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Mine was the Axe Fx 3
Same. Go big or go home or something.
Your very 1st rack unit?
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Same. Go big or go home or something.
Mongillo19
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We've been doing that a lot the last 2 weeks
HomespunEffects
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I still have my Roland GP-100. I was fully solid state for many years.
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ADA MP-1 (and MC-1 Foot Controller), B200S, Alesis Quadraverb all at the same time in 1989, and I still have them.
Bottom rows of rack:
Bottom rows of rack:
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Sounds familiar. Memory's fuzzy but I think I saw a vid or something on Alex Lifeson and he used one of these for a while in the 80's.
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The Roland GP-8 was my first rack unit. Received it as a high school graduation gift ftom my mom in 1988.
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Regretfully I sold it and "traded up" to theGP-16 when it was released.
That was my first rack unit, too (with the FC 100 as well).
In fact, *way* above its time. 4CM-ready, digitally controlled analog (!) pre-effects, 2 amp switching outs. You won't find one single unit offering all that today. The only thing I already knew back then is that things should have more knobs (nothing has changed with that until these days, right?).
Fwiw, the FC was a sturdy beast, made for rock'n'roll stages.
Later on I added an Alesis Midiverb III (maybe I still have that somewhere).
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It's funny, I was going to say I've never bought rack gear until my recent Matrix GT1000FX, just not a rack guy, but then I saw @LeftyLoungeLizard's pic and was reminded that I bought a Rockman Distortion Generator in high school, so I guess that would be it.
Ordered it from the back of a guitar magazine and had it shipped up to Canada. Probably because I loved my Rockman Soloist so much. Ran it into a solid state Yamaha 4x10 combo that was my dad's, sounded pretty damn good with the DiMarzio Super Distortion in my snakeskin BC Rich. :)
Ordered it from the back of a guitar magazine and had it shipped up to Canada. Probably because I loved my Rockman Soloist so much. Ran it into a solid state Yamaha 4x10 combo that was my dad's, sounded pretty damn good with the DiMarzio Super Distortion in my snakeskin BC Rich. :)
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Alesis MIDIVerb III. I was rocking it in the FX loop of my Recto in the late 90s. I used some of the modulation and echo stuff but eventually replaced it with MM4 and DL4 stomps like everyone else at the time.
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Alesis MIDIVerb III. I was Ricki g it in the FX loop of my Recto in the late 90s. I used some of the modulation and echo stuff but eventually replaced it with MM4 and DL4 stomps like everyone else at the time.
This was mine too. Going through a peavey PA system and a bass cabinet with a Metal Zone. Good times.
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The Marshall 9000 preamp brings me back - I’ve never spent so much time tweaking something. It seemed promising because it was gainy, but I could never really get Marshall tones from it. It was replaced by a Mesa Studio Preamp and I never looked back.
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mavrick102000
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Alesis Quadraverb was the first.
Followed by the ART SGX
Then a Digitech GSP legend or something like that ...man I can remember the name I think it had yellow in the paint scheme. I'll have to look it up.
Followed by the ART SGX
Then a Digitech GSP legend or something like that ...man I can remember the name I think it had yellow in the paint scheme. I'll have to look it up.
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Mine was the Axe Fx 3
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It was cool. My experience of amps was VTM120s and zero idea how you use them correctly. Mine didn't have toggles. It's easy to say it did insertMarshallthinghere but I remember zero nuance.
I do know my Scott Ian Jackson sounded
through it
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Hafler Triple Giant iirc? Probably '97 or '98?
Always wanted one of those. The "poor man's Fish." Pretty sure those toggles in the pic are mods. I bought a Hafler Hellrazor new back in the 90s (still have it) and picked up a T3 maybe 5-6 years ago just for fun. Had a T2 as well but sold it (it kind of sucked).
Just remembered there is a NAM profile of the Triple Giant that I need to check out again...
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Buddy had the one of the T series. I think the 3 but can't remember? It didn't have a mids knob
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Used Carvin DCM1000 power amp in 2015.
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