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I wuld describe the baja as a 52AVRI with modern wiring, its great actually as stock wring is lame as shit

why don't you go risk a kemper, Boom? even if you love it, when tis obsolete kemper wills top supporting the old versions and it'll eb a paperweight if it breaks like older line6 units.

my baja doesn't have S1, tis older, ahs a 4 way switch that's series in position 4

but I don't see anything wrong with S1 its like a push-pull pot and shouldn't effect the stock sounds.... I love series wiring and wired up my strat to do series sounds not long ago. Its got a zillion switches.

yes, there are very few standalone distortion effects for guitar or bass that are digitally modelled... you see digital modulation, delay and reverb all teh time but the lsit of distortions is surprisingly short outside of multi-FX units

next time post this in the guitar/bass forum

me too, not good on a tele.... my paisley tele ahd one, just no.

don't bigsby it, you really don't want a bigsby tele, I ahd one.... it throws the whole guitar off even setup perfectly. A tele is just not meant to have vibrato... even a factorys tock bigsby upgrade tends to murder the sustaine ven more than a toploader.

I have a blonde 50s baja... I like it for the msot part, pretty much on par with a moddified 52 AVRI to me. i am sure the 60s Baja is also plenty cool. Mine has a surprisingly nice sounding neck pikcup and the bridge isn't terrible stock. Wiring's great stock, nice all arounder.

I used to just use a wah wah in case I ahd to do soemthing modern and funky like fireshaker. otherwise jazz in a big band is just run straight in usually. Same with chicago blues, tehre were no pedals abck then, they turned up and controlled amp drive with guitar vplume.... doesn't hurt that you neeed to be really loud tos tep out and solo over a horn section. you're playing a wide enough variety of stuff that i don't have an amp recommendation for you. play what you like as ;long as it soudns clean and warm with your guitar volume turned down so those big chords voice without a bunch of overtones that will clash against the piano.

Speaking of which, tune off the piano with rest of teh rhythm section. Get close with your tuner but temper your tunign with the piano player trust me.

I was assuming there were going to be some pictures embedded in the email or facebook to back thigns up. I have actually seen G and M do that. I mean, anyone cna send me an email claiming anything (and they regularly do) but it doesn't mean I can site it in a scholarly paper.

And I thought we were talking about guys who worked for these artists talking to MadMike? As long as we cna document so and so was Mr Badassguitarist's tech in 1990 then why not trust him?

I see more broken supro reissues than any other brand, mostly in stored with a 'not for sale' tag on them, shit you not.... though the model 24 and black hoodoo or whatever get close in tone to the old one I had. A little tighter and clearer.

see my original review:

http://equipboard.com/items/vox-ac30-guitar-combo-

the early, rear top boost AC30/6 copper panel is my favorite top boost.... it has a hot and juicy sound even when clean due to the way the cathode bias is set although its also very nice aprts throughout in those too.... I have a B (bass model) and like it a lot, but tis ahrd to say i have a preference. The N and T versions sound good in their own way too. When the top boost moved to the cotnrol plate they changed the circuit to normal for all top boost models (the non-top boost persisted for a while) and on both top boosted and non-top boosted models they cooled the bias off to extend tube life and give a more open and fendery power amp response. That's a good sound too and the one you will probably identify with, bt I like the oldest ones that get so hot you cna fry an egg on them and sound like they're running that hot. Yes, they sometiems catch fire. Have a spare.

I also like the original ac10 and ac15 a lot, back when they ran hot and had EF86 pentodes. In almost-voxes I lvoe the matchless C30 series and many of its immitators.

look into synth edit unles you know a legit programming language already

I ordered mine through these guys.

https://www.zzounds.com/returns

45 days, no questions asked.

here's the amp http://www.zzounds.com/item--QUIMICROBLOCK45

did you buy the quilter from soeone with a no-questions-asked return policy? I assume you did. i did.... if it sucks its going abck

you just ought the quilter epdalbaord amp too? HAHAHA, i hope I am not off base on this little guy, but the price is right to experiment, right? I've spent more at teh ar on a friday or a dinner out with the wife when she was alive enough to eat dinner

don't get anything particle baord in cabs.... make sure its all batlic birch play, 3/4" thick or so, particle baffles are okay on plywood cabs I guess.... if you wanna get a tweed tone get something in solid pine with a thin (1/2" or less) floating plywood baffle and open abck... erpsonally I prefer 2x12s over any other format and I like 'em in open or closed back depending on the speakers. I also like closed back 4x10s soemtimes but pretty much commited to 12s now. If you wanna go small and light try a mesa thiele ported cabinet for a bigger cab kick in a small enclosure. A good friend of mine often uses one to great effect laoded with a huge EVM12L and thoght eh speaker is ehavy tis still a pretty lightweight cab that soudns hevyweight.... in openbacked 1x12 or 2x12 type ofs etups bigger is generally ebtter as 12s get boxy in a small open-back enclosure. I find 2x10 openbacks are a bit boxy but can have a sound. Tend to eb best with jensen type speakers for that tweed super kidna thing, but you probably want 1 or 2 12"s given the music you like.

you als can't gow rong with old post-CBS fender cabs if you don't want a new generic cab.... when those oversized fender 2x12 cabs are parted from their mathcing ehads they tend to go for very little ebcause they are unwieldly.... pre-CBS cabs are smaller though plenty ehavy, but they tend to go for more money ebcause of colelctors trying to complete full blackface piggyback rigs.... try tog et an empty fender cab though because the speakers were junk in all but the top of the line upgrade cabs and you will wanna replace the stock utahs, oxfords and CTS 12s. The upgrade jensens will be good but maybe dunerpowered for 45 watts and the upgrade JBL's? you won't see any of those dude.

But for me erpsonally its an ac30/bluebreaker type open back or convertible 2x12 OR a diagonal sealed 2x12. You can go on avatar and get whatever speakers you want (some fo their speakers are proprietary too) but theya ren't as cheap as they once were or get an emptycab cheaperand source your own speakers, I think one of the ebst deals going is stagecraft

look around locally first and see wat you like, check craigslist in your town, people ahte shipping cabs bigger than a 1x12, especially affordable ones! maybe theyll have nice speakers.

I don't know what to tell yu about speakers, its personal preference. I know what i liek and tis varried and I change shit out all the time as I get bored. i am mostly a vintage celestion guy, anything blue or green if you know what I mean... but I use fanes, JBLs, CTS, jensen, whatever...

its a quilter micro45, its some crazy new school soldi state technology that doesn't behave like traditional solid state....

anyway, I'll review it when I get it

if you wanna spend more than 150 to 500 go tube or resale purposes, man

I haven't used the fancier ones like the big Crush head. People rave about them. I've seen soem demoes (which are no indication) but they sound off to me. They are in the ballpark but i would go quilter isntead. The quilter deoes sound way livelier and tubier. And I did go quilter LOL. Just have't received it yet. it seems like quilter and roland/boss are the way to go in solid state, man. Roland still ahs the jazz chorus and they do that blescube amp that sounds 98% right and also those boss modular solid states that get good reviews..... then tehre's quilter. In a recording Ic an't tell its a tiny solid state amp in a pedalboard. Just nice all aorund tubey tones, can get a little fender and a little amrshall. The Crush demoes sound flat and lame by comaprison.... but YMMV, they're video demoes

i would put the crush enxt to a rolandbluescube, similar orange tube ehad and a quilter if possible and elt your ears decide and look at the oricetags too. The roland and the orange solidstate amps aren't exactly cheap!

but you can invest in whatever you want as long as you know going tube will retain resale. In your shoes overall I think I would await the jim verdict on the quilter micro.... for 150 bucks you could get one and just invest in a good cab with money to spare

try a JCM800 and then BUY a laney GH50L, damned simialr at half the price or less.... they have a new laney that looks cool too but I've not tried it. I owned a 50L as a abckup to my old 2204 when i was into that and my good friend had a 100L, sound just like amrshall 800s.... if you wanna get a darker version fo that sound? orange or50. Want that sound darker and at 15 watts? orange or15, basically the or50 preamp stapled to an ac15 poweramp. But i gotta say its ahrd to get a clean sound on the or15 and I rpefer the terror....

anyway, there's a lot ofs tuff in teh 800 camp and pretty much ANY post soldano gain banger's preamp is a descendent of the 800 stapled to some extra stages that are influenced by dumble's voerdrive sections.... so the SLO100, hotrods, 5150 and descendents, mesa rectifiers, dual calibers (the earlier calibers are more like mesa mk 1s).... umm, the jet city amps (even the new one that's not a sodlano cloneis 800ish absed on the cornford high gain marshall type amp), engl, I could go on and on.... if it ahs a crunch mode on a soldano inspired gain banger its pretty much an 800 thing in that mode, but even if you wanna use the low gain channel as a clean mode the high gain one in this format can be goosed down from liquidy lead or brash djenty metal tones into 800 turf resonably convincingly. Usually EL34s do this best, but the oldanos use 6L6es and still sound really marshally.... the 5150 by pevey is my elast favorite though the new EVH 5150IIIs sound better to me... I ahte the rectifiers too but you can make them sound good if you have enough time, they aren't bad amps but they have WAY too many options and that makes them bad to me.... and they break down like marshalls JCM2000s.... too many options, hard tos et, lots to fail

some itneresting amps are the laney AOR amps, the first gen, single channel ones are very much a goosed up 2203.... there's a 30 watt combo too that soudns good. Theya re not SUPER reliable like an 800 or alter GH50L but they have a wider range of toens than a 50L and cost even less.... the 2 channel ones sound very 80s though and they go down all the time so no channel switching on laneys man. BAD

but you should try the whole orange line, I suspct most of the rockers will be too brutal for you.... but the other amps? probably will pelase you unless you like super bright tones, that's enver been orange's thing. I think the best rockin' modern orange tone exampels out there are live Eagles of Death Metal. Not ym favorite band but its a good example of what the mid-gain, 800ish oranges do.

the 50+ watt new oranges are on the whole like high gain marshalls with a darker voicing, not like old ones which are really weird designs by modern standards (the current custom shop Orange model appears to be absed on an OD80, ut otherwise eventeh OR50 is more of a JCM800 in Orange clothing).... the elss than 50 watt Oranges are almsot always vox inspired, very much like hot rodded AC15s and 30s. The tiny terror and original AD15 and 30 pioneered this whole thing and they've basically been modding those 2 different riffs on a vox for like a decade. Ade, the chief engineer is a real marshall/vox guy and he just puts a little sheen of orange voicing but not so much the heft and weird hazy grit of the old designs ebcause its just not soemthing you can do with a marshall or vox circuit due to the phase inverter.... i encourage you to try every orange model in your local store. OH! 1 exception is the discontinued Rocker30, arguably Orange's best sounding and msot itneresting modern amp (so of course it didn't cath on).... I really like this amp and Ic an tell you what makes it special if you want. its unique in prduction designs. Also, the 1st gen Rockerverb50 is weir din tat it uses american 6V6 tube sin a quad, pushed hard like in a delux reverb, but ti still manages to sound pretty close to the alter EL34 powered 50s, maybe a little less amrshally and a little more sludgey if you get the mater open far enough.

Marshall's best days are long over. They no logner make reliable new amp designs and If eel the tone is compromised by too many features packed on. The vintage reissue mdoels are still great as they didn't change them at all, even the PCB based plexi is just like a late periodPCB superlead from the late 70s and 80s. The 800 and Silver Jubilee sound great and are built well and I even hear the ini-jubilee is pretty bad-ass and very reliable unlike the modern designs in the 2000 series and such. The discontinued VM heads soudned very good but apprently broke down a lot. Basically if you're looking for higher gaina nd a more modern, neutral voicing than a jubilee head get an orange if you're inclined to orange and not a less iconic (and cheaper) brand like jet city or soemthing. Best deal in amrshall these days is the JCM900SLX, the ebst sounding 900. its like a gained up JCM800 2203, 1 channel, no verb, a total throwback to the early 80s. Very good amp voerall, liked mine on the whole. Witht eh cost of 00s being high i would go Laney, theyve been making similar products sicne the 80s and virtually have cloned the 800 sicne it was discontinued in the GH series. Or I might get a ceriatone which will be handwired like a proper plexi but with JCM800 features.

Vox. I lvoe voxes. The custom classic and classic are not so hot but theya ren't bad. The Classic soudns better bu ahs an inferior cab. The current ac15s are allw rong except for the 59/60 hW they released at namm this year. The AC10 is wrong too but sounds good in its own way. You will have to try them. There are lots of other options in this style, Iw rote this up extensively in this generic vox review, so here:

http://equipboard.com/items/vox-ac30-guitar-combo-amp

I'm the top review, read the comments for off-brand options in the ac30 camp including my huge praise of the original tiny terror and dual terror

price range again? these 3 companies are the big guns in classic british rbands these days, they charge a lot for the good stuff and even their cheapies charge a premium just for the name.

site your own facebook if relevant or take a screen capture of the emails in question being careful to omit the sender's personal info... assuming the info is legit it'll get approved

You need to set a budget though. Is it 600 or 900? just decide if you can afford 900 bucks and then get the ebst 900 dolalr guitar you can find. Or stick to 600 or 700 and go with that. It will anrrow what you look at to put a tight price cllamp.

if I were in your shoes I would say 700 pre-shipping (you are not likely to find a good jazzbox at a good price in person, sorry, i live in a big city and you have t dig for student guitars that fit your criteria and theya re overpriced and lucky finds -- although i saw a few in DC/baltimore when i lvied there, but I digress -- you lvie in australia, so you will wanna go online, try reverb and ebay, on ebay look for japanese dealers, i can help you if you need)

I think if you say 700 without shipping it allows you wiggle room to talk to japanese and other overseas dealers who have expensive international shipping but are generally the keepers of many a fine gibson copy and lots of cool and unique new guitars from their country too that you will enver see in America unless they already belong to another player --- even in the USA where I have way more guitar access than you australians have (I live next to Ibanez USA, 2 horus form the martin plant for isntance and used to live 30 minutes from PRS HQ too, ic an walk into a company buy a factory 2nd if I make an appointment) I STILL LIKE TO GET STUFF FROM FOREIGN DEALERS, they have different stuff than we do. Europe and Japan have enat stuff all the time, don't count them out, just set aside a couple hundred for long distance shipping

the problem is that udner that thousand-year-old new finish there's an Ibanez artcore, arguably the worst line of hollowbodies in tis class. Don't do it! they ruined their jazz reputation when they started that line and it has actually GOTTEN WORSE! The 90s ones were better. knew lots of other highschoola nd college big band players who ahd these. Just stay clear. Awful guitars. Get a Yamaha.... actually the OP should go on google and search, there are whole websites devoted to entry elvel jazz boxes for school bg band guitarists scratching their heads as to what to buy to appease their band director. Seriously. So muche asier than when Iw as a kid just trading stuff around with anyone I knew who owned a guitar with some F-holes LOL.

I think Jazz guitar I think thick hollowbody.... thins like 335's and the like just dont do it justice.

but they aren't practical when you need to cut a big band and deliver searing, voerdriven blues licks when isntructed by the band leader.... trust me. Somehow Setzer makes his Chets work in his big band with fairly overdriven and loud bassmans, but he ahs a guitar tech or two and a live sound team doing mnitors and FOH.... my big band experience was that my guild hollowbodyw as killer as long as I was just chopping away at chords with the rest of teh rhythm section but when i ahd tos tep out it got tricky with feedback and when I had to deliver anything overdriven? forget it, HOOOOOOWWWLLL.... a semi solved the problem and also allowed me to cop the funk stuff better because I had one with coil taps. If your big band is not strictly traditional jazz music? Then emualte Larry Carlton and be Mr 335. It does everything well enough and has pretty controlled feedback for how hollow it sounds in practice.

what about one of these for the OP, a green russian type circuit and IC based siamese dream version in one box with extra features?

http://equipboard.com/items/green-carrot-pedals-pumpkin-pi

just saw soe dude's review of this and though "gee, that's a realy band for buck with 2 of the msotpopular old muffs in one enclosure... bet that rbandon guy could use this to find out what the muff is all about"

gretsch makes a semi-affordable electromatic that's like a smaller es335 and they also make some kind of hollow lo-end duo jet if I recall, you'll have to look them up.... the 335ish one got very good reviews, but I don't have much experience with electromatics.... I think the models I am thinking of have TV jones fitlertrons of some type too. They will eb twandy for a lot of ajzz run wide open but good for stuff like the blues brothers style big band chicago rhythm andblues and soul.... aretha's hosue band at Fame studios for her most iconic records featured a white country player doing soul licks on a gretsch chet atkins into an ampeg gemini II, a twangy guitar into a classic 60s jazz amp with a 15" tot ame the top and it worked great for Respect and her other iconic tunes.

I think you're right about that Mike, the jaguar has evolved considerably in some iterations....

pickguardian, go custom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the bugera is like one of the Peavey Satriani heads before he went back to marshall??? right???????

I mostly play vintage stuff and one boutique, mainly older AC30s, I like to push the power amp whenever possible and the ac30 is the ebst I've tried that balanced useable headroom, clarity and small-venue and studio friendly levels when clipping the output tubes... all 4 of mine do soemthing a little different when abused and Ic an't let them go

I have done marhsall superleads, 800s, studio 30s, 18 and 20 watts, fender BFs of various vintage, laneys etc... I always get back to vox... the new fawn ones are great by the way

right now I have been really into my tweed pro, selmer and traynor PA when I can get super loud.... the voxes are ebtter all arounders but the fixed bias amps have a certain soemthing and all 3 are really different. The pro is its own thing, hard to describe but its one of the ebst 2 tele amps ever for cleaner, punchier twang (tweed deluxe is king for tele grease, had those too), the selmer is like a blackface bandmaster crossed with a blonde bassman built with british parts and bitish output tubes, partway plexi but also some fender pro reverb normal channel into a 2x12 too, greateat, shining cleans on that one and a solid grunt turned up. The Traynor is like a 4 channel, 1st gen orange OR80. Right down to beign rated at 50 watts but doing a good 80 LOL, It breaks up a little at like 3, but has headroom past there and it has a deepness and murk...

I like to push speaker too and cosntantly rotate speakers i pairs or mismatched, I generally play mismatched combos in 2x12 configuration though i have a 15 in my pro obviously and I have matching speakers in 3 of my ac30s though they are all entirely different celestions... my modern ac30 has a blue and an H30 bass cone type from WGS, solid as fuck... I'v een really into fane lately and I've been rediscovering JBL, I always sued their 10s and 15s but the 12s from the D series are pretty sexy as it turns out

and I just rodered this itty bit quilter pedalboard amp and have high hopes for a jam sessions solution. I might take my non-midi pedals and make a little jam board with teh quilter, an mxr OD, one of my echoes and maybe a fuzz... build it on a little pedaltrain and I can just borrow a cab.

attractive horde...

I cosntantly have stuff benched, maybe stuff otehr people would say is fine, but I am really picky about tech work and am always pulling stuff when it feels or soudns a bit off.... not to mention the mod pile, always a few in there... its ncie building solid overlap into the stash so you can bench a guitar without missing it too much

collection is on teh up again after a liquidation phase.... just scored an 80s 335 dot, greco es336 type and a robert cray strat in inca silver.... set up and stills tock, feel like keepers so far 'cept the reco which is great but maybe not my thing... I'm debating selling the cintage hamer too, always wanted one, but its a little hair band sounding for me and I am afraid to mod such an expensive axe.... might dump her and get a less valuable one with some profit I hope, maybe one of the DC 59-burst styles from the 90s, it actually has a lot of overlap with my Heart Washburns and Bad Company Greco

if a spider comes in my house he's dead.... if i went n his web he'd stun me, web me and drink my juices so squishing him is no biggie

i can dela with tarantulas and american jumping spiders like the cheerful little zebra spider, but msot of them are the worst ever.... I say we kill them off and breed more mantids to contain the insect popualtion. Mantises rule!

look at this fella womping a frog 10X his weight:

http://animalstime.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/praying-mantis-1.jpg

I've used the 5150 for high gaina nd I much prefer the soldano SLO100 and the later hotrods that it ripped off (mesa ripped it off too, the rectifiers are like a SLO100 pre on various weird poweramps with a zillion unnescasarry knobs and switches to revoice the preamp even though the SLO pre works just fine stock and the power amp on the slo is like the hifi-est thing ever in a good waya nd the hot rods are like the ebst tweed abssman amrshall examples of teh vintage era but emsa gave you options even though none fo them touch the originals).... I dislike the classics, the 30 is like a shit ac30 with choked bandwidth and the 50 is a choked out marshall voice. But they are cheap and relatively reliable. I thik if i ahd to pick ebtween a fender hotrod and a classic 30 or 50 I might just go epavey because they sound more british. although on a similar budget I might go laney voer either.... the GH50L always pelased me for marshally stuff and the little voxy lanys are not abd at all, totally eat the epavey 30 for breakfast... but I really love a Soldano hotrod 50+, even a 5150 I is like apale immitation

the delta blue amp particularly offended me LOL.... I am going to say I have ehard 1 peavey I legitimately liked other than the chorus SS amp, I like the 100 watt all tube classic from the 70s that's bassman inspired. Not a bad amp if you can find one.

YMMV though, this is just one guitarist's opinion... not everyone has my benchmark

cheers, pick a format to start on (I really recommend vinyl as it will teach you a lot about beat matching and creating counter rhythms during crossfades to pick thigns up or slow them down.... also, extending drum breaks and stuff on old records is way cooler with double 12" copies), gear up and get practicing at your house -- I always liked to keep some classic shit that's more songish in my sets like donna summer, kratwerk, isaac hayes, depeche mode, curtis mayfield, steely dan, p-funk, rick james etc and if you have double copies and people don't wanna hear the whole song you cna extend the aprt that's exciting them by cuing anotehr copy or you can sue soemthing mdoern and electronic aginst these tunes and crosfade fully to the modern techno or house record while you re-cue the big dance section of that vintage, non-electronic funky-dico-ey shit

gotta love dr no.... live and let die? meh, but its got one of the best solo Mccartney tunes ever, one of my top 3 bond songs performed by dudes tied with Chris Cornell's and Duran Duran's (aww come on, duran duran have their moments)

and to think, all these years I thought I had to spend big money on dedicated arachnid polishes! shoe polish works fine.... but what about amtching your spider's color?

they'r creepy as hell

I always get funnel webs and trapdoors mixed up.... we have trapdoors here I think, ut far out west and they're smaller and elss deadly than australian ones.... and you have those huntsmen thata re like super-wolf-spiders, awful

see, not all leggy, fat, hairy guys are horrible.... our tarantulas from exico have a certain charm and are barely poisonous and pretty friendly for an arthropod -- there's soemthign so disgusting and menacing about the RBs, they're like super-blackwidows with that similar, bald, sleek, toxic-hermit-crab thing going on. i think they make me feel more crawly and queasy than the funnel.... the poisonous spider where I lvie is the brown recluse AKA violin spider, we get black widows further west in ym state but they're very uncommon this far north even there, but I wind up killing tons of recluses every year. Fortunately they aren't remotely agressive and if you keep specialized spider spray around you can off them withe ase because they'll just hang there and elt you cover them with toxic foam and fall to the pavement dead. And they aren't deadly, note ven to kids, just potentially disfiguring ebcause they ahve that necrotic, flesh eating venom. But if you catch the btie fast its harmless. Not like some of your little fangy friends in Australia, man.

oh, guitar stands, herculese stands look nice! I am more picky about cases though. I have NICE cases for every guitar, I have some gig bags for if I need to take a train and wanna travel light but I will only gig bag a bolt on. Otherwise its ahrshell. In aftermarket stuff I am very found of Gator and TKL for non-flight cases and I of coruse like anvil and calzone for ATA stuff

with all those legs you would think arachnids would carry more stuff around with them... spiders, I hate those guys! if your country had less of them i would probably move there in a ehartbeat, especially now that trump is president, but rebacks and trapdoors just keep me away.... apart from the toxicity theya re some of the more hideous spiders on the planet earth, just awful looking... Ic an't even imagin sharing a continent with such a bunch of horrible creatures.

to trapdoor spiders...

because you're richa nd your rich dad went threre and he won't even miss all that money.... and he was going to build them a new building anyway? and god damn I wanna kill a rich person today

honestly in the USA everyone in college is permanently sleep deprived and most of them are living on ramen noodles, i don't thik professors would know what to do with work turned in by well-rested, well-fed students... I think the ivy league kids are fed alright, but otherwise?

shit I'm sorry man.... and you ride a wallaby, don't you?