So here's the ol' faithful I was playing through for many years. It's a handwired Roost amp made in the UK in the late 70's. She's bloody powerful and apparently modelled on the Hiwatt setup with some mods. She's got a nice warm tone but she really needs a good service and a proper tidy up as she's a little scratchy at times in some of the pots, inputs, you name it. Lately she'd started dropping out entirely at low volume and would only fire up again if I raised the volume and punched a chord. I think she needs to be driven a lot harder than I can at home so at the moment she's in the cupboard under a blanket. The twin cab is loaded with Peavey Black widows. I think the cab is possibly almost as old as the Roost as my aunty gave it to me saying that she used to use it years ago and no longer needs it.
And a vid of how it sounds with an old setup I used to use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxzXAx-kso
So I ended up buying an 80's solid state Marshall reverb twin, which I know aren't everyone's cup o' tea, but I love the way this thing reacts on the note. The pedals are an Electro Harmonix smallstone, Sansamp Tri Ac (which is just shit hot), Cry Baby Wah, A george Dennis something-or-other wah, and my favourite on the left is the Earthquaker Devices Disaster Transport. That pedal is just off tap. I should really make a vid off all the shit that thing can do.
I've got five guitars at the moment, there's the 80's yamaha from that vid above plus the Ovation idea (the only gear I've ever bought new, bought at 45% off), the red one is a Godin SDXT, and the teal one is my "daily", a Godin SD 24 fret. I love that guitar and have been angling to pick up another one the same and a maple fretboard example too, but the other half won't have a bar of it right now. I've also got an old shitty bass (a washburn I think it was) which has been round a mates with my Mark Bass head and celestion 4x10 cab for over a year. He's a good egg and my old bass player so not too fussed, but I do miss laying down some four string lines from time to time.
I also snaffled an old Wurlitzer off a mate a while back. He didn't have the space for it so it was a give away. Needs a bit of a tune and service and a new reed or two but otherwise sounds great. The amp underneath is some old junker but it sounds great witha bit of drive running through it all dirty. It'd be a great bit of kit to record some really nasty riffs with.
I usually record any ideas I have on video which is easier to look back on later than trying to figure out from audio. I've put a few up on youtube too, but as I said, they're usually raw ideas. This vid is the SD through the disaster transport with Marshall O/D. No videos of the Ovation driven through the sansamp into the Marshall as yet, but I really should as it sounds bloody awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8liFY-Cmys
