conky wrote:AxAxSxS wrote:I am really falling in love with my Butcher and am using it exclusively for Terrasone. Pairing it with a T must be godly.
Yeah, I imagine it would sound awesome together. After jamming this morning at the house though I doubt I'll gig with a dual rig. This Model T is loud as fuck and once I hit 3.5 or 4 on the master volume it blooms out into the perfect tone. Adding another amp on top of that will pretty much drown everyone else out I'm sure. We'll see though. I'm gonna try it just to see how it sounds.
I also found that I like 6550 over KT88. I popped the 6550s that originally came with it and rebiased it and it sounds amazing. That being said I didn't try setting the bias a litttle colder on the the KT88 though so that could have been why I didn't like them.
Dual rig is not always the answer to the greatest tone. I've gone back and forth and have been pretty into one head for a while. There's no one size fits all answer, particularly when playing with another guitarist, or a band context in general. And model t's are loud as fuck. I like being able to cook the tubes a little more these days with a single head myself.
I also think I might like 6550's a little more than kt88's, but my comparison isn't very accurate. I'm using fancy expensive 6550's and the only kt88's I've ever used were cheap jj's, and I haven't ever liked any jj's I've used much.
Also, if I remember correctly, it's not a huge operation to mod a 2nd gen model t to first gen specs and everyone seems to universally like the first gen better. Have you considered it? It's possibly a rare case where modding the amp might not trash the value.
