Gigging with my VII tonight

[danielpasco]

I expect to be the weak link in my signal chain. Using the VII with a Quad Cortex as a switching control/effects unit.

I realized that I can use the master volume on the QC as the amp master volume, and have an stabilized expression pedal (stays still when you take your foot off of it) that I'm using to dial in a gain boost of up to 5db for lead playing.

I'll see how it goes.

 

[danielpasco]

(We're playing Heart covers tonight, I'm on lead guitar)

 

[rarebitusa]

I'll see how it goes.

following kick it

 

[clyvediggins]

How was the show? Heart covers sounds fun, dig Roger Fischer’s playing

 

[danielpasco]

The amp was stellar.

Using the QC as a pedalboard caused some problems. I ended up with a super loud chattering sound coming out of the amp when I first powered everything up that didn't go away until I physically unplugged everything.

The monitoring situation was really challenging - my monitor was super loud, so that even the clean picking sounded like the amp was on ten, no real way to soften it with lighter picking.

We did a mix of 70s and newer tracks:

1. Who Will You Run To
2. Heartless
3. Nothin At All
4. Barracuda
5. These Dreams
6. Magic Man
7. What About Love
8. Crazy On You

I ended up choking on a few parts, probably the worst was in Crazy On You and Heartless. I had all of the parts burned into muscle memory but ended up getting distracted and suddenly not sure I was on the right place on the fretboard and running off the road. :/

Barracuda and Magic Man went off really well, all of the dual guitar parts were great. The solo on What Above Love was pretty smooth. One thing about working on this, it gave me more appreciation for the newer songs that I didn't have before. What About Love's solo is surprisingly pretty.

 

[rarebitusa]

Nice... did you use all 3 chans? If so what voicings for each? Just curious

 

[danielpasco]

Nice... did you use all 3 chans? If so what voicings for each? Just curious

I wasn't very original: Skinny Clean, Crunch, and Mark IV mode

 

[rarebitusa]

I wasn't very original: Skinny Clean, Crunch, and Mark IV mode

Well original enough if it sounded good FWIW when I use the V:90 live it's Fat Clean (bold), Crunch (preset GEQ), Mk IV (bright) GEQ.

 

[danielpasco]

Well original enough if it sounded good FWIW when I use the V:90 live it's Fat Clean (bold), Crunch (preset GEQ), Mk IV (bright) GEQ.

Good clarification: Technically, I used:

Skinny Clean (GEQ), Crunch (GEQ), Mk IV (GEQ).

Skinny + GEQ (usual V) hits a good approximation of Fat without, to my ears. Although I'm certainly up for hearing other people's experiences.

 

[rarebitusa]

Skinny + GEQ (usual V) hits a good approximation of Fat without,

yea I could see that. What did you run for power modes on the chans?

 

[danielpasco]

90 all the way for that set. I thought about using Crunch on 45 a few week ago but like the 90W sound better in the rehearsal space.

 

[rarebitusa]

Cool Yea 90W Simulclass now for me as well. Used to run 45W on Crunch for a long while and that actually was good, but feels like there is some consistency running one power mode for everything.

 

[danielpasco]

45W might be a lot better for recording. I've certainly heard some people blow the door off by recording Van Halen, etc, in 45W instead of 90W

 

[mace]

Nice. I used my VII last weekend also, maybe 6th or 7th gig with it. I love the IR+ out but I still use a vertical 2x12 with the VII combo speaker for on stage. This last gig we had a buddy do sound and he has a killer system. However the monitors were pretty loud (like your gig apparantly!) and I couldn't get much of the VII and cabs to my ears. I was hearing mostly monitors which were kind of thin. I used BOLD, CRUNCH and IIc (GEQ) for the voicings with a 9 o'clock tubescreamer here and there for leads on bluesy songs (with CRUNCH). 45W mode.

I find the CRUNCH has a good bit of honk with no GEQ on the VII when playing alone, even more so than the V. But... in a band mix it sounds very good and punchy, very solid. CRUNCH GAIN was at 11 o'clock (I use pretty hot pick-ups, Duncan's Mark Holcomb's Alpha and Omega) and Dimarzio JP DreamCatcher/Rainmaker (or whatever they're called) and it seemed to have more distortion at this setting than the V.

Anyway, was a fun night. I may get some vids up here at some point.

 

[danielpasco]

Nice. I used my VII last weekend also, maybe 6th or 7th gig with it. I love the IR+ out but I still use a vertical 2x12 with the VII combo speaker for on stage. This last gig we had a buddy do sound and he has a killer system. However the monitors were pretty loud (like your gig apparantly!) and I couldn't get much of the VII and cabs to my ears. I was hearing mostly monitors which were kind of thin. I used BOLD, CRUNCH and IIc (GEQ) for the voicings with a 9 o'clock tubescreamer here and there for leads on bluesy songs (with CRUNCH). 45W mode.

I find the CRUNCH has a good bit of honk with no GEQ on the VII when playing alone, even more so than the V. But... in a band mix it sounds very good and punchy, very solid. CRUNCH GAIN was at 11 o'clock (I use pretty hot pick-ups, Duncan's Mark Holcomb's Alpha and Omega) and Dimarzio JP DreamCatcher/Rainmaker (or whatever they're called) and it seemed to have more distortion at this setting than the V.

Anyway, was a fun night. I may get some vids up here at some point.

I'd love to see them! Glad you had a great time.