The we don’t need no stinkin’ budget rig

[markd21]

I more or less have my dream rig. Changes for me have become incremental. I more or less have all my sounds figured out, but I still experiment and periodically I’ll find something that I like better and will switch stuff out.

I think of my guitars in terms of decades; 50s, 60’s, 70’s, 90’s, and my amps are dialed in for roughly 70s Plexi and 90s crunch and high gain type sounds.

NICE! So, let me see if I can kind of guess at how this works....

(2) Triple Crowns = 6 channels, with what...two modes each? Then the Swiching Track lets you pick which head you are using, which is controlled by the Dedicated FS? The only thing I can't figure out is how the FS is routed to both heads...or did I get it all wrong?

Anyway, looks like a VERY flexible rig!!

 

[Screamingdaisy]

NICE! So, let me see if I can kind of guess at how this works....

(2) Triple Crowns = 6 channels, with what...two modes each? Then the Swiching Track lets you pick which head you are using, which is controlled by the Dedicated FS? The only thing I can't figure out is how the FS is routed to both heads...or did I get it all wrong?

Anyway, looks like a VERY flexible rig!!

Both amps on all the time, more or less the same settings on each channel. A head has EL34s (50w) and B head has 6V6 (25w). It’s setup so I can take one or both amps without needing to reconfigure anything. The EL34 amp has delay in the loop while the 6V6 amp is dry. I plan on getting a second 2x12 to make it more compact (seriously considering two 1x12s), but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

The Switch Track is a midi-A/B/Y box, although I’m not using midi with this setup. It’ll let me program the phase as well as the condition (A/B/Y/mute), which is useful when one of your channels is out of phase with the other two and you want to switch back and forth.

The way I’m using it is a fancy isolated Y box and mute. I had big dreams of using a midi controller and switcher, but once I started using it I realized it made using too many effects too easy and I stripped right back as penance. I had just delay for awhile but I found I needed something swirly for a couple songs and put the Phase 90 back on.

The footswitch is midi. I run it into the first head and a midi thru to the second head. It works so long as you want both amps to do the same thing.

 

[markd21]

Sweet. A Triple Crown with 6V6 tubes? Killer. I LOVE a good 6V6 amp.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

That was me being facetious

No, no, don’t get me wrong. You were doing good right up til the end, but at least you abbreviated this time.
However, I told you man, Courtney Cox is the way to go. Or was. I’m pretty sure that I myself have sang the

Courtney Cox
Shook me
All night long

Version more than once over the last 40 years. I mean, who hasn’t.