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“So it stays pretty stout all the way through. We're in anti-Joe B land, all the way, digital, solid-state”

Joe Bonamassa, at 0:22 of “Joe Bonamassa Says the LAST THING Tube Amp Manufacturers Want to Hear” on John Nathan Cordy’s channel.

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0:11 myself, all said, "Man, I think that sounds better to me." So I used it on the gig, and it was punchier, clearer, tighter, and what I didn't realize until having something to compare it to was the
0:22 fact that over the course of the evening, the amp doesn't get super hot and start sagging even more.
0:28 So it stays pretty stout all the way through. We're in anti-Joe B land, all the way, digital, solid-state, and it's got the Neo speakers, the Selection Neos, all of which I never used before, but
0:41 they came to me with something that they were confident that I would like, and I was like, "Yeah, I mean, I can't argue with the sound."
0:48 So, from tube purist to the most vocal proponent of a digital amp that I can remember, Joe Bonamassa has kind of switched gears on this stuff in quite a short amount of time, and so I wanted to talk