some high gain metal amps (though the more metal oriented Iridium Edition seems to be). To me the Amp 1 ME feels and responds very much like a nice Marshall style amp. The SS Class D poweramp then makes it loud. The way the BluGuitar works is that the subminiature tube in it is not there as a preamp gain stage or for making it loud, but purely to provide a tube amp response to it. Tube amps are not a singular thing either. I also suppose each of us will have different opinion about which amps that those "some" consist of.Ĭlick to expand.Spot on. Yeah, I suppose Amp1 doesn't sound as good as some tube amps, I also suppose it sounds better than some other tube amps. So hey, why don't you compare the Amp1 to Harley Benton Tube 5 or Epiphone Valve Junior and then tell does it still sound worse than a tube amp? Also, I haven't found much in common with "tube amp sound" of a Mesa Boogie Trirec with "tube amp sound" of a Vox AC10 or "tube amp sound" of a McIntosh MC50. I'm glad I don't have tin ears that make all tube amps sound the same to me. I'm also always marveling how folks treat tube amp sound" as some specific characteristic, which is familiar to everyone. Maybe you just don't hear or feel the tubeyness? This feature is even the one they keenly market. IIRC Blug was involved from the beginning.Ī local colleague once brought over his Amp1, and we compared it to my Marshalls, straight amp tone only, both AB'ed through the studio monitors.ĪFAIK, there is a genuine subminiature tube in the Amp1 power section as a component of tube power amp emulation, which's entire point is that the power section of that amp sounds like a tube power section of a tube amp. My comments are based on following (and owning) most of its ancestors, beginning with the 1st, blue (desktop) Tubeman. I don't own an Amp1, I'm a Marshall / amp guy myself.
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