Toys and then a few more toys I've forgotten...

[mars_hall]

What do you do when you finally get around to putting the rig together you've always wanted? 

There for a while, I found myself chasing a Voodoo Lab Hex audio loop switcher for a decent price, but found I alrady had the tools to do what I wanted using a Voodoo Lab GCX Ground Control Switcher I already had which had been sitting for years.  So I gather all my toys, meaing rack gear, and bought a 10U rack to hold the main items then went about diagramming how I could interconnect everything and switch in gear, while bypassing other preamps in the loop. 

For the most part, I could never appreciate putting a lot of tone sucking pedals in front of that first tube.  If they are on the front end, they are generally for distortion and that base is already covered by the preamps themselves, so I lean mostly towards time based rack effects, finding it near where I go.  Kind of sick of the days of too much.   I should appreciate Eventide, but really can't stand the over processing that sound wet to the point of being unusable.

Here is my rack rig and each preamp has its own unique voice and feel.  The 2x80W Egnater designed power amp is in its own rack with enough space to allow cooling.  I play the setup in stereo through a single Egnater Tourmaster 4x12 cabinet with V30s and keep the amp level maybe at 7 o'clock or just barely on, not 7 on the dial.