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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:12 pm
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I have a Princeton Chorus that I bought in 1995. It's made in USA and has some unbelievable sounds. You can get them on eBay pretty cheap. It's got 2x10s, stereo chorus that is rich and pretty, two channels, fx loop, and can get VERY loud if you need it to. I play a 95 Strat through it and I can get just about any sound I want. The cleans are what you'd expect from Fender: shimmery and beautiful. The distortion is pretty damn good, as well. I've heard that some people don't care for the distortion channel but I've learned how to dial it in quite easily.

Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore.


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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:55 pm
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Hmmmmm.....

I wrote something but deleted it because it was sarcastic and rude!

Now I will say why? Fender make affordable tube amps (thank goodness!).

I won't ever go back to trannies. I've never looked back.

When I listen to old recordings I made with my band using a now disocontinued champion 300, it sounds so flat and one dimensional.

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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:08 pm
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Say what you have to say. We are all big boys here. :)

I like tubes, as well. I also like to play while my kids are asleep. I'll say this as an addendum: the Princeton Chorus sounds great for a solid state amp. Out of all the SS amps I've heard, it's the best by far. This isn't about tubes vs SS...


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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:05 pm
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The Princeton Chorus is pretty good. The original discontinued Stage series amps (with a real spring reverb) were pretty good too. Want a really good ss amp? Try the jazz master ultra light. Top of the heap is the Cyber Twin.

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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:51 am
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The old red-knob Princeton Chorus solid-state amps were really good sounding amps; back in the early 1990s we used to use one for a practice room PA system for vocals!
Considering the fact that I massively prefer tube amps and I personally dislike chorus--I've never owned a chorus pedal or used the effect on any of my recordings or live shows--that amp actually sounded good for guitar, just a little on the bright side.

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arent the jazz king and steelking solidstate? Their both great


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I bought a Fender Jazzmaster Ultralight in July and it has replaced several tube amps. It sounds as good as a friend's '67 Super but it weighs only 25.6 lb, with 250 watts. It's my first solid state amp since I got my '63 Silvertone Twin Twelve in 1974, and it is nearly perfect. Great clean channel, great distortion channel, included foot switch, and it's unobtrusive. Guys who want a big stack won't dig it, but if it's tone, rather than male jewelry, you're after, it kills.

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:44 pm
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Solid state can sound great, though you really have to upgrade the components to a point when the inexpensive tube stuff generally will perform better.

As a bassist, I love my high quality solid state gear as with the jazz guitarists. I love the consistency and cleanliness that are available to me. The big difference when you start adding distortion to the picture, even if you use an solid state overdrive (very common - the late S.R.V. & his TS8 through a Fender tube combo = awesome tone), through an amplifier, the tube amplifiers tend to take the unmusical edges from the sound. They also add an amount of compression that a solid state amplifiers can’t quite reduplicate.

So if you can, try to find the best amplifier that fits your budget...regardless of its power amp. type.


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