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Crowley and Tripp (now shure) and Royer are my $h!t... much love for the naked eye, which was my primary electric guitar mic for some time! I also love Coles, but have never owned them. They have qualities I don't like as close mics so I can't justify the expense. When available as drum overheads, time permitting, I always shoot them out against 414s, 451s, something neumann and anything random in various positions. Although I had some oktavas over 20 years ago that woulda been great but I suspect the output transformers were loading the ribbon. They were darker than Coles but the midrange was hella rich. I think they were ml52s? Forget, but I liked them a lot if I was on a desk with great inductor EQ to compensate to tape. Any royer or the naked eye are great side-on hihat mics too!

I made that item. Schematically there is no significant difference between the 60s blackface, 70s silverface and pre-rivera early 80s versions of the DR (or PR, champ and vibrochamp) with 1 exception, in 78 or 79 they added a push/pull pot volume boost which switches 1 part as I recall. The boost was removed by 1980 with the return to black panels.

Otherwise there was 1 layout/construction revision, which was a change in where the filter caps were located. This has been blamed for an increased noise floor but nit every silverface is noisier than a blackface. The real problem is that the layout change made the power supply more sensitive to lead dress and with CBS's sketchy quality control, some poorly wired amps snuck through. Most younger people won't notice, as the reissues are noisier than a vintage example anyway. That said, the change did not begin with the silverface era and there are silverface amps with the blackface layout.

Some silverfaces came stock with a 5u4 rectifier over the original 5ar4/gz34. This occured in princeton's as well. In this circuit they perform pretty similarly and the change was not reflected on the tube chart of any stock 5u4 silverface DRs or PRs I've serviced. It was probably a CBS cost cutting measure or simply a shortage of 5ar4s at the factory; the 5ar4 is overkill in these amps but is essential for the super reverb. Do the math like a bean counter;)

OEM speaker selection changed constantly even in the blackface era. You'll encounter various models by Oxford, Utah, Jensen and CTS. They used whatever was available and the cosmetics do not indicate a specific speaker model or manufacturer. There were of course other changes in parts due to certain parts becoming obsolete... if you believe in mojo polyfilm capacitors then perhaps the unavailability of blue astrons marks a major tonal downturn. Frankly, half the DRs out there had their original blocking caps replaced with orange drops in the 80s and 90s, they were all the rage when I was a kid. Every DR I've ever seen had Schumacher transformers and I believe both reissues use Schumacher's modern version of this set that now meets ROHS standards and has modern connections. I could be wrong, I avoid PCB amps.

I've found these 3 changes to be fairly insignificant. The boost, while being the only meaningful change, is defeated with the pot in its normal configuration (it sucks and no one uses it). It was also a very brief modification and boost examples are rare as hens teeth, I've only seen 1 or 2 and I've been around hundreds, maybe thousands, of these amps... but if you want to make them all separate items, be my guest.

You would want blackface original, silverface, boost and blackface pre-Rivera 80s.

My goal was to dispense with a lot of mythology I've oft heard repeated by folks who have never opened up a fender amp. The other silverface amps are another story entirely and all those ill-advised circuit revisions are probably the source of the myth that CBS ruined the small amps too.

I don't know about a hobbit - never heard him use ring modulation.

Try as I might, I cannot top that hobbit/guitar pun. I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard at something i read on a forum.

Sly of the Family Stone passed today. We have lost a visionary. He was the first human to record a drum machine, for one. We all owe him a huge debt. Please post your favorite Sly song. Here's mine:

https://youtu.be/Q49vjFN6Fsw?si=T1oCCUs6MM8n2qM9

I'm a bit of a gear historian, but even I don't know everything. It would be impossible to memorize all this stuff.

Leslie is it's own brand. Its named after its inventor Donald Leslie. He designed it in the 30s to create what he thought was a pipe organ like sound for theaters (this was silent movie days) equipped with early hammond tonewheel organs as he felt the normal amplified sound fell short. He brought the design to Hammond and they turned him down. He marketed it himself instead as an add on for any electronic organ starting in 1941. Hammond had their own electromechanical vibrato, the scanner in direct competition. The Leslie won. Eventually CBS acquired Leslie.this was when the owned fender, hence the fender branded vibratone cabinet for guitar that was made by Leslie. In 1980 Suzuki bought Leslie from CBS and also acquired Hammond. Prior to that they were separate brands with a long colorful feud which is detailed on wikipedia. It was NOT a collaboration. The weird hammond connector that makes post war Leslies guitar-unfriendly was designed and implemented specifically to make the Leslie unable to interface with a b3! There were Leslies for wurlies, conns and baldwins etc. When I was cleaning out my best friend's studio after he got brain cancer I found a tube powered leslie with a stock quarter inch input that must be 70 ir 80 years old. It either predated the hammond connector change or was meant to work with other brands of organ.

While hammond and leslie have been sister brands for 45 years now, for the prior 40-50 years they were completely separate.

On the flip side, take a brand like Supro. Defunct for decades and alive and kicking again under new ownership. Same with magnatone. A trademark is only dead until someone buys it and makes a new product.

Yeah, Rhodes isn't precisely a brand but a sound, heh

Edit: I'll elaborate.

The Chroma and Chroma Polaris polysynths were Rhodes branded when fender acquired ARP but no one is expecting a synth when they say "let's rent a Rhodes for this track."

It's weird. The Rhodes electric piano concept is older than fender's involvement. You can Google the Rhodes. It goes way back. I guess the inventor just didn't want the burden of manufacturing them . But there's other keyboard instruments called Rhodes by fender or roland that, like the chroma, aren't electro mechanical instruments and to me they're not really Rhodes keyboards. They're cool but no one would think they're a Rhodes despite the branding.

I prefer the wurli a100 anyway. Even when I had a Rhodes I couldn't get on with it. Although my soundboard needed repair.

https://youtu.be/WeNLaDX_2wU?si=uvS1409aIBoXRnXe

I particularly like the tone-chaser, studio-to-stage and modular-mindset tees. B@D@$$ERY! Are those triangles on the tone circuit one supposed to be amp blocks, op amps etc? because they wouldn't work if they were drawn that way. The base of the triangle is the input(s) and the point is output. It's neat looking, but it just bugs me. What's up with the circles? I know it's a piece of art but for a site called equipboard I feel like the schematic aspect of the image should only be gently abstracted. I know engineers with more accurate circuits tattooed on their arms and that works fine without taking away from the artistry :-( This is just hipster BS for a piece of design work that's not even as good as her other tee designs. You should get your designer to reference something simple and ubiquitous like a TS9 schematic and then abstract from there :)

Other tees fine.... some are even B@D@$$!!! as I said

My best guess is there was an artists page with that name, so it was giving a dupe error and someone added it instead by putting in the special character, and changing the display name.

now THAT is some weirdness

Huh, we'll look into it.

would it be rude to say "HA!" ?????

Oh weird, on web it seems to have a cursive character instead of an O. But on mobile it looks like a normal O in bold.

I can't reproduce the thing you're talking about :/

I feel like this is really just about gear IQ points. People are incentivized to do these things.

But I play a Hod Rod IV 40W at Home at low volume does say Volume close to 2 and it does sound amzing on cleans and an Marshall JCM800 100W at home does Sound also Great and not too loud with Master on 0.8 or 0.9 , its OKish. I do not know where this is coming from that you can not play them quite , maybe I just can deal with it or got the ones can be played, maybe it is because I am in germany we got really solid walls always made thic and out of concrete and not like a lot to find in the US made from plywood or something like this...

Nah, a jcm800 at less than 1 on the master is an acquired taste. It's a sound, just not one everyone gets off on. You didn't get a magic amp, pcb marshalls are pretty consistent, you're just down with all that preamp tone. So is Billy Corrigan. Or he was anyway, back when I was a younger man he railed against power amp distortion in the trades all the time. I've always gone either way but preferred a little of everything breaking up including the speakers barking. But I prefer to not play at all if I can't play loud... unless I'm playing jazz. Although I still like to play nice and loud to match the stage levels of acoustic instruments like horns and drums. More than bedroom... if you can't hear eachother at the right levels without monitoring you're not playing jazz.

I don't screw around with a lot of gain pedals so the amp does the heavy lifting.

is he a hobbit?

Yes. I forget if non-moderators have the ability to submit duplicate items. If you can't find a tab for it let me know and I'll do it when I have sone free time.

Guitar straps with the logo on them

Maybe do picks too since the new logo is a pick

I like the waveform. The "tone circuit " isn't actually a schematic so it's a big turnoff. The basic logo wear is ok. If you want I'll knock you off a design that's a little like comic booky like the mod mug but different. Definitely stick with the lodo wear, cuz branding.

it looks like a teisco del ray of some sort to me.... or maybe its a Hondo, weird japanese brand

W00f!

The one with dates was mine. All mine are pretty accurately dated, it was back when i merged pre cbs fender amps. I gave up because people kept adding stuff like the 5c3 picture with a 5e3 name. It's just pointless to try, you would need to pay someone to head these problems full time or try AI maybe.

I think i would've just submitted thus for a merge with the proper dated 5e3 deluxe. Don't I have the 5c3 wide panel in the database already? I swear I did. I used to own a 5c3 when they were cheaper than 5e3s

That’s a fine comp'rehensive and comp'rehensible explainer. It clarifies a lot of what’s been for me not entirely grasped info in one place. Thanks for digging it out and sharing.

Glad it was useful. I figured once I found it I ought to disseminate beyond my IRL friends. I remember this clearing up more stuff for me than my boss ever could. Rudolph is a great educational writer.

I remember long ago scratching my head over the COMP effect on my ZOOM 9000; it was utterly mystifying and there was no internet then to explain it either. I simply didn’t have the ears to hear what it did. Not like the Zoom’s legendary “metallic” effect - that was awesome!

To be fair, early digital compression algos were pretty dodgy at first, the knees weren't really where you wanted. Remember windows "directX" plugins for early proto-daws?! that compressor never did what I wanted, i never felt like the gain reduction dialed in happened on my meters unless I made the thing pump with super fast time constants, everything about it was too linear for subtlety... anyway.

metallic, the sleeper effect that launched a thousand second rate industrial rock songs!

I searched this 25 year old Mix Magazine article out to help a couple friends without having to write up ALL of my own thoughts on compression for them since Barry did a lot of it better than I could already. This article is as good as I recalled, not too in depth, but it gets less basic about halfway through, but never digs specifically into certain designs and techniques.

All About Comoressors

so, like, equipboard is not designed to bolster your band's EPK. Sorry, it's just not. I've been where you are, I'm a veteran, I get that anything that adds legitimacy to your band might help you get a record deal.... HOWEVER, there's no such thing as a deal worth having these days. You're actually being protected from the vampires that hold dominion over mainstream music. They're as bad as anything you can imagine and you're talking to an older person who has been through this and is also a professional engineer and knows about labels not paying bills. What you're imagining hasn't been a thing for 15 to 20 years. Taylor Swift? her dad bought her a record deal with a million dollars. If you've been in this racket you would know there's nothing on offer worth having. Good luck man.

Clarify things for me. Are you saying that you can't add a band you're a fan of, or are you unable to add a band you're a member of?

Either way, please reference our artist submission guidelines and we'll take it from there if you still have questions.

Jeez.... well not every V is korina but this is pretty whack.i guess we need one generic flying V. Just 1. Then the korina ones I would have to research. The first batch from I guess 1958 was korina and they're highly coveted. Should be their own item. Occassionally they would make more korina ones starting in the 70s i think, but I'm not sure what years... they're one thing in my view. Then the custom shop is its own thing. Different factory, vintage materials and cobstructionmethids. They still don't know how to make a paf like they used to... this is a mega-hesdache. I feel like people on here are getting way too specific with guitars though.

Edit: *So I think I should merge the regular korina V with the 1983, that's obvious. I should probably make a separate custom shop entry, no year. Okay? Is the 1958 V meant to be a real 58 from 58 or a 58 reissue do you suppose? The generic koriba V's description seems to be fir a custom shop but there WAS NO CUSTOM SHOP in 83. I'm not sure now, I wanna see what Michael thinks. *

Some of our problem is all the marketing goons and MBAs at guitar manufacturers. 20 different american made strats, puh-leeze! Just make a strat with some basic pickup configuration options, right? F**k this year specific reissue stuff. Just make a good guitar like you used to and offer some more modern appointments as an upcharge from the classic formula. And fir the love of god stop using thick UV dried polyurethane, if moisture gets in it peels right off!!! Lacquer or thin polyester please and let it cure naturally.

Ah ok, I'll look into that :3. Thank you!

Count the knobs, v4b has 5, b25 has 6. The v4b has been reissued, the b25 hasn't been in production for 45 years.

I've owned both. Great amps for both bass and guitar. Same series of ampegs as the vt40 josh homme likes.

What? The ampeg head? At a glance I'm pretty sure it's a v4b or a b25.

At the time I was also working on a book production line, standing all day by a machine folding dozens of book page batches every 30 seconds. It was noisy, boring work but I had my harmonica and could hear it through my head - three years of that and I got pretty good... just so long as I play at 120 bpm 😉

Must have been like making industrial noise records but it probably had a better payout!

See? The error was helping you save money. Maybe it was your friend.

Sorry it took us a sec, I've been busy mixing records and I'm sure the admins are swamped. All fixed now?

I already did, I shoulda said that "I put a flag up" -- my bad. I did it through equipboard, if you really want I'll email Michael tomorrow morning.

Put a flag up to admins.

Update your system please. Link updates don't work. Each time I try to create a new gear using plugin Boutique or Reverb links your system says "invalid link". Can make screen captures to show you the problem.

Please do, I'll get Michael and Giulio on it.

Got to agree playing along with the TV works for me.

I've mentioned this on other forums, only for music teachers to come back at me with " you HAVE to apply focussed deliberate practice " ...whatever.

Obviously exercises are also needed, but once you have that mechanical stuff down its TV mimicry. When I taught, I didn't pass that on because... why would you need to pay me for lessons after I showed you the modes, some exercises and told you the TV trick?! Although, even giving intermediate level lessons I found I was always having to tap people's hands to get their fingers arched and right hand positioned well... tap their right elbows to stop them from playing from their arm and to go from wrist for rhythm and knuckles for for 1 line stuff. But they didn't appreciate those finer points right away, you have to withhold the TV trick if you're teaching. Unless you like being unemployed.

And yeah, if I give you lessons in person I will poke you with my headstock to correct your sloppy technique. Once you can play as well as me you can get sloppy. While you're learning? do what I say, not what I do... I spent years acquiring my bad habits, I developed good ones first as a kid. My dad would frickin' hit me... not in a damaging way but he'd whack my knuckles hard enough to remind me for the rest of the day when I was learning. And internet lessons don't touch in person because there's no random acts of violence online. I tried doing some zoom lessons with some former equipboard members who asked but I couldn't physically impart wisdom and it was a fail. epic fail

can't get your bends and vibrato where they need to be without physical abuse, sorry

but Kevin's tips kill, everyone watch and share

daily practice is not enough though, if you're not doing your laundry while wearing your guitar you're messing up... live with it, make it the piece of your body that was always missing... and sleep with a metronome under your pillow for 5 years... with it on and clicking in your dreams, obviously

dream in time kids

all kidding aside, one thing that always served me well was to watch TV and any incidental music I heard I would find out if I could just pick out the melody before it changed. Am I so proficient my ear and hands are connected, and I can just hear those notes and play along accurately? obviously thats built on practicing those scales/modes and knowing the fretboard/keyboard backwards and forwards. Me and my dad used to play "name that chord" too, great practice. I don't know if they still make dads like mine, I'm not sure I'm that intense with my son... probably not.

np, you're helping me feel like I'm not procrastinating today... which I am since I'm not doing the job I said I would do and I'm watching youtube and moderating equipboard instead, but the moderating part allows me a degree of self-deception

fender metalhead

Hi, can you please add this Vox Mark III Mini Teardrop in Black? I recently purchased one and would like to add it to my catalog. Cheers!

no colors, that's been the policy since like always and everyone ignores it... congrats on your purchase though, cool ax

as I recall there were azillion tones in the bp41, like a more capable sansamp rbi

This just confirms that I need to get one someday gah! ( 'x_x) it sounds so tough

Surprising that CCR used them, I need to set sometime to try one of these fellas out

no sorry, CCR used kustom heads and cabs, not the ashly, the ashly came later...

jbl sub