What I Wish I Knew Before I Bought a Tube Amp
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Check out the FREE Fretboard Fundamentals E-Book HERE: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/ff-ebook?coupon_code=EBOOK100&product_id=5313379 The Tone Course: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/the-tone-course Links PRS DGT 15: https://prsguitars.com/amplifier/dgt_15_2024 Tube amps are one of those things that don't really make sense. They're a bunch of unreliable 75 year old technology in a big wooden box, and we have countless "better" options on the market today, whether that's solid state amps or amp modelers. But tube amps will always have a place in my sound and I don't think I'll ever stop playing them. There's something different, more organic feeling about tube amps that you can't really get anywhere else. In today's video, we're going over some of the basics of tube amps, and what I wish I knew before buying my first amp over 10 years ago. My Most Popular Courses 🎸 Fretboard Fundamentals Bundle: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/the-fretboard-fundamentals-ultimate-bundle 🎸 The CAGED Course: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/the-caged-course 🎸 Barebones Guitar Theory: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/bare-bones-guitar-theory 🎸 Breaking Out Of the Pentatonic Box: https://rhettshullguitarcourses.com/p/breaking-out-of-the-pentatonic-box My Favorite Gear (affiliate links) Line 6 HX Effects https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7549g3 Neural DSP Quad Cortex https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKVRD1 Zoom H6 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/baZ3yk Shure SM57 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9gk5vY Sennheiser MD 421-II https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0gX1q AEA R92 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6eEQGG Sennheiser MKH 50 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Gma4WB Universal Audio Apollo x8p https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vNMnmj Want to get in touch? Email me at [email protected] 0:00 Intro 0:00 Intro 0:40 PRS DGT 15 1:38 Let's hear the amp 2:19 How this video works 2:41 Tube Amp Basics 5:14 How Much Power Do You Need? 6:42 Gain Staging 101 9:42 How To Use Master Volume 10:50 Using Pre and Master Vol Together 12:20 How different guitars change the amp 14:47 How to dial in your amp 16:05 Use ALL of the control 16:54 Top cut and Presence 18:58 Finding the perfect amp 20:18 Outro
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