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Blackened Soul wrote:Got the H&K 2x15 home! thing sounds awesome!

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Bill-ly.

Help-me.

My Science Mother just arrived! I literally just got it but my first impressions are it is very loud, has a ton of bass and sounds really great clean- which is good since it stays clean all the way until you push the gain to about 3/4 of the way up.

It sounds filthy with a Rat and a Fairfield ~900- just massive sounding. It sounds so good plugged straight in I don’t even want to use any pedals with it. I’m very thankful I was able to get one of these things. I think it was definitely worth the wait.

Gots an afliction for old solid state... And I can't stop doing the thing...

It had been known that Sam Ash was closing some stores, but now it’s all: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge ... years.html

Guitar Center apparently wants to join, since the CEO wants to get out of the business of cheap and hobbyist guitars:
https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/g ... -strategy/

So watch for the clearance sales.

sutarappa wrote:

Gots an afliction for old solid state... And I can't stop doing the thing...

Hell yeah!

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Some amps

wot's in the cabinets?

A mix of Eminence Private Jacks and Celestion Creamback H75s, along with an old Altec 417-8C and an old Fender PS12.

Crazy setup! Nice collection

Thanks! They’re my babies. There are three other small combo amps out of the picture. The bottom two cabs are from a company that went out of business about 14 years ago, but I’ve stuck with them. They’re detuned port cabinets, and they sound enormous, so I tend to use brighter speakers in them.

One of these days I’ll get back to actually making music with this stuff.

Interesting, never tried anything like those cabs! Funny how most guitar cabs are the same design they've been for 60 years huh. Not that it doesn't sound good, but...

this is the bi-amped stack i devised for use with the looping setup, which generates bass content too low for a guitar amp to handle well. it's inspired by John Cipollina's legendary stack he used with Quicksilver, which paired two Standel solid-state (and hi-fi!) amps for the neck pickup with a Twin Reverb and Dual Showman head for the bridge pickup, the latter driving five Wurlitzer metal treble horns. i don't do stereo, but what i devised is a setup using the Rolls Tiny Two-Way Crossover to send the lows to a Ampeg B2R head driving a Univox UB250 sealed bass cabinet with one 15" DBL D140, and the highs to a Hammond A-100 organ's AO-35 reverb unit which someone converted into a 18-watt head with two EL84s driving a 12" open-back cube cabinet off eBay with a Weber D130 clone. a Samson ground loop isolator between the crossover and guitar amp kills the horrendous hum that results from running 2 amps together. it's wonderful with the looping setup, huge lows and nice chewy highs. the Hammond head has some kind of mid-gain stage or something that makes it go from mild to batshit crazy, and it gets a lovely Marshall 18-watt sound that's smoothed by the faux JBL. so i was asked to play with a pickup band for my employer's 50th anniversary celebration, and decided to use it as a test for using the stack live. i worked everything out so i could set up and break down efficiently, and it was fine....i have it down to where i can set up in ten minutes now. i had all my cables sorted and ready in the milk crate the stack is standing on. once i had the head set properly it kicked. i may never be able to go back to playing with just a guitar amp ever again. i might make a back panel so i can run the cube as a sealed cabinet. in the future i'd like to get more cabinets...i'd like 2 D130s for the top and perhaps an additional 2 x 15" bass cabinet. i'd get a second D140 and put them in the 2 x 15" and run them with or as an alternative to a Hartke aluminum-cone 15 i've been watching forever on Reverb. i'd have to figure out the impedance, though, because the B2R doesn't want to deal with less than 4 ohms load. maybe a second power amp.

Damn it looks cool (and precarious). Glad you've got it working out, every time I've tried 2 amps I can see glimpses of greatness then it's too much work so good job putting in the work.

I got a "new" amp and cab in the last couple of months so picture time [middle: 80s Ampeg SVTII and the 70s Road 4x12]

dubkitty wrote:this is the bi-amped stack i devised for use with the looping setup…

Neat rig! I’ve recently become interested in aluminum dust cap speakers, because they’re just a bit clearer sounding. I like how they sound mixed with typical guitar speakers, how they add more harmonics. My Altec just got sent to get the magnet recharged because it was quieter than my other speakers.