I want to do it with modulation pedals to see if any wackiness comes out of that.

umm...yeah, Frenzel CSS with a Yellow Jacket converter so I can convert the pins to an EL84 config and bias, not for pentode and obviously not for obtaining Class A because it's still single ended. Absolutely killer tone (and yes I'll likely have a song with this soon), that's using the Frenzel by itself but I am running my TS clone on the boost setting into it and my ESP with the EMGs wired for 18v.

Naturally when I tried switching the EL34/6v6 bias switch on the back of the Frenzel there was no change, but the YJs work for both tubes. So far I like the EL84 best followed closely by the 6v6 and then the EL34, the EL34 will be more for rhythm playing than lead because it is a "big" tone.

After I finish this song it's going to be time to pull the speaker out of the iso cab and put in one of my vintage celestions and yes Dean if you read this...probably make accommodations for a second mic.

What an awesome time to be a guitar player

BTW I did run the line out of the Frenzel CSS and used filter cabs on it...I cant wait to try this amp with a KT88...I'm anticipating vintage Hi-Watt tones

Amplifier-cial profiling

My Soldano heard that and is now getting Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to sue. Well my Soldano tends to be more of the meat head Italian Guido variety, so maybe it will be a mob hit, or it will just send Snooky out to give everyone STDs.

^^^^I now have the heebie jeebies (or however that is spelled)

that is spelled that

Yeah I'm interested in the OR15 too. Gonna wait until it comes out along with the Jim Root Terror before I make my final final decision on what to go for. The Jim Root Terror is supposed to be based on the Rockerverb Dirty Channel & The OR15 uses the same circuit as the JR Terror but with more of a boutique voicing. Both are only single channel amps but they have an FX loop, which is nice. These are due out at the end of the month, so not too long to wait to see what they're gonna be like.

you hope they are out at the end of the month, I have had my hopes crushed many months when they say "expected **/**" and when that date comes it's bumped up a month. I waited 10 months for the iso cab and decided I would wait an extra two months. After about a month stores said only 1 left so I grabbed it...of course the next couple of days they were fully stocked

Now I know what Hink feels like now

Choices?


Always fun jamming at my friends house in his basement studio area .

From left to right:
Brunetti MC2 head in custom made rack enclosure (originally in a 1x12 Brunetti combo amp enclosure) sitting on top a Marshall JCM 900 2x12 cab loaded with Celestion GM75s.

blue/black Hughes & Kettner Attax 100 Tube/solid state hybrid head (a pretty capable 3 channel solid state head)

Below that is a Hughes & Kettner Triamp MK2 vers 1, in a hand made custom non fancy wood enclosure. That goes into a Hughes & Kettner 4x12 cab loaded with Vintage 30s speakers. Custom hand painted/sprayed design skull grate We had a friend that did some auto body painting in his spare time. The same friend turned this guy's 7 string sparkly magenta pink Ibanez to a more manly looking sparkled deep royal sky blue paint job. His main guitar is still an '81 LP Custom.

Badcat Blackcat 2x12 combo.

Not pictured (not in use ATM) in a storage room is a mid 90's Marshall JCM 900 head, Ampeg 4x12 cab mixed with V30s and GM75s, vintage 1960s Fender Bandmaster head with original Fender 2x10 cab that goes with it, a Marshall valvstate head, and an Ashdown (bass) ABM 500 EVO III Head and Ashdown 350watt 2x10 cab. And the Brunetti speaker cab enclosure combo with its stock speaker. He has a set of those yellow jacket tubes laying around too.

I told him he needs to line up the rest of the amps against that wall, even if they're not in use, just to make it look more Spinal Tap-ish.

I am always playing the devil's tone advocate when he is on the fence about wanting a new/different tone/amp/pedal/effect.

can I profile the bad cat?

while I would love to have all of them the same problem applies that applies to the amps Dean posted, just too much power (except maybe the badcat is it 30 watts? ). I've got one 50/100 watt boogie and a 50 watt jet city as it is they are both a bit of over kill except the jet city doesn't object to turning down the master as much as the boogie does so I can tame it better. I would prefer not to go over 20 watts anymore and even that is overkill tbh.

Full featured lower powered amps are awesome, I really fell in love with the mesa-boogie 5:25 express while looking about 2 1/2 months ago. I would love one day to find a deal on a 12" combo version...but it would have to be a killer deal (though the 1x10 combo might not be all that bad either)

Sweet! I had a Brunetti years ago, the little 25W combo. That was an interesting sound that I've never heard out of any other amp.


The first jaw dropping, mouth-on-the-floor moment I ever had with an amp was the original Matchless DC-30. I had nearly the same experience with the Badcat Hot Cat 30R.


If it's the non-channel switching version, that amp sounds killer with the first gain all the way down, the second gain all the way up, and a booster pedal in front.

A 5:25 in the upgraded solid maple cabinet somehow sounds much better to me than any other 5:25. I played an Yngwie strat into it, that was a blast.

The Badcat Black Cat is a very loud 30 watts, with an attenuator switch to knock it down to IIRC 15 or 7 watts. But with the 4 input channel configurations, and the ability to take out the master volume circuit and use the single tone control mode, it's almost like 5 amps in one, but it sounds the best opened up when using the amps natural overdrive (no pedals) at a reasonable drummer/jamming level loudness. My friend usually uses the low input right side channel with Master volume mode engaged employing the bass/treble controls, running a Fulltone OCD followed by a BOSS compressor for clean/drive overdrive tonal options. I am still trying to get my head around all the tonal options/configurations that are possible with the Black Cat, as he is the one who is usually messing about with the controls as I am playing. He did get an ABY channel selector so it was possible to use both inputs on the amp originally, but that added some "always on" noise. But he could in theory use that selector for any of those amps.

Yes, the Brunetti has an interesting original sound. My friend got that when he was really playing more heavier metal type stuff. It has a natural mid scooped sound even when the mid control is not scooped. So it's perfect for any type of higher gain rock/metal without the need for pedals or extreme EQ to shape your exact sound. Although it can be limiting if you want a broader range of tone for other more vintage voiced styles, so that is why he eventually got the Badcat. That scooped type of tone was not really going away with the Brunetti, even with using different cabs and also pedals.

His previous amp(s) to the Brunetti that he does not own anymore are the Soldano Hotrod 50 head/cab (which I bought from him because he was going to sell it insanely cheap, and I did not want anyone else to get it ). And a Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp (pre year 2000), not the Carbine or the new Rectifier recording, but this one


He is still kicking himself about selling that Mesa on ebay for cheap. He tried looking for one again, but they went up in value since the price he originally got it and sold it for. It was awesome for recording at that time (having a speaker emulated output too), but we were talking recently, thinking about how awesome it would sound with the current speaker IR technology. He also had a Rocktron Piranha rack preamp before that Mesa preamp, that was pretty cool too.

It's funny and ironic that you said that, because he wanted to get that very amp (Matchless DC-30). He had the same experience when he saw some blues/rock band playing one in Chicago. He could not find a store in the metro Detroit or even Michigan area, that even had one for sale/try. Nothing in a reasonable 2 hour max driving distance. The thing with my friend (and probably a lot of other guitarists) is that he needs to try out the amp first hand with his main guitar (and sometimes the pedals he has if the store carries them). He did not want to take a risk ordering one on the net. So I told him about Badcat amps, and we found a store just within 2 hours that had that one new-old-stock Black Cat that had been sitting there for a few years, in which the store owner knocked off $200 plus the sales tax, knowing that we drove 120 miles to possibly buy the amp, just so the store owner could get the amp out the store.