Guitar Player's Thread

jmbullet said:
I think I'm not even gonna play my Alexi-600 live in other towns cuz it's case is big and heavy
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...and it's extreme gayness to play a guitar with autographs all over it on stage.

A friend has a Zakk Wylde bullseye Les Paul and won't play it live, it reeks of 'wannabe'. I also cringe at guys playing Dimebag model Dean's on stage.

It's been posted here before in case you haven't seen it, here's some tips on travelling with guitars.



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So I went down to Guitar Center today just because I was bored as fuck and wanted to get out of the house for a bit. I went in with my Guitar and I pretty much already had it settled in my head that I wanted to play a 6505. So I checked in and took my guitar over to the amps and played the combo version of it. I didn't even realize until I was sitting there for a bit that there was a sign to my right that said "Buy the 6505+ head and get ____ cabinet for free!" (I forget the name of the cabinet, it was nothing amazing, but it was still a 4x12 and it's valued at like $600)

I had no intention of buying the 6505 yet, but I think that deal is one of those limited time kind of things. It totals out to be like $1100 dollars and I'd only have to pay about $100 per month, which isn't bad at all. Even if I don't like the cabinet it can hold me over until I get a new one, and/or I can just sell it. So yeah, tomorrow/later today I'm going to head down to Guitar Center and place like $200 down on that.

I'm pretty excited, I must say I was really fucking impressed just with the combo version of the amp. That's probably the best my tone has ever been, even with 5+ month old strings on my Jackson. I think the amp is only a 2 channel or something though? I'm not sure, that's fine with me though really. I plan on getting a footswitch at some point also, and I guess all I really use anyhow is one clean and one Lead. Now to close this up, is it weird that I use my lead channel for my rythym playing also? I don't see the point in having 2 different ones really :p

:edit: Sorry for the long post :/
 
Did you really like the 6505 combo? I think it sounds like ass haha. It's your choice obviously, but for $1100 you could buy a secondhand 6505 head and a good 2x12 or 4x12 mesa cab (or whatever you end up going with).

I'm pretty pissed right now. Was about to buy this http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/msg/2258949877.html Orange 2x12 cab with V30's for $200, but due to complications the guy ended up selling it to someone else today when we had planned on me buying it from him tomorrow, even though I had said I'd come by today--followed by him saying he was unavailable today. FFFUUUUU
 
TheKid said:
I'm ordering a semi-custom from Agile this month. I wonder what it might be eh?


inb4 ensi comes in and spoils it
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Derp. Me too. Gonna suck having to wait till December to actually get it though. Guess I just have to break out the big jar of patience
 
Have any of you guys played the peavey classics?
My school band room has a classic 30 combo.
Really sounds good for the price. It might not have enough gain for extreme metal players, but for the type of music I usually play, it sounds great.
The 30 is loud enough to fill my school's Performing Arts Center, which is pretty big, without miking it to the PA system.
 
Ensi said:
^^ Dude, you have like... a 5150 combo, they're basically the same.
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It's not actually mine though, I'm just borrowing it until I get my own amp, which I'm long overdue for :/ The 5150 sounds great, don't get me wrong, but I can't keep it, nor will my cousin sell it to me, I've already tried convincing him a few times :/

But yeah, the 6505 combo was great imo @ EveningNinja, well atleast better than everything else in the store, or atleast I think so. I tried a few things while I was there though: The Dual Channel JVM, a Marshall Valvestate that was on sale for like $200, a Line 6 combo, and a Peavey Triple X or whatever that shit is called. They also had a bunch of Mesa's, but that's another one of those companies I just can't get into really.

I liked the JVM quite a bit but eh. It would be a close runner up for the 6505 imo, the valvestate wasn't bad, but didn't have enough gain and that means I'd just be spending more money on stuff to push the amp when I could just get a great amp from the start, the Line 6 was... a Line 6, Idk what else to say, I just can't get a feel for their amps :/, and the triple X was decent but felt more low heavy than I like really. The mids on it weren't defined enough if that makes sense?
 
Which GC did you go to? As I know the one on OBT/441 has a lot more to choose from than the one in Winter Park.

Have you checked out any of the Blackstar amps? Pretty good tones form those things. If I remember correctly guys that used to work at Marshall started Blackstar, so they are pretty much budget Marshalls. I was looking at getting the 20w head they have for home use and for use with others should I ever play with others.

Also, the Bugera stuff is pretty cheap and can get gainy. I believe the 6262 is a 6505 clone, but for about half the cost, but there are the Bugera horror stories with QC. I have a Bugera V22 and have had it for over a year now and have yet to have a single issue with it.

Many options out there, besides the few things GC had to offer, but if you like the 6505 then go for it, especially since they are going to give you a free cab with it.
 
Enmity5566 said:
and a Peavey Triple X or whatever that shit is called.
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They had that there? Damn, I'd love to try an XXX, from what I've heard they are awesome (although discontinued). There is the 3120 and JSX though, the latter I have tried and it was pretty awesome. XXX is a pretty bright-sounding amp in relation to more modern metal amps, so I'm not really sure what you mean by low-heavy. The 5150 and 6505 are much darker-sounding.
 
eveningninja said:
They had that there? Damn, I'd love to try an XXX, from what I've heard they are awesome (although discontinued). There is the 3120 and JSX though, the latter I have tried and it was pretty awesome. XXX is a pretty bright-sounding amp in relation to more modern metal amps, so I'm not really sure what you mean by low-heavy. The 5150 and 6505 are much darker-sounding.
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Have had a XXX + matching cab for 4 years or so, is awesome ;)
 
srob7001 said:
Which GC did you go to? As I know the one on OBT/441 has a lot more to choose from than the one in Winter Park.
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Yeah, I went to the Winter park one. I usually go to the OBT one since it's closer to my house, but I was up at my girlfriends who lives in Winter park so I decided to go give it a try while she was at work. I was actually thinking about sending you a message so you could meet me up there and we could play but I completely forgot :p

srob7001 said:
Have you checked out any of the Blackstar amps? Pretty good tones form those things. If I remember correctly guys that used to work at Marshall started Blackstar, so they are pretty much budget Marshalls.
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I've yet to try one, but I've heard good things, in most part from the people here though :lol: But yeah, I was actually looking at a few of them in the musicians friend catalogue that had came in the mail the other day, they seem decent enough.
srob7001 said:
I believe the 6262 is a 6505 clone, but for about half the cost, but there are the Bugera horror stories with QC. I have a Bugera V22 and have had it for over a year now and have yet to have a single issue with it.
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I had quite a bit of interests in these about a year or a year and a half ago and I was actually ready to go buy one, I don't remember what model it was though. I think it was the 6262... Whatever it was they had advertised on the back of guitar world with some guy raising his hands ala Jesus lol. But yeah, I ended up hearing about some of the same horror stories you have and decided against it.

eveningninja said:
They had that there? Damn, I'd love to try an XXX, from what I've heard they are awesome (although discontinued). There is the 3120 and JSX though, the latter I have tried and it was pretty awesome. XXX is a pretty bright-sounding amp in relation to more modern metal amps, so I'm not really sure what you mean by low-heavy. The 5150 and 6505 are much darker-sounding.
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I'm pretty sure it was a XXX... Whatever Peavey amp it is that has the Mudflap girls printed on the chrome of it? I think that was it. But yeah, they had it sitting in there, it was used though so I'm not sure what may have been done to it by the original owner, but I wasn't super impressed with it. Don't get me wrong, it was still a great amp, it just didn't grab my attention like the JVM and 6505 did.

I have also tried the JSX, but it was years ago when I did and I didn't know enough about amps at the time to really judge, but from what I remember it felt almost like a more modern rock to maybe slightly metal amp. I don't know, maybe that was just me and my bad judgement, but it just didn't feel heavy enough to me at the time, but it could have just been because I knew diddly fuck about amps back then.

Also, I don't really feel that the 6505 is a dark sounding amp. Maybe a little, but not too much. I was running my RR24 into it and it managed to smooth out my leads alot without making them too warm or too bright. The rythym was really tight and responsive too, which is what I'd come to expect of it from what I'd heard. I don't consider it too dark sounding when compared to things like Mesa's and Riveras but, that's just me :p
 
Fair enough. Dark/bright is kind of a subjective thing. Modern metal is "dark" sounding, and 6505 is a modern metal amp. So what I may consider dark may be normal to you, because who's really to say what the original amp was that dark and bright are ultimately compared to. *shrug* But still, the XXX is brighter/crunchier than the 6505, with less of the br00t low-end destroy-your-face wall of heavy metal sound if you know what I mean. I honestly think you must have had the EQ settings in wack position or something :confused:

I do recommend trying the JSX again if you ever get the chance down the road again and just spending some time with it tweaking settings. It's awesome for metal IMO.
 
Ensi said:
^^ Dude, you have like... a 5150 combo, they're basically the same.
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Nah, I have a Peavey Classic 30 combo, that SteveMCCCSTEVEE mentions a few posts later

SteveMCsteve said:
Have any of you guys played the peavey classics?
My school band room has a classic 30 combo.
Really sounds good for the price. It might not have enough gain for extreme metal players, but for the type of music I usually play, it sounds great.
The 30 is loud enough to fill my school's Performing Arts Center, which is pretty big, without miking it to the PA system.
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I love mine, it does sound pretty damn good and is awesome for metal when boosted with an overdrive pedal to boost the gain a bit.
Plenty loud for rehearsal with the band.

It sounds AWESOME when hooked up to my 4x12 cab. I almost want to bring it to shows and just hook up the extension speaker output to a 4x12 cab


The XXX, JSX and 5150/6505 are all great amps.
XXX is a little crunchier and the 5150 is a little more smoother.
The JSX is based on a modded XXX circuitry from what I know

And to add to the Bugera horror stories, my guitarist's friend bought one and the tubes flashed blue and fried some parts within a week
 
Get a Bugera if you want to have no possibilty of re-selling it later on. My boyfriend has a Bugera 333 that is only one year old and in good condition, he told me he paid 1200$ for the half stack, brand new. He tried to sell the head last week, the guy wouldn't even give him 100$ for it :lol:

He was pissed off.
 
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