lobberuno's forum posts 11

Thinking about that, yes, it makes complete sense because in a shootout the guitar player(s) will test many items trying to compare if them sounds the same, are tonally close or definitely both are a different thing.

About my idea, I think we can put a link to refer for specific tone that we can obtain from an item by adding it in the review description or text.

Hello, thank you for adding this feature. I have been on Equipboard since some years ago and these changes are being helpful.

I just have the question if we can use the youtube links to refer an instrument or effect for a specific tone in a song or even an album?

Probably the whole idea sounds crazy enough, but it has a reason. If we notice, the whole music industry has been slowly going into hill down, at least in my country because the music here develops idea so the people listen music that is commercial-pop music, just to be worth for a while.

As many talented musicians have been appearing as youtuber influencers, promoting to do reviews, to try or test certain riffs or songs, I reached a point where playing blues, jazz or any style doesn't makes me feel satisfied with the time invested, so since some years ago, I just plug everything and I try to get something that I never heard before, I just create whatever I like to play. Sometimes I record the session just to don't let pass good ideas.

When the rock n' roll started as a new music subgenre, never thought that it was going to be a musical revolution. Then, the rock n'roll evolved from a dancing style to a style more for listening: Rock was born. It still was 4/4, played with the same kind of instruments.

But with the time, new subgenres emerged, as expressions from the same style, just a different flavor. Them sometimes were 4/4, but not always. New instruments and equipment was added. Sometimes returned to be danceable again, and so.

With new songs and albums from serious band that create art, a 4/4 is no longer a limit, neither 3/4. New instruments continues being added, new styles of music also.

One point that the rock style always has been expressed as keywords like force, strong, euphoric, or something that produces a strong feeling inside us.

So, probably the definition of a style changes by periods, wthout being explicit, but noticeable if we listen carefully to the bands' releases.

Just as a suggestion, for the reviews on gear and equipment, maybe adding more boxes with info about the following points:

1) Features based on a 10 scale. Describes if it features many innovative things or maybe not. 2) Playability based on a 10 scale. If the parameters found on the gear makes you want to use it for days. 3) Difficult on operation, based on a 10 scale. How difficult is to use it. 4) Reliability, based on a 10 scale. If it was made to last.

What do you think about this idea?

Ok! I think that I found a fair solution using the ideas made by Jim. By the way, my Vox has a G12M Greenback.

So, I understood that a pedalboard with a big chain has some signal loss between the pedals and that a many buffers in a single pedalboard might colour the signal. Then I did a small pedalboard as Ep Booster>Fulldrive 2>Echosystem, but after this 5 pedals were just lying around: Blues Driver, TS Mini, Boss LS-2 Line Selector, Carbon Copy and Dyna Comp.

I found that Ep Booster>Tube Screamer>Carbon Copy sounds really good on its own. Therefore, I made two chains using the LS-2 (in output select mode) to do an A|B:

A) Ep Booster>TS Mini>Blues Driver>Carbon Copy>Vox AC15C1 Normal Channel B) Dyna Comp>Fulldrive 2 Mosfet>Echosystem>Vox AC15C1 Top Boost (Dry)| MG15 (Wet)

I did a test, and with all off per chain, I got still the chime of the Vox. The Chain A is tweaked to sound fat while the Chain B would sound crisper.

Still, I'm curious to change the current patch cables to Mogami (also my guitar cables). That should improve my sound too. I'm using right now a pair of CS Fender Tweed, one shorter than the another one.

Hello again! Thanks to Jim again for the extended explain... Yeah, when I'm refering about the "purity" of the Vox amp, I could describe it like preserving the feel and bite it has just plugging the guitar directly into the amp. Lovely sound and feel. I can turn down the gain-volume pots without any concern, the pot tones contour the sounds to a dull but still musical, well, a voxy sound in the early breaking without neccesarily getting dirty.

So today, I made some experiments again. First of all, I played the guitar directly to the amp to remember what kind of feel and sound I'm trying to get when all the pedals are off.

Then I plugged the pedal and I began cutting off the Dyna Comp, after this I went for the Boss LS-2 to quit off the second buffing pedal, and at last the Carbon Copy with the Blues Driver. So the pedalboard right now is Ep Booster > TS Mini > Echosystem.

The Ep booster is most of the cases on and since I don't use modulations, from the Echosystem I made the wet-dry option and connections. Now, I don't know what I'm going to do with the another 5 pedals, lol.

Edit: By the way, when the second tube amp comes, probably the Vox will be a pedal-free Dry, is just an idea.

Haha, great as always Jim :) Thanks so much again.

Lol, I'm adding more stuff to my wanted list here on equipboard.

About the AC15's tone, I feel this happens when I engage all the pedalboard directly in the Vox. What you comment about the boosters and the Dyna Comp sounds the possible issue about the tone suffering. Say, somedays I dial the knobs and everything feels right to my ears, but other days I don't get what I would like so I prefer to plug the guitar straight in the amp and just enjoy the Vox chime.

The Ep booster stays on most of the time, except when I like to go with a clean tone or without drives. I'm using the LS-2 as the Dry-Wet signal splitter (the knobs are at 0 dB), all the drives go before this pedal.

So, by the moment, I'll check the echo trials on the Echosystem, and the pedalboard with and without the Dyna Comp and the Ep Booster to check any difference in the sound!

Wow! Thank you Jim for reply! I was reading your comments and this is a great help to know where to move for my next amp. A Vox AC30 (or a pair of them) will definitely arrive sooner or later to my rig.

Also, by reading the previous comments, I got interested about the Vox-Matchless pair. Currently, I'm not gigging so I don't feel in a hurry, but who knows when I might be back again.

Hello!

I recently bought a Vox AC15C1 and previously I bought a Marshal MG10 as a practice amp. After buying the Vox, I went for a Empress Echosystem and I didn't much time to check it all then I found a Wet-Dry option for the Left-Right outputs.

I absolutely love my main amp sounds, from clean to overdrive, so when I plug all the pedalboard sometimes that "purity" is lost in a bit. The Vox AC15C1 doesn't has a FX loops to put there all modulations and time-based effects. The first thing I've tried with the Echosystem was the stereo setup and it sounded really good.

Still not satisfied at all, searching a way to keep the original sound from the amp and mix it with the Wet Signal, I've tried this Wet-Dry config, using the Vox as Dry and the Marshall as Wet and it sounded incredible!

The pedalboard chain is Dyna Comp>EP Booster>TS Mini>BD-2>LS-2>Carbon Copy>Echosystem

Coming soon, I'll go for a Fender Deluxe Reverb '65, to use it as a wet-signal amp to enhance the sound.

I have a Boss LS-2 selector to try a proper Wet-Dry using the signal after the drives as Dry, with the selector at A+B Mix, the main output with the modulations and based effects and the A Output the Dry signal.

When the first steps as guitarists, we don't feel much about the dynamics and the tone. I remember buying a guitar-amp combo like one or two times (those Yamaha packs), cheaper at the begin, but the guitar is just like a toy and cuts inspiration.

Because there was no internet or somebody in my town to give me advice, I had a hard time pushing off a good technique or even feelings through my cheap guitars. Until I bought a fine guitar I understood about dynamics, sound color and other techniques.

My suggestion, is you can grab an used but in a good state electric guitar (a Fender Squier but no from a pack), the same for an amp. At the begin, you just need a fine transistor amp, the Vox sounds right to me, but depending the music you like, you would prefer grabbing something cleaner (like a Mustang Fender amp or a Frontman), or either a Marshall amp.

On internet there are good deals, just search for them and you will be ok to start with it.

If you don't have much other choices, look at reviews from these two packs, Youtube videos and watch for any info they say. For the price and the stuff, I would go with the Fender, and then save money for the next guitar.

Hello!

My name is Antonio, and I'm glad to signed up in equipboard.com. This is a great place to share and discover your favorite musicians's equipment, and know how them achieve that sound. However, I believe that the guitars, amps and pedals are just the 50% of the magic to create your tone and the another 50% is your own technique and feeling that you put through it.

I'm a guitar player since I was 13 years old, and because I live in a town I had a hard time learning the basics as the guitarists who live here just knew chord progressions and there was no internet neither youtube tutorials, so I had to watch hundred times the Guns N'Roses Live in Tokio 92' video which helped me a lot thanks to the camera man that was focusing on Slash most of the concert. Nowadays, I don't play like him but I still keep trying my best.

I like Rock, Alternative and Psychedellic styles, bands as Coldplay, U2, Kings of Leon, ACDC, Jet, The Strokes, Artic Monkeys, Radiohead, Muse, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Tame Impala, Wolfmother and so are my favorites. I also like Blues, Jazz and Country, and derivated styles.

One thing I do in equipboard.com is to write in my reviews, what I achieved by experimenting with the equipment, so if you read my reviews, surely you will find tips and suggestions, also how one pedal reacts with my other ones. Pros and Cons are also wrote it as memos. If I discover anything new, it is added as a comment.

Very glad to be here on equipboard.com, cheers!