Anyone still using a tube amp?

Jeronimo said:
Today I put my Mesa Mk V:90 combo and matching Mesa Widebody 1x12 closed on the local Dutch Martplaats. I'm a bit sad to know it might be gone soon but after not playing the amp after purchasing my FM9 I know it's the right decision. With my tinnitus I just cannot enjoy the am anymore. The MkV is great even at lower volumes but I can only deal with playing at a volume that feels to be too low for the amp. Let's hope someone else can enjoy it instead of being tucked away in a corner. I don't need the money but I also don't like to have stuff around that I don't use and only reminds me of the times when I could still enjoy playing at decent sound levels.
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Good decision with you tinnitus. I made the same experience. I try to be not louder than 65db(A). A measurement mic incl. REW software helps to control it. Make a photo of the amp and put it on your computer as background image. You will see, it helps.
 
TheRedDevil said:
Good decision with you tinnitus. I made the same experience. I try to be not louder than 65db(A). A measurement mic incl. REW software helps to control it. Make a photo of the amp and put it on your computer as background image. You will see, it helps.
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Thanks for the advise, good idea for the measurent mic

I sold the amp and cab yesterday, the add was only up for a day, sold it for the price I had in mind to 2 brothers. They were really nice guys so the sale felt right
 
Just got off a separate guitar forum that asked a similar question...yes, most all of my amps and cabs are no longer part of my collection, though I still own one 30W Brunetti Singleman 1x12 NeoCreamback combo. The amp is a beautifully clean platform that takes pedals well. Because my gigging days are very much well behind me, the remaining combo serves only when the gig won't allow for an FM9 setup/soundcheck/breakdown in short order. The Brunetti has many of the qualities of a DRRI or Twin Reverb. with far less weight that still delivers switchable smooth/fat/tweed tones as well as a nice reverb.

The Brunetti is my choice of a refreshingly clean lower wattage small to medium room style amp. The kind of amp you'd lend your son to play a party gig with but not hand over to Uncle Sam if you might need sell the amp to meet tax costs this year.
 
I've got a Fryette SigX head because it's a cool amp that doesn't exist in model form. And an EVH 5150 III Stealth 50w just because it's a great amp. And an MT15 because it was dirt cheap comparatively. I also might have a problem
 
I still have a handful of tube amps that I simply refuse to get rid of. My living situation unfortunately does not allow me to play through them, but I'm hoping to change that soon.

While modeling has really come a long way, nothing inspires me more than plugging into a nice tube head through a nice cab with a sixer in the cooler next to me.
 
TheRedDevil said:
Very interesting. Did you mix your FR12/10 cabs with you small studio monitors and is there a "big" difference, when you just use your big studio monitors? I love to use my FRFR cabs with my 5" studio monitors in parallel for a cab in the room sound (refer my rig in signature).
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For the close to 7 months I have had my FM9 I have not done a few things I plan to. Mixing my studio monitors in with my FR-12's is something I'd like to try. Right now I'm always making small adjustments here and there with my gig presets and I wouldn't want to do that with the studio monitors attached.
Another thing that I'd like to get around to someday is setting up some fx presets with my tube amps in 4 CM.
 
MSS said:
I have a Revv g50 on order. I like the axe version so much that I wanted to own one. Crazy talk I know!
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That's one I'd like to own also - full Revv jam there! Can't justify the cost unfortunately, but I do have my eye on a mk2 Archon50 demo going for low $ - love the Archon sound in digital devices but worried about quality and frequently posted complaints about fx loop noise. Will head over this week and have a looksee.
 
No, I haven't tried the 20 as the 40/100 do most of what I want. All the rest is in the Axe (and then some). I hear good things though. Plenty enough for club gigs and such.

Edit: great platforms that I use with the FX-8
 
bebaldwin said:
I have the Katana 100W combo and I use it with my modelers (Axe-Fx III, Quad Cortex and Helix.) I find that it sounds better just to use it as a combo but it doesn't even come close to using my modelers with my Quilter Combos. The great thing about the Katana is that it's an all in one and the only thing you need is the footswitch and expressions pedals but the trade off is tone. If I was still playing professionally I'd be using an FM9 into my Quilters.
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Can I ask you a newbie/Katana question. I just got the FM3 a week ago. So far no connection combination from the Manual works to get sound from the FM3 to the Katana. How you cable your set up?

Headphones work fine, but I really wanna get that thing going through the clean channel on the Katana 3, or just through the Power Amp In
 
OneFortheRoad said:
Can I ask you a newbie/Katana question. I just got the FM3 a week ago. So far no connection combination from the Manual works to get sound from the FM3 to the Katana. How you cable your set up?

Headphones work fine, but I really wanna get that thing going through the clean channel on the Katana 3, or just through the Power Amp In
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It should just be a matter of connecting output 2 (due to output one being XLR only) on the FM3 to the power amp in on the Katana.

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You’ll need to go into the settings on the FM3 and select “copy output 1” for output two, and remember to turn up the physical output 2 volume knob on the FM3.
 
Frodebro said:
It should just be a matter of connecting output 2 (due to output one being XLR only) on the FM3 to the power amp in on the Katana.

BUT…

You’ll need to go into the settings on the FM3 and select “copy output 1” for output two, and remember to turn up the physical output 2 volume knob on the FM3.
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Thank you Frodebro! I have done that--cranked up the two little output knobs, made the software edits you mention, connected output 2 to the power amp (and also to the effects return and directly into the instrument input on the Katana). Just plugged the headphone jack into the Katana and that ACTUALLY worked. Weird. So maybe my output is faulty somehow. Or I am overlooking something else.
 
OneFortheRoad said:
Thank you Frodebro! I have done that--cranked up the two little output knobs, made the software edits you mention, connected output 2 to the power amp (and also to the effects return and directly into the instrument input on the Katana). Just plugged the headphone jack into the Katana and that ACTUALLY worked. Weird. So maybe my output is faulty somehow. Or I am overlooking something else.
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You’re most likely overlooking something, and with the FM3 there are a half dozen things that can easily be missed. I listed the top two culprits, somebody else will probably think up a few more things to check.
 
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