@@Jacob22941Not sure what OP used but in my case, I plug into an XAir with my modeler and use in-ears. For live sound I have a power amp and a 2x12 cab. No tubes needed. Had a great big tube rig, cost me tons of money to maintain between tubes/fixes. Never gonna be worth it again now that modelers have caught up. Maybe to some folks that like the feel of an amp, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
@@Jacob22941 sorry, my notifications haven’t been all that great for about a month. I used a solid state amp. On stage, we’d be mic’d up, so it didn’t seem to matter after that. It was plenty loud at the time, but the tech is a lot better these days. Devices like the QC sound really good, but for home use, I’m using a drum replacer rather than a real drummer.
I am a bit biased because I love tube amps, but in my opinion tube amps are more popular than ever. There are many boutique builders these days: monomyth, headfirst, ground zero. Bad Cat gained momentum again with Tosin. Bogner Uber Ultra launched last year which was a 6 month wait list just to get one. Fortin Evil Pumpkin dropped last year and was instantly sold out on both runs.
I had 2 Roland JC50s. Each 1x12. When they were connected, the Stereo Chorus would sync together, because they were designed that way. Total "immersion". I regret giving them up.
I used solid state modeling amplifiers for almost 20 years simply because of the price point. Finally decided to dive into the world of tube amplifiers and it has completely changed the game for me. I don’t play gigs or anything I’m just a hobby player, but a midrange tube amp with a power attenuator has given me some of the best tones iv ever gotten. Seems like most of us guitar players are always chasing the perfect tone so things are always changing but I’m pretty happy with my current setup
I built/designed/repaired valve amps for various companies from 2007-2016, before going into valve hifi from 2016-2022.. It's something worth trying for sure. But even I'm a convert now the digital realm is just insane. Bea knows his shit, but I've known that since I first met him 20 years ago 😂
I purchased a valve amp in 2007 when I was 21 it cost me 6.5k and it was because technology had not yet allowed us to do what we can today. Still, there’s nothing quite like the sound of a good tube amp on stage pushing air. Modelling to foh all the way, subsidised by a cab on stage to fill out the mids and help glue it all together
You should try as much as possible. I recently miced up a peavey bandit into a mini mixer, aux out to stereo fx and a tc doubler mini on one side into in-ears. Convulted as anything but i had a great gig.
I remember when I bought a cheap usead fender champ XD, I plugged my guitar, turned on the amp, waited less tan a minute for the amp to start working... The moment I strumed a chord I was: "I get it, I totally get it, this is the best sound ever" I couldn't believe it, it was like watching a movie in 3D
Please please everybody before you buy a tube amplifier. Make sure you try one in a shop where there's other tube amplifiers because they also have a very different power tubes like EL34 Marshall style is on amazing but E084 are Fender and box style and they sound well I don't care for them some blue people do care for them. 6V6 are the same way more of a Steve rivan kind of thing about 6L6 sound nothing like completely different I love 6L6 that's like American rock that's like a Messa boogie. Speak it a Messa boogie they are probably one of the best Some of the best heavy stamps I think out there you can hear the dual rectifior Master of puppets stuff like leopard Messiah just monstrous sound and even in a flat Tuning. Triple rectifierThose were massive and memorials came out in like the late 90s. Like Godsmack and the system will be down and all that new heavy stuff come out. They make some vintage amplifiers too is single rectifire just amazing but some of my favorite amplifiers still are from the 1960s because most of those still had tube rectifiers. I even had this generic harmony 303 a it gets some of the best reviews for sound quality of any amps out there score the well I had a Fender super 6L6 with red knobs Made by Rivera when He worked at Fender. it's scored Only at 8 yeah I thought it's automatic and there's sort of everybody else It even had his own tube reverb. Most of all the newer Fender tubes Most determinable except for the 1960's stuff . And they don't sound really old and ancient like I thought they would. Once you get used to a tube you just cannot go back you will never forget about it you always want to play With tube rest of your days guarantee they won't sound old and These are the things you're hearing and every recording of pretty much every type of music.
Dual outputs and a piezo, so you have one amp dirty, one clean, and a piezo with heavy effect all blended together…while in an empty condemned high school gym Try it
Rabea is absolutely spot on. Yes yes no one will know the difference in a recorded mix. Not all of us play for the sake of mixing and recording . But notice he mentions the immersive experience. It is otherworldly. Before any digital folks get triggered...i play both digital and analogue. Depends on the situation and preference. If i HAD to choose one. It'd be tube amps. Do whatever the heck inspires you to play end of the day. 💪
OTOH, mine is used constanly, as my home practice amp. That low end thump and incredible tones is the perfect home amp. I challenge Keyan to make a trip to Qld to play through my amp then go back to modellers. Sure, modellers and recording himself has made him a much more accomplished player than me, but the sound of pyjama legs flapping can't be beat.
True, but as he said, “its an overwhelmingly immersive experience” modelers and any digital audio are much easier and more simple to use, and sound just as good if not better than physical stuff, but the physical stuff is more fun to mess with imo, and also if your in an area where you can be loud, playing loud as shit through a giant cab is awesome as fuck everyone should experience it
@@KeyanHoushmandLive Keyaaaaaan ❤️. No I get that but I played with a pair of full range speakers and a pod x3 live (of course now it’s outdated compared to plugins and other modelers) set in stereo and this was as immersive to me as using a head with cabs. This is definitely a question of tastes and colors but I never felt that I couldn’t get my wall of sound out of full range speakers and a modeler.
I use both tubes and digital. There's just a room filling quality that tube amps have, that's what bea is describing here. You need to play both one after the other and you'll definitely notice it.
Modellers have an intrinsic "produced" , compressed nature to them that tube amps lack. It makes them practical and easy to live with, like a gelding but they lack the wild stallion edge that tube amps bring. Tube amps need to be tamed by the player. Modellers are docile by nature.
@@Darib22AndTheCrew I'd understand if young guitarists chased new and exciting amp models (like Boss originals) but they all run straight to the Fender and Marshall staples on their modellers.
I'm really disgusted with what I'm reading. Some of you have COMPLETELY missed the point of being metal guitarists...you are missing out on what makes playing a live instrument beautiful... The garage band experience is one of the great things a person can do...and.... it's done with loud ass tube amps that actually resonate local space...and your body...and your mind. Man... this sucks.
If you "grew up" with tube amps you're in a privileged minority. Most people can't afford the tube amps that these softwares are simulating. Three grand+ for a head vs a whole ass setup with dozens of amp plugins?
Man if you've never had a f****** 2 bamp and you really don't know what you're missing but do yourself a favor to play Real 2 bamp you had to look for a Real 2 bamp and most of the 2 Bands that are out Right Now for underneath a 1000 Bucks and some Over a 1000 Bucks are not like Real 2 banks 41 thing a lot of them have a Solid State rectifier and you might as well as just get yourself a little cheap $100 Transistor f****** amp and Then tie some tubes at the top and Then just tell people to do it and Then keep that s***** sound I will NeVER ever ever Go back to transistors and like BOSS pedal's cosm or any of these modeling stuff I Mean we have a modeling Practice amp in MY HOUSE and some of the tube sounds are somewhat convincing to some people but I've played a bunch of Different Tube powered guitar amplifiers over the years. Every single one sounds very very different 1 from the next some people love them but I don't care for the EL84 and the 6V6 tubes that's great for Stephen Revan or blue Z type stuff that's like fenders Vox. Marshall's remarkable stacks subject that with tubes are amazing some of them have solid state rectifiers but they're right at that edge of an amp that sounds good like a 2 bamp but if you're not careful with your puddles in your stuff it will be more like a transistor ramp because it does have a chip rectifier I heard bogus but most of all the better sound in amplifiers including the ones that guys use for heavy Heavy metal stuff I would go always with a tube rectifier. I had an old 1962 harmony and those considered generic brand back then they didn't have circuit boards and all the cheap c*** back then so even the little c***** brands of harmony and Silverton we're built like the better brands of apps and I still had the 62 Jensen speaker from Chicago and everything and I lost that I lost my spread of asteroid I want to do some health stuff I have never been able to get so my equipment back after it was stolen because that just cannot get enough work here and I'm outside of Chicago in a row area and there's not s*** for worked here and I've had some kind of illness causing me severe anemia and weird stuff. Non-smoking non drinking healthy totally in shape guy for 44 years old falling apart shouldn't be. Anyways the thing is it's high voltage any guitar equipment that you get is gonna be high voltage is gonna be awesome and I'm sure that I go for other instruments too but especially guitar because you want an amazing distortion and those Old tube amps. They also sound very just the most beautiful thing and clean was just amazing you know I had a couple distortions but I had this turbo overdrive it was an old boss pedal as analog heavy as a Rock and I would kick that on with that app and now it's doing all sorts of you know 70s and 80s classic Rock stuff and I mean it sounded perfect I thought an old app would just sound like s*** and it sounds like The Rolling Stones back in the ancient days as you know something that would not sound good for modern and if then it was sound really c***** but it was by far the best sounds I've ever had were playing out of those old 1960's amplifiers there are some new companies that makes some good ones meso boogie they make amazin advantage type amps with the 2 break to fire because they recognize it that's the best and. Well there you get the sound of like say okay Metallica and master of puppets how seriously f****** heavy that was even for being an Is e flat tuning. But I mean yeah the clipper messiah and it's like this is so extremely heavy and it's the distortion that come from the app that was the dual rectifier Amp with my favorite tubes the ones the tubes that I prefer American rock and metal 6L6 they're very similar to Marshall's E034 which have a similar sound I like Both . Some people who use extreme metal that they use KT88 power tubes. Like layers guitars and diamondbackdare own by a lot of people nowadays still as well I mean that's best for the most wicked of All tube. And if you see once in a great while stuff like Bogner when you see a little's amp is cost in thousands of dollars it's for a reason typically it's because they have these right kind of vintage components and only a few companies are willing to Spring for because they want to make something that's great not just make a profit on a simple piece of garbage I've tried all sorts of newer small new tube stuff little white little Marshall's I've tried all sorts of fender tube amplifiers. And VOX AC 30s.. I don't care for Those amps. They do still sell some of the Fender amps made 1960s and some of those are amazingSo I always look for a tube rectifier it's always a guarantee of quality parts if it has thand and having that makes your each instrument's uniqueness come through each pedal and effect and there you nickname come through I would advise going with like analog pedals I tried EHX back in the day I didn't like him and I figured out that's because I was Using a little transistor amplifier because I didn't know that was the many pieces of garbage sold to musicians that is a complete rip-off in total trash. I mean I might buy my kid a link nap you know for practice it whatever but oh never ever buy regular transistors to ramp again everyone in my life they are only sold to people so some stupid a** company can profit you have people out there all the time buying martial transistor amplifiers because they think they're buying a real martial amp and they just don't know the d*** Difference. You plug in a commercial tuboob like A JCM 800 And then try that against the transistor Marshall that they sell that they make look like it's an actual good amp and you'll hear a world of difference . Go High Voltage. Almost every professional player every type of music is used in tube still there's a reason for that.
I play with 2 ac10 vox tubed amps mixed in left rite ping pong stero it jus kills I used to play two mesa dc5 stereo and Marsha major custom 8 10 tall boy wit carvin65,/100 all tubed three chanell as a 4th mixed in black shadow cab
There is nothing better than a real tube amp and I love the sound of my Rectifier, but the last time I turned it on was a few years ago. By far the biggest difference to digital tho is that you almost always play through a microphone (IR) and don't hear the cab in the room.
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I didn’t own a tube amp in 30 years of playing up until two years ago, and they’re frustrating as fuck and too fucking loud.
So whatd you use to get over a drummer?
Exactly my thoughts
get a load box
@@Jacob22941Not sure what OP used but in my case, I plug into an XAir with my modeler and use in-ears. For live sound I have a power amp and a 2x12 cab. No tubes needed. Had a great big tube rig, cost me tons of money to maintain between tubes/fixes. Never gonna be worth it again now that modelers have caught up. Maybe to some folks that like the feel of an amp, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
@@Jacob22941 sorry, my notifications haven’t been all that great for about a month.
I used a solid state amp. On stage, we’d be mic’d up, so it didn’t seem to matter after that. It was plenty loud at the time, but the tech is a lot better these days.
Devices like the QC sound really good, but for home use, I’m using a drum replacer rather than a real drummer.
I am a bit biased because I love tube amps, but in my opinion tube amps are more popular than ever. There are many boutique builders these days: monomyth, headfirst, ground zero. Bad Cat gained momentum again with Tosin. Bogner Uber Ultra launched last year which was a 6 month wait list just to get one. Fortin Evil Pumpkin dropped last year and was instantly sold out on both runs.
I had 2 Roland JC50s. Each 1x12. When they were connected, the Stereo Chorus would sync together, because they were designed that way. Total "immersion". I regret giving them up.
I used solid state modeling amplifiers for almost 20 years simply because of the price point. Finally decided to dive into the world of tube amplifiers and it has completely changed the game for me. I don’t play gigs or anything I’m just a hobby player, but a midrange tube amp with a power attenuator has given me some of the best tones iv ever gotten. Seems like most of us guitar players are always chasing the perfect tone so things are always changing but I’m pretty happy with my current setup
I built/designed/repaired valve amps for various companies from 2007-2016, before going into valve hifi from 2016-2022.. It's something worth trying for sure. But even I'm a convert now the digital realm is just insane.
Bea knows his shit, but I've known that since I first met him 20 years ago 😂
Tube amps rule , you can use head phones if it’s late night session.
Matchless all day long😊
Its different, mostly feels wise. Less cold 😆 but my neighbours would not like me prolly.
I will say that’s the downside of tube amps lol I had a 6505+ head and barely putting it up to One and that thing was LOUUUUDDD
Hell yes!! I play with 2 peavey 6506+ 112 combo amps. It is something else. He's right.. you NEED to try it
I purchased a valve amp in 2007 when I was 21 it cost me 6.5k and it was because technology had not yet allowed us to do what we can today. Still, there’s nothing quite like the sound of a good tube amp on stage pushing air. Modelling to foh all the way, subsidised by a cab on stage to fill out the mids and help glue it all together
You should try as much as possible. I recently miced up a peavey bandit into a mini mixer, aux out to stereo fx and a tc doubler mini on one side into in-ears. Convulted as anything but i had a great gig.
I will NEVER sell my 6505+ while I do love my amp sims, in any live setting or band setting tube/solid state amps are the way to go they are so fun
I had a 6505+ 112 combo pop up on my OfferUp for $300 but someone got to it before me. I was pretty upset about. Those amps are pretty badass
I remember when I bought a cheap usead fender champ XD, I plugged my guitar, turned on the amp, waited less tan a minute for the amp to start working... The moment I strumed a chord I was: "I get it, I totally get it, this is the best sound ever" I couldn't believe it, it was like watching a movie in 3D
Analog is always better then digital. Analog is after all… real. I mean, the modelers do emulate the real deal lol
Rabea is right. I play in true stereo with a Marshall mod4 tnrough a Marshall JCM 900 4x12 cab and a Mesa Recto verb25. It is AWESOME
Tubes are the only way to go with a band live.
Please please everybody before you buy a tube amplifier. Make sure you try one in a shop where there's other tube amplifiers because they also have a very different power tubes like EL34 Marshall style is on amazing but E084 are Fender and box style and they sound well I don't care for them some blue people do care for them. 6V6 are the same way more of a Steve rivan kind of thing about 6L6 sound nothing like completely different I love 6L6 that's like American rock that's like a Messa boogie. Speak it a Messa boogie they are probably one of the best Some of the best heavy stamps I think out there you can hear the dual rectifior Master of puppets stuff like leopard Messiah just monstrous sound and even in a flat Tuning. Triple rectifierThose were massive and memorials came out in like the late 90s. Like Godsmack and the system will be down and all that new heavy stuff come out. They make some vintage amplifiers too is single rectifire just amazing but some of my favorite amplifiers still are from the 1960s because most of those still had tube rectifiers. I even had this generic harmony 303 a it gets some of the best reviews for sound quality of any amps out there score the well I had a Fender super 6L6 with red knobs Made by Rivera when He worked at Fender. it's scored Only at 8 yeah I thought it's automatic and there's sort of everybody else It even had his own tube reverb. Most of all the newer Fender tubes Most determinable except for the 1960's stuff . And they don't sound really old and ancient like I thought they would. Once you get used to a tube you just cannot go back you will never forget about it you always want to play With tube rest of your days guarantee they won't sound old and These are the things you're hearing and every recording of pretty much every type of music.
He's not wrong. I used to love plugging my tube head into two cabs for shows
Dual outputs and a piezo, so you have one amp dirty, one clean, and a piezo with heavy effect all blended together…while in an empty condemned high school gym
Try it
I have 47 guitars and no tube amp lol
Most agreeable thing Ive heard all day..
I do stereo amp with my an inteface> iPad>TH-U Rig player>500 watt power amp>2xReal Cabs. Profilers feel real.
I’m 17 and my live rig is a 5150 in to a Randall warhead 4x12 and a triple rectifier rev g in to a early 2000s Mesa slant 4x12
Jesus christ bro!
@@s.e.n3264 it’s the best thing ever but I am currently saving for a rev blue or a rev green Bogner Uberschall
My axe fx 3 can model any amp, and improve it, with no weight and at a good volume too. You can use stereo cabs without a tube amp
Rabea is absolutely spot on. Yes yes no one will know the difference in a recorded mix. Not all of us play for the sake of mixing and recording .
But notice he mentions the immersive experience. It is otherworldly.
Before any digital folks get triggered...i play both digital and analogue. Depends on the situation and preference. If i HAD to choose one. It'd be tube amps.
Do whatever the heck inspires you to play end of the day. 💪
Mine Hughes and Kettner Triamp II is turned off for years now... But for live, it would definitely be ON... Real tube amp is the real feel on stage.
OTOH, mine is used constanly, as my home practice amp. That low end thump and incredible tones is the perfect home amp.
I challenge Keyan to make a trip to Qld to play through my amp then go back to modellers. Sure, modellers and recording himself has made him a much more accomplished player than me, but the sound of pyjama legs flapping can't be beat.
When going amp mic'd through stage monitors you wont really feel the amp push because of the low volumes though.
Plz collab 😊
In my opinion analog is much better than digital, to me anlog sounds soo much better, this doesn't apply only to amps, same thing with pedals
Ugh I mean, I love Bea, but you can definitely make the same stereo setup with a modeler (if it supports it) and it would feel pretty much the same!
Rabea is referring to running that setup through real amps and real cabs, rather than monitors or headphones
True, but as he said, “its an overwhelmingly immersive experience” modelers and any digital audio are much easier and more simple to use, and sound just as good if not better than physical stuff, but the physical stuff is more fun to mess with imo, and also if your in an area where you can be loud, playing loud as shit through a giant cab is awesome as fuck everyone should experience it
@@KeyanHoushmandLive Keyaaaaaan ❤️. No I get that but I played with a pair of full range speakers and a pod x3 live (of course now it’s outdated compared to plugins and other modelers) set in stereo and this was as immersive to me as using a head with cabs.
This is definitely a question of tastes and colors but I never felt that I couldn’t get my wall of sound out of full range speakers and a modeler.
You can’t recreate a feel and power of two 4x12 cabinets with 2 studio monitors
I use both tubes and digital. There's just a room filling quality that tube amps have, that's what bea is describing here. You need to play both one after the other and you'll definitely notice it.
Guitar players think their instrument is magic, tube amps included. They suck btw, ill take an FRFR anyday
Amps > plugins
Modellers have an intrinsic "produced" , compressed nature to them that tube amps lack. It makes them practical and easy to live with, like a gelding but they lack the wild stallion edge that tube amps bring. Tube amps need to be tamed by the player. Modellers are docile by nature.
Tube amps is a garbage. Thats an old technology from the past century...
So is the electric guitar.
……is this a sign of me getting old when I see a comment like this na think wow…this new generation is something else lol
@@Darib22AndTheCrew I'd understand if young guitarists chased new and exciting amp models (like Boss originals) but they all run straight to the Fender and Marshall staples on their modellers.
I'm really disgusted with what I'm reading.
Some of you have COMPLETELY missed the point of being metal guitarists...you are missing out on what makes playing a live instrument beautiful...
The garage band experience is one of the great things a person can do...and.... it's done with loud ass tube amps that actually resonate local space...and your body...and your mind.
Man... this sucks.
If you "grew up" with tube amps you're in a privileged minority. Most people can't afford the tube amps that these softwares are simulating.
Three grand+ for a head vs a whole ass setup with dozens of amp plugins?
modelers are cheap and too easy to use, so...
Man if you've never had a f****** 2 bamp and you really don't know what you're missing but do yourself a favor to play Real 2 bamp you had to look for a Real 2 bamp and most of the 2 Bands that are out Right Now for underneath a 1000 Bucks and some Over a 1000 Bucks are not like Real 2 banks 41 thing a lot of them have a Solid State rectifier and you might as well as just get yourself a little cheap $100 Transistor f****** amp and Then tie some tubes at the top and Then just tell people to do it and Then keep that s***** sound I will NeVER ever ever Go back to transistors and like BOSS pedal's cosm or any of these modeling stuff I Mean we have a modeling Practice amp in MY HOUSE and some of the tube sounds are somewhat convincing to some people but I've played a bunch of Different Tube powered guitar amplifiers over the years. Every single one sounds very very different 1 from the next some people love them but I don't care for the EL84 and the 6V6 tubes that's great for Stephen Revan or blue Z type stuff that's like fenders Vox. Marshall's remarkable stacks subject that with tubes are amazing some of them have solid state rectifiers but they're right at that edge of an amp that sounds good like a 2 bamp but if you're not careful with your puddles in your stuff it will be more like a transistor ramp because it does have a chip rectifier I heard bogus but most of all the better sound in amplifiers including the ones that guys use for heavy Heavy metal stuff I would go always with a tube rectifier. I had an old 1962 harmony and those considered generic brand back then they didn't have circuit boards and all the cheap c*** back then so even the little c***** brands of harmony and Silverton we're built like the better brands of apps and I still had the 62 Jensen speaker from Chicago and everything and I lost that I lost my spread of asteroid I want to do some health stuff I have never been able to get so my equipment back after it was stolen because that just cannot get enough work here and I'm outside of Chicago in a row area and there's not s*** for worked here and I've had some kind of illness causing me severe anemia and weird stuff. Non-smoking non drinking healthy totally in shape guy for 44 years old falling apart shouldn't be. Anyways the thing is it's high voltage any guitar equipment that you get is gonna be high voltage is gonna be awesome and I'm sure that I go for other instruments too but especially guitar because you want an amazing distortion and those Old tube amps. They also sound very just the most beautiful thing and clean was just amazing you know I had a couple distortions but I had this turbo overdrive it was an old boss pedal as analog heavy as a Rock and I would kick that on with that app and now it's doing all sorts of you know 70s and 80s classic Rock stuff and I mean it sounded perfect I thought an old app would just sound like s*** and it sounds like The Rolling Stones back in the ancient days as you know something that would not sound good for modern and if then it was sound really c***** but it was by far the best sounds I've ever had were playing out of those old 1960's amplifiers there are some new companies that makes some good ones meso boogie they make amazin advantage type amps with the 2 break to fire because they recognize it that's the best and. Well there you get the sound of like say okay Metallica and master of puppets how seriously f****** heavy that was even for being an Is e flat tuning. But I mean yeah the clipper messiah and it's like this is so extremely heavy and it's the distortion that come from the app that was the dual rectifier Amp with my favorite tubes the ones the tubes that I prefer American rock and metal 6L6 they're very similar to Marshall's E034 which have a similar sound I like Both . Some people who use extreme metal that they use KT88 power tubes. Like layers guitars and diamondbackdare own by a lot of people nowadays still as well I mean that's best for the most wicked of All tube. And if you see once in a great while stuff like Bogner when you see a little's amp is cost in thousands of dollars it's for a reason typically it's because they have these right kind of vintage components and only a few companies are willing to Spring for because they want to make something that's great not just make a profit on a simple piece of garbage I've tried all sorts of newer small new tube stuff little white little Marshall's I've tried all sorts of fender tube amplifiers. And VOX AC 30s.. I don't care for Those amps. They do still sell some of the Fender amps made 1960s and some of those are amazingSo I always look for a tube rectifier it's always a guarantee of quality parts if it has thand and having that makes your each instrument's uniqueness come through each pedal and effect and there you nickname come through I would advise going with like analog pedals I tried EHX back in the day I didn't like him and I figured out that's because I was Using a little transistor amplifier because I didn't know that was the many pieces of garbage sold to musicians that is a complete rip-off in total trash. I mean I might buy my kid a link nap you know for practice it whatever but oh never ever buy regular transistors to ramp again everyone in my life they are only sold to people so some stupid a** company can profit you have people out there all the time buying martial transistor amplifiers because they think they're buying a real martial amp and they just don't know the d*** Difference. You plug in a commercial tuboob like A JCM 800 And then try that against the transistor Marshall that they sell that they make look like it's an actual good amp and you'll hear a world of difference . Go High Voltage. Almost every professional player every type of music is used in tube still there's a reason for that.
I play with 2 ac10 vox tubed amps mixed in left rite ping pong stero it jus kills I used to play two mesa dc5 stereo and Marsha major custom 8 10 tall boy wit carvin65,/100 all tubed three chanell as a 4th mixed in black shadow cab
There is nothing better than a real tube amp and I love the sound of my Rectifier, but the last time I turned it on was a few years ago.
By far the biggest difference to digital tho is that you almost always play through a microphone (IR) and don't hear the cab in the room.