EpiGuitarBoy

So i gigged last Saturday and i tried a new Mesa boogie tube amp
first of all when i turned the volume knob up i got an annoying ugly sounding hummm that was loud!! and i mean loud! enough to drive u insane loud

secondly when we played our first song after the 1st 10 seconds the tube on the amp busted, and the thing was brand spankin new to! soo we had to switch to our back up tube amp, and u know what happened? It blew out again! AGAIN!! soo our band just gave up and let the next band perform.

trust me everyone says tube amps are great and sound awesome, but once you try to turn the volume up high for a gig, bad things happen.
even clapton and zztop said that tube amps are pieces of crap, because of the annoying humm.

clapyon played layla with a tube amp and everyone hated it because it hummed like crazy

i mean the reason they cost soo much is because the tubes inside cost a fortune.
stick to solid state !


you have been warned

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krazydrummer

bad luck or some electrical problems in the outlet??? dunno

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DrNick

Uh, I hope you let them warm up before you started playing. Otherwise, cranking the volume knob like you said you did would shock the tubes and probably cause the blowout.

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LuthierofTexas

Where and when have Clapton or ZZ Top ever said that tube amps suck?

VanTheKraut

Your tubes probably killed themselves because they didnt want to be played by anyone named EpiGuitarBoy, it could have been you were trying to play an Epiphone through it! Anyway, just because you had a bad experience with tubes doesnt mean the whole world should stop using them, I had a bad experience with a jewish kid, does that make them any less cuddly,... wait... nevermind.

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EpiGuitarBoy

ya i let the tubes warm up and it still blew out, there pieces of junk trust me. everything built now is solid state because it is meant to last.

i_am_metalhead

+1

I've had my tube amp for 2 1/2 years and I have never had a problem with it at all. When I play live I never have to turn the volume up past 4 or it drowns everything else out!

I don't know wtf you are talking about with this "hum" business because my amp doesn't hum and I have never heard anyone else's tube amp hum like you claim.

Also, tubes aren't expensive.

This all leads me to the conclusion that you are a total moron.

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EpiGuitarBoy

van ur stupid if u think amps wont play well 4 me cause of my name and secondly wtf i used a gibson les paul, and i am trying to save pple from falling into a trap when using tube amps to gig with

Chance125

+1!

I agree. This guy makes no sense.

You probably have the ****tiest tube amp in the world, either that or you don't even know what a tube amp is.

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What kind of amps did you use

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DrNick

Compared to the number of people on here who successfully use tube amps over and over again for gigs, without switching out or blowing tubes every night, you're just an enigma. Or maybe have something wrong with your amp (that, mind you, can most likely be fixed easily/cheaply on a tube, whereas you would probably have to throw out a solid state). Or maybe you're just a troll (see: idiot).

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VanTheKraut

what trap? u had pone bad tube... doesnt mean every amp ever made thats a tube sucks balls like yours, what was the make and model of that sucker? Anyway I was joking about the name thing dumbass tubes dont have brains they cant think, any ****tard who sits at home knows inanimate objects dont know your names, you are the stupid one when you cant recognize whats a joke, I was poking fun at your Epi name because I dont like them!

Edit- I declare this kid a troll,

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i hope this is a joke. i really do.

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did u srsly just sey dat? dun u thnk he wuz bein' sarcastik?

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LOL!!!

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if you don't like tube amps then dont use them.


just so you know, it might have been a problem with the venue.

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