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From my personal experience, there's nothing wrong with plugging an acoustic with most kinds of pickups into a big clean amp. But the dedicated acoustic guitar amp is a niche manufacturers keep exploring despite rarely seeing these amps in the wild. Should this be something different from the combo guitar amplifier?

The Ernie Ball prodigy picks are my favorite thick ones, but Hercos are awesome.

Huh, it looks like their actual brand page is unclaimed.

If you know the exact gear and musician, I'd go and add the albums to artist submissions.

Edit: These are awesome man!!

I've met Jamie and Julie from Earthquaker a couple times, not only do they make excellent products, they're top tier people.

Quilter makes darn good stuff, some of my favorite solid state amps

I gotta hear these playlists

I've had great luck with Sire basses, they start relatively cheap but get expensive quickly.

Any EQ pedal >>> buying another overdrive

https://rockstockpedals.com/products/nano-tuner

These used to be $25 and now I can't live without it, wish I had gotten a spare

Stellar feature, my one question is, will the number of stores grow, and if so do we plan to partner with any smaller stores?

Well that sucks. I hope EU distributors like Thomann and Anderton's take them to court, it's been 60 years and entire brands have existed for the sole purpose of making better Strats than they do. Odd angle that they'd sue for Copyright as in artistic ownership when multiple Trademark cases have declared the shape to be generic in the past. Tom Anderson and Suhr make incredible instruments that I'd recommend over any Fender Custom Shop, big fan of G&L too (rip)

https://equipboard.com/pros/buzz-osborne https://equipboard.com/pros/king-buzzo

Nah, not a tangent at all, I am about to hack the pull boost out of a 1980 Twin Reverb and barely know what I’m getting into, just learning as I go. I contacted my guy at Rivera and he said go for it, and sent me the whole schematic I could forward to you. As far as the Twin I might do the Dumble style FET input to replace the pull boost, which was suggested by my former amp tech and teacher in most of this stuff. I think my end goal is to make the Fender side of the Rivera a super clean pedal platform and use similarly to the Hiwatts in a David Gilmour rig, and be able to switch to the Marshall channel dimed.

On it, currently looking to try a 12DW7 tube in V1 to see if that can gives the Fender side more headroom and keep the Marshall side nice and crunchy.

It looks like the K120 is held in very high regard nowadays, this is a reissue version of sorts; https://milkmansound.com/collections/speakers/products/milkman-alnico-speaker

try a JBL K120

Might be a little out my budget, I was also thinking some EV models might be good if I can find one. Was talking to an older friend about JBLs today, he lamented they used to be known as cork sniffer speakers and now they're just for "booty shakers"

what about the small but mighty 7591?

Can't find anything about them being used in this particular Rivera, but I see a lot of people recommending E34Ls. I also want to try 6L6s and see how Fender-y I can get.

The Vintage 30 isn't bad until you try the amp's gain channel, the low end looses all definiton and it stops taking any pedals well once you use either of the boost circuits.

18ma? holy sh!zn!t! Something's up

Yeah, it's been running EL34's I didn't end up changing, even though I'm using it for the Fender thing. This amp can run pretty much any power tubes that fit, except for KT88's I think. Stock Celestion 70/80 (yikes) was changed to a G12 Vintage 30, not my favorite but it works for now.

On it as far as checking the catbode bias resistor, I've been so afraid some small surface mount part is busted I haven't looked at it entirely yet. I went through the Rivera when I got it and rebiased it cause it was running at 18ma per tube instead of 35 and sounded choked, threw a 5751 in V1 which helped the Fender channel but isn't my favorite on its Marshall voiced side. Also ripped out the reverb tank cause I wasn't a fan and threw a Vox grill cloth on.

Is this Hot Cake derivative taking any influence from the Tech 21 XXl you told me about?

100% agree, any version of it is an awesome pedal, you'd be hard pressed to find a better pairing with a Twin or any Vox (other than the Hot Cake but they're amazing combined)

Currently my AC10 in indisposed due to overheating, my new main amp is a Rivera Chubster given to me by a friend and occasional bandmate with a crazy gear collection (all Cornish board, Klon, Mesas, Soldano, Two Rock)

Yeah, the bright yellow Open Road is the oldest Nobels clone and among the best, hasn't been priced out of reach like the silver ones yet, but they're built better than any of the old ones were. The VS-XO combines that with a TS in the dual format, tons of switches on both sides, didn't like it very much.

Seconded, huge fan of Soundgarden, probably was the only bad I listened to for months at a time in High School. I've never heard anyone else play like Kim, but he certainly inspires me to play.

Old bandmate had one that was awesome with an Origin 50, I know there's an ODR derived circuit in the one newer one but it's supposedly different from the VS-XO which they claim is the same as the truly perfect Open Road. Speaking of ODRs, I just picked up an original for $200, might flip it, but very settled on that kinda circuit and the Hot Cake as my drive section.

Apart from Radiohead I mostly know the Phantom Thread soundtrack he did, him and Nels Cline both have that thing where they can make crazy guitar sounds with a band and then make the most beautiful compositions solo.

Stank face reaction

Little late to this thread, but seconded to the Shredmaster. This https://equipboard.com/items/joyo-high-gain-distortion is supposedly a Shredmaster clone with a simplified EQ if you just want to try something in that circuit family, the Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde is also one prior to the V3.

Seconded.

That's wild.

Moo-g like a cow or Moog that rhymes with Rogue?

I've been with a non-musician writer/english scholar for a little while, nerdery goes both ways.

Weird, looks good now!

Item:

https://equipboard.com/items/yamaha-qx21-midi-sequencer

Image:

https://rvb-img.reverb.com/i/s--1fQtIGFh--/quality=medium-low,height=800,width=800,fit=contain/gdfkms8l8cdzffvybfm1.png

This has just started happening to me, but whenever I try to add an image from Reverb the page crashes.

That would be ideal actually

Oh totally, I feel like Jim really is the mentor to everyone on here, no idea what we'd do without him. What's a good email to reach you at Ken?

I guess we did blow up that Butch Vig submission, maybe the longest submission thread that wasn't an argument.

Mixing and mastering engineers would be essential. Maybe studio personnel is acceptable, cover artist would be cool but pushing it. I'd look as Discogs as the guide as it seems to be the most comprehensive place for album credits online.

I’ve seen it happen with a few from Sweetwater lately, others I’ll just download the image and try again and it works.

That's fair, I guess he was such a huge figure in creating Afrobeat his influence would reach here. Bit of a controversial figure from what I know.

So far I'm starting small with gear I would consider myself knowledgeable in, here's a few in order of how much I tweaked them.

https://equipboard.com/items/dallas-arbiter-fuzz-face

https://equipboard.com/items/klon-centaur-professional-overdrive

https://equipboard.com/items/crowther-hotcake

Second that, The Band were awesome musicians, people wax poetic about Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson, but both Rick Danko and Richard Manuel deserved so much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWrRt9ge4g

In response to Jim's comment mentioning Talking Heads, are you a Fela Kuti fan by any chance being from Nigeria?