Scott Fraser
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I'm just waiting for someone to authoritatively state that this band exclusively uses Teles & Mosrites into late 60s era solid state Fenders & Standels, and that the tone is all in the fingers.
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13 hours ago, Caevan O’Shite said:
I will go with the 'reverse' control-plate arrangement, Volume - Tone - Switch front to back.
+1, yup, to get your Roy Buchanan on.
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AKG made some pretty decent sounding big, furniture-esque spring reverbs in the 70s. This Days of Yore sounded no better than the short crappy springs I remember from that era, and for anybody willing to drop $3600 on something which sounds like this, I have a Radio Shack cassette machine I will gladly sell you for only $5000.
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5 hours ago, Caevan O’Shite said:
There are also plenty of negative points.
As a now fairly major corprorate conglomerate which has bought up a number of other audio companies, they are in a position where they no longer have to rely on violating patents, i.e. outrightly stealing other people's work. But in a fairly small, tightly knit industry, the legacy of their beginnings, theft and all, remains firmly attached to them.
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2 hours ago, surfergirl said:
I just ordered this Yamaha DBR10 from Sweetwater. Sweetwater has it on sale for $319.99, regular $399.99. It only has 2 mic inputs, but a hosa splitter is $15. It Weighs 23lbs, and I hope it will fit in a suitcase. I'm having it sent to my father, free shipping, I'll pick it up this summer.
Actually, if I'm reading the label correctly, it has one mic input. Channel 2 is labeled as "Line". How does a splitter help you with this? Were you thinking of a Y cable, to Y two mics together into one input? This can work if you have two of the same model mics, otherwise balancing them becomes a real wrestling match.
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I think the guitar chooses the player.
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Wish I'd known a couple weeks ago. My GF just sent a functioning MacBook Pro to landfill because she couldn't afford the time to try to sell it. I would have gladly sent it off to Silver Springs, MD.
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Always ALWAYS loved Atom Heart Mother. Critics and Pink Floyd themselves seemed to think it wasn't really a successful effort, but for me it ticked all the boxes; orchestral pomp, some very cool electronics, sound design, expansive structure, an imaginative sonic journey, and PF's distinctly English bluesy funk rock. It's a perfect piece.
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WARM Audio is in the biz of cloning successful vintage products. They started with clones of Neumann mics. They strike me as the somewhat less dishonest Chinese version of Behringer, since they make it very clear what product they are 'paying tribute to'. I have no interest in their product line since I have originals of all those Neumann mics & UREI compressors, but discontinued effects are a little different. I'm still rocking my original Maestro Music Modulator, Tom Oberheim's first product, which is a lovely analog ring modulator from the late 60s/early 70s. But it lacks the LFO & voltage control of the Moog ring modulator, which is mighty appealing.
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Yep, I was a Boy Scout once, and for those who weren't, the Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared". I also did a gig at my high school where the guitarist's cable (we all used those coil cords back then) went out at the top of the intro to the first tune. No sound, no gig. Since then (it's been about 55 years since then,) I always carry spare cables, but it never occurred to me to double up on power supplies.
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6 hours ago, surfergirl said:
I think it's the tradition of slack key and surfing.
I'm a HUGE fan of slack key. So glad it's still going strong there.
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9 hours ago, Winston Psmith said:
Like I said, it's a quandary, not a crisis,
Now you're making me nervous about not having a backup for my One Spot. OK, let this be a warning to me.
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Check in with Gretsch-Talk.com. It's the most authoritative Gretsch forum & a cool place to hang out. There are definitely people there who can decipher the CYGC part of the serial number. My very informal guess is that it was built in China, in a series made specifically to be marketed through Guitar Center, but don't take my word for it. Check with the Gretsch-Talk guys. As to the model number, the 5600 models are Electromatics, which are to Gretsch as Squire is to Fender & Epiphone is to Gibson. I.e. very high quality but not as expensive as the top line series, which are the 6000 models. A xx22 is a double cutaway, & the T indicates a Bigsby "trem". Enjoy your new Gretsch. At last count I think I have 8 Gretsches here & I love 'em. Great guitars.
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Pretty much the same level of irrelevance as the Rolling Stone 250 Greatest Guitarists list.
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I was already a fan, but the Ed Sullivan performance just cemented it, & it changed my life. It was like a tsunami, and I knew from then that I wanted a life in music.
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1 hour ago, Winston Psmith said:
I recall a perfectly absurd photo of the 1st President Bush pretending to play a cheap Epiphone Guitar, with "The Prez" badly painted on the front.
Challenging levels of absurdity (as well as perceptions of competency,) on my Facebook page I have a pic of Brit ex-PM Boris Johnson with a guitar strapped on, confidently gripping the neck behind a capo.
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1 hour ago, Winston Psmith said:
Respectfully, with regard to @Larryz's observation that most other Instruments don't sound their best when run through Guitar pedals - dynamics, gain structure, and frequency response have a lot to do with it - Jean-Luc Ponty was able to conjure heavenly sounds, running an Electric Violin through a Phaser, and Eddie Harris did some beautiful things running his Sax through an Echoplex. Exceptions that prove the rule, perhaps?
One of the things which distinguishes the Kronos Quartet (whose concerts & records I mix,) from all other "classical" string quartets is their willingness to explore non-conventional timbres. I have run them all through Tube Screamers, octave dividers, chorus/phasers, lots of delays, & my personal fave, the Leslie simulation. We're now doing all our effects in software, but we started out with pedals & rack units. Violins especially take to distortion very well.
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Nice flick. We saw it whan it came out. Nicely done. Kinda choked up when we realized the recluse he visits at the end of the tiny village road was John.
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Not the best of years, not the worst of years. Mostly just more of the same. My main gig, mixing for Kronos Quartet, continues & we had a sold out night at Carnegie Hall a couple months back, as well as finishing mixing a new album last week. Not looking to retire any time soon as I march on into my 70s. Oh, I picked up the guitar from time to time, but mostly too busy. I tell myself I will apply myself to playing more next year.
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Long ago I read that Robbie Basho would rub his fingers on the bridge of his nose before going on stage. That has worked fine for me for the last 40 or more years. After seeing Jeff Beck dip his hands in talc I tried that. Didn't really do anything for me.
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Ring modulation has been my primary sonic destroyer since I got my first one in about 1971. The Maestro Ring Modulator, designed & built by Tom Oberheim. And though we're talking in terms that would suggest noisy ugliness, I find the results really beautiful. It just takes us out of the realm of clearly defined pitches into textures where the harmonics don't align with the overtone series, which is what a lot of percussion instruments are all about too.
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A 60's era Teisco. The video is dreadful. I hope she gets back to doing what she's really good at.
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Pivot to Caevan for the details . . .
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I also bought an E Bow at NAMM, when they first came out.
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Prepare to have your mind Belewned!
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Having seen the Discipline era King Crimson many times you can bet this will be on my radar.