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No idea about how the 50w compares to the 100w. I’ve used the Helios live, and it’s just total god tone when cranked. I mentioned the 25w Greenbacks because that’s what’s in the Suhr 4x12 I use with the Bogner. I have a Friedman 4x12 that has x2 V30s and x2 25w greenbacks. I don’t like it with...

These two are now my mains;

In a wholly unexpected turn of events, these two are about to become my mains. “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.”

My favorite Mesa Recto 4x12 was loaded with the Boogie C90s. It was sooooooo good for modern metal tones.

Ah! My apologies. I’m using the old VHT Valvulator, not the new modeling version. The one I’m using is the old one that sorta is brick shaped. It’s just a 12ax7 tube powered buffer.

I use a VHT/Fryette Valvulator out in front of the AxeFX iii.(the older model that is a line buffer and power supply for a pedalboard) I’m not certain how to explain it, but the Valvulator is introducing some sort of “element” to the signal chain that makes the AxeFX feel more like playing...

If you can find one, the Randall Satan 120w is a beast. Tight as fuck, and no OD pedal needed. Plus, the clean channel is killer.

That’s my experience as well. Granted, it’s all down to personal taste.

I think that was the ‘92 tour for the second Lynch Mob album. I saw them down in Costa Mesa on that tour. I thought it was weird that George used both a PRS and a Les Paul at certain points in the show.(Les Paul during their cover of “Tie Your Mother Down”)

My only “out of the ordinary” guitar. My 2001 Klein(with a Steinberger trans-trem)

absolutely does not appeal to my sense of aesthetics. And, I own a 2001 Klein headless.

That period of Vai’s output was my favorite. Flexable, Alcatrazz, The Epidemics, PiL, DLR’s first album.

I use the Suhr “Woodshed” compressor.

I’ve been a big Vai fanboy since the “Flexsble” album came out. This period of his career is my favorite. Just ridiculous. Flexable, Alcatrazz, The Epidemics, PIL, Crossroads, DLR

I’ve been a Marty fan since that first Cacophony album. He’s a fantastic player. The auto wah/filter trick is interesting. I still think his clean tone on the “Scenes” album is second only to Eric Johnson’s clean tone from the ACL’88 show.