In my opinion, the TC is best for thrash and leads. It's insanely rich in power section saturation and harmonics, which actually hampers its versatility. It doesn't have that authoritative low-end most modern high gain amps have and it's not going to do the whole chugga chugga thing. If you are...
It's really the only way to actually get good at all this. It's kind of like learning to play by tabs vs learning theory and scales. Sure, you can mimic what you see someone else doing fairly quick, but you won't understand why it worked or how to replicate the results. Everything worth doing is...
You should kind of have a ball park of where you want the amp to be. After you do it enough you can tell what is being influenced by mic placement and amp settings. You could start with either. If you are still unfamiliar with it, I recommend spending a day just screwing around with different...
Let me guess, the video was him saying you need to check input/output levels, make a few eq cuts somewhere around 4k, 2k, 400, and/or 200, and then that you should buy his IR pack?
I wouldn't bother with them for a while because all I heard were the Two Notes boxes and they make everything sound dull and lifeless. The Boss and Suhr are what finally lead to me being convinced you could get a good sound from a load box. I did a lot of listening to every box I could find...
I use a real amp and cab. It's hard to beat it if you have the gear and environment. There really is a life to the sound of a real amp and a mic'ed up cab that is almost impossible to replicate. There's those who say the whole "life" and "air" to real cabs is bullshit, but I think they are just...
Unless you are asking them to make significant change to channel structure after things have already been soldered up you're probably good. Like adding or removing channels with switching and stuff like that.
I saw an old comparison video yesterday. They were surprisingly close, but you could still tell they weren't tubes. Just sounded like really good solid state.
FedEx is the absolute worst to deal with when things go wrong. I never send anything of value through them anymore. I had everything from things go missing to the drivers not delivering them, and not returning them to the hub so I couldn't pick them up either.
The main issue is the availability of production equipment. I looked at getting into producing them a while back, and I couldn't find functional equipment. I would have had to design new production line equipment and have it all built, which is very expensive. There wasn't enough of a demand and...
I heard from some horse Youtuber yesterday that most of the hay for horses comes from Russia. Now hay stores are sold out, and the ones that aren't have doubled or tripled their prices. Better buy a horse modeler, quick.
Fan-fucking-tastic. I was just looking at tubes yesterday and prices were normal. Rhett puts out a video, and 24 hours later prices doubled or stores have sold out. Fuck Rhett and this panic pushing bullshit.