Show Off Your Rigs: Rebirth

[Wesogkan]

Hummm...spray paint offers little protection for a 40+ year old cab. There's already a nasty chunk of wood missing in the corner that I'll have to fill in somehow before I recover it with anything. It's seen better days. 

[VOLVO)))]

Hummm...spray paint offers little protection for a 40+ year old cab. There's already a nasty chunk of wood missing in the corner that I'll have to fill in somehow before I recover it with anything. It's seen better days. 

Avoid spraypaint...

http://www.grizzlygrip.com/colors.asp

Quality. I use it on the cabs that I build.

[Hemisaurus]

Dammit, I didn't realise people took me seriously anymore 

Seriously though, I spent $50 on that amp, and $6 for a new pot and knob from Radioshack, wasn't really worth another $50 on tolex 

[Mike_Sims]

Hummm...spray paint offers little protection for a 40+ year old cab. There's already a nasty chunk of wood missing in the corner that I'll have to fill in somehow before I recover it with anything. It's seen better days. 

Avoid spraypaint...

http://www.grizzlygrip.com/colors.asp

Quality. I use it on the cabs that I build.

SEM paint works great too. It's like a rubber-based paint, it's flexible, never tears, fades, cracks, etc. Perfect for leather, tolex, etc. 

Then again, they're not paying me for that endorsement so fuck 'em.. go grizzly

[spookstrickland]

That looks cool, that's what I'm going to do to my new sunn cab.

Pfttt...It's not like I'm prying the Ampeg logo off and replacing it with a Green logo...I've just always dug the color.

That and green tolex isn't exclusive to Matamp/Electric..

http://www.kneel-amps.com/

How can a stoner resist when a cab needs recovering?

A $5 can of fluorescent green paint is a lot easier, looks better under stage lights too 

[eyeprod]

Here's what I've been using at home.

[Wesogkan]

Another member of the V4 club...we need t-shirts.

[peyotepeddler]

Here's what I've been using at home.

hey brother, weren't you rocking more cabs? i know it was just you and your drummer so you had this mini wall o' doom

[clockwork green]

Picked up some cool pedals a few weeks ago and they've made it through the honeymoon phase. The new TC Electronic Flashback delay and Hall of Fame reverb are amazing. The reverb does subtle, deep atmospherics, huge halls, dripping surf and a few unique settings I rarely get to use. It not only has these sounds but they're great sounding. The delay though is what really surprised me. The tape, modulated, 2290, analog and reverse delays sound so good. I wasn't very interested in the whole toneprint idea at first but there are some awesome toneprints for the Flashback. The dotted 8th note setting is a lot of fun and not just for ripping off the Edge. One sets the flashback apart from my carbon copy, DD-20 or malekko 616 is that the repeats just sound fuller and lively than most analog delays. It's also cool that these not only have stereo outs but stereo in's. Too many stereo pedals have mono inputs for some unknown reason.

[eyeprod]

yeah peyotepeddler, I have more cabs, but this is all I've been using at home.

[LogicalFrank]

Wish I could use my v4 at home. Even through a small cab, it's loud as fuck.

[Wesogkan]

That's what the VT-40 is for....oh wait, that's loud as fuck too.

[eyeprod]

it is loud as fuck. That little external master on top of the amp, and the fuzz pedal is how I make it work at home and on the stage.

[LogicalFrank]

How is the external master? Mine is actually a master volume unit. My other guitarist has a NMV one though... Both are guitar models. If anyone is curious, his sounds warmer and fuzzier and mine sounds clearer. Equally good for guitar but my master volume unit is definitely a more solid bass amp because it has more headroom.

[eyeprod]

the external master is handy. It works well to get a more saturated tone at bedroom levels, but it really shines when you can crank it up a bit. I turn the main volume on full, then barely turn on the master for playing at home. Live, I can turn the master up to about 12 oclock and the amp is very crunchy but still not much sustain. Amazing for classic rock tone.

To really overload it and get all fuzzy, you need a boost of some sort. Then it becomes fuzzier than my big muff, though it's still cool to use the fuzz sometimes for tonal flavor. I really dont use it that way very often, but it sounds killer

[Instant Dan]

The Burny easily weighs ten pounds, maybe a little more and has a fat neck (unusual for a Jap. LP) but I already love her. I'll get pictures up of the amps later this week.
The SG has a 57+ in the bridge and P94 in the neck. The Burny has a Burstbucker 1 in the neck and a Rio Grande BBQ in the bridge.

[Jake]

C'mon Dan. That's a cocktease. Such purty guitars and that picture looks like you took it with a calculator watch.

Bring them fiddles down to the nearest Walmart and shell out a few bucks for some proper studio pictures. I demand guitar porn!

[Instant Dan]

*In Paul Stanley voice* I said do you want pictures?!


The head is a rebuilt '82 JCM 800 2204 that was trashed. The guy before me put in (or his tech did) P2P wiring and Classictone transformers and  rehoused in a ridiculously large Marshall-style box.

The cabinet is a Mojotone licensed Avatar 4x12 with a mix of hellatone 30's and 60's. Sounds pretty good with the 2204.



Practice rig.



The Epiphone Valve Jr. had a Eminence Alpha 8 speaker put in it before me, a mod called the JP1 and Mullard's, sounds pretty good. Microcrush does it's job when I need to be very quiet.

I am in love with the Earthquaker Monarch OD.




From Left to Right: '37 Gibson L-50 Midnight Special, 2002 Gibson SG Gothic (57+,P94, brass nut), '87 Burny RLG-50 (Rio Grande BBQ, Burstbucker 1)

[Discö Rice]

Picking up this badboy later today. Will post pics.
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Trick-Drums-Big-Foot-Double-Pedal-104508890-i1398841.gc

Will swap out the stock beaters for these.
http://wembleydrumcentre.com/Catalogue/Drum-Centre/Drum-Accessories/Bass-Drum-Beaters/Danmar-JRRobinson-Square-Wooden-Bass-Drum-Beater-208

Fuck yes.

[eddiefive10]

jesus h christ thats a freaking expensive bass drum pedal 

[Discö Rice]

Yes. I've been working long hours, 7 days a week to buy my new drum gear. My new cymbals will also rule all. If I can scratch up enough, there may be a new GIANT fucking bass drum on the way as well.

[grimniggzy]

New pics may be in order for me soon.
I've got my feelers out on a 1973 Coliseum Bass head at the moment. :crosses fingers:
I need pictures of my whole solid state Sunn family regardless though.

[VOLVO)))]

I need a higher wattage bass head, the betas break up crazy early. Maybe I need two? Zig, sell me the Concert bass.

[Hemisaurus]

Just plug it into a power amp.

Think of it a 3000W Beta 

[grimniggzy]

In my experience the Betas get WAY louder than the Concerts. The wattages can be deceiving. If you're looking for more power I'd be looking @ the Coliseums. I'd say the 330 is probably the next step up.

You do have to turn up the drive on the Betas though, so I know what you mean about them breaking up early. I find though that my Beta Bass can be voiced to give off a lot more highs and playing dynamics with the right settings. You have to set one channel a little cleaner than the other and plug into the both channel.

I don't think I could sell either one of my CB's at the moment, one is in really good condition so I'd want to keep it and my other one is one I've had the longest & it goes back and forth to practice and mostly everywhere else. Especially anywhere I don't want to take my others.