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Re: Poor Man's Joe Bonamassa Rig

Well, until I get myself to make a video or two - here are some pics. Settings are not too far from yours I think, Alex.
As you may see, it is set at a very low level though. Turning the PPIMV on full and the UA on 25% AND the HRM master on two, dramatically improves things offcourse. And from there on, it only gets better, but at the cost of neighbour complaints.

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Re: Poor Man's Joe Bonamassa Rig

Hi Joe & Others - What would be my easist "poor mans" Joe set-up?  I mostly play in my home studio with occassional jam at local small gin mill, so high wattage amps are not needed. This is my current set-up:

> Ceriatone OTS 50-Watt set at 4 ohm to run following cabs
> Two Rock Sig 1x12 with TR1265R 8ohm
> 1x12 Cab with EVM12L Classic 8 ohm
> Kleinulator
> T-Rex Replica Delay - In Loop with K-lator (all other pedals in front)
> Boss TU2 Tuner
> Buddy Guy Wah
> Keely Katana
> Providence SOV-2 OD (maybe the best OD pedal IMO)
> Dumkudo OD (maybe the second best OD pedal IMO)
> Dr. Scientist Reverbrator (I set to a light/slight Hall or Plate setting)
> Boss RC-20XL Loop

Out of my collection of guitars, I mostly use a CS 62 Strat Rosewood, 1979 Les Paul Custom (still have my first guitar lol) and Heritage H535.

Off the top of my head, I also have in reserve the following:

> Fulltone Mosfet II
> TS808 Re-Issue
> OCD Version 3
> T-Rex Dr. Swamp
> Boss DM2
> Fulltone Fuzz
> Fulltone Ultimate Octave
> Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe
> Providence Heatblaster - Heavy OD meets Distortion
> Fender Tweed Blues Jr Amp (use for some recordings and bar jams over backing tracks at local Cheers bar)

I assume I would need to purchase another amp, not sure if the Blues Jr (though a great little amp) would work in combo with Ceriatone and if so how to hook up (what A/B to buy) and or what else to buy - I'm open to your idea's - I could spend $1k, maybe more if necessary - I don't get paid to play.

I appreciate everyones time in helping me create more tonal versatility, I pretty much have a John Mayer Trio tone going on and need some more spice - would love to get back into having some Joe and Zep tones, etc!!

Thanks very much all!!
Tommy

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Re: Poor Man's Joe Bonamassa Rig

Hey!
Has anyone ever tried the Tiny Terror + Koch studiotone? The tiny terror has awesome overdrive sounds and the Koch has great clean sounds. I assume that they would mate pretty well, wouldn't they? Any insight on this?

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I might have the cheapest poor mans rig here. I use this for home use only. A fender super champ xd on channel 2 set to voice 8 which is a marshall plexi type sound. I then run a standard crybaby, Boss GE-7 for boost, Blackstar HT-dual, boss DD-3. Driving this is a Japanese tokai les paul copy. With gauge 11 strings. Bridge is top wrapped and using eric johnson signature picks. A great tone for bedroom practice.

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Well, until I get myself to make a video or two - here are some pics. Settings are not too far from yours I think, Alex.
As you may see, it is set at a very low level though. Turning the PPIMV on full and the UA on 25% AND the HRM master on two, dramatically improves things offcourse. And from there on, it only gets better, but at the cost of neighbour complaints.

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10003.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10004.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10005.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10006.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10007.jpg

 

HEY VIM
    nice rig you had there but why delete the pics ? I also have Marshall jubilee and Ceriatone HRM50W which are two great amps to pair and ,create some fantastic textures together, Well done Joe for working that one out. Next you definately want to try the EVM12Ls they make the amps sound so articulate.

I think that every guitar player is influenced by someone and through the years I have tried to nail the sound of many guitarists but thats it!!  its only for my pleasure when I play with my band it sounds like me as I could never be JOE or any of the other guitarists I respect. and admire ITS FUN putting a rig together and to get close to Joes sound , feels awesome.
some of the other guys have posted clips of there rigs so its good to share settings etc

Derek

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Re: Poor Man's Joe Bonamassa Rig

SOFTMC wrote:
vim wrote:

Well, until I get myself to make a video or two - here are some pics. Settings are not too far from yours I think, Alex.
As you may see, it is set at a very low level though. Turning the PPIMV on full and the UA on 25% AND the HRM master on two, dramatically improves things offcourse. And from there on, it only gets better, but at the cost of neighbour complaints.

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10003.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10004.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10005.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10006.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10007.jpg

 

HEY VIM
    nice rig you had there but why delete the pics ? I also have Marshall jubilee and Ceriatone HRM50W which are two great amps to pair and ,create some fantastic textures together, Well done Joe for working that one out. Next you definately want to try the EVM12Ls they make the amps sound so articulate.

I think that every guitar player is influenced by someone and through the years I have tried to nail the sound of many guitarists but thats it!!  its only for my pleasure when I play with my band it sounds like me as I could never be JOE or any of the other guitarists I respect. and admire ITS FUN putting a rig together and to get close to Joes sound , feels awesome.
some of the other guys have posted clips of there rigs so its good to share settings etc

Derek

Sorry, I made some subfolders in the Photobucket archive and the URL changed offcourse. Will fix smile

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vim wrote:
SOFTMC wrote:
vim wrote:

Well, until I get myself to make a video or two - here are some pics. Settings are not too far from yours I think, Alex.
As you may see, it is set at a very low level though. Turning the PPIMV on full and the UA on 25% AND the HRM master on two, dramatically improves things offcourse. And from there on, it only gets better, but at the cost of neighbour complaints.

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10003.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10004.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10005.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10006.jpg
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp21 … n10007.jpg

 

HEY VIM
    nice rig you had there but why delete the pics ? I also have Marshall jubilee and Ceriatone HRM50W which are two great amps to pair and ,create some fantastic textures together, Well done Joe for working that one out. Next you definately want to try the EVM12Ls they make the amps sound so articulate.

I think that every guitar player is influenced by someone and through the years I have tried to nail the sound of many guitarists but thats it!!  its only for my pleasure when I play with my band it sounds like me as I could never be JOE or any of the other guitarists I respect. and admire ITS FUN putting a rig together and to get close to Joes sound , feels awesome.
some of the other guys have posted clips of there rigs so its good to share settings etc

Derek

Sorry, I made some subfolders in the Photobucket archive and the URL changed offcourse. Will fix smile

Should be it + one xtra, for screwing up roll

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Re: Poor Man's Joe Bonamassa Rig

Sweet friggin' rig Vim!  I'd love to hear some clips of that bad boy!

I figure I should update my rig since I originally started this thread a while ago.  I'm currently building a Metro 100w Superlead that is going to be the foundation of my tone.  Believe it or not, I'm getting into the rack stuff and it's pretty cool!  I am going to get something like the FJM RG16 or VoodooLab Ground Control Pro to get rid of all the pedal tapdancing.

So for amps it'll probably be:

Marshall DSL100 (possibly sub Ceriatone HRM100)
Metropoulos '69 spec 100w

RJM RG16 Audio Switcher
RJM Mastermind MIDI controller
Monster Power Supply
Furman Power Conditioner
Palmer PDI03 or PDI09 x 2 (or possibly the Sequis Elementals $)
Rackmount Pedal Drawer

Pedals: Vox Wah, Boss TR2, Ibanez TS808, Fulltone Catalyst or Fuzzface UK, EH Holy Grail Reverb, Boss DD3, Fulltone OCD, Deltalab Chorus, Planet Waves Tuner.

I'm checking out the amp head/rack case combos from Rock Hard Cases...nice stuff.  I'm going to play with all of this stuff for a while and see where it goes.  As some advertisments say, "things are subject to change without approval"! wink

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Sweet friggin' rig Vim!  I'd love to hear some clips of that bad boy!

I figure I should update my rig since I originally started this thread a while ago.  I'm currently building a Metro 100w Superlead that is going to be the foundation of my tone.  Believe it or not, I'm getting into the rack stuff and it's pretty cool!  I am going to get something like the FJM RG16 or VoodooLab Ground Control Pro to get rid of all the pedal tapdancing.

So for amps it'll probably be:

Marshall DSL100 (possibly sub Ceriatone HRM100)
Metropoulos '69 spec 100w

RJM RG16 Audio Switcher
RJM Mastermind MIDI controller
Monster Power Supply
Furman Power Conditioner
Palmer PDI03 or PDI09 x 2 (or possibly the Sequis Elementals $)
Rackmount Pedal Drawer

Pedals: Vox Wah, Boss TR2, Ibanez TS808, Fulltone Catalyst or Fuzzface UK, EH Holy Grail Reverb, Boss DD3, Fulltone OCD, Deltalab Chorus, Planet Waves Tuner.

I'm checking out the amp head/rack case combos from Rock Hard Cases...nice stuff.  I'm going to play with all of this stuff for a while and see where it goes.  As some advertisments say, "things are subject to change without approval"! wink


Extremely cool! Think u just started the "not so poor man's rig" thread now wink

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stratpaulguy86 wrote:

Sweet friggin' rig Vim!  I'd love to hear some clips of that bad boy!

I figure I should update my rig since I originally started this thread a while ago.  I'm currently building a Metro 100w Superlead that is going to be the foundation of my tone.  Believe it or not, I'm getting into the rack stuff and it's pretty cool!  I am going to get something like the FJM RG16 or VoodooLab Ground Control Pro to get rid of all the pedal tapdancing.

So for amps it'll probably be:

Marshall DSL100 (possibly sub Ceriatone HRM100)
Metropoulos '69 spec 100w

RJM RG16 Audio Switcher
RJM Mastermind MIDI controller
Monster Power Supply
Furman Power Conditioner
Palmer PDI03 or PDI09 x 2 (or possibly the Sequis Elementals $)
Rackmount Pedal Drawer

Pedals: Vox Wah, Boss TR2, Ibanez TS808, Fulltone Catalyst or Fuzzface UK, EH Holy Grail Reverb, Boss DD3, Fulltone OCD, Deltalab Chorus, Planet Waves Tuner.

I'm checking out the amp head/rack case combos from Rock Hard Cases...nice stuff.  I'm going to play with all of this stuff for a while and see where it goes.  As some advertisments say, "things are subject to change without approval"! wink

Sounds cool man... IDK if you tried the RJM yet, but it causes a sick ground loop... my friend had one.  Also the Monster Power Supply is a conditioner so you don't need the Furman.


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Hi Joe & Others - What would be my easist "poor mans" Joe set-up?  I mostly play in my home studio with occassional jam at local small gin mill, so high wattage amps are not needed. This is my current set-up:

> Ceriatone OTS 50-Watt set at 4 ohm to run following cabs
> Two Rock Sig 1x12 with TR1265R 8ohm
> 1x12 Cab with EVM12L Classic 8 ohm
> Kleinulator
> T-Rex Replica Delay - In Loop with K-lator (all other pedals in front)
> Boss TU2 Tuner
> Buddy Guy Wah
> Keely Katana
> Providence SOV-2 OD (maybe the best OD pedal IMO)
> Dumkudo OD (maybe the second best OD pedal IMO)
> Dr. Scientist Reverbrator (I set to a light/slight Hall or Plate setting)
> Boss RC-20XL Loop

Out of my collection of guitars, I mostly use a CS 62 Strat Rosewood, 1979 Les Paul Custom (still have my first guitar lol) and Heritage H535.

Off the top of my head, I also have in reserve the following:

> Fulltone Mosfet II
> TS808 Re-Issue
> OCD Version 3
> T-Rex Dr. Swamp
> Boss DM2
> Fulltone Fuzz
> Fulltone Ultimate Octave
> Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe
> Providence Heatblaster - Heavy OD meets Distortion
> Fender Tweed Blues Jr Amp (use for some recordings and bar jams over backing tracks at local Cheers bar)

I assume I would need to purchase another amp, not sure if the Blues Jr (though a great little amp) would work in combo with Ceriatone and if so how to hook up (what A/B to buy) and or what else to buy - I'm open to your idea's - I could spend $1k, maybe more if necessary - I don't get paid to play.

I appreciate everyones time in helping me create more tonal versatility, I pretty much have a John Mayer Trio tone going on and need some more spice - would love to get back into having some Joe and Zep tones, etc!!

Thanks very much all!!
Tommy




Dude you have some amazing gear. I am very jeolous of your set up.  I would pair the Two Rock with the Ceritone and do what Joe basically does which is take two amps that do things good and mix them together. Or you can set one amp up for cleans and one for overdrive.

Personally I'd use the Two Rock for Cleans and the Ceritone for Leads.  Maybe the opposite if they sound better I dont know. Then take the fulltone Fulldrive and use that as a boost on your leads. 

So in theory you could do something like...

Guitar-> Wah -> Fulltone Fulldrive -> Fuzz -> whatever other drive you like-> Other fun pedals ->  Delay -> Splitter ABY to each amp. If you want to use both amps all the time only put the delay on one of them.

Obviously without knowing your tastes and playing thru your gear I cant say what would sound best but I bet you wont have much trouble getting Joe like tones from the gear you got.  I'd sure love to come by and make an afternoon figuring it out though.

Good Luck and have fun.

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Sounds cool man... IDK if you tried the RJM yet, but it causes a sick ground loop... my friend had one.  Also the Monster Power Supply is a conditioner so you don't need the Furman.


Ben

Are you serious?!  CRAP because the RJM unit seems like it is exactly what I need to do.  I almost sprung for the Ground Control Pro + GCX Audio Switcher but it cannot run more than one amp!

Thanks for the heads up on the Monster Power thing, that saves me at least 100 bucks!  Well...back to the drawing board lol.

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Thanks JGALVAN- I guess I didn't write up my set-up correctly, as the Two Rock is just a Signature 1x12 Cabinet - NO head. My amp and reverb set to a slight hall or plate setting provide me a Two Rock Classic Reverb Amp tone however. I play mostly blues style music, but from the beginning (15-years ago) I've tried to incorproate my James Taylor influence with my blues guitar influences from SRV, Page, Beck, BB, etc. and mesh them toegther- this is my sound and musical vision.  I never had the time at playing 15-30 minutes a day to build my craft by playing by myself in my home- no band to play or jam with...my tears fall :-).  This has been my vision for the last 20-years, very similiar to what John Mayer and Trio do - mixing blues with pop/rock to open up a larger audience, just didn't do it in time and lacked the important ingridient - couldn't sing well and was not as good on guitar....cry me a river.  So my tone I created would best be classified as a Mayer-ish Trio tone, if that paints a picture on my vibe and what rings out from under the moon. 

I've can dirty up the Ceriatone OTS with my T-Rex Dr. Swamp (has a Marshall or British like tone), but was hoping to use two amps and work reverb on one and delay on the other...just bored for something else and to spend money, just won some nice coin in fantasy football :-)   I guess I could use my Fender Tweed Blues Jr through my TR 1x12 cab set to clean and dirty up the Ceriatone with help of Dr. Swamp - would just need a A/B/Y then....hmm....but no new toys:-0.  What A/B/Y have you heard top reviews from/used that doesn't suck tone, noise, etc regardless of cost?

You're right, maybe I need to find an afternoon to further explore what I have currently.  Thanks again for your welcomed advice...very cool - thank you and here's to a great new year of playing on the fretboard plank!

TF   

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t92780 wrote:

Hi Joe & Others - What would be my easist "poor mans" Joe set-up?  I mostly play in my home studio with occassional jam at local small gin mill, so high wattage amps are not needed. This is my current set-up:

> Ceriatone OTS 50-Watt set at 4 ohm to run following cabs
> Two Rock Sig 1x12 with TR1265R 8ohm
> 1x12 Cab with EVM12L Classic 8 ohm
> Kleinulator
> T-Rex Replica Delay - In Loop with K-lator (all other pedals in front)
> Boss TU2 Tuner
> Buddy Guy Wah
> Keely Katana
> Providence SOV-2 OD (maybe the best OD pedal IMO)
> Dumkudo OD (maybe the second best OD pedal IMO)
> Dr. Scientist Reverbrator (I set to a light/slight Hall or Plate setting)
> Boss RC-20XL Loop

Out of my collection of guitars, I mostly use a CS 62 Strat Rosewood, 1979 Les Paul Custom (still have my first guitar lol) and Heritage H535.

Off the top of my head, I also have in reserve the following:

> Fulltone Mosfet II
> TS808 Re-Issue
> OCD Version 3
> T-Rex Dr. Swamp
> Boss DM2
> Fulltone Fuzz
> Fulltone Ultimate Octave
> Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe
> Providence Heatblaster - Heavy OD meets Distortion
> Fender Tweed Blues Jr Amp (use for some recordings and bar jams over backing tracks at local Cheers bar)

I assume I would need to purchase another amp, not sure if the Blues Jr (though a great little amp) would work in combo with Ceriatone and if so how to hook up (what A/B to buy) and or what else to buy - I'm open to your idea's - I could spend $1k, maybe more if necessary - I don't get paid to play.

I appreciate everyones time in helping me create more tonal versatility, I pretty much have a John Mayer Trio tone going on and need some more spice - would love to get back into having some Joe and Zep tones, etc!!

Thanks very much all!!
Tommy




Dude you have some amazing gear. I am very jeolous of your set up.  I would pair the Two Rock with the Ceritone and do what Joe basically does which is take two amps that do things good and mix them together. Or you can set one amp up for cleans and one for overdrive.

Personally I'd use the Two Rock for Cleans and the Ceritone for Leads.  Maybe the opposite if they sound better I dont know. Then take the fulltone Fulldrive and use that as a boost on your leads. 

So in theory you could do something like...

Guitar-> Wah -> Fulltone Fulldrive -> Fuzz -> whatever other drive you like-> Other fun pedals ->  Delay -> Splitter ABY to each amp. If you want to use both amps all the time only put the delay on one of them.

Obviously without knowing your tastes and playing thru your gear I cant say what would sound best but I bet you wont have much trouble getting Joe like tones from the gear you got.  I'd sure love to come by and make an afternoon figuring it out though.

Good Luck and have fun.

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Hey Ben, I thought I remembered reading that the RJM RG16 prevents ground loops and did some quick research.  This is straight from RJM:

"All jacks are electrically isolated where possible, preventing ground loops and allowing multiple amps to be controlled safely"

Now I'm really confused!  I also wonder, if you were to use a pedal such as the Amp Selector or Bigshot ABY WITH the RG16 it would eliminated the ground loops because of the grounding lifts on the amp selectors?  This is what I get for trying to make things less complicated lol. tongue

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Hey Ben, I thought I remembered reading that the RJM RG16 prevents ground loops and did some quick research.  This is straight from RJM:

"All jacks are electrically isolated where possible, preventing ground loops and allowing multiple amps to be controlled safely"

Now I'm really confused!  I also wonder, if you were to use a pedal such as the Amp Selector or Bigshot ABY WITH the RG16 it would eliminated the ground loops because of the grounding lifts on the amp selectors?  This is what I get for trying to make things less complicated lol. tongue

IDK what it did but he had a simple set up, a few basic pedals and a Soldano HR-50 head with a 2x12 cab.  Insane ground loop, tried a small little combo, same thing.  Unplugged the unit, lined everything up on his pedal board, plugged all in and the ground loop was gone.  Then he put it on ebay and proceeded to rock out with out it.  I'm not into those controllers.  You still have to click buttons so whats the difference?  So you layer things and have certain settings, so you'll end up clicking through 8 million options... clean, dirty, rythm dirty, lead, chorusing clean, etc.... all within probably one song, then do it over again.  It worked for Hendrix and you know he had a ton of stuff in his line big_smile .

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t92780

I use a 100 Watt Fender Twin and a 30 Watt AC30.  The vox gives me that english chime and british tightness, while the Fender gives me that american thud. I keep both clean and use two pedals to give me my different overdrive levels. I like the Ocean EFX Texas Deuce, and the Fulltone Fulldrive. Both have great gains and you can interchange them as low gain or high gain depending on taste each day.

I use one as a light overdrive and one as a lead tone. I use a Boss Channel selector to decide which one I want.  Its a great setup and it sounds great. The ABY people like here is the whirlwind.  A lot of folks have had issues with morley. 

Marshall makes great stuff and people here in this forum at partial to marshall due to Joe's liking of them.  I've never really found one I wanted to buy.  However the Vox's changed my mind on british amps.  I use them alot by them selves.  I love the AC30 and i really like the AC15.  I have the CC1 model without the alnicoblues.  They sound amazing.  I cant tell the difference between the alnico nlues in a side by side test so dont waste the money.   

You should be able to get some great tones from the Ceritone. I'd put the fulltone fulldrive in front volume at 3pm everything else at noon, and see where that takes you.  Keep the amp clean.

Good luck.

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Hi guys,

I'll need your help to understand if my future rig will do the thing to get close enough to a Bonamassa sound...

For the past months i've been playing in my little Vox VT15 (i can hear you laugh out there wink) with an xotic bb preamp and a boss compressor CS3 in front. I used the delay and reverb in the amp.

I'm going to change now because i just got an egnater rebel 20 head for xmas, plus a tubescreamer TS9 mod, a line 6 delay DL4.

also I am thinking about bringing from my parent's home in Paris my DSL401 combo and a marshall 1912 1x12 cabinet to complete my rig.

It would go like that:

- DSL401 with the reverb from the amp
- egnater head (6L6 tubes for fender kind of clean) into 2x12 marshall with the delay in the fxloop

How should i run the pedals into this rig?? is it a good amp mix??

Of course i am thinking to buy a lehle dual 1 in 3, a reverb pedal (maybe the boss RV5 or something else)

I also need to change my marshall tubes, what tubes would you put inside to get a reissue plexi 1987x kind of sound?? also thinking about a cone replacement in the marshall and cabinet ...

any advices welcome here ...

Thanks,
Mica.

PS: i am not only looking to get a JB sound, but something to play all kind of modern rock-blues sound

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Am I missing something here. Keep with me as I am not a player but having a set up similar to Joe does not mean you will sound like him.  A lot of it is in the fingers, yes ?? You mentioned the VOX 15 practice amp, I have a vox 30 and trust me if you have it it in the fingers you can sound similar to Joe with one of those (yes I have witnessed it). Ok it may not have the awesome power of joe's rig but the sound is there for sure.

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