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So, as we saw in my other thread, I had a line on a Powerball. The deal was, my 6505+ halfstack for the Powerball head. I was a little hesitant at first about the deal because the 6505 cab was my good cab.
Well, the cab I demoed the Powerball through was the guys Bugera 6262 cab. Not crap, about on par with my Randall cab. It sounded fucking hellish through that cab, so immediately my woes about the cab quality vanished. I was totally sold, though, I drove 80 miles for this thing, so I guess I was sold to begin with, but this really put the icing on the cake.
Anyhow, so the guy goes to demo my 6505. First chord, practically nothing. Fuck! What the hell, I drove 80 miles for this and my amp shits. After some quick troubleshooting, it was determined it was something in his pedal chain. Fuckin A right! So, hes tweeking the EQ, gettin down close to the speakers, realy Eric Johnson-ing the thing. Finally, "Yeah, this will do." Awesome.
So ask him in a very direct, pronounced manner, "are you sure?" I ask this because, while theres nothing wrong with the 6505+ in any way shape or form, even with head and cab together, Im getting ready to walk away $400 richer in resale.
He says yeah, I say cool, and we proceed back down to my truck to load it up. In my head I was thinking, lets get the fuck out of here before he changes his mind.
This guys probably 21- 23 years old and a damn good guitarist. Id been going back and forth with him for like a month about this. One day hes up for it, the next hes not. Weeks go by without any contact then asks me if Im still interested. I tell him yes, but he doesnt want to trade straight up anymore. Wants my head plus cash. Another week or two goes by and he calls me again(last night). Says hes cool with the even swap again. I was a little hesitant to even talk to him again because of all the wishy washy BS, but I went ahead and told him Id be down there today.
The rest is history, recent though it may be.
Anyhow, the amp. ENGL Powerball I, maybe 7.5-8 of 10, a little beat, but not bad. Everything works, though he took most of the silk screening off the face, the clean channel does some sort of funky hesitation when switching to it some times and it didnt come with the male/female db9 cable for the z5 foot switch. Luckily my dad had a couple I can link together until I order one.
Heres pics:
He removed the function lettering but left the dial marks.
Sharpie to the rescue later.
The tone. Im tickled to death with it so far, just after a couple hours and reasonable volume levels. I cant wait to crank it at practice sat and we have a show sun. There is a lot of stuff you can do to manipulate the tone on this beast. I had to read the manual. Id have something good going and Id hit a button and loose it, and not remember exactly what I hit, no thanks to the unmarked knobs and buttons. All is well now that Ive had some time to mess with it and have the z5 hooked to it.
Really looking forward to jammin out with it and doing the last little bit of studio work with it for the up coming CD. Which incidentally has/ will have the Fireball, 6505+ and the Powerball on it. I may even go back and redo one track on each tune with the Powerball, as most were done with the 6505+. I think that would be a killer combination.
Anyhow, phew, what a long post. That is all, for now.
Well, the cab I demoed the Powerball through was the guys Bugera 6262 cab. Not crap, about on par with my Randall cab. It sounded fucking hellish through that cab, so immediately my woes about the cab quality vanished. I was totally sold, though, I drove 80 miles for this thing, so I guess I was sold to begin with, but this really put the icing on the cake.
Anyhow, so the guy goes to demo my 6505. First chord, practically nothing. Fuck! What the hell, I drove 80 miles for this and my amp shits. After some quick troubleshooting, it was determined it was something in his pedal chain. Fuckin A right! So, hes tweeking the EQ, gettin down close to the speakers, realy Eric Johnson-ing the thing. Finally, "Yeah, this will do." Awesome.
So ask him in a very direct, pronounced manner, "are you sure?" I ask this because, while theres nothing wrong with the 6505+ in any way shape or form, even with head and cab together, Im getting ready to walk away $400 richer in resale.
He says yeah, I say cool, and we proceed back down to my truck to load it up. In my head I was thinking, lets get the fuck out of here before he changes his mind.
This guys probably 21- 23 years old and a damn good guitarist. Id been going back and forth with him for like a month about this. One day hes up for it, the next hes not. Weeks go by without any contact then asks me if Im still interested. I tell him yes, but he doesnt want to trade straight up anymore. Wants my head plus cash. Another week or two goes by and he calls me again(last night). Says hes cool with the even swap again. I was a little hesitant to even talk to him again because of all the wishy washy BS, but I went ahead and told him Id be down there today.
The rest is history, recent though it may be.
Anyhow, the amp. ENGL Powerball I, maybe 7.5-8 of 10, a little beat, but not bad. Everything works, though he took most of the silk screening off the face, the clean channel does some sort of funky hesitation when switching to it some times and it didnt come with the male/female db9 cable for the z5 foot switch. Luckily my dad had a couple I can link together until I order one.
Heres pics:
He removed the function lettering but left the dial marks.
Sharpie to the rescue later.
The tone. Im tickled to death with it so far, just after a couple hours and reasonable volume levels. I cant wait to crank it at practice sat and we have a show sun. There is a lot of stuff you can do to manipulate the tone on this beast. I had to read the manual. Id have something good going and Id hit a button and loose it, and not remember exactly what I hit, no thanks to the unmarked knobs and buttons. All is well now that Ive had some time to mess with it and have the z5 hooked to it.
Really looking forward to jammin out with it and doing the last little bit of studio work with it for the up coming CD. Which incidentally has/ will have the Fireball, 6505+ and the Powerball on it. I may even go back and redo one track on each tune with the Powerball, as most were done with the 6505+. I think that would be a killer combination.
Anyhow, phew, what a long post. That is all, for now.
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