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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 07:27:59 PM

Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 07:27:59 PM: I've held off posting anything about this until I had the chance to take pictures.
My new amp:

(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh76/Nollythegreat/Guitar%20stuff/IMG_0723.jpg)

:twisted:
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: noodleplugerine on January 12, 2008, 07:45:05 PM: What an amp.
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: hunter on January 12, 2008, 07:48:13 PM: TEH BROOTALTS
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: sambo on January 12, 2008, 07:57:17 PM: Quote from: hunter
TEH BROOTALTS

+1!!11!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111178
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: opprobrium_9 on January 12, 2008, 07:58:31 PM: Love this forum
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 08:08:27 PM: Cheers guys.

I must say, I'm absolutely floored by this amp every time I fire it up.

At bedroom levels the crunch channel sounds thin and fizzy, but as it becomes uncomfortably loud the fizziness starts to disappear and you're left with the most amazing, thick, clear metal rhythm tone you can imagine.
The lead channel makes things adds some sag and makes for a much more fluid sound. So much sustain is on offer and keep finding myself widdling away for minutes on end when I switch to this channel.
The cleans are incredible, really huge and deep, then spanky and Fendery with bright switch on. You can even get very decent AC/DC style tones with the gain turned up on this channel.

I'm going to get the interior/exterior LEDs changed to blue as soon as Framus get back to me with the specs of the current ones.

I can't wait to take this thing into band practise. Our backline now has a Powerball, an Invader 100 and a Cobra in it. :twisted:
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Stevepage on January 12, 2008, 08:15:07 PM: wooooo. Never had the chance to play with one of them but I've heard good things. I've only ever heard Biomechanical use them live and liked the tone (except their lead tone is all through floor board processors :? ).

What guitars are you running it with?
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 08:17:44 PM: My main gigging guitar is an Ibanez PGM with a custom set of BK Nailbombs:

(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh76/Nollythegreat/Guitar%20stuff/PGM.jpg)

I'll also be getting a Blackmachine B6 once Doug gets round to building it.
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: sambo on January 12, 2008, 08:22:18 PM: Sweeeet. Blackmachine and Framus Cobra. :twisted:
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 08:23:40 PM: A Blackmachine with BKs I'll add. (C-Pig and Cold Sweat) :twisted:
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: sambo on January 12, 2008, 08:27:30 PM: My God. I'd like to see the look on your face when you strike the first chord of that setup....

And your neighbour's too.
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Jonny on January 12, 2008, 08:33:12 PM: Quote from: sambo
My God. I'd like to see the look on your face when you strike the first chord of that setup....

And your neighbour's too.

And other people in a 3 mile radius.
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 08:33:59 PM: I've actually already had a run-in with the neighbours! I was trying to make a video to put up on youtube quite late last night...

Thankfully my neighbours on the other side are guitar players so they didn't mind!

If you're interested, you can see the clip in question on my youtube channel in my sig. The camera mic had a hard time keeping up with the Cobra's pwnage though.
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: dave_mc on January 12, 2008, 09:10:45 PM: sweet!

i need to get to try some framus stuff, their guitars look quite nice too, and some of the models at least appear to be decent value. never even seen a framus, let alone tried one.

i blame a shop here which has a dealership, but only seems to stock the warwick bass stuff- probably stopping other shops from getting a dealership.

:evil:
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: noodleplugerine on January 12, 2008, 09:33:29 PM: Quote from: Nolly
I've actually already had a run-in with the neighbours! I was trying to make a video to put up on youtube quite late last night...

Thankfully my neighbours on the other side are guitar players so they didn't mind!

If you're interested, you can see the clip in question on my youtube channel in my sig. The camera mic had a hard time keeping up with the Cobra's pwnage though.

Your neighbours are guitarists?!

YOU LUCKY bar-steward!
Title: Belated new gear day
Post by: Nolly on January 12, 2008, 09:48:55 PM: Quote from: dave_mc
i need to get to try some framus stuff, their guitars look quite nice too, and some of the models at least appear to be decent value. never even seen a framus, let alone tried one.

Much as I hate to do it, neither had I, it was a completely blind purchase. I would never normally drop that kind of money without hearing what I'm getting, but I got it for a price I couldn't refuse. I figured if I really didn't like it I could sell it on eBay and make at least my money back.

Quote from: Noodleplugerine
Your neighbours are guitarists?!

YOU LUCKY bar-steward!

It's only a recent development, but certainly a good one as far as I'm concerned! My neighbour's son has just got into playing guitar, and so the father is giving it another go having played a bit in the late 70s/80s. I'm teaching them both together and it's really quite a good laugh.