mctallica1
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Marshall Freak
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Glad you got it figured out.
You're starting to give me GAS for another Prophesy!
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I got that problem figured out.
You have to plug the wallwart for the midimate into the phantom power on the Prophesy II, then the 7 pin cable powers the cable to the midimate.
For some reasone, I couldn't get my head around that one
Glad you got it figured out.
You're starting to give me GAS for another Prophesy!
mctallica1
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As you can tell, I love it.
I think if I had tried it at a store and not actually gotten it home and forced myself to dive in I would have en entirely different opinion of it. I was MAJORLY disapointed with th presets and it took me a good bit to find ANYTHING I liked.
But once I understood the basic design concepts...WOW
I think s few years ago, I would have been completely turned off by the learning curve (and I still get frustrated), but boy is this thing flexible.
Marshall Freak":fafa6 said:
As you can tell, I love it.
I think if I had tried it at a store and not actually gotten it home and forced myself to dive in I would have en entirely different opinion of it. I was MAJORLY disapointed with th presets and it took me a good bit to find ANYTHING I liked.
But once I understood the basic design concepts...WOW
I think s few years ago, I would have been completely turned off by the learning curve (and I still get frustrated), but boy is this thing flexible.
Juggernaut
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now you need an Egnater M4, and the Randall Poweramp, and run it dry up the middle, with the 2 Prophesies wet on either side....
Juggernaut
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Yep....would be awesome.
My dream rack set-up would be:
Triaixs - 2:90 - Mesa Recto cab - Left
CAE 3+ - VHT 2150 - VHT Fat Bottom cab - Middle
Egnater M4 - Randall RT2/50 - Randall XL cab - Right
My dream rack set-up would be:
Triaixs - 2:90 - Mesa Recto cab - Left
CAE 3+ - VHT 2150 - VHT Fat Bottom cab - Middle
Egnater M4 - Randall RT2/50 - Randall XL cab - Right
Jordon
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I wonder how this thing takes to other effects processors in front and in the loop. I don think I could part with my Line 6 Filter and Mod Pro or with my G Major.
guitar_god123456
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i think the prophesy would be cool with a mark IV and a marshall power amp.
mctallica1
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guitar_god123456
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well we finally agree on something
guitar_god123456
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we had that falling out over shadows fall, and a couple of other things as well.
guitar_god123456
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no worries.
4nkam
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Man that sounds like a fun unit! I've been curious about them for awhile but have never even seen one to try out. Might have to put that on the preamp list
mctallica1
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I forgot to post this yesteerday before I had to leave.
Per psychodave's request, I experimented with the volume knob on my guitar to see how much nuance I could get.
On the Vintage Brittish you can get a very nice just breaking up clean tone when you roll the volume off on your guitar. The Mega channel cleans up decently, but not as well as the British channel.
Interestingly, I was doing the experiment with the most BREWWWWTAL settings I have so far on each channel (and by the way, I can take the Vintage channel all the way into death metal territory using the pre and post parametrics)...I figured if I could get it to be decent using these settings, it would work well everywhere.
However!!! The key to getting this to work well is turning the threshold on the hush WAAAAY down...or just turn the hush OFF when you want to roll the knob back. I am assuming you could assign a button on your foot controller as an on/off switch for the hush, but I am not that far along yet (can't do anything but switch channels on the midimate yet )
I am actually surprised how well the unit responds to rolling the volume knob back...especially on the brittish channel. I was expecting an improvement over typical digital stuff, but this is very nice. Keep in mind, I am using EMG pickups, so it probably works better with passives!
My bet is some vintage tone snobs would not like it, just on principal, but it works very nicely
Another note. I was mostly using the clean and Mega channels, then decided to see what I could do with the Brittish channel. My expectation was sort of JCM800ish levels of gain and texture. The unit definitely does this, but this channel can do everything from nice Marshallish cleans to buesy stuff (though the blues channel does it better) all the way up to all out high gain armageddon.
I can't wait to run this thing through a dedicated stereo power amp. Right now, I am running it mono into the effects return of the JVM, then out to 2 cabs. My VHT cab loaded with the MC90's is louder in this format than the Voodoo Amps cab with v30's, so the 90's are dominating the tone (which is not a bad thing). Once I have independent volume controls, I am looking forward to hearing an equal blend to see what I think.
Too bad I can't touch the thing again til Friday evening
Per psychodave's request, I experimented with the volume knob on my guitar to see how much nuance I could get.
On the Vintage Brittish you can get a very nice just breaking up clean tone when you roll the volume off on your guitar. The Mega channel cleans up decently, but not as well as the British channel.
Interestingly, I was doing the experiment with the most BREWWWWTAL
settings I have so far on each channel (and by the way, I can take the Vintage channel all the way into death metal territory using the pre and post parametrics)...I figured if I could get it to be decent using these settings, it would work well everywhere.However!!! The key to getting this to work well is turning the threshold on the hush WAAAAY down...or just turn the hush OFF when you want to roll the knob back. I am assuming you could assign a button on your foot controller as an on/off switch for the hush, but I am not that far along yet (can't do anything but switch channels on the midimate yet
)I am actually surprised how well the unit responds to rolling the volume knob back...especially on the brittish channel. I was expecting an improvement over typical digital stuff, but this is very nice. Keep in mind, I am using EMG pickups, so it probably works better with passives!
My bet is some vintage tone snobs would not like it, just on principal, but it works very nicely
Another note. I was mostly using the clean and Mega channels, then decided to see what I could do with the Brittish channel. My expectation was sort of JCM800ish levels of gain and texture. The unit definitely does this, but this channel can do everything from nice Marshallish cleans to buesy stuff (though the blues channel does it better) all the way up to all out high gain armageddon.
I can't wait to run this thing through a dedicated stereo power amp. Right now, I am running it mono into the effects return of the JVM, then out to 2 cabs. My VHT cab loaded with the MC90's is louder in this format than the Voodoo Amps cab with v30's, so the 90's are dominating the tone (which is not a bad thing). Once I have independent volume controls, I am looking forward to hearing an equal blend to see what I think.
Too bad I can't touch the thing again til Friday evening