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Topic: Looking For Cube 80XL Owner In The St. Louis Area |
Jeff Scott Brown
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O'Fallon Missouri, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 5:02 pm |
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I am looking for anyone in the St. Louis area (I am out in O'Fallon MO) who has a Roland Cube 80XL and might want to get together for a jam/experiment session. I have a Marshall AVT 20 and a Fender Mustang III and I can't get a very good psg sound out of either. The Fender is pretty configurable so maybe if I keep at it I will find some combination of things that work there, but my initial attempt has failed to come very close. I would like to hear the Cube but I can't find anyone in town who has one in stock. If you have one and would like an excuse to get together to play pedal steel with someone, that would be fantastic. If that sounds like you, please let me know.
Thanks.
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Roger Francis
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kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 5:30 pm
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Jeff most music stores like American musical and mucians friend have a 45 day return policy that would give you a chance to really check it out at your leisure, I have two and I bought my first one on those terms, they are good sounding amps for steel for what they cost.
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Jeff Scott Brown
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O'Fallon Missouri, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 5:47 pm
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| Roger Francis wrote: |
Jeff most music stores like American musical and mucians friend have a 45 day return policy that would give you a chance to really check it out at your leisure, I have two and I bought my first one on those terms, they are good sounding amps for steel for what they cost.
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Roger,
Yeah, I am aware of a number of places that will ship me one and let me return it if I don't like it, but I am considering that Plan B. If I can find someone in town who has one, an added bonus is getting together with someone who presumably has more experience than me. It would be fun and helpful (to me).
I appreciate the note. Thanks.
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Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2012 9:53 am
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The Marshall is understandably inadequate, but you should be able to get some decent sounds out of the Fender. It has quite a bit of tonal options. I have a Cube 80XL and will be down in Webster Groves Thanksgiving. I'm not sure how much room I'll have in our car. You could also bring your steel and amp over to Scotty's and have someone there just play through your set up. Whenever I have someone do that, I'm amazed at how good my stuff "could sound".
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Jeff Scott Brown
From:
O'Fallon Missouri, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2012 3:13 pm
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| Fred Glave wrote: |
| The Marshall is understandably inadequate, but you should be able to get some decent sounds out of the Fender. It has quite a bit of tonal options. I have a Cube 80XL and will be down in Webster Groves Thanksgiving. I'm not sure how much room I'll have in our car. You could also bring your steel and amp over to Scotty's and have someone there just play through your set up. Whenever I have someone do that, I'm amazed at how good my stuff "could sound". |
I agree that I should be able to get decent sounds out of the Fender. As it is, I have not been able to do that. Even if I select a clean amp model and apply no effects, the thing doesn't sound good. In fact, that is specifically when it doesn't sound good. For any kind of rock guitar type setup that involves any kind of overdrive or distortion, the amp does fine. It can't produce any kind of crisp clean sound, at all. Many folks on this forum and on the Fender forums describe the problem as a "fizz" sound. It is like there is too much gain or a bit of distortion or a bad cap or something that is preventing a clean tone.
I think it is a good idea to take the amp out to someone with a lot more experience and see what they think, but it doesn't sound good to me at all, even with no effects applied, so I don't think it is a matter of tweaking the effects. I am meeting with Richard Smith tomorrow. Maybe I will take it with me to his place and see what he thinks. The next time I am going to be out by Scotty's I will bring it along and see what comes of that as well. He has a few amps I would like to listen to anyway, including a Session 500, a Nashville 1000 and a Nashville 112. The 112 is his personal rig and he doesn't seem keen to get rid of it at this point. Maybe I will keep on him about that until he has a moment of weakness.  |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2012 9:23 am
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Jeff Check your P.M. mailbox
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Wally Davis
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Belleville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2012 1:44 pm
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Hi Jeff. I haven't been on the Forum for a bit. I have one of these amps. And I'm over by Belleville. The only problem is I am really busy the next couple weekends. But perhaps maybe the 11th of November. I'd be more than glad to let you check it out with your rig.
I will say this about it. It's a great amp for the money and to use in lower volume situations. I don't use it much as I play in bands with really loud stage volumes. I have around 10 other amps. This one is really surprising in what it will do. I'm a big advocate of a 12 or 15 inch speaker to accomodate the bottom end. For a 10 inch, it's quite amazing. And with all of the effects, tuner, amp modeling etc, it's hard to beat. |
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Wally Davis
From:
Belleville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2012 1:51 pm
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| Now that I just looked at it a bit closer, it's a 80 CubeX. I would think that it's the same as your wanting to check out. |
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