Does an amp make sense for what I'm describing?

GuitarBilly74 said:
It's true. You can do that. Confirmed by Howard Kaplan himself (the amp designer).
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I'd go ahead and not do that, since this is in the owner's manual. Unless you mean in standby, with just the preamp sound out.

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JiveTurkey said:
Headphone jack disables the speaker taps. I've ran it that way for long periods of time a bunch of times.
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Then we should all be specific then, lest someone blow up their head.
GuitarBilly74 said:
From the designer:

EVH 5150 III 50W Part II

For anyone interested, Farmers Branch GC has one, in the Dallas, TX area. Jammed on it tonight. Plenty of gain. Big volume jump on first/second channel, at all volumes. Fun amp.
www.thegearpage.net
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"Yeah so hey EVH Gear, Howard said so. Yeah he did, on The Gear Page. What's that? Oh it's a web forum. What, it's not in your manual, so it's not covered under warranty?"

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I'm just saying that while it's true he, the amp designer confirmed it, I wouldn't do something like that unless it was in the manual.
 
paisleywookiee said:
Then we should all be specific then, lest someone blow up their head.

"Yeah so hey EVH Gear, Howard said so. Yeah he did, on The Gear Page. What's that? Oh it's a web forum. What, it's not in your manual, so it's not covered under warranty?"
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Is this about Foggy? :hmm
 
paisleywookiee said:
Probably because no one said it was awful. But if you're saying it's awful, I'll take your word for it, as I've not played your cab.
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There seemed to be quite a few comments about V30's and the Orange cab. I never thought mine fit these diescriptions until I read this thread, and am now on the lookout for bad tones from my 1x12's. 3 of my 4 1x12 speakers are V30's - 2 voiced for the Black Cat.
 
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Aelred said:
There seemed to be quite a few comments about V30's and the Orange cab. I never thought mine fit these diescriptions until I read this thread, and am now on the lookout for bad tones from my 1x12's. 3 of my 4 1x12 speakers are V30's - 2 voiced for the Black Cat.
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V30’s sounds great. They just have to be paired with the right amp, like any speaker.
 
paisleywookiee said:
V30’s sounds great. They just have to be paired with the right amp, like any speaker.
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The issue seemed to be with the Orange Rocker 15 - I have the Terror, as well as a Dark - and the Orange cab.

Is that a bad match? I bought the Ortange cab to go with the Orange Terrors.
 
Aelred said:
Just stating facts in my quirky way. I really didn't know my 1x12 was awful etc.

YMMV :idk
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The fact is that you love your 1x12. That's awesome. I bet I would also think you had great tone through it. If you had started a thread saying "I love my tone" and mentioned you were using a V30 loaded 1x12, the fact is I would not have replied to that thread with "surely not!!! A V30 objectively sounds bad. It's a fact!" Indeed, I personally tend to find that I sound thin and not great when playing Vox AC-style amps. yet...I love early U2 tones; Brad Paisley tones; and John Scofield tones when they play through them.

The thing that makes. this forum great is that a lot of us have been following each other, chatting with each other, and in this case even LISTENING to each other's playing for about a decade (for some even more?). I have heard a loooooot of great sounding clips that Jarick has made over the years. He gets great tone that is really smooth and quite balanced. When he posts about having trouble with tone and says he finds it to be bright and a little thin and not as warm as he'd like, despite knowing that plenty of people get great sound out of V30-loaded 1x12 cabs, it makes sense to let him know that my own personal experience using those cabs is that...they would not be the first I would choose for chasing the tones I've heard him post over the years and that my own experience is that they tend towards thin/bright in the context that he was using them.

Cheers. I'm TRULY glad that you love your cabs and likely get great tone out of them.
 
Well, now I think I might be fooling myself/justifying my purchases since I didn't know better. The difference between my Marshall 1912 and the Black Cat V30 is noticable in stereo with my Engl AE50, which is somewhat adjusted by my having the Black Cat Combo running in stereo at the same time.

So I need to discern if I need to upgrade my 1x12's or what have you. I was somewhat surprised at this, so expressed that.

I'm just chasing tones for tube amps at low volume, and learning things that occasionally alarm, not always in a way that I want. If you have any better suggestions for 1x12's with Orange Terrors and Engl AE50 and Fireball, I'm all ears.

I'm not insisting I have the best setup or tone by any measure. I want better tones, in fact.
 
Aelred said:
Well, now I think I might be fooling myself/justifying my purchases since I didn't know better. The difference between my Marshall 1912 and the Black Cat V30 is noticable in stereo with my Engl AE50, which is somewhat adjusted by my having the Black Cat Combo running in stereo at the same time.

So I need to discern if I need to upgrade my 1x12's or what have you. I was somewhat surprised at this, so expressed that.

I'm just chasing tones for tube amps at low volume, and learning things that occasionally alarm, not always in a way that I want. If you have any better suggestions for 1x12's with Orange Terrors and Engl AE50 and Fireball, I'm all ears.

I'm not insisting I have the best setup or tone by any measure. I want better tones, in fact.
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If that’s the case, I would suggest changing the opinion you have about a cabinet because one jack ass on the internet holds a negative opinion of that cab is not likely to lead to success :beer
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
If that’s the case, I would suggest changing the opinion you have about a cabinet because one jack ass on the internet holds a negative opinion of that cab is not likely to lead to success :beer
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But if it's a whole lot of people agreeing... maybe I should try something else and find out. My only other reference point is the GB12-150 in my Marshall cab.
 
Aelred said:
The issue seemed to be with the Orange Rocker 15 - I have the Terror, as well as a Dark - and the Orange cab.

Is that a bad match? I bought the Ortange cab to go with the Orange Terrors.
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I don't know; none of those amps are what I would consider remarkable, at least for my tastes.
 
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