My guitar sounds good through my new MF amp

It's not billed as a guitar amp, but man does it ROCK with my Harbeth P3s through a good modern guitar preamp that outputs a mono balanced signal post all effects, amp and cab simulators to the balanced input on the M6si.

 

Is that Tele vintage or a worn relic? Either way, a cool guitar.

 

Excellent. But everything sounds great through MF amplification! Actually I notice your new amp and speakers were two components I chose in that $15K system thread! Hope you really enjoy it all. I know I would.

 

The tele is from Feb 1951. One of the earliest nocasters. The bridge pickup is very hot. It had a pro refret before I got it and it plays incredibly well. I haven't found a modern guitar that I prefer. Kind of a smaller neck, and a portly 8.5 pounds of mean raucus tele goodness. I may move up to a stereo modeler - in rack form - and put it on the empty bottom shelf. But I would miss the built in drum machine and looper of the Zoom.

 

Oh man! A 1951 nocaster!

 

I feel in awe just looking at that guitar

 

I will heed your advice. But out of curiousity why will it blow the speakers? The modeling gear is designed to be plugged into a power amp and hi quality monitors found I studios.

 

Nice setup. I have both the MF integrated and the Harbeths on my short list.

 

To paraphrase Isaac Hayes, that amp's a bad mother fu...shut your mouth...

 

That's one killer axe right there.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth. A friend of mine tried to play his Fender Stratocaster through his hifi system using a mic jack in the front of the panel of the receiver. He had it connected to a pair of large Advent speakers and the frequency of the guitar pickups destroyed the tweeters in the speaker cabs.

Hifi drivers and guitar speakers are completely different animals. I would advise that he cease and desist this activity immediately. Otherwise he is going to have a costly repair job.

 

I'll just add that I think a guitar like that deserves some tubes. Maybe a vintage Fender Champ or a Korg/Vox AC15, for home use?

 

You lost me at digital modelling DI and sounds good.

 

+1

 

Oh I've had and still have plenty of real amps and I've been through the gamut of modelers including Axe FX, Kemper and Atomic and have gigged with digital and tubes and solid state amps and preamps including combos of going just to front-of-house or just amp or both.

And what I've learned after this long and fun experiment is: the sound is all in the hands.