Steelers Fans who are musicians thread

Rock and Lange make great sounding songs and albums... no doubt about it. To me.... Def Leppard's 1983 Pyromania sounds so much more raw and "real" to me... than 1987 Hysteria. Likewise with Master of Puppets over Black album and Load.

 

Mutt did both for Def Leppard but what happened in between albums played a ton into it.

'84 sucked for drummers

 

I can't really talk about Def Leppard because I haven't really listened to them since High N Dry. I wasn't a fan. I would be a telling lies if I said I hated all their music, because I like a few songs, but all in all the album High n dry was the last I bought.

 

I recently upgraded from a Line 6 POD HD500X to a Fractal Audio FM9 (footboard version of the Axe FX III). I'm really liking this new modeler, and can say it was worth the extra expense for the upgrade. Sounds better than the HD500X out of the box, and it has so many great features, and the layout options are pretty amazing.

 

Nice . I haven't had a good pedal board in a while.
Also, You need more tambourines. LoL

 

I need to move that tambourine. Everytime I play an E power chord, the cajon's snare wires vibrate, and it causes the tambourine to vibrate. It's pretty annoying when I'm creating presets on the FM9 to hear those vibrate, and I always forget to move the tambourine when I'm done working on patches, so there it sits.

 

LoL. Back in the day I would holler at our drummer for almost the same thing. His snare drum would vibrate so loud every time I tried tuning my guitar. I'd be like, put something on that dang thing. LoL

 

I'm glad somebody besides me likes Line6 gear. I think they are underrated, big time. I've owned the POD 2.0, Bass POD, POD X3, POD UX2 and Low Down 300 Pro Bass Amp. I still have the UX2 and LD Amp. I thought the POD 2.0 was the best thing since sliced bread in the early 00's. It was so easy to get good high gain and clean tones for recording on it. Likewise with the Bass POD. Very underrated devices for recording.

 

I never owned Line 6 anything, but my friend had a amp that the vibrations from the amp would turn the knobs on it. LoL. It would start getting louder, or quite, and it would start changing the treble, and bass up, and down. LoL.
He actually carried electric tape to tape them down.

 

I sold my Ampeg Portaflex bass stack... head, 2x10 and 1x15 cabs. I posted it on Reverb about 2 months ago... and a bass player from Shreveport, LA bought it! That's probably not far from you.

 

Here's my Line 6 bass amp I bought new, back in 2007. The knobs on this thing don't go anywhere unless you turn them... no electrical tape required. LOL

1x15 combo (with horn) 300 watts, loud enough for a 1 guitar band in a small venue... but it wouldn't be loud enough to hang with a drummer and 2 guitarists... especially rock or metal band.

I love the built in chorus effect. I can nail the "phaser-like" chorus tone on Tool's 46&2. It has 36 presets... most of which are unusable in a live setting, but there are 3-4 patches that sound good.

 

Isn't this what you meant?

 

heinz
you cut the thinnest shortest lines of anyone
NO HEAD ROOM /LONG STRAW

 

Interesting. I don't know why amp manufacturers didn't pursue an amp like this for amp modelers...bass and guitar. No pre amp and full tube power amp makes a lot of sense. I gigged with a Bass Pod and Fender Keyboard 1x15 combo amp for about a year...and received a lot of compliments on my tone. The keyboard amp is similar to your power amp since it's like a mini PA instead of a traditional amp with pre amp at input. No coloration of modeling device tone!

 

I've always liked Peavey. Just guitar, cord, amp. I haven't gigged in a very long time and don't ever plan to again, but I'll probably never get rid of that little combo amp.

 

I used to have a Peavy Vypyr II, and that thing sounded great. It was a modeler combo with about 8 amps being modeled, but for a modeler, the amps it modeled really did sound like tube amps. Just gave it to my brother a couple of months ago because it was just taking up space since I switched to using floor amp/effect modelers.

 

I played through Peavey guitar amp combos in the late 80's and early 90's. Good sounding amps for solid state. I could actually get decent lead guitar tones out of the Peavey combo... that didn't sound like an angry swarm of mosquitos.

 

I've played in Shreveport. I don't live so close now, but I did for a very long time, and I still got many friends around that way.

 

Hey that's what my buddy had that's amp would vibrate, and the knobs would change. Was a Lime 6 Spider something. Like I said I never had any so , I don't know about them besides what he had, and he needed electrical tape for some of the knobs. LoL

 

I've always like a solid state sound.

 

Dimebag Darrell/Pantera are some of the most badass guitar tones ever. Brutal as hell.

Solid State is an acquired taste... like IPA beer.

 

Blah. LoL
I like solid state, and I like tube amps, but gigging, I've had way more problems with tube amps than solid state. I try going with whatever gives me the least amount of problems.
It's the whole reason I switched from Guitars with a tremolo systems to no Tremolo systems. If I was rich, and a huge well known musician it would be no problems because I would have Guitars techs with me, but I'm not, and I need to be able to do everything on my own in a quick way.

 

Yeah, I hear ya.... tremolos are a pain in the ass...and it doesn't matter how nice the guitar is. That's why I like playing my Hamer with fixed bridge more than my Fender and Carvin with trems.