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episode 141: Ep. 141 - The Worst of Both Words: Vibrating My Butt With Very Very Much Loudness
- Crash! (stab:805)
- Sold the amp! HX Stomp! Wahoo! (stab: Apocalypse Fuzz on bass)
- Righteous Tele! (stab: Wombtone)
- Demo features all three pickups on a 50W Plexi
- Reverb to be acquired by Etsy! (stab: KHDK Abyss)
- Kemper Profiler Stage (stab: Longamp Time Machine)
- Full blown Kemper Profiler in a floorboard format
- Kemper head/rack require a foot switcher to change sounds, recall settings, etc
THIS is a Kemper amp WITH the switching fully integrated in pedalboard form - 5 buttons for 5 rigs per performance, 4 stomp box style effects buttons are individually assignable, 4 expression pedal inputs, 2 stereo effects loops
- 2 XLR outs, USB, MIDI, S/PDIF
- $1700
- Reverend Manta Ray 390 (stab: Jackson Prism)
- It’s the Manta Ray but with 3 P90 pickups!
- Features the bass contour passive bass roll-off.
- Korina body, 3 piece korina neck
- African Blackwood or Ebony fretboard w/ 12” radius
- Treble bleed, locking tuners, dual acting truss rod
- Pedal Genie
- Boss MD-500 $350
- Neunaber Immerse $250
- Righteous Ryan! Electronic Audio Experiments (stab: OE Revival Drive)
- DIRT PEDALS! But this stuff stands out
- Model FET https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/nad-sunn-model-t.1885737/
- Based on the Sunn Model T preamp
- Controls for bass, mid, treble, matser, normal, and brite (sic)
- Designed to have pedals stacked into it, much like the old Model T amps
- Sounds big, wooly, kinda fuzzy, but also crisp and clear.
- Longsword
- Op-amp based drive with a huge range of distortion
- low/hi sets the James/Baxandal tone stack
- Shift toggle selects the frequency that the Mid knob controls
- Lots of EQ controls… like Metal Zone level of control. (this is NOT a metal zone, but it’s got a TON of EQ control like the MZ)
- Interview with John Snyder up on the website!
- VERY detailed interview with lots of insight on his design process, gear he uses, and upcoming projects.
- Dunlop Tortex White Jazz III picks (stab: Sea Foam)