Devnor

I'm in the camp of "I love all Firebirds". Looks good and I'm glad its not $6k or more.

This is good hear. I'm having the same surgery tomorrow

The settings they use to drive the amp into oscillation aren't realistic. This is not how you dial in a Mesa for chugga chugga. You don't set V1 and treble at 8-10 and the lead master at 8 with the overall master set at 1. That's just dumb. All a newbie user needs to do is use the sample settings and adjust to taste. The pots on these amps have a +/- 20% tolerance so what might achieve the same level of gain on one amp at 6, may need to be set to 8 on a different amp. As you crank up the master, the dial back V1. treble and lead drive for the same level of gain. Unless you just enjoy excessive levels of hiss then, you do you. IMO if you are buying this amp to drive it into max gain, saturation and compression, you are just wasting your money, Now that I have the amp, I'm dropping out of the groups. All this infighting from users that only know what they heard on youtube is getting very tedious. I've love to be able to discuss the gear and its capabilities but until Ola Englund gets one and does his chugga chugga thing, making it sound like every other tone on his channel, lots of folks will be in this mode of increasing unhappiness and disappointment. We predicted that right? LOL Last night explored the clean channel. Using the Tyler Dann Huff guitar, the combo of the amp and onboard tyler/demeter clean boost resulted in gobs of sustain and bloom, totally clean and fun to play. Needed to dial back the treble and add bass so if I switched back to the lead channel, it got a little gnarly. Balancing the two sounds has always been a challenge. Maybe a TS is the key.

My IIC+ reissue arrived a few days ago. I would post a pic but I can't figure out how on this site My dealer received 5 amps and just learned I was number 5 on the waiting list. While I was waiting on the amp, I've been playing my OG IIC+ SRG. Few thoughts: Just being real here but if I had to do a blindfold test and not hearing with my eyes, I would not be able to tell the difference between my OG SRG and the reissue. All the sounds & quirks are there. It's pretty amazing actually. Has all the note bloom and feedback as the OG. It reacts the same with different guitars as the OG. At extreme settings, low masters and high V1 & drive, it gets just as noisy. The tones on all the youtube demos are shit. Being in the room and interacting with the amp in the way the player wants to hear things is such a different experience.

I was hoping they would use Doug West's Anderson guitar with H3 pickups. This was the one they supposedly used when they were tuning the IIC+. I pulled my Andy from storage for when the reissue arrives.

The Gibson guy was probably not the best player to demo the amp but the tones I heard thru my computer speakers sound very familiar to me. They didn't totally goose the amp into noisy oblivion either.

That was predictable. Hopefully everyone ahead of me on the waitlist cancels their orders so I'll receive mine sooner.

"Loaded" is an old school Boogie term. They use it in some of the old price lists including the one I was given when I was trying to decide options in 1989. The base model was 60W without reverb, GEQ or higher power (100W mode, simulclass). Since then, I've always called those amps with the all the options as "loaded".

I've owned a couple IIC+ amps. The first one I bought in the late 80s, the crunch berries 100W fully loaded head for the then whopping price of $600. Lost that one in a house fire. About 15 years ago I bought a loaded simulclass chassis for $3200. That one went back to Mike B and I had a guy on the boogie forums build me a headshell. Mike B performed his magic, replaced a bunch of parts and the amp was a completely different beast. Just fantastic. I guess that amp is worth somewhere between $8-10k now. When Blues City Music ended their relationship with Boogie, I got a steal of a deal on a JP2C head. I honestly think the JP2C has little in common with my IIC+. Its much angrier sounding but super versatile due to independent channels and midi control of everything. But, part of the reason it doesn't have the real IIC+ sound is all the switching, bells & whistles. This morning, I ordered the reissue. Hoping for the best and it sounds closer to the OG Boogie.

Quite few of the dealer custom P basses have J profile necks. Been a thing for a pretty long while. New colors are always a good thing but if you want, you can still get a boring 3 tone SB finish. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to the P bass so I would take a pass on J necks and 2 pickups.

Rocktober starts with the State Fair! The rest of the month I'll be playing one of the Standards thru my new Boogie JP2C.

I think they look cool.

In the late 2000s, I had 3 guitars plekked at a workshop in Oklahoma...EBMM Luke 1, PRS CU24 and one of my Hamer standards. All benefited from this work. At the time, there was no luthier I could trust to do this work.

Only for employees. If you're an owner and you sell your company, the no compete is enforceable.

Didn't watch this but I'm skeptical. For all we know, it could be a rando collection of guitars and a made-up story to drive clicks to his monetized youtube page.