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EQ in front won´t replace the onboard graphic, pre- and post-gain EQ are very different things in guitar amps. As for EQ in the loop, I can´t really say, I never tried to replicate the onboard with something running in the loop. I would suspect you could at least get in the general ball park...

The IIB is a monster amp on its own, but in this case it depends on what you´re looking for. This doesn´t have the graphic EQ, so it can´t do that scoopy Metallica or John Sykes thing, but the IIB with or without the EQ was a smash hit for Mesa for many years and was on tons of recordings in...

I normally arrange and voice different parts with different sounds instead of multitracking the exact same part, some of which might even end up on keys instead of guitar, but when I multitrack something straight up it´s almost always a cleaner track tucked underneath a distorted rhythm part...

Yeah, ESP has been venturing into the please-just-stop-asking price range for some time with their custom shop. Jackson is getting there too. No real money in custom work for the bigger companies, I guess. The USA doesn´t have the import tariffs that the EU does, so I suppose 12K is about a...

Yeah, I remember this one from back in the 90s. Basically all ESPs on those tours, except for this one and the Rhoads. I dig it.

Sure, here in Sweden you see his pedals a lot more but the amps do turn up too and there are several high-end shops that carry them. The Little Hill is the Opeth one, right? That one I haven´t tried, though, I´ve mostly come across the more typical vintage combos over the years. Seems like...

I guess we´re mostly discussing post EQ here, but just to highlight a different aspect for guitar players what´s "best" to do before an overdriven amp EQ-wise can be different from what an audio engineer would do at the desk. Horses for courses, as they say. I think few guys would boost 750-1K...

A slightly interesting thing is that many of the OG dudes that were running these rigs back in the day mostly didn´t push a ton of watts from a stock NMV plexi into them. EVH had the variac, Lukather had his Marshalls done up by Rivera and later Suhr with loops and masters, Landau´s was a José...

Yeah, Palmer recommends leaving a space above their rack units if the continuous power pushed into them is above 50-60W or so, and I have to agree they barely heat up at all below that. At that point you´re pretty turned up with a high gain master volume amp, but barely on with a 1959 that isn´t...

I think Mike Soldano did a rough estimate that the variac Marshalls put out about 40W. Still blisteringly loud, of course, but maybe not blowing out the windows like a straight-up 1959 would.

Found it, the ad is gone from the site search but turned up on a Google search. https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/vht-2150-stereo-endstufe/2640535272-74-5919 If the link doesn't work anymore I saved the pics:

Pretty sure I saw a 2150 with the voicing switches for sale online somewhere just the other day, I remember thinking it was a bit odd so it probably wasn't a 2100/Classic... so it's probably doable, even if I guess Steve had his reasons for not revisiting the basic 2150 and adding the switches...

I don´t think I got any actual pedals 2023, but a Furman PQ3 at least goes before the amp and probably is as close as I got to one.

Got this one maybe a month ago, it´s a Kramer mutt made out of a Sambora body with a regular American neck. The Floyd seems to predate both the neck and body by a few years, and the bridge pickup is a Duncan Distortion. Pretty cool for $500, even if it needed a bit of work.

Thanks man, definitely lots of good tone in that pile :thumbsup:

Seems to be the general reaction both here and on another forum, actually. The original one is an acquired taste, for sure...

It has good vibes, for sure, thinking about changing out the tuners and knob to chrome to at least keep it to two hardware colors. But yeah, it´s pretty rocking so far.

Picked this up from a buddy the other day, he found it sitting in a store a few years ago so we don´t really know the story of it. Sambora body, an American neck, a Floyd which seems to predate the rest of the thing by a couple of years, an 80s Duncan Distortion and what looks like maybe two old...

Not sure what the LD Systems is, but that Behringer is very similar in function to the classic Rane SM26 I mentioned above.

Yeah, having the option to use a unit in the aux loop of the mixer is worth a lot since every classic rig has several mix stages, and it´s a big part of the sound compared to running everything in parallel. Stereo spread being the other big part, though, which I guess you´re not gearing up for...