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right? its the whole guitar store beginner package from 56! now ya get a squier and a cheapp little bommbox masquerading as a guitar amp

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-Fender-Telecaster-Vintage-Guitar-Blonde-One-Owner-100-Stock-w-Tweed-Champ-/162380137380?hash=item25ce9c43a4:g:RdUAAOSwEzxYN8u~

I wouldn't build a cab. Maybe you're a wood worker with a lof access to the right tools though. There are plans allover the internet. With what you'll spend in time you might as well buy a no name cab for 3 or 400 hundred. If you cost out your time as well as the supplies its just cheaper to buy one. not to mention tolexing cabs is a pain.

but yeah, drop the 150 on the tiny quilter. I would easily have paid twice as much. Their bigger amps are probably better, but I like the smplicity of ths one and 45 watts is plenty as far as I am concerned.

maybe I'll do a quick demo next weekend... its so small and cute.... just a little epdal with a loud amp hiding in it

I think it will do a very Terry sound no problem... I really kinda like it! its got its own sound to it that's tube-like and just generally musical unlike a lot of solid state amps.

I am really liking this mxr-pedal sized solid state amp. it can cop pretty good blackface bandmaster tones and also nice marhsall/hiwatt kidna grind. The weird tone control that changes the voicing from scooped fender/mesa through to various shades of british tube amp territory is fantastic. Its so clsoe to a 45/or 50 watt tube ehad in tone only it can do that growl at any volume. Takes effects very well. Not sure how loud its 45 watts really get watt for watt with my actual 50 watt amps. Haven't ahd a chance tog et loud. this is my new bedroom amp because Ic an play it at a whisper if I want and still sound pretty natural. Really close to a good tube amp in tone and feel. not sure how they did this. I would take this over digital modelling any day. Also, it only cost me 150 bucks new.

solid state is no more reliable than tube and its ahrder t service

points to terry because he got off work late and he was drinking at like 2am! facebook me, I'm back on facebook now... I will virtually drink you under the fucking table

if that makes no sense understand that Terry and Iw ere facebooking and goijg beer for beer for like 4 hours! I am shockingly not so drunk... needs work

bump!

when you are stitching the bandmembers together make sure not to give them the rbains labeled abnormal. Oh wait, if you give them normal brains they won't be interested in beig your band when you bring them to life....

its cool... i can't afford to shop there, but its cool

I actually ran into her on soundcloud before. Typical berklee grad. Better than I am these days. But she probably practices.

I just noticed because I mostly do appleTV. I was catching up on my Trump humor and there she was! I have a couple big TVs and cable but only Lucian uses the cable, i just sue my HBO subscription for HBOGO Game of Thrones and the odd movie when h's asleep already.

I know you can get approprate inductors even though lore is that you can't...

as ar as inductor-based EQs go I also really enjoyed the Chandler Germanium Tone control, though i can't iamgine using it on more than a handful of tracks. Its a steep buy in for whats in there, but I think you're paying for the circuit. if I recall its a mutt of a pultec's high pass and low shelf with an active germanium-fueled abbey road type EQ that's still inductor based but more towards the neve camp (but I haven't used one sicne they were new and on loan to studio I was working at)... I just remember it being really musical and really fast to set up. Literally kicking ass in 5 minutes. Although I'm not slow with EQ unless the recording is fucked up. If its just a question of making space or helping some tracks pop I spend like 15 minutes tops refining that shit. Usually more like 2 minutes. Doesn't matter what tools I have around. I think usually the first thing that soudns right IS right, especially if you are working on stuff in an intelligent order.

the cartec is very pultecish but as all the pultecs I've used sounded different to me with similar settings all ic an say is its clsoer than the massive passive but tis limited like a real pultec. Like it or lump it sorta thing. You can twist those knobs all you want but if its not hitting the right spot then no comination of boost and atten is going to get you where you wanna go. The massive passive is a bit more versatile but with a really similar vibe to my ear. It has that inductor thing we love from a putlec or Neve and its got very good sounding input and output circuitry. If you want a really vintage sound then go cartec, the passive is more hifi sounding circuitry. It might all depend on your application. As a program EQ which is the itnended use of the original I think the manley is king. I've sued the tube and solid state versions and liked both although the tube version is more pultechy to me, yes I said pultechy. I foudn teh massive passive to be plenty fast and intuitive but with teh option to further fine tune at the end of the mix process. I used one the first time to blanket the master on a record with some 'glue' and subtle shaping that you could do with a pultech, made up a recall sheet (the units I've used were detented, not sure if they all are?) and then at the end of each mix I would tweak it to fit the song with the other engineers input, we'd print and finally recall the neutral settings we mixed through. A lot of times little to no additional tweking was needed but soemtimes I fucked with the lwoer midrange a little and added some detail/air to the whole mix on top of what was already there. The other times I sued one I did it more on drum bus but with a simialr approach.

Have you considered building one. i know there used to be a very authentic pultech kit.

All this said, the cartech is right in the pultech ballpark, damned close, same phase shift that seems to enhance depth of field... it just maybe lacks some of the magic sheen on top... or not, I never actually had them side by side and I may have been experiencing some rosey memories of the real deal. Its so hard to judge these things. The manley has a different sheen that i happen to like just as much. Ic an be really categorical with the manley. Its soemwhat different but it fulfills the same role really, really well. Thinking it over, try a cartech, they have good resale if you don't like it. its ahrd though ebcause you're comparing two really great units and both sound really good on any music that needs this kinda tilt EQ

I was like, "Jim? who is that tiny little red head you see poking out from behind a aprtscaster?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Human_(band)

http://equipboard.com/pros/maddie-rice

see? guitar isn't a boy's club anymore... I wodner if she's the first lady to play on a network late-night band? Not that this diminishes my respect and admiration for Jimmy Vivino, but still, very cool.

I am only on University holidays. For me it is sweatpants and PGS videos until my wife comes home. Cannot wait for the upgrade to Normans! LOL

I don't own any sweatpants, but if I did I would wear them at work, I cybercommute. Believe it or not after a couple years of this I miss the workplace and I'm getting stir crazy. I'm also a consultant so I have huge down periods between gigs or where I am just doing a ahndful of billable hours a day. if anyone ever wodnered why i ahve big spurts of musical productivity I span the forum with? that's why. That and an ability to multitask and a home office that doubles as a home studio.

I've been to Normans. And yeah, enjoy his videos. Nice old guitar porn indeed thata requite educational if you don't know a lot of the model evolution from reading books.

Every time I think about doing post-grad work in history (my other love besides music) I shy away ebcause I can't afford not to be available to work any weird hours asked by a client... to say nothing of our horrible tuition costs in America. But you're relatively young, go abck for more school and become a professor so maybe I'll see you on a BBC special one day.

I think I may ahve emntioned to you that I am a huge Massive Passive fan. Not exactly a pultec, but much loved by yours truy on the mix bus or drum group when I can get my hands on one. I have used a Cartec, it sounded VERY good and looked like a real pultec. As the handful of old Pultecs I've sued vary so hugely based on parts drift and the amount of service they've ahd I'm not sure if I would say it sounds just like a real pultec. Given my choice I prefer the massive passive.

even nitro isn't the same as old nitro these days, don't get hung up.... its all about thin, well sanded coats versus self-levelling, UV-reactive modern urethanes... even polyester ain't bad if tis applied the old fashoned way

I might add that solid color fenders weren't ACTUALLY nitrocellulose car lacquer other than the top coat, they're an acrylic car lacquer that uses the same acetone solvent called Dupont Duco... gretsch used Duco extensively too, Gibson mainly stuck to the odler style paint and still uses a variation on that formula... by the early 60s all the fender guitars stopped getting pore filler and started isntead being slathered with a layer of fullerplast to fill the the power and knots with less sanding required. Even the translucents like bursts got this treatment. You know the real bullseye looking fender bursts from around 63 on? fullerplast obscuring a lot of the grain udner the lacquer. its a thick coating of early plastic-based wood filler in an acetone solvent that kidna defeats the point of using thin lacquer finishes.

that's what i'm saying, the encks tend to be wimpy and they're poorly fretted....a t ebst the frets are amteurishly dressed... how much do they go for used? I would think 200 bucks or elss?

they don't seem to fret them well do they? and the encks are a bit wimpy even though the classic series is emant to be vintage-feeling and old fenders generally had pretty substantial necks until well into the 60s

https://youtu.be/NBkjcvNztKQ?t=1m1s

this guitar gets nice reviews like all the classic vibes do... have you played on or did you just ick absed on looks, specs and price?

the bigsby is cool but subtle even when sued properly to get true vibrato up and down from teh note.... and its seldome used in jazz or even blues

don't buy a new verythin, the last good ones are from the 80s and they go for about $1200 USD and up. Youc an also find the Carvin SH225 in teh states which is a rebranded verything with inferior pickups and finish, but still great european violin woods.... and great build quality. The guitars are very thin though and sound less hollow than a 335 size guitar but are WAY lighter.

that's going to be controlled by the size of the capacitor at the input which forms a crude high pass filter... there are other spots that ihght have RC filtering, but msot of the bass extension is controlled by that cap I mentioned. This is every pedal, every amp, its a simple coupling cap. If you look at Z-Vex pedals ge is big on tsi trick calling it 'subs' -- turn up the subs to 2 or 3 and you get progrsssively bigger caps allowing more deep bass into the circuit but also changing its voicing a bit.

You cna fien tune ANY effect to allow more low end. In the case of a 7s tring or abtitone you are looking at letting in more of the fundamental on the low string and elss of the harmonics.... any of that make sense?

define 'work with' in this context... seems to be an aesthetic question you're asking

I wonder if he's still drummiung for them. They're a fun show by the way.

fuck epi, no quality control and a iant buy in for a student guitar

the silverface bassman like the cilverfce twin, is th ost maligned post-CBS fener and fairly so. Ithinkthe bassman 50 an 100 are fabulpus bass amps/. but the regulr old basssmanand silverfce win generally sound like ass stock for guitr unless they are early drip edges or modded.

he fendetr to have in SF bigamps is the SF bandmaster reverb essentially a classic super reverb in head

you might wanna try a pro for harp, enver tried mine on harp not being into that type of thing, ut i ehar the 15 loves the old Hi-Z shure bullet type mics

if its close to a 64 don't bther, you want the late 59 to 63 stype specs, trust me... slab rosewood fretbaord is jst better in some unidentifiable way... okay, I am quibbling, but the older spec alder/steel saddle/ rosewood teles just seem better to me

dude, the epi LP is not good... the epi sheraton, 335, 339 etc? super dogshit

unless its an old sheraton.... like early 90s peerless factory (sammick) or the pre-korea 80s MIJ ones, those are tolerable in general

don't buy an epi, most of them suck... they suck, don't buyone. I am actually singing this right now hile my son looks on before schoole... don't buy an epi, they're total dog's ass, lalalalala

TKK! my old boss who owned the 1st recording studio I worked at has been their touring drummer for years.

1) umm?

2) good

3) https://youtu.be/jPVC8Y4aJdc

teh pianois never out of tne or rarely... rocknroll type tuners are evenly divided tempered tuning which is not how pianos are tuned nor are horns... pay attention to your midrange.

okay... my wife was funny as hell and I desperately miss her sardonic outloook

what do you have against the LGBT community? we're al people and you are not required t get every jokebefore its declared funny, sir. I laugh because if I don't? well, fuck off.

I also usually pick an amp or 3 and go with it