The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[t-rey]

Talk to me about the Barber Trifecta. Anybody used one? Thoughts?

[conky]

Just snagged this on ebay. Guy had a buy it now for $700 so I put a best offer of $600 and he accepted it. Looks pretty clean. I had one before that died on me about 30 minutes after taking it out of the box so hopefully I'll have better luck with this one.

[pelliott]

AW SHIT CONKY so jealous

Talk to me about the Barber Trifecta. Anybody used one? Thoughts?

As I recall Christian had one and thought highly of it. I'd say he's the man to ask. I tried one out in a shop and it sounded real good. Lots of tones.

[new05002]

I opened some pedal preorders Volt Thrower, HM2, WF, and CF. Check the Dunwich Amps Facebook page for info

[t-rey]

Just snagged this on ebay. Guy had a buy it now for $700 so I put a best offer of $600 and he accepted it. Looks pretty clean. I had one before that died on me about 30 minutes after taking it out of the box so hopefully I'll have better luck with this one.

Boner. Town.

AW SHIT CONKY so jealous

Talk to me about the Barber Trifecta. Anybody used one? Thoughts?

As I recall Christian had one and thought highly of it. I'd say he's the man to ask. I tried one out in a shop and it sounded real good. Lots of tones.

He definitely would be the man to ask about fuzz toanz. Was it mostly muff tones you were getting, since the supa and color bender were both muff derivatives, right?

[pelliott]

It's been 3+ years since I tried it. I just remember it being... Fuzzy and good.

[conky]

Boner town indeed. I just hope it doesn't crap out on me like the last one did. Plus that polarity switch has me a little nervous. I've read that those things have been known to shock the shit out of people if they were set wrong. First thing I wanna do is take it to get it a good once over and while its on the tech table is to get them to put a 3 prong power cord on it if it doesn't already have one.

[chillerthanmost]

Anyone familiar with vintage SVT's enough to know how well (or not) they handle an impedance mismatch? Say, for instance, a 5.33 ohm cab to the 4 ohm tap of the head? Or two 5.33 ohm cabs, each to their own 4 ohm tap of the amp? I'm trying to gather as much info as possible for potential custom cabs being built.

[new05002]

you should go with the setup where you have a smaller impedance on the cab side ie two 5.33s in parallel off the 4 ohm tap

[chillerthanmost]

you should go with the setup where you have a smaller impedance on the cab side ie two 5.33s in parallel off the 4 ohm tap

So if I were to run them together, you're saying running the total 2.66 ohm load(2x 5.33 ohm cabs in parallel) would be preferable through a single 4 ohm tap (which I can daisy chain to achieve) as opposed to the 2 ohm tap, even though it's closer to 2 ohms in simple numeric comparison?
...which means, If I were to get a single cab @ 5.33 ohms, you probably wouldn't recommend it?

Thanks, Nick. Amp in question here is a '71 SVT, by the way.

[new05002]

2.66 is probably good for the 2 ohm tap (forgot it had one sorry) its the closest match i can see.

[chillerthanmost]

I see I see. Thanks. That's what I was thinking, being that it's a very small difference. I usually do a lot of research and reading up before I buy an amp, but I kind of picked up this SVT on impulse and don't really know, nor have read much, about them and what they are capable of. I just wasn't sure if they are prone to dying with a slight impedance mismatch, or if they can handle it well like some of my other amps. And I'm one to always want to match. The most I'll go out of the way is run my YBA-3 (8 ohms) into a 4 ohm cab. Besides that, I'm usually the first to say no thanks on a mismatch. But, fuck, I really wanna look into picking up some 6x12 cabs, or some 3x15 cabs, or one of each. Haha. Just wondered if these SVT's were strong enough for the very light mismatch. I remember V4's always kind of having problems with a mismatch =|

[AxAxSxS]

I know Nick wont post this up in here so-



I'm so in on one of those VT's. Terrible timing as I have a bunch of gear purchases going on but I think I can swing it.
I need to finish and sell that SG7.

[christianatl]

AW SHIT CONKY so jealous

Talk to me about the Barber Trifecta. Anybody used one? Thoughts?

As I recall Christian had one and thought highly of it. I'd say he's the man to ask. I tried one out in a shop and it sounded real good. Lots of tones.

Yeah, dude the Trifecta is sweet. It's like a muff with a really focused bottom end. You can actually palm mute. It was a little to refined for my taste (I didn't get along with Skreddy Pedals or the Musket for this same reason), but it's a great pedal at a great price.

[conky]

Damn that preorder is fucking hot.