A collection of the guitar amplifiers available for Musical Portraits in the Muse Cave.
The "Muse Current Ranking" is just a current inspirational ranking for fun.
Studio Amps, Cabinets, and Load Boxes
F.A.C.S. 30/60 Foot Actuated Channel Switching tube combo amp
A Primary Studio Amp: Stage Amp #1:
F.A.C.S. 30/60 Foot Actuated Channel Switching tube combo guitar amp is one of two “Stage Amps”.
Stage Amps are the primary tone amps in the Cave Studio and fed by a common tone-shaping pedalboard and distributed using a PreSonus BlueTube V2 two channel tube preamp
The pedalboard that feeds an Electro-harmonix SwitchBlade active distribution box that sends the pedalboard tone to the Stage Amps and a blending tone to the ZED 10 Analog Effects Mixer for a “Dry Feed” to the Wet/Dry/Wet triple amp configuration.
The Stage Amp pedalboard only uses “Drive” pedals:
• Transparent Drives: Klon Centaur clones
• Soft Clipping Drives
• Hard Clipping Distortion pedals
The last Drive stage is a Marshall “Amp-in-a-Box final tone shaping pedal.
Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue - The Limited Edition Neo Celestion Creamback Wine Red Sweetwater combo guitar amp
A Primary Studio Amp: Stage Amp #2:
Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue - The Limited-Edition Neo Celestion Creamback Wine Red Sweetwater combo guitar amp is one of two “Stage Amps”.
Stage Amps are the primary tone amps in the Cave Studio and fed by a common tone-shaping pedalboard and distributed using a PreSonus BlueTube V2 two channel tube preamp
The pedalboard that feeds an Electro-harmonix SwitchBlade active distribution box that sends the pedalboard tone to the Stage Amps and a blending tone to the ZED 10 Analog Effects Mixer for a “Dry Feed” to the Wet/Dry/Wet triple amp configuration.
The Stage Amp pedalboard only uses “Drive” pedals:
• Transparent Drives: Klon Centaur clones
• Soft Clipping Drives
• Hard Clipping Distortion pedals
The last Drive stage is a Marshall “Amp-in-a-Box final tone shaping pedal.
Blackstar HT20R MKII 1x12" 20-watt Tube Combo Amp with Reverb
A Studio Blending Amp: Bedroom Amp #1:
The “Bedroom Amps” are named for their low power, bedroom quality, tones.
The Blackstar's role is for a “British Marshall” tone blending tube amps with the Stage Amps.
Bedroom Amps are fed by a common tone-shaping pedalboard and distributed using a two channel BBE Sonic fed by a JHS active ABY distribution switch.
The Stage Amp pedalboard only uses “Wet” and “Drive” pedals:
• Gain Staging Compressor
• Transparent Drives: Klon Centaur clones
• Soft Clipping Drives
• Hard Clipping Distortion
• A “De-Tuning” Modulation
• A Dual Delay & Reverb
The final stage is a pair of JHS Clover preamps for amp input gain staging and a pair of LPD signal buffers to ensure a common high-quality signal is sent to the two amps.
Tone King Gremlin 1x12" 7-watt Tube Combo Amp without reverb
A Studio Blending Amp: Bedroom Amp #2:
The “Bedroom Amps” are named for their low power, bedroom quality, tones.
The Tone King Gremlin’s role is for a “American Fender” tone blending tube amps with the Stage Amps.
Bedroom Amps are fed by a common tone-shaping pedalboard and distributed using a two channel BBE Sonic fed by a JHS active ABY distribution switch.
The Stage Amp pedalboard only uses “Wet” and “Drive” pedals:
• Gain Staging Compressor
• Transparent Drives: Klon Centaur clones
• Soft Clipping Drives
• Hard Clipping Distortion
• A “De-Tuning” Modulation
• A Dual Delay & Reverb
The final stage is a pair of JHS Clover preamps for amp input gain staging and a pair of LPD signal buffers to ensure a common high-quality signal is sent to the two amps.
Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 | 200-watt Floorboard Amplifier
The Cave Wet/Dry/Wet triple amp configuration: The “Dry” amp:
The Wet/Dry/Wet three amps:
• A stereo DAW “Wet” tone source using two amps for the ZED 10 Effects mixer’s blend of the Strymon and Source Audio effects, along with a Stage Amp “Dry” a blending tone,
• A mono DAW “Dry” tone for the center image instrument tone
The Wet/Dry/Wet Dry amp does have a “Wet” pedalboard when mono Wet Effects are desired:
• A Primary Delay: Digital, Analog, and Slap Back
• A Supporting Delay: Shimmer Effect
• A Sustainer: Holds last guitar notes
• A Tremolo: A basic tremolo
• A Primary Reverb: Hall, Room, and Low-Fi
• A Supporting Reverb: Ambiance Tones
The final stage is gain staging with the mono channel two of the BOSS EQ-200 #1.
HD 150 Bass amp
The Cave Wet/Dry/Wet triple amp configuration: The “Left Wet” amp:
The Wet/Dry/Wet three amps:
• A stereo DAW “Wet” tone source using two amps for the ZED 10 Effects mixer’s blend of the Strymon and Source
Audio effects, along with a Stage Amp “Dry” a blending tone,
• A mono DAW “Dry” tone for the center image instrument tone
The Wet/Dry/Wet two Wet amps have a “Wet” stereo pedalboard feed and a mono Stage Amp guitar tone feed:
• A BOSS ME-80 Stereo Multi-Effects Pedalboard
• A Strymon Stereo TimeLine Multi-Effects Delay Pedal
• A TC Electronic Stereo Uni-Vibe Viscous Vibe A Strymon Stereo Multi-Effects Delay
• A Strymon Stereo Mobius Multi-Effects Modulation
• A Strymon Stereo Big Sky Multi-Effects Reverb Pedal
• An Allen & Heath Analog Effects Mixer
The final stage is gain staging
T50 Infinitium amp
The Cave Wet/Dry/Wet triple amp configuration: The “Right Wet” amp:
The Wet/Dry/Wet three amps:
• A stereo DAW “Wet” tone source using two amps for the ZED 10 Effects mixer’s blend of the Strymon and Source
Audio effects, along with a Stage Amp “Dry” a blending tone,
• A mono DAW “Dry” tone for the center image instrument tone
The Wet/Dry/Wet two Wet amps have a “Wet” stereo pedalboard feed and a mono Stage Amp guitar tone feed:
• A BOSS ME-80 Stereo Multi-Effects Pedalboard
• A Strymon Stereo TimeLine Multi-Effects Delay Pedal
• A TC Electronic Stereo Uni-Vibe Viscous Vibe A Strymon Stereo Multi-Effects Delay
• A Strymon Stereo Mobius Multi-Effects Modulation
• A Strymon Stereo Big Sky Multi-Effects Reverb Pedal
• An Allen & Heath Analog Effects Mixer
The final stage is gain staging
Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box
Play tube amplifier at its sonic sweet spot at any volume level, featuring UA's Dynamic Speaker modeling technology
Torpedo Reload RE-ACT™ Load Box
The Reload serves many functions in the Cave studio for the Boutique Kelley tube amp.
It is a reactive load box, a Direct Box, A Reaper track re-amp box, and pairs with the Wall of Sound DAW plugin for IR collections.
Custom Cab #1 - Dual 12"
Custom cabinet populated with two Celestion G12H Creambacks
Custom Cab #2 - Dual 12"
Custom Cabinet populated with a Scumback BM75-LD and an Eminence Rainmaker16
TS112 Pro 1 x 12 | Single 12" Cab
Cabinet populated with a ElectroVoice EVM12-L