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For decades, it's been a general opinion that tube (or valve) amplifiers sound better than solid state amps.
First of all - what is a tube amp? A tube amp is a type of guitar amplifier that operates on valves (or vacuum tubes) instead of transistors. The sound you get from a tube amp is warmer and fuller that what you'd get from a solid state amp.
Valve amplifiers range from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, so the choice is really confusing! If you're reading this article, you've probably decided that it's time that you want to crank your volume past the 10 mark on your current practice amp or the tone just isn't satisfying you anymore.
There are a few things you have to know in order to make your decision. First of all, the type of music that you play, so that you can decide on the amount of gain that your amp needs to have. What is gain? Gain is basically a synonym for distortion. If you play mostly "clean" music (virtually, no amount of distortion), you won't need a lot of gain. If the music you play is blues or rock, you'll need a mild amount of gain, depending on how distorted you want the sound to be. If you play metal, you'll need a high-gain tube amp.
The most notable clean amp of all tube amp history is the Fender Bassman, the holy-grail of clean sounds. Generally, you'll want to look at Fender and Vox. Most tube amps have the amount of gain necessary for blues or rock (Marshalls, the expensive Buddas, the budget Blackhearts). Finally, if we're talking metal, you're going to want to look at Peavey, Mesa Boogie, ENGL.
The second aspect of a tube amp, why many people crave them, is the dynamic. Dynamic is the ability of the tube amp to sound clean when you're hitting the strings softly, and distorted when you're hitting them hard. This allows a great amount of expression. You're going to have to listen to an amp to see if it has this quality.
You'll also have to listen for definition, which is the ability to amplify every single note your play clearly. This is very important, otherwise you'll sound all muddy. The best way to test this is to play some chords, even fewer amps possess this quality.
Lastly, you'll just have to listen if it possesses the basic tonal characteristics that fit you. If the basic sound of the amp is bad, it will sound bad anyway you will adjust the equalizer, amount of gain, anything. It's not uncommon that you find bad tube amps made by prestigious brands. There's no such thing as "not knowing" if it sounds good or not, and although store employees can help you with various information such as amounts of gain, number of tubes, etc. they always want to convince you to buy the products you're trying. If you don't buy it, you can always come back another time and try it again, but if you do, you'll just lack motivation and it will harm your playing. This is important because tube amps aren't as cheap as a practice amp. Always try before you buy!
My name is Andrei Popa, and I've been playing electric guitar for 6 years now. I've bought and sold a lot of gear over the years, filtered all the guitar playing information I've received and have generally been through a lot of trial and error. I maintain a gear reviews website at http://guitar-gear-demos.blogspot.com
Coin Tubes as an Alternative Form of Storage or Display for your Coins
As an alternative form of storage or display you can always keep your coins in plastic coin tubes. No long-term use of PVC based products should be your goal here, although short-term use is acceptable.
As the name implies what you’ll be getting are coin tubes of a certain size in which you can store your coins. What you do here is load your coins in one at a time until the coin tubes or the roll becomes filled up.
Since, as you can imagine, it might be a bit difficult to look at your coins when they’re placed in this fashion, you should only use it if you’re not going to want to look at your coins all the time. If and when you do want to take a peek at them, you’ll have to take the coins out one by one.
This is of course not a problem if the coin you want is somewhere near the top, but what happens if it’s nearer the bottom than the top? You’ll have to empty the whole coin tubes of coins to get to it and do it in manner which won’t damage them by rough and tumble handling.
I don’t use this type of storage very often since it’s very difficult to get to the coins all the time. But it does however, have its advantages and the fact that you can bundle all your coins into compact coin tubes does save you on lots of space.
Also the fact that you can put in your whole collection, or most of it anyway, of Lincoln cents is a great advantage. Having gone to all the trouble of collecting the best coins I could lay my hands on, the last thing I want to do is to put them in a cloth bag or a cookie jar or some such thing.
As for placing them in display folders, can you imagine the space I’d need if I was to put every single last cent, nickel, dime and quarter I had collected over the years in display albums? I’d barely have room to walk! Okay, so that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the drift, right?
Besides, if you don’t want to take your coins out all the time and look at them, then the coin tubes are also good in that, if you pack it to full capacity the coins will stay locked in one place without giving in to the urge to move around.
About the Author
Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on coin tubes, visit his site at COIN TUBES
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