Some prayers have been answered, boosting with EQ

[VonBonfire]

And not a single person in the audience noticed.

I was more worried about what the idiot playing the guitar thought.

 

[Rackman]

You're running silverface twins right? Not sure regular or ultra-linear, but getting distortion with an EQ/clean boost on those has got to be loud.

Careful with your hearing. Seriously.

 

[Eazy-ESP]

I thought we weren’t allowed to use boosts anymore? Only pure amp tone is allowed. I can’t keep up with the rules.

 

[rsm]

And not a single person in the audience noticed.

because the reason we buy gear is to please ourselves first.

I find the better I like the sound/feel of the gear, the better I play, and the more I enjoy playing.

edit: if I was trying to please an audience and not myself; I'd have a Squier strat and some kind of hard tail dual humbucker guitar, and a Bugera Infinium a Blackstar tube amp or similar, and more money; and more room here...

 

[VonBonfire]

You're running silverface twins right? Not sure regular or ultra-linear, but getting distortion with an EQ/clean boost on those has got to be loud.

Careful with your hearing. Seriously.

Yeah SF cause they are cheap but they are BF'ed and my main amp is modded with different input caps to keep it tighter at volume. I can still hear my amp this evening.

I will probably start shoving some cotton in my left ear like I used to. It was too intense even for my sacrificial anode to handle.

 

[VonBonfire]

I find the better I like the sound/feel of the gear, the better I play, and the more I enjoy playing.

That's it right there^.

 

[rsm]

Yeah SF cause they are cheap but they are BF'ed and my main amp is modded with different input caps to keep it tighter at volume. I can still hear my amp this evening.

I will probably start shoving some cotton in my left ear like I used to. It was too intense even for my sacrificial anode to handle.

which won't help. as someone with tinnitus for decades, get something like this for $10 on amazon

 

[VonBonfire]

which won't help. as someone with tinnitus for decades, get something like this for $10 on amazon

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My dear brother, I do not put plastic masks over my face or insert plastic in my ears. Anything that blocks the ear canal leading to my ear drum will temper the received dB's. Tension/dB reduction adjustable and 100% organic, probably grown in TX or MS.

 

[VonBonfire]

For the record my ears have been ringing since I was a child, long before I picked up a guitar. Dude playing harmonica through a cranked bassman next to me a month ago was actually the most painful stage moment I've had, and tweaked my ear for a couple days so I need to throw a few cotton rounds into my guitar case.

 

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For the record my ears have been ringing since I was a child, long before I picked up a guitar. Dude playing harmonica through a cranked bassman next to me a month ago was actually the most painful stage moment I've had, and tweaked my ear for a couple days so I need to throw a few cotton rounds into my guitar case.

My ears only ring when it is quiet

 

[Fiesta Red]

only real men rock cranked Fender Twins ......

Do you make a graphic EQ?