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Topic: Anyone Using the Vox MV-50? |
Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2020 8:38 am |
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 Hey, fellers!
Is anyone using the Vox MV-50 head for a practice amp? If so, any suggestion for getting the best sound at the lowest volume (I’m using a small, vintage Oahu cab with a ? I live in a condo with neighbors below and on one side of me (who knew they’d prefer hip-hip to Hawaiian and Western swing?!).
Any tips/insight greatly appreciated!
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Remington Steelmaster S8 w/ custom Steeltronics pickup. Vox MV-50 amplifier + an 1940's Oahu cab w/ 8" American Vintage speaker. J. Mascis Fender Squire Jazzmaster, Hofner Club bass, Ibanez AVN4-VMS Artwood Vintage Series Concert Size Acoustic Guitar. 1920s/30s Supertone Hawaiian-themed parlor guitar. Silvertone parlor guitar. |
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Anthony Campbell
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Northwest Indiana, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2020 5:53 pm
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If it sounds good, it is good.
For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.
I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar
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Williams Keyless D10
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Mark Helm
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2020 6:49 pm
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| Anthony Campbell wrote: |
If it sounds good, it is good.
For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.
I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar |
What's the Mooer Radar?
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Remington Steelmaster S8 w/ custom Steeltronics pickup. Vox MV-50 amplifier + an 1940's Oahu cab w/ 8" American Vintage speaker. J. Mascis Fender Squire Jazzmaster, Hofner Club bass, Ibanez AVN4-VMS Artwood Vintage Series Concert Size Acoustic Guitar. 1920s/30s Supertone Hawaiian-themed parlor guitar. Silvertone parlor guitar. |
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Anthony Campbell
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Northwest Indiana, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2020 11:06 pm
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| Mark Helm wrote: |
| Anthony Campbell wrote: |
If it sounds good, it is good.
For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.
I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar |
What's the Mooer Radar? |
Its a speaker Impulse Response/Power amp simulator.
You can either use the ones supplied or download speaker impulses from major manufacturers. I.e eminence, warehouse, celestion, etc.
Plug a pre amp in, and then you can pick a power amp sim in the pedal i.e 6L6, EL84 ,etc.
Then you pick the speaker cab type. Theyve got twins, champs, marshalls, bassmans, to choose from. You can move the virtual microphone to get different sounds from the “speakerâ€.
From a recording/live perspective its incredibly useful. A double blind test between a micd cab and an IR is probably harder to discern than you would think.
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Williams Keyless D10
Goodrich Volume
Quilter 101R and Quilter IB45 |
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Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2020 11:11 pm OK, so forgive me...
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....sorry, I usually just plug and play. If I'm using the VOX MV-50, what's the chain? Is is guitar to Mooer pedal to MV-50 to cab?
Or do I have it all wrong?
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Remington Steelmaster S8 w/ custom Steeltronics pickup. Vox MV-50 amplifier + an 1940's Oahu cab w/ 8" American Vintage speaker. J. Mascis Fender Squire Jazzmaster, Hofner Club bass, Ibanez AVN4-VMS Artwood Vintage Series Concert Size Acoustic Guitar. 1920s/30s Supertone Hawaiian-themed parlor guitar. Silvertone parlor guitar. |
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Anthony Campbell
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Northwest Indiana, USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2020 10:33 am Guitar to
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Would be guitar -> Amp -> Line Out -> Mooer Radar
The Guitar amp is simply acting as a pre-amp/eq.
Also recommend checking out the Strymon Iridium. Which you can use straight from the guitar into the iridium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0hrqUatkU
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Williams Keyless D10
Goodrich Volume
Quilter 101R and Quilter IB45 |
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Greg Lambert
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2020 2:19 pm
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| I use the MV50 for a backup amp. Works and sounds great. Sound great on recording also. |
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