Latest gear you've acquired.....

[vvv]

So?

How's it sound?

(Noting that I am once more at the top of the page.)

[kslight]

Can’t upload a potato photo because the board quota has been reached..but got a Friedman JJjr head…pretty neat. I’m just recording it direct but this is an amp that sounds great even without pedals (says the guy with like 40 pedals).

[shedshrine]

Finally got the console of my dreams. — some assembly was required.

Awesome! More impressed with the seventeen foot keyboard to the rightt there. Keying commands would be like playing Twister..

[losthighway]

Fredenstein Bento 8- a 500 chassis.

I've been wanting to expand my 500 series stuff so here's a big rack of empty spaces. I'm thinking Empirical Labs de esser and then maybe some Purple eqs but it takes me so long to afford new gear (and I'm poised to buy a new compressor this month) that I have months, probably years to change my mind.

[digitaldrummer]

be careful. Empty Slot Syndrome can cause a lot of pressure on one's self.

[A.David.MacKinnon]

1930's Oscar Schmidt Stella. It's still got the stickers on the fret board from when it was originally sold as a Hawaiian guitar. I've been buying up old beaters to practice my repair skills. Usually Harmonys and Uniteds. Basically anything cheap that I might like to keep when the repairs are done. This purchase is in the same vein. It's pricier than I'd usually do and likely needs more work than ones I've practiced on so far. Looks super cool though.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

^^^^ Beautiful top on that thing!

My latest very exciting purchase: a bunch of 1' power cables.

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Can’t upload a potato photo because the board quota has been reached..

Go to your profile page, attachments, delete the previous ...

We wanna see the Friedman!


Also, don't feel bad about the 40 pedals - I am sure that with enuff effort you might could catch up to me.

[Scodiddly]

Vintage Vibe replacement amp card for my Wurlitzer 200. Black Friday online sale, finally caved.

Wow! Takes a bit of work to install, especially drilling a hole for the optional effect loop jack. But it sounds great, very quiet. In fact I ended having to do a little voicing work because the uneven notes were about the only problem left.

[CraigS63]

1930's Oscar Schmidt Stella. It's still got the stickers on the fret board from when it was originally sold as a Hawaiian guitar. I've been buying up old beaters to practice my repair skills. Usually Harmonys and Uniteds. Basically anything cheap that I might like to keep when the repairs are done. This purchase is in the same vein. It's pricier than I'd usually do and likely needs more work than ones I've practiced on so far. Looks super cool though.

A Major low bass, it says here. https://www.hawaiiansteel.com/tunings/master.php

[kslight]

Can’t upload a potato photo because the board quota has been reached..

Go to your profile page, attachments, delete the previous ...

We wanna see the Friedman!


Also, don't feel bad about the 40 pedals - I am sure that with enuff effort you might could catch up to me.

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I had one whole photo in my account…then had to compres this into a potato photo…

[vvv]

I used to go see a buddy's band back before the plague and his co-guitarist played one of 'em - don't know the model but it was plexi-sounding into a 4x12 (some custom job). He ran a OCD into it, switched between a Strat and a Les Paul.

He was a DDS, I think ...

And damn did that amp sound good.

EDIT:
To add to that story, he replaced a guitarist played pointy things into a Triple rectumfriar; that guy had the worse sound I ever heard, gaining up the pre 100% with the master at like 9:00 - it was ice-pick city.

And I love those Triples, Otis Rush played those Triples, and he was not no Otis Rush.

[kslight]

I used to go see a buddy's band back before the plague and his co-guitarist played one of 'em - don't know the model but it was plexi-sounding into a 4x12 (some custom job). He ran a OCD into it, switched between a Strat and a Les Paul.

He was a DDS, I think ...

And damn did that amp sound good.

EDIT:
To add to that story, he replaced a guitarist played pointy things into a Triple rectumfriar; that guy had the worse sound I ever heard, gaining up the pre 100% with the master at like 9:00 - it was ice-pick city.

And I love those Triples, Otis Rush played those Triples, and he was not no Otis Rush.

I like that it is simple to dial in, it is all sweet spot. I think the only thing you could do to make it sound less good is dime the presence control, and even that isn’t as bad as most. Some may find it a touch on the dark side on the clean channel, but I guess it depends on what you plug into it, and easily remedied.

I have had a Mesa DC10 in my possession but I always found it too tweaky and always second guessed whether I pulled the best tones out of it. When the previous owner offered to buy it back I let him.

I’ve sometimes recorded Rectumfriers in the studio and they don’t ever work, at least the way that the player has them set up….and we will spend a day going back and forth (especially while we agree on something then as the day goes on the player tweaks it or plugs in a different guitar or the amp shifts tone) trying to make it sound acceptable / a good match to the other guitar player’s 5150 or whatever… before ultimately scrapping it and doing something else. I’m sure there must be some secret trick the real engineers use to make them sound good, but I haven’t unlocked it…and there’s just too much fooling…I don’t like to be the guy that changes the player’s sound, but they also complain when their big money amp has no balls and sounds like angry bees.

[A.David.MacKinnon]

I've never enjoyed amps with "options" The only real options should be louder/quieter (tied to clean/dirty), and brighter/darker. I won't complain if there's reverb and trem but those seem like frills. I've always felt that the more knobs an amp has the worse it will sound.

[vvv]

I'm like that with effects, and even axes, m'self, most of the time.

There's something to be said with limiting options - or at least tweakage - to get moving forward.

On the other hand, the Vox Nightrain - a Chinese-made amp - has two channels with a boost on each, and can go from "Class A" Vox to Fender to Marshall. Two other amps I have that can do that are the Ampeg V60 (Fender to Marshall to Boogie) and the two Tech21 Trademarks (everything). They are all great amps.

But there's something about plugging in the Fender Pro Jr. (my most used amp), or the HRDX or even my Marshall, Orange or Boogie stuff that do their one thing so well ... Perhaps because you plug in and it does that immediately.

My fave guitars are Tele styles, my fave pedals are OD's or Muffs - sompin' said for simple for sho'.