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thunder100

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Off topic of tubes,tones and settings

After a bit of battle and the decrease of the Stereo rig my Mark V made it into the living room







Roland

PS:I am married (33 years),play guitar (38 years with brakes)
 
That might be a bad idea putting your cab in a unit like that. If you ever play your Mark V the way it should be played, at reasonable levels of loudness, the whole unit will probably end up shaking horribly. Honestly, I am 30, married, and live sustainably in a comfortable space. We (me and my wife) like small spaces and not over spending on things we don't have to. The point is, I understand completely what you are going through. My wife actually doesn't care how my Roadster and cab stand out in our living space. The problem is I hate the way the setup looks in our living room. To make a long story short, I did everything you are doing now. In fact, I tried it all! After bad idea after bad idea it was clear that my wife was right -- I need to be able to play and utilize my amp in a functional way. I truly hope your setup works for you and inspires you to play. At the end of the day, that is what is most important.

At any rate, nice job fitting everything in there. It looks great. I really hope you don't run into many problems with your sound and functionality.

In case you are wondering, nowadays I run my Roadster on a desktop, next to my iMac and Apogee Duet. Whenever I want to play, I just run a mic cable from the Duet to a Rivera Silent Sister that is in a padded closet, out of sight. I then run a long speaker cable from the amp to the iso cab. All the loud distortion then comes out of my monitors. It works great and gets me the sounds I want at reasonable volumes.

Before settling on my current setup, I did buy a stylish Port City cab (212) to give me rig a better "look" for my living space. I loved the cab but sold it. Those ported cabs have too much bass for an already low-end heavy amp. I still haven't found a good replacement cab for my Roadster as of yet.
 
That's a whole new take on the classic "Boogie in a hardwood cabinet" right there!
 
BostonRedSox said:
That might be a bad idea putting your cab in a unit like that. If you ever play your Mark V the way it should be played, at reasonable levels of loudness, the whole unit will probably end up shaking horribly.

A tiny bit of cheating here.Till medium levels I play like this with no issues.When my beloved is not at home(my house is old from 1899 20 inch wall's) and I play how Mark V is supposed to be played then I take the cab out.

BostonRedSox said:
In case you are wondering, nowadays I run my Roadster on a desktop, next to my iMac and Apogee Duet. Whenever I want to play, I just run a mic cable from the Duet to a Rivera Silent Sister that is in a padded closet, out of sight. I then run a long speaker cable from the amp to the iso cab. All the loud distortion then comes out of my monitors.

Interesting

The desktop idea was the one before I went to the hardwood version

About the Rivery Sister Silent idea I never thought-->will look into it though as I still will move my Axe-FX on the top shelf and its (smaller)monitors below.But even the Atomic reactors I have cannot compete to the old Thiele with a well broken in EVH12L

BostonRedSox said:
Before settling on my current setup, I did buy a stylish Port City cab (212) to give me rig a better "look" for my living space. I loved the cab but sold it. Those ported cabs have too much bass for an already low-end heavy amp. I still haven't found a good replacement cab for my Roadster as of yet.

I am still thinking about changing the grill to the Tan or the Tan Weave grill as I am very happy with the Thiele

AND thanks for the feedback

Roland
 
if everyone is happy, why not.........great stuff.

my only concern will be the mark V over heating in that unit (looks that there is not enough space for the heat produce by the amp to move around).

take care :wink:
 

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