Solid state power and preamp pedals
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NotDemanic
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Keeley modded MT-2 into the clean channel of a SS Randall RH200. Into a 2x12 ported cab with an Emi Texas Heat/Swamp Thang pair.
metalmachine1983
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I've been thinking about that combo of speakers. How scooped is it?
El Dunco
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Clips clips cliiiips! I have to hear it man….
DankStar
Her Little Mojo Minion
Here’s a power amp that would be sweet. Their mods and clips always sound cool:
https://krusekontrol.com/stereo-power-amp/
https://krusekontrol.com/stereo-power-amp/
Phantasmagoria
watch where you point that sabre
You always find/post the coolest stuff Dank.
That aesthetic/logo is all it would take to make me pull the trigger on one if I was in the US :laugh2:
That aesthetic/logo is all it would take to make me pull the trigger on one if I was in the US :laugh2:
DankStar
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Kruse has a video for a fender (princeton I believe) with a brown mod that just sounds insane.
You find some crazy stuff as well!
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IMENATOR
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AMT SS-20 tube preamp into a ISP Stealt Stereo. Lighweight rig, sounds great, easy to create a streo or even a wet-dry rig with no ground loops or phasing issues. I can use a couple of 1x12 cabs if I really want or just keep it simple and a single 1x12. It can be super loud if you want to. I am still evaluating if I really want to move into modelers as preamps, to me the amo in the room is something I cannot quit.
Sirion
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This is exactly it. The bane of solid state has always been a lack of R&D, not the items themselves. During the second half of the eighties and early nineties, when there were anxieties that tubes might disappear entirely, there were made some really fine SS rack units. I haven't really heard significant improvement since, though, and SS is too often relegated to the beginner units.
Rex_Rocker
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And even some of those "beginner units" sound killer through the right cab since the first thing to take a hit on budget amps is the MDF cabinetry and cheapie speakers.
Examples are the Peavey Bandits and the Vypyrs (solid state gain stages with digital tone stacks). Hell, even the Fender Frontmans sound killer when run through a good cab.
Sirion
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Yup. Jeff Fiorentino, who used to run the website jfrocks.com, got a better brown tone than most people would get out a vintage Marshall stack with all the right tools using a solid-state Crate – I forget which model.
devastone
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What's a digital tone stack? The Bandits are all analog. The Vyprs are all digital modeling, the preamp and tone stack in those is all digital like any other modeler.
Rex_Rocker
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No. The Vypyrs are not all digital like any other modeler. The distortion comes from their Transtube thing, and then it goes through a digital EQ controls. The effects and stomps and whatnot are all digital too. Not sure if the input filtering is also digital, because some models are tighter than others, even if all of them sound pretty similar.
At least on the first gens, that's how they worked.
Yeah, the Bandits are all analog.
Rex_Rocker
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From the Vypyr manual:
Zerberus
Baron Von Shred
I wish that were true.... I´ve tried all the modelers on the market, for years. And while we crossed the "you can´t hear or feel a difference" threshold a few years back with the current Helix+ Axe-FX generation, and I can get good tones out of them, i can´t get my tone out of them.
I have IRs of my cabs with numerous mics in multiple positions for silent recording, my power amp is very transparent, and most modulation and delay FX are more or less interchangeable anyway... That said, the "symphonic" effect of an old EMP-100 or SPX-90 is also something I rarely if ever hear duplicated on moderlers, and it´s still a key ingredient in my clean tone.
But even without that detail, until somebody starts modeling Mesa V-Twin and Peavey Rockmaster Preamps (or something reasonably close), every modeler on the market can go fornicate itself with an iron stick and I´ll continue to carry around those exact pieces of gear (or buy a kemper and "clone" them if I ever have serious concerns about longevity or theft)
I wish that were true.... I´ve tried all the modelers on the market, for years. And while we crossed the "you can´t hear or feel a difference" threshold a few years back with the current Helix+ Axe-FX generation, and I can get good tones out of them, i can´t get my tone out of them.
I have IRs of my cabs with numerous mics in multiple positions for silent recording, my power amp is very transparent, and most modulation and delay FX are more or less interchangeable anyway... That said, the "symphonic" effect of an old EMP-100 or SPX-90 is also something I rarely if ever hear duplicated on moderlers, and it´s still a key ingredient in my clean tone.
But even without that detail, until somebody starts modeling Mesa V-Twin and Peavey Rockmaster Preamps (or something reasonably close), every modeler on the market can go fornicate itself with an iron stick and I´ll continue to carry around those exact pieces of gear (or buy a kemper and "clone" them if I ever have serious concerns about longevity or theft)
Sirion
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I've said that I will buy and play the first modeller that has the following models in it:
Marshall Super Lead
Soldano SLO-100
Rockman
ADA MP-1
It needs to be able not only to get close to these sounds, but to acknowledge the models – the question is partially political (in a very extended sense) for me.
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