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The WA412 API pre clone is pretty good, you can plug and play insert different 2520 opamps, CAPI, API etc. if you would like to experiment. The WA76 1176 clone is fine too, it's nothing extraordinary, like the BLA Bluey which is a specialty piece, but gets the job done. Never had the LA2A clone...

My first advice would be to try get multitracks of the recordings you would like to sound like. They can be easily googled and downloaded usually in "mogg" format. If your DAW cannot process these, download Reaper and it will be fine. Making something big is not about making it actually big...

Modelers can sound good alone at home, practicing to backing tracks. The ear can accommodate to almost anything, you can have loads of fun with them. There are no problems live with modeller with a single guitarist, if 2 guitarists in the band and both of them, it's fine too, although, if one of...

Thank you for this huge undertaking, what this boils down for me is, buy 8 Ohms and loads of them, than just try which ones you like and sell the rest. Speakers are like guitars and amps, some of them sound amazing, some of them are duds. 80% is kinda the same, but nothing exceptional.

The SLO-100 was designed to have a neutral as possible power section, to keep the preamp tone as pure as possible. This is coming from Mike, on one of the Tone-talk podcasts. Plugging a Synergy into a Friedman powersection makes all modules sound friedmanish. Had a Syn5050, it was too dark and...

I just got back on my old SD-1 trip. It just sounds so great. I had to turn up the tight control on my BB and push the treble up almost fully to get in the ballpark, still the BB had way more low end. I managed to get the same frequency response from an MXR 10 band as the SD-1 without the...

Pretty much depends on the application. For silent stage and covers/wide range of tones, kemper/Ace Fx are great tools especially with IEMs. Synergy has a way better feel if you don't need a gazillion tones. All modellers fail miserably next to tube gear side by side, so it's all modellers or...

Having almost all the modules the Syn 50, Syn 5050 and a VHT 2/50/2, my 2 cents: (I would advise to everyone who have not seen the Fryette Malcontetns youtube about poweramps and powertubes to watch it. The tube type wether it is 6L6/EL34/5881/6CA7 etc. are like pistons in an engine. They have...

Luxxtone is amazing, their worn Choppa-T is probably the best guitar i have ever played.

The Fryette Powerload is an amazing sounding loadbox (same load as the PS50 or PS100). I had the Waza TAE, still have and OX, and a captor X. As a load it kills both. the analog cabsim is pretty versatille and has a really cool vibe and sounds great with a Cab M+, becacsue it has 2 outs, 1...

Didn't Dave said he would not like to participate in the race for the bottom in prices?

That 120W is based on the theoretical output maximum of the tubes. It's a ClassAB power amp, the tubes are biased around 70% of dissipation, so it is around 100w. 120W used to look a lot cooler than 100 in the ads. There is no real reason to use an attenuator with an amp with proper master...

SLOs are amazing, but they are quite unforgiving. You will not be able to hide sloppy picking or fretting, there will be no "hiding behind a bunch of gain and compression". It may have a lot of gain (I myself rarely pushed it after 12 O clock), but it sounds awesome. It is definitely in the...