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Original message:20 days 21 hours 55 minutes ago
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From a comment i left on one of the jay graydon articles a few days ago:

I've got the best kludge rig you'd ever see. I've got my Boss ME-50 running into a little tiny piece of crap Crate 15 watt practice amp. The amp itself sounds.... aaahhh... not so good. But it's got a headphone out and a "speaker out." I've got this old 300 watt car speaker box. It's got 2 ten inch speakers. It's fully closed with a clear plastic window and 2 cylindric air vents. What I did was I unscrewed the window and placed an e609 mic mounted on base with a foot long neck in it and ran the cable through the bottom vent (i've got it standing vertically). With the mic inside, and tilted so the face flat against the cone and is slightly off center, I stuffed both vents with old towels to isolate the sound. It works AMAZINGLY WELL. Also, I live in an apartment so that's kind of a good thing.
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Reply:20 days 21 hours 16 minutes ago
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Reply:20 days 21 hours 16 minutes ago
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Reply:20 days 20 hours 26 minutes ago
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Curently that's all. Super-compact.
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Reply:20 days 19 hours 21 minutes ago
Member: Leif
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Carvin legacy suped with Mesa 6l6s Use channel 1 only with od pedals
Bogner SHiva
Les Paul Standard
Custom strat(made in the corona fact.) Main guitar
Peavey 410 cab..scorpion speakers
PA:
Mackie mixer CM16
EAW SUB WOOFERS
Mackie mids
2 crown power sources (I separate mids and highs)
too many mics to list
Power mac g5 running logic 9!

much more..
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Reply:19 days 17 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: farlow
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I had to look up the meaning of "kludge"

I've just got the same old thing I've been using all year: guitar > Laney LX12 > Shure 14A > PC w/Mixcraft.
I have other amps - 100W guitar, piano accordion and 75W bass amps but don't use them mainly because I don't have a mic stand to mic them.
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Reply:19 days 3 hours 26 minutes ago
Member: eds1275
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Same thing I've been using for ten years. Marshall TSL100/Gibson Custom shop V/TC Electronic G-Force or G-major depending on what I'm not lending out.

I've got a bunch of other shit but I mainly use this setup. I have a marshall1960a 4x12 but more often use a marshall1936 2x12, I mic it with a 57 live, and I am really happy with my tone. I control the whole setup with either an art x-15 from the 80's [i think thats the number] or a rolls midi buddy.
Reply:18 days 23 hours 10 minutes ago
Member: frumsapap
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Guitar, Wah, Tube King, Roland Cube 30, line out into BR1200CD. My monitors suck right now, but I will be remedying that soon.
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Reply:15 days 23 hours 58 minutes ago
Member: frumsapap
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Just added to the rig. My wife bought the Pod Cast set up from Berhinger. Condenser mic, firewire input, mixer, preamp, and professional headphones.
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Reply:15 days 21 hours 12 minutes ago
Member: Lurcher
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Okay, so. the BIG rig. I played small gigs through my lovely little Fender Yale with only a Cry-baby out front. But eventually the band got a big support date so the monster had to come out. I'd had it a year or so and it was dirt cheap and ancient. But it was enough for anywhere and £160 for the head and cab.
What was it? Well Roost made copies of Sound City amps and Sound City made copies of Hiwatts. So this Roost is a 150 but is really 120w. The 'matching' cab was a Selmer Goliath bass cab converted from 1x18 to 4x12. It was sold to me as a 200w cab. When I looked inside I found 4 200w Fane Crescendo speakers so I had to buy it. The trouble was, I didn't much like the sound of it on anything but a clean setting.
So this night I decided to use my Yale as a pre-amp and pass it out to the Roost. Ace result. I knew it was a bit good on the sound check when a lamp on the back wall fell down.
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Guitar > Wah > Yale pre-amp > Roost power amp > 800w cab.
One day I'll get it above 1 on the master.

Brian
Reply:15 days 20 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: Marshall2288
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LIVE: Peavey Classic 30-Marshall 1960 B Cab. Line 6 Pod XT Live, MXR 10-band EQ, Gibson Les Paul

STUDIO: Macbook Pro, Amplitube 2, Amplitube Metal

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Reply:15 days 18 hours 54 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul
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currently my rig is

SG Special Faded (cherry finish), Crybaby 95Q wah, Marshall Jackhammer od/distortion (order of the wah and overdrive in the chain depends on the sound I want), Peavey Bandit 60 1x12 combo.

I also have a Tascam external sound card for my pc (it's a clone I built myself) and hope to soon be adding a few mics to the mix because right now I have to record direct to the Tascam and it sucks...no amount of software processing can make up for the lack of a mic'd amp in my opinion...although a Sansamp would definately get close.

Also, my amp I'm planning to eventually get has a speaker compensated line out for recording or direct to PA system but that doesn't really count until I have it in my possession, does it? :)
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Reply:15 days 1 hours 55 minutes ago
Member: frumsapap
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TDS, this is why I bought the rig that I did. I love computers, don't get me wrong, but having a condenser to record the acoustic, or electric, there's no comparisson. I am studying my manuals right now. Now after I am finished recording everything off of the mic, I just might download it via USB to the laptop, but I am not quite there. The Podcast Studio rig has got a fire wire thing that I don't know anything about, but for now I am going to use the consenser mic and the preamp run the line out into my BR1200CD, and record everything from now on by mic alone, to get the experience. I might go back the other way, direct in from time to time, but I am ready to experiment with my mic set up now.
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Reply:14 days 18 hours 40 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul
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firewire would be used to record direct to the pc... it was a competing standard to USB... although capable of way better data transfer speeds it isn't quite as user friendly as USB so it seems to be losing ground as a result.

If your computer has a firewire port, and you eventually decide to record direct to your pc; I'd highly recommend using that connection if you can.

Although connecting it to an all in one recording console like you've got is not a bad idea either.

For mics I'm looking for a condenser mic for vocals and acoustic guitars and I would like to get a dynamic mic for recording electric guitars... I've always been able to get good electric tones with dynamic mics. :)
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