Recent content by Matt

Tunghaichuan is right, by putting it in the FX loop, it is merely another master volume- although one you can control from your foot which might be useful in a couple of applications- such as being far away from your amp on stage. But otherwise, not many things you can do with it. I prefer to...

I like it very much. I think I am over the honeymoon period with it now and can judge it a tad more truthfully. At low volumes, it sounds great with the PRS. The drive channel really responds well to the humbuckers and the tonal scope available on the ISF is quite large. It cleans up really...

I recently went into my local guitarshop and noticed they had a lot of USA PRS models in. Being friendly with the store owner, he let my try each one out (including one of the new Modern Eagles in a custom finish worth about £10,000- needless to say I was terrified of scratching it!). One in...

My Blackstar Ht-20 Studio and my new PRS Standard 22. Tasty tones...

I use my DD-20 now for most delay sounds, although I do want an analog delay to put pre-gain for interesting sounds. As good as the DD-20 sounds though, the best delay I have ever played through is the EHX Deluxe Memory Man. The new ones don't sound quite the same but are still amazing. The...

NWBasser, I have the HT-20 combo, and it is a very sweet sounding amp. The clean channel is very sweet and useable, and the drive channel can do anything you want due to the huge amount of gain on tap. The only thing I would say is that it is not a bedroom amp, it needs volume to sound its...

you've hit the nail on the head for me Deeaa, I don't get why people rave on about Page's tone and spend huge amounts of money to get it when it sounds so messy, unpleasantly fuzzy and rough round the edges. Purely subjective of course... :french It could just be that I'm young and like smoother...

I have the 20 watt Blackstar and can't praise it enough. Very dynamic clean and the overdrive is very very versitile. You need to crank it a little to get really good drive, but even at low volumes it sounds great. I really must get round to recording some clips for you guys...

sounds like a perfect studio/practise amp. I will be looking out for one of these :)

I've recently swapped back to the original pickups in my strat. I had the standard Dimarzio 58/58/61 combination, but there just wasn't something right about the sound. They sounded great with gain, but clean they were pretty lifeless. I tried adjusting the height etc as they are very responsive...

I have the 20W combo. It's amazing, although I am still in the honeymoon period. I've gigged it since though, and it's pretty damn loud. The best improvment over the HT-5 is the clean channel. On the HT-5, it was bland. On this however it sounds sweet. On the 40W and above models they have the...

DVM, have all these mods made the amp get over its boxy nature at louder volumes? I still havn't got round to doing the BillM mods yet and now after buying my Blackstar I'm having a hard time justifying it and not just getting rid of the Blues Jr. But at the same time, it would be cool to run...

I had a Bad Monkey for ages but then started to get annoyed with the mid-hump sound it tries to emulate and so stopped using it for a while except as a boost to a Big Muff I used to use to overcome the Muff's huge mid scoop. I'm fairly happy with my Tech 21 Double Drive again now as it's so...

I had been spying these for a while on YouTube. Just from those limited clips they sounded pretty good. When my local shop got a HT-20 Studio combo in, I asked to play it. I was blown away by just how good they sound in person and could not believe how cheap these things are (well not THAT...

I have quite a few to play with- having a JVM (only the 2 channel version) means I have 6 gain stages to play with there. However, I feel that my strat prefers pedal gain than amp gain, and so use my Rat clone and Tech21 dual drive with it. Of course they can be added to the marshall's various...