Resurrecting this thread because I’ve rediscovered my Splawn competition recently.
I got a couple of amps, but my main one that I play the most is my Ground Zero Hellion. It’s a monster. The EQ range is very versatile as is the feel versatility. The master volumes are as good if not better than the Friedman in that saying a lot.
I was getting frustrated with my 2015 competition that’s fully loaded. I loved the amp, but I had trouble taming the Lowe’s once I would get Gear 2, Old. Switching to New in Gear 2 solves what i didn’t like, which was a overly Bassey and kind of undefined tone… That’s not to say the tone wasn’t great and it really needs to have the volume at 9 o’clock on the front to get brighter in for the EQ to balance out a little bit. But I usually can’t play my amp that loud in my condo and even on the small stages that I play at these days. That’s why I use a cap X live.
Anyway, I decided to put the competition through the paces again and go back to just tweaking what I needed more and less of on my MXR 10 band EQ, the latest version, and that pretty much solved everything that I wasn’t liking in G2, Old.
When I keep the settings, the same in gear two on the amp, and move it from old to New, front volume on 9 o’clock and loop volume anywhere between two and 3 o’clock, I really don’t need the MXR engaged, but you could always still tweak a little here and there, depending on your speaker or your situation, but gear two in the new setting is where I would live.
Gear one in the old setting is glorious. Gear one in the new setting is instant/that’s kind of a mix between appetite for destruction and the illusion albums.
I don’t think I could ever sell this Splawn and there’s sometimes that I think about picking up a second mini head shell Comp just in case this one went down and I think I’d like to start gigging with this one again. I’ve been gigging with my Ground Zero for almost 2 years and once I start playing a bigger stage in May this year, I think I’m gonna try the Splawn
