What Amp Are You Playing Today?

[Axe]

My Peavey Invective on the bottom..

 

[Dave Lewis]

Using this a lot lately

 

[Orvillain]

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

This one is coming to this afternoons jazz gig. However…modded with an Alnico gold…and a powerampinput.
My QC is going straight into the powersection, as well as into the return of the “house amp” (egnater rebel).
These will be amping captures of the preamp of my fav D style amp.

 

[LCW]

Straight in… Nothing more glorious…

 

[PLX]

Straight in… Nothing more glorious…

 

[LCW]

Bad Cat Hot Cat… what a little ripper!!! The reverb on this is just amazing!!!

 

[RaceU4her]

havent played this thing in many years, figured it was time to dust it off

 

[greatmutah]

Today was the Metroplex boosted with a SD-1 because that’s what’s hooked up to my captor right now. New dog isn’t quite ready for this amp on 5 through a 4x12.

 

[Fat Lizzy]

Das Delta Blues!

 

[dronerstone]

FINALLY got a cab (300W Neo speakers) that'll take this f**ker.

Sounds absolutely stunning.

LAB Series L11, 200W head from 1978

At first, I aimed for a hot-rodded, mid-forward, "D-style" overdrive, then I dialed in Fender-ish cleans, both were amazing. Oh, and there's an old Accutronics tank in there, as well.

Usually not a huge fan of dry amps without any pedals to take things further, but this thing......

 

[James Freeman]

havent played this thing in many years, figured it was time to dust it off

Yes! I LOVE solid state amps.

 

[dronerstone]

havent played this thing in many years, figured it was time to dust it off

Oh my!!!

Nudged a metalhead buddy into the direction of a mint-condition teal-stripe Supreme 160 a few years ago, fortunately he took the advice and got it, since it was only 150€ and the seller needed the money. Still his go-to amp to this day!

 

[Zodiac]

This through my Marshall 1936 2x12

 

[Ross Davies]

My Peavey Invective on the bottom..

Loving the Torpedo Live in here! :)

 

[Stratzrus]

For the last week I've been playing through a Tone King Imperial Preamp into a pair of Fender Tone Master FR powered speakers both with V3 Archangel preamps and it sounds truly wonderful.

Great cleans and overdrive with excellent reverb and tremolo. I got this rig for practicing but I could easily do my Jazz or R&B/Funk gigs with it.

 

[la szum]

Today was mostly Mk IIC+ day in the studio. I found out last weekend that the vocalist I moved to California with in our band, Black Dove, had been broadsided on his Harley by a guy in an old beat up car doing 90 on a street near where he lived. It happened back in November of 2023.

Even though we had long since lost touch, back in the 80s he was one of my best friends. I decided to pull up a few tracks from what is probably the first song we wrote together back in 1984 or 85 and record it as a tribute to my old friend. The song is called Blues Horse and is something of a biker ballad anthem type of tune. I put down 5 tracks of guitars, 2 clean, 2 crunch, and 1 solo track with an intro solo and another in the middle. The only other amp used was my JP2C for one of the clean tracks.

The intro solo I used the clean channel of the IIC+ with the gain maxed and pushed with a compressor. I also did an inverted V on the EQ to make it really thick and soulful. May be the best edge of breakup tone I've ever put down in the studio. The main solo I used the dirty channel with more of the sound you would expect from a Mk IIC+, but maybe a bit more mids than I would ordinarily use, and less gain than I usually use on that channel.

I'll be working on this one for a bit and still need to get my bass player and drummer to learn it and record their parts, but I plan on releasing it as a tribute to an old friend that passed too soon.

Sorry about your friend. That's brutal.

 

[Axe]

Loving the Torpedo Live in here! :)

I use it and the Boss Tube Amp Expander Core together

 

[la szum]

For the last week I've been playing through a Tone King Imperial Preamp into a pair of Fender Tone Master FR powered speakers both with V3 Archangel preamps and it sounds truly wonderful.

Great cleans and overdrive with excellent reverb and tremolo. I got this rig for practicing but I could easily do my Jazz or R&B/Funk gigs with it.

You have great taste. How you liking the Imperial Pedal so far?

 

[Stratzrus]

You have great taste. How you liking the Imperial Pedal so far?

Thanks!

I really like it. The cleans, reverb, and tremolo are all excellent and the overdrive tones are really sweet.

I also like that the output options are well thought out. It's set up for use with an amp, FOH, monitor, powered speaker. headphones,, and you can load IRs with three selectable by a toggle switch on the front panel.

For me, the biggest plus is that it's a wonderful contrast with my Fractal gear so when I want to keep it simple I have that option.

It's one of the best purchases I've made in recent years.