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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:45 pm
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texasguitarslinger wrote:
Here are some pictures. I'm going to post more later. I had to use links because they're big.

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The dog is my Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Jet. :D

EDIT: The links didn't work. :x Just copy and paste it I guess.


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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:53 pm
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Holy CRAP! Could you make those pics NORMAL screen size so people
don't have to wear out their scroller, rocking it back and forth just to see
and read here??? Who the H*ll has a Plasma screen TV for a monitor???

Sure, they are nice pics, BUT: I come here (like most people) to read
and post text, not to look at stills off a F#$%^! drive-in movie screen.

So, I edited this post, copied and pasted it back one page to the bottom
half of my previous post. I hope that makes it a LOT easier to read. TYVM


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That picture of my dog is life sized! :lol:

Well, I've had it a little over a month now, so I guess I ought to give an update on how it's coming along. I've gotten an custom overdrive pedal from sbnpedals.com which sounds amazing with it. I took it to the music store and they fixed the grill. It took them about five minutes to do. I've been gigging with it about twice a week with no problems. No smoke, no fire. Only now it has a stain on the top from where my little brother spit some green minty thing out on it. And he picked off one of the silver stickers on a knob, as seen in the picture. Little brothers... :x

And even though the new is slowly beginning to wear off, I still love the tone. Maybe it's not some super deluxe vintage reissue thing, but for the price range, especially now with the price increase, I still think it sounds solid. Honestly, if I hadn't have won it, I wouldn't have a problem paying $800 for it.

As far as modifications go, we'll see what happens in a few years when it's time for some new tubes. In the more immediate future I'm going to make a speaker mod to my Peavey, it needs it more.

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Since VM threads keep popping up and since I've now had it for three months, I figured I'd give you guys another update.

For the last three months I've played it everyday at bedroom volumes, once or twice a week at band practice volumes and once a week at gig volumes. Including one outdoor gig where I had it CRANKED.
So I think I can probably speak for it's reliability and gigworthiness (I invented a word!) now.
It's stayed together, no parts falling off or anything.
It's never stopped working, and the tubes are holding up.
My pedals are a Dunlop Wah, a SBN Screamin' Eagle overdrive pedal, and a Vintage RAT.
The RAT is very unreliable and so the drive channel on the amp has saved my neck several times now.
I don't really like Chorus in general, but sometimes they make me use it in the praise and worship band I'm in. I'm glad I don't have to go out and buy a pedal.
The delay comes in handy too. I'm also still liking the reverb.
I bet if you got a bunch of people together and blindfolded them they wouldn't be able to tell the different between the VM's reverb and real spring reverb.

Also, the other guitarist in my band has recently bought a 100 watt SS Line 6 amp. It sounds good for SS, but my VM still blows it away. In sound quality and in volume.
I was a little concerned about him getting a 100 watt amp since he always turns it all the way up, regardless of how loud everyone else is or whether it's practice or a gig, but I can match his volume just turning up to seven. And with the overdrive and distortion kicked in... :twisted: :lol:

I'll probably come back with another update this summer. By then I would have had my first gigging experience in Austin.
And I'm planning on hooking my guitar to both the VM and my Peavey via the two outputs on my pedal tuner.
So hopefully I could tell you about how both of those things went around August.

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I can't believe I read the whole thing...


...I have a Band-Master VM (same as the Deluxe in head form) and I plug it into a Hartke 115TP cabinet that I had sitting around, using a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe and a 335 Dot.

Philosophizing aside, this is a cool amp. It gives me sounds out of the 335 that are rich, chimey, and meaty. So it's got a digital reverb? I'd rather have a new cool amp than an old relic for too many dollars that pops and whistles and fries everything within 10 feet -- and, believe me, I've gigged with those relics.

Mojo is a word for the extra dollars a "vintage" dealer wants for an old piece of crap. I love my BM VM. This beast has an active EQ, cool looks, light weight, and versatility within the classic Fender sound.

I think it's incredible that a new **waranteed** amp can punch out so much cool sound.

But what do I know! I have a Jazzmaster Ultralight, and I like it (oooh, he says he likes a solid state amp!) and a Blues Jr (omigod, what's wrong with that man?) and I say, tone rules from whatever source.

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