Recent content by robertkoa

Yes it is odd. Even the McCarty SE has 10". His excuse is old Les Pauls don't have 12" Radius anyway lol. The LP's I played were 12" and some from the 60's. I owned an SG =12" ES 347=12" Don't like vintage Radius if less than 12" Compound Radius¿ - because you play chords low on the Neck and...

That may have been a post of mine from long ago. I had a tech put a JJ803S which has a very long plate In the H&K Tubeman . The tube 803S has more gradual clearer gain and the medium gain to medium high gain [ when the diode clipper kicks in is NOT mildly fuzzy any more ] a big...

I have a hughes and kettner tubeman - and it sounded similar to the vintage Champ I had on clean tones . BUT as the gain was turned up it had a slight rasp above medium gain. I can NOT hear what the builder had for lunch when he designed it BUT it was probably the diode clipping circuit ... I...

I wonder if JJ 803s will warm up this pre . It increased warmth and bass on my H&K tube pre and smoothed out the gain . I might use this if the tubes change it as much .

I wonder if this unit would have more bass and clarity and less grainy gain - with JJ803s tubes ?

Koa was recommended to me long ago by Luthier Mike Tobias. I have had 3 Koa Guitars - all have had more bottom end than Mahogany , 2 of them were heavier than Mahogany. Ist was a BC Rich Mockingbird factory wired H -S -H passive with Duncan and Dimarzio PU's. It was heavy very warm and long...

Try this trick. Have the Engineer use a wide band shelving EQ with a semi parametric control for the center frequency set at minus 15 db. Start on the Guitar Signal after the Cab IR before EFX. Start at about 13 K and gradually go down towards 9K or even lower. You want to go low but not...

Or if you can use the Preamp Out into a Torpedo CAB ( no loadbox on CAB ) or Attenuator/ Loadbox if you have one and Torpedo CAB. I agree with moltenmetalburn : you already have an excellent Preamp in your Quickrod, no pedal will equal that and with all the Cab IRs in Torpedo Live and...

If you like the deep tone from the Koa body ( I assume the Koa has more low end than your other 2 ?) you will probably like the Mahogany also , maybe from someone who can pick a piece that has deeper tone if you don't mind,a little extra weight, I think you might be better off with Medium...

Schon's work in Journey was just Great. Can't imagine anyone doing it better, really focused, great musical solos that were so definitive they became part of the,Song and beautiful Tones. Who's Crying Now is a good example.

Yes. I was impressed by demos of the Retro 50 also and I don't play any kind of Metal Tones or even high gain but the Retro sounds like a really warm versatile Amp with excellent cleans and in betweens and lots of Classic Tones from 60s thru 80s. And fat British inspired Tones , without...

The best low wattage speakers are home stereo speakers. You can play back Hendrix, Van Halen, EJ at very low volume and sounds good. Years ago in the 80s I used a Champ with an attenuator into a Technics Stereo Speaker and it recorded large at very low volume , tweeters normally will need to...

No. It is not.

Actually , if the Dumble was just a regular non collectable Amp made today it would be still a versatile Killer Amp selling at about $3500 to $ 6000 right ?. Doppler on the Dumble Part 3: Shred on a Dumble? …: https://youtu.be/-qvMwCte8TE And if you listen to the other Parts 1 and 2...

Exoplanet. Exorock. Rock Starz. Rawk Starz. Global Rocking. DeathRising EndGame. AirBurst. I like EndGame best.