Introducing AmpliTube 3.5 Custom Shop

[Brian @ IK Multimedia]

Did you see the new AmpliTube 3.7 video?

[blueman]

If anyone is curious about the Jet City 100H...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/630473/EyeTwitc ... ty100H.mp3

I got the ANGER model too...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/630473/EyeTwitch_Anger.mp3

nm, got it working sounds great! could you share settings or presets?

[hibidy]

That video reminds me to post this again as it gets lost:

@bottle mic: Something is just not right here. Seems harsh regardless of amp/cab. Maybe it's supposed to be

@tube mic: Sounds outta phase regardless of settings HOWEVER it does work well in combination with other mics. Is it supposed to sound like that on it's own???

@Hiamp cab: There is a frequency I have not identified that is REALLY overly present to my ears. Again, it's almost outta-phasy. Can easily be worked with and for 5 bones is a no-brainer......but I'd like to hear some others thoughts.

[hibidy]

@anger:

I thought the jet city was good

[blueman]

@bottle mic: Something is just not right here. Seems harsh regardless of amp/cab. Maybe it's supposed to be

@tube mic: Sounds outta phase regardless of settings HOWEVER it does work well in combination with other mics. Is it supposed to sound like that on it's own???

I don't hear any weird out of phase things going on.

If we're talking about mid to high gain, I've always had trouble making condensers work. The "bottle" is a bit bright and sounds harsh with distortion but the new tube mic is really clear and smooth, provided you move it away from the cap's center (towards the cone) and keep the gain to a minimum.

I don't imagine either of these mics working well with a lot of gain. On the other hand, both of them excel on clean, Fender-ish tones. In fact, they sound GREAT with the Princeton model!

Here's a short clip of the bottle with a Princeton. Works for me

R

[Dean Aka Nekro]

A 20 watter will naturally as a rule work better in a more (naturally) compressed blues style sound than a 100 watt, IRRC the Jet City 20 watt head hardware/analogue/real model deploys 4 EL84s for the power section whereas the 50 and 100 watt heads utilize 2 and 4 EL34s for their power sections respectively.

So if thats what your finding to be the case in the modelled variants character wise, Then it sounds about right to me FWIW

Dean

no Dean, the 50 watt is 6l6

Right cheers for the correction there mate, I did a not that long ago go the local to try out/have a decent 2 hour demo of the Jet City 20, 50 and 100 heads along with Soldano SLO100, HotRod 50 and Lucky 13 heads. The Jet City models were good/liked them alot, They have less of a higher frequency 'brightness' to them which against the Soldano models made them at first seem duller but the lower-mids sounded more meaty which for me personally was preferable after an hour of switching between the six. Neither one was 'better' or 'superior' in the sound/tone department for me but the build quality of the Soldano's is at a higher standard plus appear nicer to the eye. Nothing negative i found at the price points. With my usual Jackson, CM-2 OD/Boost and NS-2 hitting the front-end alot harder like i again always do came out with me liking the the JC 50-watt head FWIW (worked well for djent-style riffage with a 7-string baritone the 100 watt did which i was really digging which explains the 6L6s). I did not want to say a word before you had your own and had time to get into it (Although it may not of made a difference dude to you at all, Always best to keep subjective talk out of things until you blabbed first). Hitting the SLO or HotRod 50 had me missing some of the afforementioned meaty low-mids and not touching the bright switch at all with bass and mids maxed out, treble around 4-5 and depending on volume a dose of presence (the more i cranked the extra upping of the presence kept all clear/defined.

Im still not going to budge on getting the Buggerer TriRectum Inf as the try out/demo report was for a friend whom has not got access to what is 5 minutes away and so it was a really fun excuse to spend an afternoon in a candy shop Kept reaching for a Caparison Dellinger also which has stock alright pickups in it but wishing that firstly it had an 85 at the bridge and a 60 at the neck and secondly i never touched the damned thing as it was pure nitro charged GAS at is most severe Can not have one/it but would do if i could without blinking

I'll live though and nice one

Dean

[trimph1]

@Brian...

Don't do this to me!! Now I am going to have to upgrade to 3.7 and get the darn Anger...that actually hits the ENGLE amp spot on to my ears....

[hibidy]

[Hink]

A 20 watter will naturally as a rule work better in a more (naturally) compressed blues style sound than a 100 watt, IRRC the Jet City 20 watt head hardware/analogue/real model deploys 4 EL84s for the power section whereas the 50 and 100 watt heads utilize 2 and 4 EL34s for their power sections respectively.

So if thats what your finding to be the case in the modelled variants character wise, Then it sounds about right to me FWIW

Dean

no Dean, the 50 watt is 6l6

Right cheers for the correction there mate, I did a not that long ago go the local to try out/have a decent 2 hour demo of the Jet City 20, 50 and 100 heads along with Soldano SLO100, HotRod 50 and Lucky 13 heads. The Jet City models were good/liked them alot, They have less of a higher frequency 'brightness' to them which against the Soldano models made them at first seem duller but the lower-mids sounded more meaty which for me personally was preferable after an hour of switching between the six. Neither one was 'better' or 'superior' in the sound/tone department for me but the build quality of the Soldano's is at a higher standard plus appear nicer to the eye. Nothing negative i found at the price points. With my usual Jackson, CM-2 OD/Boost and NS-2 hitting the front-end alot harder like i again always do came out with me liking the the JC 50-watt head FWIW (worked well for djent-style riffage with a 7-string baritone the 100 watt did which i was really digging which explains the 6L6s). I did not want to say a word before you had your own and had time to get into it (Although it may not of made a difference dude to you at all, Always best to keep subjective talk out of things until you blabbed first). Hitting the SLO or HotRod 50 had me missing some of the afforementioned meaty low-mids and not touching the bright switch at all with bass and mids maxed out, treble around 4-5 and depending on volume a dose of presence (the more i cranked the extra upping of the presence kept all clear/defined.

Im still not going to budge on getting the Buggerer TriRectum Inf as the try out/demo report was for a friend whom has not got access to what is 5 minutes away and so it was a really fun excuse to spend an afternoon in a candy shop Kept reaching for a Caparison Dellinger also which has stock alright pickups in it but wishing that firstly it had an 85 at the bridge and a 60 at the neck and secondly i never touched the damned thing as it was pure nitro charged GAS at is most severe Can not have one/it but would do if i could without blinking

I'll live though and nice one

Dean

I dont want to derail this too much but check the new amp thread this weekend for more (I haven't even tried the loop yet) but quickly, the jet city with the ts clone is awesome...on the normal channel, the overdrive channel is great. The YJs brighten it up but TBH I find it very bright as it is. I run the treble about 6 or 7...I do still think getting rid of the generic tubes is a good idea

As for looks, well when the warranty is done more of that grill stock I bought will replace the fugly blue front with the 333 (again because the same is going in the boogie so that I can swap YJs from the front with ease as the grill will be attached with wing nuts on both amps)

[blueman]

Finally coaxed some pleasantries out of the Jet City 100 watt I don't think it's matched with the right cab out of the box (Metal T2 I think?) but some tweakin has definitely proved this amp can sing and roar. It compliments the 20 watt quite well. They double-track panned opposite each other in a good way

Well, trouble is I can't get both atm due to budget restrictions so it's proving to be a tough choice. Hmmm

[hibidy]

Well, it sounds to me like the 20 was kinda love at first site? There will always be one with bigger *cough* but doesn't mean they will outdo in a tussle

[Amberience]

@Amberience: Nice! Is that dropped tuning or is it a 7 string?

It's a selection of DI's I had lying around from a while back. Recorded with an Ibanez SA260FML, with a Bareknuckle Pickups Nailbomb in the bridge, Tuned to B-F#-B-E-G#-C# if I remember correctly.

It's got me wondering whether I should pick up a real JCA100H now though!!

[hibidy]

Had to google the ibby, nice

[metalifuxx]

The real Soldano's can get really bright/treble rich really fast with saturated fizzy/fuzzy harmonics, there is nothing wrong with the modeling IK did. The treble and presence work in proportion with each other, add more treble, drop some of the presence and vice versa. Add more bass, add some presence to increase the clarity but fine tune it with the treble knob, and add mids to taste. It's kind of a inverse non linear musical sounding EQ circuit, unlike the EQ contols on a Marshall or Fender if that makes sense. It can be a very "one sounding" amp in that respect, but you can learn to control that and use it to your benefit/advantage more with your tweaking your picking dynamics and your guitar's volume/tone controls. If you are playing a raging chunky chugga rhythm, you don't need to use much gain with these amps. For lead, boost the gain all you want and you get sustain for days, but back off the gain or your guitar's volume knob for better rhythm results.

[hibidy]

there, that was easy