Is the back of the scratchplate covered in conductive tape and earthed to the common ground of the guitar ? This might help drain away any charge build up ? Like a lightning conductor on a building ?
Posts by ajbsmirnoff
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Switch off the Van der Graaf generator ?
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I really like number 2 ! (IIC+ pre 2)
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So.
I've wanted to try one of these for a long time. They're near universally well reviewed, and...... I can see why.
PRS MT 15. Bought it used. Plugged it into the Two Notes (its WAY too loud to use with a cab if there's anyone else at home).... and away we go.
Clean channel is SUPER clean - almost reminds me of the H&K Tubemeister clean - super high headroom makibng for a pristine clean sound..... but it benefits from its 'pull boost' to get some grit / break up with playing dynamics when its dimed.
Lead channel. ALL THE GAIN. The gain knob starts at a heavy crunch and quickly transits to all the gain. No sag, no bloom - just straight to the searing gain. Couldn't get a Marshall style crunch out of it.....but its not the amp for that. Its also quite noisy with the gain at 50%
It has a full / half power switch, an FX loop, and with 8 valves - its a room heater. I'm not a super fan of the leds, I'd prefer a regular power light.
Does it take pedals ? I imagine it could, but really doesn't need any.
I don't think I've ever heard anything by Mark Tremonti, but I really like his amp.
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Update
Its very good. Spend a few days with the preamps - it makes a great companion to the ADA MP-1/JMP-1/Triaxis. Having the poweramp options is cool. Today I hooked up the amps via their speaker outputs...... And it was just as good. Significantly better than just taking their preamp and adding an IR in the helix.
Also met Sollazon in a FB forum !.
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The Slicer alone is a riot of fun.
Is it the best thing since sliced bread ?
..... I'll get my coat.
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Its in and..... its decent. Minor niggle that you can't have the rear panel fully cabled / populated as the 'line in' switches off the 'amp in' input. Sooooo I'll have to make sure I can give reach it.
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Can you point me to where you got those black knobs for your kemper rack?
Cant find the original listing - it was something like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385602624811
Ideally you want 'd shaft' knobs. The ones I got seem to push-fit just fine apart from the browse knob - which I've glued on with a dab of super glue.
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Rack update
I've made a 1u space (which took longer than I thought it would). I've arranged a power cable, line in/out, usb, and 2x speaker cables.
Tomorrow - a used TwoNotes Torpedo Live arrives - to act as a reactive load box for my 'realworld' amps, and a poweramp and cab sim for the rack preamps and the valve based pedals which are really just preamps too.
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In rig Manager
go to 'tools'
Click on 'export Tag to CSV'
This saves the selected window of profile deets to a csv file you can read in excel, google sheets or notepad.
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I would like to request that this thread is banned as it verges on guitar porn! Ha!
Very jealous!!!!!
[Slowly opens a pedal drawer]
NB. The Ikea Alex drawers are very good for pedal storage.
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Both of those pedals take drive pedals pushing the front REALLY well. Either the clean or dirty channels.
To this end I've added to the 'drive pedal collection with some 'hard' and 'asymetric' clipping to go with my plethora of soft clipping/transparent pedals.
(its not lost on me that one half of my Jemini pedal is a DS-1)
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that's just the label
Thanks Don. I replaced them with EHX labelled ones. Probably made by the same folk in eastern europe/Russia with names ending in 'ski' and 'ov'.
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I remember the mesa pedal - it was marketed as a Dual rec in a box. It was really expensive at the time and big and heavy....but oh so cool.
I never got one but how cool! Thanks for sharing.
The Carvin looks amazing. In the UK we didn't get much Carvin stuff and most of that was associated with Vai - so I only ever saw Carvin in the US guitar mags..
The V twin is very very good. So is the Carvin - they're fairly rare in the UK. Unless you have a Line 6 product.... then they're a digital HX model !
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This is why absolutely no one buys Apple Iphones. No one. Absoloutely no one. Ever.
Cheaper alternatives exist that do pretty much the same thing - and everyone buys those.
Ehhhhh. No.
Folks buy the things they want - that fit in with what they need. If I want a small profile player that is a fully features multi FX that will play my existing profiles (Yay - another format so I can rebuy my Vinyl collection as CDs !!1!!1)- I'll pick the one that fits my needs and budget. Or as gear buying isn't a zero sum game...... you could have both.
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Yippee.
A Carvin Legacy Drive. Drive pedal / preamp / headphone amp. With valves !!!!
(in fact, the functionality is really similar to the V-twin pedal, which I really like.
Vai fanboi ? Me ? Yes. Yes I am.
Am I going to play my swirly Evo loaded Ibanez through it ? Yes.
Will my Jemini pedal come out of the box too ? Also yes.
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Are they tiny, or just very far away ?
[deep cut Father Ted joke]
