randall696
Well-Known Member
When you don't get enough space in the house for your hobby and have to live with what your wife assigns you xD
May I introduce:
My long-held dream is finally complete
AMP Rack
After a few hours of Tetris, I've now landed on this configuration.
I would actually like to place the Elmwood further down in the rack where the pedals are currently located, but my son is two years old and loves buttons that can be reached at his height
The idea behind the whole setup is that I can use all amps / modelers / effects and cabinets without plugging in a single cable.
All signal chains are bundled in the De Lisle 8x6 Amp&Cab Switcher and I can connect any amp or modeler to any cab using the rotary knobs and can also switch on the FX loop and attenuator.
Since I hate tangled cables, I made all the cables that I could assemble myself for the rack, so that in the end only the cable to the guitar is visible and nothing else
Unfortunately, a few strips are still missing, so I'm still waiting for the DHL guy to bring me the last missing jack plugs.
Details about the gear in the rack:
Cabs:
-Randall 4x12 (loaded with Eminence DV77 & Fane Laboga Mamzer 30 in an X Pattern)
-Mesa OS 4x12 straight the “Metal Standard“
-“Bogner“ 2x12is a custom Blueamps FRFR Cab loaded with 2x Celestion F12-X200
-Marshall 4x12 loaded with 4x Celecstion G12H100
-Randall RS125XL (Selfmade 2x12“ & 1x15“ Cab) loaded with cel v30‘s and Eminence Legend
AMPs:
-Mesa Single Rectifier
-Elwood Modena M60 (most awesome amp I owned to date)
-Randall T2
-Mooer Tube Engine (30W Tube Poweramp )
-Palmer Macht 402 Solid State Poweramp
-HB Custom Line Thunder 99 Solid State Poweramp
Modelers:
-Fractal AXE FX III MK-II
-Quad Cortex
Pedals:
-Pepers Pedals Dirty Tree
-Digitech “the Drop“
-Lichtlaerm Gehenna
-Lichtlaerm Key&Gate
Other Gear:
-De Lisle 8x6 Amp Cab Switcher with FX Loop and Attenuator feature for all connected amps.
-ISP Decimator Pro Rack (the best gate out there period)
-Thomann branded Power Conditioner
-Rockboard Stagetuner
-Rivera Rock Crusher Reactive Attenuator
-Weber Z-Matcher
-HB Attenuator
Now it's getting nerdy:
The AMPs Mesa, Randall and Elmwood stand on their own and can be switched to any of the cabs (except the "bogner" 2x12) with an FX loop and attenuator.
Now comes the special thing about my setup, the modelers AX FX and Quad Cortex can now both do the following:
-Main out stereo to the Palmer Macht 402 solid state power amplifier and then to the "Bogner Style" FRFR cab with everything the modelers have to offer in terms of modulations and IR's, so flat response is played back like PA, and this cab also runs the backing tracks when I'm playing to something.
-Second out (Mono) of the modelers goes to the Mooer Tube Engine, a small 30W tube power amp which can be switched to any cab using the Amp Cab Switcher. This means that with Poweramp Modulation off and IR off you can pass the amps from the modeler through a real cab with “moving air”.
-Third out (Mono) of the modelers goes to a small 50W HB Solid State Amp which can be switched to any cab using the Amp Cab Switcher. This means you can then use power amp modulation on and IR off to pass the amps from the modeler with "moving air" through a real cab and still have the power amp modulation of the software amps.
Here are a few more detailed pictures with information:
Hidden Little Helpers:
-Weber Z-Matcher (all amps and cabs in my setup must have 8 ohm impedance so that I can safely connect everything together via the Amp Cab Switcher.
But since a cab is unfortunately out of line and only offers 16 ohms, I need the Z-matcher here; you can use it to set the impedance of the amp and the cab and it matches the correct internal resistance so that the amp then For example, sees an 8 ohm cab instead of the real 16 ohm the cab actually has, so the tube amps in the setup are protected from mismatched cabs)
-Then there is the old Harley Benton attenuator, which only serves as an emergency solution for free prots on the cab switcher side.
Since I currently only have 5 cabs on the 6-way cab switcher, one port remains unoccupied so that I don't accidentally connect a tube amp to the empty port and then don't have a load connected. The HB Attenuator, which also has no cab, is located at this point It can be used as a load box and won't damage the amp.
all the Cabling took me about a week xD
I sadly didnt took a lot of pics before I moved it towards the wall
but here is one from the middle fo the process
all Instument and Speaker cables made by my to length and color coded so I know by looking at the cable what its doing.
No AC Powerlines run Parallel to Audio Cables
May I introduce:
My long-held dream is finally complete
AMP Rack
After a few hours of Tetris, I've now landed on this configuration.
I would actually like to place the Elmwood further down in the rack where the pedals are currently located, but my son is two years old and loves buttons that can be reached at his height
The idea behind the whole setup is that I can use all amps / modelers / effects and cabinets without plugging in a single cable.
All signal chains are bundled in the De Lisle 8x6 Amp&Cab Switcher and I can connect any amp or modeler to any cab using the rotary knobs and can also switch on the FX loop and attenuator.
Since I hate tangled cables, I made all the cables that I could assemble myself for the rack, so that in the end only the cable to the guitar is visible and nothing else
Unfortunately, a few strips are still missing, so I'm still waiting for the DHL guy to bring me the last missing jack plugs.
Details about the gear in the rack:
Cabs:
-Randall 4x12 (loaded with Eminence DV77 & Fane Laboga Mamzer 30 in an X Pattern)
-Mesa OS 4x12 straight the “Metal Standard“
-“Bogner“ 2x12is a custom Blueamps FRFR Cab loaded with 2x Celestion F12-X200
-Marshall 4x12 loaded with 4x Celecstion G12H100
-Randall RS125XL (Selfmade 2x12“ & 1x15“ Cab) loaded with cel v30‘s and Eminence Legend
AMPs:
-Mesa Single Rectifier
-Elwood Modena M60 (most awesome amp I owned to date)
-Randall T2
-Mooer Tube Engine (30W Tube Poweramp )
-Palmer Macht 402 Solid State Poweramp
-HB Custom Line Thunder 99 Solid State Poweramp
Modelers:
-Fractal AXE FX III MK-II
-Quad Cortex
Pedals:
-Pepers Pedals Dirty Tree
-Digitech “the Drop“
-Lichtlaerm Gehenna
-Lichtlaerm Key&Gate
Other Gear:
-De Lisle 8x6 Amp Cab Switcher with FX Loop and Attenuator feature for all connected amps.
-ISP Decimator Pro Rack (the best gate out there period)
-Thomann branded Power Conditioner
-Rockboard Stagetuner
-Rivera Rock Crusher Reactive Attenuator
-Weber Z-Matcher
-HB Attenuator
Now it's getting nerdy:
The AMPs Mesa, Randall and Elmwood stand on their own and can be switched to any of the cabs (except the "bogner" 2x12) with an FX loop and attenuator.
Now comes the special thing about my setup, the modelers AX FX and Quad Cortex can now both do the following:
-Main out stereo to the Palmer Macht 402 solid state power amplifier and then to the "Bogner Style" FRFR cab with everything the modelers have to offer in terms of modulations and IR's, so flat response is played back like PA, and this cab also runs the backing tracks when I'm playing to something.
-Second out (Mono) of the modelers goes to the Mooer Tube Engine, a small 30W tube power amp which can be switched to any cab using the Amp Cab Switcher. This means that with Poweramp Modulation off and IR off you can pass the amps from the modeler through a real cab with “moving air”.
-Third out (Mono) of the modelers goes to a small 50W HB Solid State Amp which can be switched to any cab using the Amp Cab Switcher. This means you can then use power amp modulation on and IR off to pass the amps from the modeler with "moving air" through a real cab and still have the power amp modulation of the software amps.
Here are a few more detailed pictures with information:
Hidden Little Helpers:
-Weber Z-Matcher (all amps and cabs in my setup must have 8 ohm impedance so that I can safely connect everything together via the Amp Cab Switcher.
But since a cab is unfortunately out of line and only offers 16 ohms, I need the Z-matcher here; you can use it to set the impedance of the amp and the cab and it matches the correct internal resistance so that the amp then For example, sees an 8 ohm cab instead of the real 16 ohm the cab actually has, so the tube amps in the setup are protected from mismatched cabs)
-Then there is the old Harley Benton attenuator, which only serves as an emergency solution for free prots on the cab switcher side.
Since I currently only have 5 cabs on the 6-way cab switcher, one port remains unoccupied so that I don't accidentally connect a tube amp to the empty port and then don't have a load connected. The HB Attenuator, which also has no cab, is located at this point It can be used as a load box and won't damage the amp.
all the Cabling took me about a week xD
I sadly didnt took a lot of pics before I moved it towards the wall
but here is one from the middle fo the processall Instument and Speaker cables made by my to length and color coded so I know by looking at the cable what its doing.
No AC Powerlines run Parallel to Audio Cables
