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RiftAmps

No right/wrong answer here, just opinion.

Does this amplifier sound British, American, or something else?

Guitar being played is a Strat

Discuss.

ICBM

British, to me - it has that of Vox-type woody barky sound.

I will now be completely wrong .

olafgarten

Sounds British to me as well, I find American Style amps sound a bit more fuzzy.

octatonic

Canadian.

stickyfiddle

I initially thought Vox-ish but towards the end it had a bit more of a Fendery flavour, without going full-blackface. 

Something like my Badcat with a blackface-voiced boost switched on. I liked it whatever it was

octatonic

octatonic said:

Canadian.

I was being serious btw.
I heard it as a British amp with an American overtone/accent.

You should call it the 'Canuck'.

Jimbro66

It sounds Vox-ish to me too. It could have been built anywhere, there being Vox-inspired amps from quite a number of UK and International makers.

FWIW I didn't particularly like that Strat sound through it, but one man's meat etc

richardhomer

Having played through a Marshall Jubilee at tFB Huddersfield Jam, set on the edge of break-up - I’d say British.

When I heard the recording of what I played, I thought it sounded quite Tweed-like - and really good. In the room, I didn’t like it because ‘I don’t get on with Marshalls’.

Which leads me to believe you can’t generalise....

sweepy

Sounds like a Vox AC15 to me, with the caveat of mic placement etc etc  

john_r

Sounds American to me, almost like a brownface fender through a 'british' sounding speaker.

robinbowes

Lots of middle going on. Sounds Vox-y / Matchless-y / Bad Cat-y ?

R.

Maynehead

Sounds like an American amp with a tube screamer type overdrive, presence rolled down and mids wacked all the way up.

RiftAmps

Thanks, everyone so far.

This is a new amplifier that I'm about to release and have deliberately kept audio recordings at a low quality for various reasons.

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

Jimbro66

RiftAmps said:

Thanks, everyone so far.

This is a new amplifier that I'm about to release and have deliberately kept audio recordings at a low quality for various reasons.

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

Yes. When?

ICBM

RiftAmps said:

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

No. The sound of the amp is not very dependent on the valves.

RiftAmps

ICBM said:

RiftAmps said:

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

No. The sound of the amp is not very dependent on the valves.

RiftAmps

Jimbro66 said:

RiftAmps said:

Thanks, everyone so far.

This is a new amplifier that I'm about to release and have deliberately kept audio recordings at a low quality for various reasons.

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

Yes. When?

That depends on the dealers who will be stocking it

Jimbro66

RiftAmps said:

Jimbro66 said:

RiftAmps said:

Thanks, everyone so far.

This is a new amplifier that I'm about to release and have deliberately kept audio recordings at a low quality for various reasons.

If I told you that it uses KT66 output valves, would you be surprised?

Yes. When?

That depends on the dealers who will be stocking it

It gets mysteriouser and mysteriouser

samzadgan

i kinda hear some tweedy-ness too it...never quite sure where Tweed sits in the american vs british thing

ICBM

samzadgan said:

i kinda hear some tweedy-ness too it...never quite sure where Tweed sits in the american vs british thing

Somewhere in the middle.

The difference is more down to the speakers than the amp anyway - essentially, a Marshall JTM45 is a tweed Bassman with Celestions and sounds 'British', and an AC30 - which has a totally different circuit and valves, but also Celestions - still sounds 'British'.

The JTM45 also uses KT66s...