Hey man..this was from the old board..you asked me about the vetta..so I thought I'd just post it on the new and improved message board! enjoy!
Hey floyd..good to talk to you....my opinion on the vetta? Welp, I've had it for a little over a year now. I recently upgraded to the vetta 2 software. I really liked this amp before, but now I'm in love with the thing! The amp models, which were already very tube like during its first incarnation, are even moreso now.
This isn't the first serious amp I've had either. I've had experience with alot of different amps. I started off with solid state. Then I went to a 5150. Then I used the power amp section of that to power a triaxis preamp. Then I traded in the 5150 for a simuclass 290 power amp and mesa cabinet. THEN I traded all THAT in for a triple rectifier..lol...so yeah, I've had some tube amps =) I could never get the sound out of them I wanted. Definetly couldn't get anything close to what VHolic is getting, that's for darn' sure! I think it's the fact that a) I wasn't micing the thing but that's not as important as b) the fact that they were so loud I couldn't crank them enough to get the power tubes REALLY going.
I went to sam ash to get another guitar in addition to my Lynch and the guy plugged me into a line 6 flextone. Sounded pretty nasty. Nice, tight, ballsy. Then I started looking into the vetta. Two amps at once, all the fx you could possibly want, nice and small. I was pretty much sold.
And now with the vetta 2 being out, you could probably get an original for a steal and then just buy a usb-midi interface and upgrade to vetta2. It's the same exact amp except for the look of it and the software.
You can direct record with it or you can mic it. It's got built in noise gate. It's got an arsenal of vintage and moder fx and pedals. An army of vintage and modern amps and cabinets. And lemme tell ya, I've had a triple rectifier and the model is so realistic sounding, it's scary! The tone's pretty much dead on. With two minor exceptions. It's got the sound of that bad boy with the volume cranked and it holds its gain at low volumes. Which is another reason I fell in love with it.
I've been working on a patch using the 5150 II amp models that's comming pretty close to eddie's old school tone.
I could talk about it all day, and I think I'm doing that already so I apologize if this has been long and boring..lol...but I would suggest just bringing in your guitar and your cables (I use monster cables so I brought them into the store with me rather than use the crummy ones they hand out) and plug in and whale away. I was there for about 5 or 6 hours tryin' that thing...
Hope this helps!
Hey floyd..good to talk to you....my opinion on the vetta? Welp, I've had it for a little over a year now. I recently upgraded to the vetta 2 software. I really liked this amp before, but now I'm in love with the thing! The amp models, which were already very tube like during its first incarnation, are even moreso now.
This isn't the first serious amp I've had either. I've had experience with alot of different amps. I started off with solid state. Then I went to a 5150. Then I used the power amp section of that to power a triaxis preamp. Then I traded in the 5150 for a simuclass 290 power amp and mesa cabinet. THEN I traded all THAT in for a triple rectifier..lol...so yeah, I've had some tube amps =) I could never get the sound out of them I wanted. Definetly couldn't get anything close to what VHolic is getting, that's for darn' sure! I think it's the fact that a) I wasn't micing the thing but that's not as important as b) the fact that they were so loud I couldn't crank them enough to get the power tubes REALLY going.
I went to sam ash to get another guitar in addition to my Lynch and the guy plugged me into a line 6 flextone. Sounded pretty nasty. Nice, tight, ballsy. Then I started looking into the vetta. Two amps at once, all the fx you could possibly want, nice and small. I was pretty much sold.
And now with the vetta 2 being out, you could probably get an original for a steal and then just buy a usb-midi interface and upgrade to vetta2. It's the same exact amp except for the look of it and the software.
You can direct record with it or you can mic it. It's got built in noise gate. It's got an arsenal of vintage and moder fx and pedals. An army of vintage and modern amps and cabinets. And lemme tell ya, I've had a triple rectifier and the model is so realistic sounding, it's scary! The tone's pretty much dead on. With two minor exceptions. It's got the sound of that bad boy with the volume cranked and it holds its gain at low volumes. Which is another reason I fell in love with it.
I've been working on a patch using the 5150 II amp models that's comming pretty close to eddie's old school tone.
I could talk about it all day, and I think I'm doing that already so I apologize if this has been long and boring..lol...but I would suggest just bringing in your guitar and your cables (I use monster cables so I brought them into the store with me rather than use the crummy ones they hand out) and plug in and whale away. I was there for about 5 or 6 hours tryin' that thing...
Hope this helps!
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