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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:33 am

End of the month is awfully soon!

Er, I hope the SP isn't crate

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:43 am

hibidy wrote:End of the month is awfully soon!

Er, I hope the SP isn't crate

1st read between the lines, I doubt it's crate
2nd what's wrong with crate? I sold a few Crate Vintage 50 combos and I was extremely surprised how nice they were. Sometimes I see them cheap and tbh that is one amp that is in my pawn shop/used gear scope.

I also sold probably close to 100 taxis in and around Boston, many of those customers gave up their beloved mouses for (which was bad for me because I picked up extra bucks replacing batteries in mouse amps at the time). Most of them were street performers or wannabe street performers.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:52 am

I've had a few crates in my time...oh...I'm sorry I thought that you meant the OTHER type of crate....

Actually, Crate are a pretty good amplifier series...it is just that they are not my type....

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:07 am

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I could have used one of many different brands. Ok, I'll change it.

Er, I sure hope the SP isn't badcat

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:08 am

If those pickup emus don't come out soon, how will I get this cheap guitar to sound like a les paul

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:11 am

nor mine until I played the vintage 50...my 4x12 is a crate but that is because once again while in retail I had a chance to score the cab cheap. However I would not have had it not been for a beat up Fender 4x12 in the basement of one of the stores I worked at. The boss told me to toss it because the cab itself was trashed, but it had 4 vintage celestion G35s in it that are in great shape. So I trashed the cab alright, with the crate 12s in it, I put the celestions in the crate cab and sold it to my alter ego...Roland Dube

(we were not allowed to buy used gear unless it was in the store for a long time and then we did not get a discount)

bishop666 · Post by **bishop666** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:53 am

SPOILER Warinng!!!: What's next!!!? Strategic Partner revealed!

AT 3.5 Behringer - When HW is cheaper than SW!

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:33 am

well, the ethics of the two companies are getting closer and closer.

anyway my dc2 clone rocks.

ObiWonder · Post by **ObiWonder** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:22 pm

Hink wrote:
hibidy wrote:End of the month is awfully soon!

Er, I hope the SP isn't crate
1st read between the lines, I doubt it's crate
2nd what's wrong with crate? I sold a few Crate Vintage 50 combos and I was extremely surprised how nice they were. Sometimes I see them cheap and tbh that is one amp that is in my pawn shop/used gear scope.

I also sold probably close to 100 taxis in and around Boston, many of those customers gave up their beloved mouses for (which was bad for me because I picked up extra bucks replacing batteries in mouse amps at the time). Most of them were street performers or wannabe street performers.

I like the Crate Vintage series amps too!

All tube class A baby.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:49 pm

ObiK wrote:
Hink wrote:
hibidy wrote:End of the month is awfully soon!

Er, I hope the SP isn't crate
1st read between the lines, I doubt it's crate
2nd what's wrong with crate? I sold a few Crate Vintage 50 combos and I was extremely surprised how nice they were. Sometimes I see them cheap and tbh that is one amp that is in my pawn shop/used gear scope.

I also sold probably close to 100 taxis in and around Boston, many of those customers gave up their beloved mouses for (which was bad for me because I picked up extra bucks replacing batteries in mouse amps at the time). Most of them were street performers or wannabe street performers.
I like the Crate Vintage series amps too! All tube class A baby.

I was kinda of surprised myself, I hadn't seen them until I worked in one store that had a lot of used gear and the first one I sold was to a long time customer of mine. I had grown to respect this guy's knowledge and when his first response was "when did this come in?" I knew I needed to look into it deeper, he had to put it on layaway so I had a chance to play it in the backroom on breaks and such and was quite impressed.

It's also very easy on the eyes.

BTW in other threads I mention Oliver amps, originally from Ampeg Jesse Oliver left Ampeg (at least this how I understand the story) and built these amps.

Googling I find there seems to be several models but the one we once had in a store looked like this head (though I bellieve this one in the pic is a bass). The entire front is backlit so the names of the controls are only visable when it's on but I was blown away with the sound (not hi-gain sounds though). It turns out for a number of years this was the standard amp used at Berklee in Boston. I would absolutely love to have one

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:59 pm

Definitely droolworthy that one....

ObiWonder · Post by **ObiWonder** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:22 pm

@hink yeah those Oliver amps look cool! But the Crate amps really are sleepers and sound great!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:05 pm

aye yia yia.......look what I've started

So, for future reference, what is the known "dog" amp that everyone hates/laughs at (since I'm so so out of date)

blueman · Post by **blueman** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:08 am

Brian @ IK Multimedia wrote:blueman, yes, we will be releasing more officially certified models before the month is up, and it will include the debut of one of our stategic partners!

3 days left to make good on this claim...

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:26 am

I can't remember if it was tuesday or thursday they released 3.5......either will do

Introducing AmpliTube 3.5 Custom Shop