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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:14 pm
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My Rivera Fandango is my main amp and it loves Fender guitars, whether Strats or Teles.
Great Fender like amp tones on the green channel and crunchy Marshall tones on the red channel


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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 10:49 pm
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My Stratty go to is my Super Champ X2. I can get darn near any tone I want out of it, and it loves my Strats.

I mostly just use my OCD with it to spice things up. If I want to get nasty, I'll plug in a Boss Blues Driver instead.

If I need to be quiet- say the neighbors are home and it's late- my go to is my Mustang III. Just because it's solid state nature allows me to get crunch etal at REASONABLE volume levels.

I do want a Princeton.


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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 3:36 am
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I just use Marshall, regardless of the guitar. A DSL or a 1987 when I can get em, my 800 when I can't.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 9:29 am
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Its a Line 6 Spider Valve MKII 100 watt tube head by Bogner with a 4-12 Vintage 30 Celestions.
I owned Marshall Stacks in the 80s 90s and tried Crate Carvin and Racks and settled with this.
It will be with me till i die.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 10:00 am
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I had a Line 6 AX2x12 back a few. It seemed to sound fine in the store, but when I got it home it really seemed cold and sterile after a while, so I sold it. The only other solid state amp I have found that sounds like tubes is the Gibson Norlin Lab Series developed by Bob Moog. I have the L5 used by a number of famous players, like Ronnie Montrose and BB King, if that's really worth anything. It's just a great amp and one of the few tube amps that sounds as loud as the advertised wattage.


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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:22 am
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Mine is a Tube Amp its a Line 6/Bogner 100 Watt Tube it runs 4 6L6s and 2 12AX7s.
It sounds great even Mesa and Marshall guys drool when they hear it at shows.
Its not like the Spider IV that costs $399 for the head and $299 for a 4-12.
This is a $1000 head the cabinets are $800 each the controller is all thats the same.
My stack, head controller A & B Cabinets ran Three Grand.
Its Full Sized not the Mid Sized

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:44 am
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The AX2-212 takes a lot of time to learn how to use properly. It CAN be a useful amplifier in certain conditions. They key is to follow the instruction manual's suggestion and create blank channels and tweak from there. The manual is available online in PDF format if you've lost the original. Virtually all of the presets are either in desperate need of tweaking or else completely useless. It's never going to give you a nice Fender-like clean chime because it simply doesn't have the dynamics of a real tube amp but you can get some useful compressed crunchy sounds out of it. The key there is to live by the old adage that less is more. Most people think they need more of something so they just start cranking things up. Not wise. If you like the big open sound of a clean or slightly pushed tube amp with little or no compression then the AX2-212 is not really a viable option. If you like the highly compressed crunch of the 80s then it can give you a pretty decent facsimile. To anybody using one of these amps, I recommend abandoning the idea of using the Blackface model to get Fender style tones and use the Tweed model instead. The Tweed model has a more tube like dynamic to it. Still not great but better. It also sounds a little better when you dial up the gain.

Even with all of it's shortcomings, the one thing I really came to admire about my AX2 was the wah pedal on the FB4. I never played a wah that was as easy to modulate. The pedal feels and sounds very linear in it's travel. Most wahs, it's all or nothing and all the action happens suddenly within the middle ⅓ of the available travel of the treadle.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 12:38 pm
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I guess I dont know that model, I found what I was after and stopped looking I guess :)

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Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 3:02 pm
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vinnyg wrote:
mine is a Music Man 212 75
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It,s something different but t Leo fender help design and Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Mark Knopfler used used Music Mann amps at one point


Seems Alabama flirted with Music Man amps for a while as well.

My Strats love the '69 Bassman and HRDlx III.

Champ 600 is just for fiddling around.



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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 3:13 pm
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I used to use a POD into a EL84 power amp (Marshall) for living out the back of a van. Glad to be back to a quarter stack. 100watt JCM800 head and a 2x12 cab. Use G12H's and don't miss the other two speakers. Only take the amp up to 5 and notice all the difference in the speaker efficiency. Haven't blown em yet.

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Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 3:28 pm
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Art1 wrote:
vinnyg wrote:
mine is a Music Man 212 75
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It,s something different but t Leo fender help design and Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Mark Knopfler used used Music Mann amps at one point


Seems Alabama flirted with Music Man amps for a while as well.

My Strats love the '69 Bassman and HRDlx III.

Champ 600 is just for fiddling around.



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I seem to remember Howard Leese of Heart and Brad Whitford and Joe Perry of Areosmith using Music Man for a while there too

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donnycraven wrote:
Art1 wrote:
vinnyg wrote:
mine is a Music Man 212 75
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It,s something different but t Leo fender help design and Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Mark Knopfler used used Music Mann amps at one point


Seems Alabama flirted with Music Man amps for a while as well.

My Strats love the '69 Bassman and HRDlx III.

Champ 600 is just for fiddling around.



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I seem to remember Howard Leese of Heart and Brad Whitford and Joe Perry of Areosmith using Music Man for a while there too


Let's not forget Albert Lee who turns 70 this year. Still using a 130watt Music Man, Fender Tone Master and a Rivera.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 8:25 pm
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I do not have one yet but I tried my strat on an Orange MKII Rockaverb 100 and just fell in love with the sound.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:21 pm
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Any one of these. :mrgreen:

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1. Fender Frontman 25R with Eminence Ragin Cajun speaker.
2. Fender Champion 600 (reissue) heavily modified to a 5F1 Champ circuit configuration playing through a Raven cab with 12" Celestion 12P-80 speaker.
3. Bluesky Amps Wrecking Ball "Debbie" playing through a Crate 4x12 cab with Crate speakers (speakers to be replaced when I have more money).
4. Bluesky Amps Bluesman 5F6A/C with four 10" Weber Alnico Signature 10S speakers.
5. Heavily modified Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue playing through an Eminence 12" Cannabis Rex speaker.

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Post subject: Re: Your Go To Amp for your Strat
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:48 pm
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This baby sure gets the job done! 1965 bandmaster. reconed Kendrick Blackframes sound super sweet! Still need to get that grill cloth cleaned up :oops:
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This baby is well on the way( 1971 Super reverb), sadly family trouble has got me a bit behind in my restoration work, but I have a feeling this one will soon be "the one". Sometimes ya just have to put family first!
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