Difference between Brit 8000 and British Tube Lead 1?

[rspst14]

It looks like both of these amps are based on a JCM 800. British Tube Lead 1 has a reverb control while Brit 8000 does not. Other than that, is there any real difference between the two? Were these modeled from two different JCM 800 amps? Thanks.

[carlaz]

They are from very different eras of AmpliTube. The British Tube Lead 1 dates back to, I think, the AmpliTube 2 era. It has been updated since then: up through AmpliTube 4, it retained the swappable preamp, EQ stack, and power amp sections with which it was originally released; these went away in AmpliTube 5, though other enhancements were made at the same time. The Brit 8000 was an all new model from the AmpliTube 4 era (though whether or not IKM based it on the same physical JCM800, I don't know -- that's one that perhaps only the IKM engineers could possibly answer!).

In general, I would say that you can expect both models to sound fairly similar, though the Brit 8000 is, of course, newer and thus perhaps more "accurate".