My four-channel Carvin Legacy - with a little help from the

[bduersch]

I've been rocking pretty hard with my Legacy (thanks to Kirk) as a backup amp for a few months now. Killer clean and solo tones, but the amp just seemed way too limiting (2 channels seems really limiting when your other amp's a Johnson Millennium).

Tonight, while browsing round the local Music-go-Round I found a used Mesa V-Twin. "Looks cool as hell," I thought, "but how does it sound?" Played it for all of 5 minutes before I knew I'd be taking this bad boy home.

Right now I've got the guitar running into the V-Twin and the V-Twin running into the Legacy, although I might experiment with putting the V-Twin into the Legacy's effects loop. I've got the gain on the V-Twin set to about 75% with very little EQ (relying upon the Legacy's EQ). Now I've got 4 channels:

1 Clean (Legacy channel 1, V-Twin bypass)
2 Bluesy (Legacy channel 1, V-Twin blues channel)
3 Crunchy rhythm (Legacy channel 1, V-Twin lead channel)
4 Solo (Legacy channel 2, V-Twin bypass)

I'm also experimenting with other combinations, such as combining the Legacy solo channel with the V-Twin's distorted channels. I also haven't really done anything with the V-Twin's clean channel yet. May be overkill, but there may be some cool sounds in there!

Anyway, if you've got an amp sitting around that you dig the tone of but need more variations, the V-Twin's a pretty good way to go.

Any other V-Twin users out there?

--B

[ripl3y]

I did have a V-Twin a while back.
Second hand like yours and picked it up real cheap, but I couldn't quite get to grips with it.
It came across a little too nasel for me, but to be truthfull I didn't spend much time fiddling with it and I couldn't really crank things loud as I was in a flat at the time.

Glad you like it though.

Cheers
Steve

[7 Dying Trees]

I had one for years, and it was absolutely fantastic as far as I am concerned. I used in my effects unit loop to provide me with all my distortion, as it just simply had that "growl", and the effects board ones seemed lame in comparison....

I got mine second hand originally, and I kind of regret selling mine a few weeks back, but I needed to... It's managed to take an obscene amount of punishment over the years through gigging, and it still looks pretty new!

An excellent piece of kit, have fun with it!

[bob oakman]

I added my old Marshall and another cab to my rig. My intensions were to switch between the two channels on my Legacy and between the Legacy and the Marshall, giving me 3 distinctly different tones. It didn’t quite work that way. The two amps working together at the same time sounded so good that I can’t stop using it that way.

I guess I’m going to have to shop for another amp to add to the growing pile-o-tone.

Just got a POD too, thanks Ryan. I may have to use some clean/semi-clean settings from that. Perhaps the POD, a power amp and another cab will be the third piece to the puzzle.

[Vaibanez]

Bob,
I'm sure you're using 4X12 cabs for your rigs. If you go with a power amp for your POD clean tones, try a $x10 cab. They tend to be very clear when used for clean tones.

I'm using a Marshall 4x10 cab in my rig now and love it.

J>

[Josh Blagg]

Sounds like Bob is experiencing the awesome phenomenon of real multi-amp chorus. *I have played some setups like that a few times and it is hard to go back to just one amp. *I hear that TC Electronic chorus pedal is pretty convincing though.