Live performance mishaps, you say? Well, being a gigging and touring musician for nearly 40 years and a few hundred gigs, I've had my share. Had an amp blow a tube right after a performance. It was an old early 70's Fender Twin. While checking that out, my guitar slipped off the strap pin and hit the ground headstock first, raising the fretboard away from the neck. That was 1983. I then found out about straplocks. Had my bassist step on my cable, pulling it out of the jack of the amp, and tipped the Randall head onto the ground. My old Nady wireless got interference along the lines of Nigel's wireless in Spinal Tap. While carrying in a Randall 4x12 cabinet through a side entrance into the venue, I hit my forehead on the top of the door, cutting my head and dropped the cabinet on my feet. And, then during the show since it was so hot, the sweat opened the wound and I had blood pouring down my face. Breaking a string on a guitar with a Kahler is always interesting as well. Thankfully that only happened once. Slipped in a puddle of beer (or something) on a stage up in Goshen, IN and landing flat on my back and the ends of my Flying V smacked the floor. Thankfully I was 23 and got back up. Now, I'd be down for a week and a half. Hitting the button for the stage tuner instead of the boost for a solo. Hitting other members of the band with my guitar or getting hit by other members guitars, mic stands, drum sticks, cymbal parts. Pedal board power failing at an outdoor gig and rushing to plug a cable directly in. Various other string breakages over the years, which is one reason I always take at least two guitars to every gig. I couldn't tell you how many dropped picks I've had so they're everywhere as well. I had to repair the jack on my Les Paul right before a gig because the nut and washers fell off and the jack was inside the guitar. What have I learned? Always have a backup amp for my tube amps. Have extra cables, strings, batteries, tool kit, guitar, strap, tuner (stage and clip on), power strips and power cables, speaker cables and extra microphones and cables for my live sound. There's probably a lot more than I can remember but those are some that stand out. The show must go on.
We were playing a block party type gig for a friend of ours a couple years ago where we were using a couple of flatbed trailers for a stage. One large for the front and a smaller one centered behind the other for the drum riser. Halfway through a set, I decided to jump up on the riser for dramatic effect. On my way back to the front of the "stage", one foot didn't place itself where I told it to resulting in it falling between the two trailers. I took a dive almost doing the splits in the process, all the while never dropping my guitar or missing a beat. Ironically, the song we were playing... Holy Diver by Dio.
Years ago, I did the old "drum riser jump" but I forgot how low the lighting rig was. Whacked my head good, bleeding, etc. But I landed on my feet and didn't miss a beat. A waitress handed me an icepack, and I was good to go. Lol.
@@RobertWJackson I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a while and take your opinion on things to heart when buying gear. With that said I have a question. I have wanted a Gibson Les Paul for years. I have fought with choosing one for a long time. I just don’t know why I should pull the trigger and buy a standard over buying a studio. I love the fact that the standards come with a hard case as opposed to a bag with a studio. I just don’t know or can’t figure out if the 1000.00 difference is worth it. What are your thoughts?
That goes to show how far modelling has come. The guitar and pickup characteristics shine right through. I plugged a sweet Fender Strat in to my very complicated 5 cable/tube/modelling/412 cabbed/stereo monstrosity that is my tone machine and was just floored by the clean tones and Gilmour lead type tones I was getting. Unreal. That 60hz hum was fucking bananas though, thats something I don't miss. Methinks I need a Strat or a 60s Classic Vibe 3 tone burst Squier, which are incredible by the way, especially with a couple simple upgrades like saddles, pots, jack and locking tuners
If you'll allow an unsolicited response, I think if you do yourself the favor of venturing out into today's amp technology I think you'll be very impressed. The is a world of difference between solid-state (which in-and-of itself has changed a lot and for the better) and digital technology which has become so sophisticated even a well-trained ear can often be fooled, it is really THAT good. I have a Fender Mustang 1 v2 and am about to get into the Marshall Code series. Go to your music store, ask a billion questions and test drive 3 or 4. I bet you'll like what you learn. Good luck!
Love your channel. I just realized that you and I are similar sized TH-camrs although on entirely different subjects. i am not enough of an expert in music to have a channel about it but I love watching all kinds of stuff including guitar channels. Best of luck. i wish I could think of something we could collab on to exchange out audiences...
Was playing solo guitar over a bass/drum/vocal track at a showtime at the apollo style event where the audience can boo you off the stage. The sound guy sat my amp too low in the mix with the backing track and the whole audience assumed I was faking and couldn’t actually play the guitar 🤦🏽♂️ booing ensued and that was that lol. Glad I can look back and laugh about it today.
I really think the digital route is the way to go tube amps will always be the best in sound but honestly not having to worry about tubes failing and replacement for tubes is a huge plus so in. This day and age digital 🤘
How do cords get tangled by just looking at them? Years ago when the NADY Wireless transmitter for guitar came out right around the advent of the memory man digital echo stomp box, Getting rid of any cord sounded good to me... The Problem with the NADY system is it transmitted on a VHF signal and at the time you would use a home stereo receiver and tune in your transmitter to an open station, Problem being the signal band would not always be open... In the middle of a set, The receiver may pick up a local station and broadcast over the PA or a CB operator bleeding through...I got rid of that piece of S#it when it tuned in on a KC & Sunshine band playing "Thats the way I Like it" and the ladies went cray, But at the time we were trying to stomp out DISCO... So we were lip syncing by force... I am sure the new tech has improved that problem... ???
I'm right there with you, man. Until recently (it just got trashed for finally being worn through) I worn my Disco STILL Sucks! T-shirt. Some things never get old and that old sure seemed to be one of them. Geez, if it weren't for the on-set of 50lbs. and a lot of grey hair, you'd think I just got old and fat...er..,uh...that's a lot of on set grey hair, side burns (yeah, still have the side burns. Makes me think of the old thing about "Just tryin' to stay alive and keep my sideburns too!". I'll always remember my daughter saying to me "Geez dad, it's not 1970 anymore!" And so I stated "Honey, for some of us, it will always be 1970"! See ya!☮
As far as on-stage mishaps, I was playing bass during a song when my lead singer started banging her tambourine against my ass, and managed to hit my wireless pack a few times knocking out my signal. Mid-song I had to grab my backup bass. Fortunately I use Line 6 units and have a transmitter on both basses.
Hey Robert👍 tubes all the way brother, I will never part with my VH4 for some digital rig , even though it weighs a tonne I will lug that bad boy around to every gig 🤘
My biggest mishap was trying to keep up shot for shot with my drummer before a gig. Got so bombed I forgot all the words to all of the songs that I only had a week to learn in the first place. It turned into an instrumental gig with me mumbling like Jim Morrison or some shit. After about 20 minutes my bass player comes up to me and says is there anything you remember words to? We did about 20 minutes of Elvis songs with really heavy guitar tones. That was the first and last time i drank before a show. You wont feel buzzed or drunk until the lights come on. The heatwave of the lights and adrenaline kicks in and holy shit 3 shots and beer felt like I had the whole 5th.
Good video, Robert! At least he had a spare battery. I was at an open mic and my friend's battery died on her acoustic. She said, "Jim, I can't get my tuner to work!" The battery is dead. "Do you have a battery?" I'm playing a Telecaster, I don't have one in this bag.... Thank goodness there was a Walmart LITERALLY next door, so we scooted over and got a battery (I didn't want her walking to/from by herself at night.) I keep two x 10 year Duracell batteries in my acoustic bag.
Yessir, if you’re playing a gig with ANYTHING that requires batteries for its operation, make sure you have backups. And make sure and rotate them out so you’re backup batteries aren’t 5 years old and no longer charged. LOL
Haha! Love the honesty on the gear you go over man 🤙 Personally though, like you I doubt I’ll ever go solid state. I just love the Marshall Tube sound too much.
The Grincore/groovemetal band i was in about 8 years ago, first show ever (which was actually to a full capacity crowd of 500 so pressure was on), freshly set up guitar with freshly broken in strings pre show. Second song in!!!! during some crazy chug to fast legato runs with full pitch bends on the B string. That damn string broke and stabbed me through the thumb on my fretting hand, i had to mid song figure out how to play the rest of that song plus the 5 that followed on the fly with a bloodied sticky hand slowing me up! Great content as always.
I've always loved tube amps but currently run an old Line 6 Spider II 2x12 combo. It does the job as I don't gig any longer. I've also got a Crate V100 head but I lit something on fire inside years back from installing tubes drunk & haven't looked into that since. My last awesome tuber was an early 80's Acoustic G100T hardwood combo that I had worked by Jose Arredondo and it was outstanding, so much so it was stolen twice... And yes, SPL is SPL, more cones don't change math. More speakers have to be equated into the draw on the power circuit of the amp. If an amp can handle it, dropping the ohms can suck more wattage to the output but if the amp can't handle it, you're smokin' an amp...
As for the first question(s), my response: tube amps all day, unless you are in a worship band, or working on a musical set or orchestra/jazz band or something like that and need to keep volume low. If you are playing in a rock band, indie, metal, jazz, country, or folk, you want a tube amp. As far as micing amps on stage, if your amp is miced, you probably want a small to mid range sized amp. If you are not miced, you want a mid range to large wattage amp. As for the amount of speakers, this is preference. Personally I like 1-12 or 2-12 combo amps for the ease of transportation, and they sound great. But if you have a truck or van, and want a fuller sound go for the 4x12. Last tip, if you are considering buying solid state/ digital, buy something new. Don't bother trying to use a device from 10-20 years ago, as the tech is outdated and will annoy the fuck out of you.
As many today are going the digital route, I myself prefer the punch from the tubes and the warmth that you will never get from a digital amp especially when you're a gigging guitarist.
While I am a huge fan of the Marshall's, always will be however for gigging this year I switched to a Kemper. I really hated it at first. It took me a while to figure it out and get used to it. Now I can use nothing but it. My set up and tear down time is 5-10 minutes. I have the Kemper stage I mounted to a Temple Audio pedal board, Also on the pedal board is a couple external pedals my wireless system. Then it is all in a flight case with wheels. I literally roll in to a gig, I have 2 guitars in mono dual guitar bag in the other hand. I unpack run to front of house and done. This has solved so many issues, my primary guitar is the Majesty, my secondary is fender Accoustasonic, which I use to full advantage. One song we do is Meredith Brooks Bitch, which I play acoustic in the verse, electric in the chorus, and electric with WAH during the guitar solo the other guitarist does. All the same volume levels easy as stomping on a switch and flipping pickups. We could never have pulled this off before the Kemper. So while I love my Marshalls, we are just a small band gigging out once or twice a month. Its just too much to carry around and fight with anymore. My worst stage scenario is not really that bad, I ran with a lot of band and band guys since the 80s; I listened to them all tell their problems like this and done the absolute best to try to plan for the worst. I really have had some great mentors. Also I was a guitar tech for a small band before I had my own band. I used to keep track of battery install dates, now everything I have with batteries are rechargeable so I just change the batteries once a week if they need it or not or before a show everything is on chargers. I have a case I also take with me spare strings, spare cables of every kind, and guitar tool kits. I had strap locks on my guitar before I ever took stage. That being said, worst one was a Marshall amp in an amp stand and the stand collapsed. Luckily nothing broke. Had to set it all back up. However another guitarist in a band of mine I repeatedly told him get strap locks. Sure enough middle of a show, strap came off his Les Paul, snapped head stock off mid show and of course he didn't have a spare. The dude still didn't get strap locks until it came off again during practice once.
As someone once told me and I believe it was a TH-cam video that you always want to have a good tube amp. Technology like the Axe fx 3 is going to be outdated in a couple years and they're going to get continue to get updated versions of equipment. This was sometimes to the point where you cannot get any updates anymore for that particular unit. But you can always rely on your good tube amp if maintained well.
That was probably Glenn Fricker. And there is a lot of truth to that. You don’t see very many people at all using the Eleven Rack that was popular about 10-12 years ago. That thing sold for about $1500 or so, if memory serves. Now you can find them used for around $200-300. It wasn’t a bad piece of gear at all, it just went obsolete.
Oh, and I rarely use digital direct unless I control the end sound, and actually use a SS amp/mixer for several preamps through a custom cab I built, so I’d have the sound I was actually after/expecting, so I understand your hesitation there.
Fun fact: You can run a tube pedal into a solid-state or digital amp and the amp will not magically remove the tube aspects of your tone. The main problem people have with specifically solid-state equipment (digital is another animal altogether) is that they reproduce *exactly* what you put into them, which can leave them sounding somewhat brittle and peaky if you don't know how to use it. As for me, though, I have a wonderful solid-state Crate GX30M (1x12" combo with chorus and 'verb) practice/recording amp that I will never give up. It doesn't have a good lead channel at all (just 3 controls: Level, "Shape" and Gain), but its clean channel, with its series tone-stack (each tone-stack pot has an effect on the one that comes after it) has been the basis of all of my effect-laden tones since I was in high-school. These days, plugged into my modelling rig, it gets me exactly where I need to go. I'm aware that buying effects to make an amp sound good sounds silly, and it is, but it's the most versatile amp I've ever played. It can do anything, and apart from it's somewhat weak driver, it can handle pretty much anything. The cab is super skookum, too. Solid as hell. You could probably string it up to a crane and wreck small buildings with it lol. One thing about a good solid state amp is that they make great pedal platforms, and there's something to be said for the chunk, sizzle and immediacy that you can only get with a solid-state power section, and if you want that tube warmth, all you have to do is throw a tube-driven pedal/preamp in the mix. The amp won't "de-tubify" your tone. It's great for metal, which is why the Krankenstein used a tube preamp coupled to a solid-state power-amp for that sizzle and in your face presence. I know alot of people don't like Dime's tones, but they were what got me wanting to play guitar seriously in the first place. The first time I heard Cowboys From Hell was a total life-changer for me. Before that, I was a stereotypical "child of the KoRn", guitar hanging at the ankles Nu-Metal kid. Not my proudest moment lol. As for digital, I use lots of VST amp sim software, and they're great for practicing or jamming along to some tunes, but a digital amp or modelling software has no place in a recording studio. Digital's great for practice, song-writing and live rigs, but for recording, you need something with a little more oomph and none of the aliasing problems that even the best digital sims/modellers have.
@@RobertWJackson If that's the case, then I probably got it flipped around. I specifically remember Dime mentioning "solid-state sizzle", so I suppose that would refer to the preamp. My bad.
H3R3T1C Nope, Krankenstein had a tube preamp, as well. The Randall amps that he used for most of his career - Warhead, Century 100, etc. - were all solid-state. But the Kranks were all tubes.
The biggest problem I found with programmable gear is it's usually programmed by the user at home, and the presets don't necessarily translate into a beneficial sound in a band. Then the player spends half the practice time playing with the programming or trying out the hundreds of presets. It's just easier to turn knobs on an amp or a pedal.
Must have been in the early 90ies: been young local heroes, we headlined at an Open Air, about 500 people, I played a Peavey Vandenberg with Kahler Tremolo. My bass-mate played (still does) a 6-string Warwick bass. After a couple of songs the headstock of the Warwick-monster went „somehow“ under the Tremolo-system of my Peavey...and levered it out...completely 😂 I never played again the Vandenberg live again. My mate since then never again dared to share the same stage-side with me. Since 2 years we play again together in a band...still best friends until today 😊
The note about amps as side fills: had Kit thought of that. Do you notice a decrease in stage volume on stages with curtains? Or large capacities (ie, more people=more sound dampening/absorption)? I’m a player/singer/all-around musician as well as an old stagehand/roadie(sometimes a “stationary,” meaning an engineer/tech in a roadhouse), and I’d be interested in the effectiveness of this across the board. Also, Seismic Audio - critical thoughts? Finally, is the Peavey OB or CB, because compressive/dimension (ie, finite vs infinite baffle vs infinite volume or reflective surface behind may also be a factor in its relative louder-ness. Just some thoughts…
Had a couple embarrassing moments. 1st one my band was playing at a local venue around here. We had 3 guitar players. Well I was the rhythm guitar player most of the time. A duel solo comes up with the 2 other guitarist and my part was just a simple very heavy riff to lay down in the back ground and me and the bass player are doing the back to back thing and he stepped on my cord (stupidly i didn't know about wrapping the cord around my strap end yet) and he ripped the jack out of my guitar! We both kinda froze and stared at each other for a minute. The show was going great so I just kinda winged it. One of our buddies was helping out "tech" and "roadie" duties and he already went behind the stage to grab my backup guitar so. I took the guitar off and just threw it as high as i could off the side of the stage in a "FUCK YEAH ROCK AND ROLL" kinda moment. (It was a cheap bolt on Dean V think I paid $150 bucks for it. I didn't care if it broke.) 2nd was a local band competition we entered. We get to the venue. Unload. Set up our stage. Go to get my SG. Open the case. Snapped Headstock. It was the only guitar I brought because we only had 1 song and I assumed i wouldn't need a back up for 1 song.. Well.. I was wrong. Thankfully one of the dudes in the other bands (we were all friends after all and all partied together after shows and shit.) He saw me open the case and saw the broken headstock and he was already in the process in tuning up his back up for me. Well. His Backup was a a schecter or esp with EMGs. Halfway thru our song the batteries died. I took the guitar off. And just ran into the crowd trying to hype everyone up for us. It was fun we all got a good laugh, but man it was a rough day. This last one doesn't include me directly buttt one of my good friends. He had a Line 6 Spyder Valve Half stack. We aren't sure what happened but... About halfway through his set his amp starts buzzing extremely loudly. HIs signal cuts out. Thing starts smoking, and catches fire. Turned out to be pretty damn epic.
As a frontman, I hurt myself way too many times onstage. In the late 80's, mid-set, I decided to go "crowdsurfing". Iggy can do it, why not me ? So, I did a "Nestea Plunge" into the audience, diving backward into the crowd .... but the crowd parted like the Red Sea, and WHACK- I landed flat on my ass. That was the last time I tried to pull an Iggy lol.
I promise these are the last comments on the video.. one: I would also argue that, along with onstage catastrophes, you probably aren’t a real old-school guitarist unless the cops have been called at least once, whether in-regard to volume or suspected substance-related behavior. I’ve had three occurrences of volume-related bluelightery. Two parties and one rehearsal, and only one of these was not at my residence. A party at a friend’s on 7/4!resulted in the cops being called from two blocks over. Two in my neighborhood resulted in apologies from the neighbor and cops - make that three, then - as all were enjoying the music until after 10, and that’s justified. And they all waited until the set was over before knocking. Two: multiple string breaks where no one noticed because I compensated immediately, and one cut guitar cable when I was opening for another band. We showed up for a sound check, and they were late. I sounded like the Beatles trying to play Tool, but apparently enjoyably. Everybody left the dance floor after we stopped playing and the headliners came on. Smoking a j with them after the gig, they apologized about rolling their cab over my cable, and we had or Brit friend playing roadie for us and running our lighting. They said, “Wait.. you have a British roadie?” “Yeah, somebody had to run the light board.” “Wait - the venue had a light board?” “No, we borrowed it and the lighting from a friend of ours.” “So you had a roadie - a British roadie, AND you brought you own lights and board?!” “Yeah.. doesn’t everybody?” “Fuck us man.. we got some work to do..”
Thanks Robert for another informative Q and A. Always enjoy the channel and your content. I wish everyone would hit the like button when they watch your videos. Have a great week!!👍👍🎸🎸🎶🎶
Thanks Peter! Unfortunately there are plenty that hit the Dislike button, as well. Doesn’t really bother me, though. Both boost my channel’s analytics because TH-cam views Likes and Dislikes the same. LOL
Tube amp>SS. Tubes aren’t that expensive and easy to troubleshoot/maintain. I have multiple sets for both tube amps i use. I’ve yet to hear a SS amp that can emulate tube sound..
Right now I play and gig with my Peavey Bandit and XXL amps, the more I use those the more I love them. I have a Mesa Dual Rec that is my dream amp and will never be gigged with, but I could see waiting until digital amps taking over and buying last gens model for pennies on the dollar when it gets to the point where even seasoned pros can't tell the difference between tubes and digital anymore.
Nah, I don’t think that will happen, at least not anytime soon. Tube amps can last a lifetime, but the latest digital technology will eventually go obsolete.
@@RobertWJackson Yeah but what I'm saying is wait until it matures and becomes the standard, then buy the cheaper obsolete versions for pennies on the dollar and gig with those. All while still having your dream amp to record or just mess around with.
With how its for guitar-related questions, not sure if this question fits here or not, but here goes: I want to start a small band (metal, not too picky on the subgenre) and I've been trying to for quite some time now, but I am having quite a bit of difficulty finding other people for it. A while back I found a bass player by making a flyer and posting it up at a local community college, but to make a long story short, he did not want to practice and backed out of it. Outside of that whole thing, I have found no one. Any tips?
I have a question that I can't seem to get an answer for: the low-down on "power conditioners". Are they worth the money to a hobbyist that mostly plays at home (a show every once in awhile, jam sessions)? Why does there seem to be a rather limited selection to choose from? The wiring in my house is crap (renting, historic neighborhood) and I think it's one of the biggest culprits to my sound. Looking forward to your thoughts on the issue.
Hey Robert when it comes to doing solo”s on the fly.. just zone out and use the force as they say , your heart and emotion’s will guide you,,sounds stupid, but it’s a real thing, practice to random backing tracks and before long you will fly without even thinking.
Not really a guitar mishap, but with my first band, on our first gig, on the first song. Completely forgot the lyrics to a song we had been practicing for over a year, I was the lead singer. We soldiered through, it was an original song so nobody noticed the difference lol. I will say I redeemed myself a few songs later when the mic went out and I never stopped singing. So I got a 50/50 on that one \m/
Friends with local cover band. Do it for fun group. Had me come up and play a few tunes. Half way through Alice in Chains a person starts to lean in with his head down by the bridge. Weird position for all involved lol. Start taking a step back to get away from this guy. 2 steps later trip on a cymbal stand, fall back lights out for me lol. Come to and I busted the face of the bass drum and drunk fell spilling his beer in a monitor. The guitar never held tuning again. Think the set neck wasn't so set anymore 🤣. Now I use a wireless and make sure I can walk away if need be lol.
By the way, I received that Origen 50 watt head as I’ve mentioned to ya. I still can’t believe the sound of it for that price! ( Purchased mine off Musicians Friend with a 15% coupon they sent me, came out to like 450 bucks with tax included ).
Garden variety mishaps to begin with: bad night, couldn't get the guitar to stay in tune, ate just before coming on stage and tried to sing, and I always make the mistake of bringing more gear than I need. It's certifiably embarrassing to bring more guitars than the the number of songs in the set.
Speaking of amps, i've gotta share my inexperience. So I bought an Epiphone and an Orange Crush 20 to begin my journey, along with Rocksmith (see my Facebook post). So Ive had it not quite a year yet, but I just found out, if you plug headphones into the Crush, it has a cabinet simulator that only works thru the heasphones jack. I spent three hours playing the three songs I know over and over. It was like having a new rig! Completely new experience. What I'm getting at, I've not played through any exotics whatsoever, no JCMs, no H&K, no 5150, no Boogie, and while I'd love to some day, it sure is fun being ignorant and excited about something new and unique. There's something to that... Especially with all the tools, sims and effects available to us now versus 40 years ago. Perhaps I am being naive? 😂
Not at all. The gear that guitar players are getting to start out on these days is FAR superior to what was available to me when I was a kid just starting out. Glad you’re enjoying it!
Robert! Fearless Leader! Ha-ha Just an opinion Bwana! I'm seriously considering one of the Marshall Code series amps. Any thoughts or opinions about the series. I'm thinking of either the 50W 1x12 or the 100W 2x12. Any input would be welcome. Stay safe and healthy!☮
I’ve not played them because modeling amps aren’t really my thing, but I sold one to a good friend of mine a couple of years ago, and he really likes it. He’s still using it too. And that guy is PICKY about amp tone.
@@RobertWJackson Hey Robert. I just read your text and I really like your homesty in not having used one etc. and I read the input put in by the other guys too. That is really the thing about this forum that I really appreciate, that it accommodates pretty much everybody, including rig equipment that I'm not overly familiar with. Thank you Robert and everyone who joined in. Far-out guys!☮
The Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb has an amazing clean tone. When driven hard I found it had less midrange and massive bottom end. In my ears, the '65 Deluxe Reverb has a better overdriven sound.
7:41 Adding more speakers DOES increase volume. Double the cone area means a 3db boost, which is equal to double the power. IE 50w/1x12=100w/2x12; 50w/4x12=100w/2x12. There are more factors to consider, like speaker efficiency and impedances, closed cab vs open, etc. But the theory is SOUND. The last bit of the question is wrong; ten times the power equals to an increase of 10db which in psychoacoustics is considered double the perceived loudness (perceived loudness =/= power) and it's much louder than the doubling of the speakers
I know there's a massive interest out there right now with the lunchbox amp heads and even a resurgence in combo amps as being the new stage gear. But I'm old school and nothing is better than 4x12 cabinets, for both sound and aesthetics on a stage. If you're hanging in clubs and bars? 100watts might be a bit overkill but hey I love em, but a 50watt is more than enough to do the job and you WILL be heard. No micing even necessary, just like the days of old!
Robert you really need to play with my Axe FX dude. I had a HUGE aversion to "making patches" and spending all this time trying to add effects etc and the interface is always clunky. The Axe FX is a different animal when I turn the dial I am not in a new patch I am on another amplifier. The controls on the amplifier are represented etc. Rarely do you need to change anything but the pre or EQ a little bit. If you pair the AXE with a computer the AXE-EDIT rules! you literally drag and drop the pedals you want in the order you want like a pedalboard
Bought a New Boutique Distortion Pedal that Would Work Perfectly as long as You Avoided Placing it After the Amp. otherwise it would work almost like a bypass. So when guitarist kicked in for SOLO there was Silence in roady days
I can imagine a lot of people have either traded , tossed or have collecting dust a pedal if they did like me. Maybe a PEDAL Mistakes Series. Everything from Proper Power Supply and Placement, to How not to BLOW it UP, Thanks
Digital tech may have advanced, but the typical aliasing, noise-leakage (specific to VST sims), ADA (analog/digital/analog) converter-loss (degradation of tone that is caused when a signal runs through the AD/DA convertors), and latency problems have not gone away. If you don't know what I mean by "noise leakage", it's that asymmetrical buzzing, digital "beep boop" crackling noise that cannot be killed by a noise-gate or lifting the ground loop. It's caused by electromagnetic "leakage" within the computer itself, and it shows up even on clean tones, specifically with Bias FX. For some reason, Amplitube is much quieter on my rig than Bias is. If all the noise it was making was the typical hum associated with guitar amps, I would have no problem with it, but the sounds it's currently making are rather invasive and distracting. I could chalk it up to it maybe being a result of me needing to buy a better interface with better driver support, but the interface I have is no slouch. In terms of specs, it's right up there. All I know is that my dead-clean Bias FX presets shouldn't be "beep-booping" and hollering when there isn't even anything plugged into it. Unfortunately, this could be the result of me not paying enough attention to EM leakage when building my rig. My only concern was maximum performance with maximum storage and memory. I don't think the excessive monster of a graphics-card, or the over-clocks I'm running are helping things either, being that the GPU is probably the second largest source of EM leakage in my entire computer, behind the power supply itself of course. Maybe I should just build Faraday Cages around all of the EM "hot-spots" in my computer lol jk.
Here are some questions for you. I have some cheap guitars that are between 500 and $1,000, not the cheap cheap ones of course. My question is with all the digital modeling sometimes if the guitar has some decent pickups, I don't always need to change them out. I can throw an extra Overdrive pedal on it or EQ and almost sound the same. I understand that some pickups have more clarity. I find that Imports are getting better and better and sometimes all you really need is put on a set of locking tuners that would help tuning issues. Okay to the point I've had some PRS SE's that played really well. I have an American PRS 1997 CE. Now because people frown on somebody having Imports versus American guitars when you play in the band. I'm trying to go for a used PRS Custom 22. Yet sometimes I feel that I don't need to waste all that money. I agree that quality and play ability is important if you're doing some gigs. If you have good units like the Line 6 helix or ax8 or some of those other effect units, I think you can be able to use a lot of these lower quality inexpensive guitars. Keep in mind I'm not talkin about a couple hundred dollar guitars here, I'm talking about the 500 to a thousand maybe a little over a thousand dollars. What is your opinion on this?
#askRGD hey Robert! what brand of strings are good and not falling out of tune on a floyd rose equipped guitar? base on my experience. I used dunlop heavy core 10’s but it’s always out of tune on low 6th string once i make those dive bombs and pull-ups a couple of times. Any recommendations and advice? thanks!
What's with your lighting? On a number of your videos the lighting goes up, and down. Is your camera's exposure set on auto? Trying to listen to your content I find the moving of your video lighting up, and down a bit distracting. I do like what you have to say. I don't write comments in the negative for the most part, but i've seen this this on a number of your videos. I'm not sure you are aware of this in your finished products. Thanks for your time in making these videos.
I’ve never been able to figure out what causes that. I’ve noticed it for awhile, as well, but it never really bothered me enough to stop and figure it out. My camera is not in auto mode, so I’m really not sure. Probably a camera setting somewhere. I’ll figure it out.
Just checking this video out after watching your "loudest amp" video. (just found your channel) Your mic and vocal sounds fine. Who the fuck told you to get a pop filter?
I didn’t play out too much but many years ago in college, i was at a friends apartment party and he had a full band set up so so I grabbed the guitar and we started playing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Before we even finished that one song the cops got called and broke up the party. The cops did say we sounded good and I didn’t go to jail so I guess it was a win 😂 Not sure how the cops got there so fast either 🤷🏻♂️
I tried to do the “ol guitar throw around the shoulder trick”. Y’all know what i talking about... throw the guitar in a circle and it stays on the strap, goes around your shoulders in a big arc and you continue your solo and all the panties drop. Well, i threw it up into the lights at the bar we were gigging and showered glass all over myself and the other guitar player... complete fail
Let me think about that. That might be difficult to capture because the 6505+ is a combo and the Marshall is a head and 4x12 cab. Let me see if I can figure out how to go about that.
Robert, I have been looking at the ID-Core practice amp to play around with BUT it would be just a novelty kind of thing. I'll stick with my Blues Junior and tube amps for life. Just bought a Vox tube amp and I'm not the biggest fan. It was my first Vox and will be my last. Nothing wrong with it, its just not me. There is no way that ANY IC circuit will ever sound like a tube. Close ? Maybe but never quite the same. I don't know how to explain it but there's something you feel while playing with tubes that you don't feel with IC's. I guess maybe that deep earthy grunt that you get from tubes as opposed to transistors / IC's.
Embarrassing one, whilst playing my charvel rip off guitar on the toilet (and did not have or know about strap locks), I went to wipe my arse and my guitar fell out of the strap, swung round and down hard headstock first and snapped my neck and head clean off. Lesson learnt now all my guitars have strap locks.......on the plus whilst having no guitar for three months I saved hard and bought my Kramer pacer which I still have now 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁. Another time I did a bit of roadie work and was paid in beer but never got to drink with sorting stuff out, the one night I decided to get drunk the guitarist had bought a new marshall stack and was playing well until his sound died, his new amp was on but no sound, I sobered up very quickly and sussed out that his lead was faulty, whilst he was playing I went through 3 of his leads then his mates leads 2 of till I found one that worked, he got ribbed for that 2500 amp and all his leads were crap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
RGD, In addition to my cover band, I sometimes fill in with a praise and worship group. due to recent church shootings I mounted a .357 to my guitar triggered by Bb. A new singer prefers the key of 'F'!!!! What am I to do?
I think guys named Dean should only be allowed to play Dean guitars. I don't necessarily love the programming, but I do like hitting a button and everything is set - boost, delay, EQ changes. I also like having one thing, not a box with 12 things in it. Less stuff to break. Helix, and an HX stomp as a backup.
I don’t know man. That number seems to be decreasing quite a bit in recent years. Even John Mayer broke the internet a few months back because he was seen playing a blues festival with a Kemper.
Not in an arena show. But yes as the tech gets better it will be less and less. As far as any large show all you need to do is look at the gear and theres a couple tube amps one for redundancy. You need the tube amps with cabs to push air. Overall its tube power. Modeling depends on the PA in most cases and many clubs have questionable systems except the higher end venues. John Mcglaughin was one of the few ive seen go straight into the board but he was using a mesa v twin and hes jazz. None or at lest very few big metal or hard rock bands use Kempers or modeling exclusively in arena. Theres pretty much always a tube power source. On the other hand Steve Howe and the extra Doobie Bro both use line 6 variac guits with a helix and they sound decent at lower volumes. Could a person get by and sound great with modeling? Of course they could and have less problems. The overall sound is not as good but thats to my tastes. Its not that the tech doesnt sound good. It just doesnt sound as good. Would I use a Kemper or Axe? Heck ya but I would plug it into my Marshall power amp. Ive been using digital for 20 years. Im not a luddite purist .
Metallica and Megadeth just all the Thrash Metal bands that sold out in the 90's all use Axe FX, Line 6 helix and Kemper Profilers now just all digital. Which is sad because I loved seeing Mesa/Boogie Mark II C+ heads powering Marshall cabs while playing Master Of Puppets.
Those live screw ups always affect ýou more than anyone else. A few years ago we were playing a gig, doing original material when our singer says to the crowd our lead guitarist Sean is now going to play a solo see you in 5 minutes! He didn't tell me or the rest of the band he was going to do it, so here I am having to improvise a 5 minute solo out if thin air! Got away with it but I damn nearly killed the singer afterwards. Lol
Hang on ,,, iv played in elwood indiana that doesnt serve food only drinks ,,, dont remember the name of the place tho . Whats the chances its NOT the same place ? It a small freakin world or what ?
To my ear - better modeling amps do a fine job of sounding like the amps they copy sound like on the radio or on recordings. That’s not what I want my gig amp to sound like, or more likely, to “feel like”, when I play it. Gimme some tubes. ‘Nuf……😉
Hey Rob...there's a chance for me to buy a Peavey Valve King 100 watt head for 300 dollars...Its being sold on the net and don't have a chance to try it out....Have you played a valve king. and is that a good price?
Tone is very easy it all comes down to one thing and one thing only does it sound good to you. If you say yes then thats all that matters its a personal choice and we all like different tones. If everyone liked the same set up how shitty would guitar music be?...very shitty in my opinion. For myself, maybe some others, practice and skill is a lot more important right now in my guitar journey. So Robert if you know of an amp that will make me sound better tomorrow do video and I will buy one. lol
Was there a single first hand experience or piece of knowledge in this video? It sounded like you just watched a bunch of people on TH-cam and the regurgitated their thoughts on these questions. On a different point. Why do you like/love every single comment in the comment thread. It’s kinda weird.
Of course. I don’t do videos on topics I don’t have any experience with. I click the like or dislike button on most of the comments so that I can mark which ones I’ve read and haven’t read as I’m scrolling through them.
I feel like I can totally hear the difference between digital or not & that's always been the way to go. Tube amp & a bunch of pedals just sounds better.
I lost total interest in the Headrush immediately when it lanched because it says Eleven Rack on the side. Don't get me wrong the burnt rust 2U Avid ElevenRack was a solid piece of mid 2000s tech, but its just a stripped down host running a freaking 14 year old plug-in at the end of the day. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. I bet I could get better results at home with an Apollo and the plug-in running on my ROG laptop. I really despise inMusic and their brands, I hate lower case i letters to try and snag a bite off the Apple, the lower case i is such a fad. Its just a letter people. All that aside , its a giant mediocre gear mill whipping out products that are obsolete before you even get them in your hands. Call me a gear snob, but M-Audio, Akai (now), Alesis, Alto, etc are just not brands that I associate with high end gear. The Craigslist specials that start with a capital A and are assiciated with terrible home studios where quality takes a backseat to quantity. Even if the Axe II and III are essentially doing a similar thing, A: Fractal hardware and signal path is audiophile grade and transformer isolated, especially at the conversion stages, B: Other than Cab Lab and Reverb, you can't get Fractal as a plug-in, C: Fractal is a very tight group of dedicated engineers working in New Hampshire and turning the industry on its head. They are going toe to toe with the titans of the industry and doing so without even selling their products in the retail space...which means they are much less constrained to cutting corners and can afford to continue to push the limits of the hardware where other brands would be on to the next thing. And lastly D: have you looked at their freaking artist lineup? Its a who's who of currently working guitar legends...and they ALL had to pay for it. Keep up the killer work fellas.
“That’s just the way I’ve always done it”. Spoken like a true close minded guitar player. How do you expect to ever learn anything new or discover a better way of doing things if this is your mindset. Bizarre.
Maybe because it works for me? I don’t see how this makes me a “close-minded guitar player” at all. I use plenty of digital gear, just not effects processors. I use virtual instruments and Pro Tools, IR’s, etc. for recording all the time.
Live performance mishaps, you say? Well, being a gigging and touring musician for nearly 40 years and a few hundred gigs, I've had my share. Had an amp blow a tube right after a performance. It was an old early 70's Fender Twin. While checking that out, my guitar slipped off the strap pin and hit the ground headstock first, raising the fretboard away from the neck. That was 1983. I then found out about straplocks. Had my bassist step on my cable, pulling it out of the jack of the amp, and tipped the Randall head onto the ground. My old Nady wireless got interference along the lines of Nigel's wireless in Spinal Tap. While carrying in a Randall 4x12 cabinet through a side entrance into the venue, I hit my forehead on the top of the door, cutting my head and dropped the cabinet on my feet. And, then during the show since it was so hot, the sweat opened the wound and I had blood pouring down my face. Breaking a string on a guitar with a Kahler is always interesting as well. Thankfully that only happened once. Slipped in a puddle of beer (or something) on a stage up in Goshen, IN and landing flat on my back and the ends of my Flying V smacked the floor. Thankfully I was 23 and got back up. Now, I'd be down for a week and a half. Hitting the button for the stage tuner instead of the boost for a solo. Hitting other members of the band with my guitar or getting hit by other members guitars, mic stands, drum sticks, cymbal parts. Pedal board power failing at an outdoor gig and rushing to plug a cable directly in. Various other string breakages over the years, which is one reason I always take at least two guitars to every gig. I couldn't tell you how many dropped picks I've had so they're everywhere as well. I had to repair the jack on my Les Paul right before a gig because the nut and washers fell off and the jack was inside the guitar. What have I learned? Always have a backup amp for my tube amps. Have extra cables, strings, batteries, tool kit, guitar, strap, tuner (stage and clip on), power strips and power cables, speaker cables and extra microphones and cables for my live sound. There's probably a lot more than I can remember but those are some that stand out. The show must go on.
We were playing a block party type gig for a friend of ours a couple years ago where we were using a couple of flatbed trailers for a stage. One large for the front and a smaller one centered behind the other for the drum riser.
Halfway through a set, I decided to jump up on the riser for dramatic effect. On my way back to the front of the "stage", one foot didn't place itself where I told it to resulting in it falling between the two trailers. I took a dive almost doing the splits in the process, all the while never dropping my guitar or missing a beat.
Ironically, the song we were playing...
Holy Diver by Dio.
NICE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Years ago, I did the old "drum riser jump" but I forgot how low the lighting rig was. Whacked my head good, bleeding, etc. But I landed on my feet and didn't miss a beat.
A waitress handed me an icepack, and I was good to go. Lol.
Show must go on...lol
@@rsfields2009 every time lol
@@RobertWJackson I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a while and take your opinion on things to heart when buying gear. With that said I have a question. I have wanted a Gibson Les Paul for years. I have fought with choosing one for a long time. I just don’t know why I should pull the trigger and buy a standard over buying a studio. I love the fact that the standards come with a hard case as opposed to a bag with a studio. I just don’t know or can’t figure out if the 1000.00 difference is worth it. What are your thoughts?
It takes 7. One to screw in the light bulb, and six to stand around saying they could have done it better.
My issue with digital in the early days, it didn't matter what guitar i plugged in, it sounded the same. Tube reacts to the difference in guitars.
That goes to show how far modelling has come. The guitar and pickup characteristics shine right through. I plugged a sweet Fender Strat in to my very complicated 5 cable/tube/modelling/412 cabbed/stereo monstrosity that is my tone machine and was just floored by the clean tones and Gilmour lead type tones I was getting. Unreal. That 60hz hum was fucking bananas though, thats something I don't miss.
Methinks I need a Strat or a 60s Classic Vibe 3 tone burst Squier, which are incredible by the way, especially with a couple simple upgrades like saddles, pots, jack and locking tuners
If you'll allow an unsolicited response, I think if you do yourself the favor of venturing out into today's amp technology I think you'll be very impressed. The is a world of difference between solid-state (which in-and-of itself has changed a lot and for the better) and digital technology which has become so sophisticated even a well-trained ear can often be fooled, it is really THAT good. I have a Fender Mustang 1 v2 and am about to get into the Marshall Code series.
Go to your music store, ask a billion questions and test drive 3 or 4. I bet you'll like what you learn. Good luck!
Love your channel. I just realized that you and I are similar sized TH-camrs although on entirely different subjects. i am not enough of an expert in music to have a channel about it but I love watching all kinds of stuff including guitar channels. Best of luck. i wish I could think of something we could collab on to exchange out audiences...
Thanks man! What kind of videos do you do?
Was playing solo guitar over a bass/drum/vocal track at a showtime at the apollo style event where the audience can boo you off the stage. The sound guy sat my amp too low in the mix with the backing track and the whole audience assumed I was faking and couldn’t actually play the guitar 🤦🏽♂️ booing ensued and that was that lol. Glad I can look back and laugh about it today.
MarkyMark theMagnificent that’s brutal. I would have had a word with that sound guy 👊🏻
@Paul Nealis same here. LOL
Robert man I love this channel I have so much to catch up on thank you for all that you do
Thanks man! Glad you’re enjoying the content!
I really think the digital route is the way to go tube amps will always be the best in sound but honestly not having to worry about tubes failing and replacement for tubes is a huge plus so in. This day and age digital 🤘
How do cords get tangled by just looking at them?
Years ago when the NADY Wireless transmitter for guitar came out right around the advent of the memory man digital echo stomp box, Getting rid of any cord sounded good to me... The Problem with the NADY system is it transmitted on a VHF signal and at the time you would use a home stereo receiver and tune in your transmitter to an open station, Problem being the signal band would not always be open... In the middle of a set, The receiver may pick up a local station and broadcast over the PA or a CB operator bleeding through...I got rid of that piece of S#it when it tuned in on a KC & Sunshine band playing "Thats the way I Like it" and the ladies went cray, But at the time we were trying to stomp out DISCO... So we were lip syncing by force... I am sure the new tech has improved that problem... ???
I'm right there with you, man. Until recently (it just got trashed for finally being worn through) I worn my Disco STILL Sucks! T-shirt. Some things never get old and that old sure seemed to be one of them. Geez, if it weren't for the on-set of 50lbs. and a lot of grey hair, you'd think I just got old and fat...er..,uh...that's a lot of on set grey hair, side burns (yeah, still have the side burns. Makes me think of the old thing about "Just tryin' to stay alive and keep my sideburns too!".
I'll always remember my daughter saying to me "Geez dad, it's not 1970 anymore!" And so I stated "Honey, for some of us, it will always be 1970"! See ya!☮
Thanks Robert! Always happy for the props. You too, bro!
As far as on-stage mishaps, I was playing bass during a song when my lead singer started banging her tambourine against my ass, and managed to hit my wireless pack a few times knocking out my signal. Mid-song I had to grab my backup bass. Fortunately I use Line 6 units and have a transmitter on both basses.
That’s a GOOD one!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Robert👍 tubes all the way brother, I will never part with my VH4 for some digital rig , even though it weighs a tonne I will lug that bad boy around to every gig 🤘
My biggest mishap was trying to keep up shot for shot with my drummer before a gig. Got so bombed I forgot all the words to all of the songs that I only had a week to learn in the first place. It turned into an instrumental gig with me mumbling like Jim Morrison or some shit. After about 20 minutes my bass player comes up to me and says is there anything you remember words to? We did about 20 minutes of Elvis songs with really heavy guitar tones. That was the first and last time i drank before a show. You wont feel buzzed or drunk until the lights come on. The heatwave of the lights and adrenaline kicks in and holy shit 3 shots and beer felt like I had the whole 5th.
Good video, Robert! At least he had a spare battery. I was at an open mic and my friend's battery died on her acoustic. She said, "Jim, I can't get my tuner to work!" The battery is dead. "Do you have a battery?" I'm playing a Telecaster, I don't have one in this bag.... Thank goodness there was a Walmart LITERALLY next door, so we scooted over and got a battery (I didn't want her walking to/from by herself at night.) I keep two x 10 year Duracell batteries in my acoustic bag.
Yessir, if you’re playing a gig with ANYTHING that requires batteries for its operation, make sure you have backups. And make sure and rotate them out so you’re backup batteries aren’t 5 years old and no longer charged. LOL
Haha!
Love the honesty on the gear you go over man 🤙
Personally though, like you I doubt I’ll ever go solid state. I just love the Marshall Tube sound too much.
Odd: the Fractal Fx, is becoming the 'iphone' of digital amps!
The Grincore/groovemetal band i was in about 8 years ago, first show ever (which was actually to a full capacity crowd of 500 so pressure was on), freshly set up guitar with freshly broken in strings pre show. Second song in!!!! during some crazy chug to fast legato runs with full pitch bends on the B string. That damn string broke and stabbed me through the thumb on my fretting hand, i had to mid song figure out how to play the rest of that song plus the 5 that followed on the fly with a bloodied sticky hand slowing me up! Great content as always.
That reminds me that time Zakk Wylde was bleeding while soloing.
3 yrs later im real tempted by the amped 1 as a pedal platform (mostly i dont have room for much else and its hot
Just something magic happens between tubes pedals and a mostly tuned les paul
You mean a never in tune les paul
I've always loved tube amps but currently run an old Line 6 Spider II 2x12 combo. It does the job as I don't gig any longer. I've also got a Crate V100 head but I lit something on fire inside years back from installing tubes drunk & haven't looked into that since. My last awesome tuber was an early 80's Acoustic G100T hardwood combo that I had worked by Jose Arredondo and it was outstanding, so much so it was stolen twice...
And yes, SPL is SPL, more cones don't change math. More speakers have to be equated into the draw on the power circuit of the amp. If an amp can handle it, dropping the ohms can suck more wattage to the output but if the amp can't handle it, you're smokin' an amp...
As for the first question(s), my response: tube amps all day, unless you are in a worship band, or working on a musical set or orchestra/jazz band or something like that and need to keep volume low. If you are playing in a rock band, indie, metal, jazz, country, or folk, you want a tube amp. As far as micing amps on stage, if your amp is miced, you probably want a small to mid range sized amp. If you are not miced, you want a mid range to large wattage amp. As for the amount of speakers, this is preference. Personally I like 1-12 or 2-12 combo amps for the ease of transportation, and they sound great. But if you have a truck or van, and want a fuller sound go for the 4x12.
Last tip, if you are considering buying solid state/ digital, buy something new. Don't bother trying to use a device from 10-20 years ago, as the tech is outdated and will annoy the fuck out of you.
As many today are going the digital route, I myself prefer the punch from the tubes and the warmth that you will never get from a digital amp especially when you're a gigging guitarist.
While I am a huge fan of the Marshall's, always will be however for gigging this year I switched to a Kemper. I really hated it at first. It took me a while to figure it out and get used to it. Now I can use nothing but it. My set up and tear down time is 5-10 minutes. I have the Kemper stage I mounted to a Temple Audio pedal board, Also on the pedal board is a couple external pedals my wireless system. Then it is all in a flight case with wheels. I literally roll in to a gig, I have 2 guitars in mono dual guitar bag in the other hand. I unpack run to front of house and done. This has solved so many issues, my primary guitar is the Majesty, my secondary is fender Accoustasonic, which I use to full advantage. One song we do is Meredith Brooks Bitch, which I play acoustic in the verse, electric in the chorus, and electric with WAH during the guitar solo the other guitarist does. All the same volume levels easy as stomping on a switch and flipping pickups. We could never have pulled this off before the Kemper. So while I love my Marshalls, we are just a small band gigging out once or twice a month. Its just too much to carry around and fight with anymore.
My worst stage scenario is not really that bad, I ran with a lot of band and band guys since the 80s; I listened to them all tell their problems like this and done the absolute best to try to plan for the worst. I really have had some great mentors. Also I was a guitar tech for a small band before I had my own band. I used to keep track of battery install dates, now everything I have with batteries are rechargeable so I just change the batteries once a week if they need it or not or before a show everything is on chargers. I have a case I also take with me spare strings, spare cables of every kind, and guitar tool kits. I had strap locks on my guitar before I ever took stage. That being said, worst one was a Marshall amp in an amp stand and the stand collapsed. Luckily nothing broke. Had to set it all back up. However another guitarist in a band of mine I repeatedly told him get strap locks. Sure enough middle of a show, strap came off his Les Paul, snapped head stock off mid show and of course he didn't have a spare. The dude still didn't get strap locks until it came off again during practice once.
As someone once told me and I believe it was a TH-cam video that you always want to have a good tube amp. Technology like the Axe fx 3 is going to be outdated in a couple years and they're going to get continue to get updated versions of equipment. This was sometimes to the point where you cannot get any updates anymore for that particular unit. But you can always rely on your good tube amp if maintained well.
That was probably Glenn Fricker. And there is a lot of truth to that. You don’t see very many people at all using the Eleven Rack that was popular about 10-12 years ago. That thing sold for about $1500 or so, if memory serves. Now you can find them used for around $200-300. It wasn’t a bad piece of gear at all, it just went obsolete.
@@RobertWJackson You are correct sir!!!
Oh, and I rarely use digital direct unless I control the end sound, and actually use a SS amp/mixer for several preamps through a custom cab I built, so I’d have the sound I was actually after/expecting, so I understand your hesitation there.
Fun fact: You can run a tube pedal into a solid-state or digital amp and the amp will not magically remove the tube aspects of your tone. The main problem people have with specifically solid-state equipment (digital is another animal altogether) is that they reproduce *exactly* what you put into them, which can leave them sounding somewhat brittle and peaky if you don't know how to use it. As for me, though, I have a wonderful solid-state Crate GX30M (1x12" combo with chorus and 'verb) practice/recording amp that I will never give up. It doesn't have a good lead channel at all (just 3 controls: Level, "Shape" and Gain), but its clean channel, with its series tone-stack (each tone-stack pot has an effect on the one that comes after it) has been the basis of all of my effect-laden tones since I was in high-school. These days, plugged into my modelling rig, it gets me exactly where I need to go. I'm aware that buying effects to make an amp sound good sounds silly, and it is, but it's the most versatile amp I've ever played. It can do anything, and apart from it's somewhat weak driver, it can handle pretty much anything. The cab is super skookum, too. Solid as hell. You could probably string it up to a crane and wreck small buildings with it lol.
One thing about a good solid state amp is that they make great pedal platforms, and there's something to be said for the chunk, sizzle and immediacy that you can only get with a solid-state power section, and if you want that tube warmth, all you have to do is throw a tube-driven pedal/preamp in the mix. The amp won't "de-tubify" your tone. It's great for metal, which is why the Krankenstein used a tube preamp coupled to a solid-state power-amp for that sizzle and in your face presence. I know alot of people don't like Dime's tones, but they were what got me wanting to play guitar seriously in the first place. The first time I heard Cowboys From Hell was a total life-changer for me. Before that, I was a stereotypical "child of the KoRn", guitar hanging at the ankles Nu-Metal kid. Not my proudest moment lol. As for digital, I use lots of VST amp sim software, and they're great for practicing or jamming along to some tunes, but a digital amp or modelling software has no place in a recording studio. Digital's great for practice, song-writing and live rigs, but for recording, you need something with a little more oomph and none of the aliasing problems that even the best digital sims/modellers have.
The Krankenstein was all tube. It uses 5881 power tubes.
@@RobertWJackson If that's the case, then I probably got it flipped around. I specifically remember Dime mentioning "solid-state sizzle", so I suppose that would refer to the preamp. My bad.
H3R3T1C Nope, Krankenstein had a tube preamp, as well. The Randall amps that he used for most of his career - Warhead, Century 100, etc. - were all solid-state. But the Kranks were all tubes.
@@RobertWJackson IC. Thanx for the info.
I love my Randall RD50H that I got on the cheap.
The biggest problem I found with programmable gear is it's usually programmed by the user at home, and the presets don't necessarily translate into a beneficial sound in a band. Then the player spends half the practice time playing with the programming or trying out the hundreds of presets. It's just easier to turn knobs on an amp or a pedal.
Must have been in the early 90ies: been young local heroes, we headlined at an Open Air, about 500 people, I played a Peavey Vandenberg with Kahler Tremolo. My bass-mate played (still does) a 6-string Warwick bass. After a couple of songs the headstock of the Warwick-monster went „somehow“ under the Tremolo-system of my Peavey...and levered it out...completely 😂 I never played again the Vandenberg live again. My mate since then never again dared to share the same stage-side with me. Since 2 years we play again together in a band...still best friends until today 😊
Consider yourself blessed! I haven't jammed with anyone in ages and how cool would that be, right?
Patchless cables in your pedalboard can give you some stories to tell.
The note about amps as side fills: had Kit thought of that. Do you notice a decrease in stage volume on stages with curtains? Or large capacities (ie, more people=more sound dampening/absorption)? I’m a player/singer/all-around musician as well as an old stagehand/roadie(sometimes a “stationary,” meaning an engineer/tech in a roadhouse), and I’d be interested in the effectiveness of this across the board. Also, Seismic Audio - critical thoughts? Finally, is the Peavey OB or CB, because compressive/dimension (ie, finite vs infinite baffle vs infinite volume or reflective surface behind may also be a factor in its relative louder-ness. Just some thoughts…
I’ve got a Seismic Audio oversized 2x12 combo that I’ve had for years. Great cabinet.
Had a couple embarrassing moments.
1st one my band was playing at a local venue around here. We had 3 guitar players. Well I was the rhythm guitar player most of the time. A duel solo comes up with the 2 other guitarist and my part was just a simple very heavy riff to lay down in the back ground and me and the bass player are doing the back to back thing and he stepped on my cord (stupidly i didn't know about wrapping the cord around my strap end yet) and he ripped the jack out of my guitar! We both kinda froze and stared at each other for a minute. The show was going great so I just kinda winged it. One of our buddies was helping out "tech" and "roadie" duties and he already went behind the stage to grab my backup guitar so. I took the guitar off and just threw it as high as i could off the side of the stage in a "FUCK YEAH ROCK AND ROLL" kinda moment. (It was a cheap bolt on Dean V think I paid $150 bucks for it. I didn't care if it broke.)
2nd was a local band competition we entered. We get to the venue. Unload. Set up our stage. Go to get my SG. Open the case. Snapped Headstock. It was the only guitar I brought because we only had 1 song and I assumed i wouldn't need a back up for 1 song.. Well.. I was wrong. Thankfully one of the dudes in the other bands (we were all friends after all and all partied together after shows and shit.) He saw me open the case and saw the broken headstock and he was already in the process in tuning up his back up for me. Well. His Backup was a a schecter or esp with EMGs. Halfway thru our song the batteries died. I took the guitar off. And just ran into the crowd trying to hype everyone up for us. It was fun we all got a good laugh, but man it was a rough day.
This last one doesn't include me directly buttt one of my good friends. He had a Line 6 Spyder Valve Half stack. We aren't sure what happened but... About halfway through his set his amp starts buzzing extremely loudly. HIs signal cuts out. Thing starts smoking, and catches fire. Turned out to be pretty damn epic.
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How did your SG’s headstock break while it was in the case?
cable failure on my 77 tele bass during a battle of the bands in lakeview mich 1981
As a frontman, I hurt myself way too many times onstage. In the late 80's, mid-set, I decided to go "crowdsurfing". Iggy can do it, why not me ? So, I did a "Nestea Plunge" into the audience, diving backward into the crowd ....
but the crowd parted like the Red Sea, and WHACK- I landed flat on my ass. That was the last time I tried to pull an Iggy lol.
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I promise these are the last comments on the video.. one: I would also argue that, along with onstage catastrophes, you probably aren’t a real old-school guitarist unless the cops have been called at least once, whether in-regard to volume or suspected substance-related behavior. I’ve had three occurrences of volume-related bluelightery. Two parties and one rehearsal, and only one of these was not at my residence. A party at a friend’s on 7/4!resulted in the cops being called from two blocks over. Two in my neighborhood resulted in apologies from the neighbor and cops - make that three, then - as all were enjoying the music until after 10, and that’s justified. And they all waited until the set was over before knocking. Two: multiple string breaks where no one noticed because I compensated immediately, and one cut guitar cable when I was opening for another band. We showed up for a sound check, and they were late. I sounded like the Beatles trying to play Tool, but apparently enjoyably. Everybody left the dance floor after we stopped playing and the headliners came on. Smoking a j with them after the gig, they apologized about rolling their cab over my cable, and we had or Brit friend playing roadie for us and running our lighting. They said, “Wait.. you have a British roadie?” “Yeah, somebody had to run the light board.” “Wait - the venue had a light board?” “No, we borrowed it and the lighting from a friend of ours.” “So you had a roadie - a British roadie, AND you brought you own lights and board?!” “Yeah.. doesn’t everybody?” “Fuck us man.. we got some work to do..”
Thanks Robert for another informative Q and A. Always enjoy the channel and your content. I wish everyone would hit the like button when they watch your videos. Have a great week!!👍👍🎸🎸🎶🎶
Thanks Peter! Unfortunately there are plenty that hit the Dislike button, as well. Doesn’t really bother me, though. Both boost my channel’s analytics because TH-cam views Likes and Dislikes the same. LOL
Tube amp>SS. Tubes aren’t that expensive and easy to troubleshoot/maintain. I have multiple sets for both tube amps i use. I’ve yet to hear a SS amp that can emulate tube sound..
Right now I play and gig with my Peavey Bandit and XXL amps, the more I use those the more I love them. I have a Mesa Dual Rec that is my dream amp and will never be gigged with, but I could see waiting until digital amps taking over and buying last gens model for pennies on the dollar when it gets to the point where even seasoned pros can't tell the difference between tubes and digital anymore.
Nah, I don’t think that will happen, at least not anytime soon. Tube amps can last a lifetime, but the latest digital technology will eventually go obsolete.
@@RobertWJackson Yeah but what I'm saying is wait until it matures and becomes the standard, then buy the cheaper obsolete versions for pennies on the dollar and gig with those. All while still having your dream amp to record or just mess around with.
With how its for guitar-related questions, not sure if this question fits here or not, but here goes:
I want to start a small band (metal, not too picky on the subgenre) and I've been trying to for quite some time now, but I am having quite a bit of difficulty finding other people for it. A while back I found a bass player by making a flyer and posting it up at a local community college, but to make a long story short, he did not want to practice and backed out of it. Outside of that whole thing, I have found no one. Any tips?
I have a question that I can't seem to get an answer for: the low-down on "power conditioners". Are they worth the money to a hobbyist that mostly plays at home (a show every once in awhile, jam sessions)? Why does there seem to be a rather limited selection to choose from? The wiring in my house is crap (renting, historic neighborhood) and I think it's one of the biggest culprits to my sound. Looking forward to your thoughts on the issue.
Stay tuned... 😉
Hey Robert when it comes to doing solo”s on the fly.. just zone out and use the force as they say , your heart and emotion’s will guide you,,sounds stupid, but it’s a real thing, practice to random backing tracks and before long you will fly without even thinking.
Not really a guitar mishap, but with my first band, on our first gig, on the first song. Completely forgot the lyrics to a song we had been practicing for over a year, I was the lead singer. We soldiered through, it was an original song so nobody noticed the difference lol. I will say I redeemed myself a few songs later when the mic went out and I never stopped singing. So I got a 50/50 on that one \m/
You’re not a real musician if you’ve never had a complete brain fart on stage in front of more people watching than you care to remember. LOL
My fender tonemaster twin sounds great in my house or on stage. It’s replaced my tube amp.
May I recommend a mix between tube and computer amp. It works great for me.
Same here, actually.
Friends with local cover band. Do it for fun group. Had me come up and play a few tunes. Half way through Alice in Chains a person starts to lean in with his head down by the bridge. Weird position for all involved lol. Start taking a step back to get away from this guy. 2 steps later trip on a cymbal stand, fall back lights out for me lol. Come to and I busted the face of the bass drum and drunk fell spilling his beer in a monitor. The guitar never held tuning again. Think the set neck wasn't so set anymore 🤣. Now I use a wireless and make sure I can walk away if need be lol.
By the way, I received that Origen 50 watt head as I’ve mentioned to ya. I still can’t believe the sound of it for that price!
( Purchased mine off Musicians Friend with a 15% coupon they sent me, came out to like 450 bucks with tax included ).
My worst stage mishap was at 14 years old 43 years old got hit with a chain and knocked out. Never played Hang on Sloop y again.
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Garden variety mishaps to begin with: bad night, couldn't get the guitar to stay in tune, ate just before coming on stage and tried to sing, and I always make the mistake of bringing more gear than I need. It's certifiably embarrassing to bring more guitars than the the number of songs in the set.
Preachin' to the choir!
Speaking of amps, i've gotta share my inexperience. So I bought an Epiphone and an Orange Crush 20 to begin my journey, along with Rocksmith (see my Facebook post). So Ive had it not quite a year yet, but I just found out, if you plug headphones into the Crush, it has a cabinet simulator that only works thru the heasphones jack. I spent three hours playing the three songs I know over and over. It was like having a new rig! Completely new experience. What I'm getting at, I've not played through any exotics whatsoever, no JCMs, no H&K, no 5150, no Boogie, and while I'd love to some day, it sure is fun being ignorant and excited about something new and unique. There's something to that... Especially with all the tools, sims and effects available to us now versus 40 years ago. Perhaps I am being naive? 😂
Not at all. The gear that guitar players are getting to start out on these days is FAR superior to what was available to me when I was a kid just starting out. Glad you’re enjoying it!
Dean o story was great. Red faced but great
Robert! Fearless Leader! Ha-ha
Just an opinion Bwana! I'm seriously considering one of the Marshall Code series amps. Any thoughts or opinions about the series. I'm thinking of either the 50W 1x12 or the 100W 2x12. Any input would be welcome. Stay safe and healthy!☮
I’ve not played them because modeling amps aren’t really my thing, but I sold one to a good friend of mine a couple of years ago, and he really likes it. He’s still using it too. And that guy is PICKY about amp tone.
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Hey Robert. I just read your text and I really like your homesty in not having used one etc. and I read the input put in by the other guys too. That is really the thing about this forum that I really appreciate, that it accommodates pretty much everybody, including rig equipment that I'm not overly familiar with.
Thank you Robert and everyone who joined in. Far-out guys!☮
what is your fave guitar with a great story behind it?
Hmm... 🤔
The Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb has an amazing clean tone. When driven hard I found it had less midrange and massive bottom end. In my ears, the '65 Deluxe Reverb has a better overdriven sound.
Yamaha got digital amps right back in the early 80s, mine is still pumping it out.
7:41 Adding more speakers DOES increase volume. Double the cone area means a 3db boost, which is equal to double the power. IE 50w/1x12=100w/2x12; 50w/4x12=100w/2x12. There are more factors to consider, like speaker efficiency and impedances, closed cab vs open, etc. But the theory is SOUND.
The last bit of the question is wrong; ten times the power equals to an increase of 10db which in psychoacoustics is considered double the perceived loudness (perceived loudness =/= power) and it's much louder than the doubling of the speakers
I know there's a massive interest out there right now with the lunchbox amp heads and even a resurgence in combo amps as being the new stage gear. But I'm old school and nothing is better than 4x12 cabinets, for both sound and aesthetics on a stage. If you're hanging in clubs and bars? 100watts might be a bit overkill but hey I love em, but a 50watt is more than enough to do the job and you WILL be heard. No micing even necessary, just like the days of old!
Except the purpose of mic’ing a guitar cab on stage isn’t for amplification, it’s for mixing. LOL But I understand what you’re saying. 😉👊🏼
@@RobertWJackson lol well yeah, kinda lost that element in my rant. Screw it, Crank it up til it sounds right haha
Robert you really need to play with my Axe FX dude. I had a HUGE aversion to "making patches" and spending all this time trying to add effects etc and the interface is always clunky. The Axe FX is a different animal when I turn the dial I am not in a new patch I am on another amplifier. The controls on the amplifier are represented etc. Rarely do you need to change anything but the pre or EQ a little bit. If you pair the AXE with a computer the AXE-EDIT rules! you literally drag and drop the pedals you want in the order you want like a pedalboard
Yeah, I need to sit down and give one of those another shot. But man, those damn things are ‘SPENSIVE.
Does every city have a cover band named Recoil?
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Bought a New Boutique Distortion Pedal that Would Work Perfectly as long as You Avoided Placing it After the Amp. otherwise it would work almost like a bypass. So when guitarist kicked in for SOLO there was Silence in roady days
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I can imagine a lot of people have either traded , tossed or have collecting dust a pedal if they did like me. Maybe a PEDAL Mistakes Series. Everything from Proper Power Supply and Placement, to How not to BLOW it UP, Thanks
Digital tech may have advanced, but the typical aliasing, noise-leakage (specific to VST sims), ADA (analog/digital/analog) converter-loss (degradation of tone that is caused when a signal runs through the AD/DA convertors), and latency problems have not gone away. If you don't know what I mean by "noise leakage", it's that asymmetrical buzzing, digital "beep boop" crackling noise that cannot be killed by a noise-gate or lifting the ground loop. It's caused by electromagnetic "leakage" within the computer itself, and it shows up even on clean tones, specifically with Bias FX. For some reason, Amplitube is much quieter on my rig than Bias is. If all the noise it was making was the typical hum associated with guitar amps, I would have no problem with it, but the sounds it's currently making are rather invasive and distracting.
I could chalk it up to it maybe being a result of me needing to buy a better interface with better driver support, but the interface I have is no slouch. In terms of specs, it's right up there. All I know is that my dead-clean Bias FX presets shouldn't be "beep-booping" and hollering when there isn't even anything plugged into it. Unfortunately, this could be the result of me not paying enough attention to EM leakage when building my rig. My only concern was maximum performance with maximum storage and memory. I don't think the excessive monster of a graphics-card, or the over-clocks I'm running are helping things either, being that the GPU is probably the second largest source of EM leakage in my entire computer, behind the power supply itself of course. Maybe I should just build Faraday Cages around all of the EM "hot-spots" in my computer lol jk.
Here are some questions for you. I have some cheap guitars that are between 500 and $1,000, not the cheap cheap ones of course. My question is with all the digital modeling sometimes if the guitar has some decent pickups, I don't always need to change them out. I can throw an extra Overdrive pedal on it or EQ and almost sound the same. I understand that some pickups have more clarity. I find that Imports are getting better and better and sometimes all you really need is put on a set of locking tuners that would help tuning issues. Okay to the point I've had some PRS SE's that played really well. I have an American PRS 1997 CE. Now because people frown on somebody having Imports versus American guitars when you play in the band. I'm trying to go for a used PRS Custom 22. Yet sometimes I feel that I don't need to waste all that money. I agree that quality and play ability is important if you're doing some gigs. If you have good units like the Line 6 helix or ax8 or some of those other effect units, I think you can be able to use a lot of these lower quality inexpensive guitars. Keep in mind I'm not talkin about a couple hundred dollar guitars here, I'm talking about the 500 to a thousand maybe a little over a thousand dollars. What is your opinion on this?
Stay tuned... 😉
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hey Robert! what brand of strings are good and not falling out of tune on a floyd rose equipped guitar? base on my experience. I used dunlop heavy core 10’s but it’s always out of tune on low 6th string once i make those dive bombs and pull-ups a couple of times. Any recommendations and advice?
thanks!
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What's with your lighting? On a number of your videos the lighting goes up, and down. Is your camera's exposure set on auto? Trying to listen to your content I find the moving of your video lighting up, and down a bit distracting. I do like what you have to say. I don't write comments in the negative for the most part, but i've seen this this on a number of your videos. I'm not sure you are aware of this in your finished products. Thanks for your time in making these videos.
I’ve never been able to figure out what causes that. I’ve noticed it for awhile, as well, but it never really bothered me enough to stop and figure it out. My camera is not in auto mode, so I’m really not sure. Probably a camera setting somewhere. I’ll figure it out.
Just checking this video out after watching your "loudest amp" video. (just found your channel)
Your mic and vocal sounds fine. Who the fuck told you to get a pop filter?
I didn’t play out too much but many years ago in college, i was at a friends apartment party and he had a full band set up so so I grabbed the guitar and we started playing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Before we even finished that one song the cops got called and broke up the party. The cops did say we sounded good and I didn’t go to jail so I guess it was a win 😂 Not sure how the cops got there so fast either 🤷🏻♂️
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I tried to do the “ol guitar throw around the shoulder trick”. Y’all know what i talking about... throw the guitar in a circle and it stays on the strap, goes around your shoulders in a big arc and you continue your solo and all the panties drop. Well, i threw it up into the lights at the bar we were gigging and showered glass all over myself and the other guitar player... complete fail
Strap locks bro! NEVER try that trick without strap locks! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I did!!! The lights were kinda low.... the guitar never left the strap!
Digital sounds good, tubes feel good, too bad venues are getting too small for tubes. :(
I love my 1st gen Peavey vypyr. I do not like the digital effects tbh,the amp Sim I enjoy.
Hi RGD! 🍺
Can you do a video with your 6505 vs your Marshall?
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘
Let me think about that. That might be difficult to capture because the 6505+ is a combo and the Marshall is a head and 4x12 cab. Let me see if I can figure out how to go about that.
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If you cant do it, who will?
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘
How should I know? LOL
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You can do it!
It will be awesome!
On stage problem is ALWAYS a battery lol
Robert, I have been looking at the ID-Core practice amp to play around with BUT it would be just a novelty kind of thing. I'll stick with my Blues Junior and tube amps for life. Just bought a Vox tube amp and I'm not the biggest fan. It was my first Vox and will be my last. Nothing wrong with it, its just not me. There is no way that ANY IC circuit will ever sound like a tube. Close ? Maybe but never quite the same. I don't know how to explain it but there's something you feel while playing with tubes that you don't feel with IC's. I guess maybe that deep earthy grunt that you get from tubes as opposed to transistors / IC's.
Embarrassing one, whilst playing my charvel rip off guitar on the toilet (and did not have or know about strap locks), I went to wipe my arse and my guitar fell out of the strap, swung round and down hard headstock first and snapped my neck and head clean off. Lesson learnt now all my guitars have strap locks.......on the plus whilst having no guitar for three months I saved hard and bought my Kramer pacer which I still have now 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁. Another time I did a bit of roadie work and was paid in beer but never got to drink with sorting stuff out, the one night I decided to get drunk the guitarist had bought a new marshall stack and was playing well until his sound died, his new amp was on but no sound, I sobered up very quickly and sussed out that his lead was faulty, whilst he was playing I went through 3 of his leads then his mates leads 2 of till I found one that worked, he got ribbed for that 2500 amp and all his leads were crap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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RGD, In addition to my cover band, I sometimes fill in with a praise and worship group. due to recent church shootings I mounted a .357 to my guitar triggered by Bb. A new singer prefers the key of 'F'!!!! What am I to do?
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Digital Amps are cool playing at home.But when you take them to a gig,they sound like shit.
so. Dolly dropped two double A's?☺☺
I'm poor so the best sound I can get is tubes and I can't really see. Digital just isn't an option anyways. I don't have an amp over 20 watts any more
I think guys named Dean should only be allowed to play Dean guitars. I don't necessarily love the programming, but I do like hitting a button and everything is set - boost, delay, EQ changes. I also like having one thing, not a box with 12 things in it. Less stuff to break. Helix, and an HX stomp as a backup.
The Dean mentioned in this video actually plays a couple of really nice USA Charvel guitars. LOL
90% of the great acts use tube power live.
I don’t know man. That number seems to be decreasing quite a bit in recent years. Even John Mayer broke the internet a few months back because he was seen playing a blues festival with a Kemper.
Not in an arena show. But yes as the tech gets better it will be less and less.
As far as any large show all you need to do is look at the gear and theres a couple tube amps one for redundancy. You need the tube amps with cabs to push air. Overall its tube power.
Modeling depends on the PA in most cases and many clubs have questionable systems except the higher end venues.
John Mcglaughin was one of the few ive seen go straight into the board but he was using a mesa v twin and hes jazz.
None or at lest very few big metal or hard rock bands use Kempers or modeling exclusively in arena. Theres pretty much always a tube power source.
On the other hand Steve Howe and the extra Doobie Bro both use line 6 variac guits with a helix and they sound decent at lower volumes.
Could a person get by and sound great with modeling? Of course they could and have less problems. The overall sound is not as good but thats to my tastes.
Its not that the tech doesnt sound good. It just doesnt sound as good.
Would I use a Kemper or Axe? Heck ya but I would plug it into my Marshall power amp. Ive been using digital for 20 years. Im not a luddite purist .
Besides you already know I just say this crap to trigger solid state and digital apologists.
Metallica and Megadeth just all the Thrash Metal bands that sold out in the 90's all use Axe FX, Line 6 helix and Kemper Profilers now just all digital. Which is sad because I loved seeing Mesa/Boogie Mark II C+ heads powering Marshall cabs while playing Master Of Puppets.
Those live screw ups always affect ýou more than anyone else. A few years ago we were playing a gig, doing original material when our singer says to the crowd our lead guitarist Sean is now going to play a solo see you in 5 minutes! He didn't tell me or the rest of the band he was going to do it, so here I am having to improvise a 5 minute solo out if thin air! Got away with it but I damn nearly killed the singer afterwards. Lol
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Hang on ,,, iv played in elwood indiana that doesnt serve food only drinks ,,, dont remember the name of the place tho . Whats the chances its NOT the same place ? It a small freakin world or what ?
Was it a bar in an alley? If so, it was probably Backstage Bar.
To my ear - better modeling amps do a fine job of sounding like the amps they copy sound like on the radio or on recordings. That’s not what I want my gig amp to sound like, or more likely, to “feel like”, when I play it. Gimme some tubes. ‘Nuf……😉
You can get more efficient speakers
Hey Rob...there's a chance for me to buy a Peavey Valve King 100 watt head for 300 dollars...Its being sold on the net and don't have a chance to try it out....Have you played a valve king. and is that a good price?
Which version of the Valve King? That sounds about right for the newer version. By the way, who’s Rob?
Tone is very easy it all comes down to one thing and one thing only does it sound good to you. If you say yes then thats all that matters its a personal choice and we all like different tones. If everyone liked the same set up how shitty would guitar music be?...very shitty in my opinion. For myself, maybe some others, practice and skill is a lot more important right now in my guitar journey. So Robert if you know of an amp that will make me sound better tomorrow do video and I will buy one. lol
Be nice to be allowed to play gigs again
Was there a single first hand experience or piece of knowledge in this video? It sounded like you just watched a bunch of people on TH-cam and the regurgitated their thoughts on these questions. On a different point. Why do you like/love every single comment in the comment thread. It’s kinda weird.
Of course. I don’t do videos on topics I don’t have any experience with. I click the like or dislike button on most of the comments so that I can mark which ones I’ve read and haven’t read as I’m scrolling through them.
Well actually I guess you are a lot bigger as far as most analytics but i have 11.4k subs but much less views per video.
I feel like I can totally hear the difference between digital or not & that's always been the way to go. Tube amp & a bunch of pedals just sounds better.
Metallica makes a million bucks a night, use an axe effects. Can I like both?
You sure can. Matter of fact, both James and Kirk are now running Axe FX processors into Matrix power amps, and they’re selling out stadiums. LOL
I lost total interest in the Headrush immediately when it lanched because it says Eleven Rack on the side. Don't get me wrong the burnt rust 2U Avid ElevenRack was a solid piece of mid 2000s tech, but its just a stripped down host running a freaking 14 year old plug-in at the end of the day. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. I bet I could get better results at home with an Apollo and the plug-in running on my ROG laptop. I really despise inMusic and their brands, I hate lower case i letters to try and snag a bite off the Apple, the lower case i is such a fad. Its just a letter people. All that aside , its a giant mediocre gear mill whipping out products that are obsolete before you even get them in your hands. Call me a gear snob, but M-Audio, Akai (now), Alesis, Alto, etc are just not brands that I associate with high end gear. The Craigslist specials that start with a capital A and are assiciated with terrible home studios where quality takes a backseat to quantity.
Even if the Axe II and III are essentially doing a similar thing, A: Fractal hardware and signal path is audiophile grade and transformer isolated, especially at the conversion stages, B: Other than Cab Lab and Reverb, you can't get Fractal as a plug-in, C: Fractal is a very tight group of dedicated engineers working in New Hampshire and turning the industry on its head. They are going toe to toe with the titans of the industry and doing so without even selling their products in the retail space...which means they are much less constrained to cutting corners and can afford to continue to push the limits of the hardware where other brands would be on to the next thing. And lastly D: have you looked at their freaking artist lineup? Its a who's who of currently working guitar legends...and they ALL had to pay for it. Keep up the killer work fellas.
“That’s just the way I’ve always done it”. Spoken like a true close minded guitar player. How do you expect to ever learn anything new or discover a better way of doing things if this is your mindset. Bizarre.
Maybe because it works for me? I don’t see how this makes me a “close-minded guitar player” at all. I use plenty of digital gear, just not effects processors. I use virtual instruments and Pro Tools, IR’s, etc. for recording all the time.
I couldn't imagine playing in a jesus band, how is that fun? This is why guitar is dead.
Can't you keep those type of options to yourself???? Uncalled for dude! Be respectful!