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November 28, 2008

ASK DAN Vol. 1

And now, the long awaited and highly anticipated corner of the web devoted to all things gear related. Dan, my tech, has made himself available for any and all inquiries regarding my live and studio set ups. A real treat for you gear heads out there! Enjoy...

Q: What system do you use to toggle between the heads?
A: Dave does the switching himself, with his foot.

Q:What tube compliment is employed in these amps and do you use different tubes for each, are they biased differently?
A: When I work, I try to be as unbiased as possible. Not sure about the tubes.

Q; In Dave's set-up, are the tubes biased hot, cold or right down the middle?
A: Yeah, pretty much.

Q: Can you compare some advantages and disadvantages that exist between a self contained head or combo amp, such as Dave's amps, versus a seperate pre and power amp set-up?
A: No, I really can't.

Q: Dan, how does your personal rig compare with that of Dave?
A: Sorry, too personal.

Q: What is up with that white Ibanez Dave played (in the pic that accompanies the El Cid post)? I thought I saw a PRS tremolo on that instrument, can you tell us about that Guitar?
A: No, no I can't. Glad I could help. Thanks for the questions !!!!

Q: I notice sometimes you have one of the 4x12's pointed backwards -- what's the point of that?
A: It's just kinda whatever.

Q: Also are you still using the JCM 900's sometimes I have squinted really hard at my computer screen and they look like JCM 2000's.
A: I'm not sure what heads we usually use. But they sound good right?

Q: Does DN's rig consist of two Marshall JCM 900's for the purpose of running one for gain/distortion sounds and another for clean tones? If so is this due to the Marshall JCM 900 having only one set of tone controls which is shared by both channels, thus using two seperate heads allows for varied settings to be attained for gain and clean tones?
A: Yeah maybe. Let me ask around and find out.

November 28, 2008 05:46 PM

Comments

Again...another gracious gesture for your fans!! Thanks Dave & Dan!!

Happy Friday!!

-Sweets

Posted by: SweetMelis at November 28, 2008 06:02 PM

HAHAHA...you guys are fucked up...

Posted by: Ambersonian at November 28, 2008 06:09 PM

(nice pic with Manson's mic)

Dan, if your music career doesn't pan out you definately have a career in politics!

Posted by: Robin at November 28, 2008 06:35 PM

Hahaha... I'm not even a "gear head," but those are some wonderful answers.... haha. No, no, no, no, too personal, let's see.... no.

This is going to get interesting..... cheers! :p

Posted by: Kirsten at November 28, 2008 07:25 PM

Phenomenal!

How informative. You've really outdone yourself this time bro...

WOW!!!

Posted by: Spencer at November 28, 2008 09:14 PM

Is that Dan the right person to be asking? He doesn't look very enthusiastic about it. He looks depressed. Are you paying him anything to do this?

Posted by: tiffanybean at November 29, 2008 01:02 AM

P.S. I think Dan should extend to answering different types of questions, e.g. relationship questions, politics, whatever. I'd love to hear his insightful take on relatiosnship questions.

Posted by: tiffanybean at November 29, 2008 01:10 AM

Those are deeply technical answers - I was most impressed by the 'foot' answer. That must be a complicated system to maintain................SB

I don't know if it is happening to anyone else or perhaps Typekey just hates me...but I am having real trouble posting. This is my fourth attempt to post - the screen I'm typing on is blank except for the previous posters names and the comment box - no blog from Dave, no posts from anyone else and no pictures/graphics.........here's hoping this works!!!!

Posted by: Sarah-B at November 29, 2008 12:00 PM

It did and now everything looks normal.....

Posted by: Sarah-B at November 29, 2008 12:02 PM