All revved up...

[Nightdare]

...with no place to go

Well, after M0jo's tip about an RT2/50 for cheap around my parts, decided to bite the bullet and ordered one, having to put another chunk of money into a cab (though cheaped out on that and bought a budget cab /w V30's)

So coming week I'll have 50 watts of tube goodness flapping my pants without any reason to have

I'm not in a band situation, but when looking at prices of poweramps, even a marshall 20/20 (the cheapest around here) goes for roughly ?750 new
and 2nd hand you pay 3-5 bills for something perhaps 20 years old

So getting a new RT2/50 for ?600 delivered to my doorstep was too good to pass up


...perhaps it would be a good time to start to learn to play guitar now

:lol:

 

[m0jo]

That's awesome man!
The RT sounds good at low levels as well, so it's not even that ridiculous.

What were you using untill now for amplification?

 

[Nightdare]

been using various cab sims over time into a digital recorder, just playing over my Hifi set

been a pretty decent solution so far, apart from having to suck out a lot of low end to prevent boominess

 

[Nightdare]

Well, after some time trying it out, it sure does sound very good at relatively low volume

What I have noticed is the lack of (emulated) speaker distortion found in the various ampsims I've used
I now have somewhat more/different control over low(er) gain tones
where diminishing the gain or guitar volume cleans up better

Now to get a few different output tubes and perhaps a set of yellowjackets
to see what else tickles my fancy apart from the 6L6/EL34 currently installed