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Rimbaud III wrote:Tommy Alpha keeps banging on about his. He swears that they were the work of Henry Kelly.

Yes, bizarrely he's absolutely correct. The full story is here. Apparently his constant valve bias-related practical jokes were one of the original inspirations for GFAL.

Also, see that thread up there, or down there about Magnatones?

Checkity check this.

Nice!

Sorry about the link. I was too excited about finding something useful on ebay for a change. Is fixed now.

That Magnatone! that's beautiful. I have no idea what it would sound like... but yikes. I want it.

I wish I hadn't seen it now. Please put some kind of "Not Safe For People With Weak Will Power" warning.

good old Holmes, chiming in to talk nonsensical trash with nothing to back it up. lovely!

I like the Laneys I've got. I used to have a couple VC30's, which are good for a cleaner-into-sorta-dirty sound that responds well to pick intensity. Now I've got three of the AOR series amps; a 50-watter and two of the PT30MV which I absolutely love. Great for dirtier, more gainy distorted sounds. The thing to be careful of with the AORs is to make sure and get a single-channel 6-knob one. They're basically like a souped-up JCM800/JMP-Master-Volume amp. I prefer the PT30MV to any other dirty amp I've played so far, including real Marshalls, and the 30W aspect makes it easy to get a good combination of preamp and power amp distortion at reasonable but still loud rock volumes.

if anybody's interested in hearing the 50W AOR amp, check out the two new songs on the Chrome Robes MySpace page linked in my signature. The guitar and baritone (one or the other used on each of the two songs) are run through a YBA-1A for the bass and treble presence and the 50W AOR for the distortion. The sound you hear is a mix of the two, but the Traynor isn't producing any distortion so it's pretty easy to tell what the AOR sounds like.

I didn't have the 30W version at the time of tracking, but if I did I woulda used it. They both sound great to my ears though.


:edit: just fyi, the bass is panned a little left (YBA-3) and the guitar or baritone is panned a little right.

B_M_L wrote:Sorry about the link. I was too excited about finding something useful on ebay for a change. Is fixed now.

Christ. I just clicked on it now. That's one sexy looking amp. I need to try one out now.

I like that the winning bid was by someone named 'tonepleb'.

Please people. Holmes is right.

Laney = SHIT. Not worth anything. Nope. Nothing...

I have owned so many other, shittier amps than the 30 watt Laney head I once owned in the early 90s. It wasn't that bad. Nice crunch, quiet. I sold it and bought a Marshall Valvestate 100 head. Now that thing was god awful.

VOX AC30 - Must Go! $600 - $600

I'm not in the market at the moment, but...AC30, $600. Damn...

Peavey T-45 on Chicago CL, $425.

yard barf wrote:I can't see the pictures very well at all on my shitty phone.At home on my computer I'm pretty sure this is a cheap Asian Rogers kit. The kick drum spurs are weird, so is the tom mount, and the lugs don't look like beavertails, although there isn't a close up photo of them to confirm. Floor tom leg mounts look weird. Also, the inside of the drums are a natural wood, which was only used in the XP8s and the cheap Asian drums. And it's a paler colored than the rock maple XP8s so I highly doubt these are XP8s. I'm not even sure it's a Rogers kit at all.

An entire GK stack with 400RB, rack case and power strip for 450, local pickup in Illinois. Otherwise it would already be mine.https://reverb.com/item/20270644-gallien-krueger-400rb