Sterner/DERM Bassits Pert 41: Merxing sperkers iz gerd

[change-jug]

I`ve been wanting an RD Artist for awhile but the way folks price them and their condition is just all over the place.

[askrere]

Last nights craigslist deal sucked, I went to see the guys Classic 120/120, which I fully expected to melt my face, but the dude claimed it was cranked and bridged to the full 240 watts and it was quieter than my 60/60 which doesn't even bridge and it didn't even get dirty... Sounded like my MB200 turned halfway down. I finally had to say no, when the guy pointed to his SVT and said I turn that to 3 to match! And I said the amps only have a 60 watt difference and my low watt amps smoke yours and left, and got drunk to bad blues bands.


My Windsor is a cheap ass tube amp ($150?), and it sounds quite lovely. Definitely not able to keep up with a very heavy band unless you had a lot of speakers and/or sound reinforcement. If I'm not mistaken it's a 1 channel semi JCM 800 knock off with a fresh set of JJ EL34's I just installed. I'm about to do a pedal test on it but so far, it has the best sound without anything but my bass in front of it, and my bass has a lot of EQ options modded into it already, cleans up a bit with my basses volume knob, but I didn't buy it to play clean.

[DethByDoom]

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

Mine has the stock preamp tubes and they sound great, havent had any inkling to swap em out.

Yeah it was kind of a mess when I bought it. Needed bias and a bunch of tlc. 5 dollar tube. Free bookshelf (for wood) and 10 bucks for stain and poly. Now everyone thinks I have a boutique amp.

[Ancient Tone]

Originally Posted by dunwichamps

yea dude that EQ is awesome! Passive Bax + Active Mid Range. thats why the SVT rules in many ways.

Agreed completely.

Originally Posted by DethByDoom

Yeah it was kind of a mess when I bought it. Needed bias and a bunch of tlc. 5 dollar tube. Free bookshelf (for wood) and 10 bucks for stain and poly. Now everyone thinks I have a boutique amp.

Yikes, glad to see you could restore it! It's things like that, that you bring back from the dead, that to me always seem like the dearest pieces of gear I own.

[DethByDoom]

Originally Posted by change-jug

I`ve been wanting an RD Artist for awhile but the way folks price them and their condition is just all over the place.

Seriously. Wish they just bring it back. There is the krist novalesik signature...

[DethByDoom]

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

Agreed completely.



Yikes, glad to see you could restore it! It's things like that, that you bring back from the dead, that to me always seem like the dearest pieces of gear I own.

Exactly!

[Ancient Tone]

Originally Posted by askrere

Last nights craigslist deal sucked, I went to see the guys Classic 120/120, which I fully expected to melt my face, but the dude claimed it was cranked and bridged to the full 240 watts and it was quieter than my 60/60 which doesn't even bridge and it didn't even get dirty... Sounded like my MB200 turned halfway down. I finally had to say no, when the guy pointed to his SVT and said I turn that to 3 to match! And I said the amps only have a 60 watt difference and my low watt amps smoke yours and left, and got drunk to bad blues bands.


My Windsor is a cheap ass tube amp ($150?), and it sounds quite lovely. Definitely not able to keep up with a very heavy band unless you had a lot of speakers and/or sound reinforcement. If I'm not mistaken it's a 1 channel semi JCM 800 knock off with a fresh set of JJ EL34's I just installed. I'm about to do a pedal test on it but so far, it has the best sound without anything but my bass in front of it, and my bass has a lot of EQ options modded into it already, cleans up a bit with my basses volume knob, but I didn't buy it to play clean.

I was unaware you could bridge a classic 120/120. I always thought they were just mono / stereo.

[Ancient Tone]

Originally Posted by DethByDoom

Seriously. Wish they just bring it back. There is the krist novalesik signature...

Or make an Epi version, with the normal RD humbuckers...

and yes there is... but it has jazz bass pickups

[DethByDoom]

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

Or make an Epi version, with the normal RD humbuckers...

and yes there is... but it has jazz bass pickups

YES and yes.

Also... recording porn

[change-jug]

Originally Posted by DethByDoom

Seriously. Wish they just bring it back. There is the krist novalesik signature...

yeah,i`ve thought about the new RD but i`m kinda turned off by the jazz pick ups in the sig model. and they go for a grand to 1100. might as well get a vintage one for that money.

[askrere]

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

I was unaware you could bridge a classic 120/120. I always thought they were just mono / stereo.

Every peavey classic power amp was either mono, or stereo with a bridge option save the 60/60 which has two stereo amps that cannot be bridged, and all the knobs in the back where you can't reach them if you mount it in a rack... the other models have front facing knobs and presence/resonance.

They also all feature 6l6GC tubes save the classic 50/50 which just had a butt load of el84's crammed in it.

[Ancient Tone]

Originally Posted by askrere

Every peavey classic power amp was either mono, or stereo with a bridge option save the 60/60 which has two stereo amps that cannot be bridged, and all the knobs in the back where you can't reach them if you mount it in a rack... the other models have front facing knobs and presence/resonance.

They also all feature 6l6GC tubes save the classic 50/50 which just had a butt load of el84's crammed in it.

Ahhhhhhh okay, I'm picking up what your putting down.

[DethByDoom]

Originally Posted by change-jug

yeah,i`ve thought about the new RD but i`m kinda turned off by the jazz pick ups in the sig model. and they go for a grand to 1100. might as well get a vintage one for that money.

Yup. An epi version would be nice. The jazz pups on the nova sig is so odd. I do like that its passive though. A friend has an vintage rd and the active pre has been a big PITA.

[askrere]

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

Ahhhhhhh okay, I'm picking up what your putting down.

Yea, I mean the 60/60 sounds nice, but the lack of a bridge option kind of makes it a weak link for much bass use, in a rack with some fun effects and a good pre, it'd make a pretty cool guitar rig if you did pan effects etc, and it gets a nice grind.

I assume the guys 120/120 just had tired tubes in it and he was passing it off at $150, knowing right down the line I'd be the dude paying $200 to retube it.

[Ron Now]

Also the sig model RD is only 34" and not the 34.5" that the OG has.

[Josh Pelican]

I didn't realize the Fvck OD sounded so good. I just bought two pedals.

Originally Posted by Ancient Tone

Cool man! I've been down the same road so just putting it out there if ya needed any help. I've been pondering a baritone tele but they just don't look right on me, and I'm so used to the Bari Jag (which is in Drop G w/ .14-.68's) now that I'm just keeping an eye out for another one of those as a back up.

I'm setting up my Ibanez up for Drop Bb with 13-60 gauge strings. I'll probably bring it back up to Drop B and block the trem. It's a standard scale guitar.

I don't normally go that low on a standard scale instrument, but that guitar sounds so ****ing good when tuned lower. I'm using it for a solo death metal project and screwing around with some songs in B/Bb. When it's good to go, I'll be learning some Belzebong.

[mc_muench]

Love me some Belzebong, so wish there was more than one album of them

[dozicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by Josh Pelican

I didn't realize the Fvck OD sounded so good. I just bought two pedals.



I'm setting up my Ibanez up for Drop Bb with 13-60 gauge strings. I'll probably bring it back up to Drop B and block the trem. It's a standard scale guitar.

I don't normally go that low on a standard scale instrument, but that guitar sounds so ****ing good when tuned lower. I'm using it for a solo death metal project and screwing around with some songs in B/Bb. When it's good to go, I'll be learning some Belzebong.

Block that stupid trem!!

My guitarist blocked his trem on an old Squier Strat, that thing is a sludge machine.
He had .70s on his Kramer hardtail. That thing is freaking awesome too. EMG + HM2 + old peavey classic tube/ss combo = gnarly.

[Josh Pelican]

Yeah, I think I will. I don't even use the trem. It just makes the damn thing go out of tune.

[DethByDoom]

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