I'll get to the dg series, trying to get an example off all the older ones first...lol
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I'll get to the dg series, trying to get an example off all the older ones first...lol
oh, I have nothing new to say about it.
just wanted to reprise that famous song from when I was in the Village People, HXDA, and get everyone up on the dance floor.
“It’s fun to play through an HXDA...”
Question I'm purchasing a HxDa head and cab I've heard it doesn't take pedals very well is this true thank you
Half of the fun of owning an amp is discovering the pedals that compliment it. Luckily, there’s about 50 years of discussion and reviews of what works with a Plexi.
Yeah, good posts on the topic so far. Some pedals are versatile enough to work with a lot of amps. Many aren’t. Fuzz pedals are the weirdest of all, like Les said. It’s almost hard to believe at times how bad my Fulltone 69 can sound with the clean channel of many amps (as I have them set normally, anyway) but boy, flip it over to the gain channel and it sounds great.
This is perhaps just me, but I love fuzz into an overdriven amp with a fat midrange. Put it into a clean amp, especially with a scooped midrange like a Blackface Fender, and it sounds like a can of angry bees.
So rather than start a new "I love my HXDA" thread, I'll jump back in to this one...
The other night we had band practice, and I played one of our (my) new songs a little heavier than normal through the HXDA. Not too loud, probably a loud-bedroom volume (we also use acoustic instruments like fiddles and when we practice we don't usually plug those in). Settings were both gains at 8 o'clock, presence at 1 o'clock, and everything else (including master) at noon. These settings allow me to use a guitar in clean mode through an acoustic emulation pedal to sound like a useful simulation of an acoustic guitar for practice purposes. And I use dirt/gain pedals to get some nice heavier sounds.
I would have used the Mojo Hand FX DMBL to generate a bit of dirt and push the amp, through the Keeley 30ms to get some reverb (no warble).
The guitar was an Al D Prism, both pups with the coils tapped.
I could get a nice medium-heavy rhythm sound, crunchy overdrive type by chugging on the EAD strings (or just AD, depending on the chord), hit the EAD strings for a nice firm growl and then immediately another strum across the GBe strings for a sparkly lighter sounding "jangle" while the growly stuff still rang out - it was like I was playing two guitars!
I have no idea how the amp got that sound, but dang it was glorious! Maybe something to do with how the HXDA and Bass Gains interact. I dunno...
The amp can do an awful lot of good things. It’s magic!
I want one in 240V ... seems like an impossible dream at the moment
You're right of course .. certainly worth looking for some good deals in the US, and ship it overLots of US bands tour with voltage converters for their amps when they hit Britain. I just saw a 1000 Watt step-up/step-down transformer for under $70 on Amazon. It’s not like it’s terribly expensive.