Jedi_Exile
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I'm looking for a tube amp for my LP Standard. But I have no possibility to listen to any amp currently, so only youtube and my imagination.
I like clean tones (no Marshall!), but if it's distortion - it better be powerful and 3d sounding, for my taste some amps are lacking bass response too much when distorted and my ears bleed. Also, for me the articulation of each note is very important and how do they sound in complex chords (while overdriven).
So, I started looking randomly into some brands and found Friedman Runt 50. Great sounding amp, great clean tones, but when played through Friedman cab sounds overly bright for me (I don't want my Gibson to sound like Slash!).
And theeen... I found a video from ML Sound lab called something like "Bright vs dark amp", where the guy demonstrates that dark amp played through bright cabinet is better than the other way around. At least it's more versatile.
So, currently I'm not even sure where to look. Which amps can be considered dark sounding (not meaning metal sounding!)? And also - what speakers complement them the best? I like Jensen C12N, but where I live it's mostly Celestion.
I like clean tones (no Marshall!), but if it's distortion - it better be powerful and 3d sounding, for my taste some amps are lacking bass response too much when distorted and my ears bleed. Also, for me the articulation of each note is very important and how do they sound in complex chords (while overdriven).
So, I started looking randomly into some brands and found Friedman Runt 50. Great sounding amp, great clean tones, but when played through Friedman cab sounds overly bright for me (I don't want my Gibson to sound like Slash!).
And theeen... I found a video from ML Sound lab called something like "Bright vs dark amp", where the guy demonstrates that dark amp played through bright cabinet is better than the other way around. At least it's more versatile.
So, currently I'm not even sure where to look. Which amps can be considered dark sounding (not meaning metal sounding!)? And also - what speakers complement them the best? I like Jensen C12N, but where I live it's mostly Celestion.