December/January Update

Oddly enough, December started out pretty quiet but I have been able to wrangle in some trades in the past couple of weeks, which has been awesome. Here's a quick rundown:

I traded the Guiterrez for a Meteoro Mak3000. The Mak 3000 is the signature head of Andreas Kisser from Sepultura. 280 Watts (powered by 6 KT88s) and two channels. There's a lot of Marshall tone going on in that head. The biggest surprise was from the clean channel. It was great. You don't find that in a high gain head, especially when both channels share the same EQ.

In the past week, I traded the Mak3000 to a friend/former bandmate of mine for a Hughes & Kettner Triamp Mk1. I sold it to him a years ago and he's kept in great shape and has new pre and power tubes. Since selling it to him, I made the switch from EMG 81s (what was I thinking?) to Duncan JBs. I was blown away how great it sounds. All 6 channels have great tones and they take Overdrive pedals very well. It shares a lot of the same tonal qualities that the 5150 III does so I am having a hard time trying to figure out which one to use and which one Ryan will use for Unrestrained stuff.

Also last week, I traded one of my MXR EQ's and some cash for a Suhr Riot pedal. This is more of a distortion pedal than an overdrive. I have a huge gear boner for Suhr products since getting my Koko Boost. This doesn't disappoint. It's designed to put in front of a clean channel and you get that Suhr lead Channel. It's very tight but still have great saturation. I haven't had much time to play with it but that's my goal for the next week.

In other news, I am hopefully going to see the Mako back in my possession within the next month or two. February will mark 1 year since I sent it off to get modded and updated. As soon as I get it back, I will likely play it for a week before I put it up for sale.

I also picked up a Boss Heavy Metal (HM2) pedal. If you don't know, these things are basically responsible for the Swedish Death Metal Sound. Which, I prefer Dismember over any Entombed album.. but that's a different topic for a different forum. It's not the greatest thing but it does what it does and does it well. Because they aren't made anymore, you can't find one for less than $50 in working condition. Little do people know that Behringer makes a damn good copy of it, the HM300. You use it the same way and get the same results. Did I mention that they are only $25 brand new?

Gear List is updated.