Music Gear

[Floss]

New 6262 head - same issue    .... i should've noted the S/N on the first one just to confirm i havent received the same one twice... waiting to hear from the manufacturer at this point, really weird/annoying. Sound is really great, but for live use switching from high gain to lead is impossible... i dont plan on gigging it anyway so I may just hang on to it at this point.... but still...

[Floss]

New 6262 head - same issue    .... i should've noted the S/N on the first one just to confirm i havent received the same one twice... waiting to hear from the manufacturer at this point, really weird/annoying. Sound is really great, but for live use switching from high gain to lead is impossible... i dont plan on gigging it anyway so I may just hang on to it at this point.... but still...

... and it gets worse... on Saturday I tweaked the gain knob on the lead channel and POOF, a flash of light from a power tube and the amp died. Its boxed up and shipping back today... 3rd time lucky eh?  Some serious QC problems there for sure. Bugera support confirmed in writing that the two channels should be 100% separate so maybe Thomann were shipped a bad batch... but that's not good enough...

[Emphyrio]

NPD - JPTR Fx - Add Violence fuzz. Filth. I wouldn't be much of an expert on fuzzes apart from a few iterations of the Big Muff. I love the Green Russian but this is slightly better. Also have a second hand Death By Audio - Deep Animation filter type gizmo on the way from Reverb.

Keep the pubs closed!!

[ldj]

Hi lads,

Just wondering if and of you have any experience with the Harley Benton ISO power supplies? https://www.thomann.de/ie/harley_benton_powerplant_iso_1_pro.htm

I've always kept it pretty minimal as far as pedals go but the over drive I'm looking at now (EQD Plumes) doesn't have battery operation so I think it's time to finally put a small board together and get a power supply.

I'm not running anything too mad - polytune>wah>russian big muff>phase 90>carbon copy and then the Plumes will be in there too.

Everything seems ok on the power side just worried about noise/reliability more than anything.

[Emphyrio]

I have that one. It's more than enough to cover those pedals. You'd even power all your pedals off 1 input cos none have a big current draw.

[ochoill]

Never seen much of an issue with any of the HB power supplies.  I use two of these ones for two different set ups (main board 2nd supply, and home bass board / bench power) and they are top class for the price.  Would honestly swap out my AliExpress supply on my main board for another of these but I need the 500mA output on it to run two of my pedals correctly.

[ldj]

Thanks lads, seems like it will do the job.

[Pentagrimes]

Picked up a cheap lil' LTD M50 for playing metal with today second hand on Adverts for 100 bux and having never played one of their guitars before, even for a cheapo/entry one I quite like it.

[if6was9]

I'm gonna buy one of those Harley Benton ISO supplies myself next time a thomann order is on the cards. My big pedalboard has some silly amount of individual supplies on it for my big draw digital pedals. I'm thinking one of the HB's will cover those nicely on their own and I can use the Aliexpress one for all the "normal" draw pedals. 

Latest purchase for me was another set of Ketron midi Bass pedals. The guy threw on a 2nd set along with them since he couldn't find the right lead for them and it was a custom job getting them wired. Love these things for playing Synth with my feet along with my guitar. 

[Floss]

I was gonna get one of those siolid state Orange heads for a bit of variety when the Bugera refund came back (never again...) but I've decided to hold off & pick up either the 6505+ or the 50w  EVH 6l6 5150 later this year maybe... both sound awesome...

[Juggz]

I've been trying to take up less space in the gaff while being reluctant to move stuff on, a cruel state of affairs. I have an old Ampeg VH140C 2x12 combo which I've had for many years and is something I could never sell. It sounds amazing but it's a heavy solid-state bastard, though, far too heavy to carry to gigs which I discovered by carrying it to gigs. I ended up getting a Fryette Deliverance 60 head for gigging, which I actually sold years ago, when I thought my guitar gigging days were done, as it's way too loud for home use. When I found myself gigging again a couple of years later I managed to get it back and I just love the sound of it but it was also a heavy and ungainly yoke to lug around and, eventually, I picked up a little Engl Ironball 20W head which sounded great and was dead handy for rehearsals. For gigs, I also had a Marshall 1960 Lead 4x12 cab.

Since I'm not gigging anymore I was thinking of moving on the 4x12, it's just too big for using at home, and getting a 2x12 cab but, since the Ampeg is already a 2x12 cab, of sorts, I've been looking at ways of utilising that as a cab, not just a combo. The Fryette is also far, far too loud for home use so I needed an attenuator too. I picked up a Palmer PDI-06 attenuator which has a single input but parallel outputs. I figured out I could hook up the speakers in the Ampeg combo directly to the Palmer but it would leave me with an ohm rating which wouldn't work for all three amps so I've had to replace the speakers with 16ohm models, I went with a Celestion Vintage 20 and G12M Greenback. I'm just about to order this thing which will let me switch between the three heads, output it to the attenuator, which can be bypassed as required, and use the parallel outputs of the attenuator directly to those speakers. I'm still a little weary of switching between multiple heads to one cab. Has anyone used something like this before?

http://www.delisleguitar.com/shop/de-lisle-amp-speaker-selector-v1/

[warhead]

Have a Framus Cobra amp head with a matching 4x12 cab. It is my fave amp.
There's also 6505+ and a 50w JCM900.
Am also having a solid state Ampeg bass head and a 4x10 oversized Hartke cab......plus a "couple" guitars and a bass.
And I keep all of it in the apartment, on 2nd floor, haven't gigged in 4 years.
Jesus fucking christ on a bike.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Picked up a Crate powerblock off adverts last week. Pared it up with my tight metal pedal, boosted by one of those mini tubescreamer knock offs. Sounds ferocious, and that's with the headphones out. Not used it through a cab yet.

[ldj]

Hi lads, I was just wondering do any of you have an experience with the Hiwatt T20 head?

https://www.someneckguitars.com/products/hiwatt-t20-10-head

I'm thinking of maybe getting one, I'm looking for a good clean amp to use as a pedal platform, I have an Orange Rocker 32 right now which is decent but the clean channel is just a volume control with no eq and doesn't seem to like overdrives that much, it's just very shrill sounding. I've been trying to use the drive channel as a 'clean' with the gain only on 3/4 with the volume pushed which is ok but the Green Russian fuzz I'm using just seems to turn to mush on this channel no matter what setting.

If I get the Hiwatt I'm thinking I can just get my gain stages solely from the few pedals I have and then I also have a nice clean channel to work with too.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

early xmas presents. Got a Harley Benton Amarok baritone and Grindstein pedal on the way.