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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #60 on: January 08, 2011, 07:16:23 PM »
I have a GH50L and I really think it's strong suit is solos. It's riffing voice is great, especially if you like throwing pinch harmonics around as they have a great quality to them. I really feel l have to suggest a 5150/6505 here. It seems that everyone looks at them as lesser or overused, but when you look at the track record as a whole, they stand tall. They just sound like metal guitar to me no matter how they're equalized and mixed.

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #61 on: January 08, 2011, 09:26:59 PM »
Threadmancy!

My love-hate relationship woith my powrball has gone to just loving it for the things I love it for and not *having* to put up with what I dont like about it since I got my utterly pwnsome pittbull CL, and JVM410h.

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #62 on: January 09, 2011, 05:25:07 PM »
Pics or it didn't happen.  :D

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #63 on: January 09, 2011, 05:30:07 PM »
Its like a bloody reflex action, isnt it

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #64 on: January 09, 2011, 05:38:17 PM »
I really want to try a VHT. now that i have no multi channel amps i have a hankering for one. Maybe I should build one. probably shouldn't.
The VHT/Fryette front panel is a bit odd looking for my taste but I like some of the features. I saw a reversed engineered schem a while ago and it looked very interesting. I'd like to play one. Just don't see them around.

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« Reply #65 on: January 09, 2011, 05:59:50 PM »
I highly recommend it! This amp kinda came out of left field for me; after lews relentless plugging, he was willing to go for a part-ex with a couple of my guitars that dropped the actual cost for me to 'may as well' levels. Its not *perfect* but its easily the best amp I've played through.

It is however less of a 2 channel amp and more of a 2 x 1 channel amp. The green and red channels are quite similar - greens a bit middier , not quite as aggressive, not quite as bassy, but both go from clean to really savagely aggressive (but without much saturation, which it turns out I gelled with intsantly - they're very, very dry but they do actually have unholy amounts of gain; it hovers round 6-7 for me on the red channel).

It gave me the throaty, thick barking mid sound that I wanted from the start of this thread with barely a touch of a dial (though it is extreme tweakable, within  its 2-nearly-the-same-channel boundary conditions and basic voicing; the graphic EQ is a godsend). Total opposite of the powerballs sound; ultra saturated and compressed high gain with tonnes of low end and sizzly top end Vs ultra dry, uncompress high gain with much smoother highs, but similar levels of bass on tap.

A mate of mine in the room as I tested it for the first time descrbed thusly:

"Its like its got a lion inside it, and the guitar is connected to its balls, and every time you play a note, it shocks the lions balls and the lion roars"

Thats basically exactly what a pittbull CL sounds like. That or a building falling over, melodically.

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #66 on: January 10, 2011, 12:37:30 AM »


"Its like its got a lion inside it, and the guitar is connected to its balls, and every time you play a note, it shocks the lions balls and the lion roars"

Thats basically exactly what a pittbull CL sounds like. That or a building falling over, melodically.

You gotta make sure your Lion balls are biased correctly. Good score, sir. I guess you're not as thrilled with the Marshall, then?

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #67 on: January 10, 2011, 02:58:14 AM »
Marsnall does make some sick amps  :mrgreen:

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« Reply #68 on: January 10, 2011, 03:21:29 AM »
Marshall does make sick amps, but they all get out-marshalled by brands such as Splawn, Bogner, and from what I've heard Wizard and Cameron also out-marshall marshalls but I have not played those two amps.
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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #69 on: January 10, 2011, 02:28:15 PM »
is that a new slsmg on the left? Or have you always had it?

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« Reply #70 on: January 10, 2011, 05:12:57 PM »
Marsnall does make some sick amps  :mrgreen:

Very droll. The same mate that made the lion in the amp description wondered "Are marsnall a new make?"

I do like the marshall, its a good amp, the best I've heard from marshall in a long time, but I didnt really get it for me, and its not entirely my thing as it turns out. I got it to use on records for other people, to have that sort of tone avaialble.

I wasnt born with the SLSMG, dave :lol: /daftness.

I got that maybe 8 months ago.

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« Reply #71 on: January 10, 2011, 09:13:43 PM »
hehe :D Just thought I hadn't noticed you had it before, nice score. I picked up a dkmgt recently for cheap, nice guitar, not so keen on the neck-joint though :lol: But for just over £300 (new), and considering I didn't have anything with EMGs, I wasn't going to turn it down :D The SLSMG headstock is a lot nicer, too.

Did you take the volume pot out of yours? Or is it just the camera playing tricks?

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« Reply #72 on: January 10, 2011, 09:25:50 PM »
I'm not familiar with the dkmgt. I guess from jackson naming trends and you post that its a dinky with emgs?

I take out the tone and move the volume to the tone location on any guitar where the location of the vol is too close to the strings and bridge; it interferes with my picking hand.

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« Reply #73 on: January 11, 2011, 05:57:07 PM »
oh ok. I like the volume close, it never really annoys me (not saying you're wrong, I realise it's preference).

Yeah a dkmgt is basically a hardtail japanese dinky with EMGs. Has the same inlays as yours, but the pointy reversed jackson headstock (and bolt-on maple neck and alder body). :) I wouldn't have wanted to pay full price for one (over £500 last time I checked), but for just over £300, I couldn't resist.

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Re: My love-hate relationship with my powerball - new amp stuff, maybe
« Reply #74 on: January 12, 2011, 02:05:22 PM »
Yeah I had the same thing with the SLSMG. I got it second hand (with blackouts) for 300 because the neck had cracked (and been well repaired) just behind the nut. It was still a very good guitar, couldnt say no.