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I've had good experiences using certain SS amps. I still have an old Lab Series L11 head around here, although I haven't gigged with it in over a couple of years. I've recorded with it too. Sounds great IMO. I've also had good experiences onstage with Tech 21 stuff, BluesCubes, and the clean channel of a Peavey Bandit 65 along with a Morley JD-10 preamp was my main setup several years ago.
One thing I've noticed with SS is that tone controls seem to be a little extreme. If you change a setting only slightly you get a major tone change - not always for the better. You end up tweaking the thing ENDLESSLY trying to find that "sweet spot". With a good tube amp, you walk up to it, plug in, and BANG - there's the amps tone! The tone controls just fine tune what's already there. That doesn't seem to happen even with GOOD solid state.
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