MindTheGap
1375 posts
Apr 01, 2016
1:59 AM
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No one can say I'm stuck in my ways. Previously I stated that my little tube amp is just better.
Well, yesterday I tried tube amp vs Harp Break + PA. The sounds were very similar, and in a blind test people marginally preferred the HB+PA.
Why? Well this time (before we got started) I turned the PA speaker towards me. Normally of course, it's pointing away. Whereas the tube amp is down at my side. Even though in 'normal' mode I can hear myself perfectly well with the PA, I wasn't hearing the full picture. I was missing the bitey-bark which was going forward, and I was ending up hearing a softer sound.
I've tried A/B at home of course, lower volumes, but it seems there's no substitute for trying it in situ, and full playing volume.
Next time I'm going get a splitter and put part of the signal through a small SS amp in the same place as where the tube amp would be. I had been following the stock advice NOT to have a monitor.
If is the case, then deep joy. Hats in air.
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