Just wondering what kind of microphones people are using with their quilter amps. I know it's probably a pretty small group of guys. All the best on your journey! Jay ---------Music speaks where words fail.
i got to play thru one once, i used a crystal mic. i used the kinder afb with it. i thought it worked great. i posted a few clips. it was the mach 2 with an 8 inch speaker. the day i used it, my friend sold it, and did not even offer it to me. he sold it for $450.00 boy was i bummed. not that i need another amp.
i have a great quilter story, for another day perhaps.
I mainly use a Shure 57 into my Quilter. Here is a vid I did awhile back using a 57 through a LW Harpbreak into both amps. One is a Tube HG2 amp , one is a Quilter Micropro8 Solid State amp. Both amps have 8 inch speakers. I played the same lines on both amps over a loop I made from Jason Ricci's Mississippi Mood. (Second track starts at 1.44 secs.) Which one is the Tube?
P.s A FB friend recently purchased a Bulletini and says it works well with his Quilter Mach 2.
Ask WestSide Andy or Charlie Musselwhite - one of the best mics for the Quilter is the Bulletini. There's something about that mic that really helps a Quilter, which can sound a little sterile otherwise. ---------- *************************************************** /Greg
1847 thanks, the Quilter is the second track. I dialed the amp in to get as close to the HG2 voice as I could get. Some of the features I like about the Quilter is it's voicing options, pedal friendliness, light weight and power output for such a small footprint. Yeah bummer on missing the chance on the mach 2, that would have been a steal. I'm anxious to hear what Kim Wilson gets from the Quilter Toneblock 201 he recently purchased. Save a lot of hassle if you're doing gigs all over the place not having to worry about setting up different supplied amps P.s 1847, you win a prize for being the only one to at least try to guess which amp was which so if you want a copy of the loop send me your email address (click on my signature) and I'll send it to you. I use it a lot for improv ideas over a one chord groove.
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i listened to that demo repeatedly. there is a slight difference, but i could not discern which was which.
ever since i played thru one, i have been wanting to get one. i have watched all the you tube videos.
if i was to get one, which one would it be? i have a 1 10 cab. that would be perfect for a 201 toneblock. but the mach 2 would work with it perfectly.
i could run the amp with the eight and the 10 inch cab. in tandem.
that would give me enough volume for quite a few venues.
however, i really do not need another amp, i play once a week, that is it. i have a vintage bassman and a vintage champ. between those two i have it covered. plus i have other amps as well.
so i have a devil on one shoulder saying... just get one.. do it... don't even think about it.
a 201 toneblock is only a few hundred dollars. the angel on my other shoulder..
is telling me YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER AMP. so check this out.
last week this was like a broken tape playing in my head ........ over and over and over and over and over.
so i was at the orange county swap meet last week, with those thoughts in my head. it was all i could think about. like a broken tape playing over and over.
so as i was headed back home, it started to rain. as i was to jump on the freeway, i could see that it was a parking lot. no worries, i am in no hurry what so ever.
i'll just go to the next blvd. and take side streets home. it turns out i was not the only with this idea. the next two intersections were blocked. that is ok, i am in no hurry.
so the next intersection i am able to make a left turn, this looks like a short cut, lets try this street. i make a left on sunflower..... holy shit....
this is just too unbelievable........
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so as i am headed down sunflower, i stop in my tracks. to my right..... the quilter factory.
there is a car parked in front, i would bet it is the owner. i would have knocked on the door but it was raining pretty hard. i did get out to snap a picture.
what are the odds? turns out the street is a dead end. not even a good short cut.
Have a 45 day trial/return where I bought mine. A lot of different functions to become familiar with so that helps. So far I'm more impressed than I thought I would be. I just had to try the Quilter out of curiosity It is entirely possible I may want to sell my tube amps and enjoy the light weight (21/lbs) of the Quilter. I have three of them, two Mission Chicago 50's and a Kendrick 4x10. I will probably keep one of the tube amps though, just because. Don't really need four amps, sometimes curiosity gets the best of one.
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James Harman told me personally he's using a JT30 with a Quilter Aviator. The tweed amp setting on the Micropro series is actually pretty impressive, considering that it's a solid state amp and the way the amp is designed, unlike the vast majority of solid state amps, it's designed so that the amp works more like the way tube amps work in terms of the distortion, where it distorts the even numbered harmonic overtones the way tube amps do, which sounds sweet, warm and pleasant to the human ear and the vat majority of solid state amps tend to do the exact opposite by the way their designed. Most of thecircuitry is entirely anaolog with the only digital circuitry on the amp is the reverb.
If you get the earlier version of the Micro Pro, one thing I like about the reverb circuit is that you have the choice of the reverb to be more like an outboard reverb (which I much prefer since I can turn it up more with fewer feedback problems) or an inboard reverb like what you'd find in a black faced Fender amp. The newer version (the Mach II) only has the reverb as an inboard setting.
It's the only solid state amp worth a damn. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Thanks for all your responses! Tried the Bulletini with Micropro 8". Far better than any of the normal choices: CM, CR, ceramic, EV638, etc. The SM57 will still have its place. All the best! Jay ---------- Music speaks where words fail.
Hey 1847--Thanks for that Roger Daltrey post. And, yeah, the Quilter people have my attention. ---------- Ricky B http://www.bushdogblues.blogspot.com RIVER BOTTOM BLUES--crime novel for blues fans available at Amazon/B&N, iTunes, iBook THE DEVIL'S BLUES--ditto HOWLING MOUNTAIN BLUES--Ditto too, now available
From a Steve Weston interview re the "I keep it to myself" CD.....I asked Steve about his recording with Wilko. ‘I played cross harp on everything‘, he explained. ‘I used a Quilter Pro 2000 100 watt transistor amp with one 8 inch speaker that belongs to Ronni Boysen, and a mic with a Sure CR Element in an Astatic microphone. The tracks I played on were Going Back Home, Keep It To Myself, Bob Dylan’s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window and Some Kind Of Hero’.
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