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Post by gasman on Dec 31, 2012 23:15:44 GMT -5
...Everybody! If there is anybody left on this forum . If Les, PW, Mohi, Lee, Rayden, Brad, or Mojo himself read this, it would be nice to hear from you guys on this forum again. That goes for the newer members also. Let's try to revive this place!
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Post by rayden44 on Jan 5, 2013 7:18:13 GMT -5
Hey gasman, happy new year! Yes I pop on occasionally to see if there's anything new going on, but seems to have been a bit quiet! Sort of reflects what's going on atm for me. I don't have any new gear, and while I'm still playing when I can, I'm on a bit of a hiatus doing much in public music wise. At a bit of a stage where I'm plotting.... Err..... Planning... Yes that's the word... What I'm going to do in this next stage of my life that seems to be happening. So once I'm settled again, should have a bit more uptime to throw some things together, but err yes have said that more than once too! :-)
How are things in gasman land?
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Post by gasman on Jan 5, 2013 15:07:47 GMT -5
Hey gasman, happy new year! Yes I pop on occasionally to see if there's anything new going on, but seems to have been a bit quiet! Sort of reflects what's going on atm for me. I don't have any new gear, and while I'm still playing when I can, I'm on a bit of a hiatus doing much in public music wise. At a bit of a stage where I'm plotting.... Err..... Planning... Yes that's the word... What I'm going to do in this next stage of my life that seems to be happening. So once I'm settled again, should have a bit more uptime to throw some things together, but err yes have said that more than once too! :-) How are things in gasman land? Good to hear from you Rayden! It's been sort of quiet for me too. I did manage to get an early Christmas present for myself. I bought an older Crate solid state 120 watt amp. It's more than I need, but I bought it because I can use it as a cab for my Fender Champ 600. It has 1/4" cable connections from the speakers, as opposed to being hard wired, so I can connect the 12" speakers directly into my Champ. It also turned out to be a great amp on it's own, so I ended up with a dual purpose piece of gear which I really like. Other than that, I've been busy with work (more than before), so it's harder to squeeze in more playing time. I hope you have a great year! I'll try to post some pictures of my 'new' old amp soon.
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Post by rayden44 on Jan 6, 2013 19:04:47 GMT -5
Crates are not bad gear, but they're quite rare beasts over here. I have a 150 watt powerblock which is quite a basic amp head unit in features, but pretty handy in the inputs and outputs it has. They were going to make a more featured version, but don't know if they ever did. Sound isn't bad on its own either for a solid state. With the champ it should make a good sound as you're not driving too big a speaker, though 10s would probably sound a bit 'tighter' than 12s. Tube amps are a pretty gutsy beast even at 5w so you're probably fine
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Post by gasman on Jan 12, 2013 18:18:00 GMT -5
Here are some pictures of my amp. It's main feature is the chorus. It has a couple of very versatile chorus controls. I already dialed in the chorus sound I like. It also has a reverb control. Not as robust as the chorus, but it does the job. It's a two channel amp, with the distortion being channel one and clean being channel two. Again, I already dialed in the distortion that I like. To me, it sounds sort of what I get with my ProCo Rat II pedal. The clean channel is very clean also, and surprisingly very easy to manage even at higher volumes. It has a headphone jack in the back that works very well too. I tested out the effects loop with my DigiTech multi-processing units, and it produces more noise than I would like when using the send/return inputs together, so I either connect my Digitechs directly into the input chain (has two inputs, btw), or into the 'return' of the effects loop. Sounds great with the two latter choices. Here's a picure of it hooked up to my Champ. It sounds great as long as I don't crank the Champ and guitar all the way up. It gives a tiny bit of static sound when I go full out on the volume, but I can still control it even when the Champ volume is at it's max by using my guitar volume knob. Overall, I'm very happy with it!
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