Your ideal rig ... partII

[Eyes of the Night]

Then it hits me 3 months later ... after I get my 5150II half stack(slant) and reading a kick ass post by BRETT saying "yeah, he swapped for a marshall cab and it's like night and day the diff in sound comparisment ... or to that effect ... quote unquote, brett you my friend get a 5 star ya bastard! Times of change 7 years later ...

Or was it CAT saying "yeah I fried the circuits installing the tubes myself so I had to switch up and put diff tubes in and it actually enhanced the beef ... what I like to call da beef and myself am switching/changing tubes to Groovetubes from Ruby ... cunt wait ...

So it stands as of this day onwards and upwards ti'll my death a checklist for a grunge rocker bringing back high energy rock looks like ...

-Wolfy(98') eyes custom
-5150II head
-Marshall 1960a cab

*-2 Line6 Modulators, the green one and da blue one-*
*--

All run through various ROCK Monster Cables ...

*-Everything is Analog ... she's SO dry she may chap
*-- HOLY FOOTNOTE: GAR!, are those reissue EL34's the 6CA7's currently avail? Where again? ...

SAY NO TO GOOGLE, you have online TECHS

Which reminds me, I'm taking those tubes to this cat that's "the best in seattle" which says A LOT, does Pearl Jams' setups, SO waht I need to know again cause I ferget because of "the drugs" is what am I trying to max out or just raise in the bias? Like variacing it without variacing it ... the uh ,,, um ... tranny? Cuntfused ... and was the number to 750? ...

I want my shit ALL tricked out modified with customed modifys by all the family here fo' sure ... fuck all the drama kids ... 7 years of rants is WHY I stick pretty much only to DE GUITAR FORUM ...

and is why I'm starting this thread in the mizane ...





I'm gatored kids ... go see the movie HITCH!!! ... buwahaha ain't THAT some doo dah there you vets of the land ... I rolled laughing first time I saw the previews ...

[ThrillsNSpills]

Is that a picture , or do they put TVs in Amp heads these days?

[ThrillsNSpills]

Try a Tech 21 into a marshall sometime.
You can get controlled feedback at low volumes if you work the dials right.
There's many fine tones to be had, but I'm more of a technique junkie myself.
If you like grunge, that might work for you.
The guitar looks good.
later

[Eyes of the Night]

I do have a Rocktron Xpression rack that I threw in the effects loop ... and after weeks of dialing the bitch in the problem was not how I dialed but how it took some BEEF out ... enough to say, "nope sir don't like it" ...

Then I bought the DL4 cause all I wanted really was echo ... tape that I could use to emmulate, as much as I can same with the MXR flanger in the MM4 without having a junkyard of pedals so to speak ... plus James Hettfield uses the green one!

Anything WET while being a technique player ie.digital to me is like riding a fake wave and in the end you lose tone no matter how minimal of that effect you put into your mix ... play pretty you pay!

So with my "ideal rig" for me as a grungeafist trying to hybird two complete diff styles of play nothing is fake building character with every chop ... pure beef ...

thing is I gotta get this shit straight by next week cause 2 of us are cutting demos through just a mixer and a cdburner ... get that livelier feel throwing down old school ways with our youth and passion to sell at least 1 gold record in the end ... I'm pretty much set on a 6-8 month bootcamp of hustlin', and if there was 1 thing we could do it is that, a decent record deal ...


Looking california feeling minnesota ...

[GAR]

Say "yes" to Googling for accurate information on finding the correct supply voltage when moving from 6L6 to 6CA7 reissues by Groove Tubes.

I spoke to Aspen Pittman after bumping into him several times at the show, he said he is indeed making the 6CA7's here in SoCal, with original General Electric tooling, by hand.

Now your Variac question: this is a metal unit the size of a toaster which contains a step-up transformer you select a voltage tap from a range of zero to 140 volts AC household current. You should get one and plug the 5150-II power cord into it, then plug the Variac power cord into your wall outlet. You set the voltage to no lower than 90 volts somewhere to a point you like between 90 and 98 volts IMO.

.. and you need to know we mourn the HitchWORLD©™ Brand being stolen by Will Smith for his own petty use, for which he surely will be penetrated over ultimately.

BOYCOTT HITCH THE MOVIE

[GAR]

Originally posted by GAR
You set the voltage to no lower than 90 volts somewhere to a point you like between 90 and 98 volts IMO.

For Eye's understanding, this means you move the big knob to point at the number 90 on the dial.

[Eyes of the Night]

Fuck the Mods here suck ...


Booooh!!!

[Eyes of the Night]

Originally posted by GAR
I spoke to Aspen Pittman after bumping into him several times at the show, he said he is indeed making the 6CA7's here in SoCal, with original General Electric tooling, by hand.

Wella, it sounded like something I would want ... how is he going to distribute? Webpage? ...

[Eyes of the Night]

Originally posted by GAR
Now your Variac question: this is a metal unit the size of a toaster which contains a step-up transformer you select a voltage tap from a range of zero to 140 volts AC household current. You should get one and plug the 5150-II power cord into it, then plug the Variac power cord into your wall outlet. You set the voltage to no lower than 90 volts somewhere to a point you like between 90 and 98 volts IMO.

Aight, I'll fav this page and quote to pass along to dude because I'm not touching shit! ...

[Eyes of the Night]

Originally posted by GAR
.. and you need to know we mourn the HitchWORLD©™ Brand being stolen by Will Smith for his own petty use, for which he surely will be penetrated over ultimately.

BOYCOTT HITCH THE MOVIE

Hellarious! ...

[GAR]

Originally posted by Eyes
Aight, I'll fav this page and quote to pass along to dude because I'm not touching shit! ...

To use a Variac?

You plug into it like a motor speed controller. If you're too chicken to try a Variac with your amp, try a room fan or a hand drill till you get the hang of it.

Variacs only have one function, to raise or lower the voltage coming out of your wall.

Think of a Variac as an adjustable-voltage extention cord you plug a power cord into. They cost about $60 used on eBay.

[Eyes of the Night]

Ah, I see ... well maybe then if she's ajustable ... I thought it was a hardware spec and or something totally diff than da variac option that I could tweak upwards knowing the peak level is really high compared to where ed has it set ...

[GAR]

Some people including Ed say he'd set it to "140 to watch the tubes melt" but the deep sound really only happens at about 92.

It is safe to dial-down the input voltage an amp uses, but going over 125 stresses the amp components because they generate heat beyond specific operating range they're designed to handle.

Excessive heat causes component values to drift, drifting causes emminent failure and ultimately a risk to speaker damage as well.

There is a way to successfully operate a tube head at 140 volts but it has to be setup that way internally and is not something I ever discuss openly.

[Hardrock69]

I am getting in on this thread kinda late, but I already have most of my ideal rig:

1979 Marshall 100W Super Lead Model #2203
Carvin 4 X 12 Slant Cab with 4 70w Celestions (I want a stack of Marshall cabs with 30w Celestions someday)
1988 Gibson FLying V with EMG pickup
Original TS-9 Tube Screamer

8 other guitars, numerous other stomp boxes, Roland VS-1680 digital hard disk recorder, mics, software, Tannoy studio monitors.....

[Nitro Express]

Ed said the only reason he used a variac was that his Marshall only sounded good cranked and they were getting kicked out of clubs because he was so loud. He turned the speakers backwards, put the speaker cover on and even made a foam baffle and none of it worked. Ed said he then got a Ohmite variac to reduce the voltage and that helped him get the sound at less volume.

I'm sure if they had hotplates available in the day, Ed would have used one of those instead of the variac.

Of course he was using variacs live on the first world tour on his amp and in the studio. So it must have colored the sound the way he liked because he used variacs where sound reduction wasn't really neccessary.