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Post by gooner on Dec 20, 2015 0:26:02 GMT
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Post by Colchar on Dec 20, 2015 0:55:11 GMT
That link above leads to a 4x12 cab and the head isn't included. But with the amp heads we are talking about, the cab is included. The listing I found says it is $1999 which I assumed was the US price but I just noticed a Canadian flag symbol in the upper right corner of their website so perhaps it can tell by my IP address that I am in Canada and was showing me the Canadian price? Either way, it is a lot of coin. www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/hiwatt/products/hiwatt-little-d-rig-20w-0-5w-head-w-1x12-fane-cabinetThe Fane speakers are a big part of the Hiwatt sound so it is cool that they are selling these heads and cabs as one unit/item. Sure a 4x12 is the way to go but for a home player that included 1x12 is perfect. Below are some more demos (they don't have a demo of the Little P on their website). The Little J Rig: The Little D rig: My next amp purchase will be a DRRI but I think the Townshend version of this amp just hit the top of my dream amp list. Any of the three of them would be great to have but as much as I love Zeppelin and like Floyd, The Who are right there with Skynyrd as my favourite bands so it only makes sense for me to get the Townshend version. Maybe this can be my ultimate gift to myself amp...set some goals for the next year and, if I accomplish them, then this can be my reward. That will also give me time to save the money for the thing!!! Speaking of The Who, I actually saw a nice history of The Who book at Costco today but have spent so damned much on Christmas that I will have to leave that purchase until after the holidays. |
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Post by gooner on Dec 20, 2015 1:35:28 GMT
That link above leads to a 4x12 cab and the head isn't included. But with the amp heds we are talking about, the cab is included. The listing I found says it is $1999 which I assumed was the US price but I just noticed a Canadian flag symbol in the upper right corner of their website so perhaps it can tell by my IP address that I am in Canada and was showing me the Canadian price? Either way, it is a lot of coin. www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/hiwatt/products/hiwatt-little-d-rig-20w-0-5w-head-w-1x12-fane-cabinetThe Fane speakers are a big part of the Hiwatt sound so it is cool that they are selling these heads and cabs as one unit/item. Sure a 4x12 is the way to go but for a home player that included 1x12 is perfect. Below are some more demos (they don't have a demo of the Little P on their website). The Little J Rig: The Little D rig: My next amp purchase will be a DRRI but I think the Townshend version of this amp just hit the top of my dream amp list. Any of the three of them would be great to have but as much as I love Zeppelin and like Floyd, The Who are right there with Skynyrd as my favourite bands so it only makes sense for me to get the Townshend version. Maybe this can be my ultimate gift to myself amp...set some goals for the next year and, if I accomplish them, then this can be my reward. That will also give me time to save the money for the thing!!! Speaking of The Who, I actually saw a nice history of The Who book at Costco today but have spent so damned much on Christmas that I will have to leave that purchase until after the holidays. Yeah that's what I was trying to post. Personally I have been considering the Custom 50 for some time, I'd have to lose the Sound City 50+ and the Fender Champ12 and add about £500 but I may just go for it at some point. |
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Post by Colchar on Dec 20, 2015 2:18:41 GMT
That link above leads to a 4x12 cab and the head isn't included. But with the amp heds we are talking about, the cab is included. The listing I found says it is $1999 which I assumed was the US price but I just noticed a Canadian flag symbol in the upper right corner of their website so perhaps it can tell by my IP address that I am in Canada and was showing me the Canadian price? Either way, it is a lot of coin. www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/hiwatt/products/hiwatt-little-d-rig-20w-0-5w-head-w-1x12-fane-cabinetThe Fane speakers are a big part of the Hiwatt sound so it is cool that they are selling these heads and cabs as one unit/item. Sure a 4x12 is the way to go but for a home player that included 1x12 is perfect. Below are some more demos (they don't have a demo of the Little P on their website). The Little J Rig: The Little D rig: My next amp purchase will be a DRRI but I think the Townshend version of this amp just hit the top of my dream amp list. Any of the three of them would be great to have but as much as I love Zeppelin and like Floyd, The Who are right there with Skynyrd as my favourite bands so it only makes sense for me to get the Townshend version. Maybe this can be my ultimate gift to myself amp...set some goals for the next year and, if I accomplish them, then this can be my reward. That will also give me time to save the money for the thing!!! Speaking of The Who, I actually saw a nice history of The Who book at Costco today but have spent so damned much on Christmas that I will have to leave that purchase until after the holidays. Yeah that's what I was trying to post. Personally I have been considering the Custom 50 for some time, I'd have to lose the Sound City 50+ and the Fender Champ12 and add about £500 but I may just go for it at some point.  Which one would you get - the Gilmour, Page, or Townshend version? |
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 20, 2015 3:19:25 GMT
Well they're hand wired. Erruhbody be knowing that hand wired is mo better than circuit boards...because a circuit board ain't hand wired so it ain't as good as hand wired because if it was hand wired it would be as good as hand wired but it ain't so it ain't... May I quote you? Oh wait.... |
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Post by gooner on Dec 20, 2015 8:39:56 GMT
Yeah that's what I was trying to post. Personally I have been considering the Custom 50 for some time, I'd have to lose the Sound City 50+ and the Fender Champ12 and add about £500 but I may just go for it at some point. Which one would you get - the Gilmour, Page, or Townshend version? Probably just a standard Custom 50, If I hunt around , I can get one for about £1200. Not looking at the moment though, maybe next year |
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Post by Schidney on Dec 20, 2015 9:00:11 GMT
Which one would you get - the Gilmour, Page, or Townshend version? Probably just a standard Custom 50, If I hunt around , I can get one for about £1200. Not looking at the moment though, maybe next year Damn things don't come cheap. |
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Post by thumpalumpacus on Dec 21, 2015 7:54:10 GMT
I'm putting an electric rig back together. Leaning towards the Egnater Tweaker 40, with the Peavey VKII Microhead in second and the Egnater Rebel Thirty in third. Got my CDs in the mail today of Rush -- 2112 and A Farewell to Kings -- so's I can brush up my rusty electric chops. I'll be amplified within three weeks at the latest ... good lord, I can't wait. Whichever amp I get will be a head -- I'm too goddamned decrepit to lug around a heavy combo -- and I'll be building that myself, using a 12" Celestion copy from my old ValveKing 2x12, which I parted out last week. I'm not a fan of formulaic tone chasing. 'This guitar' with 'this pedal' and 'this amp'. I usually just respond to what's happening with what I'm using. I have lots of stuff, mostly not expensive. But I'd really rather have variety as I've never heard 'THE' sound. I like Gibbons for instance. I'm happy if I get in the ballpark then take it a different direction. But I also like Ronson who was notoriously indifferent to what amp he used. If I was covering other's material in public it would be a different story. I've always liked the idea of "subversive" use of equipment, using gear for unintended applications. Started with using guitar pedals to play havoc on keyboard and vocal tracks, and grew from there. Demanding this pedal and that speaker was always a load of crap, to me. A real musician uses what he has to make what he hears, and a shoddy craftsman blames his tools. |
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Post by thumpalumpacus on Dec 21, 2015 8:04:52 GMT
To paraphrase Keith Richards - "I could use a Silvertone Amp, and a Gretch Guitar, and I still sound like me." Even if one doesn't think much of his skill level, one knows when it's Keith. It's all in how you hit the notes.Joe S Joe Satriani, playing a cheapie Pignose Strat copy through a solid-state (Crate, I think) amp. Still sounds like Joe to me: |
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Post by thumpalumpacus on Dec 21, 2015 8:12:24 GMT
Well. I look at it like I wish NASCAR still was, "run what you brung"... Almost any guitar and amp can sound good if the 'fingers' are there... Does it really make a shit what Jobo, Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne, Robben Freaking Ford, Jack Pearson, Jimmy Herring, etc., plays with/through? Nawt. That's why there are knobs and stuff...and you can buy speakers and stuff too to make whut you brung sound even better... I wish I still had the first generation little Gorilla amp...one of the best sounding amps I've heard...and solid state on top of that... DAY-um, I thought I was the only feller who had anything good to say about those amps!  Way back in the day, when I was a carless young ne'er-do-well trying to get a band together, the bassist I'd found (and jealously guarded!) had a tolerant mother and uncomplaining neighbors, so that was where we'd jam. I'd ride my skateboard over there carrying my Lester, only to plug it into a Gorilla that he had laying around. I hated it at the time -- in a fit of irony, we took to calling it "The Gorilla My Dreams" -- but a few years later we listened to our recorded practices (most were recorded) and it wasn't that bad. I'm still not fond of the nasal spit which sounded like snot being blown out a speaker, but at points the amp was right on target. |
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Post by 79standard on Dec 21, 2015 20:00:24 GMT
DAY-um, I thought I was the only feller who had anything good to say about those amps! Way back in the day, when I was a carless young ne'er-do-well trying to get a band together, the bassist I'd found (and jealously guarded!) had a tolerant mother and uncomplaining neighbors, so that was where we'd jam. I'd ride my skateboard over there carrying my Lester, only to plug it into a Gorilla that he had laying around. I hated it at the time -- in a fit of irony, we took to calling it "The Gorilla My Dreams" -- but a few years later we listened to our recorded practices (most were recorded) and it wasn't that bad. I'm still not fond of the nasal spit which sounded like snot being blown out a speaker, but at points the amp was right on target. I played a borrowed Gorilla combo circa 1986/7 and it got a credible Crazy Horse sound, even with my strat. I tore a page from the Billy Gibbons/Brian May playbook and picked with a quarter for added skronk and "whistlers." It was a fun sound... not great, but certainly fun. |
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Post by Maxwell on Dec 21, 2015 22:46:20 GMT
The first Gorillas were cool. The later smaller ones sucked....
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Post by Grand Toad on Dec 22, 2015 4:01:13 GMT
Funny thing about amps. I had to rent a SS Randall back in the late 70s to do a gig. My Gretch just wasnt' loud enough to keep up with the other guitar players modded Bandmaster. That damn Randall was a really good sounding amp. I could out blast Mr. Bandmaster.
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Post by 79standard on Dec 22, 2015 19:24:15 GMT
Funny thing about amps. I had to rent a SS Randall back in the late 70s to do a gig. My Gretch just wasnt' loud enough to keep up with the other guitar players modded Bandmaster. That damn Randall was a really good sounding amp. I could out blast Mr. Bandmaster. Oddly enough, it works the other way around, too: a friend of mine says he had to use two JC120s (!!!) to keep up with his bandmate's 30-watt (class A) Tone King Continental. Randalls have a great reputation, BTW. |
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 23, 2015 1:52:56 GMT
I had a brand new Yammy G-100 412 and my buddy had an old beat up AC30 that would totally shut me down, every time. Pissed me off big time! I used to fiddle endlessly with my Arp Avatar just to get back at him.  |
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Post by thumpalumpacus on Dec 23, 2015 6:37:41 GMT
I had a brand new Yammy G-100 412 and my buddy had an old beat up AC30 that would totally shut me down, every time. Pissed me off big time! I used to fiddle endlessly with my Arp Avatar just to get back at him. A buddy in high school had a G-100 1x12. Jesus, that thing could push air. |
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Post by 79standard on Dec 24, 2015 0:49:22 GMT
I had a brand new Yammy G-100 412 and my buddy had an old beat up AC30 that would totally shut me down, every time. Pissed me off big time! I used to fiddle endlessly with my Arp Avatar just to get back at him. Those sweet old Yamaha SS amps could get loud as hell (I used to own the 1x12 version and currently own the wee 1x8 version), but an AC30 can almost make ya sterile at 100 yards. Louder than bombs, they are. 30 watts, my eye! I call bullshit!  |
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Post by 79standard on Dec 24, 2015 0:51:41 GMT
When I visited Rochester NY back in 1987, I heard tell of the "loudest guitarist in Rochester" -- I asked what he played and was told "a JC120 with JBLs."
oh... my... God... "I'm afraid, Dave..."
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Post by Mindfrigg on Dec 24, 2015 4:15:02 GMT
I had a brand new Yammy G-100 412 and my buddy had an old beat up AC30 that would totally shut me down, every time. Pissed me off big time! I used to fiddle endlessly with my Arp Avatar just to get back at him. A buddy in high school had a G-100 1x12. Jesus, that thing could push air. I know right? I think it was the treble of the AC30 made it so much worse. Kind of an ear-stabby feeling. |
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Post by 79standard on Dec 24, 2015 17:00:00 GMT
Festis Crimble to you all! Hitting the road!
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Post by Maxwell on Dec 24, 2015 17:08:29 GMT
Safe travels.....
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Post by Grand Toad on Dec 24, 2015 18:29:29 GMT
Festivus for the rest of us.  |
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Post by Harmony on Dec 27, 2015 2:21:04 GMT
I still have my first practice amp..never got a better one. Fender G Dec. When I play better I will.
However I am using my acoustic guitar now so no need of one just yet.
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Post by laowai on Jan 1, 2016 21:07:27 GMT
Six pages before someone mentioned Randall.
I have two amps on two continents.
In Shanghai I'm rocking a Mustang III. In the States, I have my old made in England Marshall valvestate 80 watt. Both are not bad for the price. The Marshall is pretty terrible. I've never played the Fender in a jam/band situation, so I'll withhold judgement, but it's okay at apartment volumes. I set it to a Deluxe reverb with no effects and haven't touched the controls since.
It's time for a big boy amp.
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Post by melvindale on Jan 1, 2016 21:30:31 GMT
Six pages before someone mentioned Randall. I have two amps on two continents. In Shanghai I'm rocking a Mustang III. In the States, I have my old made in England Marshall valvestate 80 watt. Both are not bad for the price. The Marshall is pretty terrible. I've never played the Fender in a jam/band situation, so I'll withhold judgement, but it's okay at apartment volumes. I set it to a Deluxe reverb with no effects and haven't touched the controls since. It's time for a big boy amp. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the Mustang Iaowai, I have a II that I did much the same - set the green channel to Deluxe sans effects - set up my TopHat Club Deluxe and using an A/B/Y Box - dialed it in as close as I could. Haven't touched (that setting) since and have gigged it several times when space and weight were a concern.
The TopHat is 20Watts - so the 40 SS Mustang II is pretty equal. The III is 100, so about 40/50 tube watts = should do well I would think.
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Post by Marshall 'n' Moonshine on Jan 10, 2016 19:28:48 GMT
I accidently checked Tube when it's Both. I still have a Fender Champion 110, which is a 25w SS with a small reverb tank and the clean sounds are fantastic in a small setting. And it gets a cool transistor breakup when you crank it up and break it up. Otherwise, I have a Marshall JCM 800 4104 (2204 in a 2x12 combo) and a homebuilt tweed Princeton 2x10 combo. I plan to build a few more, but if I never do, I'm alright.  |
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Post by JeffBlue on Mar 3, 2016 3:35:20 GMT
I have two vintage Fenders, one Fender tube/modeler, one Vox lunchbox, one Mesa Boogie monoblock, and an all tube Trace Elliot. I do have one solid state that I would use for acoustic guitar, a Peavey keyboard amp.
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Post by Bill h on Mar 3, 2016 3:49:10 GMT
I have two vintage Fenders, one Fender tube/modeler, one Vox lunchbox, one Mesa Boogie monoblock, and an all tube Trace Elliot. I do have one solid state that I would use for acoustic guitar, a Peavey keyboard amp. I want a fender amp badly. I really like the Princeton series. In my play-out days I had the Marshall 100/100 monobloc. Using various preamps over the years. Is that modeler the mustang? |
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Post by JeffBlue on Mar 3, 2016 5:08:30 GMT
The modeler is the Fender Super Champ X2 head. I love this amp. I am using a 15 inch JBL K130 and it makes the amp sound huge. I typically only use channel 1 for an exceptional blackface clean and I use pedals with it. THe pedals I am using with the amp is a BK Butler Real Tube pedal, a Seymour Duncan TwinTube Blue and for my tweed tones I am using a Lovepedal Les Lius. This set-up sounds exquisite.
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Post by Bill h on Mar 3, 2016 16:31:01 GMT
The modeler is the Fender Super Champ X2 head. I love this amp. I am using a 15 inch JBL K130 and it makes the amp sound huge. I typically only use channel 1 for an exceptional blackface clean and I use pedals with it. THe pedals I am using with the amp is a BK Butler Real Tube pedal, a Seymour Duncan TwinTube Blue and for my tweed tones I am using a Lovepedal Les Lius. This set-up sounds exquisite. In my opinion, fenders modeling technology has completely smoked everyone else..... line 6, behringer,...etc... |
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