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Posted: 11/28/2006 7:49:20 PM | Been playin 20 years mostly blues and metal/hard rock
Rig is:
Roland JC77
Chandler rack mount tube driver
Ibanez phazer/delay
Axes are:
Ibanez musician
Epiphone Tele
Epiphone Strat
(figured if you are Gibson and your gonna copy don't screw it up. I was right.)
Tele sounds absolutly cracker
Washburn dreadnought Flattop c/w Shadow
Good played though a mixer howles like a banshee through the amp.
Always looking for a gig
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Joined: 3/6/2005
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| The guitar player's thread
Posted: 11/30/2006 4:41:14 AM | A couple of points to share with all you axemen(women) out there.
1) If you are using a combo amp, be careful what you set it on. I was using a custom peavy ampstand for my Line 6 Flextone 3(should have seen this disaster coming). Brushed against the amp during setup at a gig a week back and the amp slid back with it's open back and the back supports of the ampstand went right through both my celestions.
Stephen King take notes(guitarplayers nightmare)
Point #2) Gave me the opportunity however to experiment with some speaker combos(needed to do something immediately as it was a paying gig). Marschall 1960(rental) was the quick fix to get me through the gig(adjustable to 4 - 8 and 16 ohms). Great sounding cab. I'll very seriously consider upgrading to in the future.
I went with a pair of celestion vintage 30's(thanks G-Man for suggestion, I have notes for future considerations).
Tonal characteristics are totally different on the Line 6 now. Heavier drivers give the speakertone more rigidity making the amp sound tighter and snappier. I have consequently rewritten virtually all of my patches to bring down overdrive and presence levels to soften tones. Big workout but I believe my line out tones are a lot more accurate now(corelation of balanced line out comparing to auditory from speaker out which are independant). I'm gigging on Sunday up here in Ottawa at The Rainbow(GrampaPunk). Setting my Line 6 up has been quite the workout but I hope it'll make f.o.h. techs happy.  | |
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Posted: 11/30/2006 4:26:07 PM | Mr X
that is a scary amp stand story YIKES !!!!!
we did a speaker test at my shop
-vintage 30
-weber alinco silver bell
-weber alinco
in same dimension 2X12 cabinets
I own the vintage 30 set they are about 10 yrs old from the england factory
my take on the 3 speakers was that they were all good
for recording I would prefer the webers ....cause they were smoother in the mids
for live, in a loud ssituation probably the vintage 30,they cut more | |
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Posted: 12/4/2006 6:40:50 PM | Favorite gear and amp.....
AMP= Soniccord Toad....go to their site ...soniccord.com....it's a fenominal all tube amp, based on the early Fender Super amps , but it's got this MOOD knob that makes it sound like anything from a Vox AC -30 to a Fender Blackface ALL ANALOG MILITARY SPEC BABY AND FOR UNDER A GRAND!!!!!
Guitar= Les PAUL JR. from the 60's or Fender Tele( american only)
Pedals= Z-vex Z-vex Z-vex if you guys don't know what z-vex is...you are missing out, hands down the best on the market!!! MXR is great too though. | |
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Posted: 12/5/2006 2:01:30 PM | | I absolutely love my black Ibanez GRS 200 bass...never had a bass I've liked more. | |
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Posted: 12/8/2006 1:12:15 PM | | I don't know about the spider series but I have been using a flextone II hd head and it has some good sounds, I am running it through a marshall 4x12 w/ celestions and my main axe has been an ibanez rg with emg's and 10-46's and sounds good. but with my hm strat I use my marshall head. gotta have tube for vintage sounds. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 7:41:25 AM | Les Paul Standard
SG Standard
SG Special
Fender Blues DeVille
Marshall JCM
Peavey ValveKing | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 7:42:28 AM | | Can anybody suggest a Pedal that will make my Fender sound like a Marshall? | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 12:36:23 PM | mark e desade ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
suggestions:
-no digital stuff please
-dod grunge pedal
-boss metalzone
-fulltone ocd
-dod preformer 555
any analog pedal that is more of a 'sizzlly distortion sound'
-put a compressor pedal before the distortion for leads
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Posted: 12/10/2006 11:07:22 AM | | I used to run a marshall shredmaster through a jc-120 and it sounded pretty cool. | |
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Posted: 12/15/2006 11:25:16 AM | Ampeg is my bass amp I use warwick thumb bass. ( AS a slap bass player i need my pickups back away from the neck so i can use my finger styles with out hitting my pickups. as far as lead guitar i use ibanezes and go into a effects board then straight into the sound-system | |
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Posted: 1/1/2007 11:10:44 PM | happy 2007 guitar dudes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
let's bring this thread back and happening again !!!
did you all get girlfriends and quit playing?
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Posted: 1/2/2007 12:04:05 AM | Yep,I got a new girlfriend for christmas.
She's called the Larrivee D-03.
Happy new years everybody. | |
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Posted: 1/2/2007 2:47:21 PM | Happy New Year G'man !
No girlfriend for this ole' stick (tnt) ..... LOL
hey....i getting voice instructions now and also need to find your other threads , about recording and small PA's.
anyway dude, the ppl that post on this thread has shared great info....
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Posted: 1/2/2007 3:57:50 PM | | I play a B.C rich warlock, and lowered the action. It's the best guitar I have had yet. LOVE IT! Nice choice he should love it! | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 3:55:03 AM | | Well, just recently ive decided to learn how to play guitar but im having trouble decideing which guitar I should get since I know close to nothing about one. Im currently going to go to an instructor to try and teach me the chords and notes to atleast get me started. I listen to alot of Korn since its my favorite band. I want to learn to play mostly metal, alternative, and hard rock since thats basically my favorite genres of music. Im trying to figure out if I should start with an acoustic, an electric, or even try to learn bass. Im so confused as to which I need. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2007 4:38:06 PM | Gar Gillies - RIP
I didn't hear about this 'til this evening, he passed away a few weeks ago.
Cancer got him, but he had an 85 year ride.
GarGillies made Garnet amps, and had a repair shop in Winnipeg, I remember hanging out in the early '70s.
He was a cool guy.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/12/29/3058789.html
Some Garnet links:
http://www.garnetamps.com/garnet2.htm
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/garnetAmps.html | |
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Posted: 1/15/2007 10:13:51 PM | ^^^^
Neat stuff...
...talking guitar gear with my dad...telling him about my new SWR/Eden rig....he says...
"never heard of it...whatever happened to Garnet? or Fender?"
...I'd love to get my hands on a vintage Traynor or Garnet...don't make em like they used to...not that I would truely know....YET.... | |
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Posted: 1/16/2007 7:27:10 AM | Vintage Traynors are common in Canada, Garnets not as common, but there's a few around. Old Traynors are probably one of the most over-built amps ever made, most are versions of the old Marshall plexi's, which in turn is a version of the Fender Bassman, which is basically a circuit that Leo took from a Western Electric radio design manual.
Pete Traynor used to "test" his designs by tossing them off the roof of Yorkville Sound in Toronto, ...three stories up.
"That way I knew for sure,'' he says. "If it didn't work when the tubes were replaced, we knew there was something wrong. Amps on stage have to be able to fall that far. I made each one that way."
- Pete Traynor
Garnet amps weren't as bullet-proof, and used true point to point wiring using terminal strips as opposed to turret/eyelet boards, but they were high quality, like the Traynors, Gar only used the best components he could find, and mil-spec, P to P wiring. It's not uncommon to find 30+ year old Traynors and Garnets with all original tubes, still working fine.
He was one of the first to purpose build guitar amps to saturate "early" in terms of volume level.
His most amazing amp was the Herzog, which was purpose designed as a distorion unit to be plugged into another amp (The output transformer had a line-level tap). It was real output saturation distortion too, not bee-buzz/square wave preamp gain. Probably the first true scaleable OT amp ever, and still one of the only ones made.
Guytron makes an amp with a similar design, VERY expensive, Herzogs are rare, and also VERY expensive if you can find one.
On it's own it could still be used with a speaker cab to act as a 4-5 watt class-A recording amp. Almost like a baby AC-30.
If you've heard the Guess Who's "American Woman", then you know what a Herzog sounds like. | |
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Posted: 1/20/2007 7:11:39 AM | had a chance to pick up a Garnet head when i was a kid.
it sat in a pawn shop for years.
had that nice plexiglass front so you could see the tubes.
went in one day to pick up a Morley Wah I had my eye on and both were gone.
they were asking $100 for the Garnet and $40 for the Morley.
also missed an opurtunity to pick up a pristine SG for $325.
got the money, went back, and it was gone... | |
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Posted: 1/20/2007 7:47:21 AM | | Over the years I have owned many different amps and guitars,and I always come back to a strat,Les Paul,As far as amps marshall and fender.Seems to me everything else is a copy of these.I think that an exceptional player can make any guitar and amp sound good.Its alot of fun collecting guitars,specially if you play in open tunings ,you can tune 1 open E ,1 open G another tuned down half a step,and 1 or 2 or 3 or in normal tuning.So its very handy to have them ready to go and not have to mess with tuning.Garnet amps I used to have a couple in the 70 s.Wish I still had em. | |
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Posted: 1/20/2007 1:12:58 PM | welcome dudes !!!!
Yes I hate the stories of 'the gear that got away'
do like me .........Don't sell your cool gear !!!!
Then you have to open a guitar shop like I did.....lol
also I learnt when you see cool gear at the pawn shop put $40 down on it
hold it !!!!
sadly there is not any really great pawnshop stories anymore
here is one........
1995-I goto to a pawn shop see a small tube combo amp
silvertone 1462 (circa 1968?) ---worked perfectly,with virbrato...................
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Posted: 1/22/2007 8:13:54 PM | hi
just found 2 really good bargains on a line 6 300 variax guitar.....and a line 6 podxt live ...what this does is allows me to model the guitar into 25 different types of instrument...fender gibson even one that sounds like a banjo. ALSO the pod xt live allows you to make it sound like its on one of many types of amps and stacks and most effects that are used by pros.......the thing is i managed to get both of them for the cost of one of them!
I really love this thing. As a song writer i need as much stimulation in different directions with a flick of a knob or a touch of a pedal as i can find.....this seems to provide that.....i mean i can sit there playing keith richards sound....with a flib and a stomp.....im playing big and rich or green day.......fantastic .....just thought i would mention it have fun all | |
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