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[SandyRavage]

My update today includes a new rack case for my shenanigans in an effort to be a bit more versatile with my setups. Live in cases worked for years, but with constant changes this seems to work better for now.

 

[Anonymous]

On your El Cap settings...how do you have the "secret" parameters set up or do you not mess with those?

Secondary functions:

Spring Reverb off
Low End Contour off
Tape bias at 9:00
Tape crinkle off
Boost/Cut 12:00

What is that red wah (if it is a wah) on your board?

REAL MCCOY Wizard Wah

This is a pretty good description of what it's like:

"The RMC WW is designed to be an entry level RMC wah along the lines of the RMC1, but with a tuning that works well with a variety of pickup designs, especially for higher output pickups like humbuckers. If you play a PRS through a Mesa Boogie, this is the wah for you. If you play Fender guitars and amps, it's probably not. It's the perfect wah for high gain sounds, like heavy metal. I have found that is does not get distorted when you push your guitar really hard into it like most wahs. It is a cross between the RMC1 and PICTURE WAH, with a rich, yet tight low end, haunting mids, and a smooth top end to an extended sweep range."

Steve

 

[thenine]

main rig

this is killer. Do you run guitar into GCX, then out of each of 2 loops into each amp? One cab for each head, both always on?

I run guitar into first loop of GCX, then TS9 in loop1, NS-2 in loop 2, then out of loop 2 back into the front of the GCX into "guitar in." Then I use both outputs of the GCX to feed the input of both amps at the same time. This allows me to MIDI control with my ground control if I want the TS9 or NS2 hitting the front of my amps. I run my TJ as a dry amp, nothing but the TS9 and CH2. Herbert has the TS9, CH2, and the G Major 2 through the switchable loop. My hi gain crunch sound is just both amps same time with nothing but the TS9 through the front of both, no FX loops on. Herbert does a wet sound with FX if I choose a patch that turns on the Herbert's loop. If I want just one amp or the other, I have a patch where the Herbert uses it's mute and I get just the TJ. If I want the Herbert alone, I have a patch that makes the internal switching relay of the G major (which is plugged into TJ's ch footswitch port), turn the TJ from Ch2 to CH1, which has the volume at zero. Same thing happens when I hit my clean patch, Herbert does cleans with some reverb and delay alone. Power is set up with the cabs in stereo, each head is going to both cabs at the same time.

Only thing left is getting a stereo 2ch ISP Decimator G, so that I can run the loop of both amps through the ISP, along with the guitar through it, for dead silence. Right now, I have a very weak ground loop hum. Not bad by any means, but I want everything perfect eventually.

Thanks! Thats exactly what I was wondering. Super cool rig. I just run a halfstack and a pedalboard but if I had more room (and a roadie!) I'd run a rig just like yours.

 

[dfrattaroli]

These are the amps I'm using right now. The guitar is the one I scratch-built back in 2005.

My number 1.

Other guitars.

This was my self-built guitar the day I finished it.

 

[rupe]

On your El Cap settings...how do you have the "secret" parameters set up or do you not mess with those?

Secondary functions:

Spring Reverb off
Low End Contour off
Tape bias at 9:00
Tape crinkle off
Boost/Cut 12:00

What is that red wah (if it is a wah) on your board?

REAL MCCOY Wizard Wah

This is a pretty good description of what it's like:

"The RMC WW is designed to be an entry level RMC wah along the lines of the RMC1, but with a tuning that works well with a variety of pickup designs, especially for higher output pickups like humbuckers. If you play a PRS through a Mesa Boogie, this is the wah for you. If you play Fender guitars and amps, it's probably not. It's the perfect wah for high gain sounds, like heavy metal. I have found that is does not get distorted when you push your guitar really hard into it like most wahs. It is a cross between the RMC1 and PICTURE WAH, with a rich, yet tight low end, haunting mids, and a smooth top end to an extended sweep range."

Steve

 

[JerEvil]

Here's my current set up:











Still figuring out the Loop8. Just got it last week but have had no time to play with it.