Some people make me sick...

Karl Hungus

ENGL Powerball, Savage 120, SE EL34 and a Peavy 5150 II, aswell as another powerball that's not pictured. 5 high gain amp heads right there! Even John Petrucci doesn't use that many! Freakin' madness that anyone would need that much.:v:

Who wants to kill him amd divide up the amps between us? Dibs on a Powerball!

feylya

Yes, that's quite a nice set up. Needs a nice clean amp though. And some effects.
















and a guitar.

Karl Hungus

feylya wrote:

Yes, that's quite a nice set up. Needs a nice clean amp though. And some effects.



and a guitar.

You know, not everyone needs effects... or seemingly a guitar. :v:

feylya

Distortion's an effect. Or is it? Is there a spoon? Where did the white rabbit go?

Doctor J

Who is this madman you speak of?

Karl Hungus

I don't know, just some bloke on Harmony Central... :eek:

Doctor J

Envy is a terrible thing :v:

feylya

And green really isn't Karl's colour :v:

Karl Hungus

I rather like green tbh. :v:

LundiMardi

i wonder if he carries em on the bus to gigs?

Doctor J

Nah, puts them in the back o' the Punto :v:

disgruntled

feylya wrote:

Yes, that's quite a nice set up. Needs a nice clean amp though. And some effects.

What about the Intelliflex in the rack?

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

Nah, puts them in the back o' the Punto :v:

One day I'll have a gargantuan rig so all-encompassing in it's lordship and grandeur that I too will need a Putno to lug it all in.

fortuneg

Man that's nothing compared to SteveVHT's rack, he frequents the HC Amp forum. Check it out!

John

feylya wrote:

Distortion's an effect. Or is it? Is there a spoon? Where did the white rabbit go?

No, isn't an effect anything that uses a delay to change your sound like flanger, reverb and so on and anything that changes your signal's characteristics (can't think of proper terms) like EQ a modulation? And then distortion is simply amplification of the signal (not necessarily the volume)?

Karl Hungus

Right, well here's something to make Feylya sick:

fortuneg

This is the only pic of it i could find...




He used to have a Bogner Fish, Soldano X99 & Eventide Eclipse among other things.

Karl Hungus

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! :eek:

What in gods name is all that stuff!? What does it do? What does he need it for? Christ, it's like something you'd see at NASA.

Johnny Storm

Yeah! How would you ever get time to play the guitar with all those switches and knobs to play with ??

Karl Hungus

I can see just one thing in there that I could ever see myself using, and that's the Rocktron Hush.

Rustar

That Furman clean power conditioner at the top is pretty handy too....

fortuneg

Ok so we'll get some cheap flights to the US & rob him, you fellas can have what you piced out & i'll take the rest!

Sorted!:D

mc nuggets

How can people have all that!!!!! It's not fair.

Karl Hungus

Rustar wrote:

That Furman clean power conditioner at the top is pretty handy too....

What does that do?

Rustar

Karl Hungus wrote:

What does that do?

It's a very, very fancy ac conditioner/surge protector....prevents brown-outs and dropouts in your equipment if you don't have good current from the wall, and also prevents your equipment from getting blown up by voltage spikes! Almost a necessity if your band's pushing 3-4000 watts and you have big poweramps hooked up to the board.

http://www.furmansound.com/products/pro/pwr_cond_seq/cond/series2.a.php

Karl Hungus

Ah, I get ya. See? I'm clueless about racks.

If I was building a rack, it would probably consist of this, this and this. I like that setup, it would be very practical indeed.

Rustar

John2 wrote:

No, isn't an effect anything that uses a delay to change your sound like flanger, reverb and so on and anything that changes your signal's characteristics (can't think of proper terms) like EQ a modulation? And then distortion is simply amplification of the signal (not necessarily the volume)?

I would call distortion created by the amp at high volumes 'overdrive' (tho that might be wrong) and distortion created by a device at input level an effect. So distortion can be both a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

judas101

whats a rocktron hush?

Karl Hungus

judas101 wrote:

whats a rocktron hush?

It's a noisegate. Actually, no... It's the noisegate.

Eoin Madsen

If you need a noise gate, something is wrong.

Rustar

Using that might be dangerous, KH....it might cut out ALL your playing!

:v: ♪♪♪:(

Patricide

Ive got one thing to say: .....O......MY........GOD.......

Karl Hungus

Now this kid is really taking the smeg:

Doctor J

What are you talking about? That guitar has only six strings :v:

Karl Hungus

Well I'm obviously not talking about the guitar then, am I?

Although, I think I'm making people sick already, because look what I got!

Ancient1

Man, the amount of quality gear that kid has is just perverse. And i bet you that after that magnificent photo op he played Enter Sandman to show off his amazing talent. Son of a bitch. Who is he anyways, just a random?

Oh, KH, i have to say you're the spit of Hetfield in that Midleton pic!

sei046

ye its the whiskey...

Doc_Savage

gotta love the thd hotplate sitting on top!:D

Doc_Savage

Eoin Madsen wrote:

If you need a noise gate, something is wrong.

it can be used for heavy start stop playing... nothing would be wrong with that!

Karl Hungus

Doc_Savage wrote:

gotta love the thd hotplate sitting on top!:D

To be entirely fair, I think that if you've got an insane rig like that, where you'd probably be gigging, you might want to still play it at home at less than concert venue volumes, so that's where the hotplate would come in, even if he was only using a single 4x12 at a time, I'd say that kind of rig pushes some serious air.

feylya

Does Petrucci use his mega rig at home?

Karl Hungus

feylya wrote:

Does Petrucci use his mega rig at home?

Not entirely, but I've seen footage of him practicing, and he uses 2 Roadkings into 2 4x12s.
Didn't see any hotplate though.

Karl Hungus

Damned if I'm not sick with envy right now.

Five ENGLS and a Bogner!?
Who actually needs that?

John

Karl Hungus wrote:

Five ENGLS and a Bogner!?
Who actually needs that?

A band needs that but it's too much power for one man/woman.

EDIT: I must say that Misfits sticker looks dead cool on the guitar.

Karl Hungus

Yeah, but you know I'm just jealous. I've been aiming for an ENGL Fireball & 2x12 for a while now, and the GAS is bad.