No Toobs for you!

[SteveB]

just sold all my Tubes. They were sitting in a Mark IV, Subway Rocket, and Traynor YBA.

Played our last gig with POD XT/Live -> PA. Used one patch based on Soldano and controlled the amount of distortion with pickup selections and volume. Tastes great, less filling.

At least the Tech21 doesn't kill me carrying it around like the Mark IV/EVM 12-L combo.

Down to these:

[Disturber]

Are you happy with the POD live?

A friend uses his POD for everything.

When I saw his band live last week

I thought it sounded a bit unexciting.

I reckon a non guitarplayer would

not notice, but I really missed

a good tube tone. It sounds very

controlled and nice with the POD.

Then again Meshuggah uses POD´s

live and their sound is far from

nice and controlled, lol.

[SteveB]

POD works great for me, although I've never been a tube "purist" anyway. I like the more controllable and consistent results, and I also like the fact that I'm hearing the same thing the audience is hearing. I'm not the kind of player that relies on bloom or sag. It is nice to "push air" once in a while though, although then you get that fun effect that the sound is different depending on where you are in relation to the cab.

At some point though I might have to play around with the Randall MTS stuff.

[Lockbody]

It is nice to "push air" once in a while though...

You could always hook up to a pair of power speakers at that point ala JBL Eons or the Mackies.

[pesocaster]

Nothing saying you couldn't drive a tube power amp and a speaker cab with that.... I had great results with a combo of modeling and tubes.... If you get the tube itch again...

[SteveB]

It is nice to "push air" once in a while though...

You could always hook up to a pair of power speakers at that point ala JBL Eons or the Mackies.

Yup, gotta pair of Mackie SRM450's that work great for that.

[SteveB]

Nothing saying you couldn't drive a tube power amp and a speaker cab with that.... I had great results with a combo of modeling and tubes.... If you get the tube itch again...

Yeah, I like the look of this guy:

once I get settled into a house again I might have to give the MTS stuff a try.

[Tres Aardvarks]

hey, you left off the bit about the weird ass feedback cmoing from your guitar rig during soundcheck

BTW all, TG is now on his way to Houston. on the road again....

[straightblues]

Man I hate this trend. I went to a casino and watched a Rod Stewart cover band a few months ago. I was in the front row with my wife and we could carry on a full conversation because there was no stage volume. There wasn't one real amp on the stage. They were all using PODS into the PA. I could almost hear the guitar stings. I was afraid we were going to be told to keep it down.

Buy back your tube amps and crank those suckers up.

[darc]

Man I hate this trend. I went to a casino and watched a Rod Stewart cover band a few months ago. I was in the front row with my wife and we could carry on a full conversation because there was no stage volume. There wasn't one real amp on the stage. They were all using PODS into the PA. I could almost hear the guitar stings. I was afraid we were going to be told to keep it down.

It's not the modeling that's got the volume down. It's the increasing age in both the bands and the audiences. (Stewart a la South Park: "oops, pooped my pants again...") Neither want to deal with the migraines they get from loud music anymore. I agree it's pretty sad sometimes. I had a quiet conversation right through a Queensryche concert a couple of years ago. (You have to expect this at a casino where the music isn't the only agenda, though. Usually the stadiums are still plenty loud.)

Anyway there's nothing preventing anyone from running a POD or anything else into a bzillion watts and CRUSHING YOUR HEAD. Or turning down a tube amp for that matter.

My rig's all digital and I can still hear what I played at rehearsal last week. Meaning, it's still ringing in my ears.

[Brooks]

i love the sound of tubes, but have had MORE than my share of tube related gig disasters (last close call was sitting in w/ BBD in mocksville NC; while loading in, a preamp tube fell right outta the back of my carr rambler on the floor!! can't believe it didn't shatter. i told HHB "thats it!! i'm getting a TM60!!). i've had fenders and esp marshalls go south on me during gigs, ugghhhhh.

a few months ago, while mounting my mesa 22+ into a rack, i noticed that the pegs that secure the circut board & tube sockets were shot, and the whole assembly was free floating inside the amp! so, it's not leaving the studio anytime soon (good thing the original band only gigs 2-3 times a year). gonna try my crate powerblock out for our 1 hour set in charlotte NC june 3.

[darc]

I picked up my new amp a couple of weeks ago:

It also handles the string section, synthesizers, vocal FXs...

[hardheartedbill]

I'll admit I love tubes as well, but when the tube fell out of Brooks Rambler I laughed, cause I bought a TM60 the day after my Mesa went down on a gig ( it only happened once in 6 years of play ) the tube amps can make you want to fling out of the van sometimes, and I gigged for years w/ a SS rig in my hard rock days, people would shit when they saw my rig, but they shit when they saw Ty Tabors old Lab Series rig, you can make anything sound cool, playing really cool notes is the first step LOL. I do prefer analog SS to the modelers, find an old ART Power Plant and rock like crazy!

[HAMERMAN]

I picked up my new amp a couple of weeks ago:

It also handles the string section, synthesizers, vocal FXs... 

Always on the bleeding edge! :-)

[MCChris]

I picked up my new amp a couple of weeks ago:

It also handles the string section, synthesizers, vocal FXs...

Built-in hinges too!

[Ethan]

Brooks where are you guys playing on the 3rd?

[darc]

playing really cool notes is the first step LOL.

And the last.

Built-in hinges too!

Yes, plus I'm running a cool VST "Hinge Modeling" plugin. It's got everything: screen doors, can openers, it even models other laptops! I only wish I still had my original "hinged rig" I could record the impulse and pull it up on this one. More cowbell!

[hardheartedbill]

Brooks where are you guys playing on the 3rd?

yeah, maybe I'll scoot down the hill, day gig?

[sirDaniel]

Digitech GNX4 has been out on the town alot. With her friend the EV powered monitor. The Fender, Vox, Marshall and VAC have their place though.

[SteveB]

hey, you left off the bit about the weird ass feedback cmoing from your guitar rig during soundcheck

BTW all, TG is now on his way to Houston. on the road again....

yeah, figured out the problem with that later, of course. Sometimes the PODs have an issue with hot pickups... I should have cut down the gain on the patch I was using, or run into my valvulator to buffer it.

Now sitting in Hays KS, getting ready to go to Salinas and turn South. Got out of colorado way later than expected.

[hardheartedbill]

your moving to Texas w/o any tube amps? thats a bold move my friend!

[Tres Aardvarks]

find an old ART Power Plant and rock like crazy!

BLECH!!! TG had one of those for sale, our drummer swears by his in the studio but they do nada for me. ick.

Of course I couldn't get his damned modded bassman to give me a decent sound either. Good thing I'm not really a guitar player and I can make do with my Flextone..hee hee

[darc]

Good thing I'm not really a guitar player and I can make do with my Flextone..hee hee

The Flextone II is still my favorite amp. Uh-oh.

[silentman]

but have had MORE than my share of tube related gig disasters (last close call was sitting in w/ BBD in mocksville NC; while loading in, a preamp tube fell right outta the back of my carr rambler on the floor!! can't believe it didn't shatter. i told HHB "thats it!! i'm getting a TM60!!).

Reminds me of a time I was doing roadie duty along with some coworkers a few years back. GE Smith's band was playing at our annual convention and we were loading in. My friend was carrying GE's fender amp and placed it on top of someting else. Yep, it fell over and a tube came rolling out. GE calmly walked over and picked it up and didn't say a word. I probably would have flipped out, LOL.

[Brooks]

Brooks where are you guys playing on the 3rd?

park town shopping center,

fountian music series

(bobbymack just played there, and got me the gig;

bobs, where's this place? south of 77?)

fri june 2 is just me & dave acoustic 7-10pm;

sat june 3 is me & dave 7-9pm, then generic hustle 9-10pm

if y'all come down, be sure to say hi.

ps- note the difference in leg muscle tone between the dweebs who sit all day in cushy air conditioned academia, and the sweaty loser who hikes thru the woods all day, haw haw...