The Best Selling “Amp” of 2024?! | Dipped in Tone Podcast
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Rhett and Zach dive into the top selling gear of 2024 on Reverb.com with special guest Cyril Nigg of Reverb. Cyril helps us take a look behind the curtain so to speak of what gear sold and we get some details on top sellers that didn’t get posted to the site. Buckle up, things get wild on this one.
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Rhett's "Everyone playing the same thing?" point is such nonsense. This is just a list of the most popular amps this year, and it happens to be a quad cortex this time. If next year it was back to being a fender twin, would he be saying everybody was playing the same thing? No.
To be honest, I can't afford a good tube amp, and a modeller is such a higher bang for the buck it's not even a comparison. Maybe if I find a model that I really love and have the money, I'll get that amp, but I don't see that ever happening. The cost of a good tube amp is just not worth it for me, especially when you alter the sound a great deal with pedals (often digitally like a Chase Bliss Mood II or Meris Mercury X). The "everyone playing the same thing" argument seems a little silly seeing as you almost always see a Twin Reverb, Bassman, AC30, etc. It's not like variety is something huge in the tube amp world.
The most recorded amp of all time is the Fender Princeton Reverb. All of those albums sound the same?
Rhett, I am with you…. Gimme my Vibrolux Reverb and my pedal board and I can make as many sounds as a modeler. I've yet to play a modeler that can do the volume roll off on the guitar right. Tubes are the way to go. They just sound better and respond better to p[ick attack and volume control changes on the guitar.
I think the funky Norlin era and 70's Fender guitars sell better than expected because of price. If people start looking at vintage guitars, if you don't know this stuff already, the prices on the prime era instruments will freak you out. The "next best" thing in their minds then would seem to be the vintage – but not golden years instruments that are less expensive (although those prices have already risen considerably anyway!)
I get over my midiphobia by using channels 1 & 2 on my Strats. Easy fix.
Y'all the best journal/planner is the full focus planner. Seriously so good
I'm pushing 60 and have played Strats, Les Pauls Tele's etc through a variety of valve amps (most recently Mesa Boogie Caliber 50). After buying a PRS custom 24 and a Spark Live I'm now in the process of selling literally everything else including effects pedals. Couldnt be happier with my setup! I think the pendulum may swing back slightly to valve amps but not by much!
This year the modellers got pushed hard on people. They take up less space and are in theory more convenient so they are more likely to sell.
Some time ago you could sell amp saying that it sounded "different/better than the amp that you have at home". Now that is not the case anymore – people do not buy that many amps anymore. Instead companies are trying to push modellers saying that "they sound the same as your amp at home, but takes up less space" although it does not sound the same in the room at all. In most cases it is also a gateway to get you hooked on their software and sometimes even subscription service, so just like any other company, they will sell you anything and say everything that you want to hear if it helps to sell you something more.
Rhett saying something will come out and people will go back to amps… unlikely, sorry it's only going more the digital way in the future. It's kinda like record players, they sound great and a small niche of people love them and use them but the masses aren't going back to them.
I say that as someone who loves guitar amps and have spend a fortune on two Victoria Amps (Bassman and Deluxe) and use modellers too (Fractal etc).
Saxophone player here, I enjoy the podcast, here’s my outsider take on the amp situation: tube amps will always be the “real thing” and they will continue to be used in the studio and in live scenarios by people who care when feasible. A somewhat good comparison is with pianos: I would assume nords will always outsell Steinways, but everyone knows a full size grand piano is the “real thing”. Tube amps will get less common, and more expensive, but more prestigious.
I'm disappointed that the Wampler Germanium Tumnus is so high up – don't get me wrong, I love Wampler, but here's the thing: the Germanium Tumnus was a limited edition run. So this probably means that most them changing hands on Reverb were sold by flippers.
Wait, 'sounding the same' is a criticism? Why is every second video all about how to sound as close as possible to the same artists and how to chase specific old gear tones. Modelers let you get a ballpark tone that can be individually tweaked to each person's taste/ear, personally I think this accessibility is fantastic.
Cyril’s last name is wild lol
That's kinda funny. I sold a Silver Sky at the beginning of the year. I bought it at a Christmas price that was just too good to be true, and then I sold it when I realized I'm not really much for strat's. It was gorgeous though. That moon white is beautiful.
Definitely heart breaking.
Well Rhett, I understand what you say, but I don't think it will swing back. You know, with the modelers it is like with the Windows Systems. Everything gets better and better, all you have to do is to adjust your expectations… No, for real, I'd rather play a Fender Frontman 10G than playing an 17k Quad Cortex telling the world i could not afford tube amps.
Amps are great, @rhettshull but they will never more outsell modelers.
14:00 so you are telling me that American strats are outselling all squiers and epiphones? Only one squier made the list and zero epiphones according to this list? Bullshit.
Not surprised by this at all. Tubes are never coming back. Not in this economy! They're just too expensive. Older Youtubers are in a gear bubble. Tube amps are expensive, heavy and loud. A lot of younger players don't even play amps let alone tube amps. If you're a young person you might already own a laptop, so if you're like many young people who don't have much expendible income, you can get a great plugin for like $100 or a cheap modelling unit. Tube amp for $1000 isn't looking like a good option, considering all the pedals etc that would be needed to match the digitial world.
Rhett I am with you bro! Tube amps are the only real deal…. unless it's a vintage LINE6 POD… ; ; ; Nothing rocks like that upper mid digital harshness!!!
Reverb desperately needs to improve their search engine. If something is very slightly misspelled nothing shows up. You have to have the exact right combo of words to properly search something. This is something that most search engines have found a solution to at this point.
This mistake loses a lot of money for sellers and makes it more difficult for buyers to find what they are looking for ????
Zach. Pretty obvious nobody selling Mythos pedals cos they're loving it and not selling it. ????.
In the late seventies and eighties Japan was the reason why we had great guitars to play. Come to find out they were actually better than all the others
The death of the tube amp isn’t the death of the tube amp specifically. It’s the death of the amp. I’m gonna hazard a guess here that the reason modelers are taking over is that people don’t need to be loud any more. The reason for that is they are not playing with drummers… or anyone else for that matter. They’re mostly playing at home. By themselves. That’s the part I find sad. I’ll always have an amp as I will always play in a band and write songs. That’s what it’s all about for me. But everyone to their own I guess.
When I think about the guitar tone of Van Halen ,Slash, David Gilmore, Angus Young, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. I have to ask myself if they had a Quad Cortex, would they have had these iconic guitar tones? Well we know the answer to that. Noooooooo!!!!!!!
The dirty Shirley/twin sister is the best sounding amp in the last 40 years
I love reverb (and it loves me I have dropped coin) But this whole category is trash LOL data scientists everywhere crying. "oh its amps AND modelers" LOL. Whats next? '"Guitars and keyboards that have guitar samples! The Casio 69666B900 is the highest selling guitar!"
Honestly, it's like film photography. Or CD's back in the day. Honestly Rhett, I love you but you're part of the problem. You've never developed "your sound." You're a master of all sounds and the only affordable way to achieve that is with modelers..
In a few short years all the software will be outdated — They won’t sound too good then. It doesn’t have to sound perfect it’s about being cool. Tubes tubes tubes
Thank you.
I love exploring modelers, specifically the UA stuff. That way I can determine if I actually want a Marshall plexi style amp, or an old blackface fender, or a tweed. I’ve not able to try all of these amps at my local store. So it makes more sense to try the modelers. Now I know what I want, and I’m holding out for it.