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Transistor Amplifiers (or Solid State Amplifiers)

Editorial Team · December 27, 2022 ·

While tube amplifiers are the preferred type of amplifier for most musicians, their price, weight, and maintenance needed usually deter many of us.

The solid-state or transistor amplifiers are often very light (as low as 4 lbs) and inexpensive. There are some significant benefits to solid-state amplifiers too.

  1. They turn on immediately,
  2. They are usually very dependable,
  3. They will not fail if there is no speaker load on the outputs.
  4. Most can handle speaker impedance loads down to 2 and 4 ohms,
  5. Solid-state amplifiers can develop very high power (i.e. 1KW and more).

Below is a nice solid-state amplifier of mine, the Peavey Delta Bass head amplifier.

peavey_bassamplifier_head

This amplifier provides 160 watts of power at a 4-ohm load. The front-end circuitry of this amp is similar to the Session and Nitro amp heads, which is an all-transistor pre-amp section. For a solid-state amplifier, this amp has a very good sound.

Below is a Carvin DCM-1000 stereo power amplifier. This is a 100% transistor (solid-state) amplifier.

The nice thing about solid-state amps is that they are very flat over the frequency spectrum, and they do not color the sound as tubes do.

So if you have a nice-sounding tube amplifier, but it only puts out 50 watts, you can connect it to a big solid-state amplifier like the one above, and you have a real workhorse of an amplifier.

Check the Resources page for locations to purchase solid-state amplifiers.

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