someone said: Literally every guitarist I know loves these amps, but I don't know anyone who plays metal or hard rock, so maybe they aren't good for that, I dunno.
And you refuse to use tube amps because you prefer the Cube right? So how are you different?
How in anyway is making an assumption that a man who devotes his life to making tube amps, therefore probably likes tube amps, snobbery? Sorry I made that assumption but it's an obvious one to make. Like assuming that someone who makes porn for a living at the very least enjoys having sex.
No not at all, I assumed that amp was decent enough to demo a pedal on. I don't use high gain sounds in my rig so there would be no need to use any other channel then the clean channel that I used. It sounded fine, but it did not sound like my 65 Twin. It sounded like a clean 1x12 guitar with regular dynamic response.
The same circuit I wasn't aware of, but I know quite a lot about the Roland Jazz Chorus, it's the solid-state amp I was specifically referring to when talking about Albert King. But there's not all the bells and whistles of the Cube on the Jazz chorus, it's a 120 watt 2x12 monster with what I would consider "one-trick." But as I've already pointed out for jazz and blues one-trick is really all you need, the rest is about the player. So again, why would the professional 21rst century jazz or blues player need all the hi-gain amp simulations and effects on a Cube?
I never said Jazz players prefer tube amps, most jazzers I know play whatever is in front of them. And most of them don't have exceptional tone either. The guys I think had great tone in jazz were Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, and Barney Kessel. Who all used tube amps.
Maybe you don't know many metal or hardrock players because you yourself are what you fear, a snob. I'm not a fan of either type of music, but being a guitar player who does gig, I share the bill with metal and hard rock bands regularly and usually always exchange emails and myspace information. So it seems strange for someone as knowledgeable about music as yourself not to know any metal players if you're as open minded and accepting as amp snobs are rude and stubborn.
I currently attend the University of North Texas for jazz performance studying under Rich McClure and Fred Hamilton, and no one I've met there prefers solid state amps over tube amps. Two of my mentors growing up in Dallas were Hash Brown and Lucky Peterson, both local legends, the latter, Lucky, has been a world renowned blues player since he was four.
Hash Brown only uses vintage tube amps, and Lucky uses whatever is in front of him, he doesn't care, I've seen him with vintage tube amps, and I've seen him with small solid state practice amps at gigs before, he's all about the music, not at all about the gear.
Just a little background so you don't think I'm some wanking shred master or something.
So far I've never seen anyone in the Denton or DFW music scene sporting a Roland Cube amp at a gig, I've seen many JC-120s, and maybe it's not long until I start seeing the Cubes too, who knows.
I say all that just to point out to you that I am a jazz/blues player and I prefer my tubes to solid state amp modelling. I'm not putting the Cube down, it might do a fine job, but I know what my ears like to hear, and if it costs $5 or 5 million, it's about what I like to hear.
Maybe I'll give the Cube another look, but something tells me there's a reason why consummate professionals in the industry aren't all selling their tube amps to buy a closet full of Roland Cubes.
As I stated in my very first post to you, different strokes.
