W.L.Weller wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:57 am Maybe I'm too DIY-pilled, but couldn't you just screw/glue/double-sided-tape the power amp into the bottom of your existing cabinet, and add power & input connections?

Mount a Furman SP20AB inside a cab or on the back. These actually fit under a lot of pedaltrain style pedal boards too actually. Mine sounds fine.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 8:54 am

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 6:29 am

cakes wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:42 pm I kinda hate lugging around my tiny ass pedalboard amp

I don't even know what to say to this.

You know, they have acoustic guitars now - no amp required!

But many of the acoustics have amps in them - there's no escape

I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:53 pm I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.

Awe yeah, and while you're at it, why bother lugging your shit to a venue. Just play on YouTube!

cakes wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:16 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:53 pm I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.

Awe yeah, and while you're at it, why bother lugging your shit to a venue. Just play on YouTube!

I can't wait until the trend is so retro that bands go back to when they didn't exist

ChudFusk wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:59 pm

cakes wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:16 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:53 pm I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.

Awe yeah, and while you're at it, why bother lugging your shit to a venue. Just play on YouTube!

I can't wait until the trend is so retro that bands go back to when they didn't exist

I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much else

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:09 am I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much else

Fender Blues Jr.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:09 am I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much else

reissues of amps from the 60s

I will say with a pretty high degree of certainty that anything with a DSP chip in it is probably going to the scrap pile within 20 years. I'm starting to see way more broken DSP amps on the used market now than I have seen in 15+ years of buying and flipping amps. Seems like they only last 10 years or so before you start seeing broken solder joints or faulty NVM circuits that render them useless.

Moog Subsequent 25

I bought it at a 30% discount since it was being discontinued - cheap enough to not be turned off by the piles of negative comments by internet people who had admittedly never touched the thing.

I spent the first 10 minutes scrolling through the EDM presets and then never touched them again. I like it a lot. Its a little dirty but it feels like it can do a lot within its own parameters. It responds well to guitar pedals and I’ve been using a Uni-vibe for Leslie ramping sounds. I tend to dial out a lot of the brassiness and dirt out of it, but most of the sound lives on the second half of the filter. I can scroll around the octaves easy enough to not mind the short keyboard but I’m no player. The monophony doesn’t bother me since you can be creative with delay or kind of dial in harmonies with the filter, but again I can’t play anyways.

Went back and forth trying it through a di and an Ampeg V2 and 1x15 with EV 15L both thru an Audioscapr Pultec line amp w/o eq and much preferred it with the amp, even when mic’d up. It was just a mono signal but sounded like it was gliding around inside the stereo image right off.

Biggest drawbacks to me are that:
It sounds like a synth
Its tough to correctly set your levels for big swells when you’re recording yourself.

Neither being much of a problem. Maybe this synth is a gateway drug but based on the sounds I tend to prefer I think what I really want is an organ with drawbars, since I’ve been dialing in a lot of swirling garage-like organ leads like you’d hear on a Monks or Mummies record. I really want to line up some organic whistling sound somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Rafael Toral (not so much X-Files), hence my early q about a ribbon controller I’d still like to get sorted out.