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She's come such a long way from Cindy Lou Hoo...

We use an EV powered sub, not sure of the model number but it's 700 watts. Not hard to haul around, I handle it without a hand truck.

Until I make a decision I'm experimenting with a spare MXR Timmy as a clean boost in front of my EH Soul Food. Gain adjusted to zero, clipping switch set to the middle position to maximize headroom, volume set in various places to test results. It worked pretty well last weekend.

All I know is: The BB Preamp is sorta based on the Marshall Bluesbreaker The AC Boost is sorta based on the AC30 but not in a Rangemaster way The EP Boost is based on the Echoplex preamp circuit I have no idea what the RC and AH Boosts are I can't find any comprehensive comparison vids. I have found a few that compare two boosters max. I think my rig would benefit by putting an AC Boost V2 in the front end, but I'd like to know more about the others first.

I thought it meant Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

This is exactly why I have been using pedal preamps instead of modelers. A good tube based pedal preamp, plus different voiced overdrives, gives me everything I need. I will probably never find my 'ideal' setup but the Tubesteader Roy preamp (Vox AC30) plus the Kaluna Drive (Plexi) and a transparent OD (currently the EH Soul Food) does the job.

About 15 years ago I could have picked up one of these for $1250 but passed:

I've been using a Suhr Thornbucker in the bridge position of one of my Studio Customs for a couple of years. Great midrange and top end response. But one of the coils went open circuit on me recently. I reached out to Suhr and their price for rewinding services is $35 plus shipping. What a bargain!

Something I found curious about Warren Haynes's rig was that he didn't use his Soldano. Instead he used a white Marshall. It sounded a lot like his Soldano though.

I prefer Mule to JB because Mule is more of a band, whereas everyone on stage with JB is there to back him up. JB's keyboard player was very good, mind you, and he got a lot of solos, but at the end of the day it's JB's show. Whereas Mule sounds like more of a cohesive band. Here's each performers' set list from that night (sadly, Ron Holloway's solo was off by half a step, he's in pretty bad shape physically): Mule: Hammer and Nails (Staple Singers cover) Rocking Horse Wake Up Dead Banks of the Deep End Game Face > Mountain Jam > Game Face I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) (Howlin' Wolf cover, with Whip It tease) Painted Silver Light (with Josh Smith on guitar) Revolution Come, Revolution Go Key to the Highway (Charles Segar cover, with Joe Bonamassa on guitar) Soulshine (The Allman Brothers Band cover, with Ron Holloway on sax) Bonamassa: Breakthrough Trigger Finger Twenty‐Four Hour Blues (Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) Mainline Florida (Eric Clapton cover) I Fall Apart (Rory Gallagher cover) Drive by the Exit Sign If Heartaches Were Nickels (with Warren Haynes) Last Kiss Well, Well (Delaney & Bonnie cover) Stratus (Billy Cobham cover, with Warren Haynes) A Million Miles Away (Rory Gallagher cover)

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Very sad news. RIP Ed...

This is what I was going for when I got the Tubesteader gear. I wanted to essentially platoon a bunch of preamps on the pedalboard and feed everything into either a power amp or the effects return of a combo amp. I didn't want a modeler or profiler - there are plenty of great sounding pedal preamps now. Right now I'm getting by fine with the Tubesteader Roy with the Valbruch Kaluna Drive in front for plexi tones. I'd gladly audition the Royalist in the same setup, but I doubt at this point if I would need both the Roy and the Royalist. Maybe.

I suffered from inflammatory arthritis in the 90s. It stopped me from playing altogether for several years. Believe it or not, a round of poweful antibiotics eliminated it. I've been taking some of the newer injectible T-cell inhibitors for years, and it has enabled me to play more easily. I have permanent joint damage in my left index finger, which makes it nearly impossible to play open chords like C, so I have had to learn different fingerings and voicings. Osteoarthritis is a different animal. I know some people respond well to glucosamin and chondrointin. I would get it diagnosed.