90 - Tube Amps - Heaven or Hell?
The SBL Podcast
Scott's Bass Lessons
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So tube amps, dude. Tube amps. I'm not sure like, yeah, tube amps. Like, I'm a massive fan of tube amps. I guess that just a sort of like, it depends on the music for me. Like, if I'm just, yeah. We should record it. We should do it. Let's do it. What do? What do? Like, record what? The podcast. It's recorded. Oh my God, is it? Oh, that's why it froze. Oh, that's so funny, dude. I thought we were still in the preamble. No, do we? Welcome to the SBL podcast. We dive it straight in. Oh, we're diving in. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | Okay, okay, cool. |
| 0:39.9 | Because you started to go and I'm like, dude, we should be recording this. Yeah, I'm on. I'm on. I'm on fire. But so for me, so check this out. Like, every day sort of like, when I'm like, like, it depends. like, because I guess sort of like, you know, people listen to this. |
| 0:53.9 | They'll be like, well, like, well, first of all, what's the difference between a tube amp and a non-tube amp? |
| 0:59.5 | And am I really going to be able to tell the difference? |
| 1:02.9 | And like, and all of all of that, you know, like, so what's the difference? |
| 1:08.2 | Because there's difference in sound. |
| 1:10.4 | There's difference in price. And holy shitballs Because there's difference in sound. There's difference in price. |
| 1:12.9 | And holy shitballs, there's difference in weight. |
| 1:16.3 | So before we get into sort of like, because I do want to talk about Ampeg's new pedal, |
| 1:21.5 | because it's wildly interesting. |
| 1:23.2 | You want to talk about Fender sent you an amp. |
| 1:26.6 | Leo, Mr. Fender sent you a tube amp. Adam Clayton's signature. That sounds absolutely badass, by the way. We've also got some pedals, like the bass rig stuff from origin. We should mention those as well. Yes. Because I'm really looking forward to somebody doing an A-B between those and the S-G-T-D-I. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's going to be cool. But before we get into any of that, right, the three things like, what's the difference in sound? What's the difference in price? What's the difference in weight? So first, what's the difference in sound? Tube versus |
| 2:02.3 | non-tube. Well, and we also have to differentiate because we're kind of bleeding categories |
| 2:08.1 | together here because there's two preamps, right? Like you mentioned SVT tube preamp. |
| 2:14.6 | Another great one that I love is the Noble tube preamp. |
| 2:18.0 | It's a D-I, like that new, you know, but we also mentioned, oh, then there's this all-tube |
| 2:22.2 | combo amp that Fender made. |
| 2:24.3 | There's a tube pre-amp and tube power amp. |
| 2:27.3 | Exactly, yes. |
| 2:27.9 | So when somebody says all tube, they are, they mean like, tube power amp and tube pre-amp. Is that correct? Yes. They are, they mean like tube power amp and tube preamp. |
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