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Bought this huge badass load resistor on eBay a while ago and finally had the time to wire it up and try some slaving tonight.





Plugged my trusty old 83' Pacer into the Bugera 1960, cranked everything but bass to 10. Speaker out to the CAE Line-out box, from the CAE to the load resistor. The CAE line-out went to a Neunaber WET, then into the Matrix GT1000FX.
The clip is recorded at near bedroom volume, could gig anywhere with this setup.
Just some mindless noodling, but you get the drift....

And this is just a simple resistive resistor, no fancy reactive stuff!
Added a bit of delay in post for stereo spread.

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Very most excellent. By far my favorite clip of yours. Well done!

Very nice!!happy with the amp???

Excellent, love your clips.

Can you let us know the whole chain, what pickup, which channel on the amp, what speakers, etc?

Slaving can dial in great tome everytime. Adds great compression.

@ 25 seconds, been trying to figure out how to get that tone for a while now. Very similar to "Can't Get This Stuff No More". Just killer

How sensitive is the volume controls on those power amps? I looked at the GT800FX at one point but had fear of blowing a cab.

BLIX!...fookin awesome ...
Listened to all your clips...you are one fine player....

Veary nice show off.

That sounds insanely good , that clip just inspired me to pick up my guitar even though I can't plug in at the moment

Clean straight solid state power to reamp with......... been preachin it forever. Its just been tough to find a good ss amp till now.

Thats sounds amazing! So the resistor..its a total load?? Just line out signal is amplified again?
I am seeing a killer way to control any plexi but its gonna require that exact resistor and the new 3 channel matrix amp. So I can do wdw
I think this is maybe what could make expensive variable attenuators obsolete. Seriously.

What pickup and mods to the bugera???

vanhalen5150 wrote:How sensitive is the volume controls on those power amps? I looked at the GT800FX at one point but had fear of blowing a cab.

I am running a crown ce2000-900+watts per side. It ain't jack. They make it sound like its absurd power bit really its so controllable it an't funny. Either turn down the amps channel volume or the level of whatever is sending signal to it.
I run my crown wide open and control the volume from my mixers main level knob. Its about almost half way up so its very easy to dial the volume. You shouldn't be afraid here-it just sounds scary but its not.
But I so want one of these matrix amp bad!

mr.twistyneck wrote:Very most excellent. By far my favorite clip of yours. Well done!

Thanks!

bmf5150 wrote:Very nice!!happy with the amp???

Yes, very! Bang for buck factor is through the roof.

Krinkle wrote:Excellent, love your clips.

Can you let us know the whole chain, what pickup, which channel on the amp, what speakers, etc?

The pickup is a custom JS.Moore humbucker I had him wind for me, very mismatched coils, one coil 4k, the other 7k. Similar to the Duncan 59/Custom hybrid I guess.
Bright channel on the amp.
Cab is the EVH 2x12" with G12H 70th Anniversary speakers. Mic is a Sennheiser e906 into a Line 6 UX1 interface.

vanhalen5150 wrote:How sensitive is the volume controls on those power amps? I looked at the GT800FX at one point but had fear of blowing a cab.

Great control over the volume with he Matrix, not super sensitive or anything.

Krinkle wrote:@ 25 seconds, been trying to figure out how to get that tone for a while now. Very similar to "Can't Get This Stuff No More". Just killer

0:25 is indeed straight from Can't Get This Stuff No More. Needs some Eventide to nail it though!

dazzlindino wrote:BLIX!...fookin awesome ...
Listened to all your clips...you are one fine player....

Thanks!

hammered wrote:That sounds insanely good , that clip just inspired me to pick up my guitar even though I can't plug in at the moment

dirtycooter wrote:Clean straight solid state power to reamp with......... been preachin it forever. Its just been tough to find a good ss amp till now.

Thats sounds amazing! So the resistor..its a total load?? Just line out signal is amplified again?
I am seeing a killer way to control any plexi but its gonna require that exact resistor and the new 3 channel matrix amp. So I can do wdw
I think this is maybe what could make expensive variable attenuators obsolete. Seriously.

What pickup and mods to the bugera???

Total load and line out amplified, this is the resistor I bought:http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-OHM-300W-Non- ... 1e6e215af6

And yes, this made me question those expensive attenuators indeed, when a simple resistive load does such a fine job!

The Bugera is still bone stock, even stock tubes here. Will probably order a new OT and choke from Magnetic/Classictone soon though. Pickup is the custom 11k JS.Moore with mismatched coils.

And yeah, the 3ch Matrix would be killer for w/d/w with this setup! Cranked amp and still total control over the volume, would be awesome.
Will kick some ass running just stereo too though, using the Eventide H3000 running in parallel, similar to EVH's rig in the late 80's.
I really need a new recording interface so I can record that in stereo....

That lineout box is identical to mine. I notice mine gets warm but never ran a plexi full bore through it. Is yours makin alot of heat???

dirtycooter wrote:That lineout box is identical to mine. I notice mine gets warm but never ran a plexi full bore through it. Is yours makin alot of heat???

Not really, it can take the heat! The load resistor gets pretty hot though.