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Looking for Real Life
So I've been wanting an ampeg v4, something a lil louder & heavier sounding than my traynor, but i walk into a shop today to buy strings and see this old silverface showman. So I played through it, thought cool, it has awesome cleans and quite a bit of low end. Got to talkin to the salesman and he ended up offering to let me crank it in another room cause I said I was afraid when i did crank it it would sound horrible like my MV bassman 50 and 100 sounded (though this one is non-mv). I told him I'd think about it and come back because I had some other things i needed to get done during business hours. I get my other stuff done and call the other guitarist in my band to see if i can get my cab out of his house & if he wants to go & help me carry ****. He agrees, cool, take the tempest, a few dirt pedals and my 4x12 down there, find the guy, pull everything in another room, and set it up. I am who I am, so first thing i did was plug into the high input, crank the bass and run the volume wide open. Awesome. This thing is DOOOOOM surprisingly enough. I dunno man, neck pickup ('59) straight in it broke up real well, and was loud and bassy and ballsy enough to make my pant legs blow in all the wind comin off of the speakers. Yeah it was wind, i felt it with my hand and it was shootin out and actually a few degrees cooler than the room itself so i dunno man if i got some good ear plugs & it gets hot on stags i could just chill in front of my amp.
Anyways, so i kicked on the fuzz and that ruled, kicked on the distortion and it was the sound I've wanted out of that pedal since i bought it, and with the TS everything was there that you'd expect to be, which is good cause I mean, that's why you buy a tube screamer.
Plugged into the low input of the reverb channel and set it pretty high to make sure I'd have cleans at volume and I did. Pristine, crisp, chimey, beautiful, a fender.
Then i switched back to the distortion pedal through the normal channel cause it was just so awesome to hear that tone in all its glory that I had been chasing for years and now was coming off my amp so powerfully that it made the universe submit to making sense to me in all 10 dimensions, jammed on it for awhile and cured cancer prolly, tapped my pickups & had the perfect blues tone. I've never really chased just purely a blues tone but if I did that's the sound I would want. A strat is needed.
So yeah, I got a new amp and thanks to the economy I got it for $550 including tax. Out the door, everything I wanted, $550. I am the master of cheap stuff that sounds amazing. I really am.
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it's got some rust but every amp I've owned has had rust except the hot rod. Looks kinda cool I think
Anyways, so i kicked on the fuzz and that ruled, kicked on the distortion and it was the sound I've wanted out of that pedal since i bought it, and with the TS everything was there that you'd expect to be, which is good cause I mean, that's why you buy a tube screamer.
Plugged into the low input of the reverb channel and set it pretty high to make sure I'd have cleans at volume and I did. Pristine, crisp, chimey, beautiful, a fender.
Then i switched back to the distortion pedal through the normal channel cause it was just so awesome to hear that tone in all its glory that I had been chasing for years and now was coming off my amp so powerfully that it made the universe submit to making sense to me in all 10 dimensions, jammed on it for awhile and cured cancer prolly, tapped my pickups & had the perfect blues tone. I've never really chased just purely a blues tone but if I did that's the sound I would want. A strat is needed.
So yeah, I got a new amp and thanks to the economy I got it for $550 including tax. Out the door, everything I wanted, $550. I am the master of cheap stuff that sounds amazing. I really am.
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edit - pictures
back cover off-
it's got some rust but every amp I've owned has had rust except the hot rod. Looks kinda cool I think
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