For Sale Page Back!
Yes, I’m now selling one of my amps. Again. Selling something.
I am possibly getting a custom amp built and have other potential amp options. Regardless, I need to sell one.
I’m hesitant about selling either, but your gain is my loss.
Matchless vs. Divided by 13 vs. 65 Amps
So I’ve gotten it again…been bit by the bug…got the GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome).
I feel like I have one last chance to spend some money. Hannah, if you’re reading this…know that this entire post is a joke 
I’ve considered getting a new amp head. I’m looking at a Matchless Lightning/Clubman/Chieftain, a Divided by 13 RSA 23/RSA 31/FTR 37, or a 65 Amps London/Soho. In this consideration, I’m also considering selling the Dr. Z Maz 18 head (and possibly the small 1×12 cab). I love that amp a lot, but would like to hear some of the others and how they pair up with my Bad Cat Cub II.
Anyways…anybody using any of these with suggestions? Should I just stick with my Z?
Change[s]
Right after I had my board the way I wanted it, I kept it like that for a few months.
Two months later, I posted it for y’all to see.
A week later, I caved and changed it again.
I’ll put up another picture/video this weekend.
Do you prefer a picture or a video?
Spring 2010 Rig – Part 2
Thought I’d elaborate a little more on my gear in this video. Here we go:
- The board is a Showcase Black Bullet, “On the Road” size. I love it…just put the case on top and go.
- I have a Pedal Power 2+ and a PedalGear.net JuiceBox underneath powering all the pedals. The Eventides are tricky, so I ran a power supply to one and the other feeds off of the PP2+ (and it’s lack of powering very many other pedals).
- I’m using all Lava Cable patch cables now. It’s small and allows for saving space on the board and the sound is awesome and true.
- The tap tempo’s run underneath the board to the DD-5, Modfactor and Timefactor.
- I am running into a Dr. Z Maz 18 Jr. NR head and typically a 1×12 cab with a G12H (although I’m using a Marshall 2×12 cab in the video) and a Bad Cat Cub 2R head and 2×12 cab with a Blue and Vintage 30.
Here’s another run-through of the board with more details on the pedals:
- Budda Wah – very wide variety of frequencies in this wah
- Whammy IV – put at the beginning of chain and before the volume to keep it from sounding TOO glitchy. I mainly use the dry and octave up sound or use the foot controller to go up an octave. It’s all about being tasteful while doing it and it’s not always easy. Jack is making me a true bypass for this right now.
- Ernie Ball Volume Jr (with Boss tuner out)
- Catalinbread Serrano Picoso – a clean boost I leave on all the time as a buffer and to make it sound better all around.
- Diamond Compressor – I used to use a compressor on all the time and am still trying to figure out how I like to use a compressor best. Great sounding compressor that I use for a lot of single line melodies and leads right now.
- Zvex Fuzz Factory – I got this pedal to get some Muse sounds. I haven’t used it live much yet, but just found a cool setting that I like and could actually use in a church.
- Paul Cochrane Timmy Drive – Still my main drive pedal…a medium gain drive.
- Xotic RC Booster – Used for light drive and light boost.
- Fulltone Fulldrive 2 – I only use the regular channel and use it for higher gain stuff.
- Electro Harmonix Micro POG – I replaced my Whammy with this (before getting another one). I use it for that dry and octave up sound mainly but also add in a little sub octave.
- Boss DD-5 – Used mainly for dotted 8th delays…it’s the best one I’ve heard and continues to be my favorite for that sound.
- Boss RV-5 – Used for really ambient sounds.
- Eventide Modfactor – Used for tremolos mainly, but also some rotary, chorus and uni-vibe sounds when needed.
- Eventide Timefactor – Used for more standard delay sounds with a few stranger sounding delays in between.
- Line 6 DL4 – Used for stranger delay sounds.
Hopefully this gives a little more guidance and clarity. Feel free to ask any questions away as well…
Spring 2010 Rig
I plan on moving this video over here, but I thought a link would do for now.
Here is a video of me going through my gear at the moment.
Holla.
Post-Holiday Recap
Ok, so I’ve been a little carried away lately. But who hasn’t? Here’s what I’ve been doing:
- We got a new Boston Terrier puppy. Second try has been successful so far as we’ve had her almost a month and no serious issues yet. She’s so sweet and her name is Bigsby again (Bigsby II). She’s kept us busy though.
- Christmas and all the parties and family events surrounding it.
- Settling back after Christmas and getting ready for Passion 2010.
- New Years and friends coming into town for Passion 2010.
- Passion 2010.
So finally the holidays have slowed down and I’m able to blog again. Here are a few things on my mind right now:
- To all my friends who wanted to grab dinner at Passion 2010 like we talked about, I’m sorry that it did not happen. We’ll have to try it another time. If you’re local and interested in getting lunch still, I’ll have to work out another time. Just let me know if you’re interested.
- Oh yeah, I finished college. That was cool. No graduation until May, but who cares when you don’t have to go to class.
- Chris Orr Band will start hitting the road again next weekend and I look forward to traveling again.
- I have to start looking for a part-time job for during the week, then start looking for a full-time job for the fall (if not before).
- If you haven’t gathered from reading this so far, my life is really up in the air right now. It’s pretty confusing but God is teaching me a lot.
- Passion 2010 was great. It could not have been better. I’m blessed to be a part of the movement stirring.
- I got almost $100 in gift cards to iTunes for Christmas and will be posting some thoughts of them.
Lastly, thanks for being a part of my life through the website. It’s easy for people to read this and want to think all I am is a dude who likes to talk about guitar gear. Although that is a part of me, it is only a small part and I’m glad that I can make this a resource for guitar players, but also make friends along the way who will read about my life and let me talk about more than just guitar stuff. Thank you for reading and contributing.
Here’s to 2010: a new year and a new decade.
Top 5 Christmas Season Favs
- Christmas Egg Nog
- Christmas Trees (specifically the smell)
- Christmas Lights
- Christmas Music
- Christmas Movies
Can I get an Amen?!
Gear Talk – Mark Waldrop
The other guitarist from David Crowder Band is Mark. Mark plays through a few different PRS guitars, an Anderson guitar, Fender Tele and a Rickenbacker and runs them through a Bad Cat Lynx, Bad Cat Black Cat or an Vox AC30 Custom Classic (newer ones).
Here’s the board he used on the Church Music Tour:
- Keeley Mellow Wah
- Fulltone Fulldrive 2
- Zvex Box of Rock
- Zvex Super Duper
- Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
- Boss TR-2 Tremolo
- Boss PS-5 Super Shifter
- Boss Volume w/ tuner out
- Boss DD-20 Giga Delay
- Boss RV-3 Reverb
- Eventide Timefactor
- Boss LS-2 Line Selector (used to switch between the amps)
The footswitch in the top left corner is a controller and tap for the Timefactor and DD-20. The extra Boss tuner and DI in the top right corner are used for something special during the show using his iPhone.
Line 6 M9
I keep hearing more and more about the Line 6 M9 and thought I’d give my opinion.
The M9 is a multi-effects processor that takes the Line 6 stompboxes and puts them into one unit. You can get sounds from the DL4, MM4, FM4, DM4 as well as the Verbzilla. It was made to be used going into an amp afterwards and you can even use it with other pedals. The M9’s big brother, the M13 was cool, but just way too big.
I was attracted to it when I saw it was about the same size as the DL4 (a little bigger) and could do all the DL4 could, but was built better and sounded just as good, if not better. You could also have 6 presets at a time, allowing 3 to be on at a time. There were also some really cool reverb patches as well. Once I got mine, I sat down with it for a few hours and dialed in all different kind of sounds. They sounded great, were easy to access and seemed to be an all around great unit.
When I put it on my pedalboard in place of my DL4, I started thinking about how this would change my pedalboard a lot. I didn’t need to pedal to do drives or modulation as I had that covered. I only needed the delays I had on my DL4 and maybe a few reverbs. Then I realized that my DD-20, Timefactor and DD-5 (whichever combination of those I have on my board at the time) can do a lot already and I really only need my DL4 to do those 3 delays I like a lot (with the 3 other setting via the expression switch). Having the M9 just to do a few delay sounds would be overkill for my rig. I thought it might be nice to have for smaller gigs and flight dates and such, but I’ve already got a flight board too and don’t really ever play a lot of smaller coffee shop-type gigs to make it worth it.
However, it is a great unit and worth looking into to replace your DL4, MM4 and just to have in general. Check it out!
Passion 2010 Gear Talk Dinner
My friends and readers of this blog, let’s do dinner.
If you are attending Passion 2010 and read this blog, let me know. I want us to all get together and enjoy dinner and talking some gear together sometime throughout the event. It’d be cool to get to meet y’all as well!
Leave me a comment and let me know if you’ll be there and be interested in this.
About Nathan
I think there’s probably a lot that I could say. After living as myself for about twenty two years, you get to know yourself. However, I’ll stick to the basics…
I live in Atlanta and I just finished school at Atlanta Christian College studying Biblical Studies with a minor in Student Ministry. I like music a lot. I play guitar at different churches, shows and events as a contract musician and play with a few bands (see my Links page).
I’d like a XXX Vitamin Water or Dr. Pepper to drink, or maybe a sweet tea (I mean…I am from the South). I’m a Mac guy and will always be. Organization is vital to most of anything that I do and I thoroughly enjoy making lists (especially if it’s on a 3×5 notecard or a Post-It). I live off my iPhone now…it’s wherever I am. I like to read many books, especially stuff from C.S. Lewis, John Piper, and Andy Stanley (Nerd? I think not…).
I am on the MySpace world as well as Facebook, but I’m on Twitter a whole lot now too.
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