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Decided to move a tiny bit of gear over near the computer for recording and jamming and tutorial videos and such. It fits between a recliner and a table, and you can't see it from anywhere downstairs unless you're right in front of it (the guitar will have to put away, but the amp/effects are out of sight). That's a plus for the wife.

Got my trusty stock VJ (need to mod that thing) and three pedals: TC Vortex Flanger, TC Flashback Delay, and the FX-96 delay I modded to monster delay time. I'm using the 96 as a pseudo reverb, the Flashback with mix set low, and the Vortex very subtle. Has a nice spacy/ambient sound for such a small setup. Great for dicking around.

Having my stuff in the living room makes me want to get an old reel-to-reel, record some songs with my wife singing backup, and then start touring southern Ontario. Oh wait, no, that's p_watts' gig.

Nice! I really need to have a small living room amp....both amp i have are way too loud for the appartement...

How do that epi amp sounds? Would it take OD/Fuzz/Distortion well?

I'm a fan of the VJ. I totally rebuilt my old one on an eyelet board and added half a dozen mods to it. This one is totally stock. I definitely need to add a standby switch, brighten in up a bit, and then add a simple tone control.

But they are great with pedals, in my opinion.

Nice, the price tag is also real good......i'll go test one at the music store where i used to work, see if it can take the punishement of a low B....

cool little rig. I guess the question is what's with all the stock pedals PS?

CJ doesn't actually build pedals any more... he's too busy buying new delay pedals, rubbing them all over his body, dreaming up new purple PCB layouts, then selling the sullied delay pedals to buy more delay pedals.

Hahaha. Cute rig.

I'm too busy designing and the selling/shipping circuit boards to you bastards to build pedals.

Nice rig. Love the Geetar. And I've played gigs with lesser rigs.

Nice all round! I still love my slightly modded VJr. I have the head version, running into a 1x12 cab with some sort of eminince Patriot speaker in it (red white and blues maybe?). My slight mods were cap and resistor upgrades and value changes, a 'boost' switch that takes a resistor out of the circuit (it doesn't really boost but it does change the sound), a switchable negative feedback loop (awesome), and a JAN 5751. It's my go-to amp. Partially because I get great distortion at moderate volume levels, and partially because there's not a whole lot of tweaking I can do to the sound. With just a volume knob and a couple switches, I have to play 6 strings instead of playing with 18 knobs...

It's been said before, but one thing I will caution about the VJr and pedals - it doesn't have a whole lot of inherent clean, even with the 5751 up front there, so dirt pedals will always make more, and sometimes what is to me unusable, dirt. Boosts are nice, fuzzes are chaotic.

Right now my living room rig is my DC-sourced frankentele into Rocksmith via the PS3.

Should we feel guilty?

Hey Rej, why not build a small one? You picked up on this stuff and blew past me in no time and I was able to put one together so I know you can. That's another way of saying if I can build an amp anyone can

I tought about it..., i never really worked on or modded amps beside trying different tubes and oh! i did a Bias mod on a first issue 5150 that i use to have.... so i tought i could go with a affordable small amp at first, mod the hell out of it.

And then build a kit with a single KT88 in power amp, powering a 12 inch Vintage30.............welll...that sounds like a plan! haha!

I admit that the champlifier would be great, i just have to many idea and project rolling in my head.....at first i was suppose to build pedals, to be able to build guitars...........and i'm now totally owned by pedal building...

It's kind of risky for me to go into amps.....if i love it, wich would probably be the case, it will totally over grow on me.....and i'll never see the day that i will start to build guitars....

In resume, i'm an addicted, obsessive, impulsive gear aholic.........

I went VJR bonkers for a few months when the combo (with 4, 8 & 16ohm taps) first came out. I did all the Marshall 'gold' mods, replaced the OT, added screen grid resisitor, standby switch, JJ/Tesla tubes.. sounds glorious running it into a 4x12 Marshall cab.. flat out AC/DC heaven.

Tondeaf nearly talked me into the negative feedback mod, but then I got the Tweaker and lost my ambition to crack it open again

PPG, Tweaker is the amp from Egnater? Bitch'in amp!!

I'm itching so badly for that to come out in the UK.



Agreed or plus 1 or however I show my appreciation.

+1 love that game. and the amp and pedal models help me figure out what kind of sound i want to mess with next. don't have the money to dump into pedals i'll only use once.

Ha! You got us pegged, that's for sure.

We've actually got a full basement apartment as a music/art studio right now, so I've been able to really spread out. But we're trying to buy a house, so we might have to ditch the studio to save money for a bit. l'll likely have a living room rig again soon!

Yours looks great! I've always wanted to mod a VJ.

I was hoping you'd notice that comment, Paul.

So, CJ: how you like that toneprint flanger? I have the reverb & delay and am quite happy with them both--compact and tweakable. Ever since I built the BYOC flanger I've never considered another...

This is a nice livingroom rig you have there. Right now my livingroom rig is just an old harmony tube amp and my disgusting Xavierre LP. I say that like it's bad, but it sounds like gold and I've painted up that LP so it looks like 8 million pesos. I believe there's a bit of magic in that old amp and if I put anything in between it and a guitar it turns to dust ... so no pedals.

A house without a livingroom rig is no house I want to live in, so - yeah - that VJr. is sweet man, keep it up.

I like it quite a bit. I also have a BYOC flanger and an old Ross Flanger. The Vortex sounds as good as the BYOC, but not quite as nice as the Ross.