I’ve been curious about this for a while. I’ve never played with a tube amp before. Only digital amps like my positive grid spark 40. That thing has like 30 different amps it can emulate and 50+ effects as well, and I regularly use different amps and settings. I probably have 10 entirely different presets I use at least fairly regularly. For people who only use tube amps, how do you get different tones for different styles of music? Do you just use the same amp to play clean sparkly tones and then use pedals to get a thick high gain metal tone? Are these amps more versatile than I thought, or is it fairly limiting to only have 1 amp, and rely on pedals to morph your tone? Or do most people have more than 1 tube amp for different use cases?
I’ve always been curious about upgrading to a real tube amp, as ofc the sound quality is much better and more authentic, but I just can’t shake the feeling that no matter what I chose I’d end up disappointed when I can’t get a good jazz like clean tone, a British style rock tone, a glassy Indy- type tone, and a mid scooped high gain metal tone with just one amp. Building a pedal board also seems very time consuming and expensive on top of the amps being expensive, and all of it combined just kinda puts me off of the idea of ever getting a real tune amp