Well last night my girlfriend and I were in town...I picked her up from her dorm at SWT, so we went and I decided I wanted to see if they had a prophesy in..THEY DID! You'd think that if you had a piece of rack gear for about 1400 bucks, you'd want to display it..but it was kinda 'forgotten' in the back stock room..lol. The guy checked on the inventory computer and found one, so he offered to go track it down and attempt to hook it up so i could try it out.
He took it into the tryout room and I told him to try hooking it up to a mesa 20:20 power amp. Well, I only tried it out for awhile..but it sounded great! I was honestly amazed at the tones. Now, I'll have to try it out again, because the 3120 i tried it out on had strings that were all corroded, SOO...pick squeals were kinda weak. I'll take my 3120 with fresh strings on it. I just realize that some processor type preamps dont pick up things like that the way a good
tube head does, so I want to make sure it was just the corroded and almost rusty strings. Of course I just tested the presets, and I realize that's not the best way to judge a piece of gear...but without first knowing how to run it to make my own patches it made due. I still say my favorite features are the pre, post and global parametric eq's. You could make a patch based on either mega drive or the british(which has some great lead tones going in it...) and set up the post eq's in say, a legacy's eq frequency settings and although it wont sound exactly like a legacy..hey..it wouldnt hurt for a certain vibe. All in all I'm definately interested...the effects were great by the way. I just need to read the instruction book to figure it out more...it wasnt TOO hard though from the looks of it. And live tweaking is pretty easy with the front knobs. What's really cool..is I found a GC employee who's pretty cool. He told me no one ever comes in interested in the prophesy so any time I want I can come in and he'll hook it up so I can try it out some more.
