MAMBO 8" and AER Compact 60 amps

**Hep To The Jive** · 08-07-2016, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by christianm77

The way I see it is that the AER is essentially a kind of mobile PA with built in DI boxes/preamps.

Anyway, I actually quite like the sound of electrics through the AER. Even single coils. Sometimes a bit of EQ'ing is necessary....

Right! As a new owner of Aer Alpha, thats what it sounds like to me too. Only I go for the real thing and use Tech 21 with it

. I turn the drive knob way up, so I have that breakup. As it turned out, Im not a fan of a Polytone type sound at all, and IMO Aer works with pedals very well.

destinytot · 08-07-2016, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive

Only I go for the real thing and use Tech 21 with it

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I was talking about getting a Tech 21 with Mrs Destinytot today (for ethical reasons).

**christianm77** · 08-07-2016, 02:22 PM

I may do the same

**Hep To The Jive** · 08-07-2016, 02:55 PM

That's how my new rig looks like:

MAMBO 8" and AER Compact 60 amps-alpha-rig-jpg

**Frank67** · 08-08-2016, 07:37 AM

Cool. How do you use the sansamp? Since it is kind of a modeller, the AER serves as a kind of PA in that rig?

**christianm77** · 08-08-2016, 08:26 AM

I like the flyrig!

**Hep To The Jive** · 08-08-2016, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by FrankLearns

Cool. How do you use the sansamp? Since it is kind of a modeller, the AER serves as a kind of PA in that rig?

I guess so! I set eq flat on Aer, except turning up treble sometimes. So shaping tone mostly from Sansamp. Which is modeller but analog. Important for me. The reverb I use from Aer, and add a bit of slap back delay with modulation from the pedal. So the amp makes my Guild with p90 sound a bit acoustic, but with drive turned up its also tube dirty, so kinda best of both worlds! I dunno how it works, but it does!

Yesterday played little restaurant gig in duo with sax, and the owner commented something like you guys sound like surf jazz, haha.