Falling in love again

[Hemisaurus]

So after watching The Story of The Who and marvelling at John Entwistle's rigs, I decided to hook up my Ashdown preamp again. Rather than drag the power amp as well, I just hooked it up to two of the amps I already had in the man cave. All I can say is Holy Fuck, Preamps are IMPORTANT!!! I bi-amped it, running the lows into the power amp in on the T-Max hooked to the EV-18 and the highs to the aux on the Crate Stealth hooked to a single 15".



Even before I turned on the T-Max, and with the lows being dumped into no-mans land, the Stealth roared, with the EQ, Valve Drive and Subharmonics out, just straight. Dropping in the Valve Drive and a touch of EQ and it was a whole new amp. I mean this thing sounded weeny before, whether I used the instrument in jack, or fed the aux from my T-Max, I figured eh! it's not got enough power for bass frequencies well I was wrong. I'm tempted to drop a quad of 6550's into the Crate now and just use it for a high-end poweramp.

With the T-Max feeding the EV, things were shaking off the shelves, the wall were vibrating. I am so glad I didn't sell this thing now. Thankyou Herr Entwistle, for creating (or inspiring, causing it to be created, whatever he did to Ashdown).

1 hiccup, I need to make an attenuator to balance the Aux on the Crate with the Power Amp In on the Peavey, Crate input is too sensitive.

[bitter]

Nice! What kind of wattage are you pushing with that setup? also, Is that the only peavey cab you have?

[Hemisaurus]

Not a lot. Probably 300W total, maybe 450. No I have multiple Peavey cabs.

[bitter]

I was wonderin' where they all went 

[Baltar]

Good God.  Congrats on the new/old rig discovery.