TheOrangeChannel
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What are you guys backlining with these days? Anybody still using "FRFR" options and IRs in your FR cabs? What gets you excited as far as what's out there? Seems like after a bunch of guitarcentric development, a lot of this stuff sort of fell off the map (maybe due to the pandemic) and isn't as much of a hot button as it once was.
Currently I've got a Matrix GT1000FX into a singular Matrix FR212 that I got a sweet deal on just before the world closed... I'm thinking of trying to reconfigure this back into a stereo set of 112's because of self indulgence and zero practicality other than easier to move (this rig started out with a pair of Matrix CFR112's inplace of the 212... I'll post the long story short on that below).
TLDR (The Long Story Short) should you dare:
Here's why I've been running the Matrix stuff w/ Helix and the QC (oh noes)... About 6 or 7 years ago a buddy of mine mentioned that he had some gear I might be interested in in his storage space, all brand new and never gigged. He went about how he'd purchased an easy to move stereo option for potentially gigging with his Axe Fx. In there were a couple of speakon cables, a Gator rack, a Furman unit, the GT1000FX and the pair of CFRs.
He said he never found a use for it since he found pulling a small modded Fender Hot Rod 2x12 gave him more joy with a couple of pedals. He'd asked if I was interested in acquiring it. I said totally... but at the time I had other responsibilities and since we hadn't spoken price, I figured it'd be close to the retail (I estimated upwards of like $2500 for all of it based on new pricing with maybe a small bro discount).
6 or so months passed, I ended up winning a homerun pool at the office, so I reached out to see if Steve still had the gear, and what it would take to pry it out of the storage space. He was pretty upfront that it was still there, never used outside of his apartment once, and that if I wished I could have it all for $550. He was too fk'n lazy to return to box it back up and return it previously, and equally as non motivated to try and ebay it, and here on LI the market was probably me at the time looking for something like this.
As it stood I won $550 in that pool, so I said hell yeah, and I ended up with all of it. A couple of years passed and I grabbed the 2x12 in late 2019 on Reverb for $700 shipped in the box. I ended up selling the wedges for $750 each, so it ended up recouping everything I spent on this stuff which is wild. Sadly Steve passed around Christmas a few years ago and I never mentioned prior that I'd moved on from the wedges. He probably would have responded with something like "ahhhh you f--ker!"
Cheers guys,
J.
Currently I've got a Matrix GT1000FX into a singular Matrix FR212 that I got a sweet deal on just before the world closed... I'm thinking of trying to reconfigure this back into a stereo set of 112's because of self indulgence and zero practicality other than easier to move (this rig started out with a pair of Matrix CFR112's inplace of the 212... I'll post the long story short on that below).
TLDR (The Long Story Short) should you dare:
Here's why I've been running the Matrix stuff w/ Helix and the QC (oh noes)... About 6 or 7 years ago a buddy of mine mentioned that he had some gear I might be interested in in his storage space, all brand new and never gigged. He went about how he'd purchased an easy to move stereo option for potentially gigging with his Axe Fx. In there were a couple of speakon cables, a Gator rack, a Furman unit, the GT1000FX and the pair of CFRs.
He said he never found a use for it since he found pulling a small modded Fender Hot Rod 2x12 gave him more joy with a couple of pedals. He'd asked if I was interested in acquiring it. I said totally... but at the time I had other responsibilities and since we hadn't spoken price, I figured it'd be close to the retail (I estimated upwards of like $2500 for all of it based on new pricing with maybe a small bro discount).
6 or so months passed, I ended up winning a homerun pool at the office, so I reached out to see if Steve still had the gear, and what it would take to pry it out of the storage space. He was pretty upfront that it was still there, never used outside of his apartment once, and that if I wished I could have it all for $550. He was too fk'n lazy to return to box it back up and return it previously, and equally as non motivated to try and ebay it, and here on LI the market was probably me at the time looking for something like this.
As it stood I won $550 in that pool, so I said hell yeah, and I ended up with all of it. A couple of years passed and I grabbed the 2x12 in late 2019 on Reverb for $700 shipped in the box. I ended up selling the wedges for $750 each, so it ended up recouping everything I spent on this stuff which is wild. Sadly Steve passed around Christmas a few years ago and I never mentioned prior that I'd moved on from the wedges. He probably would have responded with something like "ahhhh you f--ker!"
Cheers guys,
J.
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