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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #30 on: April 01, 2012, 07:57:32 AM »
Yeah the modded samples i heard sounded great! i phoned a Randall Bristol dealer and they unfortunately told me that no more modular Randall heads are entering the Uk-theyve been pulled because it never really took off over here :-( seems i may have to look elsewhere or wait for a new Randall modular product,etc to actually try one.

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #31 on: April 01, 2012, 08:41:10 AM »
Yeah the modded samples i heard sounded great! i phoned a Randall Bristol dealer and they unfortunately told me that no more modular Randall heads are entering the Uk-theyve been pulled because it never really took off over here :-( seems i may have to look elsewhere or wait for a new Randall modular product,etc to actually try one.

Unfortunately I think Randall is phaseing out the modular line because they haven't sold enough of the stuff. So it might be hard to come by a dealer with an amp you can try out. I think Egnater plan to do at least one last update on the modular series with their highly awaited E2 preamp that let you run two modules through the loop of any amp so you can incorporate the moduls into any rig.
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #32 on: April 01, 2012, 09:02:48 AM »
Ah ok fair enough, but Egnater stuff seems even harder to find-think i may have to look at the head route again. Cheers guys

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #33 on: April 01, 2012, 11:12:25 AM »
Mor in york had one of the big diezels in second hand, couple of other big metal amps too (not sure models, not my kinda amp but may be worth a look) web site is arse
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #34 on: April 01, 2012, 12:52:00 PM »
Yeah the modded samples i heard sounded great! i phoned a Randall Bristol dealer and they unfortunately told me that no more modular Randall heads are entering the Uk-theyve been pulled because it never really took off over here :-( seems i may have to look elsewhere or wait for a new Randall modular product,etc to actually try one.

Randall had a 10 year license from Egnater to use his design which has now expired so there won't be any new Randall stuff.
Because it was a little pricy it didn't catch on , but those who saw it's potential have really enjoyed it.
Randall had a little bit of QC issue here and there but generally been pretty good

Some shops have done crazy clearance sales  once the line got discontinued like this shop in Edinburgh:
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #35 on: April 01, 2012, 02:50:21 PM »
Yeah the modded samples i heard sounded great! i phoned a Randall Bristol dealer and they unfortunately told me that no more modular Randall heads are entering the Uk-theyve been pulled because it never really took off over here :-( seems i may have to look elsewhere or wait for a new Randall modular product,etc to actually try one.

Unfortunately I think Randall is phaseing out the modular line because they haven't sold enough of the stuff. So it might be hard to come by a dealer with an amp you can try out. I think Egnater plan to do at least one last update on the modular series with their highly awaited E2 preamp that let you run two modules through the loop of any amp so you can incorporate the moduls into any rig.

I wish egnater would hurry up with this. I mean, for example look at this situation. trying to find a 3 channel head... when with this fella all you need is a single channel with a loop and you can extended that to 3 channels and two of them would be modular. I think thats cool. shame none of my amps have FX loops. ha.

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #36 on: April 01, 2012, 09:47:12 PM »
+1 on the Diezel and +1 on the Randall MTS route.

I owned a Diezel Einstein and it was great. And I do own an RM22 now with a modded Super V and a Stock The Judge. It's only 18W but this little head with a few pedals can give you anything. Love the MTS stuff.
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #37 on: April 02, 2012, 12:26:00 PM »
Thanks guys-id love a Diezel but with the price and lack of availability to try them out i think i may have to look elsewhere. Just wondered - has anyone got experience with the Peavey JSX head? has good reviews and on paper sounds like what im looking for. Its a discontinued model i believe. Will be trying one out in practice tonight.

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #38 on: April 02, 2012, 12:39:00 PM »
Thanks guys-id love a Diezel but with the price and lack of availability to try them out i think i may have to look elsewhere. Just wondered - has anyone got experience with the Peavey JSX head? has good reviews and on paper sounds like what im looking for. Its a discontinued model i believe. Will be trying one out in practice tonight.

It's great value for money, but too fizzy for me. I'd also look closely at the EVH 5150 III (or its 50W mini brother)
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #39 on: April 02, 2012, 01:03:22 PM »
I'd also look closely at the EVH 5150 III (or its 50W mini brother)

I suggested the same amp earlier. I think the OP said he needed more gain that what was available on the Blue/Crunch channel.

The Red channel can get really driven though, so I still think it's a good option  :lol:
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #40 on: April 02, 2012, 01:47:50 PM »
Marshall JVM should do what you want and is fairly readily available on Ebay. Four channels should cover what you want. I looked at it closely myself but in the end went for the H&K Switchblade instead and I have no regrets. Endless possibilities in a very compact format and some great tones in there, though I agree that with this sort of amp, you're never going to like everything. I find I use the clean channel quite a bit, the crunch channel sparingly, the lead channel a lot and the ultra channel very little. The thing is, there's so much variety in it that there's something for most people and in a covers band it's perfect. I was overly concerned at first by purists saying it wasn't a 'real' valve amp as the channels were 'voiced' similar to other famous amps but eventually I concluded that if it has valves in the preamp, valves in the power amp, behaves like a valve amp and most importantly, sounds like a valve amp, then it probably is a valve amp. Of course, these aren't so readily available used but I'd certainly look at a Marshall JVM as it has loads of variety, will do everything you want, you can get them second hand and there's a lot of respected guitarists ranging from Joe Satriani to Synyster Gates using them so it can't be that bad. If they'd done a 4 channel 50w combo I'd have had one for sure.
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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #41 on: April 02, 2012, 05:27:46 PM »
Thanks again guys-yeah the EVH 5150 III looks great btw so yeah i'll see if i can try one out. And thanks for the Marshall suggestion-dunno theres something about Marshalls that doesnt seem to grab me... maybe i should give that particular amp a chance. Will be at practice soon and will report back on the JSX. Thanks for the help

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #42 on: April 03, 2012, 05:08:16 PM »
Well, I tried the JSX yesterday and i enjoyed playing with it. It died half way through the practice though (it was pretty battered to be fair) but what i enjoyed the most was the resonance control-it added an incredible punch to the chest without getting muddy. So i think that whichever amp i buy next will have to have a similar option. The crunch channel was great with my Maxon chucked in front and the lead channel seemed decent also though as i said earlier, it died almost as we started to go through the songs. It was much noisier and hotter than my mesa but again i know mesa's are renowned for running quite cold. So first impressions were good but would need to play through it further.

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #43 on: April 04, 2012, 03:27:23 AM »
Koch Supernova, 5 channels, midi switching
It's spec is amazing. I've not played one but if it sounds anything like my Powertone II it will be right up there.

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Re: Amp suggestions? 3 channel, separate eq-great Rhythm and Lead
« Reply #44 on: April 06, 2012, 08:30:11 PM »
Well had a great time this afternoon playing through a load of amps-worked my way through Peavey 6505, Peavey 6534, Peavey JSX, Peavey 3120 and Blackstar S1 104-EL34.
The one head that impressed me the most was the Peavey 3120-nice  clean sound that i suspect would take effects really well-incredible rhythm channel and good lead channel. The rhythm channel was just what im after punchiness wise-has a very responsive eq and has clarity and authority...killed the blackstar in so many ways. Anyways-i may be getting this as my new head.