Members NinjaRaf Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Imagine the reliability of those things if they do sound like tubes. Also, you wont have to buy tubes nearly as frequently....they could potentially last as long as your amp. So many benefits. No glass lol. Id be down to try some out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NinjaRaf Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Imagine the reliability of those things if they do sound like tubes. Also, you wont have to buy tubes nearly as frequently....they could potentially last as long as your amp. So many benefits. No glass lol. Id be down to try some out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thesockmonster Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Shoot, I'm in. I've already embraced the hybrid tech with Line6...I rarely get to crank up to actually ENJOY tube drive, anyway. Small venues around here are starting to install decibel monitors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thesockmonster Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Shoot, I'm in. I've already embraced the hybrid tech with Line6...I rarely get to crank up to actually ENJOY tube drive, anyway. Small venues around here are starting to install decibel monitors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tech21man Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 In. Easy way to actually try certain stuff in the preamp or power amp to change the sound consistenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tech21man Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 In. Easy way to actually try certain stuff in the preamp or power amp to change the sound consistenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucius Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 And this folks is the end of AMT. Fly to close to the sun..fly to close to the sun. Cheers, Lucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucius Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 And this folks is the end of AMT. Fly to close to the sun..fly to close to the sun. Cheers, Lucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hardvalve Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This has been tried over and over and over and over and..............................None have been successful yet..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hardvalve Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This has been tried over and over and over and over and..............................None have been successful yet..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chaosStrings Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Yay! I have high expectations for these, finally there is some company wanting to take the old Fetron to new levels! A bit like this guy here, he has been doing solid state tubes for a while now, with astounding results:http://milas.spb.ru/~kmg/index_en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chaosStrings Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Yay! I have high expectations for these, finally there is some company wanting to take the old Fetron to new levels! A bit like this guy here, he has been doing solid state tubes for a while now, with astounding results:http://milas.spb.ru/~kmg/index_en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dehumanize Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This sounds dumb, IMO. It's a cool tech, but I can't see it going anywhere past the Seven String Dot Org crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dehumanize Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This sounds dumb, IMO. It's a cool tech, but I can't see it going anywhere past the Seven String Dot Org crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members isvoid Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 ib4 some modeler models solid state tubez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members isvoid Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 ib4 some modeler models solid state tubez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 67mike Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Originally Posted by Travisaurus Rex I haven't been here in a while but I wanted to share this since I am a total AMT fanboy. They are developing solid state tubes for 6l6 and 12ax7. I know others have tried but if anyone can do if right it would be AMT. Plus they look cool to.There are some graphs for the tech guys to decipher, I don't know what they mean.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Ab0/edit?pli=1Sorry if it is old news. I was told by someone at jet city that Mike Soldano is doing a similar thing????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 67mike Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Originally Posted by Travisaurus Rex I haven't been here in a while but I wanted to share this since I am a total AMT fanboy. They are developing solid state tubes for 6l6 and 12ax7. I know others have tried but if anyone can do if right it would be AMT. Plus they look cool to.There are some graphs for the tech guys to decipher, I don't know what they mean.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Ab0/edit?pli=1Sorry if it is old news. I was told by someone at jet city that Mike Soldano is doing a similar thing????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 I can't see there ever being enough market to sell plug in replacements. I doubt they'll ever really drop. But the technically may end up in newer SS amps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 I can't see there ever being enough market to sell plug in replacements. I doubt they'll ever really drop. But the technically may end up in newer SS amps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teemuk Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This technology has been worked to the point of it being equally good as any tube it's replacing. The success comes, not from excessive R&D, but from being able to make buying masses to think entirely different as they have done before. That's a lot more work - and way more difficult - than to design realistic tube replacements using SS technology and requires a way different skillset.I wager it won't happen yet again.Tube guys won't buy themSolid-state guys already have what they need in simpler packagesThe guys who don't care don't care about such product either technically may end up in newer SS amps It's already in AMT products, for example. And their main ideas aren't too far off from, for example, what Peavey has been doing with their TransTube circuitry. Accurate tube emulations have been employed in solid-state amps for ages so why does anyone actually even need a tube amp today. ...even less, a tube amp with solid-state devices emulating tubes - like in solid-state amps. finally there is some company wanting to take the old Fetron to new levels! Despite being a total fail with musical instrument amps (and total WIN in all other applications) the FETRON has likely been the most successfull of these kinds of products. Ironically, it never tried to emulate the {censored}ty performance of tubes but flat out aimed to replace them with solid-state's linearity. A recipe that was total win for precision equipment, which were probably the only wortwhile market for such devices. Today pretty much all precision equipment is already solid-state, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teemuk Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 This technology has been worked to the point of it being equally good as any tube it's replacing. The success comes, not from excessive R&D, but from being able to make buying masses to think entirely different as they have done before. That's a lot more work - and way more difficult - than to design realistic tube replacements using SS technology and requires a way different skillset.I wager it won't happen yet again.Tube guys won't buy themSolid-state guys already have what they need in simpler packagesThe guys who don't care don't care about such product either technically may end up in newer SS amps It's already in AMT products, for example. And their main ideas aren't too far off from, for example, what Peavey has been doing with their TransTube circuitry. Accurate tube emulations have been employed in solid-state amps for ages so why does anyone actually even need a tube amp today. ...even less, a tube amp with solid-state devices emulating tubes - like in solid-state amps. finally there is some company wanting to take the old Fetron to new levels! Despite being a total fail with musical instrument amps (and total WIN in all other applications) the FETRON has likely been the most successfull of these kinds of products. Ironically, it never tried to emulate the {censored}ty performance of tubes but flat out aimed to replace them with solid-state's linearity. A recipe that was total win for precision equipment, which were probably the only wortwhile market for such devices. Today pretty much all precision equipment is already solid-state, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peavey_impact Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Originally Posted by 67mike I was told by someone at jet city that Mike Soldano is doing a similar thing????? Naw Jet City is licensing someone elses design (Retrovalves maybe?) and selling them under the jet city name. Mike Soldano has nothing to do with it (as far as I know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peavey_impact Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Originally Posted by 67mike I was told by someone at jet city that Mike Soldano is doing a similar thing????? Naw Jet City is licensing someone elses design (Retrovalves maybe?) and selling them under the jet city name. Mike Soldano has nothing to do with it (as far as I know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Miter Gauge Posted September 12, 2012 Members Share Posted September 12, 2012 Originally Posted by apophis i find it kind of weird...to make your tube amp react like a SS :/ ...kind of counter productive I think it would be an interesting experiment to record and amp with tubes then record the same thing with the SS replacement tubes and see how many on here could tell which is which.An even better experiment would be to have someone play two of the same amp, one with tubes and one with replacement tubes and then see which one reacts like a solid state amp. It'd be amazing to hear a player say "oop, gotta be this one, it reacts 6 femtoseconds faster than the other one." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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