BOTR 2023 Rules and Discussion Thread

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Also, I'll add my MXR Timmy as a donation to the prizes

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greatmutah wrote:Welp, Dave won vintage. Unless Itchy shows up with something that can top that.


As a surf music fanboi, Dave has my vote for best vintage rig!!! OMG! That reverb tank, amp and cab... all with matching tolex! :fap:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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Dave wrote:Also, I'll add my MXR Timmy as a donation to the prizes

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Thank you, good sir! I’ve added it to the prize pool.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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Uh oh!!!! There's some serious competition in the Bass Rig category!!!

Dave's Mesa Walkabout, Mesa cab.... and that sexy pickguard on that Jazz Bass!!!! :love: :fap:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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There’s no competition with your rig, I was just throwing some filler in there :lol:
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Speaking of no competition... we have more categories than we do participants
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I've got several more categories to enter into, I've just been lazy/busy :o
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If I were to wanna do a stereo rig with my DSLs does that fit with the Combo category (they're both 1x12s GB + G12H30 :fap: )? Not sure I'll get up the ambition to move them away from the shelving unit, but then again I've been doing more this summer than I have in years so who knows?
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Stereo DSL's?!?!?! We have another WINNER!!!!! :party:
You better post that shit up now!!! :rawk: :rawk: :rawk: :rawk:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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ajaxlepinski wrote:Stereo DSL's?!?!?! We have another WINNER!!!!! :party:
You better post that shit up now!!! :rawk: :rawk: :rawk: :rawk:

Peer pressure. Geeze.

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nightflameauto wrote:If I were to wanna do a stereo rig with my DSLs does that fit with the Combo category (they're both 1x12s GB + G12H30 :fap: )? Not sure I'll get up the ambition to move them away from the shelving unit, but then again I've been doing more this summer than I have in years so who knows?


It doesn’t fit with the combo category as it’s a single combo amp. BUT it does fit in the W/D/W or Multi Amp category. So post them bitches up!
"I understand the science behind it. But you know what I trust more than science? Tony Iommi."


GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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greatmutah wrote:
nightflameauto wrote:If I were to wanna do a stereo rig with my DSLs does that fit with the Combo category (they're both 1x12s GB + G12H30 :fap: )? Not sure I'll get up the ambition to move them away from the shelving unit, but then again I've been doing more this summer than I have in years so who knows?


It doesn’t fit with the combo category as it’s a single combo amp. BUT it does fit in the W/D/W or Multi Amp category. So post them bitches up!

Oh! I didn't see that category.

If I get ambitious, I may go all out and do my Katana/Mesa cab, DSLs flanking it. It's a hell of a racket when it's all fired up. One of my favorite "get together to jam with a drummer" setups.
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nightflameauto wrote:
greatmutah wrote:
nightflameauto wrote:If I were to wanna do a stereo rig with my DSLs does that fit with the Combo category (they're both 1x12s GB + G12H30 :fap: )? Not sure I'll get up the ambition to move them away from the shelving unit, but then again I've been doing more this summer than I have in years so who knows?


It doesn’t fit with the combo category as it’s a single combo amp. BUT it does fit in the W/D/W or Multi Amp category. So post them bitches up!

Oh! I didn't see that category.

If I get ambitious, I may go all out and do my Katana/Mesa cab, DSLs flanking it. It's a hell of a racket when it's all fired up. One of my favorite "get together to jam with a drummer" setups.


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Dave wrote:There’s no competition with your rig, I was just throwing some filler in there :lol:


I beg to differ!!! I can actually see myself voting against my self on the Bass Rig.
It's a good thing we don't have to post clips along with the pics because, that Walkabout sounds KILLER!!!! :thu: :thu:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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If anything I need to enter it in to the Budget rig category :lol:

The bass was $299 brand new (thanks 1998) and the bass head/cab were $300 :hmm:
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Combo category is getting some serious competition.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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I might be able to do some lethal damage in the stereo rig category :hmm:
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And the pile of blondes is tough to beat in the vintage zone. I can make it interesting but no real challenge to that kinda sex.
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A wild JMP stack has appeared in the vintage zone! Shit is getting interesting.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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I need to try it
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Been there, done that.... I highly recommend! :thu:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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My current rig cannot compete with anything that has been posted so far :o I'm willing to throw something into the prize pool though. how does it work?
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VTM wrote:
nightflameauto wrote:Oh! I didn't see that category.

If I get ambitious, I may go all out and do my Katana/Mesa cab, DSLs flanking it. It's a hell of a racket when it's all fired up. One of my favorite "get together to jam with a drummer" setups.


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boris the blade wrote:My current rig cannot compete with anything that has been posted so far :o I'm willing to throw something into the prize pool though. how does it work?


Easy. Just tell me what you have to offer, and it’s put in the pool. Once the final vote off of overall battle of the rig is completed we go by order of winner to pick a prize from the pool. So first prize winner takes their pick (usually through me so I know what’s left and no one picks the same thing someone else got), then 2nd prize takes theirs, etc. I’ll pm the prize holder the person who picked their prize and their address and they ship it out.
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GuitarBilly wrote:Anyone who played an 800 "model" in a Kemper/Fractal/Helix and think they know what a raging 2203 sounds like is pretty much the guitar equivalent of a virgin nerd that thinks watching porn counts as sex experience.


NinjaRaf wrote:6505 is 100% balls to the fucking walls low end and aggression. It is FUCKING PISSED. Like an 18 year old angry at the world.
+ is a bit less angry, like maybe a 35 year old man angry.


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Marshall 1960A w/ Greenbacks
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