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[Hollatchaboy]

I had a Vox Solid State that was so close it was spooky...love Vox amps

I like vox too! They all have there place in music. In a lot of rock/metal recordings, they use/used solid state. It's hard to tell the difference in a recording and most people can't distinguish the difference anyway.

 

[go go kid]

Agreed. If you get a stack, make sure you have somewhere to crank it. Marshall's don't sound as good until you get the power amp stage into that sweet spot. Unless you have an isolation cabinet or room, then you could crank it!

i have a music room and have no neighbours for 3/4 of a mile. im so lucky and deff lol, good job its only a 150w line 6

 

[Hollatchaboy]

i have a music room and have no neighbours for 3/4 of a mile. im so lucky and deff lol, good job its only a 150w line 6

Nice. I wish I had that! Lol
I mostly just play thru my line 6 pod with headphones. It's better than nothing, but it just doesn't have the heavy crunch I get from my amps.

 

[go go kid]

I had a Vox Solid State that was so close it was spooky...love Vox amps

never been fortunate enough to try a vox amp yet

 

[Dorian2]

Any of you guys have or tried a Fractal system? I picked up an FM3 last year and it's a pretty killer unit. I use it mostly for recording purposes but you can connect through a tube amp both at input preamp stage or into the return for Power amp stage if you have an FX loop. You can also use it in 4CM which allows you feed the unit with your preamp stage before hitting the Power amp. Might be worth checking out for some of you.

 

[Hollatchaboy]

Yep

Any of you guys have or tried a Fractal system? I picked up an FM3 last year and it's a pretty killer unit. I use it mostly for recording purposes but you can connect through a tube amp both at input preamp stage or into the return for Power amp stage if you have an FX loop. You can also use it in 4CM which allows you feed the unit with your preamp stage before hitting the Power amp. Might be worth checking out for some of you.

Yep! The axe-fx is a killer unit. I can't justify the money for one though, unless I come into some. Lol

 

[Dorian2]

Yep

Yep! The axe-fx is a killer unit. I can't justify the money for one though, unless I come into some. Lol

Yeah, I get that. I was going to get another Amp head with variable power, similar to what some versions of the 5150 and newer Marshalls are using. But Fractal had a sale that was close to the same money so I finally pulled the trigger when they went on sale. Just made the most sense in my own situation.

 

[tyler.durden]

Cool thread idea. I'm a professional musician, and here are some of my instruments -


My electric violin -




My best instrument, a Ming Jiang Zhu Guarnari bench model, got if for a little under $20k, which is a total bargain. One of the finest violins I've ever played, I'm lucky to own it -




Here's my gigging violin, another Zhu bench model, this one is a Stradivarius model. Note the pickup built into the bridge. This one is very fine, too. Got it for just under $15k -




This is my Yamaha Clavinova piano. It is electronic, so it never needs tuning and sounds quite realistic. It was about $3500 when new -




I'll take some pics of my awesome classical guitar soon. Too lazy to get the stool to get it down tonight...

 

[tyler.durden]

Nothing fancy.

I didn't know you played violin, that's cool. What brand is that fiddle?

 

[tyler.durden]

I don't, but id love to learn. My biggest influence is a guitar player named Yngwie Malmsteen. One of his biggest influences is Niccolo Paganini. As a result he has a violin like approach to his guitar playing that I dig. I listen to classical, but I'm more into the baroque era. Since I play guitar I don't feel it would be a hard transition, but I definitely believe violin is harder than guitar to play.

Violin and guitar are nothing alike. I play violin and classical guitar. The bowing alone is a different dimension, and the awkwardness of just holding the violin takes many years to get proficient. The violin is arguably the most difficult standardized instrument, it is rare that anyone starting after age 7 or gets proficient at it. Few people have mastered both, Paganini was one of those few. I also love the Baroque era, here's my teacher playing some Bach -

This is a great arrangement of one of the greatest (and most difficult) violin movements ever written. It is a beautiful and intense journey -

 

[Severed Tongue]

Any of you guys have or tried a Fractal system? I picked up an FM3 last year and it's a pretty killer unit. I use it mostly for recording purposes but you can connect through a tube amp both at input preamp stage or into the return for Power amp stage if you have an FX loop. You can also use it in 4CM which allows you feed the unit with your preamp stage before hitting the Power amp. Might be worth checking out for some of you.

I used a pair of Marshall full stacks for a couple decades. The good old days. This was the final group shot in 2014.


Got an Axe-Fx II and MFC-101 (midi foot controller) in 2013, and gigged it for 3.5 years direct, no amps, just IEM's or a pair of Atomic CLR active wedges for monitors.

It was like heaven, consistent tone night after night, always perfectly mixed, 48k quality stereo. Did some 300 dates with it, solid, everyone loved it.

I love amps though so when the concentric knob EVH came out in 2018, picked up a 5150III 6L6 50 watt and did 4CM into a 212 loaded with Celestion G12EVH and V30.

I've swapped out the Axe-Fx II for an FM3 and a single expression pedal these days, but still 4CM. Here's the AFX2... I got some pics of the FM3 somewhere mixed in all my Cannabis pics lol.... too lazy to scroll through all that atm.

 

[jimihendrix1]

My main amps are a 2013 Metropoulos LTD ED GMP45, which is a 1965 Marshall JTM45 replica. Has all NOS tube.
1956 Marconi Osram coated glass Kt66s
Mullard 10M Master Series ecc83/12ax7 Gold Pins in V1-V2, and a 1957 Mullard mC1 ECC83/12ax7 in the phase inverter. A 1961 Mullard Fat Base GZ34 Rectifier tube.
Cabinet is a Marther replica of a 1966 Marshall JTM45/100 TVB cabinet loaded with 4 1972 Celestion G12Ms with Pulsonic Cones. ECCollins Pinstrip grill cloth. Handwoven in Europe. Takes 8 hours to make 1 piece big enough for a cabinet. Also has all NOS Mustard Caps like the original JTM45

1969 Dual Showman Rvb with Dumble ODS mod. Reverb, and Tremolo are disengaged for more gain. Cabinet is a 1972 Carvin 2 x 15 loaded with 2 Altec Lansing 418H. Ive had them, and the Dual Showman Rvb since 73
2001 Fender Cyber Twin loaded with 1 90w Celestion Cream, and 1 x 150w Celestion G12H Redback NOS Mullard 1961 x Mullard
I61 Preamp Tube
Ive also got tons of speakers. JBLD120Fs, JBL E120. Celestion 90w Creams, 150w Celestion Redbacks, Original 100w Fane Cresendo A. Rawson Sparfield Starfinders. Altec Lansing 417 Diacones. Cerwin Vegas. Ive been collecting speakers since 1973.
1971 4 Boly Olympic White Strat Ive had since new.
2015 Vintage Relic 1959 Les Paul Burst replica. Has all original 50s era wood. Brazilian Rosewood. Honduran Mahogany, Maple, Holly. Tom Holmes pickups. All replica plastics like in the 50s. Cellulose Nitrate Inlays, and Royalite Binding. Weighs 8.1lbs
Strat Partscaster. 1982 Fullerton Reissue 57 Strat body. 2013 USA Custom Guitars neck with Torrified Flame Maple core, and African Blackwood fingerboard.
1982 x 62 Fullerton Reissue Strat
Another Partscaster not finished... 1 piece Swamp Ash super light body. 2017 USA Custom Guitars Flame Maple cap neck.
1974 Mossman Great Plains Acoustic. Like a Martin D28, only better. All old 60s wood. Ebony board. Honduran Mahogany neck core. Indian Rosewood back and sides. Adirondak Red Spruce top
All kinds of pedals. Some I have 3 of.

Roger Mayer was Hendrix pedal guru.
2 Moog MF104M Delays
1 MOOG MF1o4M Super Delay
MOOG MF10 Ring Modulator
Roger Mayer Voodoovibe+
Mayer Vision Wah
Mayer RM58 Limiter
Mayer 615 Limiter
Mayer 4644 Drive
Mayer Visage Fuzz
2002 Analogman Sunface Sundial. White DOT NKT275
EHX Blackfinger Optical Compressor
MOOG Minifooger Delay
MOOG Minifooger Drive
Minifooger Tremolo
Minifooger Chorus
1989 Marshall The Guv'nor
Pete Cornish 3Q1/Boost
Chase Tone Secret Preamp. Replica of Early 70s, and late 70s EP3 Preamp. Uses all NOS components exact to the original.
5 Knob Butler Tube Driver
Modified to Pete Cornish specs EHX Big Muff, like what Dave Gilmour has
Donner Prince Boonar Delay
2012 Timmy with 1458 chip
Plus a bunch of others. Been collecting pedals since 1972.

 

[jimihendrix1]

 

[mudballs]

i'd cut ur left achilles tendon and run off with the
1969 Dual Showman Rvb with Dumble ODS mod

 

[go go kid]

many of you use bass fx pedals for your electric guitar? i found the flatley bass pedal that the cramps bass player ued by flatley very good as was the flatley poison ivy pedal

 

[jimihendrix1]

I dont. Most of my pedals come from Roger Mayer, and MOOG, with a few others thrown in.

Roger Mayer was Hendrix pedal guy.

 

[go go kid]

I dont. Most of my pedals come from Roger Mayer, and MOOG, with a few others thrown in.

Roger Mayer was Hendrix pedal guy.

i allways thaught jimmi used a fuzzface

 

[jimihendrix1]

On Jimis first album AYX he used a Germanium Fuzz Face.

From Axis on, he used a Silicon. All of them were modded for more sustain by Roger Mayer
My Analogman Sunface/Sundial uses NOS 60s New Market Germanium Transistors.

The Silicon Mayer Visage Fuzz has 45 different EQ possibilities.

 

[srh88]

My main amps are a 2013 Metropoulos LTD ED GMP45, which is a 1965 Marshall JTM45 replica. Has all NOS tube.
1956 Marconi Osram coated glass Kt66s
Mullard 10M Master Series ecc83/12ax7 Gold Pins in V1-V2, and a 1957 Mullard mC1 ECC83/12ax7 in the phase inverter. A 1961 Mullard Fat Base GZ34 Rectifier tube.
Cabinet is a Marther replica of a 1966 Marshall JTM45/100 TVB cabinet loaded with 4 1972 Celestion G12Ms with Pulsonic Cones. ECCollins Pinstrip grill cloth. Handwoven in Europe. Takes 8 hours to make 1 piece big enough for a cabinet. Also has all NOS Mustard Caps like the original JTM45

1969 Dual Showman Rvb with Dumble ODS mod. Reverb, and Tremolo are disengaged for more gain. Cabinet is a 1972 Carvin 2 x 15 loaded with 2 Altec Lansing 418H. Ive had them, and the Dual Showman Rvb since 73
2001 Fender Cyber Twin loaded with 1 90w Celestion Cream, and 1 x 150w Celestion G12H Redback NOS Mullard 1961 x Mullard
I61 Preamp Tube
Ive also got tons of speakers. JBLD120Fs, JBL E120. Celestion 90w Creams, 150w Celestion Redbacks, Original 100w Fane Cresendo A. Rawson Sparfield Starfinders. Altec Lansing 417 Diacones. Cerwin Vegas. Ive been collecting speakers since 1973.
1971 4 Boly Olympic White Strat Ive had since new.
2015 Vintage Relic 1959 Les Paul Burst replica. Has all original 50s era wood. Brazilian Rosewood. Honduran Mahogany, Maple, Holly. Tom Holmes pickups. All replica plastics like in the 50s. Cellulose Nitrate Inlays, and Royalite Binding. Weighs 8.1lbs
Strat Partscaster. 1982 Fullerton Reissue 57 Strat body. 2013 USA Custom Guitars neck with Torrified Flame Maple core, and African Blackwood fingerboard.
1982 x 62 Fullerton Reissue Strat
Another Partscaster not finished... 1 piece Swamp Ash super light body. 2017 USA Custom Guitars Flame Maple cap neck.
1974 Mossman Great Plains Acoustic. Like a Martin D28, only better. All old 60s wood. Ebony board. Honduran Mahogany neck core. Indian Rosewood back and sides. Adirondak Red Spruce top
All kinds of pedals. Some I have 3 of.

Roger Mayer was Hendrix pedal guru.
2 Moog MF104M Delays
1 MOOG MF1o4M Super Delay
MOOG MF10 Ring Modulator
Roger Mayer Voodoovibe+
Mayer Vision Wah
Mayer RM58 Limiter
Mayer 615 Limiter
Mayer 4644 Drive
Mayer Visage Fuzz
2002 Analogman Sunface Sundial. White DOT NKT275
EHX Blackfinger Optical Compressor
MOOG Minifooger Delay
MOOG Minifooger Drive
Minifooger Tremolo
Minifooger Chorus
1989 Marshall The Guv'nor
Pete Cornish 3Q1/Boost
Chase Tone Secret Preamp. Replica of Early 70s, and late 70s EP3 Preamp. Uses all NOS components exact to the original.
5 Knob Butler Tube Driver
Modified to Pete Cornish specs EHX Big Muff, like what Dave Gilmour has
Donner Prince Boonar Delay
2012 Timmy with 1458 chip
Plus a bunch of others. Been collecting pedals since 1972.

Wanna sell that red strat? Lol. I need that neck for my squier tele project

 

[Hollatchaboy]

I used a pair of Marshall full stacks for a couple decades. The good old days. This was the final group shot in 2014.
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Got an Axe-Fx II and MFC-101 (midi foot controller) in 2013, and gigged it for 3.5 years direct, no amps, just IEM's or a pair of Atomic CLR active wedges for monitors.

It was like heaven, consistent tone night after night, always perfectly mixed, 48k quality stereo. Did some 300 dates with it, solid, everyone loved it.

I love amps though so when the concentric knob EVH came out in 2018, picked up a 5150III 6L6 50 watt and did 4CM into a 212 loaded with Celestion G12EVH and V30.

I've swapped out the Axe-Fx II for an FM3 and a single expression pedal these days, but still 4CM. Here's the AFX2... I got some pics of the FM3 somewhere mixed in all my Cannabis pics lol.... too lazy to scroll through all that atm.
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I really dig the axefx, just not the price. That's not saying it's not worth it though. I'd get it if I had the extra cash. Lol

I got the 5150 with the 6l6's too. I bought the limited edition stealth model, and like 4 months later, they came out with the el34 model. I was pissed. Lol