Scott Fraser

It's a Deluxe Electric Mistress with a new name.

If Carl had never done anything other than sing "God Only Knows" he would still deserve a place in the Hall of Fame. The most perfect vocal performance ever.

This is all the evidence one needs to prove that the Beach Boys without Brian's writing are nothing. Cantankerous? I believe Mike Love had been in a neck & neck competition with David Crosby to determine who was actually the biggest @sshole in the music biz.

Perhaps an emphasis on carrying products from the "Cool New Effects" thread which generate interest via a lively conversation.

Yes, I changed out the cable connecting my compressor to my rack preamp & cleaned up a bunch of hum. Clearly it was not shielding properly. Do not buy balanced cables. The benefit of a balanced circuit requires at least a balanced output & preferably going into a balanced input. A guitar is unbalanced, pedals are unbalanced, amps are unbalanced. It won't work, zero benefit in your case. As others have said, change one thing at a time to find the offending link in the chain. Are your humbuckers tapped or switched into single coil mode? Is the bridge ground wire unconnected? Does another humbucker equipped guitar plugged into your rig sound as noisy? Does the noise go away when you roll down the guitar's volume control? Is the noise only half as loud when you swivel 90 degrees & face the wall to your right or left? Is there a computer monitor within a few feet of the guitar? Are there flourescent light fixtures (including CFLs) in the room? Is all your sound gear plugged into the same circuit? Are your electrical outlets grounded? Have you tried a ground lift plug on your sound gear?

I reduced an objectionable amount of hum in my rig just by replacing a George L cable with one I soldered up myself.

Ah, yes, North Korea, a country so hysterically clueless to the notion of irony that they put forth their version of Queen's drag show piece, all while desperately attempting to prove that Soviet era military fashion puffery never went out of style. To which I would counter with what you get when irony is a finely tuned art:

Exactly what I was thinking. I'd want a wee bit of chorusing. Besides, how far apart would any two identical strings be?

I had some of their PA speakers & monitors, and snakes over the years. It was good, well built, middle of the road gear. Not high end, not cheap crap either. I no longer own PA equipment so I don't keep up with them as a sound system company. My understanding is that after the company founder died, ownership passed to the two sons. One was more interested in guitars, the other in amps, electronics & speakers. So they split the company into Kiesel, maker of custom shop instruments, & Carvin, maker of amps & PA equipment. It's a real shame to hear about customer service problems at a formerly fine family owned non-corporate USA maker of music tools. Such a pity. I hope this was just an isolated incident of an employee having a bad day.

And if you find they haven't issued you the refund you can take it up with your credit card company to rescind your payment. That can also take a long time, but they will go to bat for you & they have a lot more clout than Kiesel. Best wishes for a good outcome.

We're just waiting for it. Southern California dodged a bullet the last few years, but I've no doubt the big fires will be back with a vengeance here.

Mentioned in this forum because of his love for Hawaiian slack key guitar & support for many of the lesser known slack key players. I wasn't really a fan of George Winston’s music, but I worked with him as sound engineer a number of times at Royce Hall, the performing arts center at UCLA, and he was a very good, decent human being. My jazz buddies mocked him, but I had a lot of respect for his integrity & commitment to his music. He had much wider interests than just the new age stuff he was popular for. After each gig he would stay at the hall & practice all night until morning, working on what he wanted to play the next day. A serious artist in a genre which I usually associate with people who take the easy way out musically. He had a whole lot more harmonic sophistication in his music than 99% of those who populate the new age ranks. He was a huge fan of Professor Longhair & always threw some New Orleans stride tunes into his gigs. Plus he was a very accomplished harmonica & Hawaiian slack key guitarist. Sorry to hear of his passing, he was a good man.

Neologism of the week.

Total dealbreaker for me. I'm currently using three DOD 12 second delays from the 90s, and wouldn't mind even longer delay times. Roland's new pedal version of the rackmount SDE3000 maxes out, just like the original, at a mere 3 seconds. Modern technology can do better.

I just had my MacBookPro go into thermal shutdown at the Womadelaide Festival in Australia last month, about 2/3rds of the way through our set, after sitting in direct sun for maybe half an hour. So, no signal passes through the interface, meaning no effects, no playback, no response to keyboard commands, nada. Not my favorite gig day.

Yup. Roy Buchanan was someone who liked to play a Twin cranked to 10. The pics I've seen of his band set up show the Twin stashed behind the Leslie, facing away from everybody.

Wacky 60s modernism. Kinda looks like something Wandre would have produced, but apparently Eastwood modeled it after a Teisco. https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/msg/d/north-hollywood-rare-mint-eastwood/7610951889.html

Yup. I still have a 7" vinyl of "Surfin' USA" which I played a million times when I was about 12.

My girlfriend and I tuned in in time to hear Brandi Carlisle & John Legend do "God Only Knows". We both looked at each other and said "No, I want to hear Carl Wilson sing that one. You can't improve on perfection." So that's as far as we got before going to YouTube to hear the original.

Yes, like studio level signal to noise ratio, pretty much no noise at all. Many years ago a client brought in a Dimension C pedal to my studio to use on the mixes of his hammered dulcimer. I plugged it in & it was so quiet I thought I had mispatched, but no, there it was, adding wonderful texture to the dulcimer without making it sound like a cliche.

I have a Boss DC2 Dimension Chorus pedal, the one with 4 presets on radio buttons, based on the somewhat legendary Dimension D rack unit which was an 80's studio staple. It's pretty subtle on the lowest buitton, just a gentle thickening without an obvious up/down sweep. It's also about 20 dB quieter than any other modulation pedals I've owned. The simplistic LFO sweep is what I mainly hate about most phaser/flanger/chorus pedals. The Dimension chorus is the only modulation I use anymore, other than a Leslie built into my rack units.

Score!

I thought they were discontinued, (and Caevan bought the last new one.) You found a used one?

I get that. A friend gave me his Small Stone maybe 40 years ago & it has never made it into my rig at any point since. OTOH another friend loaned me his MXR Phase 100 & it was on everything I did until I had to give it back. I have a Phase 45 which still gets occasional use. Much more subtle than the Small Stone.

Great pickups, body shape & size which is only going to work for some people. Provenance on an instrument which Berry didn't own, but played once for half a set strikes me as a bit spurious.