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Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Death is nothing compared to vindication.
Buglord
Back in my death metal touring days, I absolutely loved my 5150II. I recently sold it but plugged it in just to test it out before selling it and, gently caress... I forgot how amazing it sounded. A 5150II through a Marshall 1960 cabinet just sounds so great.

Now I play a Vox Valvetronix VT50. I don't have the need for a 4x12" amount of loudness, so this does the trick just fine, and I'm able to dial in a number of great sounds on it.

So there, that's my little anecdote for the thread.

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Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Death is nothing compared to vindication.
Buglord

Three Red Lights posted:

It got me thinking that theres a new POD line coming out, and when it does I might just ditch the amps entirely and go straight to PA. But then something in me still feels kind of weird at the thought of that. Plus I've played a few gigs with my last band where we had next to no PA.

Has anyone tried going direct?

That's what Meshuggah does, IIRC.

I used to play with a half stack, but it was because my band played really loud metal in clubs with no PA. Nowadays I don't play that so much anymore, and I rarely even play out anymore, so I just have a little 1x12" combo amp. It suits me fine.

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