Hsb
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I had a microstack in white. Got opening it up and found some sexy time letter a girl had written to the previous young lad
Amp regrets?
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I had a microstack in white. Got opening it up and found some sexy time letter a girl had written to the previous young lad
DCikes88
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That's what gave it some extra mojo
No big regrets. Only a silly Cube 80GX. An overdrive and eq pedal infront, and you could get awesome tones and LOUD. It had punch for days.
1x12 but in a small cab. Would've loved to hear it in a bigger cab with a "hotter" speaker.
That would've been awesome. Sold it stock for peanuts when times were toight, as usual with gear.
El Dunco
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I do have another amp that does the job (like a hot rodded SS 5150 with very sculptable tone l, very rare, never selling) but the Randall Rh200g2 halfstack served me well for the longest time but it was just going unused with the flagship Marshall and Mesa I got after.
Ascension
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One in particular. The one off 100 watt Fender Prosonic head with Reverb I bought from Brad Whitford. Got crossed with a local political group and they tried to destroy us financially. Had to sell off a bunch of gear that can never be replaced to survive. That one still hurts but at least I saved our house. Bruce Zinky signed my Blue Velvet I bought later which was cool so.
Recorded all the guitar tracks here with her and my Washburn MG 102.
Recorded all the guitar tracks here with her and my Washburn MG 102.
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El Dunco
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I hear tubes have to be certain distance from each other for interference and heat reasons and that absolutely shouldn’t be.
JamesPaul
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Old technology man. It reads like they really are too close to properly dissipate the heat. Once those electrons start flying, if they miss the plate they might go right through the glass...
The story I heard on the Rev Jr was that they had originally designed the layout for small-bottle tubes, not sure which ones, but it was only a 20w amp, and then after the fact they decided it would sell better with the 6L6/5881 pair, so they tried them and they fit with barely a sliver between them.
JamesPaul
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I could see them doing that. Likely two EL84 or 6V6. Still, their engineers should have told them they could make 20W with a single 6L6/5881. They would have to convert to Class A, but I do not know of any 6L6 amp that truly relies on power tube distortion. Maybe the phase inverter breaking down, but they likely could have handled that in the preamp design. If the small bottles were EL84, they should have had room to add in another preamp tube if needed. But they did not ask/pay for my recommendations, so I will not let it get to me.
The Guitar
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Not one, but two Peavey Rockamster preamps.
80's_Thrash_Metal
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My first 6505+
JamesPaul
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Yeah, you should have just cut that thing in half and kept part of it. It has enough gain for 2 people!
80's_Thrash_Metal
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Agreed!
treyhaislip
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I have sold/traded several amps that I wish I could get back but none more than a Mesa DC-5 Combo. Amp sounded killer and the 5 way EQ could dial in Marshal and Fender tones...very versatile.
Ascension
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Wish I would have kept the JCM 900 MK III 50 watt Dual Master combo I had. Kinda a one trick Pony but man what tone! Always figured I would find a head but never did.
Also miss my Boogie .50 cal plus head. Had a love hate with it as it had no control of the gains between the clean and crunch so sold it and bought a DC 5 head. Never liked the DC 5 but loved the crunch on the .50 cal plus.
Another would be my very early Hot Rod Mod Carvin X 100 head. That one was voiced differently from any other Carvin X amp I have heard. Had a compression and release on the high gain side that just sang and would break into glorious controlled feedback like nothing else. Found a same year X 50 Hot Rod Mod head in a pawn shop a few years back but it's not the same.
I was playing guitar in a huge mega Church when I had the X 100 and ran a full 100 watt half stack on stage at volume with nothing but a compressor for clean sustain and a delay in the loop it was glorious! Here is a live clip from my old mini disc set up at the sound desk played in front of 4000 or so several services a week here for about 6 years miss that amp and that place!
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=4453782
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5049360
Also miss my Boogie .50 cal plus head. Had a love hate with it as it had no control of the gains between the clean and crunch so sold it and bought a DC 5 head. Never liked the DC 5 but loved the crunch on the .50 cal plus.
Another would be my very early Hot Rod Mod Carvin X 100 head. That one was voiced differently from any other Carvin X amp I have heard. Had a compression and release on the high gain side that just sang and would break into glorious controlled feedback like nothing else. Found a same year X 50 Hot Rod Mod head in a pawn shop a few years back but it's not the same.
I was playing guitar in a huge mega Church when I had the X 100 and ran a full 100 watt half stack on stage at volume with nothing but a compressor for clean sustain and a delay in the loop it was glorious! Here is a live clip from my old mini disc set up at the sound desk played in front of 4000 or so several services a week here for about 6 years miss that amp and that place!
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=4453782
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=5049360
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Ascension
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Man that's disappointing to read! I have only had experience with the older Vibro-Kings from back in the 90's when Bruce Zinky was running the Fender Custom shop. One of the absolute best sounding amps I have ever plugged into from anybody! Also were built like tanks and had NO Chinese junk parts inside. Sounds like the later ones really took a dive in quality control and materials!! Sign of the times unfortunately :banghead:
