GrumpyRocker

Okay here we go with a little rough and ready demo of the Laney Ironheart I9;ve just spent half an hour recording. This 6L6 (changeable to EL34) powered amp head is clearly aimed at the metal crowd but it has a lovely clean channel and the two dirt channels are capable of a bluesy crunch.

The amp features a solid state boost at the front end and a serial FX loops, both of which can be switched out of the signal path. The boost can be engaged on any channel. As far as I can tell so far the rhythm and lead channels are identical, The only difference being that the rhythm channel shares a three band eq (and pull pot controls) with the clean channel.

This is a very quick and rough demo recording made using with some new gear. The recording was made in Reaper and is made up of four tracks. Tracks 2, 3 & 4 were recorded using a Behringer XM8500 mic into a Line6 UX1 audio interface. No modelling was used, nor any post-recording FX.

This brief demo is of some of the dynamic feel with the new POD. Very quick noodle played straight into Cubase over the USB connection, no post processing at all, it's all just one track.

Model is the JCM800 with the gain set under half. I'm not changing anything while I play over the looper (Fender Blackface with some verbs) other than picking soft/hard or moving the guitar volume pot.

Okay, being brave here. Please ignore my hackneyed clichéd boxy playing.

Edit: Eek sorry about the crackling in the loop. I turned it down pretty low and it's in the noise floor of the recording. This being an mp3 doesn't help as it's added some unwanted compression too. But hey ho, you get the idea. The clip ends abruptly as my playing actually got worse - in my defence it's a bit early in the day for me.

My little dirty blues Bugera V22 demo is now available in YouTube video form.

A brief demo of the Bugera V22 guitar amplifier. The mic was a Behringer XM8500 (at the edge of the speaker cone), recorded straight into a Line6 UX1 and onwards to Cubase Essential. Just a quick improvised noodle to demo more rhythmic type work on the dirt channel. Gain is set just under halfway for the two rhythm tracks panned left (bridge pickup) and right (neck pickup). The lead track in the middle has the gain all the way up. No post- recording fiddling was done, the delay on the lead track came via the Line6 M13 which was set up on the amp using the four cable method. So this particular delay ran through the amp's fx loop. Drums by EZDrummer. The guitar a PRS SE Custom Trem. The amp wasn't cranked - this was recorded at neighbour friendly volume.

A few folks have asked for a demo of my amp, so here it is. This was just something I knocked together in ten minutes this morning - first a quick improv over a looped chord progression, then some dirty blues. My apologies in advance for the terrible playing.

I've never actually recorded an amp with a mic before - so it was a learning experience. The mic was a Behringer XM8500 (at the edge of the speaker cone), recorded straight into a Line6 UX1 and onwards to Cubase Essential. The clean demo has no layering, just one track in realtime. The second demo has three unedited tracks played over a drum sequence.

Clean Demo
A short clean demo of the Bugera V22 amp. The guitar is a PRS SE Custom Trem played through a Line6 M13 effects unit. The Line6 unit was only used for the looper facility. The reverb is from the V22 itself.

Dirty Blues
Just a quick improvised noodle to demo more rhythmic type work on the dirt channel. Gain is set just under halfway for the two rhythm tracks panned left (bridge pickup) and right (neck pickup). The lead track in the middle has the gain all the way up. No post- recording fiddling was done, the delay on the lead track came via the Line6 M13 which was set up on the amp using the four cable method. So this particular delay ran through the amp's fx loop. Drums by EZDrummer.

Heavy
Does the Bugera like pedals? Here's a very quick demo of a heavy patch from the Line6 M13. This is the Line6 Distortion model no other effects in use. The amp EQ is pretty flat, just tweaked on the effect itself and the guitar tone rolled off a little. There's a brief widdle with the Throaty Wah patch at the end. The recording came out a little bassier than it was in person. Clearly I'm not quite ready to produce a multi-platinum album.