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He really does an outstanding job with gear reviews...

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Hi Fran. Thanks. you can sub. it's riiiiiiiight there. So close!!! :)

Lukather all the way, my main potato

I had a Triple Giant. There's a lot to like in that pre. I've always wanted to try a Marshall 9001. Love the Triaxis.

I had a triaxais twice....I felt like I couldn’t balance high gain with dynamics.....I always went back to the Soldano....it just mixed well with everything...early on, my singer had a 50w Marshall 900 head....later on, it was the lack of dynamics....I liked the 9001, but it always needed a drive pedal in front of it to “get it there”....I was never really a fan of this egnater stuff....haven’t heard much about it until recent years....

Gotta say I really like the egnater after a third watch man I really want one of these!

Love the Bogner for versatility!

Yep. Those are happening too, for sure.

Yeah I was eyeing that Trio the entire time!

I love the CAE because of the Luke tones, but CH3 of the Soldano is just righteous!

I'd like to see the non Triple Giant Hafler stuff, like T2 orT3

Same. Love mine, finally got it last year.

It is the most well rounded of the bunch.

ezquimal Yup, you’re right - that was the Soldano/Caswell X99... and teenage me wanted one SOOOOOO bad.

@@eskemeldgaardkrogh4145 a lot of hum more when the motors moving.

Thanks! It's not a test, just a celebration of colorful 2u boxes! :)

@@BigHairyGuitars I know, more a shootout without leaving bodies behind, ha ha.

It's post. Only took 3 years for someone to tell you 😊

I agree. Because of that, I've done comprehensive Tonex and Kemper captures www.tone.net/tonex/collections/big.hairy.guitars/cust3+ bighairyprofiles.com/products/bhp-custe-based-on-cae-3?_pos=1&_sid=ed6ba81ef&_ss=r

ROCKO STIFFREDI thanks Rocko. It’s a tricky balance of what works as a solo guitar on KZfaq, vs what would work best in a track.

@@BigHairyGuitars Totally. EQ's behave differently from preamp to preamp, channel to channel, a lot of tweaking to get it right. Really looking forward to Part 2.

That's pretty ignorant given how many people worked their butt off to give us the plugin technology today in the past 20 years.

@George Michaels kemper is not a plugin. Neither does line 6 make plugins at the moment. Are we talking about the same thing ?

I’ll get around to it. 5 preamps seemed like too many

Old Dean Markleys.. the Preamp DR and RM-150-DR, RM-80-DR... ETC.. are killer!

@@seanghannam9800 I miss that preamp. It was cool, good gain and great sound and I'm sorry I sold it, and the EVM12Ls. Still have the cab and power amp. I tried all the others at the time, Mesa, Marshall...the Dean Markley just sounded best. I miss it.

@@TheDogPa I think Dean Markley was ahead of all of them!!

I dug the IE4.. the most versatile IMHO

apparently EVH actually used Bob Bradshaw's prototype of his CAE preamp on For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album, on songs Dream is Over, In 'n' Out...Judgement Day was Soldano Slo. Maybe he even used x88r but I haven't seen that to be mentioned anywhere

HA! Yes exactly. It's a tricky balance. I want them to sound as good as possible, but that means finding some middle ground between sterile microscope and flattering.

:) hi!

Sounds like the tubes in the Soldano are tired.

@@davemarshall9153 Ch2 of X88 give the best at high volume.

All are great.. but Egnater TOL... the best!!

clean of the Soldano is tales from the bulges clean sound...

Into the FX Return of the Bogner Ecstasy. So it's the Bogner's EL34 power section.

Not really. It's pretty unique. I have Kemper profiles that did a good job capturing it. bighairyprofiles.com/item/bhp-cust3 As far as real amps, probably a Custom Audio Amplification OD-100, would be the most similar. Or something custom from Suhr.

Which Boogie?

@@BigHairyGuitarsBy Boogie studio, I mean the mesa boogie studio preamp. Like a 1U version of the quad preamp, only much, much juicier and at the same time rawer and less cold. For me, it had one of the best lead tones, I mean, next to the triaxis it was like the triaxis "was emulating from afar" and you heard the sound from smaller speakers. Not bad but not magic vs the mesa studio preamp. I wouldn't even care/bother for complete mesa mark amps for example. I think the mesa studio sounds complete on it's own, and frankly excluding the strategy amps, I don't have boogie power amps in very high regard anyway. That thing (the studio preamp) paired amazingly with pretty much any other power amp, in fact it had good tone through big solid state, through peavey 6L6 through most of them... Too bad I didn't test it through soldano. You have the VHT as pinaccle but it's pretty rare in europe! Until then soldano is king in power amps for me (at least from most that I've tried). But yeah, mesa boogie studio preamp!

@@81giorikas Gotcha! I had a Soldano power amp for a while. I didn't love it. I needed a bottom end or depth control. IMHO. I have a Boogie Triaxis and Studio preamp, I'll show those together when I get some time. Thanks, M

@@BigHairyGuitars I wouldn't disagree at all, in the sense that I have an avenger, depth mod is standard. If you take it off, it sounds almost sterile, thin and harsh of sort. Even so slightly on and forth helps you mate the amp to the cab and for it to be more alive...so I can imagine your power amp not playing particularly well with some preamps and the depth knob to be of blame, they are supposed to have fixed depth (like the knob is at a preset value) but in the end it is just a standard better built JCM power amp (soldano). Mike soldano's design, has by the way, a relatively bass heavy and not so tight preamp feeding such a power amp. Friedman prefers the opposite, a tight preamp plexi style feeding a looser power amp. All of that before taking into acount choke properties etc. If you decide to do the experiment (boogie feeding the soldano) and you go through the loop before the tone stack which how it is on stock soldanos, then either take the graphic or dynamic voice (on the triaxis) off, or dime the mids on the tonestack to make it go flat to allow for the graphic doing its thing on the boogie. In my oppinion it's better to take the graphic out, because on the soldano you have a relatively trebley pressence and maybe depth control pretty much doing what the graphic does anyway. So you can have the tonestack for extra adjustments. One of the best sounds I liked personally ever was a mesa f-30 feeding my avenger but without its graphic (well contour, pretty much v curve like the graphic via transistors (again like the graphic, d-voice etc) enabled. I have a stock loop. Hope you do the test!