Amp Modeller Smackdown

Roland

There's plenty of people interested. What about potential dates. Earlier rather than later because the gigging season restarts in September

EricTheWeary

Can I park on your drive when I go to rehearsals? 

Gulliver said:

I'm watching this - I have nothing worth contributing (Mesa Express Combo anyone??)   but JJM is walking distance from home!!

professorben

digitalscream said:

I have an almost-zero chance of attending, given my track record, but on the offchance that I do...I could bring a Kraken and a Digitech GSP1101. The Digitech's high-gain models are mostly balls, but the 5150 model is actually pretty damn good if anyone has one for comparison.

I could drive and bring the 11r for a giggle as I'm my sale fell through. 

fretmeister

Is one person going to bring a Helix or will there be many?

I'm just wondering about uploading our favourite presets to the L6 site so they could be loaded on 1 machine.

Sporky

I don't see the harm in bringing more than one - we all set them up differently with different stuff in loops and suchlike.

fretmeister

Good point. Half of mine are bass related.

John_A

professorben said:

digitalscream said:

I have an almost-zero chance of attending, given my track record, but on the offchance that I do...I could bring a Kraken and a Digitech GSP1101. The Digitech's high-gain models are mostly balls, but the 5150 model is actually pretty damn good if anyone has one for comparison.

I could drive and bring the 11r for a giggle as I'm my sale fell through. 

If your eleven rack pisses on my Helix I'll be most miffed

TimmyO

summary so far: as long as it's near your house, and at a convenient time (no clues as to what that might be), and someone else organises it, folks could be up for it, but not enough to formally commit? ;-) 

Sporky

That's about it.

I will up the ante. If it is no further away than Swindon (see what I did there), at a weekend and there is cake I will be there.

fretmeister

Sporky said:

That's about it.

I will up the ante. If it is no further away than Swindon (see what I did there), at a weekend and there is cake I will be there.

That seems to be a good approach.

Seconded.

Sporky

I might even make biscuits for the occasion. I'm pretty good at biscuits.

professorben

John_A said:

professorben said:

digitalscream said:

I have an almost-zero chance of attending, given my track record, but on the offchance that I do...I could bring a Kraken and a Digitech GSP1101. The Digitech's high-gain models are mostly balls, but the 5150 model is actually pretty damn good if anyone has one for comparison.

I could drive and bring the 11r for a giggle as I'm my sale fell through. 

If your eleven rack pisses on my Helix I'll be most miffed

Seeing as a few of the design guys were involved in both it would be interesting to see/hear the lineage. 
What I really would like to try is the 11r Amps and fx through the Hrlix and Fractal IR.....

professorben

Sporky said:

I might even make biscuits for the occasion. I'm pretty good at biscuits.

I can make burritos. 

Sporky

professorben said:

Sporky said:

I might even make biscuits for the occasion. I'm pretty good at biscuits.

I can make burritos. 

This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

fretmeister

Do I bring my bass rig or a BBQ?

Sporky

Yes.

Both.

professorben

I'm christening my 11r David
and he shall whoop thine asses. 
( prob not, but wouldn't you just love it if the 11r sounded better than a Fractal or Helix??!!) 

fretmeister

professorben said:

I'm christening my 11r David
and he shall whoop thine asses. 
( prob not, but wouldn't you just love it if the 11r sounded better than a Fractal or Helix??!!) 

Can you make it sound like Cliff Burton shagging She-Hulk in a metal dustbin?

Roland

fretmeister said:

Sporky said:

That's about it.

I will up the ante. If it is no further away than Swindon (see what I did there), at a weekend and there is cake I will be there.

That seems to be a good approach.

Seconded.

There will be cake and biscuits. Mrs Roland likes baking them. 

I'm happy to drive an hour or so from Nottingham, which means anywhere on a line from Wolverhampton to Milton Keynes. @Sporky, @TimmyO, does that come anywhere near your territories, or am I going to have to be more accommodating?

equalsql

If anyone's got any classic amps, it might be worth bringing them too perhaps?
It would be interesting to have a digital vs true-amp shoot out.

I'm thinking here of amps like Princetons, Fender Bassmans etc..

Just a thought