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From: Gord_Wait@mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Wait)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Guitar Sounds (Guitarists read this...)
Message-ID: <6118@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 3 Jun 91 02:46:20 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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Here it goes again...... The answer to good, smooth, great sounding guitar
distortion is     TUBES! Throw out those nasty bipolar/jfet/cmos/digital
distortion boxes and get yourself something with tubes in it. I won't bother
with all the technical reasons as to why... Just practically any hot guitar
distortion you may hear in rock music is from tube amps. (Van halen, Joe
Satriani, Tom Sholtz (no he didn't use a rockman on the boston records, he
hadn't invented them yet..)) For a decent tube sound in a small package check
out the Tube Works Inc. Real Tube distortion pedal. I have one of those, and it
sounds pretty good. (In comparison to tube amps.. beats the heck out of
transistor distortion pedals..)

To all those who may (will?) flame, just consider yourselves lucky that your
ear doesn't require the sound of tube distortion. If you are happy with
transistors, then you don't have to pay the extra money for those nasty fragile
tubes. (by the way, this is NOT a hi-fi issue, we are driving these tubes into
heavy DISTORTION! And tubes are far from being more NATURAL.. They don't grow
in the forest, they are inefficient, so they waste energy, and they probably
are real messy to manufacture)

 :> Borrow somebody's marshall or hiwatt or fender TUBE amp, and check it out.
Usually the ones with a master volume are easier to distort:
Connect up your keyboard, set the master down low, set the preamp up full, and
mess around with it. (Without the master you have to turn the damn thing up
full to get distortion, which is a bit loud for most apartments...)

Gord Wait
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Gord Wait
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ASIC Engineering
SMOS Systems
Vancouver Design Center
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