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gare

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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #105 on: March 08, 2006, 11:22:34 AM »
I recently saw some friends playing, guitarist was using a cyber deluxe. They were doing Genesis, Yes, King Crimsom, Tull. He was nailing the tones from those bands.  
 
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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #106 on: March 08, 2006, 01:25:52 PM »
I have a Vox Valvetronix that sounds pretty good (not as good as my Mesa) and has a lot of nice models (Fender, Dumble, Soldano, Mesa, Vox) and effects. Since I picked up the Lonestar I don't really use the Vox anymore. If anyone is interested in a decent little modeling amp, make me an offer.
 
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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #107 on: March 09, 2006, 06:10:06 PM »
Once had a Line 6 Vetta II and it was god awful. for such an expensive amp, it wasnt worth the gum underneath a desk. It was cool in the fact that it was midi capable and had 128 channels,you can set a million different ways, but talk about no tone. thats when i bought my mesa thats less than half the price and more than 100 times the tone, not to mention 10 times less power and seemed to have more presence, cut, and out and out balls. Immagine a 4x10 35 watt class a tube amp, against a 300 watt half stack, and the smaller winning, its kind of sad. if its too good to be true, it probably is, unless of course your using an ALEMBIC!

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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #108 on: March 12, 2006, 10:05:52 AM »
 
 
Came in friday afternoon, and i played a gig with it last night. theres not a bad tone in the thing! I could easily say that i have heard nothing as good as this amp be it live or recorded. Its super loud but has a level controll on the back that does an awsome job. its pretty amasing what this beast can do. You can turn the bass and mids all the way down and crank the treble and flip the bright switch, max the presence and it still dosnt sound bad. its amasing. i dont think i will buy another amp for a long while, this thing does it all, the only other is either another TR or a Dumble, or a Trainwreck/Komet. Nothing else comes close. just utterly amasing. Im still waiting for the cab, but my 4x10s sound better than ever, and super loud! Soon to have 5 Telefunkens or RCA's in the preamp, and some Philips JAN NOS 6L6WGB's in the Poweramp. Im considering lowering the gain in the preamp and putting 12AU7's instead of 12AX7's. This amp goes from pure blackface to hyper funk clean, to stringy SRV, to Robben and Carlton, to all and out Heavy METAL! its amasing ive never seen such a chameleon. It is THE AMP!

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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #109 on: March 12, 2006, 04:48:59 PM »
So I guess you like it then?  
 
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Re: Alembic Guitarists... What amp are you playing through?
« Reply #110 on: March 13, 2006, 06:01:25 AM »
Congrats, Pat! That's a real sweet piece. You're getting a TR cab? What driver config? What are you using for now (i.e., 4x10's)?
 
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