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  • December 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm #79492
    ckatrun
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    Hi, this is a very cool amp, and I have a few questions about it.

    First would be: Can I put a distortion before it, like a rocktron metal, and then drive a speaker cab? Does the 22 caliber have enough power to play big shows? Would you play, “the bowery ballroom,” with it?

    Will I have a lot of noise in my signal, or any other problems you can think of, if I go: guitar –> monster 1/4 –> rocktron metal –> planet waves patch –> 22 caliber –> alesis guitar link –> mac book pro usb slot?

    As you can see, I’m trying to avoid buying, “yet another marshall.” I’d buy a mesa head, but its out of my budget. I really don’t like the Line 6 sound, and if I bought a fender I would need a pedal anyways, and I hate that fender dsp stuff…… crap. pfft!

    I’m pretty sure I’d like to purchase the 22 caliber, or Tech 21 Sans amp. Why would the 22 caliber be a better choice?

    Thanks

    Jonathan

    December 9, 2009 at 5:53 pm #105073
    electro-melx
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    Yes, you can run pedals into it…

    um.. probably not, it’s a 22w solid state amp, personally I wouldn’t gig with it, but I guess you could if you mic’d the speaker cab.

    I don’t know what a ‘alesis guitar link’ is, but generally speaker outputs shouldn’t be connected to anything other than a speaker.

    The sansamp is an amp simulator, the 22 caliber is an amp. The sansamp has a line out the 22 caliber has a speaker out…. from what I can see they are 2 totally different things for different uses, unless i’m mistaken.

    December 9, 2009 at 7:03 pm #105075
    joed424
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    what about an xo size .22 caliber w/ a 12AX7 and an EL34 or something

    December 9, 2009 at 7:23 pm #105076
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    I just received my .22 Caliber this week, but I haven’t had a lot of time to play with it yet. So far I’ve only plugged direct into it with an 8″ stock Fender speaker, and it sounded pretty damn good. The cleans were not noisy, and it gave a pleasing crunch when cranked. I’ll report more later when I’ve had more time with it.

    22 watts alone is not enough for clean headroom if you are playing with a LOUD ROCK ensemble. If it was a Jazz quartet or Lounge act, it might work out okay.

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