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Music Appreciation

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5. Polytone...a solid-state amp, right?

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #4)

Fri May 9, 2025, 04:15 PM

May 9

If so, yuck. The only SS amps I ever really liked were the Roland JC-120 and a Gallien-Kreuger preamp from the '90s. Even then, I only liked them for certain sounds. (The JC-120 is famous for being about 75% of the "80s guitar sound": that super-clean, brickwall-compressed tone with tons of stereo chorus on it).

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