Lazarus1140
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I would like to try a Tone King Metropolitan ... and will.
I would like to try a Tone King Metropolitan ... and will.
Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something better?
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misterwhizzy
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
Oh, you're a dirty man. And only because I'm jealous. Like super jealous. Like Gumby green jealous.
Once I had Dave Friedman tweak my Marshalls, I lost all my amp GAS.
Oh, you're a dirty man. And only because I'm jealous. Like super jealous. Like Gumby green jealous.
xxxplorer
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I love my JCM800. I have often wanted to send it to Dave Friedman, but I am stoked enough with it and the fulldrive 2. I can get any tone I want with a roll of a volume knob or kick in the od.
If I had an amp with more buttons I'd prob be tweaking to much. I did recently add a power amp and roland reverb and iso box and run a wet dry set up. Love it... And I don't even use the delay for the delay! I run the time around 40ms and adjust the depth and rate to taste and it's a thick chewy knarly chorus!
I love my JCM800. I have often wanted to send it to Dave Friedman, but I am stoked enough with it and the fulldrive 2. I can get any tone I want with a roll of a volume knob or kick in the od.
If I had an amp with more buttons I'd prob be tweaking to much. I did recently add a power amp and roland reverb and iso box and run a wet dry set up. Love it... And I don't even use the delay for the delay! I run the time around 40ms and adjust the depth and rate to taste and it's a thick chewy knarly chorus!
3'scompany
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
For the first time, yes. I recently bought a Bogner Uberschall and I've never been happier with an amp. I realistically couldn't ask for more from an amp. I was also really happy with my recto once I swapped the 6L6s with 6V6s and would like to get another one day, but I wasn't quite as happy with it as I am with the Bogner.
That being said, I find amps to be a weird thing, for me at least. I typically think that guitarists are much more likely to have multiple guitars, which often cost as much as amps, than multiple amps. Maybe it is a physical size thing (making storage an issue), but I find this peculiar. Amps have a huge effect on your sound and I feel as though one guitar with 4 different amps to choose from will give you more versatility than 1 amp with four different guitars to plug in. But even still, at any given point in my guitar playing history I've had between 2-4 times as many guitars as I've owned amps, and I've owned multiple amps at the same time.
I would love to have a couple more amps, and I'm sure I eventually will in the future. However, that desire to own other amps does not derive from a desire to improve on what I currently own, but rather to achieve different tones.
Just thinking out loud.
For the first time, yes. I recently bought a Bogner Uberschall and I've never been happier with an amp. I realistically couldn't ask for more from an amp. I was also really happy with my recto once I swapped the 6L6s with 6V6s and would like to get another one day, but I wasn't quite as happy with it as I am with the Bogner.
That being said, I find amps to be a weird thing, for me at least. I typically think that guitarists are much more likely to have multiple guitars, which often cost as much as amps, than multiple amps. Maybe it is a physical size thing (making storage an issue), but I find this peculiar. Amps have a huge effect on your sound and I feel as though one guitar with 4 different amps to choose from will give you more versatility than 1 amp with four different guitars to plug in. But even still, at any given point in my guitar playing history I've had between 2-4 times as many guitars as I've owned amps, and I've owned multiple amps at the same time.
I would love to have a couple more amps, and I'm sure I eventually will in the future. However, that desire to own other amps does not derive from a desire to improve on what I currently own, but rather to achieve different tones.
Just thinking out loud.
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VanDerchuck
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I'm always looking for something different. Then again, everything I have is home made and I'll run two amps into one 4x12 cab just for the fun of it. Oh, and then add different pedals into each amp. If i had space for more cabs and amps I'd play them all at once.
I'm always looking for something different. Then again, everything I have is home made and I'll run two amps into one 4x12 cab just for the fun of it. Oh, and then add different pedals into each amp. If i had space for more cabs and amps I'd play them all at once.
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I have a '69 Princeton Reverb and a low power amplifier Ampeg Jet II. I have an Ampeg V4 Ampeg amplifiers and high-watt Super Rocket. I have a Reverberocket as a middle-watt amplifier, this sounds good, but there is too much margin.
I have a '69 Princeton Reverb and a low power amplifier Ampeg Jet II. I have an Ampeg V4 Ampeg amplifiers and high-watt Super Rocket. I have a Reverberocket as a middle-watt amplifier, this sounds good, but there is too much margin.
Left_Hand_Strat
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I have the blackstar HT-5 and I like it an awful lot...
BUT.... due to the fact our practice space lets us use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp I am starting to get addicted to fender amps... especially the hotrod deluxe. It sounds fantastic!
I have the blackstar HT-5 and I like it an awful lot...
BUT.... due to the fact our practice space lets us use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp I am starting to get addicted to fender amps... especially the hotrod deluxe. It sounds fantastic!
rammer69
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
i am very happy with my CARVIN V3 , so happy that i got the new one that has the led's, i leave the first one at the drummers practice place, the new one stays home, what i really want is the new KEMPER profiling amp,my buddy has one , you can profile any amp.. it never hurts to want something new( it only hurts the bank account)..
i am very happy with my CARVIN V3 , so happy that i got the new one that has the led's, i leave the first one at the drummers practice place, the new one stays home, what i really want is the new KEMPER profiling amp,my buddy has one , you can profile any amp.. it never hurts to want something new( it only hurts the bank account)..
NecroPolo
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I loved my stage amps and used the very same setup for 6-7 years or so. Spine problems forced me to reduce the wheight and I'm okay with the present mini gig-rig, too. In the studio, I'm always on the mission to try anything and everything to find a sound that supports the actual band the most.
I loved my stage amps and used the very same setup for 6-7 years or so. Spine problems forced me to reduce the wheight and I'm okay with the present mini gig-rig, too. In the studio, I'm always on the mission to try anything and everything to find a sound that supports the actual band the most.
eschoendorff
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
Same here. If I cannot find my sound with a DSL50, A Mesa DC-5, a Marshall Class 5 or a Vox AD30VT, then the problem is me.
Got all I want and need.
Just play and play now.
If something is wrong, well then it is me who needs adjustment or a break
Same here. If I cannot find my sound with a DSL50, A Mesa DC-5, a Marshall Class 5 or a Vox AD30VT, then the problem is me.
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H8Red442
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Love my Mesa Single though I'm intrigued by the Mini Recto and I would like to have a Rectoverb for the well verb... Other than that I'm content.
Love my Mesa Single though I'm intrigued by the Mini Recto and I would like to have a Rectoverb for the well verb... Other than that I'm content.
d1dsj
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
Hell yeah, I'm real happy and have been for quite a while. However if I did have some disposable income I would still like to add some old classics like a blackface Bassman and early 70's smallbox superlead.
Hell yeah, I'm real happy and have been for quite a while. However if I did have some disposable income I would still like to add some old classics like a blackface Bassman and early 70's smallbox superlead.
Kramer Guy
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
Right now, I'm using a NM 2001 USA made, Crate GX-65 Combo along with a Digitech RP-70 effects processor. That setup alone, does me justice as far as I'm concerned. If I had the money, I would like to get a Fender Frontman 212R but until I do, I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
Right now, I'm using a NM 2001 USA made, Crate GX-65 Combo along with a Digitech RP-70 effects processor. That setup alone, does me justice as far as I'm concerned. If I had the money, I would like to get a Fender Frontman 212R but until I do, I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
Hamstein
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I can stick with one thing for years, and then want a change. Amp I really liked was my old Phoenix pha1 -1977 Hybrid,- valve preamp and monoblock power amp!. Typically the valve preamp section is fine and the s/s output stage has died! ILP HY200 monobloc power amp is obsolete and I can't find one to replace it! - I use the preamp section for recording at home still!
Currently I really like my Mesa Boogie Lonestar Special, it can both chime and grind, but doesnt venture into Recto territory.
I fancy the new Mesa Royal Atlantic at the mo though! Aarggh, it never ends!
I can stick with one thing for years, and then want a change. Amp I really liked was my old Phoenix pha1 -1977 Hybrid,- valve preamp and monoblock power amp!. Typically the valve preamp section is fine and the s/s output stage has died! ILP HY200 monobloc power amp is obsolete and I can't find one to replace it! - I use the preamp section for recording at home still!
Currently I really like my Mesa Boogie Lonestar Special, it can both chime and grind, but doesnt venture into Recto territory.
I fancy the new Mesa Royal Atlantic at the mo though! Aarggh, it never ends!
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I am always happy when I Plug in and play through my wonderful 66 Fender BF Pro Reverb 2x12 combo both clean and with some pedals..Just has this nice warm,round tone that always sits nicely within the overall tone and style of our band...Just a great amp...I Love the 1987 50 watt Marshall head pictured in my avatar,but it doesn't have the cleaner and warmer tone of my Pro Reverb...
I am always happy when I Plug in and play through my wonderful 66 Fender BF Pro Reverb 2x12 combo both clean and with some pedals..Just has this nice warm,round tone that always sits nicely within the overall tone and style of our band...Just a great amp...I Love the 1987 50 watt Marshall head pictured in my avatar,but it doesn't have the cleaner and warmer tone of my Pro Reverb...
Hamstein
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Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I'll bet!
I'm still hankering after a Fender Twin, even though I generally play crunchy dirtier stuff, I love that big clean sound they get.
- I'd better add that to my list, - Damn!:headache:
I'll bet!
I'm still hankering after a Fender Twin, even though I generally play crunchy dirtier stuff, I love that big clean sound they get.
- I'd better add that to my list, - Damn!:headache:
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Are you happy with your amp(s) or are you always on the lookout for something bet
I bought this amp off of my dieing drummer's dad at the time...The dad wanted to give me the amp and it didn't work at the time...Bought it for $50 back in 89...Has been all re-worked by me and just a wonderful amp....Poor man's twin with 40 watts and an awesome pair of Weber 12s....Also has a nice set of Black Plate RCAs and RCA preamp tubes...Just like what the amp came with new...This is the most consistent sounding amp I've ever owned..The Marshall looks cool,but the Fender is just more of what I Like hearing to compliment my many strats!
I bought this amp off of my dieing drummer's dad at the time...The dad wanted to give me the amp and it didn't work at the time...Bought it for $50 back in 89...Has been all re-worked by me and just a wonderful amp....Poor man's twin with 40 watts and an awesome pair of Weber 12s....Also has a nice set of Black Plate RCAs and RCA preamp tubes...Just like what the amp came with new...This is the most consistent sounding amp I've ever owned..The Marshall looks cool,but the Fender is just more of what I Like hearing to compliment my many strats!
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