LA Sound Designs Hectic Watermelon Ego Rig

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I had some time this past week to drive up to Satan’s promised land and have my rig re-wired by Dave Phillips and Martin Golub at LA Sound Design in Burbank. They re-did the George L mess I had in there and replaced it all with Mogami. Yes, you can hear a subtle difference in several ways. The rig is a little quieter, and more importantly, it feels like there is a quicker attack on the low end. Of course, I am very pleased to have a nice, neat internal wiring. I can’t thank Dave and Martin enough! I had a great time at my gig last night running it full-bore. There was where I noticed a smoother top end.

While waiting impatiently in LA, I had the chance to free-load and hang with some buds. Alex Machacek just got a cool new Port City 2x12 OS cab that sounds absolutely sick. I liked the 2x12 at LA Sound Design, but I liked Alex’s even more. So, I am probably going to try one of those and two of the 1x12s for a W/D/W. BTW, it is really easy to switch my rig back and forth from two main configurations:

DUAL STEREO: Guitars and FX in stereo mix using the 2 Egnater power sections as L and R. Synth and peizo to full range cabs via the Rocktron power amp. FOH mics 2 cabs and gets 2 DI outs with the piezo/synth.

W/D/W Guit & STEREO Synth/Piezo: Dry guitar to one cab and guitar FX to two cabs via Rocktron power amp. FOH mics 3 cabs and Synth/Piezo to FOH only and I just have to get it right in the monitors. This is only for gigs where I have more time to set up.

More details about the rig, internal design, schematics, videos, etc at:

http://www.hecticwatermelon.com/machines.cfm
 
John,
That's a sick looking rig (in a good way).
Hope it sounds as good as it looks!
 
Hey John, I already mentioned this on HRI but siiiick rig.

Looking at the picture again though I noticed something I missed the first time. What is that beam/bar that spans the back of your mod50s?
 
looks great and tidy!! well done, hi-fives all around.
 
broknstuff":29hstju8 said:
Hey John, I already mentioned this on HRI but siiiick rig.

Looking at the picture again though I noticed something I missed the first time. What is that beam/bar that spans the back of your mod50s?
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Sorry, I don't have permission to discuss that in a public forum.
 
John Czajkowski":2ayanxai said:
broknstuff":2ayanxai said:
Hey John, I already mentioned this on HRI but siiiick rig.

Looking at the picture again though I noticed something I missed the first time. What is that beam/bar that spans the back of your mod50s?
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Sorry, I don't have permission to discuss that in a public forum.
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Really? Mine has one too and I thinks its a pretty common thing on tube amps...
 
EWSEthan":2bghoabd said:
John Czajkowski":2bghoabd said:
broknstuff":2bghoabd said:
Hey John, I already mentioned this on HRI but siiiick rig.

Looking at the picture again though I noticed something I missed the first time. What is that beam/bar that spans the back of your mod50s?
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Sorry, I don't have permission to discuss that in a public forum.
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Really? Mine has one too and I thinks its a pretty common thing on tube amps...
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SHHHHHH! Jeff said we arent supposed to talk about em'. :gethim:
 
Matt, at least you didn't write a stupid long PM to John in the middle of the night because you didn't catch the sarcasm :lol: :LOL: / :aww: / :doh:
 
broknstuff":jrfkzcru said:
Matt, at least you didn't write a stupid long PM to John in the middle of the night because you didn't catch the sarcasm :lol: :LOL: / :aww: / :doh:
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how can you be so sure he didn't??? hehehehehe :) :rock: :lol: :LOL:
 
You guys are too much! I don't know what to believe anymore! :lol: :LOL:
 
EWSEthan":o0je45fc said:
You guys are too much! I don't know what to believe anymore! :lol: :LOL:
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Your Mod will self destruct in T:minus 2 minutes :D
 
I had one on mine too, but I took it off. I didn't like the secret tone beam very much, too middy sounding. :thumbsdown:







:D
 
What kind of tubes sound best with the tone beam? I've found that winged-C EL34s with lot code 97743 on a Tuesday at 7:31pm give me that tone from the one note from John Mayer's solo on the live version of that one song.
 
Gino":2d9bmfux said:
What kind of tubes sound best with the tone beam? I've found that winged-C EL34s with lot code 97743 on a Tuesday at 7:31pm give me that tone from the one note from John Mayer's solo on the live version of that one song.
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I never much cared for those late evening production EL34's, and especially on a Tuesday. The ones produced on Wednesday around noon have the best mids for sure.

As far as how they work with the tone beam, I cant really say, ill have to wait for six or seven people to tell me what they think.
 
nice setup..


This may sound weird..

but is your switchblade GL a digital box, or all in analog? I am looking at the possibility of such a product in the future... but would need to route control voltage through it for my moogerfoogers and analog synth stuff....

the input (+4dBv(4.5v p/p) -OR- +10dBv(9v p/p) with input trim) gives me hope for my +5V control voltage... I just need it to handle DC.
 
blueburl":1dgti5ss said:
nice setup..


This may sound weird..

but is your switchblade GL a digital box, or all in analog? I am looking at the possibility of such a product in the future... but would need to route control voltage through it for my moogerfoogers and analog synth stuff....

the input (+4dBv(4.5v p/p) -OR- +10dBv(9v p/p) with input trim) gives me hope for my +5V control voltage... I just need it to handle DC.
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Al analog, but with digital control. Stupidly powerful: http://www.soundsculpture.com
 
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