Ideas on Blues tones

[RKF]

It has nothing to do with cork sniffing, and it doesn't matter if Matchless or Vox calls it class A.

It's a matter of electrical engineering. It simply is not class A. It's an objective fact.

Cool. Cheers.

 

[Greg Ferguson]

JTM 45 is not bad for Blues.

Correct. Clapton and Duane Allman got some great tones.

Yek's guide is useful reading for finding suitable amps and their settings.

 

[Greg Ferguson]

I like the TX Star, the Bludojai, Vox AC30TB, and the Carr.

The TX Star, AKA Mesa Lonestar, is a great blues amp. Mesa's documentation is a must read as the amp's settings are very interactive and it can do a lot. And, again,Yek's guide is very useful. The Bludojai is based on Robin Ford's Dumble if I remember right, and also nicely documented in Yek's guide.

 

[Greg Ferguson]

I think only the Lonestar Special is Class-A. The model in the AX8 is the 100w Lonestar Class-AB model. If I'm wrong about that, someone please correct me.

The 100w and 50w settings are Class AB. The 10w setting is a single tube in Class A. From the Mesa site...

This allows you to assign and configure the 6L6's to produce either 10 watts of Pure Class A Single-Ended clippability, or 50 or 100 watts of Class AB Push-Pull power PER channel.

That said, Fractal didn't model the class A setting, but I'm sure there are ways to get there.