Studio day yesterday (Bogner/Jet City content)

[sahlomonic]

My band is in the process of recording a new song with a startup studio, and yesterday was guitar day. I borrowed the 101b from a buddy of mine just for this occasion, and the Earhart and Soldano are mine. Soldano cab is loaded with V30s. I used the Bogner Blue channel - old style, for the underlying/support guitar tracks and the Green channel here and there in the verses, but the bulk of it was done with the Earhart. I will say that the Earhart sounded better through that cabinet than the XTC, and I would really like to use Greenbacks with the XTC anyway. We had a lot of problems with the mid spike that took a while to dial out by repositioning the mics (SM57 and AKG C 414). Raw tracks sounded really good to my ears, and as soon as the studio engineer emails me what he has so far I'll post a little teaser. Guitars I used were a PRS SE245 and a Sterling AX40-D.

I only had a couple days to mess around with the Bogner before recording with it, so I was still new to it when it came time to mic it up. I've owned the Earhart for almost 2 years now so I'm more than familiar with it in a studio and live environment, so dialing that in was cake. Having said that, the XTC is quite a lot smoother sounding than the Earhart. (Google - Jet City Earhart) The Earhart is quite aggressive compared to the XTC, and is more upper-mid voiced where I find the XTC to be lower-mid voiced. Double tracking with both amps makes a HUGE guitar section, even through the same cabinet.

 

[sjk]

Nice! I think I was the first owner of that amp (had no jet city faceplate when I got it from jet city)
but moved it on after 3 or 4 months. A lame clip I did lol.

 

[sahlomonic]

Yup that would be you. I remember coming across that vid and another one when I was approached to buy the Earhart from the guy you sold it to. I'm pretty sure I'm the 3rd owner of it, and hopefully the last! I also have an Avatar 2x12, loaded with Lynchbacks currently. What speakers did you have in yours?

 

[mooncobra]

I have never even heard of that amp, the Jet City Earhart, that's a new one for e, or did someone named Earhart mod it?

 

[sahlomonic]

Martin Kidd who used to work for Cornford amps designed the Earhart for Jet City. I spoke with Martin a couple months ago about it, and he confirmed to me that it's the exact same amp as the Cornford MK50H II, but without the secondary effects loop, and maybe a couple small component value changes.

So, you can think of the Earhart as a re-badged Cornford MK50H II that I bought for around the $1500 price range.

 

[sahlomonic]

The gut shots are sexy