Members onelife Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 I've just been playing around with Amplitube through an "Ultralinear" Super Reverb from the late 70s via a Stealth Pedal and it sounds quite nice. These big silverface monsters have a bit of a bad reputation but what can be wrong with 60 or 70 watts of clean Fender power into four tens? The amp sounds good by itself with single coils and humbuckers - a nice, rich and powerful clean. With todays pedals and modelers I thought it would be nice to test the amp in some modern settings. I have been successfully using a Boss ME-25 with a silverface Princeton Reverb for a while now and the ME-25 sounds even better through the Super. With Amplitube it really shines. The complex harmonics generated by the models get amplified as you would expect them to in a mutli-stage all tube environment and come out of the amp via the output transformer/speaker combination. Truly the best of both worlds. Now if I can just find someone to lug the Super for me - I really thought the days of big amps were over until I found this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kotch Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 Every outboard amp-modeller I own (except the oldest) has a tube in it. Finding one without a 12AX7 somewhere in the circuit is the challenging part these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 For gigs, I've played a Vox ToneLab (which does have a tube) through a Carr Rambler for years. Although I generally prefer the sound of good quality individual pedals, the sound with the Vox ToneLab is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Curtis Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 I have a Boss GT-10, that I use looped into my Fender Deville. It has a nice Marshall Guv'nor sampled, and I set the pedal up to basically operate as a series of stomp boxes. I don't like how the modeled amp tones sound thru the Fender, so I never use them, but for smaller gigs, I will use the modeled Bassman setting directly into my H-K solid-state amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 I'm thinking about joining a band again, I should probably check to see if any of my amps still work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted July 28, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 What I was thinking is along the lines of Craig's thread on recording the DX7 to analog tape where the characteristics of the tape softened the 'digital' sound of the synth. Running the Boss ME-25 thru the big tube amp actually brings the COSM preamps to life and the models from Amplitube get nice and round sounding (if that makes any sense). I have not tried to compare the Amplitube patches to their real life counterparts and I don't care about that. All I want are good solid usable and dynamic guitar sounds. The flexibility of Amplitube and other digital products combined with valves controlling the flow of electric current through the speakers in a large cabinet really seems to be the answer for me. I'll know in a couple of weeks after lugging this setup around for a while if it is worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted July 28, 2011 Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 I've written about this in past, specifically about using modelers, bypassing the amp/cab, and feeding a real amp/cab...and the reverse, using something like a tube preamp and feeding it into a modeled cab. For bass in particular, it's great to have a tube front end with a nice compressor, then feed it into two cab emulations to get a "stacked" sound. Whatever it takes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted July 28, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 28, 2011 When I bypassed the cabinet emulation on Amplitube the sound coming out of the amplifier got a bit brittle. I'm feeding the guitar input on the Super Reverb with the signal from a Stealth Pedal and keeping the output of the pedal down to guitar levels. Using the cabinet emulation provided a more workable sound but that may be because the "Ultralinear" Fender Amp is not really all that linear and adds considerable upper mid honk to the signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted July 29, 2011 Members Share Posted July 29, 2011 When I bypassed the cabinet emulation on Amplitube the sound coming out of the amplifier got a bit brittle. I'm feeding the guitar input on the Super Reverb with the signal from a Stealth Pedal and keeping the output of the pedal down to guitar levels. Using the cabinet emulation provided a more workable sound but that may be because the "Ultralinear" Fender Amp is not really all that linear and adds considerable upper mid honk to the signal. Well you see...you get it. Why be doctrinaire when you can try a bunch of different things, and decide what you like best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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