American Viking

yeh i was in a chillis influenced 4 piece a litle while ago and then we lost our bassist and couldnt get a replacement soo that fell apart, but me and the singer are working together now in an acoustic duet thingo, but rock n roll is my main style, but its all good experience i spose, i wish i could get in a rock band soon tho

Hi American Viking,

I read your comments on one of the threads reg. TSL 100 and 1960. You sound like you know your stuff well. Well, I just bought a half stack just this week.

A few questions for you, if you dont mind:

I read so much about TSL 100 and how versatile it is supposed to be. I dont seem to get things straight with this.

I cant imagine how one could get a good metal sound out of this. The crunch channel cant be bothered for power chords, or at least I wasnt able to get a proper sound out. I play mainly prog. metal, do you think I should use the crunch for that matter or go to the Lead channel?

The manual says I cant connect distortion to the loops. How am I supposed to use my effect, Boss Metal Core, with this head and cab? I was actually hoping not to use any effects with this set up. But I dont think the TSL 100 and 196o could do it without additional effects.
Would really appreciate your expert comments.

Best

Amirali

iv been playing since xmas 2004 and im 17 now so like 5 years almost
yeh iv only been getting into knowing stuff about amps for like the last month so im a bit of a bald eagle with amp nouse lol
what stuff u play?

hey mate u seem to know alot about guitars and amps etc
how long u been playing?
keep rockin

Hey AV I hoped was a little help there Bro! I never did understand why they did that on the 4100's. Don't tell anyone I knew anything about an amp made after 1983 LOL It will ruin my reputation as being an old fart.

I just liked the challenge. It was a lot harder to play our old stuff that we wrote in drop while I wwas in standard and I'm already used to the fresh new stuff in standard. You were right though... it's making me a whole lot quicker. I think sometimes people like to argue for the sake of argument. It may have nothing to do with their personal tastes at all... just looking for a point to argue.

So I tried something new out the other day... a band I play bass in has always played in drop C and with the new music being ultra melodic metal I made a suggestion to them. I told them I was going to start playing in standard C and I thought that they would be up to the challenge of learning most of what they wrote in C standard... But they were like... "Do you know how freakin' hard that'd be?!!" so I did it anyway and am thinking about switching to standard D flat for my band I play guitar in. I'm tinkering with it at the moment...

I thought that was one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I did dabble in them for a few months but yea... definately didn't hate myself as a teenager.

Viking the sound bites are up. http://www.marshallforum.com/cellar/...om-builts.html

Yes I have clips of all three amps. Can we host them directly or do I need to use an offsite? As far as final ready to play, it takes a month including building the Poplar wood boxes for a complete job.