I def think everyone should stop buying amps. So more are available for me and Mark Lewis to buy.

stop this anti tube propaganda

do another test and this time include a tube amp and don't move the goalposts, that might prove your point. This test doesn't prove anything.

I’ll never stop. Nothing more satisfying than the feel of cranking a tube amp in the room. I won’t dispute the recorded argument - but I’m playing for me, my enjoyment. If you’re doing it for home recording, enjoy your plug ins. But the joy of playing, for me, is not plugging into a Mac book 😅

You can pry my tube amps and walls of speaker cabinets from my cold, dead hands

Yeah stop buying them so maybe the ridiculous prices will come down

Been playing guitar for over 25 years. Never owned a tube amp. Solid state all the way. Never an issue. 🤘🤘🤘

No one can tell on a recording, true. But standing in a live setting there’s no comparison. Digital can’t replicate the big thick rumbling tone of an amp. If you’re playing at home, recording or touring on larger stages with decent sound guys, then modelers are great. But in a -1000 head club or jamming with a band at volume modelers just don’t do it. I had and sold all of them over the last 20 years. I keep a QC at home for recording but that’s where it stays 🤷‍♂️

the thing is , that it's not about how tube amps sound vs digital , it's about the feel , the feeling you have when you are standing and play in front of you amp and cab , i love that feeling and i will always do , thats why i bought a new dual rectifier last week XD

Why don't we just stop crying or stop playing. .

I stopped buying them in 2004, when I bought the only one I'd ever need... 5150 II

"Good tone is heavy and hard to carry" - Tom Bukovac

I was waiting for this follow up! This is gonna be good!😂

You’re absolutely right. The technology has come SO far since the early 2000s, and modelers and sims sound just as good as tube amps these days. Hell, some of them sound BETTER than their tube counterparts.

It’s not sound, it’s the feel that digital hasn’t replaced “yet”.

I literally just bought my first tube amp, and you come out with this!

Im Really loving the Andy James amp sim! Do you have the Preset for it?

Focusing purely on tone might work for you, but not for me. Modelers sounds like 99% correct now. Feel wise, I'm sure they're also very close these days. The main problem for me is that modelers are completely uninspiring for me. You need to use a computer program to change your tone or menu dive on the unit itself. Real amps are literally reach out with my hand and twist a knob. Super easy, way faster and makes it more fun to me.

@jtpark4046 actually did leave a comment saying that they were all plugins on the original video. I know that the Quad Cortex technically isn't a plugin, but it is digital, so I think it still counts.

Just bought an orange rocker 32 after I played a solid state orange. A whole new world….