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Hybrid Guitar Combos

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  • #2
    Frankiestylee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Frankiestylee


    I think (and I may easily be wrong) that they tend to use valves for distortion and solid state for clean.


  • #3
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Normally hybrid guitar amps use Valves in the pre-amp section (i.e. tone shaping and gain control) and use solid-state technology in the power-amp section (i.e. what gives you the volume and drives the speaker).

    Now most people will agree that in a valve amp the power-amp section is the most important. So these amps can sound a little sterile. They may still be good though? I haven't played many of them.


  • #4
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    I have a fender hybrid at home and its actually quite nice. the cleans are really really clean and sharp as a fender should be. the distortion is nice too, not over the top. Dunno if they make them that much anymore though?


  • #5
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Hybrid amps are usually a mix of valve and solid-state.

    A valve power-section, and particularly the heavy-duty output transformers are very expensive, so hybrid amps (99% of the time) are a mix of valve preamp and cheaper SS poweramp (which don't need such large transformers).

    However, most of the time, they're not even a real valve preamp. Most valve preamps have at least 4 or 5 valves as part of their gain stages - the hybrids that i know of usually have just one, perched on the circuit board and doing god-knows what. All or most of the clipping is still diode based, so it's debatable as to what exactly the single solitary valve is doing.

    Even if they did have fully fledged valve preamps, plugging a valve preamp into a SS poweramp is like plugging a DVD player into your radio - you'll get something out of it, but they werent designed to work together, and hence, usually sound sh1t. Ive tried this many a time for the craic, even high-end 19" preamps sound like poop plugged into a SS poweramp.

    You have to judge each amp on its own merits of course - most of the Marshall AVTs sound sh1te, whereas the Vox hybrids can sound pretty decent. So i'd ignore any 'hybrid' blabber as marketing crap, and just read up on each amp individually.


  • #6
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    cool, im thinking of replacing my marshall MG50DFX with this
    http://www.thomann.de/ie/vox_ad50vt212.htm


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