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I do a strange mix of 'metal', ethereal, and electronic dance music. Bright, sparkly clean cleans and heavy chuggy riffs with a lot of synths and analog drum machines. I actually just traded the Badlander the other day for a EVH 5150 III 6L6 50W plus some cash. The clean channel is too dark for...

I have a Badlander 50W head. I had to put a Mr. Scary Mod in it to get enough gain. Without it, I had Crunch gain at max and it wasn't quite enough. Crush had just enough gain, but I like the tone of Crunch better. With the Mod, it now has way more gain than my Mark V 90W. Boosting with...

Basically, every 20W amp I had... Marshall DSL20CR, Peavey Invective MH, Revv G20. Tubby, muddy, boxy, fizzy... Lack of controls, shared EQ (G20 doesn't even have gain on the clean channel). The DSL20 clean was actually great, but the Ultra Gain was muddy fizz. Invective clean was muddy even...

Tripp Lite on Amazon I got this for $165. It keeps the voltage at 120V. I can hear it click on when it's correcting the voltage, like when I turn on a high-wattage amp or computer.

Parametric EQ is essential in my guitar amp FX loops. But you can get a lot more EQ for the money by getting a used rack unit. I got this 10-band Ashly unit for the same price as that 3-band Empress pedal: It's actually 2-channels with 5 fully parametric bands and 2 semi-parametric bands each. I...

Does having a balanced stereo image matter to you? If so, you'll end up getting the same mic and speaker for both channels. I run a dual-stereo wet/dry or parallel wet/wet into 2x2x12. 2 pairs of matching speakers, but different speakers in each cab. I need my stereo image to be balanced, so I...

$300 shipped is a great price for a Mesa Powerhouse. A TwoNotes Torpedo Captor doesn't have variable attenuation, just a fixed -20dB attenuated speaker output. It's effective, but does change the sound. It's thinner in the mids, which makes it brighter where it shouldn't be. I haven't used a...

If using a passive splitter and A/B switch, you need a buffer after the split/before the A/B switch on at least one side of the split. Being passive, the A/B switch selects A by sending B to ground. Since the same signal is the source of A & B, grounding B also grounds A, so you get silence from...

The 3rd loop being for delay/reverb wouldn't work because they're parallel loops. It would skip both preamps and just do gtr->delay->FX return. Delay/reverb would have to be between the TPMixer output and the FX return. My previous post gives the simplest/cheapest way to do what OP wants, with...

Yes and yes. I do this, switch between the amp's preamp or a preamp pedal to feed the FX return. You can use a passive splitter or Y-cable to send the guitar to the amp input and the preamp input. Then put the amp FX send and the preamp output to an A/B switch (I get them from...

Boogie Mark V 90W Carvin V3 Line 6 Flextone III XL Mk V is the preamp, Mk V & V3 are the power amps for the stereo dry channels & bottom 2x12. The 2x12 Line 6 amp has a true stereo FX loop and is the power amp for the stereo wet channels. Mk V FX send is feeding all the power amps.

TC Electronic what? A noise gate? The Sentry? And what is the "shiny silver pedal"?

Problem #1 is that I'm in an apartment, can't make any modifications to the wiring. Problem #2 is that 90% of my noise is EM/RF from the pickups. They're even active EMGs, and they're as quiet as a guitar could ever be, everywhere else I've plugged in. But my place has severe EM/RF pollution...

The efficacy of any noise solution depends on what's causing the noise. The Humno, Hum Exterminator, and Hum Eliminator, will do nothing for EM/RF noise coming from the pickups. The Hum Eliminator helps when you get noise when plugging an amp or pedal output into a USB interface. The Humno...

Active ceramic. And that opens up the possibility of putting in active EQ pots that can cut the bass. Pickups in the neck position will naturally be more bass-heavy, because of the position under the strings. Active ceramic has more focused and controlled lows, and much more detail and...

My amp (Mark V) has a slave out. I hooked that up and the Suhr RL XLR and 1/4" outputs to the interface. They all sound exactly the same. The Suhr 1/4" is a much lower level signal and requires a lot more gain on the interface preamp, but they sound the same, and change the same when the load is...

Here's the audio clips: soundcloud.com/matemberkins/reactive-load-comparisons Comparing reactive load boxes. IRs were made of my speakers, running in the TwoNotes Wall of Sound plugin. Guitar is double-tracked, only thing that changes is the load. A cymbal hit indicates switching loads. 1...

I use the slave out from the amp, not the outputs on the boxes. But I have compared the slave out to the Suhr XLR and 1/4" outs and they all sound exactly the same, just the unbalanced out on SRL needs way more gain on the interface. The X-Load, as well, but that one has the powered XLR...

So I hooked up an 8 ohm 4x12 (2 V30's, MC-90, Jensen Tornado Stealth 80) and recorded the same riff on the same exact settings (Mark V -> slave out -> DAW/IRs) with each different load (only thing changed is the load: 4x12 cab, Suhr RL, X-Load, Mini Rock Rec). The SRL sounds the most different...

I have a 3-amp, 5-speaker, 9-mic stereo wet/dry/wet rig that I've recreated with IRs that I made of my speakers. Using a Behringer UMC1820 interface plus ADA8200 ADAT preamps (8) expansion. I don't need to use the line out on the load box with the Mark V, it has a slave out, but I've checked and...