Quotes About Amplifier

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for short delay. I don't think I could live without that pedal.

I'll have a chorus pedal or a flanger or an echo, that kind of thing. But as far as specific pedals, the one that's really been a mainstay is the TC Electronic MojoMojo.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

There are always three factors involved in survival, no matter how toxic the environment. One is the physical reality; the second is dumb luck; and the third is the response of the organism, which can often modify the influence of the first two. The relationship of these three factors can be imagined as dials on an amplifier, with survival depending on the overall mix.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

An amplifier host is a creature in which a virus or other pathogen replicates—and from which it spews—with extraordinary abundance. Some aspect of the host's physiology, or its immune system, or its particular history of interaction with the bug, or who knows what, accounts for this especially hospitable role.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

My amp setup is the same that Ive had for years. Its a Fender Princeton side-by-side with a Fender Tweed Deluxe. Thats my main sound. And then behind that I have a Leslie that is set on slow. Its kind of on all the time, just for some depth.