To A. Jasper
Yesterday, I had to watch my favourite band in my ipod player. My favourite band is
"X Japan" I watched it and play guitar too I'm excited about this band want to refrom that's up and going and pleased with the new layout. I update the journal with a good news about this so I invite my band to join with me like the past. They accept my idea but I had a problem with my guitar and my ampliflier. I see a 1972 Sunn Solarus (60W head, KT88/6550s by default, matches my 4x10") going on eBay with a starting bid of 36200 baht , nobody's bidding on it, and the poster writes "I turn it on and the tubes light up, but no sound comes out, sold 'as is'". My dad's a geek with a soldering iron, so I figure if its easy enough to fix, I'll just turn him loose on it. I ask the guy when it was last in working condition, he tells me "The previous owners said it worked when they had it. Could it be because I don't have any speakers hooked up to it?" I laugh and just don't say anything. I win it for $217 which is less than half of what its worth. So my maybe-broken ampliflier comes today. I throw it on my Sunn 4x10" and all the dimensions are perfect. Its adorable really. Turn it on, hit power, everything lights up, hit standby, I put the tubes out, and ask myself "What idiot put mismatched 6L6s in an amp designed for KT88s and sometimes friendly to EL34s?!" I didn't have any KT88/6550s on hand, but I had 2 pairs of EL34s and figured it was worth a shot. I get it running. Where's the sound? Oh, the reverb knob is controlling the volume, okay. So what controls the reverb? I wind up finding that the only 2 knobs doing anything are the volume and reverb knobs, and up all the way, I can sing over the bugger. I hit the midboost switch and it goes from practice amp quiet to "HELLO 4 BLOCK RADIUS HOW ARE YOU?!" My guess, some smart ass tried to turn the reverb knob into a master volume knob and fucked up. But since it can output loudly like that, the guts of the thing seem to be fine. I can't drag this beast around for a couple months while I recover from surgery anyway, so its worth the few hundred I saved to just repair it. Hopefully it'll wake up and go "Feed me a Super Reverb!"Has kind of a cool tone with the EL34s at its unusual low volume though. Sounds like later Earth. I checked out the sound samples and liked what I heard, but wanted some opinions from players. I think EHX makes the best stomp boxes around, but I was never particularly a fan of the Big Muff, loses too many frequencies for my taste, if I were playing stoner rock it'd be great though. This pedal is supposed to be kind of like a Marshall plexi in a box (has a pair of preamp tubes sticking out the top of it), my Traynor YCV50Blue is already designed to be more like a modernized-classic Marshall before you hit the booster, and I'm kind of curious of what it would be like to use a british style preamp/overdrive pedal with an already british sounding amp. Double 70s? The rock sound I've been developing with my new project has been sounding like an early 90s band trying to be a 70s one, so this might fit me perfect. If any of you own this or have tried it at a music store or something, I'd like opinions, especially on how it interacts with an amp that's already distorting. I don't think anybody in my area deals in EHX, I just know that being a Memory Man owner, they generally rule.
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