Why do used Flextones sell for more than Catalysts?
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SillyOctpuss
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The flextone ii xl I had was so bad it put me off modelling until I picked up a helix in 2020. It was fine at bedroom levels but couldn't have kept up with my dead granny on drums.
I ended up giving it to a friend who'd fallen on hard times and had to sell all his gear. He only played at bedroom level and really liked it.
I ended up giving it to a friend who'd fallen on hard times and had to sell all his gear. He only played at bedroom level and really liked it.
SillyOctpuss
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They were over £1000 new in the UK with the floorboard in 2000.
paisleywookiee
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I had the original Flextone XL 2x12. Had quite a bit of fun jamming with buddies on it. But I didn't really know better. I'm a late bloomer with tube amps.
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I got a buddy that does Pro gigs with his Flextone II and damned if he don't make that thing sing for sure. Never owned one myself. I cant remember my Line 6 progression but it was something like XT Live, Vetta Amp, X3 Live, Spider IV, HD500/X, Spider Valve, HD25 combo, Helix. There were some others smattered in there too. I think I had a POD Floor Live or something at one point.
paisleywookiee
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Yeah well, tone is in the fingers, so......
Byrdman
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I had the Flextone II XL. Sounded better than the Peavy I had and uploading tones was the shit back then. I think the first tone I loaded was Where The Streets Have No Name and all the delays and reverbs were spot on. Probably still have the midi cables to upload the tones in a box somewhere.
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I got a 2x12 flextone from the pearl harbor lemon lot, put two celestion F12 200's in it and it made for an awesome "FRFR" power amp and cab
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So I'm not 100% sure on the Flextone specs, but I think back to the old Peavey Bandits and similar amps. Those things were cheap solid state amps, but they were well built. Very sturdy wood, quality speakers with big magnets and voice coils, huge amp components rated much higher than needed, etc. Basically built like a good tube amp without tubes.
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My first amp was a Flextone II.
I had never ending problems with the Preamp section. It could not do a clean tone without this weird fizzy decay creeping it in. I got it repaired multiple times but each time it would break again. I left it besides a dumpster when I was leaving my college for summer break and could not fit it in my car.
I had never ending problems with the Preamp section. It could not do a clean tone without this weird fizzy decay creeping it in. I got it repaired multiple times but each time it would break again. I left it besides a dumpster when I was leaving my college for summer break and could not fit it in my car.
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Bela Flex and the Flextones
Byrdman
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Wood was cheap back then, and so was everything else, but I was broke as a joke too, so I guess it's all relative
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Those F12's sound OK in that cabinet? That's open back, right? I might consider doing a similar conversion with my Flextone II 1x12.
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Yeah, an SM57 to the board was pretty much mandatory.
Some had Celestions, but AFAIK they were just T75s with no low end LOL. Most of the guys I have seen using the Flextone III iteration had swapped for their speaker of choice and didn't bother with the speaker modeling in the unit at all.
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