Yeah, if it were orange or even red, I'd probably have bought one. Sure I've never seen a vacuum tube with a circuit board inside it, but that would just be nitpicking - blue light? Just makes it look like anything except what it was designed to look like, lol
Well, it does explain why he would have to use the optical output. On my MBP, the analog audio out faintly clicks when changing volume, and I can here bleeps and buzzes when the computer is working on something. It's atrocious if you use in-ear headphones.
Those were the days. The days when a TV was a huge plastic wood-grained box with a tiny skyline of vacuum tubes sending that picture show through the Cathode ray into a porthole screen the size of the palm of your hand. People in sepia tone would sit around and watch in amazement while this hunkering dinosaur sputtered and blinked like a robotic cyclops.
*In 1950's voice*
AAnnd here we - have John Ma-honey, working tirelessly to bring you blogspeak n' good cheer over the intertubes. Godspeed Johnny, we await your - next entry.
@Kaiser 'Won't Play Crisis' Machead: I just love the use of beakers in the making of an electronic gadget. You know it has to be good because they test for the highest quality ingredients in your high-tech gear.
@dead_red_eyes: If I'm not mistaken, it's just a Holy grail with more features right? I don't move that button from the 'hall' setting ever. So it wasn't really worth the cash personally. That reverb tone is surprisingly better than the one on my vox ac30...which still sounds stellar. I'm such a reverb nut that I actually switch between the vox and the holy grail reverb. Yes, I'm a nerd.
Well there's lots more options on the Holy Grail than their is on your Vox AC30 (is it handwired btw?). Yeah the Holier Grail has more options ... I dig the reverse gate. The Holiest Grail is pretty sweet too.
@dead_red_eyes: Well yeah, I was just trying to say that the vox reverb, along with the spring and hall settings of the Holy Grail net me enough reverb versatility for my nerd tunes. I WISH it was a handwired one. I actually was very very close to picking up an old 1960's Vox with all the original parts for a little under 4 grand, BUT it simply wouldnt be practical. You can't move those things at all, and I will be doing extensive touring later in the year. Sigh, I guess it will have to wait until I have a fantastic recording space.
"Sure there isn't a whole lot of mainstream demand for vacuum tubes these days, what with those fancy solid state electronics everybody's been talking about, but in certain audiophile circles, nothing beats the clean boost of a tube amp."
....painfully obvious you aren't a guitarist/bassist.
There is indeed no comparison between solid-state guitar amps and effects vs. the tube-driven variety. Indeed, some amazing advancements have been made recently with solid-state technology, even Marshall Amplification and Vox have some incredible solid-state models, but there is nothing (read: nothing!) like the sound of an overdriven tube amp. You can FEEL the difference.
@MURPHtheSURF: Absolutely... the digital stuff is fun for one reason: for small investment you get a shit-ton of sounds to play with, but they never scream properly...
@Kaiser-Machead: Probably one of the best effects pedals I've ever used, hands down. Always gives you that "oooh, that sounds amazing, remind me of..." feeling.
@BeautifulAgony: My rocker-chick cousin loves their stuff, but the title of this article has an amusing little twist to the name, or at least my late-nite-mode mind sees it that way.
@Kaiser-Machead: Oh, I getcha... but the name has been ingraine din me for so long as a guitar thing that the double entendre didn't register. I must be slipping!
I always wondered if someone had the job of inspecting all the packages of magnetic letters/toy letters that ship out of a factory in boxes with clear fronts. B/c you know by random some dirty word must pop up now and then.
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BRANDO! IT'S LIKE A MONSTER TRUCK YOU CAN PLUG INTO YOUR USB HUB!
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Yeah, if it were orange or even red, I'd probably have bought one. Sure I've never seen a vacuum tube with a circuit board inside it, but that would just be nitpicking - blue light? Just makes it look like anything except what it was designed to look like, lol
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Though I have had a problem outputting audio at all at 96000.0 HZ on my receiver. Even though in the past I was able to....
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Well, it does explain why he would have to use the optical output. On my MBP, the analog audio out faintly clicks when changing volume, and I can here bleeps and buzzes when the computer is working on something. It's atrocious if you use in-ear headphones.
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Because because because because BECAUSE...
-because of the wonderful things it does! 8D
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*In 1950's voice*
AAnnd here we - have John Ma-honey, working tirelessly to bring you blogspeak n' good cheer over the intertubes. Godspeed Johnny, we await your - next entry.
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I like the Holier Grail better myself.
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Well there's lots more options on the Holy Grail than their is on your Vox AC30 (is it handwired btw?). Yeah the Holier Grail has more options ... I dig the reverse gate. The Holiest Grail is pretty sweet too.
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....painfully obvious you aren't a guitarist/bassist.
No offense.
01/27/09
Exactly what I was thinking. John Mahoney clearly doesn't know much about this subject.
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...and I like screaming.
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Hooo-buddy.
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