@billmeedog 8655 wrote:
Hey Guys, 🙂
I’ve actually been using an old Hughes & Kettner Access (Midi Programmable Tube Preamp) feeding an EL84 equipped Hughes & Kettner VS-250 Stereo Power-Amp into a Marshall 1960A Stereo-Wired 4×12 Cab, with a combination of rack (Rocktron Replifex) and stomp/foot-pedal (Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah) Effects, and I’ve used this rig (mostly doing “Rock Cover/Copy” stuff) for a VERY long time! :eek::o:cool:
That being said, I also own a Marshall JCM900[ head, a Line 6 POD-XT Live, and a Fender G-DEC 30. I’m always trying to keep up with newer options in gear (even though I rarely budge on changing my “working-rig” much – if at all!) :rolleyes:
If it’s REAL (as in honest-to-goodness, tube-powered) amps that your considering, I really like the direction that Egnater Amps is going in with their “Rebel-Series” amps! That whole “Dual-Power Tube Blending” to me is pure genious! Then you can get the “best-of-both-worlds!” For example, you could get the “chimey-headroom glass” – a la Vox AC30 fame – from the EL84’s, while coaxing “Fender Deluxe-like self-compressing overdriven bliss” from the 6V6’s!!! The ability to blend the two worlds in any “percentage-blend” via a “Tube-Blend Pot/Knob” just ROCKS!!! 😉
I’d like to see these features perhaps implemented by some other companies with some more flexibility in either multi-channel amps or maybe even MIDI-Programmability (Some old-habits are “hard-to-break” I guess – LOL!:o)
Best of luck with and enjoy your search!!! 😎
~Bill Meehan~ 😀
Hi Bill,
Just an observation…your amp rig i.e- the H&K Access preamp and VS250 poweramp is the exact same combo Brett Garsed used in the early 90s when ripping it up in LA. He used these amps on MVP-Centrifugal Funk,Quid Pro Quo and his REH instructional Rock Fusion…I loved the tone on those albums!!
cheers,
Ajay
