It is REALLY close! When he was reading it out, I was holding my breath. When he said week 42 I let it out. Yes, he's confirmed it's the six-button switch, with the standard guitar cable connection. The age accounts for the lowish price, but a good amp is a good amp. I doubt it'll be long before new tubes are in order. I can afford to take it out a few times and see how I get on though, seeing as I'll have a decent backup on hand.
Again, cool Bubba, the footswitch is a big part of that amp IMO, especially for someone who gigs, like you. You should be able to set up some presets that are in the ballpark of what you need, & just step on a button to have 'em...
That's a big gripe I have about my DSL, it has 4 modes, but you can't use a footswitch for 'em all. You can switch between red & green, but not the modes in each channel. The JVM has a tonestack for each channel, which hits it out of the park IMO. The shared eq on my DSL is ok for recording, but playing a gig it would probably be shite...
It's a shame because some of the riffage is really good, but those vocals.... lol.
True, some of those guys are great musicians, but the vocals just kill it completely...To me, those kind of vocals (I don't even consider that singing to be honest) are beyond terrible & more than suck...
The only time I liked Sabbath and actually listened to an album worth was when they first came out.
I was just a kid then, but that first album...on vinyl...lights down low or a nice dark rainy day...
...and it was certainly freaky to me for that time.
You outta try dropping about 3 hits of acid & listening to their first album, especially the intro/sound fx part of "Black Sabbath"....I saw one of my buddies actually turn purple (from too much acid I'm assuming
), so we (about 4 of us) held him down & poured about a half gallon of milk down his throat. It seemed to have sobered/straightened him up, & I honestly think if we hadn't done that, something really, really bad would've happened to him. This guy was literally flipping out...But, we were only about 12-13 years old at the time, & had no clue about that shit (acid). The pills/tablets were so small, we figured "what the fuck, they're so small, we'll need to take 2-3 of 'em to feel anything"....First time for any of us doing anything except smoking some weed, & we did like 2-3 hits apiece...It's a wonder we all didn't die...but, those were good times, we definitely had fun...
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After their first couple of albums...they became a caricature of themselves...which is kinda what happens to a lot of Metal bands.
I don't say that to put down Metal...I think it's just the nature of the whole theatrical vibe that comes with Metal. It's like seeing a Broadway show, only with lots of black leather and death tattoos or like going to a WWF match.
I think Metal heads get that, and it's OK with them...I doubt anyone believes all the Gothic stuff is for real...they go for the show, the over-the-top images, and the music has to follow suit and support that.
Yeah man, pretty much all the metal bands are like that, but I still like a lot of the music. Mostly older stuff though, the newer stuff just doesn't appeal to me really. There are a few bands out now that I like, but they'd be considered hard rock I guess...
Something else I despise is the double-kick drum thing. Sure, I can see using it for some stuff, but not for every song from start to finish...
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