I am relatively new to playing electric guitar, while I do have an ongoing interest in vinyl turntables. I have amplifiers for my vinyl setup, but as I started to acquire equipment for my electric guitar, I came across a large speaker with an amp built into it called a “guitar amplifier.” There are also stand-alone amplifiers that are specifically designed for guitars, like the “Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box.” I’m curious about the difference between the two and whether it would be possible to use a guitar amplifier like the “Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box” on my vinyl setup.
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Signals have strength. Amplifier takes very weak guitar signal at example 10mV and amplifies/multiplies it by a hundred thousand to get to 100v so it has volume. If you turn up the volume knob, it may amplify it to 150v and so on.
But an amp has max voltage it can go up to before the signal starts sounding distorted. If the amp can go to 100v, but you put the volume knob to 150v, the signal gets clipped and distorts.
Here’s the thing: guitar amps are designed to do precisely this and they are good at it. If a normal audio amplifier was designed to distort on purpose at higher volumes no one would by it.
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