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Everyone is too worried about being album perfect live. Schmier is dead ******* on about this. Same goes for over produced metal recordings where nowadays metal has become more distorted guitar techno where everything is quantiZed until there is no soul to the music. Recording to a click to...

If you haven't made a purchase yet do not rule out old square heel ibanez rg's. Japanese jacksons are also killer instruments as well as great value. The reissue charvels are nice as are the reissue kramers but never got on with the head stocks on Kramers. You mentioned super start, but aren't...

Can confirm this. They sound wicked in a Les Paul. They also sound great in Flying Vs as well.

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Also make sure to check the four diodes that smooth out the ripple of the DC between the PT and power tubes. I had a tube short out causing smoke from the amp. The tube socket had scorch marks where the tube shorted and threw a pin. All the screen grid resistors were actually ok, but shorted...

My bassist, drummer and myself did live session work for Philadelphia's Blood Storm last September in Maryland at the Shadow Woods Metal Fest. We headlined the closing night and it was really fun. I have never played a decent outdoor gig where the stage sound was at all usable. The sound man...

Do tell on how the backside chassis lighting was done. I like the nail polish red dots on the knobs. I used to use glow in the dark type but it no longer glows in the dark so about time to redo it. Don't worry though, I already have a different color scheme going on so won't cop your red idea.

The reissue Greenbacks sound absolutely musical working with a Dual Rectifier. Tight lows, mids for days, and the high end isn't piercing like it can be with V30's. Another speaker that isn't too bad are Eminence Texas Heats. Those I would say and flatter than any of the speakers already...

Put the head in a "Live In" road case and the non removable cable wont be a problem any longer. Or roll the cable towards the amp from the socket end and tuck it under the handle when not plugged in. Carry the head using both hands. Handles can break at any time resulting in dropping a $1000+...

Nah, pinch harmonics are no problem on these amps. The register is just a little lower. It is in the attitude of the playing which results in pulling off good sounding pinch harmonics. Playing it to just get that noise usually results in a poor squeal. Play the squeal like you are trying...

A little gain goes a long way even if you DO play metal. I have yet to see a reason to run the gain on this amp on Orange or Red channels past 1:30-2:00. Anything after that just starts to smear and not actually increase perceived "distortion" you hear. Good advice about the flowers though...

Reading these over Afu I like the anode mod and may look a little closer into that one. I may have to adjust the values you came up with seeing that my amp is already modded somewhat. I would like to try to be comparing apples to apples if at all possible. I wish you the best and hope you...

@JamesFarrel - Hey, you never gave some detail on how you have been setting your amp up. How have you been setting your channel's knobs up? I understand the loose lows you are talking about. I called them the Smog Monster tone. They are not inherent to the amp if you are setting them up to...

Does the side loop on the Tight Metal work like side chaining when recording? I have not even looked into this pedal deeply since hearing about it several years ago. If so, that is a killer feature to be able to do into a live rig.

Wow I totally dig that. My Dual is jealous. What series Jackson is that? I noticed some new King V's at the local Sam Ash where the headstock looked different. Looks like they resized them. Yours looks like they modified the headstock angle slightly making the headstock seems more...

I would be happy with a few tone stack mods. What would the Zsrc and R5 be on the DR tone stack to plug into Aiken's Tonestack calculator?

Im right with you and those have been my observations as well. Yes you are correct. I am just laying an idea on the table regarding the origin of maybe not necessarily the switchable rectifier's origin, but rather the Bold/Spongy portion of the circuit. I am positing that when the amp was...

I agree with you on all those points. This is why I posited my question/ interpretation on what was being said. The tube rectifier along with the spongy mode, acts somewhat as a built in variac as mentioned earlier. Seeing how this amp was designed originally and targeted towards the Hair...

Not sure if I posted earlier, but I finally upgraded to a decent interface. My recording rig is as follows: Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 PC running Windows 7 Pro (Needs upgrade in hardware) Reaper 5 Various free vst effect/amp sims, huge catalog of IR's(paid and free) Addictive Drums(with all...