Solid State. Love it? Hate it?

What about the half breed amps out there ? My Orange Micro Terror is tube pre amp and solid state power side. i do enjoy the ease of solid state to just turn it on and go.
 
Solid state is still not good enough for all uses. It's great as a practice and recording solution but they are not up to snuff for band volume/gigging applications. Just my personal experience.
 
gball said:
Solid state is still not good enough for all uses. It's great as a practice and recording solution but they are not up to snuff for band volume/gigging applications. Just my personal experience.
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Why is that? I do not gig and do not have any experience in this regard.
 
Do I like solid state?

Sure, depending on the application.
 
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Title says nothing about v.s. this or that. Says ya love it or hate it. Guess ya best gather up your pitchfork and go get um! Haaa!:rolf:tmp_3273-Frank n axe-668320663.jpg
 
Compound bows are cool but I still like shooting the recurve too.
I you ask which one I like I would say both.
 
I don't hate solid state amps. There are some really cheap ones that I don't particularly like but that probably has more to do with their speakers than anything else. Some solid state amps have really bad drive channels but then so do some tube amps. I prefer tube amps but if I couldn't have a good tube amp, there are some really bad ones, there are many solid state amps I'd be very happy with. I have a Traynor DG60R solid state amp I used for the backline at local bar jam. I've heard many different guitars through it and I can honestly say this is a very nice amp, especially with strats. For bass amps I think I prefer solid state. They seem to get more punch.
 
lol yeah umma lil slo.
No I dont hate SS.
I have a broken Line6 spider iv 150w head I am attempting a repair for a friend.
Looking forward to playing around with it.
 
I used tube amps in the 70s and 80s. I don't play in a band anymore. I just use solid state now. I love SS. Plug and play all the way. Digital and solid state by choice! There ya have it.
 
I have Mustang I that is perfect for me. It is small enuff to fit next to the desk in my office and plug the USB in my computer. Audacity open in one window and Fender Fuse software open in another. However recently I have been able to enjoy my Silkyn tube amp with a few pedals. I like the fact that I can easily turn the pedals on and off when stacked without the need to take my hands off of my guitar. It's a bit more work to make adjustments with the fuse software. So there is a place in my home for both SS and tube powered. Now having room for all of my guitars in the office is another story.
 
 
RVA said:
Why is that? I do not gig and do not have any experience in this regard.
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Again, just my own personal experience, but I have not found a SS power section that can come close to the dynamic response of a good tube amp (a caveat is that there are a lot of crappy tube amps out there, in which case the SS is likely a better choice). Very powerful SS amps can reproduce the signal cleanly and often loudly but they lack the organic push into power tube/section distortion and compression that we find so pleasing, even when the amp is played "clean." When amp makers try to mimic this effect with a SS power section it never sounds or feels natural, it's always a kind of abrupt transition and the compression that makes the guitar feel easier to play isn't there. The best SS power section I have hard to date is the Orange Crush Pro amps, and they are getting closer, but still nowhere near a good tube amp.
 
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