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All you have is now
I love playing me some music but oh those evil members of NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) they're evil I tell ya!
Dangling all kinds of zippy zoomy shiny objects in front of us to extract the gold from our bank accounts...THAT's NOT RIGHT!
You poor guitar players and the plethora of pedal and effects possibilities...and then there's the amps OY!
Currently I am being mesmerized by the ASPEN PITTMAN Spacestation...Is it sorcery or is it science? God only knows. The founder of Groove Tubes developed this evil temptress and from all the discussions about it on the keyboard forums the takeaway is this guy has invented and patented an amp configuration that will take you to very loud and clear stereophonic amp heaven in a tiny little single box. The unit has 4 speakers ( a coaxial 8" speaker with a 1" mid driver, a tweeter and a 6" speaker turned 90 degrees) and 4 amps to power each speaker individually and a few magical knobs to take you to nirvana.
HERE's a link to a 181 page thread where people including Aspen his self discuss and drool over this witchcraft.
Below is Aspen's "new and improved!", "latest greatest!", "you won't believe your ears!" infomercial on the Center Point Sound Spacestation V3 magic
So I have been watching the used market for one of these babies cause I'm too cheap to pay the $800 new via Sweetwater. I've also considered trying to build my own beefed up version on steroids. So... in deeply thinking about how I would go about it ...I thought I'd try an experiment and see the results. I grabbed one of my pretty old n beat up but still great sounding Behringer B2031's monitors and took it to practice with me along with a Roland KC500 that I am really not a big fan of but it serves the purpose for practice. I stuck the KC500 in a corner to the right of me and placed the 8" monitor on top it at 90 degrees pointed to the wall. the KC500 has a 3 band eq, a master volume and a Stereo link with a volume pad. I screwed around "tuning this combo set up kind of how Aspen recommends tuning the V3. I've not played through a spacestation but I'll tell ya that KC500 has never screamed like it screamed last night with the help of that one silly 8" monitor pointing to a wall. And the clarity and dispersion of the sound image was very improved (Leslie effect on the Nord was very "wide")..It's not like having to K10's spread in stereo but it was compact, screaming loud and clear and best of scalable. I have a spare KC500 I may just Frankenstein after last nights experiment.
Dangling all kinds of zippy zoomy shiny objects in front of us to extract the gold from our bank accounts...THAT's NOT RIGHT!
You poor guitar players and the plethora of pedal and effects possibilities...and then there's the amps OY!
Currently I am being mesmerized by the ASPEN PITTMAN Spacestation...Is it sorcery or is it science? God only knows. The founder of Groove Tubes developed this evil temptress and from all the discussions about it on the keyboard forums the takeaway is this guy has invented and patented an amp configuration that will take you to very loud and clear stereophonic amp heaven in a tiny little single box. The unit has 4 speakers ( a coaxial 8" speaker with a 1" mid driver, a tweeter and a 6" speaker turned 90 degrees) and 4 amps to power each speaker individually and a few magical knobs to take you to nirvana.
HERE's a link to a 181 page thread where people including Aspen his self discuss and drool over this witchcraft.
Below is Aspen's "new and improved!", "latest greatest!", "you won't believe your ears!" infomercial on the Center Point Sound Spacestation V3 magic
So I have been watching the used market for one of these babies cause I'm too cheap to pay the $800 new via Sweetwater. I've also considered trying to build my own beefed up version on steroids. So... in deeply thinking about how I would go about it ...I thought I'd try an experiment and see the results. I grabbed one of my pretty old n beat up but still great sounding Behringer B2031's monitors and took it to practice with me along with a Roland KC500 that I am really not a big fan of but it serves the purpose for practice. I stuck the KC500 in a corner to the right of me and placed the 8" monitor on top it at 90 degrees pointed to the wall. the KC500 has a 3 band eq, a master volume and a Stereo link with a volume pad. I screwed around "tuning this combo set up kind of how Aspen recommends tuning the V3. I've not played through a spacestation but I'll tell ya that KC500 has never screamed like it screamed last night with the help of that one silly 8" monitor pointing to a wall. And the clarity and dispersion of the sound image was very improved (Leslie effect on the Nord was very "wide")..It's not like having to K10's spread in stereo but it was compact, screaming loud and clear and best of scalable. I have a spare KC500 I may just Frankenstein after last nights experiment.