Your next amp

[Hink]

this is where I'm leaning as well, we have this very high ceiling here and plenty of room for a 4x4 iso booth.

If you're going that direction, maybe it's worth just building a 6' tall vocal booth? Also, can you build modular and/or movable booth? In any case, this'll probably sound better than a small iso cab.

BTW I was looking into those randall cabs as well but the only dealer I could find never had them, promised when he did he would get back to me and never has

I have a Demeter silent cabinet that I got from Page Hamilton from Helmet. Are you interested in that?

there's the rub, I would (and have designed) an iso booth...complete with a rolling clothes rack so it can double as a closet for the Mrs. Part of my plan is actually to use extremely cheap motorcycle mufflers with fans on the outside for ventilation. The wall construction would be a room within a room and very thick walls (3-5 layers of 5/8" wi the seams spaced apart). But though I can build small things the rules here prevent me from that type of construction. This means it would have to be built completely modular elsewhere and then assembled here and I do not have that option at this time.

Tell me more about this silent cab you have

[james0tucson]

All you guitar pros are talking about your high-end high-powered amps... I'm not even an electric guitar player but I can appreciate a good amp.

Anyway my wife (who plays guitar) just got a Fender Mustang I. It's a rockin' little amp. I can't say anything bad about it. There are a lot worse practice amps out there for <=$100. I'm not usually a fan of built-in FX on things like this but they are fun to play with, especially the delays. I don't know if the bigger Mustangs have as much value for the money, but seriously for $100, this thing kicks a lot of ass.

[hibidy]

The mustang may be about the best value purchase out there.

I played one a year ago when I got the number one ibby. It was great (though the tuner didn't work so well, but then again amp tuners rarely do)

[Monib]

Man, I'm really liking the Blackstar stuff. The low wattage stuff would be great for my apartment.

[hibidy]

As usual, we don't have any to try in our stores

[Monib]

As usual, we don't have any to try in our stores

I assume you mean the Blackstars... Wedon't have them locally either, but at $250 for the 1-watt. With the loss of shipping back to where ever you buy it from onlnie. I think it would be a sufferable risk.

The nearest authorized dealer is one hour away. Maybe that'll be a good day trip with my wife...

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Monib - go for the HT-5H its 5-watts, Has a full tone stack plus the ISF control. I love mine and its alot more versatile than the HT-1(R) if you want my opinion but yeah still the one watter is pretty sick

Anyway i have been trying the quarter-life crisis aka 7ender HotRod Deluxe 1x12" with pedals for the first time. It loves my Whampler Pinnacle II, Klone Centaur and on a clean setting fairs not bad with some of the outright high-gain distortion pedals. It does not work with any of my Ibanez/Maxon TS/OD 808s/9s nor Digitech CM-2 (a TS 808/9 in one box basically). I likes also my MXR/Dunlop hendrix system Octave Fuzz with highest gain settings for vile sludge and my modded Boss DS-1 that is also another vile amp mangler...Plenty more boxes to go. Not really surprised with the results so far

Nice one, All the best

Dean

[hibidy]

As usual, we don't have any to try in our stores

I assume you mean the Blackstars... Wedon't have them locally either, but at $250 for the 1-watt. With the loss of shipping back to where ever you buy it from onlnie. I think it would be a sufferable risk.

The nearest authorized dealer is one hour away. Maybe that'll be a good day trip with my wife...

I want DESPERATELY to try a Jet City and a Blackstar

Will not buy till I try. The only thing our GC's have that are any good are the Egnater (is that the right spelling?) and they are good but I need side by side comparisons.

[susiwong]

Monib - go for the HT-5H its 5-watts, Has a full tone stack plus the ISF control. I love mine and its alot more versatile than the HT-1(R) if you want my opinion but yeah still the one watter is pretty sick

Anyway i have been trying the quarter-life crisis aka 7ender HotRod Deluxe 1x12" with pedals for the first time. It loves my Whampler Pinnacle II, Klone Centaur and on a clean setting fairs not bad with some of the outright high-gain distortion pedals. It does not work with any of my Ibanez/Maxon TS/OD 808s/9s nor Digitech CM-2 (a TS 808/9 in one box basically). I likes also my MXR/Dunlop hendrix system Octave Fuzz with highest gain settings for vile sludge and my modded Boss DS-1 that is also another vile amp mangler...Plenty more boxes to go. Not really surprised with the results so far

Nice one, All the best

Dean

Hi Dean,
force feed it some Love Squeeze !
But keep it clean ...
Lol,
susiwong

[hibidy]

Oh, Jip's is listed as an auth dealer for those two. I don't feel like driving over there though......

[Dean Aka Nekro]

As usual, we don't have any to try in our stores

I assume you mean the Blackstars... Wedon't have them locally either, but at $250 for the 1-watt. With the loss of shipping back to where ever you buy it from onlnie. I think it would be a sufferable risk.

The nearest authorized dealer is one hour away. Maybe that'll be a good day trip with my wife...

I want DESPERATELY to try a Jet City and a Blackstar

Will not buy till I try. The only thing our GC's have that are any good are the Egnater (is that the right spelling?) and they are good but I need side by side comparisons.

Spelling is correct hibidy, An Egnater will be the most pricey out of the three and offer the most options wise depending on which one you go for/try, The Jet City Amps sound quite alot darker than a Soldano but i quite like them for that reason as i personally don't like bright sounding amps but they do not sound muddy either and Blackstar HT range sound different than Egnators and Jet Citys. I can post a demo track of the Blackstar HT-5H using its speaker emulated output if you like? Oh sack it i will post it anyway:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tc03zdm3hdw

The smaller crunchy parts are using the 1x12" emulated output (on the overdrive channel with the gain set low, ISF control fully clockwise for 'Vox/Classic Marshall' type mid-range, Tone Stack would of been Bass 5, Middle Full, Treble 4/5) Whilst the otpher parts are using the 4x12" emulated ouput (Its switchable) on the Overdrive channel again but gain/drive higher, ISF control fully counter-clockwise for 'Mesa/Modern' type mid-range, Tone Stack would of been Bass Full, Middle Full & Treble 3/4. Also it (The HT-5H) has a series FX Loop so its totally possible/easy to use the Send as a line in then use your own choice of ITB modelled Mic'd Cab, Mic'd Cab IR/IRs or a combination of both...etc. The Egnator and Jet City small amp heads which are comparable also have FX Loop and IIRC Egnator include a line out for the pre-amp so that frees the FX Loop for regular use The HT-5 does not have to be hooked up to a speaker cabinet/cabinets IE see a load to use it without it dying. Anyway the track i did not dither properly at the fade out so there is annoying quantize noise but that was/is my fault. Bass is a DI'd Yammy and Drums are SD2 along with my own multi-sample library that are loaded into an Ableton Drumrack being triggered by SD2. The guitar was the usual Jackson with EMG85, Boss NS-2 for when the OD pedal is switched in, Not to shut the amp up as its very quiet but the pedal is not. I am not down-tuned that much on this track/example and i had the volume at around a quarter and its still plenty loud. I did not EQ the guitar parts bar a HPF at probably 50Hz and some mild parallel compression on all the guitar parts plus a very small amount of Early Reflection only small studio IR reverb which adds that touch of spatial cues that Speaker emulated outs do not have (Which you would get if close mic'ing a cab in the real world and had the 2+ mics panned a little...Its something i always use when i use an emulated/compensated speaker output, Give it a try )

Believe me i am not trying to influence decision or attempting to sell anyone anything here as i would be very, very happy adding a Jet City, An Egnater plus MANY other amplifier heads to my collection but hopefully it gives a semi-decent idea of how the speaker emulated output sounds in use/mixed into a track

Dean

[hibidy]

@Dean:

Very nice!

Emulated cab hun?

[susiwong]

Oh sack it i will post it anyway:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tc03zdm3hdw

Now where's the rest of the CD ?
I like it a lot , though in your eyes it might be as close to a Chris Isaak ballad as you'll ever get ...

Lol,
susiwong

[davidka]

Hello there
I was thinking about using a low-wattage valve amp, with IRs on my computer; connected directly to the audio interface. Using (possibly) RedWirez series. What do you think, is it a good idea?

[davidka]

f*ck me, I mistook the edit button