ampage Tube Amps / Music Electronics	For current discussions, please visit Music Electronics Forum.

ampage archive

Vintage threads from the first ten years

previous: Brett Re: Throw away your solder iron....CyberTwin -- 1/20/2001 6:48 AM

car analagy

1/20/2001 6:48 PM
Joe King	car analagy I repair cars for a living and this analogy is fitting but..... I work on everything from as far back as the 40's and as new as a few years ago so I have had the privlege to drive a lot of different cars. New high tech cars with digi fuel injection and multi-valves with computer controlled trans are nothing to scoff at. They deliver real performance! and get decent fuel economy while keeping with emission regulations. That is a long way from what we had 30 and 40 years ago. However, the feel of a carburated high compression big block in good running order is a thrill to drive!!!! But I also have to say I honestly feel bad for my customers that are in every 6 months for a tune up because the points are out of adjustment and the spark plugs are fouled from driving on the choke 1/2 the time. For them life would be a lot easier if they had a newer car with FI and computer controlled ignition. Those cars go 30k to 100k between tune ups! Yea they don't make em like they used to for sure! Having said all that I have been to the music stores and tried modeling amps and to me they don't sound all that bad @ music store levels and up close. I also dig the convenience of the built in effects and a radical change of tone just by turning a knob. Would I buy one? Heck No. I love to tinker with my tube amps. To be honest guys I thing we are a moving into the minority when you look at the big picture. As far as getting computer amp repairs in the future, I have spent a huge amount of $ to repair modern cars(training and equipment) and I'll bet that there are plenty of computer techs that will step up to the plate and work on musical equipment But what will it cost? Will the these modeling amps get cheaper, so much so that they are not worth the repair bills? We can only speculate. I guess that is why we are all here.

1/20/2001 6:48 PM

Joe King

car analagy

I repair cars for a living and this analogy is fitting but..... I work on everything from as far back as the 40's and as new as a few years ago so I have had the privlege to drive a lot of different cars. New high tech cars with digi fuel injection and multi-valves with computer controlled trans are nothing to scoff at. They deliver real performance! and get decent fuel economy while keeping with emission regulations. That is a long way from what we had 30 and 40 years ago. However, the feel of a carburated high compression big block in good running order is a thrill to drive!!!!

But I also have to say I honestly feel bad for my customers that are in every 6 months for a tune up because the points are out of adjustment and the spark plugs are fouled from driving on the choke 1/2 the time. For them life would be a lot easier if they had a newer car with FI and computer controlled ignition. Those cars go 30k to 100k between tune ups! Yea they don't make em like they used to for sure!

Having said all that I have been to the music stores and tried modeling amps and to me they don't sound all that bad @ music store levels and up close. I also dig the convenience of the built in effects and a radical change of tone just by turning a knob. Would I buy one? Heck No. I love to tinker with my tube amps. To be honest guys I thing we are a moving into the minority when you look at the big picture.

As far as getting computer amp repairs in the future, I have spent a huge amount of $ to repair modern cars(training and equipment) and I'll bet that there are plenty of computer techs that will step up to the plate and work on musical equipment

But what will it cost? Will the these modeling amps get cheaper, so much so that they are not worth the repair bills? We can only speculate. I guess that is why we are all here.

Replies:

SpeedRacer Re: car analagy (rambling) -- 1/20/2001 7:42 PM