Hello guys,
my name is Tomas and I am from Slovak Republic. I started my guitar journey when I was 13 y.o. (26 now) getting a Squier guitar as a Christmas gift. 5 years later, earning some money in the summer I ended up being an owner of 100W Engl Ritchie Blackmore head with Orange 412 cab. We played gigs, moving all the stuff into the venues all by ourselves. Later on I even got a small wheels for that cab. Today I am laughing, how we could move that 50kgs Orange cab without wheels for a years. Weight of the head with case was about 35kgs. I also never turned up the volume knob passing 9 O´clock. Rehearshals were anyway too loud, muddy. We were damaging our ears, played not that precise as we would like to. Ofc not talking about the character of the 6L6 tubes I´ve never got to experience. After every gig we were so exhausted and we had to move all the stuff back to our rehearshal room. It was a nightmare.
Despite all being said, I must say, that it was a nice time going through all of this and I appreciate I had an opportunity to spend my time with music.
Well, later on I´ve bought Orange Brent Hinds Terror which is small lunchboxy head with 15 Watts. Even bought a 212 cab. I hoped I will finally crank the volume up and get more out of the tubes. It has got better but still kinda loudy, not that high gain as I needed. When I switched the mode to half power or to bedroom mode, the sound character has changed.
Although Engl Ritchie Blackmore head is a great sounding head, I sold it to a guitarist that plays in local Iron Maiden Tribute band.
I took some more money and bought a Kemper non-powered rack version before Christmas.
Eventually It got me into playing more often, the amount of the versatility is something I think I will be happy to explore and take an use of it.
I wanted to be universal as much as I could and until now Kemper fulfilled my needs even tho I didn´t explore all of the stuff going on around Kemper yet.
PS: I am a fan of Tremonti, Dorje, Gojira, Revocation, Don Brocco, Polyphia etc... I was watching a Tremonti rig rundown and there he had a device called Attenuator from Universal audio. Until now I didn´t know about a device like this. Well, shame on me, but it still doesn´t solve all the problems with the big rig.
Looking forward to go through forum and get as many informations as possible.
Sincerely
Tomas