Random Pics of Your Rig

[Chri]

Whats up with the Ipad though?

Seems like he's using it as a tuner. I think it's a pretty cool idea

 

[theo]

I realise that, but wow... that's one expensive tuner!
On the plus side, you won't get a bigger screen on any conventional guitar gear

 

[CrushingAnvil]

 

[BryanFTWL]

 

[Wookieslayer]

just a shot from a bedroom jam last week haha.

 

[BryanFTWL]

Wookie, how is the T2? I've been wanting to give one a spin.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

That Schecter looks really cool. I just wish they made a Jackson like headstock

 

[ManuelB]

Here's my 2011 A-rig and a few of my ERG's.

Must come back to that rig. You dont't just use the IPad as a tuner... Do you?!
What else can you use it for?

 

[Wookieslayer]

Wookie, how is the T2? I've been wanting to give one a spin.

Hey man I really like it. It is tight and defined in the low end and in the note clarity even when you push up the gain. I never have the gain more then 6-6.5 in the red channel for normal riffing but even when I crank it up some, it sounds good. I've yet to try a TS booster up front but its hard for me to imagine how much tighter it can get. I guess it will add that mid bump and depends on your preference for tone. I think cow 7 sig boosts his with a ZW overdrive.

If you want something similar in meanness to a Recto/5150 tone but still different enough, this amp is it. One of my favorite characters of this amp is the low mid voicing I can bring out with the midsweep knob. I set it around 10 o clock and boost the mids to 6 or 7 and I get a real nice clear low end chug. I'm pretty sure you can hear some of that character in my riffing video in my sig but my webcam of course is still masking a lot of that (but you can get an idea of that in room sound).

The density and presence knobs are exactly that. Depending on where you set the density of course you can get a DEEP sound to blend with the tone characteristics of your guitar or band mix, though I usually have mine sent pretty conservatively as my Schecter / Crunch Lab combo has a lot off bass. The presence knob is key for your flavor of tone; set to 7 or higher if you want more sizzle and possibly Recto/5150 fizziness. I find even at 4.5-6 the presence is plenty but that has more to do with your speakers and preference in tone (and my fan of the Faceless tone).

I highly recommend trying one out if you can and playing at least at 2-3 in volume in a good room. It does sound good at lower bedroom volumes but it definitely opens up past 3. Fucker is loud at 400w at 4 ohms with plentyyy of headroom. It's 280w at 8 ohms which I'm sure sounds just as good but I've read the 4 ohm setting is the sweet spot. I've heard people call these amps one dimensional but you really have to play with the midsweep and presence knobs to cater to your tone. With 2 channels and the footswitchable boost, it really feels like 3 channels because the third adds more compression and gain. Also the MIDI feature is a huge plus for me with my X3 Live and have series or parallel loops is nice.

These amps are definitely plug and play and a boost is not needed for modern metal. The tone is tight with plenty of sustain and has a nice mid roar to it. It is not the noisiest amp in the world but has some hum when you crank it up. With my Decimator in front or in the loop this beast is dead quiet in between fast riffs. I've even thrown my MXR 10 band in the loop to tighten the lowest of lows and clean a bit of the high end of my B-52 cab speakers. I actually just sold that cab and am going to be getting my "band's" V2 and matching XL cab with 100w Celestions to my house so I'm really excited to play them both through that cab and make a comparison, possibly getting something good recorded.

I would say there is a little solid state character to these amps, in respect to tube squishiness or sag / tightness. If you're worried about solid state sterility, that's mainly at low volumes. Any low volume fizz (I wouldn't call this a fizzy amp) warms up past volume 2. There is that Randall raw and dry character (in a good way) in the tone, especially in the green channel; when I first turned to that channel it reminded me of my Titan (but fuller and more balanced, darker ). But the red channel is definitely where it's at with more saturation and modern feel. Gah I could keep describing it but go try one out dude!

 

[MYGFH]

Finally, I am pretty happy with my low volume setup. It took a really long time to put together. Definitely a trial and error thing.

Guitar -> Compressor -> Tuner -> Auto-wah -> Fuzz -> Octave Fuzz -> Overdrive -> Chorus -> Delay -> BOSS DR-880 (cosm amp sim) -> EQ -> Champ Clone Amp

I have a passive DI box going straight from the champ clone (after the amp, before the speaker) to the line-in on my pc.

I have the pc controlling the midi on the DR-880.

The drum and bass output on the DR-880 go to my stereo. Now the drum and bass parts on tuxguitar sound awesome. The drums on the DR-880 are already compressed and sound great.

I know my signal path sounds long, but I'm getting great sounds. Between all of the cosm amp simulations, eq, and compressor, I can dial it in.

After reading threads, the biggest complaint of small practice setups is very little low end. But to be honest, that is what I am trying to distance myself from. I sold my giant 70w Fender 410, at 2 it would rattle the pictures on the walls.
Its the low end that travels through solid objects. Its the low end that would get me evicted. So, I'm okay with non-existent low end... for now. I'm saving up for a house, then I will get some serious wattage and try to rip open a hole in the space-time continuum.

Here are some pictures of my man-nook, since this is an apartment, I'll have to wait to upgrade to "cave".

Montgomery Clift looking on.

Open for business. I outfitted my pedal board with cold-cathode ray tube lights, like they use in computer cases. I soldered it to a 12v wall wart.

My pedals and DR-880

 

[hevechvy]

i've been getting a really heavy, massive sound by using a wampler triple wreck into the clean channel on my dsl 100.

 

[hevechvy]

just a shot from a bedroom jam last week haha.

hey, is that amp tweaker metal pedal any good? i've got the amp tweaker tight boost. i'm really not satisfied with it yet, but i'm gonna try putting two batteries in it, in series, and see how it sounds at 18 volts.
brent

 

[kevinarich]

My daily. Still have a dsl and dual rec in the closet somewhere. They don't get much love these days.

 

[AvantGuardian]

I was screwing around at my practice space the other day and decided to see what kind of brutality would result if I stacked my two rigs together. Top to bottom: Mesa DC-5 head, Port City OS 1x12, Port City OS 2x12, Mesa Tremoverb 2x12 combo. I ran the PC cabs from the DC-5 and used the slave out from the DC-5 into the Tremoverb's power amp. It was loud as hell. I would have run the Tremoverb into my bandmate's Orange 4x12 in the background too but he wasn't there and I wasn't sure if he'd mind.

Typically my rig is just the DC-5 with the two PC cabs. It makes kind of a funny 3x12 ziggurat stack.

 

[Shemhamforasch]

I've made this photo just before shipping it to the new owner.
Russian gear, also it's known as "Fame" outside Russia. 10-watt all-tube amp(4x12ax7+2xEL84), 1x12 cab with an Eminence Legend V128.
Sold it some time ago, used it as home gear. But it was enough loud to be used for several rehearsals even with pretty aggressive drummer. Anyway, it's a lovely practice amp to be used at home.

Sample here. It was recorded on a basswood-body ibanez if I'm not mistaken(sample is not mine, don't know exact model of this ibanez.)

 

[mammalsasfollowers]

Me too my brother me too haha.

I smoke Weed!!!


...and play this cab.

 

[Toshiro]

Current pic:

 

[geetar_geek79]

^^^man that xiphos is sexy!

 

[JohnDillingerJr]

As you can see...Its a work in progress. I gotta buy a poweramp obviously and some plywood to build a cab. I already have 2 jensens sitting in my closet waiting to be used.

Also an old pic of my guitar. Replaced the pups and took the covers off. Also replaced the stock knobs with ebony wood ones. Iz sexey. Eventually gunna replace all the hardware. Yes I'm left handed btw

 

[Les Paul Gibson]

Here is my current rig: pedals are EVH flange, EVH Phase 90, Empress Superdelay, Xotic AC+, the red pedal is an XTS Atomic Overdrive that just kicks
ass the mid piece in the bottom of a rack is a Neve mic preamp.

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