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Dont like carrying stuff? your speaking my language! I've sold the heavy tube amp today so am officially on the SS hunt - the dummer has a fender champion that I can use until I alight on the right amp - I like the JC series - for the lineage - but they are HEAVY..... I am really thinking Katana.... not originally but effective....
Then it'll just be a pedal for the noisy bits
I had a digitech freqout and sold it on here - could never get it to behave predictably at gigs - though its more than likely that was done to me than the pedal - the fake feedback thing isnt essential anyway - just for those occasions in the breakdown and you want to get some feedback on the go before you all come back in....just me? I use a EHX freeze for that moment - get to the breakdown the freeze sustains a note over the continuing bass and drums and then I kills it with some delay.... anyway thanks for the input @SurfinSirFari - let me knwo where I can hear some stuff
Oh really - thats really interesting - thank you @monquixote - I appreciate the share.... I was leaning toward the Katana.... it seems like a solid base for a gigging amp - in that you can easily go in different directions as. required..... if you dont mind sharing why do you prefer the blues cube?
I am looking for that off beat skank........
I can't tell you about the Blues Cube specifically because I haven't owned one, but I have played lots of amps and didn't love the clean channel on the Katana for that bright clean sound.
I know that the Blues Cube is rated very highly by a number of people especially for its clean sound and it's a step up in quality from the Katana.
I have played various JCs which I think would do a better job.
Other amps include the Tech21 TM60 which I have owned and various Quilters I have tried which are excellent and light.
I have to confess to my biased and snobby view of those third wave American bands - I wrote them off without even listening to them - I thought they were too far toward American punky pop and not close enough to the heavy drum and bass I love.... I made that decision without really listening to the records - which is an unforgivable sin in music isnt it
Gain stacking was the way forward with the 120 for me. Generally I had a Tim as the last overdrive in the chain set for a lowish gain and used the EQ and boost for whatever I needed. Threw a Rat, Skreddy Screwdriver (the Lunar Module is something I wish I had then), the odd Muff-type fuzz. Done.
We've just put a live-in-the-studio type vid on FB though, look for Echo Den from Bristol.
Cheers!
Make sure you try a Katana in person before actually buying one - you’ll either find it perfectly acceptable, or want to kill it with fire when you hear its hideous grating fatiguing nastiness... hard to say .
I use a Peavey Transtube (red stripe) Studio Pro 112 fitted with an Eminence Li’l Texas. Sounds great clean, overdriven and with pedals, and it’s an easy one-hand carry.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
In a lot of ska/ reggae/ 2Tone bands you have two ( or more) guitarists so they often don't have to swap roles very much so just have a sound that they can use throughout; Aaron from Reel Big Fish is usually the sole guitarist and so is a pedal user so he seemed closer to the issue you are having.
Oh and The Interrupters who are still flying the ska punk flag in a very nice manner, nothing about pedals in this they just look like they'd be a fun band to be in...
The K100 is loud, very clean. He doesn't really explore the efx. It's fine for what he needs it for.
The BCA is more valve like - and takes drives/boosts well - but is not 'blackface clean' in stock form.
I'd like to try a Quilter. I read mixed reports about the volume available from the 101 etc, though
thank you @ICBM - I am going to try one in my local shop..... sounds a bit marmite.....
I am interested in a pedal that can give me some extra gain then some feedback too - the FB-2 would be ideal but seems rare now.... but the DF-2 seems more widely available.... quick question if you don't mind - I know these things very subjective - but Id be looking for a little extra gain and crunch rather than lots of distortion.....is the DF-2 more suited to the rock/metal end of the spectrum?
I was thinking the other day @EricTheWeary about some of the stuff you have put me onto - the Ghost of Marcus Garvey - and also I think Prince Fatty's stuff - which has been a deep treasure chest of glorious analogue goodness - through his work with Hollie Cook I got into a really incredible America roots group called the Lions who have an amazing drummer and recorded this excellent sounding sessions which I am sure youve heard -
I also think you put me onto Dr Alimantado's best dressed chicken in town - which has become one of my favourite MC/Toaster reggae records.... Its important I think to tip my hat and share the appreciation - hopefully you enjoy spreading the good word - but the interupters aren't for me - good drummer though....
are you playing at the moment?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein