Incoming NAD. Gonna be my last purchase for a long time.

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

I've been eyeing these for quite a while, but was hemming and hawwing over it or a lunchbox sized head into an attenuator for low volume playing, or with an IR loaded for silent playing and recording in the future.



Well last night in the words of Marlon Brando Carvin made me an offer that I couldn't refuse when I saw a new full warranty openbox one for $150 under list on reverb through the Carvin store.

It kills a few birds with one stone nicely. I can grab it and a 1x12 for low volume playing, use it for silent playing and recording, and I had been thinking about setting up a small all metal all the time pedal board for using with my regular amps with just a clean boost, distortion pedal, and a wah. For the last one I can use the X1's clean channel as a clean boost into my amp with a footswitchable EQ for a more scooped metal clean tone, and have two good high gain tones on tap as well.

I'm thinking that running the cab emulated output into my Pigtronix Echolution 2, and then getting the signal panned left/right in stereo with some subtle delay for space will be awesome for headphone play and practice.

 

[Xpensive Wino]

"Gonna be my last purchase for a long time."

I've said that before, too.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

We all have, but it's true. I've got two speakers to recone, and a headstock crack to get repaired. That's going to be my gear spending allowance the next few months. After that I am saving up for a new guitar for later in the year, and another cab for the SRO15 I'm going to recone.

For the guitars I am stuck between a partsocaster Tele with a Gibson scale neck, Bigsby, and Soap Bar routes, or a Firebird.

For the cab I am either getting another Mojotone 1x15 cab, or a Moon Cabinets 1x15+2×12 cab. I'm kinda leaning towards the 2nd option hard thinking that the SRO15 paired with a set of WGS Blackhawk HP alnicos would be a good match. If I do the Moon cab I am going to get two backs for it, one closed back, and one openback with an large oval opening in the back.

I already have one Mojotone 1x15 cab with an SRO 15 and it sounds great. I love pairing it with my open back vintage Pulsonic cone Fane loaded 2x12, especially for vintage clean and overdrive tones. With a Treble Booster into a cranked Hiwatt that combo is instant late '60s early '70s rock heaven. but I am curious as to how one will sound in a much deeper and larger cab, and I love high powered alnico speakers.

 

[Amp360]

Cool! I really like the X100B. I didn't realize this had a power section in it. Very cool!

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Cool! I really like the X100B. I didn't realize this had a power section in it. Very cool!

I am pretty stoked to hear it through my mini stack with a 1x12 on top of a 1x15.