Hi, guys! My name is Eirik and I'm a gear nerd! I guess you are too since you have ended up on my RU-vid channel. I do gear demos and other guitar related videos for your viewing pleasure. Straight to the point, clean looking and good sounding. No talking if not needed.
When not doing RU-vid I play guitar and lap steel in bands and work as a teacher. I also spend a lot of time on photo and videography. I try to utilize all of this into this channel so that I can make the best videos possible. Hopefully you'll like them! Welcome, and I hope to meet you in comment sections of my videos!
This review is really killer however if you check other reviews it is not at the same level of good. Makes me guessing that guitar or amp is one to be suspicious for
Definitely got the vibe. I think that Eric’s is more lush due to the amps being more wet and one amp has a true vibrato instead of tremolo. Despite that, it sounds great! At the end of the Eric’s video he explained the eq moves which would definitely get you super close. Thanks for trying this
Been using a slightly modified 5F2A (same circuit) for years. I bumped up the filter caps on the output which tightens the bass response and dropped the cathode bypass cap on V1 down to 1uf or thereabouts which kills a lot of the gain, giving it ~60% clean headroom. 12" speaker (WGS G12Q) and it does almost all my small venue gigs with a drummer and vocals just fine. Unmic'd its fine in pubs and bars and mic'd with in-ears its w/e it needs to be. If you want cleaner cleans or more fidelity for the ambient stuff then more tubes and bigger transformers help.. but for most blues/indie stuff 5w is plenty.
Love that Silvertone amp. I’ve had one myself for a few years and couldn’t be happier with the sound and feel. You should try jumping the two channels together like you would an old plexi. This gives a lot more head room and tone shaping possiblities. Also it can get stupid loud
Though I actively follow the band since Rated R came out, most of my favorites are actually on Clockwork. And I love the current phase as much as I love Headache, which did not make this list.
I don’t have the Timmy but I have the danelectro transparent od and it’s one of my favorite drive pedals. It’s a close approximation of the Timmy and it just feels like a “secret weapon” type of pedal. When you don’t really want to change your fundamental amp sound but you just want more of it. It’s especially fantastic for tightening up muddy pickups or getting more umph out of lower output ones. Having bass AND treble controls on od pedals is indispensable. The best part was it was only about $60 US.
I'm a bit late to this video, but if gain is a problem, some light compressor would ease the playing without destroying the dynamics like a normal/heavy compressor
Bands never spend enough on PA's and Monitor rigs, and most Venues are smaller than the Size of the PA needed to allow you to be a ROCKSTAR on 10. Stop making the Sound Guy the BAD GUY use common sense and stop trashing the mix and SHOWING HOW PROFESSIONAL YOUR NOT
The Decade is similar to the RAGE by Peavey which I own and I always noticed that certain dissonance and diming the amp on lead parts matched up with SFTD album. I hear it in God is in the Radio like you said and on the dissonant fills of Song for the Dead, and possibly some parts of the lead on Millionaire.
Got some good Prog rock riffs going there ! Damn when is Cleveland going to get off their anti snoot snoot and put Jethro Tull and King Crimson in there ?
