The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[blakestree]

I have mine for sale, locally. I'm thinking about putting up here, too.

[van_muddlestein]

I have mine for sale, locally. I'm thinking about putting up here, too.

You'd have to put a pretty good pricetag on it ATM cause all I can afford is dreams, but also, I get pretty well taken care of by Orange.

[whiskey_face]

You could always sell another orange rocker 30 for it?

[Ancient Astronaught]

This sexy sumbitch showed up at my house today. Sounds great clean and has a really powerful eq on it so it can go from shaking the house with bass to bright and chimey. Never had a 'good' solid state amp before - I'm no longer skeptical of them.

One of the inputs is noisey and a couple of pots are scratcy, but that's to be expected with something this old I think. The reverb is surprisingly good as well. The distortion seems to be broken, which is a bit of a bummer. I don't really care, but it was sold as 100% working, so I'm going to hassle the seller a bit over that on principal.

Takes pedals like a champ and gives me +10 cred for being Earth instead of Peavey.

Hell yeah dude!!!!! That's definitely a +20 Doom Cred head!!!! As far as the distortion, are you sure its not like the old SS beta's where you HAVE to use the footswitch to turn it on?

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I like my CR120 so much even though one died, I bought another one via ebay. wouldn't mind getting a 3rd since I still haven't repaired the first.

[blakestree]

I would ship mine to one of you guys, with dual footswitch and a couple of cables, for $400.

[D.o.S.]

Apropos of nothing in particular Blakestree ships gear really nicely.

[conky]

I bought an outlet tester and there are a few in the house that have an open ground, one in the kitchen and the one that I plug my amps into in my man cave. How bad of an issue is this? I've been playing amps in this room off of this outlet for almost 8 years. Please tell me I haven't been slowly fucking up my amps by doing this? My brother in law is an electrician though so I can get him to sort it all out.

[christianatl]

Knew it.

[conky]

Knew it.

Yup, you called it.

[van_muddlestein]

You could always sell another orange rocker 30 for it?

One shouldn't speak of things they know nothing about.

[blakestree]

Apropos of nothing in particular Blakestree ships gear really nicely.

Thanks for the propers, bro.

[t-rey]

that sounds real cool man. good solid state is great...my Orange CR120 never ceases to surprise me.

but a vintage Earth has all types of cred man...are you going to get a big 4x12 cab too?? you're going from mini doom to big doom!

I don't know - I'm definitely considering it, especially after how manageable the Earth was at lower volumes yesterday. Just as easy to cop good tones at low volume than either of my little amps. I'm fighting the urge to sell off my little stuff, buy a 4x12 and a big tube amp.

Hell yeah dude!!!!! That's definitely a +20 Doom Cred head!!!! As far as the distortion, are you sure its not like the old SS beta's where you HAVE to use the footswitch to turn it on?

Not entirely sure, but that could be the case. There is a bit of breakup at the end of the dial, and almost like it's mixed in with the clean signal. The seller said that he has no idea what the footswitch would do and assumed that the distortion was supposed to be relatively low gain. I am dubious, but whatever. I guess they work the same as the Peavey Standards, so I should do some googling.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Not entirely sure, but that could be the case. There is a bit of breakup at the end of the dial, and almost like it's mixed in with the clean signal. The seller said that he has no idea what the footswitch would do and assumed that the distortion was supposed to be relatively low gain. I am dubious, but whatever. I guess they work the same as the Peavey Standards, so I should do some googling.

Hmmm I would think it would do more than a little bit of break up at the end of the dial. I would google the amp and see what you can find, and its probably a simple single button footswitch that should be relatively cheap to buy or make to find out what it does.

[misterstomach]

I bought an outlet tester and there are a few in the house that have an open ground, one in the kitchen and the one that I plug my amps into in my man cave. How bad of an issue is this? I've been playing amps in this room off of this outlet for almost 8 years. Please tell me I haven't been slowly fucking up my amps by doing this? My brother in law is an electrician though so I can get him to sort it all out.

glad you figured it out. i could be wrong about this, i'm at best only an apprentice level wizard when it comes to such things, but i'm pretty sure that damage from a ground fault is generally fairly catastrophic and all at once if it happens. old amps (and old building wiring for that matter) did not have a ground wire in the circuit and things were fine most of the time. it was just determined that the circuits were safer and more stable with a ground. and most likely there are fuses in your amp to protect it from such failures. shocking yourself on the mic or on your bridge is probably the worst damage that has been done. nice to know you can fix the issue. it probably won't be a huge deal with the help of someone who knows what they're doing. if i lived in georgia i'd come over to your house and help make it happen. i'm pretty good when it comes to residential wiring. but alas, it's probably not worth the trip from oregon.

if you're lucky, then hopefully the circuit has a proper modern grounded wiring in it and someone was just lazy and didn't attach the ground wire to the ground screw on the outlet. if so, then it's a three minute fix. just turn off the breaker, attach the ground wire and put the outlet back in the box and turn the breaker back on. if you're less lucky, then someone was kind of dumb and put a three prong outlet into a circuit or circuit branch that has older wiring without a ground wire. in that case, you have to run grounded wiring from a grounded circuit to the outlet, which can range from really easy to a big pain in the ass depending on accessibility, how far you are from a circuit you can tie into, locations of junction boxes and other factors like that. it can take half an hour or it can take all day. it's totally doable though. it's just one of those things, if you're just plugging your alarm clock or whatever into it or charging your phone off that outlet, then it's not going to matter and probably isn't worth doing. big tube amps though, i'd want to have on a good grounded circuit.