The Wall of DEATH

[dominus]

Sold off most of my distortion pedals, replaced them with amps. Most of the amps cost about the same (and sometimes less!!) than a comparable pedal.

Yup, most of them are solid state. But this guy used solid state amps:

(I do have a Randall combo that I'm in the process of converting to a head. That will come later.)

These guys used the Marshall 8100 that's on the top shelf:

These guys used Crate solid state amps:

and

and since I use them all for recording directly, I can shape the tone exactly how I want. Also have a Tom Scholz Power Soak for recording the Valveking and AT-100 tube amps.

:firedevil

 

[dystrust]

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Glad you've found something that works for you. I have something similar, except not quite so many amps.

Maybe you're familiar with the Power Soak and its risks, but you need to be careful with those things. It's not a reactive load like newer attenuators, so it's far more likely to damage a tube amp. A friend of mine blew the OT in his '71 Super Lead while running it through a Power Soak.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

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Those look awesome! Congrats man..

A lot of cheaper hi-gain amps sound great to my ears....

 

[DankStar]

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Wild! Could use a rack like that.

For some reason I want to see a Windsor in there somewhere. Cheap, kicks out the jams. I've heard it called a poor man's 800, which would compliment the valvestate.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Wow

It's almost literally every used amp that's sat in the back of my local Sam Ash for 5 years.

Weird....

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Wow

It's almost literally every used amp that's sat in the back of my local Sam Ash for 5 years.

Weird....

 

[Van Noord]

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lol ^

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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This is the most appropriately titled thread I have seen in a long time.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Those Marshalls are really cool amps.

 

[dominus]

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Wild! Could use a rack like that.

For some reason I want to see a Windsor in there somewhere. Cheap, kicks out the jams. I've heard it called a poor man's 800, which would compliment the valvestate.

The Valveking is pretty close to the Windsor, just different power tubes. Since I record direct with Revalver, I can just modify one of the power amps.

Wow

It's almost literally every used amp that's sat in the back of my local Sam Ash for 5 years.

Weird....

Are they charging too much for them? The prices I paid for those amps ranged from $50-$200.

 

[DankStar]

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The Valveking is pretty close to the Windsor, just different power tubes. Since I record direct with Revalver, I can just modify one of the power amps.

didn't know that.

I guess the hard part is figuring out what amp to use when you have a dozen real ones and another dozen simulated (not a bad problem to have, hehe).

 

[bancika]

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Very cool, but why having 10 mediocre amps? You could've gotten one 5150, or boogie, or marshall or whatever higher end tube amp

 

[dominus]

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Very cool, but why having 10 mediocre amps? You could've gotten one 5150, or boogie, or marshall or whatever higher end tube amp

I've owned a 5150, Triaxis, and a JCM2000 in the past. I can make these sound just as good. More expensive does not mean better.

 

[King IzzO)))]

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Where's the Ampeg VH140C man? You could probably replace almost all of those.

 

[dominus]

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Where's the Ampeg VH140C man? You could probably replace almost all of those.

Those are *really* overpriced right now. ($400-ish.) I'm holding out for the Crate reissue, which I can probably snag for less than half that.

Marshall Valvestate in action:

 

[King IzzO)))]

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Ha, they come up around here for duuurrrt cheap every once in a while, like $150-ish. You want me to watch out for one?

 

[crguti]

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What Crate amp did Cannibal Corpse use? and in what album?

 

[dominus]

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What Crate amp did Cannibal Corpse use? and in what album?

Not sure which model, but you can see it here:

 

[Van Noord]

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Not sure which model, but you can see it here:

They used a Crate GX130.

A Marshall 8100 was my first amp head back in 1997. Without a boost is was pretty flat and sterile sounding. The power switch was always known to break on these amps too. Otherwise it was cool at the time. But I moved on to bigger and badder sound amps. Like the ones listed in my sig.

 

[dominus]

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They used a Crate GX130.

Ahh. I've been looking at the G130CXL, that's the one that's a reissue of the Ampeg VH-140. The GX900 and GX1200 that I have are no slouches themselves though. I like the GX1200 because it's so small and easy to move around.

A Marshall 8100 was my first amp head back in 1997. Without a boost is was pretty flat and sterile sounding. The power switch was always known to break on these amps too. Otherwise it was cool at the time. But I moved on to bigger and badder sound amps. Like the ones listed in my sig.

I always use an overdrive as a boost. Tightens, occasionally brightens, and pushes amps to the extreme. A lot of people say that the Valveking doesn't have enough gain, but all I did was toss a TS or OCD in front and I'm getting death metal out of it. Probably helps most of the other amps as well.

Just got in from the garage, took the housing from a combo amp and cut it down to head size. More updates on that one in a few days.