I tested out a xxx at the store and it totaly fuckin' rocks. You can get from musicians friend for $899. Does any one else have this amp. What is it like?
My new setup will be a marshall 4100, xxx, rack & 2 marshall cabs.

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Ive played one before, good sounding amp. It can get alot of different sounds out of it and the clean channel is great. Joe Satriani's new JSX peavey amp is just a modded XXX.

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its a bit more than that, it's supposed to be similar though, and i heard something about a built on noise gate... which would be nice if all heads had built on.
but yeh, the xxx has a great fuzzy dist, sqeaky cleans, good head for $900. alot of people say it's a poor mans mesa, but it doesnt sound anything like them imo.

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I use a Tri-XXX. Its a great amp. I always get a ton of compliments on my tone and the other guitar player in my band always loves playing through it when he gets the chance. The layout is really simple but don't think that the amp can't dial a number of different tones, 2 dist, 1 clean.. Dist channels have 5 different controls (high, low, mid, gain, volume), and Clean channel has 4 (high, low, mid, volume). The knobs are all very sensitive and you can really shape your tone nicely. Additionally the footswitch (Ultra / Crunch switching, Clean switch, Effects Loop On / Off) is a great help and is really reliable. The effects send / return on the amp is great and if you don't run anything in the the loop then you can tweak it to act as a slight (or huge) volume boost if you need it. Each channel is completely seperate EQ wise, which is great (that's the problem I have with the 5150).

The amp is obviously geared towards metal / hard rock so don't expect to grab it and bust out some blues on it.

They just added the Noise gate. But they started with a XXX head and just kept changing shit until it was perfect. Theirs even pics on the web of him playing a "XXX" of course its modded and shit. (that was before the JSX was released" One thing i think is stupid is that all the jacks are in the front.

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Good amp distortion, but I found it was not the best for leads compaired to riffing.

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a well designed curcuit should have no need for a noise gate. i laugh my ass off any time i see an amp w/ one built in. "hey, lets save ourselves some time and R&D and just throw a noise gate in."

I just got back from the music store and I played a XXL, 5150 II, and the XXX. Out of the 3, my favorite was the XXX. XXL was good for the price, but overall not very good. I was disapointed with the 5150 II. Must have had bad tubes in there because it kinda sucked. Also, I think I was going through a bad cab. I was pleased with the XXX. LOTS O GAIN. Nice amp. I'm leaning towards that amp.

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I'm going to get it but I'm saving for a ride so I'll have to wait.

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The only thing you need to be concerned about is the fact that the Triple XXX is completely dry. There aren't any effects on the amp at all; no reverb, no chorus or any of that stuff. As discussed earlier the unit is great at riffing and the clean channel is good, but I would agree that the lead channel lacks a little bit (no effects makes the lead a little bland at times).

You might want to consider getting a noise gate (especially if you gig live and your songs have pauses in them that are too short to drop the volume during) but it isn't necessary.

if you want built in effect go play some digital shit. And a good noise gate is the Dunlop MXR Smart-Gate simply the best pedal based noise gate.

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well, the xxx isnt very noisey as far as operation noise goes... not very hissy from my experience. but feed back is still present depending on how cranked the gain is and how loud you're playing.

i'm using a hush super c rack, and it rocks. i sold my old boss noise suppressor to my other guitarist and in a sense i wish i hadnt.... neither of us have troubles with them. i'm just running out of rack space.

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