Re: Tubes! They do a ____ good!

[Greg House <ghunicycle@yahoo.com>]

--- Kirkland Mack <kirklandmack@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Aren't those Velocettes regular guitar amps though? 

Yep.

> I'm just looking for the
> power section, something like a Mesa 2:90 in a much smaller package, 
>like about
> 30 watts, that will produce great power tube saturation when cranked.

How about a THD Univalve? It has a preamp, but you can tailor the preamp 
gain by
tube selection.

> It also seems like someone should have been smart enough to develop a
> hybrid amp that has an SS preamp with a tube power section by now.

MusicMan had a good sounding hybred amp like that in the 70s or early 80s. 
SS
preamp, tube power amp. I thought they sounded great, but for whatever 
reason,
they weren't very popular.

Greg


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