The key behind it is the headroom. It featured the same idea and components than the watt heads but used KT88 valves usually present in bass amps to obtain watts of power. This is, of course, a dream gig to play in huge venues, but it is also the perfect example of how a valve head amp can have huge headroom and the next close to none. The Marshall Major is watts and the Silver Jubilee is only I have written an article that discusses the difference between guitar and keyboard amps.
You can read it here. Changing the first of the three for a 12at7 ECC81 will clean up the sound a lot. This is because 12ax7 are designed for high gain and 12at7 are designed for low gain. A compressor and a chorus were more important to the early eighties than the white makeup and the hair. A compressor can help you boost your clean tones beyond the usual headroom of your amp without distorting. Your guitar volume knob is not solely that, but a gain knob as well. If your amp starts overdriving at 4 and you just love that rich harmonic overtone coming from it, just roll your guitar volume down to 7 or 8 and your sound will clean up.
There are many players out there that just play with their volume knob and no pedals. You can also do it on the floor with an Ernie Ball volume pedal for example. Depending on the style of music you play, organic valve tones might be very welcome or not.
I have written an article that discusses the differences between guitar and bass amps. The important thing is to find your voice and stop struggling with gear.
As it relates to guitar and bass amplifiers, headroom refers to how loud you can turn up an amp before it begins to distort. More precisely, it is the gap between an amp's normal operational volume level and the maximum level it can operate at without distortion. You may also hear this referred to as clean headroom.
Imagine you are traveling down a highway where the speed limit is 70 mph. No problem. You are driving a sports car with a powerful engine and you can go 70 while barely pressing on the gas pedal. The ride is smooth and comfortable, and if you wanted to you could go much faster without causing strain on your vehicle or the passengers. In fact, if you were to find yourself in a bad spot, a quick press of the gas will speed you up and get you out of danger.
Your car has plenty of power for that situation, and even power to spare. You have to stomp the gas to the floor to hit 70 mph. The car shakes and rattles down the highway, and the engine sounds like it is going to explode. You have no more available power. In that example, obviously, the powerful sports car is an amp with a lot of headroom, and the tiny compact car is an amp with much less headroom.
Even if the speed limit were 90 our sports car could get the job done, but the little car has no hope of keeping up with that pace. More power usually means more headroom. However, it is just as important to consider that if the speed limit were 30 mph the little compact car would do just fine.
While headroom is valuable, how much it matters to you is highly dependant on your playing situation. Similarly, how hard you drive your amp versus how hard it can be driven factor into its headroom. In the guitar world, headroom usually refers to how hard you can push an amp before it starts to distort.
Some tube guitar amps are designed to be very loud and clean the venerable Fender Twin Reverb being a great example. In another example, if your gig would just barely be covered by, say, a watt guitar amp driven hard, a watt amp would give you plenty of headroom to turn up as loud as necessary without introducing unwanted amp distortion and without pushing the amp as hard.
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