That pile of amps is so sick, even if you have feelings about heads that are wider than the cabinets they sit atop.

Nate Dort wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:56 pm

losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:46 pm ^ that Traynor looks so clean!

There was a whole saga about that one. Picked it up for $100 last year and spent a bunch of time cleaning it up: https://www.premierrockforum.com/viewto ... 26#p814026

My favorite part of that saga was when you bought a new name plate from a guy in Kazakhstan.

twelvepoint wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:03 pm That pile of amps is so sick, even if you have feelings about heads that are wider than the cabinets they sit atop.

Oh, I definitely have feelings about mushroom rigs, as I like to call them. Kinda barfed a little bit when I stepped back and looked at what hell I hath wrought.

Nate Dort wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:31 pm Trace Elliot V-Type Heads (V4 & V6):

I couldn't not take this photo. I wanted to put them all on top of my 8x10, but my basement ceiling is too low by an inch.

I can see why people really like these things. They're lighter than an SVT. They seem to be built pretty well. They can get grindy if you crank the gain. Less midrange-forward than an SVT. Kinda neutral, takes pedals well. Loud AF.

Great job, Nate! What’s the going price for those Trace Elliot amps?
I still have my SVT II, but it’s such a backbreaker!

bassdriver wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:59 am Great job, Nate! What’s the going price for those Trace Elliot amps?

Thanks!

There's not much reverb history on these. I've seen a few older listings on talkbass in the $1500 range, but I think that's really optimistic. I'll probably put them on reverb starting at $1300 and see what happens.

That’s great. I wish I would actually sell things

I've been wanting a nice acoustic for a while, so I picked up a Taylor Academy 10E yesterday. I chose it over some similarly priced Martin 000 models. The acoustic I did own, a Gretsch Jim Dandy, is fun to play on but won't turn any heads, tone wise.

Going into selecting, I was looking for the following in an acoustic:
- 00 or 000 sized model - I find dreadnoughts uncomfortable to play, and tend to sound more mellow than I like
- has a pickup or can be had for a deal good enough to not break my budget if I needed to get one installed
- at or under $1200
- doesn't look ugly

I compared it to some Martins (some more expensive than the Taylor, some cheaper) -- the 000's I played had a very beefy weird neck that I didn't jive with, and was about $300 more expensive. The Academy 10E is bright, percussive, dare I say chimey? There's a lot of nice little overtones that remind me a little bit of a 12 string a bit. The cutaway/carve thing at the top is a bit aesthetically weird but not bad, but it does make the guitar more comfortable to play. Can't wait to write a ton of songs on it.

My pic isn't great.

right on, those are the best utilitarian bang for buck guitars we make. People who buy them end up with them exactly how you did, just playing it in store vs. other stuff. That's my daily player, and it sounds great years later.

I like the color on that top

Pro Co Rat. I know. It's a Rat, but I never had one before. After playing with it, I thought, "What the fuck have I been doing my whole life?" I contemplated igniting my body in front of the local Bahai Temple, but came to my senses.

I recently bought a rat as well, I might’ve mentioned it here. I had the exact same reaction. How is this motherfucker so cheap? It’s perfect. It does exactly what I want it to do, doesn’t fuck around with other bullshit and you can either make it super trebly or super heavy and brutal with plenty of space in between those two. Works on single coils and hum-buckers, etc.

I bought a sunn life pedal version three, which is essentially a rat, a boost, and an octave, and I have slimmed my pedal board down now to the rat, the life pedal, a balls KWB distortion (h/t) and a delay, and that is pretty much everything I would need. Anything on top of that would be gravy.


I’ll change my mind tomorrow so beware.