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Posted: 1/3/2005 5:16:34 PM | ^^^^ your making me tickel..stop it ! lol ^^^
i will deffintley be on the look out for one of these.. thanks again for the great advise. | |
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Posted: 1/3/2005 7:23:30 PM | OK folks so like I take it this is the place for people who play guitar....
So my daughter wants a guitar, she is 14 and I am thinking not such a bad idea for her
to put her energy into something like this...
RECOMMENDATIONS please....
not sure what brand,
what all do I have to buy....
I bought a Victory Bass back in 1994, ended up giving it to my best friend, cause I couldnt play it, and didnt have the time to learn.....So I totally threw away $378.00 on that....
Now she is serious, about wanting to learn, and if she is I want to get her the proper equipment...How much am I looking at spending here????? | |
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Posted: 1/3/2005 8:33:37 PM | @ 2kewt
many of the guitar center stores have great biginner packs
I would start there
also figure out acoustic or electric | |
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Posted: 1/3/2005 9:33:21 PM | | Also check out www.musiciansfriend.com,,,,I think an Epiphone Les Paul jr. package is right around $200--includes amp & accessories,,,sure it's a cheapy but if the kid doesn't pursue it, then no huge loss. I've played around a little with an Epiphone LP jr. and it seemed ok to me-I mean, the guitar itself is only about $100, so it's pretty basic. Bought my daughter a 3/4 size Yamaha acoustic for $110--has a surprisingly sweet tone. | |
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Posted: 1/5/2005 11:26:40 AM | Well I've been a heavy metal guitar player for about 9 years or so. I myself LOVE music gear man, just wish there was a better music store in my town, but most of my gear has come from ebay.
Guitar:
Washburn Dimebag 3ST American made.
Pickups: Emg 81, Duncan 59
Bridge: Schaller floyd rose
Tuners: Grover 18:1
I love this guitar, ebony fretboard and all. And I highly suggest the Buzz Feiten tuning system you will not be disappointed!
Preamp:
Rocktron Prophesy
Poweramp:
Marshall EL34 100/100 Dual Mono Bloc
My favorite amp to date, 12 tubes of glowing goodness.
Speaker Cabs:
Peavey 4x12 with sorta good peavey speakers
Hiwatt 4x12 with fane speakers | |
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Posted: 1/5/2005 6:04:26 PM | warvamp3...welcome... very nice set up. " 12 tubes of glowing goodness."
LOL~~ that was funny.
@guitarman.. I think i found the nich on that tube screemer. wha wha then the tube screemer right at the end of the line. I really liked the sound it made. but i do need that filter you mentiond.. | |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:35:20 PM | | Thanks jimi77, I have tried so many different combinations of gear and read way too many articles on gear and who uses what and so on trying to find a tone and distortion that i liked...but I must say i am really happy with my setup as costly as it was to achieve. | |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:40:46 PM | I play bass, theres a picture of me from haloween in my profile.
I have a Yamaha BB405 5 string with humbucker pickuos and a wine red finish.
My amp is a Peavey TNT 115 160 watt monster with an equalizer and fx loop.
Wahooo! | |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 6:32:54 PM | Cerberust cool stuff..welcome.
warvamp3 sometimes you have got to pay the price for a good sound. guitarman has been giving me some tips on good gear to get.. he has not been wronge yet. costing me a few coins.. but l love the sound. still some of the simple things i still love to use. i got an old digitec rp 2000.. and i love to use that thing.. and when i go to peoples houses i take that because it has so much on it. everyone loves it that hears it.. but the real deal is a dont feel like lugging 3 or 4 pedels and all the stuff that goes with them..for a few hours of play. | |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 9:37:11 PM | I don't want to go off topic here, but I was just curious as to what songs everyone is currently working on?
I went on a christmas kick a while back personally, and I learned a whole bunch of fingerstyle x-mas songs, which my family really enjoyed....Knucklebenders though..lol
Since I'm off work for a little while with time my hands and still on an accoustic kick, I learned a real cool fingerstyle version of "In the Mood" by Glen Miller, brushed up on Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again", and currently working on a solo accoustic version of Led Zeppelin's "Going to California"..
Anyways, have to keep busy with time off...Thank god for hobbies like this!
Just curious about other guitar players current noodling projects. | |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 10:58:02 PM | been working on one song by trans siberian O.. i dont know the name of it becasue my lil bro burned me the CD but did not put names on it.. but is goes like this.. de de de de da da da de de de de de. LOL.
also was playing some white snake -slow and easy
and fiddling arond with the cd player letting songs play in shuffle and trying to play them off the top of my head.
@ 2kewt 2bgood. buy something decent. you can get a decent guitar pretty chep now days.. but if you buy a junk one she might become frustrated & lose intrest | |
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Posted: 1/8/2005 3:23:43 AM | I should be learning tunes
But I have been putting all my time into building guitars lately | |
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Posted: 1/9/2005 4:36:53 PM | Hmmmmm..... been playing for 35+ years.
Guitars:
'59 Fender Strat w/MIJ RI neck (left handed)
Mid 90's Fender Strat MIJ '62 RI (Lace Gold/GK-2A)
'67 Yamaha AE 11, Archtop hollow jazbox strung w/ .012 to .056 Flatwounds
'79 Yamaha SA 800, .......think dot neck 335 (GK-3 installed)
Late 40's Harmony lapsteel (MOTS)
'90's Danelectro 56-U2 for slide (open "A")
'74 Gibson SG
'04 JT-RES solid-body resonator for slide (open "G")
Custom made fretless "Jazz" bass (Brazilan rosewood/zebrawood/ebony)
'60 Martin D-18 w/ Sunrise and Baggs pups installed (borrowed)
I don't collect 'em, I play 'em........
Amps:
'69 Ampeg V4 (chopped VT-22)
'72 Ampeg V4 (chopped VT-22)
'78 Ampeg V4
70's Ampeg V4 4 X 12 cab, eminence (alpha) loaded
70's Ampeg "style" 2 X 12 cab, sealed w/ Altec 417H X 2
70's Ampeg SVT cab (chopped 4 X 10")
70's Ampeg V4b "style" cab (single EVM15 SRO, bass reflex)
'67 Fender Vibrolux Reverb (w/Weber Cali's)
'68 Fender Delux Reverb (w/Jensen C12K)
60's Gibson GA-15 RVT (my main recording amp) w/Weber C10Q
60's Kalamazoo Reverb 12
Several "Flint Amplification" prototypes (all low power Class "A" combos)
Various 1 X 10" and 1 X 12" cabs.......
All tube, all the time.... I've had at least one ampeg V4/VT-22 around since the mid 70's. I fix all my own stuff guitars and amps and help in designing prototype amps. I leave the digital stuff for those with the patience for it.
I do NOT like "bee-buzz" high gain amps or anything with ribbon cable or molex connectors in it.
Pedalboard (when needed)
TU-12, Boss Blues Driver, Boss Overdrive, Ibanez Bi-mode Chorus, Boss Analog Delay, Ernie Ball Stereo/Pan V. pedal.
Other:
VOX wah
Roland GR-30 (with Roland expression and stereo V. pedals)
Roland JV-35
Hammond M-111 (my baby B3)
Dean type "A" mandolin (w piezo bridge)
Some of this stuff -
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Pictures/woodshed.jpg
more guitar porn -
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Pictures/DCP_835.jpg | |
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Posted: 1/9/2005 7:17:24 PM | | WOW nice gear!! you and guitarman are like soul mates. LOL! welcome to the forms lateforsupper. | |
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Posted: 1/9/2005 7:40:32 PM | | I’ve got a Gibson Les Paul Custom electric, and a Martin D35 acoustic. But the one I play most, the one that’s on my lap as I type, is a $100 Samick classical. A fraction of the cost of the others, but d*mn it’s fun to play. | |
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Posted: 1/9/2005 8:38:58 PM | -WOW nice gear!! you and guitarman are like soul mates. LOL!
Hmmmmm.... wrong plumbing and no tits.
- welcome to the forms lateforsupper.
Thanks, here's some more equipment porn (Lot's of Rupert Neve type discreet recording stuff.....).
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/RENEGADE/PhotoAlbum62.html | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 3:51:09 AM | welcome lateforsupper
yes you have some cool gear
nice funky vintage stuff.............cool pieces you would certainly call keepers | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 4:00:18 AM | yes lateforsupper
wrong plumbing for sure fellow Canadian
but Is that your studio in the pics?
@all guitar dudes
check out the pics from lateforsupper(some nice studio gear here folks ........the kinda stuff you only collect over decades of playing guitar and recording)
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/RENEGADE/PhotoAlbum62.html | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 6:16:35 AM |
Is that your studio in the pics?
Nope, it's part of Renegade Music, where I work as a studio musician/arranger/asst.producer. My own home studio is far more modest -
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Pictures/office.jpg
Most of what makes mine usable is the snake to the basement, that's where the cabs and mics are, the heads are in the control room with me. Unfortunately I have to borrow mics and pre's to make anything sound half decent.
The Studio-On-The-Lake has 100% discreet analog front end, about $175K worth, 90% hand made (lot's of custum built mics too), the mixing desk alone was built for $45K, the guy did it for us @ cost ..not the kind of stuff you can buy in stores. You can push so much bandwidth through the front end you don't have(want) to EQ a thing, no reverb, no comp ........ so much signal you barely have to tweak anything at mastering. Once you hear it, you swear off digital (front end) gear for life!
Heh heh, ......you EQ a track at this place by moving the mics........ | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 6:59:16 AM | Another tip:
Microphone diaphrams are verrrrry sensitive, ...... if you're going for a "huge" "crunch" tone, you'll get a bigger sound if you use a dimed 10 watt amp like Gibson and the Tweed Deluxe in that picture, than you would with a full or half stack 50 or 100 watter. It's simple, too much SPL bends and warps the mic diaphram, since a 10 watt amp can achieve output saturation at far lower SPL, you can get more signal IN without overpowering the mic.
Most people don't realize that 50 watts is only 3db lower than 100, to bring things down to "percieved" half power from a 100 watt amp, you gotta' go down to 10 watts.
The prototype amps I'm working on now are between 1 and 3 watts, still loud enough to disturb apartment neighbours when dimed, 100db @ 1m "A" weighted.
You can't reproduce this sound with gain stages or master volumes, it just not the same as what happens between the tube finals and the output transformer under clipping, ahhhhhh the sweet spot!
For example, we recorded the guitars on this amp demo track using only a 1.3 watt amp (Flint "L'il Punch" prototype I), 2 X 12" Altec 417H loaded cab, two SM82 mics straight into a PC sound card, no EQ, no Comp, no Verb, NO FX, period, ........same set-up for my fretless except I drove the cab with a V4, I played the drums on my amp tech's Roland V-Drums.
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Music/Escape_from_Planet_Jarl.mp3
.........yeah, it's kinda' supposed to be a lame tune, it was done as a usenet prank, but it illustrates what you can do with a 1.3 watt tube amp. 4 years later, The "L'il Punch" is now at prototype VI stage, if we ever get enough $ together, we'll be doing a run of 25 hand wired amps.
Look ma! no pedals!!!!!!
Here's the other cheesy demo we did that afternoon, I added a little "Hammond organ" part with a GR-30.
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Music/Jivin'_the_Five.mp3
tempo and meter courtesy of Jose Quevero, no salt, no lime.......... | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 11:55:32 AM | dude^ you are a dude
that is awesome
a studio dude...........did rush record there in the early 80's? | |
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Posted: 1/10/2005 12:43:10 PM | Nawwww that wasn't recorded in a studio, it was recorded in a kitchen in Montreal at the house of the guy that builds the amps, ......gotta' picture somewhere,
http://homepage.mac.com/ewald/.Pictures/July-2001.jpg
I was kinda' drunk, not my best work......... especially trying to write tunes that would come in under 35 seconds, LOL! | |
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