Turbo Nutter Gear Overhaul!

PerpetualBurn · #1 10-30-2003, 10:56 AM

Well firstly got rid of my old amp, and now, in all its majesty, the MESA boogie Roadking stands high atop my recto cab.. its a BEAST of an amp. crazy stuff, im loving it!!

and as for the guitars, well, i sold ALL my ibanez guitars, tastes have changed, and im going for a thicker darker sound, so now its gibsons, jacksons and im also paying installments on an 8 string 36fret Conklin (recently seen on **** i think) that should compliment my new amp nicely, all in all, im overwhelmed by the amp, and the new conklin is going to be put to good use in my next recording project, in which i hope to cover all kinda of world styles, mixed with a shreddy vibe, and industrial techno grooves, clips will be posted pretty soon for all you critics out there!

lastly i sold ALL my pedals and effect racks, replaced all the racks with an eventide Eclipse, couldnt be more pleased, replaced all my pedals with a simple gain only setup from robert keely, the DS1 utra mod, the MT2-TW and the keely compressor. im also using a boss super shifter pedal that ive modified instead of the old red whammy digitech i used to have.

So, having shifted a good 2 dozen pedal units, 5 odd rack units, and amp head, 3 jems, a universe, and all sorts of other crap, im now left with what so far, is my ultimate tonal setup. Guitar, 4 pedals on the ground, amp, 1 rack in the 2 seperate switchable FX-loops (it has 2 inpupts, 2 outputs and can do 2 completely different patches at the same time both in stereo! *genius*) And its basically made me believe that a few well chosen decent items is the best setup i could ever want.

so yeah, im a happy man, and, im done expressing how happy i am. lol, oh and, my advice is: try a roadking, its great

NickFlyMan · #2 10-30-2003, 12:58 PM

Thats good that you like the roadking. I tried one out and wasn't able to find any sounds I like. How do you have your channels set up? And btw, thats a really nice rig

-Nick

PerpetualBurn · #3 10-30-2003, 01:09 PM

Well ive always been into MESA kinda sounds, and a tried a Roadking out and it was giving me (with a little tweaking) all the different sounds from my favorite MESA amps, and obscene gain if you want it, so i just feel right at home with it. ive got channel one on sparkly clean (much nicer clean channel than my previous amps) channel 2 emulating a heartbreaker, and channels 3/4 on varying levels of extreme gain, with all progressive linkage in use on 3/4, so lotsa glowing valves in the back on those channels, lol. effects sends got my delays from the eventide on loop 1, and my personal trade mark staggered pitch shifter (like Ballerina style) on loop 2, both smoothly slip on and off silently, and the individul reverb on all four channels is a real nice bonus, i used to have a real clumsy pedal board, and now i can controll prety much everything from the roadking foot controller, reverb, 2 effects loops, channels, solo/volume boost, external triggers, its great.

Harry_D · #4 10-31-2003, 02:14 AM

We want pictures

Cheers,
LordHar.

Jammy · #5 10-31-2003, 03:02 AM

Yeah cummon llexi...give us some photos

why dont you throw in one of your 42" plasma TV aswell *not jelous, honest*

LOL
-better shred than dead-ANDY

darren wilson · #6 10-31-2003, 07:53 AM

Sounds like a great rig! The Eventide Eclipse looks like an awesome unit. The CompactFlash slot for patch storage is pure genius! Much easier than hooking it up via MIDI and doing a SysEx dump.

About 10 years ago, i wanted to build a rig around an Ensoniq DP-4+, which was a stunning-sounding processor (for its time) that actually had FOUR DSPs in it, which could all be set up to operate in series or parallel through its FOUR inputs and FOUR outputs. So you could have two discreet 2-in/2-out stereo signal paths. Or a mono signal running through all four processors. Or one stereo signal plus two mono. You get the idea.

Sadly, by the time i had the money to buy one, the DP-4 was discontinued.

I'd still like to pick a used one up for studio use. It's still commanding an unusually high price on the used market, despite its relatively low fidelity for a digital unit, and its complete lack of digital I/O.

Have fun with your new rig! The Road King is a monster of an amp from what i've read. Just reading the specs alone boggle the mind!

The_Grindfiend · #7 10-31-2003, 01:52 PM

I went to Guitar Center a while ago, and was playing the Mark IV. The guy was standing next to me (of course) talking to me, asking me questions, and he asked what kind of amp I had. I told him I had a Dual Rec, and I told him about how I liked it, but it wasn't everything that I was looking for, and that I thought the Mark IV was. Almost immediately after this, he tries to steer me toward the Road King. A great amp, to be sure, but it pissed me off since I had just told him that I was selling my Recto because I wasn't happy with it, and here he is trying to get me to buy another Recto. I know that he would absolutely love to get the commission off of a $2500 amp, but it'd be nice if they'd at least pretend to care about helping you.

PerpetualBurn · #8 10-31-2003, 05:14 PM

well, the road king isnt really a recto... its Called the Dual Rectofier Roadking cause it starts off the same as a dual recto, but with its progressive linkage valve system, you can actually re arrange the circuits and valves used inside it to almost literally create other models, not just emulate them. tones from the Mk IV, heartbreaker, solo recto, dual recto, etc etc, are all accessible through this thing, probably why if you liked your Dual recto, but were looking for sounds from the MKIV, the guy showed you the roadking... i dunno, its a killer amp eitherway, certainally not part of the standard recto family!!! as for photos... i will get round to taking some at some point, maybe even do a full pan shot with the 42inch TV just for you jammy :P

Artist · #9 10-31-2003, 07:01 PM

Everytime Rob does the regular "New gear masturbation" session it makes me cry :P

Drew · #10 11-01-2003, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Grindfiend

I went to Guitar Center a while ago, and was playing the Mark IV. The guy was standing next to me (of course) talking to me, asking me questions, and he asked what kind of amp I had. I told him I had a Dual Rec, and I told him about how I liked it, but it wasn't everything that I was looking for, and that I thought the Mark IV was. Almost immediately after this, he tries to steer me toward the Road King. A great amp, to be sure, but it pissed me off since I had just told him that I was selling my Recto because I wasn't happy with it, and here he is trying to get me to buy another Recto. I know that he would absolutely love to get the commission off of a $2500 amp, but it'd be nice if they'd at least pretend to care about helping you.

Well, there's a LOT of variety in the Rectifier range... Ask Dylan 7620 if his Dual Rectifier Blue Angel sounds anything like a Dual Rectifier Solo head. Myself, i only got to screw around with the Dual Recto Maverick head very breifly, but it was a totaly different beast from the Single Recto 50 Solo head it was sitting on top of in the used shop i saw it in... Even just the footswitchable power-tube options (!!!) alone ought to make it sound radically different from any other rectifier out there. Or at least any other single rectifier out there.

Just food for thought...

-D