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WA Gigs / Re: Metal'cal Seminar - May 28th

« on: April 22, 2011, 07:59:14 PM »

I fucking love that poster! Very much looking forward to this show!

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WA Gigs / Re: NASTY WEDNESDAYS at The Republic! Ft. Noctis/Khariot/Sensory Amusia/Desolate.

« on: February 24, 2011, 09:07:46 PM »

Do they have an in house soundy?

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WA Gigs / Devour The Martyr w/ Arkarion, Kimura and Harmsway LIVE! Jan 29th @ The Civic

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:03:48 AM »

Hope to see everyone down there for a killer metal line-up, some drinking and a brilliant show!

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WA Gigs / Re: From Isolation/Devour The Martyr/Bend The Sky @ Swan Basement, Sat 11th of Dec.

« on: November 18, 2010, 12:48:56 AM »

Fuck yeah!

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WA Gigs / Re: F#@K 'Parklife' Its DARKLIFE 2010

« on: September 22, 2010, 04:07:31 PM »

METAL LONG WEEKEND!

WHAM!

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Sound Advice / Re: Choir Vst's or samples?

« on: May 21, 2010, 04:42:56 PM »

The Vienna symphonic library is worth a chek out

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Sound Advice / Re: Home recording noob

« on: May 12, 2010, 03:26:20 AM »

And also what are some decent monitors to get for a small room? budget about $700..

It may cost you a little more than $700, but look into the Yamaha HS80 - Fantastic speakers for the price.

Yeh go have a listen to the HS80'S my opinion the flattest response speakers for the $$$

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WA Gigs / Re: May 7th - Railway Hotel - Cancelled

« on: April 18, 2010, 09:54:50 PM »

Arkarion will be playing the late shift at the Rocket room on the 7th. Feel free to stumble in for some late night metaallllllll!!

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WA Gigs / Re: Laybor Daybor

« on: February 13, 2010, 02:47:38 AM »

Wow... The Similarities between the Akarion logo, Voyager font and Anarion logo and the are interesting!

Thanks for your support man I hope you can get down there to catch our set!

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The Frontline / Re: Decline?

« on: January 29, 2010, 05:07:57 AM »

But I also have this other crazy idea: in the suburbs, there are hundreds, nay thousands, of regular bogans just like us, many of whom don't realise that there's a local scene at all or if they do, they don't realise that it's really fucking top stuff, or they're too young to be involved. It would be a huge effort and would require organisation and co-operation, but imagine plastering every local IGA, supa valu, deli and bottle shop in the suburbs with local gig posters each and every week. Everyone eats... stick gig posters up in the same places where there are flyers advertising commodores for sale and lost dogs and brickies for hire and whatever.

Now THAT is a fucking good idea. I think all the issues addressed in this thread so far play a role in what is happening to us the musos,promoters, metal fans etc. it seems there is enough of us peeps that give a shit and wanna see the day where people are getting wild and toppling over other people and having some good ol metal fun! There has been many times when i have been at international gigs and look around at all the punters and think "where the fuck do all these people come from and why arn't they at local gigs!"

I think venue support would go a looong way also.There are venues open to "allowing" local bands to play at their venue, but at what cost. Twice the restrictions, expensive piss, hiring costs and THEN they want you to fucking hire a P.A. I have no idea how but there must be some way to make hosting a metal show an attractive prospect for venues.At the end of the day i think we need more "live" venues not pubs/clubs that have a stage. The more competition in that regard i think will bring alot more activity and EXCITEMENT to perth metal.

I think a serious calloboration from this thread should be put together and maybe it can be put to some good use or strategy. For those who know me i have done a lot of live mixing around town, have hosted and promoted shows before and it aint an easy task. I would be happy to help out in anyway i can.

my 20 cents, keep the change.

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Western Australia / Re: Friday 29th Jan...

« on: January 27, 2010, 04:43:57 PM »

Why not go to the gig that has bands you want to see, as opposed to the ones you want to advertise?

Hahaha, that's the best advice yet. And probably what I will end up doing. If for no other reason that I've never actually seen Episiotomy and my cuz has been hassling me to catch them.

But for the record it's not so much advertising and providing interesting content for MAF readers. And trying to impart the idea that Perth has a happening local scene that people should check out.

Maybe you could incorporate the fact that there IS a happening scene in Perth because there was so much on you couldn't decide on which gig to go to!! 

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WA Gigs / Re: The Castle Metal Resolution

« on: December 07, 2009, 04:42:45 PM »

maybe it's like metal new years resolution coz it's on jan 2nd 

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WA Gigs / Re: RAILWAY RAMPAGE - Sat, 14th Nov @ Railway Hotel

« on: November 18, 2009, 05:00:11 PM »

Yeah they knew they were over time too, next time we'll just start loading our loud amps and pointy guitars onto the stage as they're playing!

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WA Gigs / Re: October 10, IGI metal night.

« on: October 11, 2009, 06:50:39 PM »

Thanks for the support!We had killer fun. thanks to all those who ventured down to welcome us to the first of many stages love ya work!

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General discussion / Re: Circle pits

« on: March 11, 2009, 05:07:03 PM »

Dam straight ya'll ! whatever happen to good ol' up and down?!!!I cringe now everytime i hear a band say "open this shit up", seriously it's old. Ie soundwave, in which everyband that played on the metal stage did the sammme thing right after one another, "open this shit up!" or "lets see a cricle pit!". I loved the show but i would have thought they would have at least tried to do something different than the band(s) before them.

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Ask Ormsby / Re: ENGL AMPS?? Whadda ya reckon?

« on: November 12, 2008, 05:06:25 AM »

Engl amps are quite impressive..such a sweeter mid range than most and more grunt than the mesas..idealistic for modern metal styles, i think they would cut through great live some cool features the amps too.

None the less, ENGLs and Mesas are nice, they are just different, preference really...

yeah definetly

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Ask Ormsby / Re: ENGL AMPS?? Whadda ya reckon?

« on: November 11, 2008, 04:21:48 PM »

hahaha didnt wanna sound all saley.fuck that. just saying there brootal!but yeah. come say hi 

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Ask Ormsby / Re: ENGL AMPS?? Whadda ya reckon?

« on: November 11, 2008, 02:30:23 AM »

Engl amps are quite impressive..such a sweeter mid range than most and more grunt than the mesas..idealistic for modern metal styles, i think they would cut through great live some cool features the amps too.

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Ask Ormsby / Re: How do I 'tighten' up my Peavey 6505+?

« on: October 15, 2008, 05:50:46 PM »

& here is the most insane mod I have ever seen done on a 5150. 6L6 & KT88 together 


Peavey 5150 and 6505 amps.

The 5150 and the 6505 are the same amps and they have an insane amount of gain in the preamp section. I?m going to be very honest here and say right up front that I do not care for the 5150 heads in stock trim. The power tubes while running just under 500 plate volts are only drawing about 10 to 12 milliamps of plate current. This means the amp is producing what is called crossover distortion and can not produce a good warm clean tone to start with. It also causes the amp to be sluggish and lack dynamic response.

The 5150 combo and the Ultra combo are another story. For some reason PV got it right and although the combo amps are also fixed bias they are fixed MUCH warmer and I can supply you with power tubes that will get the bias between 38 to 42mA which is right where they belong with NO bias mod.

If you check a stock 5150 100 watt or an Ultra plus 100 watt head using an oscilloscope and a signal generator which is the classic old school method of biasing a tube amp, you can plainly see crossover distortion in the wave forms until you get to about 33 to 34 milliamps of plate current then the sine waves look perfect. I personally like them set at 40 to 42mA per tube. Now you 5150 players who have played or own the 5150 combo don't have this problem, for some reason the combo's are biased much warmer and with the correct grade of power tubes they will bias up to a very nice 38 to 40mA with no need to modify them. This is why most players who have tried both the head and the combo, like the clean tone and the combo's dynamic response better.

There are a lot of amp tech?s out there that have attended technical trade schools or have taken a couple college courses and have no real understanding of how and why vacuum tubes work. They for the most part have never read or studied any of the classic tube manuals but most of them will be very quick to say, "Bias? No, you don?t have to worry about that, it?s fixed bias." So if you?re looking for a tech to bias your amp properly and you get this answer say, "Gee thanks!" and quickly move on to the next tech because they obviously know nothing about tube amps.

In July of 1999 I retubed a 5150 for a local guy named Jeff Miesen, better known as Jeffytune on the Peavey forum.  The Peavey amp forum used to be one of the only real open forums on the net, but unfortunately this changed the summer of 2001 and now if you post something that Peavey doesn't like your post will be deleted. This is unfortunate as I did enjoy this forum. Now back to that 5150. Jeff was real happy with the JJ Electronic 6L6?s and ECC83?s that we loaded his amp with, but I have to say I still didn?t care for it. I tried to convince Jeff to let one of the local tech?s I work with to bias his 5150 but he was leery and didn?t want to part with the $40.00. (He was probably saving for another Peavey amp!) A few weeks went by and I couldn?t take it any longer, I really wanted to hear for myself what a 5150 sounded like with the power tubes biased properly so I called Jeff and offered to pick up his 5150 and take it to one of my tech friends for a bias job, free of charge! Jeff said yes! Two days later I picked the amp up and brought it home. It now read about 34 to 35 mA on the plates which was just out of crossover distortion. I played his 5150 for about two hours at all different settings. I liked it! It now had a good warm clean tone and the dynamic response was much improved. I promptly called Jeff to come get his amp. After hearing it he was impressed, a total success!

In August of 2000 I decided to mod a 5150 using an idea I was going to use on a 100 watt Marshall. The mod consists of a split dual bias circuit allowing the amp to run all 6L6?s or a pair of KT88?s in the outside sockets and 6L6?s in the inside sockets or any combination of EL34?s, 6L6?s and KT88?s. I called it the 5150ex for experimental. I mounted the two bias pots on the back panel for easy access, reworked the front panel and hard wired in two milliamp meters, one for the two inner tubes and one for the two outer tubes.

I tried all of the above tube combinations at lots of different bias settings, this thing is a great test bed! My favorite combination is a pair of JJ E34L?s in the center sockets set at plate current draw of 44mA and a pair of JJ KT88?s drawing 65mA in the outer sockets. At these settings the amp makes 113 watts before any clipping. In stock trim a 5150 is well into clipping at 100 watts.

This amp gets run hard multiple times a week and has well over FOUR years on it now with NO problems what so ever.

The 5150 ex is a beast! It also exhibits a very fat, warm clean tone. The distortion in the clean channel alone is more than I need! The lead channel is just simply over the top, way over the top! With it?s Zebra wood front panel and snakeskin covering it?s not bad looking either! Just about every local player that comes in for a retube wants to play it and I never say no because it?s great to see and hear their reactions. The Marshall players seem to be most impressed.

hell yeah that's an awesome mod, i recently re-valved my amp and re-biased it and its amazing how it can shine things up for you, especially us metal players where it sounds good but you hear the potential to clean it up a bit so a proper bias can do the trick as well as experimenting with different tubes. I'm with beast hit up doug's tubes, you can find some sweet combinations there. It should also be the first thing you look at doing before looking into pedals after all, your sound is your guitar and amp.