Quilter clean with TB202 vs OD202

**CaptainLemming** · 10-08-2021, 04:49 PM

Has anyone done a side by side comparison of these two amps playing clean?

Do the 3 modes sound any different across the models? Is the difference subtle or extreme?

Maybe I'm watching the wrong videos online but, despite the descriptions in the manuals, they dont sound too different.

Thanks

**jasonc** · 10-08-2021, 07:08 PM

I just replaced my OD200 (not 202) for a TB202 and I love it. The difference between the Full-q and the Blackface/Fender or whatever they call it aren’t night and day but they are different. I much prefer the Full-q but never use the FRFR. They did a good job emulating a Fender with their setting... now you can have the bass knob all the way down on a solid state amp too! The limiter is also really useful for getting it to feel a little more like a tube amp. I got really good tones from the OD200 but the TB has the features I really wanted but the TB didn’t exist when I bought the OD.

**jads57** · 10-09-2021, 02:55 PM

I also have a TB202 and Love It! Clean is excellent, enough power , portable, use pedals for overdrive which I think sound better.

**BigDaddyLoveHandles** · 10-09-2021, 04:19 PM

One thing I hear again and again is that SS amps are better as clean platforms; use a pedal for overdrive.

Why is this? There's no royal jelly involved. Why can't what's in a pedal get stuck into an amp?

**nevershouldhavesoldit** · 10-09-2021, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles

Why can't what's in a pedal get stuck into an amp?

Been done, didn’t sell. Start with the line of Ibanez Tube Screamer amplifiers. They stuck TS circuitry into amps at a few outputs from 5 to 50 watts, as I recall. I’m pretty sure they stopped making them - but they still sell a ton of the multiple TS pedals they offer.

There are hundreds of competing effects, many of which sound close to each other but most of which have devoted users who wouldn’t consider an alternative even though few of us would hear a difference between them. The same is true for amps. That’s a sales and marketing nightmare.

Modeling amps are a good way to encompass multiple amps and effects in one box, and the good ones I’ve heard are very good indeed. That seems to me like the way to go if you want or need multiple effects.