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Topic: Serendipity and the ultimate amp setup |
Bill Terry
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Bastrop, TX
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Posted 1 Jan 2005 11:45 am |
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So I get to the gig last nite and power up my Session 400... nada.. Go to check the fuse and the cap and fuse are both MIA. I live about 35 miles from the gig (Ginny's Little Longhorn) in Austin, so no time to go get another amp. I have extra fuses, but not an extra cap, so the singer runs over to his house and gets his Peavey XR-400B PA head.
Fortunately, the Session 400 has a 1/4" connector for the speaker wire so I sit the XR-400 on top of the Session and plug the speaker in (sorta a Peavey stack huh?) Expecting the worse, I was pleasantly surprised with the tone, except that the reverb didn't seem to be working. As luck would have it (here's the serendipity part...) he was also returning a Roland digital reverb that he had borrowed from me, so I hooked that guy up.. voila.. great tone.
So does this mean my '73 LDG sounds good no matter what it's hooked up to, or is the XR-400B + Roland DEP-3(80's vintage reverb) + Session 400 speaker cab combo the 'next big thing'???  |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2005 12:13 pm
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| So does this mean my '73 LDG sounds good no matter what it's hooked up to, or is the XR-400B + Roland DEP-3(80's vintage reverb) + Session 400 speaker cab combo the 'next big thing'??? |
Yes is the answer to the first part of that question...ha
The '73 LDG would have killer tone and sound great through a pignose.
Ricky |
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Bill C. Buntin
From:
Cleburne TX
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Posted 2 Jan 2005 5:39 am
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Bill, that very thing happened to me about 18 mos. ago. The exact same set up. Was on a show with multiple bands etc in Kansas. Got up for my sound check and my BRAND NEW Nashville 1000 got damaged during the ride up from TX. Luckily, one of the other players had his PV XR 800 head. I did the same thing you did. My D10 Legrande Emmons sounded just wonderful through that head and the BW speaker. Never knew the difference really. taught me that the guitar and hands IS the tone machine.
Ricky is right. Your LDG would sound good through a pignose. |
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Posted 2 Jan 2005 8:36 am
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in 17 years of playing steel I`m yet to hear a bad sounding LDG.
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