What is your next guitar/gear purchase gonna be?

[youngthrasher9]

I went to pick it up and there was an EVH 5150 Stealth 50w and a Mini Invective at this GC location. Literally the exact amps I was looking at before buying the VTM, both of which I have never tried before.

I tried all 3 (VTM, Invective, EVH) into a 212 and bros… for what I’m trying to do it wasn’t even close. That EVH Stealth 50w is the PINNACLE of every amp I’ve tried for high gain stuff.

I returned the VTM on the spot and now I’m just price shopping for a good 5150 50w Stealth.

It’s such a good amp. The only thing I’ve tried that really competed with it for me was the EL34 50 watt. The OG 5153 6l6 has always seemed too smooth / polite for my taste. The Iconic head through a good cab was about 85% there for me, but the real deal stealth and EL34 are just straight up at the top of the heap.

 

[Bearitone]

Not that it’s even necessary but, can you throw KT88s in an EVH 50w Stealth since it has adjustable bias?

 

[Shask]

Not that it’s even necessary but, can you throw KT88s in an EVH 50w Stealth since it has adjustable bias?

I have doubts the power transformer could handle the power required for KT88s.

 

[narad]

First of 4 guitars of the week have landed:



This is intended as a keeper (though it currently doesn't play like one) so will possibly do a NGD next week after I have the weekend to clean it up / set it up.

 

[narad]

Guitar 2 of 4 arrived. Unplayable and so in the deconstruction phase, but that body:

 

[budda]

Look at the pocket then the top :O

 

[narad]

Look at the pocket then the top :O

5A figured maple pocket

 

[budda]

5A figured maple pocket

Kiesel could never

 

[narad]

Kiesel could never

It's funny I get strong Kiesel vibes with the color and double creams. Not sure what to do though in terms of a neck though. I don't feel like I have the right thing.

 

[budda]

I dont associate them with double cream myself.

Im sure a neck could be made.

 

[technomancer]

It's funny I get strong Kiesel vibes with the color and double creams. Not sure what to do though in terms of a neck though. I don't feel like I have the right thing.

Kiesels are never that classy It would need to be neon orange with an algae green burst for that...

 

[narad]

Kiesels are never that classy It would need to be neon orange with an algae green burst for that...

Guess I was thinking more Carvin era. I'd like to pretend Kiesel era doesn't exist

 

[CleansingCarnage]

Just ordered a Schecter Apocalypse from Reverb, which will be the only 6 string I currently have. Next for me is selling one of my 7 strings and getting a decent but cheap 5 string bass and I feel like I'll have my bases covered.

 

[MoistTowelette]

Guitar 2 of 4 arrived. Unplayable and so in the deconstruction phase, but that body:

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[narad]

And 3 of 4 landed... Jackson Soloist Jr. I have one of these and maybe it makes this one superfluous and better off selling, but it's one of my favorite Jackson models ever made. It's like a short scale flat top horizon, ebony board:

 

[crushingpetal]

After saying I wouldn't, I guess I am going to chainsaw my muff: Swollen Pickle on the way.

 

[Wiltonauer]

Should I get a Tonex Pedal (the $399 one) and the Mesa amp bundle, or a Boss EQ-200 and a Spark Mini?

 

[budda]

Should I get a Tonex Pedal (the $399 one) and the Mesa amp bundle, or a Boss EQ-200 and a Spark Mini?

How far is that from a used fm3 lol

 

[Wiltonauer]

How far is that from a used fm3 lol

Like half. Would a person of reasonable sensibilities be happier with a used FM3? (Not rhetorical; I’ve never even seen one in person.) Opinions still seem mixed about the Tonex. Is it really any good, for someone who knows how to RTFM and work a computer with at least average competency?

 

[budda]

Like half. Would a person of reasonable sensibilities be happier with a used FM3? (Not rhetorical; I’ve never even seen one in person.)

Well a new fm3 turbo is $1100usd? So a mk1 with headphone jack (lol) should easily be $700usd give or take. Tonex at $400 just had me wondering how much the bundle you mentioned adds, as you’re already partway there.

I think the NAM pedal makes sense if you want to do captures, maybe the kemper stage? Iirc with tonex the issue is the software/ecosystem but i havent had coffee and may be mixing it up with someone else.

I think you’d be very hard pressed to beat an fm3 at $700usd. They just had a firmware update - do some digging on forums and yt (leon todd ye ye) and see what you think. If you just want to run captures of your own setup, then yeah you can probably spend less on a different device.