I wanted to chime in supporting a few of the comments within:
I had to cry my eyes out at age 13 to get to go to my very first REAL ROCK concert: Stryper - THWTHD at The Toledo Sports Arena. To say it changed my life would be an understatement. I've since had the opportunity to see and meet these guys and EVERY time (big and small places) was awesome. Michael, Robert, Oz & Tim epitomize musicians (people) and musicianship to me. Much appreciation to and for those guys.
For almost ten years I ran an ADA MP-1 and Alesis Quadraverb into a Carvin X100B head's FX return. Bars to large stages, it was always a great rig. I'd always side-wash and on some bigger stages I'd run the ADA/Alesis stereo into a head and X100B combo to their own cabs - only one time making the mistake of running it front-facing (indoors) and playing in front of it: I hurt the next day.
I'm not blowing my own horn here, just sharing perspective: almost every time we played with house sound, the sound person would rave about the rig and tones and it was common to have people approach me about my gear - which most often looked like the other (usually bigger) band's back-line of Mesa or Marshall. X100B's are great amps to run pre's through. Both EQ sections (knobs & sliders) are post FX return, so EQ'ing to stage was always a breeze. FOH would even come up on stage, mention something about freq's and I'd offer them to turn the knobs as they saw fit, which usually was small stuff and - as the pre had a large part to do with the EQ - didn't change much, if anything, for me and my feel. Seeing this talked about here has me reminiscing and jonesing for another Carvin head or two.
At the same time, I recall hearing Michael comment on how much he loves his MkV, as well. I can't recall if that was in a video or in person.
Super stoked to see a Stryper thread here, active involvement from their camp and an excellent new album just released. Stryper IS the real deal.
I even recall Jeff Kollman shredding Stryper live. "More Than A Man" I think.
