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- From: robin@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Robin Amano)
- Subject: Re: Electronic definition of sprong!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.042657.15118@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- References: <1992Nov10.215058.22727@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:26:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.215058.22727@ncsu.edu> npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu (NATHAN PHILLIP STEWART) writes:
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- >I've played a lot of different amps, and some have a better feel than others.
- >With my current amp, an '84 CARVIN w/ 6L6's, even if I set up a fairly low gain
- >setting (and it's not much by modern standards on 10), I get a good sound, but
- >the amp doesn't play as dynamically as I'd like it to. I have played different
- >amps that had different amounts of sponginess/touch/feel/Sprong! or whatever its
- >proper term is - that the amount of distortion and especially the sound of the
- >amp changed dramatically with my touch. This is what I crave in an amp.
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- Isn't this amp a hybrid? I don't know about these days, but I'm pretty
- sure back then they used a solid state preamp section and tube output.
- That could be the problem right there!! Check out a Boogie!
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