I can't wait until the trend is so retro that bands go back to when they didn't existcakes wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:16 pmAwe yeah, and while you're at it, why bother lugging your shit to a venue. Just play on YouTube!Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:53 pm I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.
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942I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much elseChudFusk wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:59 pmI can't wait until the trend is so retro that bands go back to when they didn't existcakes wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:16 pmAwe yeah, and while you're at it, why bother lugging your shit to a venue. Just play on YouTube!Nate Dort wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:53 pm I mean, why not just say fuck amps completely? Bands could just be playing straight into a mixer that streams the mix to the audience's personal headphones. Silent disco style.
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943Fender Blues Jr.GuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:09 am I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much else
Jazz Titan/Ruthie Cohen
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Future Living / Daddy's Boy / Blank Banker / Solo
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Hungry Man / No Trust / Retreaters
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Future Living / Daddy's Boy / Blank Banker / Solo
Fomer -
Hungry Man / No Trust / Retreaters
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944reissues of amps from the 60sGuyLaCroix wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:09 am I wonder what from the 00's will emerge as a highly sought after, quality vintage amplifier. Randall Dimes? Those Peavey tweeds are kinda nice. I can't think of much else
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945I will say with a pretty high degree of certainty that anything with a DSP chip in it is probably going to the scrap pile within 20 years. I'm starting to see way more broken DSP amps on the used market now than I have seen in 15+ years of buying and flipping amps. Seems like they only last 10 years or so before you start seeing broken solder joints or faulty NVM circuits that render them useless.
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946Moog Subsequent 25
I bought it at a 30% discount since it was being discontinued - cheap enough to not be turned off by the piles of negative comments by internet people who had admittedly never touched the thing.
I spent the first 10 minutes scrolling through the EDM presets and then never touched them again. I like it a lot. Its a little dirty but it feels like it can do a lot within its own parameters. It responds well to guitar pedals and I’ve been using a Uni-vibe for Leslie ramping sounds. I tend to dial out a lot of the brassiness and dirt out of it, but most of the sound lives on the second half of the filter. I can scroll around the octaves easy enough to not mind the short keyboard but I’m no player. The monophony doesn’t bother me since you can be creative with delay or kind of dial in harmonies with the filter, but again I can’t play anyways.
Went back and forth trying it through a di and an Ampeg V2 and 1x15 with EV 15L both thru an Audioscapr Pultec line amp w/o eq and much preferred it with the amp, even when mic’d up. It was just a mono signal but sounded like it was gliding around inside the stereo image right off.
Biggest drawbacks to me are that:
It sounds like a synth
Its tough to correctly set your levels for big swells when you’re recording yourself.
Neither being much of a problem. Maybe this synth is a gateway drug but based on the sounds I tend to prefer I think what I really want is an organ with drawbars, since I’ve been dialing in a lot of swirling garage-like organ leads like you’d hear on a Monks or Mummies record. I really want to line up some organic whistling sound somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Rafael Toral (not so much X-Files), hence my early q about a ribbon controller I’d still like to get sorted out.
I bought it at a 30% discount since it was being discontinued - cheap enough to not be turned off by the piles of negative comments by internet people who had admittedly never touched the thing.
I spent the first 10 minutes scrolling through the EDM presets and then never touched them again. I like it a lot. Its a little dirty but it feels like it can do a lot within its own parameters. It responds well to guitar pedals and I’ve been using a Uni-vibe for Leslie ramping sounds. I tend to dial out a lot of the brassiness and dirt out of it, but most of the sound lives on the second half of the filter. I can scroll around the octaves easy enough to not mind the short keyboard but I’m no player. The monophony doesn’t bother me since you can be creative with delay or kind of dial in harmonies with the filter, but again I can’t play anyways.
Went back and forth trying it through a di and an Ampeg V2 and 1x15 with EV 15L both thru an Audioscapr Pultec line amp w/o eq and much preferred it with the amp, even when mic’d up. It was just a mono signal but sounded like it was gliding around inside the stereo image right off.
Biggest drawbacks to me are that:
It sounds like a synth
Its tough to correctly set your levels for big swells when you’re recording yourself.
Neither being much of a problem. Maybe this synth is a gateway drug but based on the sounds I tend to prefer I think what I really want is an organ with drawbars, since I’ve been dialing in a lot of swirling garage-like organ leads like you’d hear on a Monks or Mummies record. I really want to line up some organic whistling sound somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Rafael Toral (not so much X-Files), hence my early q about a ribbon controller I’d still like to get sorted out.
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947If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
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948I have a Sequential Pro3 that can make a wild assortment of synth sounds, and yet I constantly just make some version of "whistling hairy organ".llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 1:04 pm Moog Subsequent 25
I bought it at a 30% discount since it was being discontinued - cheap enough to not be turned off by the piles of negative comments by internet people who had admittedly never touched the thing.
I spent the first 10 minutes scrolling through the EDM presets and then never touched them again. I like it a lot. Its a little dirty but it feels like it can do a lot within its own parameters. It responds well to guitar pedals and I’ve been using a Uni-vibe for Leslie ramping sounds. I tend to dial out a lot of the brassiness and dirt out of it, but most of the sound lives on the second half of the filter. I can scroll around the octaves easy enough to not mind the short keyboard but I’m no player. The monophony doesn’t bother me since you can be creative with delay or kind of dial in harmonies with the filter, but again I can’t play anyways.
Went back and forth trying it through a di and an Ampeg V2 and 1x15 with EV 15L both thru an Audioscapr Pultec line amp w/o eq and much preferred it with the amp, even when mic’d up. It was just a mono signal but sounded like it was gliding around inside the stereo image right off.
Biggest drawbacks to me are that:
It sounds like a synth
Its tough to correctly set your levels for big swells when you’re recording yourself.
Neither being much of a problem. Maybe this synth is a gateway drug but based on the sounds I tend to prefer I think what I really want is an organ with drawbars, since I’ve been dialing in a lot of swirling garage-like organ leads like you’d hear on a Monks or Mummies record. I really want to line up some organic whistling sound somewhere between Ennio Morricone and Rafael Toral (not so much X-Files), hence my early q about a ribbon controller I’d still like to get sorted out.
I find Synth through Amp is the most fun too. All of my fuzz pedals felt completely different with synth through it, some are 'unusable' on guitar to me, and suddenly they're my favorite synth pedal
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949That looks cool, will add to saved searches in case one comes up for a steal.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.
I’m going to have to try more. I did end up plugging the synth into a Reamp before an old Memory Man with the crazy preamp, but it wasn’t totally necessary. The Memory Man sounded like it put a blanket over the synth, but not at all in a bad way and the echo and modulation still sounded good. It just made it sound more primitive, which I actually liked for some sounds.TylerDeadPine wrote: I find Synth through Amp is the most fun too. All of my fuzz pedals felt completely different with synth through it, some are 'unusable' on guitar to me, and suddenly they're my favorite synth pedal
Oh, and I tried this $300 Chinese U87 copy they rave about on Gearspace in front of the cab on the first go and it’s been sitting there since. I wanted to try a dark-ish condenser first and now I don’t feel a need to try anything else. I’ve been recording just long enough to really appreciate these one and done situations.
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950I really wish they would just put out no keys desktop versions of those. With the El piano and organ one you pretty much have a poor mans nord that sounds easily as good.mdc wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:47 am If you're interested in classic combo organ sounds (vox etc), keep an eye out for one of the Yamaha Reface YCs. They sound extremely good and if you find the small keys limiting, you can just plug it into a larger MIDI controller.