Philip OKeefe

Great stuff Craig - thanks for posting! As always, it was great seeing you at NAMM, even if only for a few minutes.

Phil, Thats pretty much the best bang for the buck and Line 6 has this down better than anybody else I can think of at the moment. Myles, Does your response confirm that the POD XT Pro has significantly better sound quality than their Guitar Port (which to me is noisy and not so good on clean sounds)? Waterman, I have not tried the Guitar Port, but I do own a studio and do recording for a living, and I have a Pod XT. I've also owned literally dozens of amp sims, plug ins, speaker loading / sim boxes and hardware modellers over the years, as well as a lot of real amps. I currently own several such tools. IMO, the XT is probably THE best amp modeller available. Short of getting a mic on a real amp in a good room, that's really about as good as it gets right now, and it's a very useful tool. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn that the Guitar Port didn't sound as good as an XT. They're different products and designed for different markets and for different purposes. And there's a significant price difference between the two. You may not like the tones - not everyone does. But they're really not noisy. I can't speak for Guitar Port, but from your description of your needs, the Pod XT Pro would definitely be worth a test drive.

I'm not Myles, but I am going to guess at what he'll suggest for that - a Pod XT Pro.

Thanks Myles - I'd definitely let you know in advance of my driving out there. Oh, and feel free to call me Phil - pretty much everyone else does.

Hey Myles, do you have the ability to test tubes at your place? I was just wondering - if I come by some weeked if I should bring some of my tube stock along for testing.

Have you tried a different cable first? Maybe it has an intermittent short or open in it and that's what causing it to cut out sometimes.

Yeah Myles, let's talk tubes for Univalves again. I got mine a couple of days ago, and so far I'm digging a Mullard 12AX7 in V1, and a Telefunken "Select" 12AT7 in V2... although another Mullard 12AX7 is nice in V2 too. Output tubes are a bit scarce around here - I can't find my main output tube storage box, so I'm limited a bit - I've only tried a Svetlana EL34, a Sylvania 6V6, a Sovtek 6V6, a GT 6V6 NOS (rawks!) and a GT EL34 (I forget which one at the moment). Specific suggestions for specific "tone types" would be greatly appreciated! BTW, running it as a "front end" for another amp via the adjustable line / instrument output DOES rock - thanks for that suggestion.

One of the funniest threads I have ever read.

Well, since Dave "borrowed" the idea for this thread from Chris Stone and Ed Cherney's forum, I figure I'll just "borrow" my answer from the same place http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif with a few edits here and there, and a few additions. I've noticed quite a few of you listed your gear - I can't list all of mine or Dave will kill me for being a bandwidth hog (WHAT, me? http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif ), but I'll list some things... My name is Phil O'Keefe and I'm 38 years old... and my middle name is David. I have been engineering and producing for about 22 years now. I have an engineering degree from Cal State. I own a small commercial studio in Riverside California, where we do a lot of publisher demos, indie label stuff and occasional label projects. We do a lot of Contemp. Christian projects, and I have been involved as a staff producer / engineer for a couple of Christian labels. We also do "secular" projects too. Mostly Rock, acoustic, Blues, Country and some R&B, but not much Rap or other urban genres. My wife (who occasionally reads these forums) is a former RCA recording artist and terrific singer, keyboardist and writer. I have two children (from a previous marriage) with RETTS syndrome - one of them passed away almost two years ago, the other's doing pretty well. I have two step-duaghters living at home, one of which's boyfriend is the lead singer for Alien Ant Farm (Dreamworks Records). Dryden lives here with us when he's not on the road, plus we have four dogs, so it's a pretty full house. Anyone who'd like to take a look at our studio can check out the link below, but the equipment list and photos are WAY out of date. Some of the things we've added are a pair of Yamaha AW4416's which are digitally cascaded, 2 20 bit ADATs and lots of new computer stuff. I'm running Logic Platinum 4.7, Vegas Audio 2.0, SF 5.0, and more plug ins than you can shake a stick at... The main DAW machine is a PIII 933 MHz w/ 384 MB RAM, 100 GB of total HDD space (2 W/D 7200 RPM's), a MOTU Micro Express, a Tascam US-428 (Hi Jeff!) and a Frontier Dakota and Montana card for the 32 channel lightpipe I/O's over to the Yamahas. Instruments? Well, I'm primarily a guitarist now days. I have a Taylor 510, '62 strat, mid 90's tele special, early 90's Rickenbacker 610, Epiphone Les Paul Standard special edition red sunburst flametop, Ibanez SR400 bass, Danelectro DC-12 12 string and a new Epiphone Casino I'm really getting into... but I guess that's all of more interest to the guitar forum. But amps can be of interest to keyboardists, right? I have a couple of old Fenders that I've personally hot rodded (a Princeton II with all high precision parts, DC heater mod, negative feedback removal switch, etc...) and a Super Champ that's been converted somewhere between stock and a Vox AC15 (it's running EL34 tubes and the preamp is now based on the Vox). I also have a POD, and it's great for keyboards... Keyboards? Well, I'm a basher at best. I used to have a C3 and Leslie in the studio and kick myself for letting that go. I had only limited private lessons as a kid (about six months in high school and a bit more in college) but I play several other instruments - guitar / reeds / bass / banjo (:eek http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif etc. and theory's theory, right? I've got a Fatar Studio 90, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Alesis Nanosynth, two E-MU Proteus 1's (thanks for the second one Dan!) a E-MU ESI-32 w/ a SCSI card and CD-ROM drive, Roland R8-M, Alesis D4, KMX 8X8 MIDI patchbay, Roland U-220, MKS-100 with a dead (and totally worthless) disk drive, a E-MU Proformance / 1+ and a Roland GI-10 (as I said, I'm a better guitarist than keyboardist...) I got Sandy (my wife) a Kurzweil for Christmas, but that leaves the house over MY dead body (she'd arrange it, believe me! http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif ). That's HER baby. Mics? I have somewhere between 30 and 40 mics. Are you SURE you want to hear this? Okkkkaaaay.. two Telefunken ELA M 251 e's, a Stephen Paul modded AKG C-414 EB, a Rode NTK, two Oktava MC012's, E/V RE20, four Audix D2's, Sennheiser MD421, two RCA 74 B Jr velocity, Shure 315 ribbon, M3 LOMO head on a MC012 body, Shure SM57's (several), AKG C-414 EB P48, etc. etc. I just hit some of the highlights... I have others but I'm sure you don't want ALL the gory details. As far as preamps and effects, I have a two channel Vintech / Neve 1272 that I really like, some Presonus stuff, Bellari, Joe Meek, Ensoniq (2 DP/4's) and Lexicons... Great forum Dave! Best wishes and peace to all, Phil O'Keefe Sound Sanctuary Recording Riverside CA http://members.aol.com/ssanctuary/index.html email: pokeefe777@msn.com This message has been edited by pokeefe777@msn.com on 06-27-2001 at 02:41 AM