Splawn Amp Live Test

DirrtyCraig

DirrtyCraig

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Well, I finally got to test my Splawn Quick Rod live in front of about 600 people. All I can say is wow. This head is amazing. So much headroom and bottom end. I played with the EQ quite a bit throughout the night. A Few more gigs and I should have it dialed in perfect. Thats me on the left.

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Cool pic , I think you mentioned in another thread the Splawn amp will get the "Brown Sound"? What type of tones are you getting out of it? Sounds like a cool amp!
 
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:hijacked: I wish there was somewhere around here to test any amp live! Delaware sucks! There is like 2 decent clubs here but there aren't enough musicians for me to form another band to play in. There are about 3 other good guitarist besides myself, but they were the guys who were in all the popular bands that used to be around ,and now they don't want to play anymore, and there is a total lack of Bass players period , let alone good ones, same goes for Drummers.


I was in a band but quit cause they sucked , and had no clue about musicianship, but now I'm stuck with noone to play with at all.

Sorry dude, didin't mean to hijack your thread, Im just bummed about not having a band to play in anymore. Glad your amp sounds great !
 
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51501984, I'm getting the brown sound plus 2 extra balls. This head does that brown plus a nice extra ballsy setting too. I could'nt be happier.
 
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Biu said:
Totally 80s!!!
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Yep, thats the idea. Not to make excuses, but the 80's thing finances my original stuff and expensive gear and its fun as hell. Orlando sucks too, so if you wanna play anywhere cool and often you have to have some gimmick.
 
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It depends on how much gain you like on your dirty channel. The Clean, rhythm and lead channels share a gain, but have separate volumes. I run my gain at about 75% and it cleans up nice when I click on the clean channel. Not fender clean, but more Marshall like clean. Reminds me of a JTM45 style clean. If you don't need METAL like dirty tones, you'll get a super clean switchover.

We do Hot For Teacher, so when I come out of the dirty into the clean parts I switch to my '59 neck pickup which also makes it nice and clean too. If you switch to the neck pup on that SG you'll get a nice warm clean sound.

Heres a great soundclip of the clean channel:
http://splawnguitars.com/splawncleanzack.mp3
 
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DirtyCraig,

Was checking out your set list, It totally rocks! But I see you play some Accept, you have to play Midnight Mover, awesome tune, you just can't not play it :)
 
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Yeah man, its a lot of fun. I'm 33 and grew up on all those bands so its a blast to relive my youth and make some extra $$ at the same time.

I would love to do more cool European 80's metal, but to be honest alot of that stuff will clear a room. You have to have a healty dose of Poison , white Lion, warrant, Motley etc, to keep the chics in front of the stage. We try to add a healthy does of shredder 'musician' tunes like Vh/Hot For Teacher, Dokken, old Ozzy, Loudness etc,, to keep the guys interested, but the chics are what make Dirrty Hairy shows DIRRRRTY.
 
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elvhfan said:
splawn rules!

craig, are you running anything into the splawn for effects?
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Nope. I played through the head dry as a bone all night. I like the sound plugged staright into a head, always have. I will plug in my mXR phase 90 when we do Eruption, but we didn't New Years... As soon as I'm done I unplug it and back into the head.
 
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DirrtyCraig said:
Nope. I played through the head dry as a bone all night. I like the sound plugged staright into a head, always have. I will plug in my mXR phase 90 when we do Eruption, but we didn't New Years... As soon as I'm done I unplug it and back into the head.
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that's how i like it myself!...isn't that so much easier?!
 
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Oh hell yeah, and it just sounds better too. Seems like too many players rely on effects to cover the slop and the overall sound of the band suffers for it. Nothing worse than listening to a band where the guitarist sounds like hes playing in a metal tub 3 miles away.. LOL.
 
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