Tonight, I'm going big-time (for me).
It'll be my Gretsch, Fender Tele-Deluxe, and Gibson SG through both the AC15 and the tweed BluesJr. It's our biggest gig of the year, and we're bringing out the big guns. :D
:party:
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Tonight, I'm going big-time (for me).
It'll be my Gretsch, Fender Tele-Deluxe, and Gibson SG through both the AC15 and the tweed BluesJr. It's our biggest gig of the year, and we're bringing out the big guns. :D
:party:
Jimmie Vaughan Strat into '68 Pro Reverb dry channel, volume on 4, treble on 10, bass on 0, neck pickup, guitar vol between 7 - 10, tone around 7. Picking near the bridge ala Kid Ramos. Holy Crap!
Then, with the same setup except picking over the neck pu, played Tony Joe White's version of Poke Salad Annie and added occasional whammy bar wiggles. Marvelous.
:yah:
I have several amps but am a Blackface 6L6 Fender amp nut and my latest squeeze is a '64 Pre-CBS AA864 Bassman head and I LOVE IT. I use it with it's matching cab with reissue Jensens (originals long gone), or my Marshall cab with 4 75w Celestions (stock to the cab). The Jensens are great for country and old blues, for heavier country or rock n' roll the Celestions are great.
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The Bassman is a great loud clean platform headroom amp for my pedals and I love it. It doesn't get better for me than a Bassman clean with a Nobels ODR-1 pedal with a Tele bridge pickup for the stuff I do. An Ibanez Mostortion is ace too for a higher gain vibe. Those two are the main drives.
Kept it simple today......
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My Buddy Holly tribute Strat through the blonde Spankmaster.
My brother recently sent me a pair of vintage GZ34's (one Amperex, one Sylvania) and I wanted to check them for serviceability. They measured good on my TV-7A and both passed the operational "smoke test" with flying colors.
How's that BFPR of yours doing? :hi:Quote:
Originally Posted by phantomman
Still waiting for you to inherit it after I assume room temperature, TJ.
:biglaugh:
Whelp, the Tweed BJr. and Vox AC15 combo sounded great - but something in my pedalboard was inducing some noise.
Never mind that the band played its loudest gig yet - I think I need to just bring a mic and one amp - and a backup modeler pedal just in case - because there was way too much stage volume. The other guitarist uses a HRDx and it's louder than bombs. The gig was great but I had to crank both my amps just to hear myself.
You can just see my Vox and Fender behind me...we had twice as much PA because this was outside, and it proved to be too much.
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No pics yet but I just practiced through a Tech 21 Trademark 10 that I picked up cheap. It's the second on that I've had. They're cheap, light, versatile, convenient and they sound good.
Say the word! I'll gladly adopt her and give her a GOOOOOD home! :XREQuote:
Originally Posted by phantomman
:biglaugh:
You'll have to wait for the coroner's report.Quote:
Originally Posted by NTBluesGuitar
:D
My modded MIJ '72ri Strat into a Mesa F-30 with Mesa Thiele ext cab. This is my #1 rig.
Didn't spend much time with it but a TV front tweed Peavey something or other. Might have had a 15" in it? At a friends house looking at gear and we decide to play a tune before I had to leave. He tempted me with an old Travis Bean 1000 Artist. Yea, one of those old aluminum necked jobs that the neck heel runs all the way to the bridge. It was neck heavy, had practically a flat fretboard radius and kept going out of tune as my hand warmed up the alloy neck.
The amp was ok, didn't get to crank it but the cleans were good. The guitar? To ma a novelty I'm glad I had a chance to play with, but not anything I'd care to use.
TT
Is the F-30 a head or a combo with a 12 in it? I use my Mesa Studio .22+ 1x12" combo with my Mesa EVM12L Thiele cab. I have an Eminence Private Jack (that I got form Kap'n) in the amp and they sound great together!Quote:
Originally Posted by concert410
For yesterday's gig, which had a pretty bad schlep as part of it (double-park in front, carry gear up 20 steps, then 40 yards to door, then around a few corridors/rooms out to the back deck) I just brought a nice small but versatile rig...
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My NOS Blues Jr. and one of my 3 Vox AC10's.
Mic'ed the BlJr but forgot to flip the mic to the on position. Still cut through nicely. The Vox, besides looking cool, enables me to have a backup and add a touch more stage poke without mic'ing the amp or turning up the other (mic'ed) amp.
Guitars were Mexi-Strat and Mexi-Tele-Deluxe through my standard pedalboard (Vox Wah => TS9 => Super Overdrive => Whirlwind "The Bomb" =>BBE Tremor Pedal => TC Nova Repeater (delay, unused yesterday).
It was a hot one but we kept cool with some Coronas.
Looks like it was a swell gig, RJ!
Good tunes, cold beer, and happy people......who could ask for more?
:yah::yah::yah:
Well, we didn't ask but we DID get more - free shots, a decent amount of pay, and an incredible view of tanned female beauty walking by in various stages of beach (un)dress.Quote:
Originally Posted by phantomman
If OSA woulda been on this gig, he woulda smiled so broad, for so long, that his cheeks woulda been sore.
We all would've for that matter!
:salud:
I took my newest sweetheart to a little jam yesterday and she performed well, up against a bassist with a tone-ring Showman and a keyboard player using a Roland JC120. We weren't playing all that loud but the little 1 x 15 Princeton piggyback had plenty of reserve power should I have needed it. I think she's a winner.
I went economy and played my Squire CV 50's Tele through a Blackstar HT5 combo, learning the solo from Take it Easy.
Wow..I haven't heard that company Guyatone since I left Japan 50 years ago! That's one sweet Hawaiian guitar!Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtdog
My first electric guitar was a brand new red 1960 Guyatone and an Echo tube amp 2x12" cabinet like a Fender Bandmaster copy. Five years later I got a Fender Jazzmaster! It was such a big jump in ease of playability for me (and mentally of course). :yah:
Back to the thread: I just play my ES339 unplugged most of the time...but use my Am Strats at weekly jams.
I'm still recovering, but I managed to thrash about for awhile tonight.
With an assist to Tigger, all heads were a bobbing.
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This
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Through
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Forget the face plate. It's actually a prototype and not a Chihuahua. The face plate was lifted from a Chihuahua because it was the right size. It's basically a 3 watt amp w/8" Jensen and a master volume control. The 'verb knob isn't reverb it's the master. The inputs are Hi and Lo gain.
Sort of like a baby Marshall on the Hi gain input and a (quieter) Champ on the Lo gain side.
It gets pretty chunky at low volumes. Been my go to home amp, at least whenever the better half is about, since it's arrival over a year ago. :yah:
G&L Leagacy Tribute HB and Washburn HB-35s through Vox Valvetronix AD50VT.
Hey Concert410!
How do you like your Washburn? I'm window shopping for a humbucker guit. The model you have is a nice looking guitar. Did you compare it to other semi-hollows when you bought it? Curious about it.
Good as always to see you on the forum.
Epiphone 335 Pro and Fender AV '65 Strat through a new HRDLx
Luvverlee...
I love my Washburn HB-35S. Put together well and very comfortable. The original pickups were microphonic so now it is loaded with GFS replacements.
Back to the thread....
G&L Leagacy HB through a Marchall DSL15 head. As long as the gain on the lead channel is at 9:00 or below, it sounds fantastic.
Line 6 Pod 2.0 yesterday. I sold it locally and had to make sure it worked before letting it go.
TT
Built a new pedalboard so this is my most recent setup;
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I've also added an Electro Harmonix Nano Bass Big Muff since this photo was taken. The amp is my '62 6G3 with Celestion Gold. JM is a '64.
Tommy.
Freakin' Killer, Tommy!Quote:
Originally Posted by ziess
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If I remember correctly, it was your 6G3 clips that pushed me to build my clone.
I spent an hour or so with it tonight and it never fails to impress.
Dirty or clean, it is so right all the time.
My Mesa F-30. Various guitars....
Oh...yes...very much yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by ziess
Thanks guys. When are you building one TJ?!
A soundhole and air. Lately been on the acoustic more, probably because I have a new girlfriend who likes to hear me sing and play....
The best kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by ch willie
:salud:
:laughing:Quote:
Originally Posted by ziess
I'm doing a Harvard in Brown/Wheat next. Just need to get some iron for it and drill some holes in a chassis.
Yes indeed. I was with someone for 24 years who never got the music that much. It's nice to have someone who actually begs me to sing and play.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoyotesGator
You have a woman who begs? Does she have a sister....or even a Mom???
Yesterday, along with my own amps, a super clean '64 Ampeg Rocket (to compare to my '63 Jet), a Mojotone 6G3 clone and a purple Weber 5F2-A clone with a 10A125 speaker and 15 watt SE output transformer. That thing rocked!!!:yah:
A 1947 Fender Dual Professional and a Clark Tyger.
We're going to need pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Andrade
Fender Forum Rule #1
"...when discussing amplifiers and guitars, poster must supply pictures for the imaginatively challenged."
:ola
I can email them to someone to post. I don't have an online photo account.
Send me a private message and I will respond.
Hey I was just bustin on you a little.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Andrade
I hope I didn't offend you.
That is a really cool piece of history and I would be glad to host a few pics for you.
you can pm me here or at the LPF you don't have PM enabled.
ps how the heck did you get the 2002 join date?
There are photos of the Fender Dual Pro on the Les Paul Forum in the amps section. I also have photos of a 1950 Fender Super and a 1954 Fender Twin. I hope that some of you who are here are also members there.
Regarding the 2002 join date, I joined a number of the forums back then but I don't post too often. Coyotesgator I enjoy your posts. You can PM me if you have any other Q's.
I played through a couple of my amps. I am trying used to the sound of low wattage amps. Amp 1 is Marshall DSL15 head through a 1-12 cab. Amp 2 is Carvin Vintage 16 1-12 open back combo.
Gibson 325 thru 50's 5f2 Fender clone amp with a 10" Jupiter speaker and what a sound..:Banjo:
I played acoustic today- the cabin we're in didn't even have electricity a few years ago.
Here's my current Rig :salud:
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MacBook Pro into Amplitube, into the cheapest 10 watt Lepi stereo system with cheap O crap speakers. It was early AM practice with coffee, far end of the house, doors closed. Actually works well. - -
My Gibson through a fender Princeton clone..
Hot Rod Tweed Super with my Ibanez AF-75 and a new FRV-1 pedal. FUN!
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MB nomad 100watt 1X12.
A good sounding amp, when loud enough to embarrass a 90 pound wrecking hammer.
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GE Smith fat neck Tele w/Onamac NoCasters through a Gibson GA 5. :party:
Fat tone right on the edge of ear bleed! :biglaugh:
My American Strat into a Wampler Dual Fusion, Wampler Faux Tape Delay and into my Marshall DSL-15 and my new '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. Got a very rock-oriented gig Thursday evening and I want to do something with two amps, so I'm trying this pairing up in my studio.
Likey. :headbange
Gettin' the tubes toasty.
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Nice ren, very nice.
How close does the Germino sound to the Vicky when they're WFO?
When they're Women For Oreos? What the hell do you think I'm running here? A snack shop? This ain't that kinda place dude! Oh sure, you bait 'em in with Oreos then make a comment about their teeth and you have your opening line! Like we haven't all used THAT old one before! Sheesh!Quote:
Originally Posted by CoyotesGator
In answer to the amp part, if they are very close together they sound like it. If I separate them say across the room they sound further apart. Dang. You needs to lay offn' the bong a while dude!
Martone tonight!
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Fender Limited Edition Blues Jr in Tweed.
1990 American Vintage 57 Reissue Strat --> GLS Audio cord --> Blues Jr.
My Epi sim hollow through a Roland Blues Cube30...
I used to have a Blues Cube 30. I bought it used for $69 on closeout at GC years ago. It was a really nice sounding amp!Quote:
Originally Posted by melody