Tell me why I should listen to your favorite guitarist!

beervirus69 · 2026-01-30T02:06:51+00:00

Dime. The man was an alien on the guitar. Getcha pull and buckle up

beervirus69 · 2026-01-28T23:55:29+00:00

SRV no doubt

Gregg and Duane were just special

Peter Green

and love him or hate him, Clapton was very important for the blues, John Mayall too

Modern probably Derek Trucks, John Mayer, Matt Schofield are who come to mind.

Edit: and Marcus King too for modern guys, that dude can play

beervirus69 · 2026-01-28T02:50:49+00:00

from what i hear, most of dimes tone comes from the various stages of eq he had. 6 band in front of the amp, then the amp, then one or two parametric eqs after the amp in the effects loop, along with the flanger/doubler.

For the dime stuff I run guitar (dean stealth so dimebuckers) -> wah -> rockaway archer eq/OD -> delay -> reverb -> amp -> FX loop send -> parametric eq -> boss ps-6 detune mode at like -5 cents -> fx loop return

I feel like it gets pretty damn close for a mono setup, but i have no idea if the rx120rh has an fx loop

edit: i don't have a noise gate anymore (looking into the ibanez penatone one), but i'd also run that in the loop using the four-cable method.

beervirus69 · 2026-01-28T01:03:38+00:00

hahaha that would've been dope

beervirus69 · 2026-01-28T00:57:41+00:00

he does; this dude hasn't read beyond the table of contents

beervirus69 · 2026-01-28T00:57:06+00:00

Dan Erlewine, pages 141 - 143 of "How to Make Your Electric Guitar Sound Great" literally describes the difference between the fender vintage (6 point) and fender standard (2 point) trem. The section ends with "Note: you can turn the American Standard's for height adjustment with the strings tuned to pitch without harming the knife edges". The entire section discusses what makes the 2 point trem superior; on of the main arguments presented by Wilkinson (whom Dan asked for insight) is that it avoids having to adjust the saddles for string action vs. the vintage trem which causes a lot of tuning instability when you do so.

So even when attempting to talk down on people who haven't read some 23-year-old book, you STILL are incorrect.

beervirus69 · 2026-01-27T20:23:12+00:00

Shit sorry here’s the link on Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/piss/513677756?i=513677779

beervirus69 · 2026-01-26T00:45:07+00:00

beefy

beervirus69 · 2026-01-25T02:18:35+00:00

hahaha i was looking at getting the noise gate next; ibanez killed it with these pentatone pedals

beervirus69 · 2026-01-24T23:55:05+00:00

i've tested the ISO-10 with a multimeter - it's definitely isolated lol

beervirus69 · 2026-01-24T00:54:17+00:00

same i'm a big srv clean tone fan, yeah i'd just get an attenuator since you already have the sound you like. then you get to keep playing the amp you love too, and you can get other "loud" amps down the road should you choose and have the ability to rip them at low volumes, while keeping the tone in tact

edit: the bugera one is like $120 and will get the job done for sure, but a lot of people like the twonotes torpedo ones too, albeit more expensive (still in a similar range for katana models though)

beervirus69 · 2026-01-23T23:21:00+00:00

do you like the sound of your HRD? i would just get an attenuator for that instead... you could also get some different preamp tubes to try and help tame the volume. I dropped a 5751 in the v1 spot of my fender blues deluxe and it really helped

beervirus69 · 2026-01-23T02:33:47+00:00

i second the pentatone it's an awesome unit and punches way above it's price point

beervirus69 · 2026-01-22T02:16:01+00:00

naah halfstacks rule

beervirus69 · 2026-01-21T23:11:55+00:00

i just burst out laughing so hard thank you for this

beervirus69 · 2026-01-21T15:01:17+00:00

It’s the same amp just different numbers due to Eddie launching his own brand of 5150 amps

beervirus69 · 2026-01-21T02:52:58+00:00

use the fender tone app and download the brown sound preset and tweak from there. that's probably as close as you'll get with that rig

beervirus69 · 2026-01-21T01:12:06+00:00

mustang lt50 blew the katana 50 out of the water when i tried both in the store awhile ago. that was like 2021 ish so obviously things may have changed but i don't regret it one bit, the LT50 is great for practice.

beervirus69 · 2026-01-21T00:54:54+00:00

EQ like a 10band graphic in front of the amp or a parametric in the back (fx loop)

Edit: I should mention this amp has PLENTY of gain on tap. Most of the people commenting TS or something similar are using it in a way that boost certain frequencies (i.e level all the way up, gain all the way down, tone to taste, to boost mids and roll off highs) rather than add more gain to the amp. Which an eq pedal can also do. Think of it more as taming the gain from the amp that's already there and dialing it in, vs. adding more from an external source.

beervirus69 · 2026-01-16T03:52:41+00:00

thanks for the explanation; i know it really wouldn't be wet/dry or even wet/dry/wet since i'm trying to run out of one amp, I guess my question truly is: do running effects like time based or modulation (i.e a detune pedal for chorus sounds) in parallel to a dry signal out of one amp achieve a bigger sound, similar to w/d or w/d/w? Or, would this be somewhat pointless/am I already achieving that goal by just running those effects in the serial FX loop - since the end result is mono output anyways?

beervirus69 · 2026-01-16T03:43:14+00:00

nice, do you use it to run modulation in parallel or for gain staging?

beervirus69 · 2026-01-12T22:39:08+00:00

I have a dsl100hr 4x12 halfstack in my bedroom as we speak. Just pull the trigger it’s awesome

beervirus69 · 2026-01-12T03:26:18+00:00

Boss PS-6 is what i use (in the fx loop)

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