Bad Kittie Guitar Gear Part #1

(this post for musicians and anyone that is curious)

Let's get one thing straight, bands that have great gear typically sound great. If you use junk, well as the old saying goes "you get what you paid for".

CABLES - Sorry to those of you that are happy grabbing cables from the discount bin @ Guitar Center in the long run you are just going to end up replacing those cables about three or four times, just break down and get the "good" stuff right away. I recommend Monster Cables, as they all come with a lifetime warranty, which means if they fuck up for any reason you just head down to the store you bought them from and BOOM they are replaced no questions asked, sound a bit better then the discount bin stuff doesn't it?

GUITAR HEADS -  Right now I'm rocking two Randall RM100s. Yes, two. Why? To me if a bar is paying a band good money they expect the band to sound and perform like the band they heard/saw when they hired them.

A back up in my eyes is a must. It can cost a little money but when dealing with tubed heads a back up plan should always be in place.

Why did I go with Randall? For myself personally I never heard a head that I really liked.

At one point I ended up going the Line 6 POD Pro direction that I ran thru a Mesa 20/20.

I'm not going to lie, it had some amazing clean tones when ran thru my Seymour Duncan 59 neck pick ups.  But the high gain tones where very "fake", as it should be coming thru any sort of digital guitar amplifier modeler. The cool part of it was you were not stuck with "one" sound, meaning you had a lot of tones you could choose from, you could bank up and down up to like 12 different setups? I could be wrong on that so don't quote me, it's been awhile.  

From that point on I kept trying to image a tubed head that could give you that type of flexibility.

My first Randall was a green limited edition Vmax with matching 4x12 cab #5 of 50 world wide. It was definitely and improvement tone wise vs the Line 6 but it took some getting used to, and it was solid state, YUCK! Just the very thing I was trying to get away from! I must say....  it was one loud head, all 300 Watts! lmfao!!! 

After this I kept trying to decide what to do? I was getting closer to the tone that I wanted but I had really lost the cool effects of the Line 6.  It's basically a trade off, I would take tone over effects any day of the week. 

I also tried the Randall V2, but other then it including midi inputs it was too similar to the Vmax. 

Then I found the Randall RM100 and all tube head with some thing very rare never seen before in a tube head? MTS Modules? These are basically the preamp circuits of what you would find in your standard tubed Marshall. 

But unlike your normal guitar head you could swap these preamps for other modules that had completely different tones. 

THIS WAS THE HEAD OF MY DREAMS! 

All tube head with the flexibility of any digital guitar amplifier modeler and the best head I have ever purchased.

My two Randall's are the standard RM100 and the RM100SI which is a Scott Ian Signature Series unit. 

That's all for now, my next gear post will be on guitars.

ZILLA