Solid State Guitar Amp Forum | DIY Guitar Amplifiers
Solid State Amplifiers => The Newcomer's Forum => Topic started by: polo16mi on September 07, 2009, 10:48:31 AM
Hi everobody:
Im just curious about something:
Why regular SS Guitar amp (at least that i see here, in Argentine) dont use tweeters?
Any idea?
Distorted guitar tones will sound obnoxious unless frequencies above ca. 5 kHz are attenuated heavily. Reproducing them with an efficient tweeter would be pretty much the opposite of that.
You can see tweeters in acoustic -and bass amps though, because those applications don't rely so heavily on generating distorted tones and can therefore benefit from a bit wider bandwidth.
To expand a little bit, "acoustic amplifiers" are really small PA systems. They are mostly there to amplify a full range signal faithfully. A guitar amp in contrast is part of the instrument and is intended to color the sound.
A good experiment is to plug your electric guitar into a hone stereo system, or even into a mixer channel input on your band's PA system. Listen to how it sounds through those full range speakers with tweeters. it generally sounds thin and tinny.
In short, we don;t put tweeters on guitar amps because nothig we want to hear would come out of them.