sickman_84

Look, I knew that between 30 and 50 watts the difference is minimal... there are only a few true 50-watt amps, I’ve played with transistors of 100-120 watts and a Delta Blues 30-watt just eats them up! If you have the chance to try it at (very) high volumes, do it, and you'll be surprised. Great Zanna, I used to be an old user of the marketplace, now (thankfully for my wallet) I'm all set with my setup (us guitarists, with pedals, amps, and guitars, are never satisfied... maybe this time it will be the right one!).

Okay, I'm not some neurotic guitarist; I can't tell a mass-produced Mexican Fender from another identical one when they have the same woods, the same pickups, and the same hardware, but I can tell a Fender from an Ibanez. Don't worry, the Peavey won't break down. I have a pounding drummer, and I've never turned the volume past 6/12. The only downside is that it comes with kind of mediocre stock speakers (I can't remember which ones); I got mine used with the Celestion Vintage already installed, and I'm ultra-satisfied.

The delta blues is great too; mine is a classic 2 with 12-inch speakers and it sounds amazing with a surprising punch, but I need to re-tube it now. I wouldn’t recommend the Peavey combo with 4 speakers if you like the "punch."

I didn't understand your speech, Alessio. First, you completely trash the Ibanez, then you tell me that every guitar sounds "in its own way."

I recommend trying Peavey's Classic series; the value for money is one of the best I've ever seen.

Nice technical talk! Even if it feels a bit elementary school in this case... I don’t care about the brand of the guitar. Not everyone knows that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from Mars Volta uses an Ibanez, and to my ears, it sounds incredible, personal, and fits perfectly with his Orange amp. It’s not like if you have an Ibanez you suck and can only shred, come on. And what do you want to say about Peavey? I have a Classic 50 tube amp and it outperforms the 90 transistors I've tried, and it holds its own against “top-notch” tube amps that cost an arm and a leg (and I’m not talking hearsay, I’m talking real experience). I have a Gibson LP Standard that I did pay an arm and a leg for, but it sounds divine compared to other Standards from the same year (my luthier was willing to pay me 300 euros more than I paid from a private seller!).

"can't hit a note!! doesn't know the pentatonics!! it's an insult to any seventies guitarist!!" .. But who cares, it's already derivative as it is, if they then played like "any seventies guitarist" it would be quite pathetic.

Alright Cornell, I certainly haven't idolized him.. Live, he even dares to skip the high notes in many songs (in Vicarious, which I consider the worst track of the last three albums, he completely skips the end).

Among my favorite moments is also triad, when Carey seems to be slamming the drums instead of just hitting the cymbals...

I'll tell you, I still consider it a good album (a 3), but to my ears it hasn’t brought any innovation and yes, it sounds a bit mannered. What disappointed me the most is Maynard, who sings flat and less powerfully than in previous works. The three phenomena (Adam, Jones, and Justin) wrote the entire album while Keenan was getting lost with APC, only to limit himself to writing (good) lyrics for the cause of 10,000 Days and tracing vocal lines dictated by the sound complex they set up. The tracks are there, but the power of Aenima and the cohesion of Lateralus are missing.