John Czajkowski
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I?m ordering 2 MOD 50 heads with T/D, COD, and an EG3/4 to lighten up my NASA live rack! My rig for 2007 will be moving from the two Egnater pre and VHT2/50/2 method I?ve been using in a W/D/D/W monstrosity to 2 Egnater MOD 50 heads. I use this approach for the following reasons: the 2+ amp rig thing that has become my mainstay live (with two discreet signal paths that I kick back and forth); crossfading (doing on a few tunes now); redundancy and more redundancy.
I had initially contemplated doing two combos like Brian Swerdefeger, but Frank seemed to think the heads were the way to go for me and my music. I really need the big rock cab sound, so I'm gonna stick with my Earcnady 2x12 monsters.
It will be cool to be able to swap my favorite modules in and out of a live (heads) and studio rig (ie4 and M4). That is a brilliant design idea by Bruce. I think I will be able to pretty much cover all my tones with a Twin, SL, SL2 and Erect with pedals. I am not happy about taking out the VOX, but I really only use it on one tune live right now (?Bionic Hillbilly? with a TS in front) and I figure it is easier to get a Twin into that territory than getting a Vox into Twin territory for the bulk of my clean tones. I think I am really a Fender/Marshall guy at heart who likes to pay visits to the other families. I really look forward to building the new rig with the Switchblade GL and getting my rack into a smaller configuration. I may add an OCD to the pedal drawer. I have recently fallen in love with the Fulltone ?69 and the SL2 chan A for some Eric Johnson and Jeff Beck covers we are doing.
Another change I?m doing to my live W/D/D/W rig is to ditch the mic?ed cabs and just go with the Palmer stereo cabinet emulator or siimilar to feed wets and the house system mix. Some are very convincing to say the least. In my new rig, I plan to feed the wets with it and also send it to the FOH for the dry portion of the mix. Also, I?ll be leaving the big K2500R and going with a smaller Rolland unit that stills sounds ok when situated behind the guitar in the rig mix. The extra sound quality of the K2500R isn?t worth the weight for most situations.
I'll post updates, pics and clips as the new beast is born and dialed.
I had initially contemplated doing two combos like Brian Swerdefeger, but Frank seemed to think the heads were the way to go for me and my music. I really need the big rock cab sound, so I'm gonna stick with my Earcnady 2x12 monsters.
It will be cool to be able to swap my favorite modules in and out of a live (heads) and studio rig (ie4 and M4). That is a brilliant design idea by Bruce. I think I will be able to pretty much cover all my tones with a Twin, SL, SL2 and Erect with pedals. I am not happy about taking out the VOX, but I really only use it on one tune live right now (?Bionic Hillbilly? with a TS in front) and I figure it is easier to get a Twin into that territory than getting a Vox into Twin territory for the bulk of my clean tones. I think I am really a Fender/Marshall guy at heart who likes to pay visits to the other families. I really look forward to building the new rig with the Switchblade GL and getting my rack into a smaller configuration. I may add an OCD to the pedal drawer. I have recently fallen in love with the Fulltone ?69 and the SL2 chan A for some Eric Johnson and Jeff Beck covers we are doing.
Another change I?m doing to my live W/D/D/W rig is to ditch the mic?ed cabs and just go with the Palmer stereo cabinet emulator or siimilar to feed wets and the house system mix. Some are very convincing to say the least. In my new rig, I plan to feed the wets with it and also send it to the FOH for the dry portion of the mix. Also, I?ll be leaving the big K2500R and going with a smaller Rolland unit that stills sounds ok when situated behind the guitar in the rig mix. The extra sound quality of the K2500R isn?t worth the weight for most situations.
I'll post updates, pics and clips as the new beast is born and dialed.