NecroPolo
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After spending more than half of my life playing half-stacks wired together, my spine giving me hell lately make me want to shrink my travelling geetar gear as small and portable as possible. As doc ordered, to prevent further spine torture after two decades of push & pull heavy cabs and over a decade of returning arthrosis I should not lift heavy things at all, anymore. I need a micro giggin' rig, heavy on the diet, that I can move easily without increasing he pain of everydays and and that's it.
It should be like:
- feather-wheight
- small format (to fit my small car when some folks are also packed in)
- small budget
- heavy sounding, it should have enough gain for edgy metal with '80s/'90s flavour (my sound is JCM800 / JCM900 / Laney AOR through a 4x12" Greenback cab)
I was thinking about a light 1x12" or 2x12" closed-back cab and some extra light and small format amplification that can produce '80s British edge and sustain I'm after onstage, think of Megadeth or Puppets' era Metallica (rather the Marshall end). I usually play with powerful drummers but in the practice a 50W half-stack is an overkill, I run them around half the power to keep it up with the rhythm section without killing it. 25-30W tube or 40-50W SS would do it. For example, a Dual Terror would be a fit - the price tag wouldn't.
Being tube or SS is not an issue, I like to play both live and I can dig up an array of different preamps. I'd prefer the smallest format possible so no carrying 19" racks this time. Combo amps are out of the game, I feel losing power even with bigger power closed backs somehow, not to mention light ones, valid in my case. Digital modellers also don't count, as a geetar-wire-amp guy I've always felt lack of definition playing through them and the feel is just not right for me.
Think of something like that:
KeeleyDS1 or TriAc --> EHX 44Magnum --> Marshall MHZ-112B cab
I'm curious about your opinion. Do you know a reasonable stompbox with THAT Marshall vibe or a super-zipped power amp that works nicely? Maybe, a light 25-30W tube head that won't rob the bank? Do you have a virtually floating close-back cab around that still bites your pants off?
Put them on the scales and if it's light - I hear ya
It should be like:
- feather-wheight
- small format (to fit my small car when some folks are also packed in)
- small budget
- heavy sounding, it should have enough gain for edgy metal with '80s/'90s flavour (my sound is JCM800 / JCM900 / Laney AOR through a 4x12" Greenback cab)
I was thinking about a light 1x12" or 2x12" closed-back cab and some extra light and small format amplification that can produce '80s British edge and sustain I'm after onstage, think of Megadeth or Puppets' era Metallica (rather the Marshall end). I usually play with powerful drummers but in the practice a 50W half-stack is an overkill, I run them around half the power to keep it up with the rhythm section without killing it. 25-30W tube or 40-50W SS would do it. For example, a Dual Terror would be a fit - the price tag wouldn't.
Being tube or SS is not an issue, I like to play both live and I can dig up an array of different preamps. I'd prefer the smallest format possible so no carrying 19" racks this time. Combo amps are out of the game, I feel losing power even with bigger power closed backs somehow, not to mention light ones, valid in my case. Digital modellers also don't count, as a geetar-wire-amp guy I've always felt lack of definition playing through them and the feel is just not right for me.
Think of something like that:
KeeleyDS1 or TriAc --> EHX 44Magnum --> Marshall MHZ-112B cab
I'm curious about your opinion. Do you know a reasonable stompbox with THAT Marshall vibe or a super-zipped power amp that works nicely? Maybe, a light 25-30W tube head that won't rob the bank? Do you have a virtually floating close-back cab around that still bites your pants off?
Put them on the scales and if it's light - I hear ya
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Maybe you will get lucky too , I hope so .
