[Af_List] guitar amps and deth

[Steve Kerr]

could this just be the low frequencies from your longnecked guitar? rather
than the volume you're playing at per se?

12" guitar amp speakers aren't built for loud low freqencies - just guitar
frequencies

maybe you could try having a bass amp as well, and some kind of crossover
to split the signal, so the low end goes to the bass amp and the normal
guitar frequencies go to your guitar amp?

but that's two amps to carry round...

what about playing thru a sans amp or similar straight into the PA?

amen


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> Ok, here is my problem: I slowly but surely break my guitar amps. Im
> thinking that I need some knowledge from other people. I want to ask
> advice
> on guitar amps and what different kinds of amps can deal with different
> amounts of torture.
> Right now im playing through a rockit pro champ 100 with a 2x12speaker box
> that was from a fender pro185 (that I blew yes? doh). This rockit has a
> great sound, I find it better than the fendertwinreverb (didn't blow that
> one, just sold it ok) I was using and better than the fender pro 185 I was
> using. The other part of the story is that I play rebuilt guitars that
> give
> unusual sounds. I think that this is the root of my issue; the guitar I
> use
> mostly is a guitar with 2 necks (not the kind that that loser from guns
> and
> roses uses mind you) it has a neck that comes out the back end of the
> guitar
> so that the string length is twice the length. So this guitar produces
> really low and gravely sounds (but STILL has the high end feel of a
> guitar?
> ie; the gravel?hur hur) I use it a lot with guitar on amp contact drones.
> So
> the long strings feedingback with much distortion and blah blah... hurt my
> amps. And im kinda sick of it. Right now im sensing this amp is on the way
> out, the speakers are starting to click and make upsetting noises from the
> volume.
> People say just turn it down?. Or turn the bass down?.. but I cant. I hope
> there is people who know what I mean.
> Basically I need an amp that can deal with a loving bastard of an owner.
>
> So what Im curious about is:
>
> Whats this thing about "high gain" amps like marshalls. Do I need to get
> myself a damn heavy metal amp? I really don't like the sound of
> marshalls?.
> But maybe that kind of thing is what I need; after seeing black boned
> angel?? umm just thinking the density of sound coming from those guitar
> amps
> is a reference point?
>
> Do quad boxes deal with heavier sound loads???? Or are there 2 more
> speakers
> just for density of sound projection???
>
> Im more attracted to the twin amp format. Quads are a bitch. Are there
> twin
> amps that can deal with high stress??? I once thought about getting a
> "fender super twin" (a 180watt tube amp), which has an obscene amount of
> power; thinking that maybe this extra power will act as a kind of "head
> room" so that my noise will never reach the ceiling. Is there truth in
> that?
> I once played through a mesa heartbreaker twin which seemed to have a very
> sturdy and powerful sound(although very mid-rangey like a marshall whichh
> im
> not so into)?.. are there twins that people recommend that have magick
> powers for musick?
>
> is it "high gain" i want not high wattage??? (going back to the high gain
> thing in comparison to the idea of "head room")
>
>
> Someone told me I should get a compressor. That's something ive never
> thought of! Are there others out there who use compressors with noisy
> guitars??? How do you find it? If I had a compressor with a twin amp would
> everything be ok? Im scared of the idea of having my sound "compressed"?..
> does it fuck with freedom?
>
>
>
> Help?
> Cheers?.
> Alex MacKinnon.
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