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My free time has been overtaken by a newborn so the last few months I have not really played guitar or even been online at all.

I got a few hours alone this weekend and built a reamping box for a friend so I threw a mic down and ran some Lundgren M6 DI's through it.

On this is the yeti I built recently and the mkiic+ i'm getting as much time in with these amps as I possibly can as i'll be letting them go in the near future.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9807181/Recordings/Lundgren%20DI%20Yeti%20%26%20MKIIC%2B.mp3

It should be fairly obvious which amp is panned left or right but lets see how people guess.

As an extra note I am now a BKP user once more having got a Jackson DK2M with Holy divers in a trade with Brow. If I ever get time to play guitar properly i'll throw up some clips. :D
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Welcome back Tony and congrats on the newborn! Daughter or son?  :smiley:
Track sounds absolutely massive, tight riffing!

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Welcome back Tony and congrats on the newborn! Daughter or son?  :smiley:
Track sounds absolutely massive, tight riffing!

He's a little boy. Four months old now.

Thanks for the welcome and feedback.
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Yeah, congrats on the kid. Track definitely sounds good. :)
So if these are heading out the door, what's on it's way in?

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Yeah, congrats on the kid. Track definitely sounds good. :)
So if these are heading out the door, what's on it's way in?

THanks and unfortunately it looks like a modeller or VSTs & headphones at this point!
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Yeah, hate to say it, really do... But I'm playing more now with Bias Desktop than anything else due to volume/space limitations. Using a real overdrive pedal helps. Nebula Free with some dynamic cab programs in place of the Bias stock stuff has also been a good addition. It doesn't upset me too much until I try to record something, then I wish I could just fire up something real without police knocking again.

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Yeah, hate to say it, really do... But I'm playing more now with Bias Desktop than anything else due to volume/space limitations. Using a real overdrive pedal helps. Nebula Free with some dynamic cab programs in place of the Bias stock stuff has also been a good addition. It doesn't upset me too much until I try to record something, then I wish I could just fire up something real without police knocking again.

It's an unfortunate situation but I play so little nowadays that I should be able to cope.

I guess you have tried the usual attenuator setup in your situation. Those modular pres you were working on years would be a treat right now I guess!
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Oh, that'd be an OK way to get a signal in and I've done it. I did build up that ENGLish one. It's somewhere in my boxes of things. It's still not a proper signal chain and leaves me wanting on some level. There's also some weird grounding issues in the house I'm in right now. I can't seem to shake it no matter what I do or plug into. ground lifts, filter capacitor banks, turn off every appliance in the house except for an amp... nothing. It's this intermittent spike in the 2K range with about a 24db slope either side. Annoying to say the least. It's not so noticeable if all the gain is digital. But, boomy room and wall shared with the neighbors kind of trumps everything else. I kinda put those little mini boards to rest. I do still have some trannies for some kind of KT88 build, but can't really decide what to pull the trigger on/busy with life. There's no time like the present. Except later. Later's good, too. ;)

Sucks those projects are leaving though. I knew you were especially proud of the Mesa build. Hope they fetch a good price and land in good environments like they should.

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Oh, that'd be an OK way to get a signal in and I've done it. I did build up that ENGLish one. It's somewhere in my boxes of things. It's still not a proper signal chain and leaves me wanting on some level. There's also some weird grounding issues in the house I'm in right now. I can't seem to shake it no matter what I do or plug into. ground lifts, filter capacitor banks, turn off every appliance in the house except for an amp... nothing. It's this intermittent spike in the 2K range with about a 24db slope either side. Annoying to say the least. It's not so noticeable if all the gain is digital. But, boomy room and wall shared with the neighbors kind of trumps everything else. I kinda put those little mini boards to rest. I do still have some trannies for some kind of KT88 build, but can't really decide what to pull the trigger on/busy with life. There's no time like the present. Except later. Later's good, too. ;)

Sucks those projects are leaving though. I knew you were especially proud of the Mesa build. Hope they fetch a good price and land in good environments like they should.

The MK2 was a trial! Annoyingly that is the one that I would like to keep hold of the most as it's the hardest and most expensive to build again especially now that adube has vanished off the face of the earth with loads of peoples money. It's also the one that people seem the most interested in.

I may hold onto it and figure out how to add a second gain 1 control that switches in when the channel changes so that the clean channel is actually usable if you dial in a good lead sound.

The missus has spent the last week trying to talk me out of selling things so I don't currently know whats going on.

That sucks about your power issues. As for the KT88 trannies I highly recommend the Ceriatone Yeti or similar jose ish circuit with them it sounds phenomenal. Obviously this doesn't factor into your noise/space situation as it goes against them both directly.
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Didn't you open up a NAD thread about the Laney IRT-Studio once on the forum? What happened to that thing? I recall it's quite well suited for reasonable home practice sound levels  :smiley:

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Re: I've been away for a while have a listen to what my amps have been doing :D
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2015, 06:32:01 AM »
Didn't you open up a NAD thread about the Laney IRT-Studio once on the forum? What happened to that thing? I recall it's quite well suited for reasonable home practice sound levels  :smiley:

I did have one and it was alright until I tried to record with it and realised it had massive amounts of lag.  I then pulled out the mk2 and realised I could get better tones at lower volumes with that than I could the laney.
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Re: I've been away for a while have a listen to what my amps have been doing :D
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2015, 01:07:05 PM »
That sucks, I was tinkering with the idea of getting one of those for home recording. What exactly do you mean by lag? Recording latency? All the descriptions of the IRT suggest that you shouldn't have any, but then again ads are ads.

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Re: I've been away for a while have a listen to what my amps have been doing :D
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2015, 04:13:23 PM »
That sucks, I was tinkering with the idea of getting one of those for home recording. What exactly do you mean by lag? Recording latency? All the descriptions of the IRT suggest that you shouldn't have any, but then again ads are ads.

yes latency. I'd say there was about a second and a half it was pretty much unusable.

The drivers are just a generic samsung microphone driver with two channels (gain & DI)

If you didn't monitor through your pc and could set up multiple soundcards it wouldn't be an issue but it was just a lot of faffing when I had a simpler, quieter and better means of doing it.

Whilst not my favourite tones it sounded fairly decent just not something I would normally go for.

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Re: I've been away for a while have a listen to what my amps have been doing :D
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2015, 08:41:48 AM »
Well I guess then I'll just get myself a Focusrite interface and do my recording the old school way. If the Laney has latency problems out the window goes the reason I wanted the thing in the first place, despite the fact that it obviously has some nice sounds one can dial in...  :undecided: