I've heard this ol' tale since the HCAF days.
It makes absolutely NO SENSE that cab makers would not spend $0.20 on some wire to make their cabs noticeably better.
In our situation...it was just that the ProCo fit better in the process we were used to.
It's been a million years. And my guess is that the Radial was 'better' in the sense that it passed more LF. It's a superior chunk of gear to be sure.
Stupid Blind Melon, In the Listening Room in GFPM mag. listening to Pull Me Under...
'this is the kind of guitar sound that makes a million lights jump up in their rig'
'any minute there's gonna be a squealie'
Fuck Blind Melon.
OK, here goes.
A lot of us, that have been playing forever...have a sound in mind. The pursuit of that, is the journey that can (but mostly wont) turn into A sound that makes you happy.
Kids that don't have a mental catalog of sounds they're 'perusing' ... can make killer sounding shit...
5150/6105s are a motherfucker of an amp. All generations.
Deliverance? That's a brutal amp that takes a brutal man to play it. If that's you, then more power to you.
Rectos with a SD-1 boost are my fave. What is the 'metal' you are going for?
I'm digging CustomCustom, Custom 5, and of course...JB!
Also really like the one the comes in the DeMartini whatever the fuck that is.
No experience with the exotics, but let us know!
This will quickly turn into a goof thread.
But I remember recording bass with a cheap-as-fuck Pro-Co DI. And when we got a dollar, we bought a Radial.
All of a sudden our bass sucked.
DI's definitely matter.
Ugh.
I can't believe I've been listening to guitar-nerds for 30 years and this has never come up until recently.
Just let me have my shitty 16 ohm, cold-biased, Chinese tube, Floyd-Rose, Indian Rosewood sound in peace.
>I played the 5150 II in my signature all through my teens
I think you should count yourself exceedingly lucky to have played such a nice amplifier through your teens. This is not a dig, just saying that some of us were stuck with SS peaveys and crates until our 20s.