Jazz Guitar Amps - Optimizing Your Sound

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While many experts insist that there is nothing called jazz guitar
amps - there certainly is something called a preferred jazz guitar
amp! The main function of guitar amps is to make your guitar sound
great, so much so that even with an ordinary guitar and a good quality
amp your performance can sound fantastic. Popular manufacturers of
good jazz guitar amps are Mesa Boogie, Fender, Marshall, Crate, etc.
Kinds Of Guitar Amps
Guitar amps come in three types - tube amps, hybrid amps and solid-
state or analog amps. You also get digital amps. Bass players prefer
the solid-state amps because of the output delivered. The tube amps,
the first amps to be made, produce a richer warmer sound. Hybrid is a
combination of tube and solid-state type amps. Here, the power behind
the sound comes from the solid-state amp while the tone is from the
tube amp. Power output is an important factor when choosing guitar
amps. When you compare a tube amp and other amps with the same
wattage, tube amps sound louder. Tube amps use glass tubes while solid-
state amps use transistors. Some players find solid-state amps more
reliable. Digital amps produce their sound through digital processors
and are quite trendy these days. Tube amps are quite heavy when it
comes to portability and also can be quite expensive in terms of cost
and upkeep. The tubes need to be replaced periodically. Makers of tube
amps like Fender, Marshall and Mesa Boogie use Chinese tubes, which
are factory fitted....

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