I seem to have an amp collection starting.

Kerry Brown

Kerry Brown

Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
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Lately I've been trading guitars for amps. No idea why as most of them are way too loud for home use.

Blackstar HT1RH with Blackstar HTV-112 cab
Mesa Transatlantic TA-30 1x12
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 1x12
Peavey Classic 50 4x10
There is one missing from this picture a Traynor 50 watt SS 1x12

Just acquired the Peavey today in a trade. Can't wait to try it where I can turn it up.

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Alex_SG said:
Loving the Fender. How's it sound?
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It has the "Fender" amazing cleans in spades. The drive channel has some good low gain crunch but not that great when you turn the gain up. The clean channel takes pedals really well so the drive channel doesn't really matter.
 
Oh my, that room is so comfortable looking. Those earth tones are really me (but not muddy, unless its Waters);
earth tones, see what I did there?

IT just be rainin' amps at Kerry's house!!
So, which one gets the Albert King on with the Explorer or the G&L HB Tele?

I have one of those racks but have trouble not bumping guitars together.
Its kinda like unfortunate parallel parking, just keep going till you hit something.
 
jtcnj said:
Oh my, that room is so comfortable looking. Those earth tones are really me (but not muddy, unless its Waters);
earth tones, see what I did there?

IT just be rainin' amps at Kerry's house!!
So, which one gets the Albert King on with the Explorer or the G&L HB Tele?

I have one of those racks but have trouble not bumping guitars together.
Its kinda like unfortunate parallel parking, just keep going till you hit something.
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The Blackstar 1 watt gets 95% of my playing time because it works great with headphones so I'd have to say I know how to dial in Albert King best with that one. The Mesa is probably next for the Albert tone.

There are two racks there, a three guitar rack with four guitars on it and a five guitar rack. The explorer doesn't fit in those type of racks so it has it's own just out of the picture to the left of the Fender amp.
 
You have good amp savvy.
I had a Fender HR DL and a Mesa Express 5.25.
They were both wonderful amplifiers.
I still have and gig a lot with a Peavey Classic 30.
It too is wonderful.
Have you tried the Mesa (EL 84s) and the HR DL (6L6s) together
hooked to the 2 outputs of a stereo chorus on a subtle setting?
Biggest sound in the world.
 
Tony M. said:
You have good amp savvy.
I had a Fender HR DL and a Mesa Express 5.25.
They were both wonderful amplifiers.
I still have and gig a lot with a Peavey Classic 30.
It too is wonderful.
Have you tried the Mesa (EL 84s) and the HR DL (6L6s) together
hooked to the 2 outputs of a stereo chorus on a subtle setting?
Biggest sound in the world.
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Haven't tried two amps together ever. I can't turn it up enough at home and that is way too much gear to pack out. I'd love to try it though. I'm trying to organize a western Canadian jam for the spring at a rehearsal hall in Vancouver. If that comes together I may get to try something like that as I'll have most of my gear there as loners.
 
Kerry Brown said:
It has the "Fender" amazing cleans in spades. The drive channel has some good low gain crunch but not that great when you turn the gain up. The clean channel takes pedals really well so the drive channel doesn't really matter.
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A friend of mine dropped of his HRD, and has entrusted me to mod his amp with a mod-kit by Fromel. Even though I tried to convince him to hold off on a speaker change till after the mods are done, he was too impatient and installed a WGS Reaper... which is WGS's version of a Celestion G12H30. Letting you know that this speaker really compliments the HRD very nicely, especially when you turn the amp up loud on the Clean channel. There's quite a few issues that the Fromel mods address, and after playing the amp yesterday for about an hour, the mods make sense if they do what they are supposed to do. Today I will start on the mods.

Fromel mod details at:
http://www.fromelelectronics.com/products/hrdx-mods?variant=775550523
 
frankblade said:
I remember when you didn't have all those amps LOl.
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It took me a long time to realize that the amp has more to do with your tone than the guitar. It doesn't matter how good your guitar is played through a crappy amp it will sound crappy. Almost any guitar will sound good with a good amp.
 
I think it was Smitty that said it.

You are playing the amplifier and pedals (if you use pedals that is)
The guitar is functioning as a pitch controller, nothing more.

...or something like that.
Was it you who said that Smitty?
 
Kerry Brown said:
It has the "Fender" amazing cleans in spades. The drive channel has some good low gain crunch but not that great when you turn the gain up. The clean channel takes pedals really well so the drive channel doesn't really matter.
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Nice selection you have put together Kerry Brown.

I must say that I'd agree with you on the Fender Hot Rods taking pedals well. I recently had the good fortune to play my Epi Dot with a Hot Rod Deville 4x10 instead of my usual AC15 and I must say that I was smitten from the first clean chord and then I stepped on my OD pedal and I almost wept (exaggeration but only just). This may have been due to my pedal interacting better with the Fender than the Vox and maybe I should look into something else for the Vox (yes Gahr, still considering a Crowther Hotcake) but man that amp sounded great. I can only imagine what a vintage 'sound way better than the new ones' would sound like
 
83 blazer said:
Nice selection you have put together Kerry Brown.

I must say that I'd agree with you on the Fender Hot Rods taking pedals well. I recently had the good fortune to play my Epi Dot with a Hot Rod Deville 4x10 instead of my usual AC15 and I must say that I was smitten from the first clean chord and then I stepped on my OD pedal and I almost wept (exaggeration but only just). This may have been due to my pedal interacting better with the Fender than the Vox and maybe I should look into something else for the Vox (yes Gahr, still considering a Crowther Hotcake) but man that amp sounded great. I can only imagine what a vintage 'sound way better than the new ones' would sound like
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I found my Vox AC15 was very particular with overdrive pedals. Some worked great but most didn't. Some worked great with single coils but sounded terrible with humbuckers and vice versa. That's one of the reasons I traded it for a very nice stratocaster. Loved the Vox tone but the amp was a beast to lug around and hard to dial in with or without pedals. Every guitar seemed to need different settings. I must admit that once dialled in it was sublime.
 
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