The Guitar and Amp Gas Thread!

[Sarge]

http://swartamps.com/images/ast_head_II_394.jpg

http://swartamps.com/swart_ast_head_II.htm

I played one of those at the Dallas Guitar Show a few years ago and my balls still are hurting. I would love to buy one this year along with an Eric Johnson Stratocaster in Rosewood.


What are you guys gassin' for?
Breasts,
Sarge

[BlimpyCHIMP™]

These were $79 on sale at Best Buy but now they don't carrey um no more

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[GAR]

According to ampgod James Brown, now with Kustom after a long foray at Peavey, the long-awaited Double Cross will be shipping in high numbers in February, some are available now.

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http://www.doublecrossusa.com

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[Coyote]

Got me a Trademark 60 4x10 combo yesterday, just for the cover gig I got starting in April...

Went playing with said group earlier today, and they loved it... :cool2:

[Sarge]

According to ampgod James Brown, now with Kustom after a long foray at Peavey, the long-awaited Double Cross will be shipping in high numbers in February, some are available now.

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http://www.doublecrossusa.com

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I had a custom coupe 36 that I liked very much. Looks cool.

[78/84 guy]

I picked up a battery powered Danelectro Honeytone amp today for $21, Killer sound for a little thing !!! Nice seafoam green paint job.

[GAR]

I had a custom coupe 36 that I liked very much. Looks cool.

James was saying that they had trouble with the casting place that was to do the front panel, so what you see there is one of a handful prototypes that they brought which were wood fascia mockups sprayed and brush-finished like Stainless. But the real ones that will ship this month will have the stainless faceplate, they got it all settled out and have been building the chassees for months.

They're just waiting on the real fascias to come in the meantime. And that amp is to the Coupe series of Kustom as the Recto Series is to what the old Mark 1234 series was for Boogie: Kustom is gonna be around for awhile, and this new amp has been long awaited.

The clean channel is one of those things like on the Coupe where the louder you play it just sparkles the string like an SRV recording.

[indeedido]

According to ampgod James Brown, now with Kustom after a long foray at Peavey, the long-awaited Double Cross will be shipping in high numbers in February, some are available now.

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http://www.doublecrossusa.com

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Thanks for posting this. I forgot about this amp. I need to check one out. They have a killer microsite for this amp with samples and info.

http://www.kustomdoublecross.com/video.asp

[GAR]

I'd say it's more versatile than a Triple Rectifier Boogie, has way more options than the GenzBenz Diablo 100 for about the same price, and really comes close to the Diezel but not quite.. the reason being partially that Kustom is pushing a newly developed speaker for their better 4x12's instead of the ultra-expensive Celestion Vintage 30's.. and they're not just throwing the USA 4x12's out there with the junky Chink speakers they use in their gooker 4x12 so that you could just off-'em and load whatever you like without really getting dinged on the devalued cost in getting the matching head-and-cabinet set.

- so I couldn't really hear it with say, the typical Greenback 25's or Vintage 30s turned up loud. It was a small soundproof demo room they have.

James did acknowledge the USA cab is roughly of similar size as the gooker cab, and people could do that just to have a "badged" matched set. But the USA cabinet is far deeper sounding and built more rugged, a guy with $2000 street price for the set should just go buy the set I think especially if you stack your cabs. If you don't, a pair of gooker cabs side-by-side would probably be okay reloaded with Vintage 30s.

To me, a box is just a box and almost any cab would do so long as they integrate well stack-wise and the speakers' tone is acceptable.

The 5150 and 5150II essentially are supplanted by the debut of the Double Cross because of the "small room/big room" shelving feature, which IS noticeable when you start to play out. It's the difference in keeping or losing your guitar tone you liked at soundcheck, but then lost it and it went thin when a bunch of people showed up to your bar gig. You just dip the switches and the whole eq setting gets shelved up or down by many notches. It's a fantastic feature!

[Sarge]

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/8/2/5/568825.jpg


http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Egnater-Rebel-112X-1x12-Guitar-Extension-Cabinet?sku=609804

[GAR]

If you don't want your gal to complain, try a Koch on her..

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/navigation/koch-amplifiers-amp-heads-speakers-guitar-amp-cabinets?N=100001+338492+203072

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/5/6/1/493561.jpg

A house with a big Koch is a happy home.
Females enjoy the company of a fat little Koch around.
All women like Koch.
Not an honest chick in the bunch who denies loving Koch.
Koch today, Koch. For the future of sound.
When my lady talks to her galpals, when she speaks of me she speaks of Koch.
My woman can't get enough of my Koch.
She's got Koch on the brain, my female companion enjoys our private times always.
She loves my chubby fat Koch, and though she doesn't know how to play she's always rubbing and touching and trying to get some good things out of it.

[Nitro Express]

According to ampgod James Brown, now with Kustom after a long foray at Peavey, the long-awaited Double Cross will be shipping in high numbers in February, some are available now.

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http://www.doublecrossusa.com

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I like my 5150 II. Mine is factory stock but with the right EQ, tubes, bias, and speaker cab it's a warmer sounding amp than people typically associate with the 5150 series. Also I've heard guys get killer tones with the 5150 combo. I also like the JSX.

The Double Cross looks interesting. I like how you can do all the little tweaks in the preamp section. The thing I like about my 5150 II I get all the great little overtones that just seem to mush out on other amps. Also you can have it really gained up but back off the guitar volume and it cleans up. I often do that instead of switching channels. The Double Cross does seem to be an evolution of some of those features. The best of traditional amps and the newer high gain amps. That's something James Brown has seemed to understand for some time and he's just taken it further.

[Nitro Express]

I never really play a clean amp. I'm either pushing it to the limit of control or running an older Marshall type amp at in Angus Young fashion where you start to get the crunch but your really aren't running the amp that hard. Then I use the volume knob on the guitar to control the amount of dirt or clean. So I like a death metal like amp that I can EQ warmer that goes from there down to old school Marshall type tones. I could care less about a true clean channel.

[Reverberator]

I'm using a Marshall valvestate 100 head with 4x10 celestion cab , &#163;180 on eb@y recently.

As good as anything IMO , especially if it's being run through a digital mfx.

[ELVIS]

As good as anything IMO


Sounds like you haven't heard "anything."

[Matt White]

I want a Dean RAZORBACK..........

[jhale667]

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Mark_Series/mark5Images/MainShot.jpg

Oh, my. :sex: