#103: How To Choose The Right Guitar Amp(s) For Your Project

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On this episode we'll explain how to pick the right type of guitar amp for any production.

People often use whatever they currently have or pick the "wrong" one because they don’t fully understand the differences between all the available amps and categories of amps. And even if they do, they are often not really sure which of those differences actually matter. 

We’ll break it all down into some basic, broad categories, explain the main tone and distortion characteristics of each of them and give you great starting points, as well as ways to figure out whether or not a certain amp is appropriate for what you’re trying to accomplish.

We discuss:

• High gain / crunch / clean
• Tube / solid state
• “British” / “American”
• Hi/lo wattage (“big” / ”small” amps)
• preamp / power amp
• Different types of distortion pedals
• Tricks for getting the most out of an amp (i.e. using tube screamers for compression/mids/tighter low end, boosting with a pedal vs plugging directly into the amp, using attenuators, replacing/changing tubes, keeping cable chains short, ...)   

Let's go!

For full show notes go to: theselfrecordingband.com/103

If you have any questions, feedback, topic ideas or want to suggest a guest, email us at: [email protected]

If you have any questions, feedback, topic ideas or want to suggest a guest, email us at: [email protected]