Ovid9

Only when playing my amp.

Potential brain tumour symptom... Onset of schizophrenia.

I have bought from Tubedepot and from Valvequeen. I'll probably be buying from Valvequeen again here soon as I want a few new preamp tubes. Both have excellent service, and Laura/Valvequeen was extremely helpful answering my noob questions on different tubes. Both are highly recommended.

You better make all of your money as a professional musician She sells tubes and rocks out. Laura is a badass. :poke:

Right, because every metal song is about drinking blood from a skull. Just the good ones!

Agreed. Sometimes a band...like (I think) Between The Buried and Me....really captures me.....until the cookie gurgling comes in...and I lose all interest. *FOR ME*...there's nothing musical or musically interesting about it at all. I get the feeling these bands often do it because they can't sing. I still like growling/screaming vocals a lot. As long as their is something interesting about them. Some guys are good at it, others....not so much. And personal taste matters as well. However, I'm finding myself more and more wishing some bands would move away from it as well. Their music, while crushingly heavy, doesn't really need/fit with screamy vocals IMO. I was just listening to some Periphery at work today and actually found myself thinking on some of the songs, "I sorta wish he'd just sung that one" while on other songs I liked the screaming stuff. Lots of it is personal taste I know, but I don't need screamy for it to be heavy, but I still like lots of screamy stuff. If that makes any sense at all.

In some ways I listen to more metal now than I did as I'm constantly finding new (usually old) bands to listen to. However, if you counted sheer minutes of music listening being devoted to metal, its probably down from my early 20s. I love metal and always enjoy finding new bands to listen to whether they're actually new or just new to me. But the same could be said about a lot of styles of music I suppose.

I worked at Guitar Center, and the store manager told me Bruce Egnater (think Mesa Rectifiers, B52 AT100s, and his own line of amps) designed these. Of course, he has said some pretty wrong stuff before so it might have just been crap. Interesting...look at the name. Look at the name of the new poster. Coincidence????? Probably.

It really is funny to me when someone gets on these threads and talks about how this amp sucks...that rig is lame etc. I have had HiWatt, Peavey, Fender, Hughes Kettner, Marshall Valve amps...Digital digital Line6...and I bought my son a Raven at GC. It's a basic little amp that holds it's own in the community of SS and digital...I bought it because he is 11... and it had a clean and driven channel with a light delay, pretty accurate dynamic tuner and an input for mp3 and headphone jack...He won't be playing at the Garden or the Fox but it processes the signal as competent as many Line6 (and even some rectum-fiers) products at quad the price... Some of the clowns on here feel that because they can fart out a pedestrian rendition of Cliffs of Dover that they have it all figured out....Got news for you...if you can't make $100 amp sound good...you suck--an amp...a guitar...any instrument is only as good as the person playing it...The best I have seen and heard are those that complain the least and make NO excuses about "their tone" and how they get it. The amp is backed by GC with a "no questions asked" with regard to repairs... It's a decent cost effective amp that covers all bases in the home or garage band setting... It's getting so old to listen to some chumps with condescending opinions about gear--typically punks that would embarrass themselves with any set up in a live venue... Says the guy who found a thread last posted in 18 months ago? And made his first post to respond to it? Its perfect for the application you bought it for, so why come here to tell people that? Would not a positive review on Musicians Friend or GC be more useful/helpful instead of rezzin' dead threads on a forum that umm, is more focused on higher quality amps?

By the way, this is all spelled out in detail in the user agreement that you have to click "I Accept" to before you can even open a PayPal account. It's just that no-one takes the time to read it. Its also because even if the average person took the time to read it they probably couldn't make heads nor tails out of WTF Paypal's or 99% of EULAs out there say.