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dubkitty wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:03 pm 4 hours. not that bad, no real difference to driving to Philly for a show. the big thing mitigating against it is that i already have one that's perfectly playable and that $400 would get me something else.

my gf never bugs me about the whopping amount of effects spending i do, but it would be reasonable to look askance at this.

Zork wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:09 pm

Seance wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:05 pm I admit. This looks intriguing to me.

Wow, cool! Is this new for NAMM? Looks like they also have a Bandit, a Rock Master and a Decade in pedal format. I wish there would be a Musician 400, too. But maybe they'll expand the series?

I had a Musician 400 that I bought for $75 in the '90s and then in the early 2000s when I had to move across country I sold it for... $75.

But I do fondly recall trying to wrangle some usable sludge/brittle razor blades out of a combo of its built-in Fuzz and Distortion and Reverb. The only other gain pedal I had in those days was a ProCo Rat. Did the trick.

I would be interested in a Musician 400 "reimagining" that wasn't too faithful to the original so much as faithful to the original spirit without being the same weight as a cemetery full of haunted spirits.

There have been a few Peavey-based "clones" recently (first one I saw was the Ten Years Is A Decade, then the Acorn Solid State, and so on), but those were abooot $300 smackers, and why? There's gotta be a $15 pcb out there somehweres (just got 2 be), but at least the 3-year clownening of this Peavey situation has finally come back to Peavey proper.

This is all kinda silly, but I guess in gearworldnews, it's Big Neus! since errbutty outta good idears & why not? It just feels a liddle dum cloning the guts of cheapo gear for phennings o'er th' future (gamine thirst carnt ebber B quenched, megueusssdth).

Also, moist oildies can be obtained apart from the mansplaining reverb big dunkers if you know how 2 crawl locally

dubkitty wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:24 pm i never played a Peavey amp that was any good at all.

Big neutral Peave + single peddle o' choix = ears bleedin loudnes



You might not like it, but.......there it is (whoomp)

My first amp was a Peavey Rage 108 with the teal band and aluminum side rails. Gave it away to a friend's little brother at some point when I was in college, I think. Pretty blah, but it was the cheapest in the line so maybe others suck less. I think the little brother already had a Marshall Lead 12 combo, which I got one of sometime in the 2010's for $25 and is much more fun. I've been mildly curious about the Kult thing but not enough to put down even short money on the typical faves.

i don’t know about any of the modern stuff. all
i know is that 70s/80s Peavey amps, excepting only the Classic 30, were horrible. if you listen to the live video of Skynyrd opening for the Who at Oakland Stadium, they sound awful.

I still have a Peavey Butcher from the 80s and that thing fuckin rips.

innn, just need some big ol' peavey stacks and i can start channeling Helios Creed

dubkitty wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:24 pm i don’t know about any of the modern stuff. all
i know is that 70s/80s Peavey amps, excepting only the Classic 30, were horrible. if you listen to the live video of Skynyrd opening for the Who at Oakland Stadium, they sound awful.

they made a lot of stuff… 80s-90s 1x15 bass combos like the TNT 130 were pretty cool amps they were one of those that were always around in music stores… when Ray Brown would play Jazz Alley in seattle theyd run him through that type of amp..

backwardsvoyager wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:58 am

sick

backwardsvoyager wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:58 am innn, just need some big ol' peavey stacks and i can start channeling Helios Creed

Bloooody hell that's a clean one! Almost as or even more clean than mine (to lazy to check) ! Awesome!

Have some Boss on the way- PS-2, DSD-2 and HM-3. Can’t wait!

le lambin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:10 pm Have some Boss on the way- PS-2, DSD-2 and HM-3. Can’t wait!

All of them are awesome pedals!

The PS-2 of course for its lo-fi pitch shifting and gritty delay repeats.
The DSD-2 has the wonderful sounding 12-Bit big delay chip that sits right in the mix.
And the HM-3 is a totally underrated gem in the shadow of the HM-2. It has the instant '90s Jeff Beck lead sound with very long sustain. One of the distortion pedals that I have that make my Stratocaster sing.

backwardsvoyager wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:58 am innn, just need some big ol' peavey stacks and i can start channeling Helios Creed

I tried to clean the faders on mine last week and broke a wire.
Time to make it true bypass and fix the broken led mounting clip.

Speaking of GAS, I think a lot about getting a Hydrasynth Explorer lately to test the engine and see if it's worth getting the full size keyboard version. Should I? I have a Minibrute 2, Microkorg, Peak and Sub37, so I feel I have enough cool synths. But I'm fascinated by the Hydrasynth since it came out.

Zork wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:30 pm ...
Speaking of GAS, I think a lot about getting a Hydrasynth Explorer lately to test the engine and see if it's worth getting the full size keyboard version. Should I? I have a Minibrute 2, Microkorg, Peak and Sub37, so I feel I have enough cool synths. But I'm fascinated by the Hydrasynth since it came out.

I am also tempted by the hydrasynth. It can be battery powered (AAs are a big plus), the engine is really interesting, and I am curious about whether or not polyaftertouch is just hype.

01010111 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:26 pm

Zork wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:30 pm ...
Speaking of GAS, I think a lot about getting a Hydrasynth Explorer lately to test the engine and see if it's worth getting the full size keyboard version. Should I? I have a Minibrute 2, Microkorg, Peak and Sub37, so I feel I have enough cool synths. But I'm fascinated by the Hydrasynth since it came out.

I am also tempted by the hydrasynth. It can be battery powered (AAs are a big plus), the engine is really interesting, and I am curious about whether or not polyaftertouch is just hype.

I had the desktop one for a while. It was fun but I just didn’t like the core sound of it much. I know that sort of thing is so subjective but I made a bunch of patches and played every preset and never once was I taken aback by the sound…but otherwise I thought it was very cool and fun/fast to program. I say try it- used desktops can be had for around 500 last time I checked