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Re: The Guitar Topic - B
Lummer:
Pretty simple actually:
Korg DTR-1 (love this thing!)
BOSS GX-700 (Love this thing even harder)
Air
Cover plate
Rackmount 220V power outlet thingy to power the whole thing
Rocktron Velocity 300.
The Rocktron in particular is brilliant. Right now, it's running with one cab in each channel and it's brilliant.
The "Reactance" and "Definition" knobs are amazingly useful for the application I'm using it for, ie. playing in a grindcore band with no bassplayer. The Reactance knob is seriously a godsend, since it somehow boosts the lows to almost absurd levels.
The setting that worked best, was the bottom bass cab turned up to around 6-7 on volume with Reactance on full. This gave a completely silly amount of low end, making a bass player officially obsolete.
Then, the 1982 on top with volume around 3-4 (it's ear height AND stupid loud by nature) with Reactance on 5-ish and Definition on full. Coupled with my Bolt Thrower wannabe patch on the GX-700, this gave a basic sound that can only be likened to something with Titans dickpunching mountains while several nearby planets explode.
Of course, there's not a single tube in this entire setup, at all.
A nice little detail is also the fact that the Rocktron still has two extra speaker outputs, so I can easily hook up two more cabs, totalling up to four cabs. However, given the absolutely absurd firepower these two cabs alone give, I might never have to.
IDMG:
Hm, 4x12 with 2x15, solid state pre- and power amps? Very Buzz Osbourne.
doombilly:
Lummer, you may make sounds in low frequencies but cyborg bassist are going to eat your face off when you sleep. So never sleep. Because..cyborg bassists are not amused by your tranny guitar rig.
valley_parade:
Project in progress!
Still needed:
-redrill 4-5 pickguard holes in the body
-remove some of the shielding (which is in place for humbuckers, and blocking mounting holes for JM pickups)
-pickups (Getting the neck pickup from Channel One, may get the whole set. If not, a GFS bridge pickup)
-Shim the neck
-replace trem with GFS X-Trem
-swap electronics over from Jagmaster
-Take off Strat jack plate, slap sticker of scowly Dustin Pedroia over hole
Kwaping:
I just got 2.5 new pedals over the last week, and one is coming back from over a week at the repair shop. New pedals are:
1. Plum Crazy Effects Squawk treble booster (actually, selectable-frequency booster), with si/ge switch
2. Catalinbread Semaphore Tap tremolo
2.5 Mission SP2-R expression pedal, to control depth of the tremolo dynamically (switchable to rate). woo!
Pedal that's coming back from the shop is my Monsterpiece Scratchy Snatch fuzz. The builder repaired it for free and gave it an upgrade or two to bring it up to current spec. All I had to do was pay shipping, woo! I didn't realize how much I used that pedal until it was gone.
I would post more of a review of the above pedals, but my damn Egnater Rebel 30 has gone belly-up for the third time in about a year. I sent it back for repairs (paid only shipping) a few weeks ago, and it came back with new volume pots and new preamp tubes. After about a week of enjoying it, it stopped making sound. I ran a known-good tube through all of the preamp positions, nothing changed. Egnater sent me two new preamp tubes to play with, still no change no matter where I put them (p.i. included). It still makes sound if I plug straight in to the effects return, so it's not a power tube.
So I have these new pedals and no good amp to try them out with. :( At least Egnater is going to pay the shipping this third time around, I think.
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