tour preview + amp test
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2024
- A video preview of an upcoming tour by Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors, plus a quick test of the three old tube amps I'll be bringing with me: a 1958 Premier Twin-8, a 1952 Masco MU-5, and an early 60s Kay 703. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica.
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Welcome from the Yorkshire UK
I love the little smile spread over your face as you remember just how good this little guys are
Thanks Dr and have a great tour
Your whole ethos is sohhh cool.
I love hearing you play.
Thank you .
Pete
It’s absolutely incredible how much better small vintage tube amps sound !
Thanks for posting. Like to see you near Tampa some time. That premier sure is nice.
Harp sounds really smooth.
❤
Great stuff Adam!
Bro I watched your videos for months back in the day! I'm really happy you're still making awesome content!!!
Got a Premier Twin 8 with matching 1X12 cabinet back in the early 80s and have held onto it for its amazing tone.
Great timing to see this video come in! I was just practicing your crossroad blues 💙 and this is great, love your sound thank you so much.
And congratulations!
Adams cross roads is an amazing peice!
I will definitely be playing that live during this tour.
That's pretty cool your revisiting the places you played with Mr McGhee but now with his nephew! Awesome 👌
Greetings from Mexico Mr. Gussow 👋😎 Thank you for sharing your knowledge to people like me! Hope I can make you a donation soon.
brilliant THANKS adam
Wonderfully👍👍👍
Sitting in Rehab in Indianapolis. Five months clean from meth and heroin. Can't afford a marine band, just the cheap harp and your vids are a key element in my sobriety. Real talk. Whenever I can afford a higher end harp, I'll be posting progress videos of my own with links to yours
That comment means a lot to me. One day at a time. There's a lot more life to come.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 thank you. I actually am going to get a blues harp tomorrow. Would go for a marine band as I like the sound but being new I figure blues harp be easier to clean, or is it that big a factor?
Adam, why have you replaced your Boss dd-2 (or dd-3) delay with the Mxr Carbon Copy? Thanks, Eric.
Hey Adam thanks for sharing. Whats happened to the HG2?
I still have it. When I do fly-in gigs, I bring it along. It's a little too loud and aggressive, believe it or not, for what I'm doing now. Great amp, though.
Gussow,,What tubes are you using in each of the apps? I skipped ahead to 6:43
I don't know--except I know that I've got a GE NOS 6L6GC power tube in the Premier.
Question about the MXR delay: so it sounds like there’s a perfect amount of reverb built into that delay… Or is that bit of reverb coming from the amps?
Also do you sometimes change the setting of the delay based on the groove of a particular number?
Good questions. First, all of the reverb/delay sound you hear is produced by that pedal. Secondly, although I like the delay settings I used in this video, I slightly altered the settings later and got an even better sound. (I lowered the gain of the delay sound and slightly increased the number of repeats.) Third: no, once I get a sound I like, I leave it there for the duration of the gig. But there are two exceptions to this. There's at least one song, "Thunky Fing," where I crank the delay up for a much wetter sound. Also, when I use the Premier or another "large" amp (compared with the Kay & Masco), I need to increase the amount of delay slightly because I'm not running the amp quite as wide open as the smaller amps. The point is, getting the delay right is an art, not a science, and it takes good ears and some experimenting.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 Fantastic, thank you so much. It’s a beautiful sounding pedal then and sure does complement the sound you’re getting with those amps and from yourself.
Greatly appreciated! That really clarifies things for me. I think I’m going to be getting one, even though I don’t have an ideal amp yet for that aspect of the equation.
Are blues always played with this type of Amps?
They fill the atmosphere. The amps of stage shows of the likes of Tooots Thielman delivers the sound of harmonica 'as it is' , I feel. What are your views about this question?
Most blues harmonica players who play with bands use these sorts of amps--although they often use larger old tube amps, like Fender Bassmans. Toots is a jazz player. Most jazz players do NOT use these sorts of amps, but instead play through a vocal mic and the PA system.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 thanks Adam.
Is your Kay 703 amp all original?
If not,What speaker is in it?
What tubes?
It's not quite original. An amp tech in Minnesota named Brian Amundson has worked on it twice. The tube are NOS, whatever the original schematic had. He put in a grounded power cable so I don't get electrocuted. A new cap or two. Original transformers and speaker. The speaker is pretty ragged. It's an amazing little amp; I use it on almost every gig. When playing through a PA, I mic it with a Sennheiser e906, which costs about $200 and which brings out a full, rich sound.
When are you guys going to play Atlanta?
No plans right now, but since Rod lives there (Livonia, actually), it's sure to happen.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 Thanks Adam-have a great tour.
Hi, its tube amps? Or solid state?
tube he said it in the video btw
All of them are tube amps, and all of them date from roughly the period when I was born (1958).
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 BTW, they looks rare, did you service tubes?