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The all-in-one-BOSS
I use this one in a 4-cable-method-combination with my amp. It's a good alternative to working with multiple stompboxes. In this regard Boss is a champ anyway: good effects, easy controls and build like a tank - it's indestructable. The GT-6 has been way ahead of its time back then. Of course the GT-6 has aged a bit since the build-in amp-section is not on par with digial amping solutions nowadays.
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Wonderful piece of woodwork
This guitar is simply beautiful. The wood shines elegantly through the surface of the arched top. The Gibraltar-II-bridge is really comfortable as has almost no edges towards palms. Also this guitar has one of the fastest necks I have ever played on. So this guitar is big comfort zone. The only thing that bothered me were the lifeless and muddy pickups. I suggest to exchange the pickups to some with a more trebly response to get some balanced tones out of this one.
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What you see is what you get.
I've always been looking for a Ibanez-guitar with baritone-measurements. And finally Ibanez put this one on the market for good: straight design, no annoying tremolo, no sound potis, hi-gain-pickups… just a good guitar for heavy downtuned guitar playing. It's quiet cheap for such a well build RG-guitar though the string height had to be adjusted. Some changes gave nice improvements on this guitar: I exchanged the EMGs with some passive Bill Lawrence and the killswitch became a coilsplitter. But this may be a question of taste. If you are okay with the active pickups: this is your guitar.
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A real metal monster!
This used to be my touring amp until it got replaced by the Kemper. It has some interesting features for dialing in some extreme sounds. Two distortion-channels (one solid-state, the other with valve-distortion) which both add a lot of gain to circuit. The tight-loose-switch works wonders in the valve channel. The 6-band-EQ is really nice for morphing the sound to your liking just as the density-presence-controls shape further to the hi- and low-end. So if you get pretty much control over the hi-gain-sound this amp delivers. But stay away if you’re looking for anything else. The clean channel is obsolete and reducing the preamp gain will not result in warm crunch sounds. This is probably due to the direct nature of the mosfet-transistor-poweramp.
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More than just for Ritchie Blackmore.
Despite being a Ritchie Blackmore signature amp, this valvehead one has way more to offer than oldschool hard rock one might expect. It has some solid amounts of gain and crisp overtones in the highs. In comparison to its big brother (the Savage-service) it has an almost minimalistic approaches regarding the controls and is more middy (but in a balanced way) and transparent. Combined with an EQ or Tube Screamer in front this is my favourite allround metalsound for years.