you can't plug ANY tube amps into a sound system and run speakeless without A) a specialized loading device like a Palmer, mesa, Two Notes or Radial tube-amp DI box with speaker simulation and a reactive load or B) risking blowing your amp up (and also sounding piss poor while doing it). Not from a line-out jack uness the ehad specifically says that the line put jack is for SILENT RECORDING where a massive power resistor is put in line whenever you plug into said jack. Otherwise its a line out from the preamp and the amp is running with no load and will striahgt up die if you keep up that sort of abuse to it.
There is no point in plugging a solid state amp into a solid state PA as far as I can tell though because it basically IS a solid state PA with a little shaping circuitry tht the mixing board could easily mimic with parametric EQ. The only thing giving a solid state amp any character at all is typically the pedals and the speaker. You just eliminated the speaker. I guess get a high end DI box for your pedal board or buy a used POD... or play somewhere other than church where they understand that the electric guitar is supposed to be LOUDER than the drummer and easily able to cut the mix in the biggest of bands, that's why they invented pickups in the first place. There's too loud, and there's having your balls taken off by a whiney, controlling, old sound guy who thinks that we musicians can't balance ourselves in a musically appropriate way. Many people can't, but many of us are real musicans and we understand to turn down and to use our firepower in service of the music, not as a full scale nuclear strike on our own bandmates.
I am not sure why anyone would plug an amp right into a PA anyway, it defeats the purpose of having a dedicated instrument amp. They make products for this sort of thing though, they are just expensive for the good stuff. A good tube amp is actually cheaper. If someone told me to plug my amp into the PA I would look at them like they're uncle is also their father and I also might take my ac30 and go home.
suit yourself with the swede, it seems like a lot of money for a modern, far east copy f a mediocre vintage LP copy.... if it were cheaper I would be like "what what? sign me up!" I can tell you just like it because its got some deangelico look to it and you are fixated on their new line of solidbodies.
The Greco is just an okay guitar. It has features that EVERY DECENT ELECTRIC in the Gibson camp oughta have, but none do any more.
on your friend's overfuzzy sound, has it occurred to you that the amp and the fact that hes slamming that lineout into an extremely high impedance input while leaving the power section operating without a laod, a virtually INFINITE impedance, and not a matched low impedance inductor like, say, a SPEAKER like it was designed to work with JUST MIGHT have something to do wtih the fuzzy response from his gear and maybe not so much the Gibson he has? that and Kustom has never made great amps, just awesome cabinets.
Okay, done. Just put that stuff about amps into PA systems in the back of your mind before you do anything weird with YOUR gear.
