Fender Blackface Twin Reverb + Mesa/Boogie .50 Caliber + head [Clean Sounds] (Random Noodling)

This is a short demo of some clean sounds I use.
I wanted to showcase that the .50 Caliber + has some really great, full clean sounds as well! It has less high end than the Twin, obviously, but has a rounder, more mid-full tone.

Just noodling with the IZAH live rig. Playing stuff that's nowhere near IZAH - but hey, gotta get around with the smaller board!

I open with the clean channel on .50 Caliber + with the following effects:
- Keeley C4
- ModFactor (slow 'Organic' Chorus)
- DMM
- RV-5 (Modulate)

.. at 1:00 I switch over to the Twin Reverb. It is harder to hear with a camera (Canon Powershot A470), of course, but the difference is there. From there, every time you hear the tone change, it's changing from amp.

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Gear used:

Guitar:
- Fender '93 ltd. Golden Jazzmaster - CiJ w/ matching headstock
[Mustang Bridge, Buzz Stop added and Tremolo Arm fixed]
.012 Elixir strings (C standard tuning)
( http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/DemolitionColorScheme/DemolitionColorSc... )

Amps:
- Fender '69 Silverface [modded to Blackface] Twin Reverb + Mesa/Boogie .50 Caliber + Head
( http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/DemolitionColorScheme/DemolitionColorSc... )
.. switched by ..
- ( inside the rack: ) Radial Tonebone Headbone VT
( http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/DemolitionColorScheme/DemolitionColorSc... )

Pedalboard:
- IZAH Pedalboard - July 2009
( http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/DemolitionColorScheme/DemolitionColorSc... )

Signal chain:
- Keeley C4 - 4 Knob Compressor
- Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret
- Custom True Bypass Looper - 1 Loop & 1 Tuner Out
:: IN ::
LOOP:
- Eventide ModFactor
- Line 6 Echo Park
- Eventide TimeFactor
- Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man [modded: true bypass]
- BOSS RV-5
TUNER OUT:
- BOSS TU-2
:: OUT ::
- BBE Sonic Stomp (in the Mesa Boogie rack)
:: Mesa Boogie FX Loop ::
- BOSS GE-7 (in the Mesa Boogie rack) [modded: 9V input, blue LED]

- 2x Burkey Flatliner SIX (power supply) (one on the board, one in the Mesa Boogie rack)

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More info on the total gear [for all you gearheads]:
- http://guitargeek.com/chat/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100652

All mods by Technophobia Analog Audio Solutions:
- http://technophobia.co.nr/

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For info on my music projects, see:
- Arafúra:
http://www.facebook.com/ArafuraMusic
Ambient / Dream-Pop / Shoegaze / Post-Rock

- IZAH:
http://www.IZAHband.com
Post-Metal / Sludge / Post-Rock / Noise

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[blueheadphoneguy]

found this in tha manual:

A: It depends on where the delay is positioned in the signal chain. If the delay is placed before the Headbone, there is no problem. If the delay device is placed after the Headbone, or in an amplifier’s effects loop, you can have a problem because the echo may continue to generate a signal and send it through the “stand-by” amp with no speaker load connected. It is generally not good to run an amp this way as the output transformer can heat up and ultimately short out.

[DemoColorScheme]

@blueheadphoneguy

Exactly. That's what I was saying. :) In front of it: fine (of course), in the FX loop: no go.

[DemoColorScheme]

@blueheadphoneguy

It's not a fail ... ;) It's simple physics and it's the nature of head switchers.

[blueheadphoneguy]

@DemoColorScheme ah wow, really! i didnt think about that... isnt that covered by the device? if it really isnt, its kinda the biggest amp switching fail, because...everyone uses delays and stuff like that!

[DemoColorScheme]

@blueheadphoneguy

There's some difficulties when dealing with tube head switching on 1 cab. You can't use delays and reverbs in the FX loop due to the spill over that would happen if you did. When you'd switch amps, the signal would linger in the 'bypassed' amp, but because it isn't really bypassed and still is on, it would receive signal. Due to the load of the amps, you could seriously damage your amp that way. And well, these days I'm running an Axe-Fx ULTRA.

[DemoColorScheme]

@blueheadphoneguy

Thanks!

[blueheadphoneguy]

btw...THIS SOUNDS FUCKIN AMAZING!!!!!

[blueheadphoneguy]

@DemoColorScheme why dont you switch amps anymore? cant you recommend it to me?

[backwardsnamestaken]

@DemoColorScheme yeah I looked it up and I guess that is definitely a problem ... I did read that you can get their loop pedal and you can set it up so that when you switch the loop it also switches the amp ... that is one way of doing it but then again it defeats the purpose of having the pedals after the guitar goes into the amp. I am currently looking into the mesa high gain amp switcher but I think it is an ab/y switcher so I can't get away with only one cab.

[DemoColorScheme]

@backwardsnamestaken

Well, it's all explained in the manual, really.