Cut the elD from my rig
Several months later o---]=======>
Update in progress...
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After turning a Marshall AVT20 (20 watt practice amp with 1x12ax7 tube for a preamp) in to a head, I managed to get my hands on a Line 6 Spider IV in exchange for a car audio amplifier.
Which I subsequently turned in to a head.
Easily enough accomplished if you have a spare box lying around or just cut the cabinet down and drill a hole for a speaker jack.
Dropped the El Diablo from my rig
Dropped the Line 6 M13 from my rig
Added an Electro Harmonix POG2 to my rig (because all I was using the M13 for, eventually, was an octaver)
The AVT20 is being used by a bassist I'm starting a project with
and I was getting really sick of the distortions in the eleven rack
so I decided to jam with the Spider IV a bit, just out of curiosity.
The downfall of the AVT20 is that it has no native footswitch capability. Lots of variation with the ability to change tubes, which I have a large selection of, but you can't add a FSW to go from clean to dirt.
**Recently acquired a 12AX7WS solid state tube to test in this motherfucker.
more on that later.
The biggest upshot for the Spider IV is that it is everything.
Three different distortion channels, hidden noise gate and distortion boost
and when I finally added the FBV MKII to the head, oh my gosh, it is simply the most versatile.
RN the rig looks like this :
Mandi > POG2 > Spider IV > Eleven Rack
This rig is something to behold. Incredible levels of versitility, and with the addition of a midi FSW/controller, being able to footswitch effects on the 11R makes it infinite.
**FBV MKII also doubles as a midi controller
Pointless bottom line to this post is that you should grab up unique practice amplifiers and see what you can fucking do to them because, most of the time, it goes way beyond practice.
The native speaker and voicing of the amplifier is not etched in space ships.
and here's why
having such a complicated rig makes it impossible for me to focus.
Ol' diab was always the master of gigging, due to it's gnarly snarls and broken glass in your eyes.
not so much via DI and emulated cabinet. just washed out sounding. I came close to having tones that I didn't hate on more than one occasion, however, these presets couldn't be vitalized to the point of usability.
Several months later o---]=======>
Update in progress...
please wait.
After turning a Marshall AVT20 (20 watt practice amp with 1x12ax7 tube for a preamp) in to a head, I managed to get my hands on a Line 6 Spider IV in exchange for a car audio amplifier.
Which I subsequently turned in to a head.
Easily enough accomplished if you have a spare box lying around or just cut the cabinet down and drill a hole for a speaker jack.
Dropped the El Diablo from my rig
Dropped the Line 6 M13 from my rig
Added an Electro Harmonix POG2 to my rig (because all I was using the M13 for, eventually, was an octaver)
The AVT20 is being used by a bassist I'm starting a project with
and I was getting really sick of the distortions in the eleven rack
so I decided to jam with the Spider IV a bit, just out of curiosity.
The downfall of the AVT20 is that it has no native footswitch capability. Lots of variation with the ability to change tubes, which I have a large selection of, but you can't add a FSW to go from clean to dirt.
**Recently acquired a 12AX7WS solid state tube to test in this motherfucker.
more on that later.
The biggest upshot for the Spider IV is that it is everything.
Three different distortion channels, hidden noise gate and distortion boost
and when I finally added the FBV MKII to the head, oh my gosh, it is simply the most versatile.
RN the rig looks like this :
Mandi > POG2 > Spider IV > Eleven Rack
This rig is something to behold. Incredible levels of versitility, and with the addition of a midi FSW/controller, being able to footswitch effects on the 11R makes it infinite.
**FBV MKII also doubles as a midi controller
Pointless bottom line to this post is that you should grab up unique practice amplifiers and see what you can fucking do to them because, most of the time, it goes way beyond practice.
The native speaker and voicing of the amplifier is not etched in space ships.
