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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:29 pm

Agreed wrote:
Hink wrote:
Agreed wrote:
NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Agreed working with Brian - Sounds like a good job in my book mate, maybe exctasy or a triple wreck, definately the pinacle of your career so far

All the best
One might say that I've begun the path toward nirvana. (chorus BUY WAMPLER)

Also, eat at Joe's. That one's free, Joe's just a good dude.

To the gent above, I was referring to the real Champ 600 Reissue, which a lot of people think is god-awful (they are wrong).
how can one be wrong when they do not like something...you might not agree but how does that translate to 'wrong'?

Congrats on the new job, best of luck to you
It was a joke, people can feel however they prefer about the Champ 600 RI. I just like it, that's all.

I haven't tried it yet, but I did pick up an Egnater Rebel 20 last week..after 15 years we moved this last summer to a larger apartment with a great walk-in closet that I like to call my iso booth

I do want to try the champ though but I have a lot more on my list as I'm going to dive deeper into micro tube amps now that my sim collection is set. Right now I'm sticking with heads becasue I also plan on adding several diiferent cabs (1x12 closed back, 2x12 open back etc)...right now I'm using my 4x12.

Agreed · Post by **Agreed** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:14 pm

If you get a chance, I can't say enough nice things about the THD Univalve. It's a dream, it'll take virtually any kind of tube made in its pre tube slots and its single power tube slot. It operates at switchable voltage for the power tube labeled low/high (which I think correspond to 450/750 but don't quote me on that). It has a built in broadband noise reduction based on a simple lightbulb in parallel, which I find adorable as it provides visual feedback based on how hard I'm rocking. It has two inputs, one for delectable cleans, one for awesome, raunchy crunch, with the sound of each determined by the tubes you throw in it. The EQ is effective and interactive, lots of tonal options available. It has a built in attenuator for lower volume playing, and the attenuator doubles as a dummy load, which it uses when you run the line-out.

The line-out is really neat, it's transformer isolated and actually comes AFTER the power section, so you get the whole works, not just the preamp. Its line output is actually switchable between instrument or line level, and it has an effective volume control as well.

Why the heck do I use amp modelers, this thing is perfect. Haha. I'm crazy. Oh, well. I'll be buying a speaker cab soon... My back, you know, garbage back, couldn't lug the 4x12 down when we moved, but now that I'm working things will be a little easier on us down here and I can afford a 1x12 cab. Probably going to get an Avatar 1x12, built in the style of the Orange cabs. I think they have the "biggest" sounding 1x12s, personally.

Anyway, try a Univalve if you get the chance, it's a fantastic amp.

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:28 pm

These look like mean ass Mother punchers as cabinets go:

Would not mind a 2x15" and a 4x12" by Watt Grinder. But without having a chance of trying them over here in the UK there is no way i would buy with deaf ears.

Even more of a shame with these shit demos - They always have a gimp play rubbish whiteman middle aged blues crap on a strat FFS, put a player with a bloody 7 and/or 8 string guitar with thier own head of choice and then i will get an idea of what they really bloody sound like FFS

Talks cheap, i wanna hear it. Rant out

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:03 pm

Agreed wrote:If you get a chance, I can't say enough nice things about the THD Univalve. It's a dream, it'll take virtually any kind of tube made in its pre tube slots and its single power tube slot. It operates at switchable voltage for the power tube labeled low/high (which I think correspond to 450/750 but don't quote me on that). It has a built in broadband noise reduction based on a simple lightbulb in parallel, which I find adorable as it provides visual feedback based on how hard I'm rocking. It has two inputs, one for delectable cleans, one for awesome, raunchy crunch, with the sound of each determined by the tubes you throw in it. The EQ is effective and interactive, lots of tonal options available. It has a built in attenuator for lower volume playing, and the attenuator doubles as a dummy load, which it uses when you run the line-out.

The line-out is really neat, it's transformer isolated and actually comes AFTER the power section, so you get the whole works, not just the preamp. Its line output is actually switchable between instrument or line level, and it has an effective volume control as well.

Why the heck do I use amp modelers, this thing is perfect. Haha. I'm crazy. Oh, well. I'll be buying a speaker cab soon... My back, you know, garbage back, couldn't lug the 4x12 down when we moved, but now that I'm working things will be a little easier on us down here and I can afford a 1x12 cab. Probably going to get an Avatar 1x12, built in the style of the Orange cabs. I think they have the "biggest" sounding 1x12s, personally.

Anyway, try a Univalve if you get the chance, it's a fantastic amp.

the univalve is one I would love to have but a bit pricey and if I'm going there first I'm getting a T5 BUD-25.

http://www.t5tubeamps.com/BUD-25.php

As far as a 1x12 according Uncle E (Eric at JRR) the Jet City 1x12

is very nice and convertable between open back and closed back, best of all the price is right. I do not know what his price is but I have seen them for 120usd. They also have an iso cab coming out that is around 330usd

Agreed · Post by **Agreed** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:32 am

That T5 looks pretty damned cool, though I have to admit at that price it's too rich for my blood

I got my Univalve new for around $750 during a blowout that Avatar Cabs did three years ago. My wife actually bought it for me on the day of our wedding - well, half of it, so it is both figuratively and literally half hers. They were holding it for me while my broke self tried to get the cash together, since I was on the hunt for a Univalve after playing through a friend's Univalve and just going nuts for the tone. Since that's about $300 or so off of what they were going for new at the time, I *had* to have it. Well, long story short, my wife made sure I did. An hour before we got married, she called in and made the second half of it.

My wife is awesome.

That Jet City JCA12S is almost shockingly affordable, I was looking at spending $300 or so but that's got the specs I'm looking for at a price that means tomorrow I'm almost certain to buy one. I'll write it up on my blog when it gets in, give me something to do while I'm waiting on TH2 to get patched (something tells me they're going to basically repeat the order of things last year and patch it up with the bells and whistles around NAMM, though I'd be pleased to be proven wrong if it comes out sooner).

Thanks for pointing it out, Hink, I wouldn't have looked lower than Avatar Cabs if you hadn't. I'll pick it up from Zzounds, worst case scenario I don't like the sound and back it goes, but hopefully I'll get what I'm looking for at a price that's seriously impressive. Cool, man.

Agreed · Post by **Agreed** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:12 am

What the hell, I bought it. $129, can't really go wrong. I'll let you know how it does when it comes in

Here's hoping it gets in before the weekend!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:49 pm

I'm looking forward to seeing how it sounds

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:51 pm

blueman wrote: I can't stand the fact that I sit down at my computer and have 10,000,000 combinations to choose from that will ALL require a good 30 minutes to an hour of tweaking before I am ready to record. What was experimental and fun at first, has become a bit of a nightmare.

Rich

I just sat down with my new amp (egnater rebel) did a simple track for some tests. The amp sounded great but of course I recorded dry as well, ran that into Vandal, made a copy and ran that into AT3, I was going to do GTR and GR4 too but AT3 stopped me. With Vandal I had complimenting tones with the egnater in about a minute, to or three minutes of a little tweaking (especially with the room size, damping and mic delay on Vandal) and it was nice together.

Then I went to set up AT3, I got a lot of tones I liked, tried a lot of combinations spent 45 minutes trying to get the tone I wanted and gave up. I'm not saying I didn't like the tones I was getting, I just wasn't getting the tone I wanted. Tonight I might try GR4 and GTR but I couldn't help but chuckle to myself going through all this in front of me to get the tone I wanted thinking about your post.

I wont post clips because really it's all gibberish and stuff that are my indicators, the things I have looked for whenever buying amps.

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:48 pm

FYI to anyone that doesn't know
Jet City Amps/cabs = Mike Soldano = SLO

Got to be quality if they're coming from him

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:29 pm

metalifuxx wrote:FYI to anyone that doesn't know
Jet City Amps/cabs = Mike Soldano = SLO

Got to be quality if they're coming from him

yeah, that's why my next micro head is apt to be the Jet City 20 watt. However, I cannot help but also be concerned about the SR&D factor. What I mean by that is what happened to to the Rockman and other SR&D products which came from a brilliant man. Somebody I use to work with owned a rehearsal complex in Cambridge Mass that is where th ebig acts practiced and also the headquaters of SR&D eventually sat there. The story he told knowing Tom Scholtz at the time and quite well is supported by how things went.

Sholtz decided that with the popularity of his products he could cut costs by using cheaper arts and labor, then of course he sold out to Dunlop. (I mentioned this in the past, once I got a pm from someone who actually named the person I know which only a handful of people might know)

However it seems right now this is not a concern with Jet City, the iso cab is due out on the 2nd of next month but typically these things get delayed once or twice so it will probably be closer to summer if you ask me. Having said that the iso cab will be a purchase I make with any luck at all an dI do not care if I have to make considerable mods to it to suit my needs and if possible (depending on release date) will come before another micro head.

Jet City is worth looking at very seriously imo

buscemi · Post by **buscemi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:51 pm

Didn't that ISO cab have USB out last NAMM?

warrior545 · Post by **warrior545** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:54 pm

love the first uad amp simulation but still nothing like a good old amplifier with good recording chain.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:00 pm

buscemi wrote:Didn't that ISO cab have USB out last NAMM?

Agreed · Post by **Agreed** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:11 am

Despite winter weather it's on track to get here... By wednesday! But expedited shipping would have cost literally more than the cab, so I can wait. Impatiently, but I can wait. In the meantime I'm using AT3's MB II and MB III 1x12 cabs with an SM-57 single miked to get a feel for how I can expect my THD to sound with the smaller cab. I'm used to running it into a big 4x12 monster but I just can't move that around anymore, even a 2x12 isn't safe. 1x12 is just right, and the dimensions of it are pretty much where they ought to be. I am probably going to replace the speaker with a Warehouse Guitar Speakers Veteran 30, although, what the heck, I might spring for one of the AlNiCo ones. Depends on how nice the cab itself turns out to be. I'm hoping it's primarily savings in labor, that seems to be the case with the rest of the Jet City lineup, and I haven't found a seriously recorded clip of it that makes it sound less than good so I've got really high hopes.

I'll be doing a review of it for FrugalGuitarist as a guest reviewer, too, just need to scratch the itch and it fits the niche and there's no conflict of interest there.

buscemi · Post by **buscemi** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:43 pm

Hink wrote:
buscemi wrote:Didn't that ISO cab have USB out last NAMM?

Looks like they had the same thing with USB out added and called "Stealth USB"...

I think I finally hate amp sims!