Guitar Gear Talk: The Best Gear You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2018
- In this episode Rhett, Dave and I discuss our favorite obscure or sleeper guitar gear that we have used over the years. We are talking about guitars, amps and pedals.
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Suggestion: when talking about gear, please DEMO it. A sound clip is worth a thousand words! (Even splice them in later if it's not convenient during the podcast.)
axe2grind911a Great idea!
Fully agree, almost pointless without the noise
Fix ya podcast
Agreed, these sitting down just talking videos are great if you’re just listening, but not fun to watch so much.
I know this comment is old, but I disagree. Demo's are largely useless because there are just too many factors. Between UA-cam compression, mic choice and placement, individual differences in instruments, and what ever post processing is done its near impossible to figure out what a piece of gear actually sounds like. If they say it's good you're just going to have to take their word for it with or without the demo so It just comes down to whether or not you trust the person talking about the gear.
The more I watch Rick the more I love him. He's a bonafide musician and production genius but still asks great questions of other musicians every chance he gets. I'm in the UK but he's like a more enthusiastic Jools Holland. Would actually love to see them interview each other 😂
Dave, if you're gonna put things in layman's terms, two minutes in, you're really gonna have to lower your sights as to what a layman is. Brilliant as always.
Dave is insanely knowledgeable!
How many musicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? ... Three: one to screw it in and the others to exclaim about how the old bulb had such great color and tone.
Sorry 'bout that... just had to use that old joke. It was a good show tripping, down memory lane.
The joke is more like "the others talk about how they could do it better" meaning guitar players talk more than they play or know how to play.
SPNKr ... that's the other answer to the same joke.
It's the much more common and older one, I never have seen the one you made up or used. I was only saying - but also have forgotten my point lol.
SPNKr
The one version was rock musicians, the other was blues musicians.
That's a good one!! gearslutz is full of those types
I am so happy right now - how great to hear unbiased well informed passion about gear!!
I love these videos I learn so much from it! Lots of knowledge and experience between the 3 of you! Keep these in the UA-cam archive forever!!
Hell yes Gibson Skylark!!! Me and my 3 friends each have one. Hooked them all up to do wet/dry/wet for an enormous sound on recording.
This is one of my favorite videos you've ever done. I would listen to six hours of this.
Damn, this channel is so full of a variety of knowledgeable insight. Thanks again Rick and everyone involved.
My desert island amp is my 1994 Matchless HC30. I tend to play with a clean tone, tele or an old p90 goldtop, it's hard to describe how musical the tone of that amp is.
For a sleeper the 1958ish Gibson GA 6 is killer!
Love this channel! It does look like Dave is full up on Facebook friends.
I'm slowly realizing how much the "old" gear I sold over the years is worth now. I could just cry sometimes lol.
Yeah, I kick myself about selling my Roland Space Echo. The most incredible toy ever invented.
My first real guitar was a 60's Epi Casino. Bought it in the mid 70's. It had chrome covered P-90s. The covers were tarnished to the point that they didn't shine any longer. When I got it, it had flat-wound strings on it. I traded it for a 78 SG, Norlin-era. Many years later, I reflected back on that guitar. At the time, I was a kid and had no idea what it was. Just that it was an Epiphone hollow body that was, "worn out". It sounded great! Played good. But, I was a kid and a big, jazzy hollow body wasn't cool. Looking back, I realize I had a classic!
I refuse to get rid of almost any of my gear anymore. My fiance is going to murder me. I have an entire room full of guitars and amps and she wants it all to go to storage or for me to start selling off some stuff. I don't know how to break it to her.
whether it be sentimental value or something that I still play quite a bit, I have a mast quite a bit and I don't want to get rid of anything because I know someday it will all probably be worth something if I keep it in good shape.
I used to own a 1966 Silvertone branded H78 (same model as Black Keys guitar). It was in absolutely spotless condition, I paid $500 for it. I’ve yet to play another guitar that sounds quite like it. Loved it. An ex kept it after a nasty breakup and wouldn’t give it back, and I was on tour (for years) so I couldn’t fight it legally. And she would’ve literally cut me if I went there (which would’ve probably been worth it, but worry more about cops and lies, etc 🙃). I miss it. Bought it before Black Keys were a thing. Probably pricey as hell now
Michael Magee they are amazing. Original units just add this really musical warmth and murkiness too, even without the delay cranked
I recently dig out of my garage a Audio Guild Bonham double bass amplifier, a friend gave it to me years ago, it never really worked for bass but after 20 years I tried plugging in my Telecaster and sounds amazing!
Just stumbled across the channel... love these guys hanging out talking shop. My friends and I can spend hours having similar conversations. Only difference I haven’t had the privilege of owning a fraction of the gear.
Great talk. I have a Traynor Custom Valve 50 Blue 1x12. Such a good amp. Great clean channel that takes pedals great. Great crunch channel with a boost to get you into some high gain. Great master volume. Such a good amp. I'll always keep it.
My 1959 Gibson Century Amp! 6v6 12.5 watts, 12" jenson, tremolo on 2nd channel with 5879 tube. Gold diamond tolex. Holy tone machine! 1984 MIJ Squire w/ maple neck! Great vid thanks for sharing.
I loved the content of your sleeper gear(s).There's alot times I keep googling gear & found stuff out!! The Blues Junior!! I'm looking for one as I'm writing this!
Rick this is the "Winning Formula" a couple of great buddies talking gear & the passion is so genuine actually the reason IMO these videos are very successful is because of Daves participation, Dave obviously has the knowledge (street cred) but is an unknown in the UA-cam guitar genre, therefore,. creates a curiosity Rhet is rapidly rising within the YT community & notoriety! & your channel has proven success. The three perspectives just work, I really enjoy watching! cheers!
Riff Raff is one of my favorite podcasts. Great shirt man!
This is my favorite discussion video you have ever done. Nerd heaven.
Rhett! I completely agree with you about the p90 pickups! Absolutely correct about the tone of those compared to singles and HB's.
One of my favorite pedals was passed down to me from my father's guitar days. It's a tube pre amp overdrive from Westbury. Hard wired power cord so it can run real voltage across the 12ax7. Sounds fantastic! The rackmount Zoom 9150 didn't have quite as many bells and whistles as the Digitech gsp2101 of it's day, but it has some great stereo effects and good 12ax7 gain stages.
Great stuff guys!
Been a fan of those old Gibson amps since childhood.
Really enjoy making amps from old tube gear... Projector amps, suitcase turntables, have an old US Army suitcase tube P.A. amp that is low watt, and sounds great for some things.
Some of the little turntable amps can get ferocious distortion, and nasty sag when cranked to 11.
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE VIDEOS, RICK!
Well, I think some gear I absolutely loved using was a Lexicon PCM 81 multi-effect rack. I enjoyed this rack for its ability to create a very convincing doppler effect of a signal changing pitch over two amps. I used to run a Boss Metal zone up front and would tweek the pitch controls to get a really interesting almost violin sound out of my guitar using other patches. The controls on the PCM 81 were pretty easy to get used to and provided tons of flexability in sound design without having to do too much deep layer tweeking. Add to the above a beringer Virtualizer rack which had this really interesting reverb patch that I used to just love. And with a BBE 882I Sonic Maximizer to clean things up in the fx loops of a Carvin Legacy and a Carvin V3, I was always more than satisfied with the sound quality I was getting.
I'm so glad I kept my Mu-Tron Bi-Phase, although it's HUGE and doesn't fit on any pedalboard nowadays, but man...what a sound! The best phaser ever built IMHO...
The magic in my signal chain for years has always been my BOSS CS-2 compression pedal I purchased way back in 1983.
Shawn Lane used Westbury W-20 " The Tube" overdrive/ preamp pedal.I have one..its over 40 years old. It has one of the sweetest tones ever. You can hear it on all of Shawn's early stuff and Powers of Ten album. Great find if you can locate one.
Fantastic episode. Love this channel.
Absolutely love my EHX MiG50 reissue! What a great pedal platform. Bright channel is my favorite and channel one is supa fat! Love it!!!
Sleeper amp: Gene Lies Stereophonic. Built quite literally in a Kansas barn, this thing is a 60 pound cube with a volume knob, an on/off switch, and a noise gate that never worked. Basically a Plush circuit, which also is worth having, but the Gene Lies had six speakers. Two tweeters, two woofers, and two slightly larger woofers pulled from stereos. What makes this sound so good is the speakers and head are a single, integrated whole with capacitors filtering the signal between the speakers. It'll play anything from metal to acoustic. They are bloody rare. Maybe dozens of them were ever built. Strange since these would be a cinch to duplicate. The carrying handle was pulled off a refrigerator, for the love of all that is Holy, so I challenge all of you to build a Gene Lies out of a stock Plush and some quality speakers.
Sleeper pedal: Danelctro Wasabi. Just love the thing.
Sleeper guitar: Gibson ETG-150. Tenor arch top with a P90 in the neck. NOTHING sounds bad out of this oddity. Had a chance to buy one off a widow for $1400 some years back, and I couldn't scrape the cash together. Can't find one for double the price these days. My daughter-of-the-smallish-hands is a violinist, and she could make this thing sound like all the Kings: Albert, BB, and Freddy.
I plugged my '63 Jr. into a Teac? tune reel to reel in '75 and my god it became Leslie West in Mountain barley cranked. Plus I put a Les Paul Mini bucker in the bridge . What a sound!
Hey Rick. I have a Peavey Classic VTX 65 watt tube amp. I bought it new in I think 1985. I've had to clean the pots 3 times and I replaced the tubes once back in the late 1980's. First it is warm and creamy sounding with it's factory Peavey Scorpion speakers. Lots of cool adjustments like pull push switches for thick/thin or treble. It has a presence control, a spring reverb, and a phase shifter.
Why is it cool?
1. The phase shifter has a pull/push that pauses the phase so it can sound like a wah wah pedal that's stopped anywhere along the phase. You can make it sound like the amp is inside a giant tin can or roaring on top of a 12 foot high stack. AKA the Jimi Hendric sound when he pushed down his wah pedal all the way down and left it there.
2. The spring reverb is magical. You can adjust it with different knobs so you can get a nearly perfect trail off.
3. It is LOUD as hell but also sounds great quiet with the different 1/4" inputs and master volume along with a 3 way foot switch for effects, reverb, and channel switch.
4. It has 2- 12" speakers, 2 channels, and even though the preamp is solid state the power amp runs 6L6 tubes you can buy all day long for less than 50 bucks a set and you can get the amp used for 200 to 300 dollars.
I know Peavey doesn't have a good rep in the music world but this is a killer combo amp. The ONLY drawback is the clean channel has a bit more dirt than I prefer and of course the weight. But it's just about as clean as any other tube amp I've owned.
I would love to know if you have tried one and if you have what do you think?
I recently inherited a guitar from my cousin who passed away 2 years ago. It's a Lotus brand, most likely from the late 70's to Early 80's. These things are really cheap, and I think he bought this from a pawn shop or something, but the build quality is pretty good. It's a solid Mahogany flat body and bolt-on Mahogany neck, gibson scale length, and the bridge and tailpiece hardware are spectacular. I've spent some time cleaning up the frets and setting it up properly and the thing sounds and plays amazing! It's got a bit of an SG vibe, and the stock pickups sound like PAF's. Really great tone and playability in an otherwise stupidly cheap guitar.
I did a bit of research, and the Lotus brand was something of an in-house brand for overseas factories in Korea, China, and Japan. Factories that would often build for Washburn and a few other manufacturers in the mid to late 70's and early 80's. They're rare, but if you can find one in a pawn shop or gathering dust in a used gear section of Guitar Center, snatch one up! You might need to replace the tuners and the nut, but the rest of the guitar is pretty solid!
Sleeper Bass Pedal: ISP Beta Bass Preamp Pedal. I’ve got tons of top end stuff and that pedal has stayed my “always on, end of chain” bass pedal for almost 7 years of rigorous touring. It just sounds great on everything without over-coloring things. Plus it has the best built in noise gate I’ve used live which is extremely helpful at different venues. I’ve never seen anyone else on tour using one but it’s indispensable to me. When my board got stolen, even with other amazing preamp pedals at home, I bought another one
I own a Mesa Lonestar Classic "Short Head" I got off E-Bay. For speakers, I bought two Bogner 1x12 ported "Cube" cabinets off E-Bay that happen to match the exact width of the Mesa amp. I tested several speakers but ended up with Mesa 12" C-90 8-ohm speakers. I run the amp on the 50 watt "Tweed" setting. These two Bogner Cubes with a Mesa Lonestar short-head on top makes a "Mini-stack" with a small floor footprint. You can adjust the controls while standing up! They don't make the "Short Heads" anymore, so find them on E-bay, even though they are rare. The reverb problems Mesa claimed they had were that the spring unit was too close to the transformer, causing a hum, but I never had that problem. It is a setup Boogie should have made but never did.
Great show! I just got a Fender PA 100 which is just fabulous for guitar and just loves pedals very lush reverb. Basically the AB763(100W) with a clean input preamp. Very cool and loud.
Love these videos, keep em coming!
I once met a guy off craigslist to pickup a 2x12 cab, he had me play through an old Sunn 60w bass amp, he just had it cranked and it sounded incredible
My favorite amp, in my limited experiences, is still my Acoustic Controls G60-212. I bought it new in college in '88 o ''89. It has clean and distortion channels and nice built-in reverb. While it is a solid-state amp, it has an amazing, butter-smooth distortion that genuinely will hang on the edge of breaking up and let you push it over with your volume knob on the guitar. I would encourage you to check one out, if you can find one.
Music Man RD 112 Fifty as seen on the cover of E C's Backless. Mine is an '82
. Sounds great.
The A/DA Flanger is amazing A/DA have a new one the PBF Flanger and they nailed the sound and at $180.00 USD they are a steal.
I have all my old DOD peddles and they all still work. Just one has a glitchy switch, but it's still no issue. I have to say the Bifet boost just rocks and cannot recommend it enough. I wanted a second one and wound up with the 410 reissue and it's even better. It has a buffer and true bypass switch. Another awesome DOD pedal is the FX 53, which is a super fat tubescreamer. Get one, thank me by naming your first born after me.
Love this video!!!! Keep up the good work!
The Digitech PDS 1002! That thing was a ton of fun, digital delay sounded great to me back then. I always had it plugged in. Fun episode!
I had a DOD BiFET for a while. I sometimes used it as a preamp for an acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup. If you look at the circuit, you'll see that there's always a FET in the signal path, even when it's off. So if you leave it off, you are getting a clean hi-Z preamp, with enough impedance to work well with a raw piezo signal. I used it off more often than on! The battery lasted even longer with the LED off! -Tom
Cool video! I have one of the orange overdrive reissues. I had the opportunity to buy a 70s one and chose the RI because I thought it sounded a little better. It's my favorite amp head. Cheers!
I remember back in about 1966 a friend in another band had what my have been a PA, I'm not certain, but used it for bass; two fairly narrow rectangular cabinets and a head the same size. It was very impressive back in the day.
Thanks for the word on the Danelectro French Toast. I use an MXR LaMachne for my main riffs tone and learned that it was based on the Foxx Tone Machine so I'm always interested in what all else is out there that's based on that pedal, especially the cheap stuff.
would be cool for you to do a whole video on writing vocal melodies. more on how picking notes marry with other chords to create certain moods you may be looking to achieve
So happy you said your Dano. The Danelectro 56 Pro is such a sweet fun guitar. No one wanted those when they came out with that model.
Shops were having trouble selling them. I bought one after being bummed about selling and older reissue U2.
The 56 Pro has much hotter pickups than the older reissue ones. They wanted $450 for those guitars but because no one was buying them I got mine for $250 brand new.
Keep rockin it! ✌️🤘
Great discussion. Gibson L-5 solid state amp. Seymour Duncan twin tube classic over drive pedal. Godin freeway guitar--great value.
I'm a bit late to the party but a piece of sleeper gear I have that everyone compliments me on is my old Laney AOR 50watt head. I can't really compare it to anything else like a Marshal or whatever because nothing else I've played or tried out sounds like it. You've got to crank the thing up for it to sound good but MAN when you do... it's amazing!
I got a Kalamazoo model 1 which i inherited from my dad. Gibson built them to be entry level affordable but it's its point to point handwired and once i put a line out and a switch to kill the speaker so i can use it as a head, or a pre amp and i love the breakup when cranked.
Selmer amplifiers from mid '60's are fucking awesome! I got two T&B 50 heads from '66,
2x 4x12 cabs, Binson echorec, homemade tube-pre, homemade Rangemaster, Boss DS1,
'68 Stratocaster. KILLER SETUP!!
Earthquaker Westwood. Goosing a tube preamp, these things add a tonal sweetness to the distortion that's simply unbelievable.
Nice video, guys! Good to watch a 'things you didn't know about' UA-cam video, where I genuinely didn't know about most of them. My beloved oddball is my '79 Gibson The Paul. They only made this all walnut LP for 2 years (started messing with its mojo in 1980), and for my money it's one of the best Gibsons out there, bang for buck. I bought one in the '80s and sold it. Always regretted it. But I was lucky enough to get another off eBay, just before the prices went crazy. I'll be buried with this one.
Great segment.
I have an Epiphone dot deluxe that’s just sooooo sweet. There are nice ones out there
I have a Fender Blues Jr "After the Goldrush" model. No mods needed. It sounds great clean and it sounds great dirty. It has a Celestion Greenback speaker, which is perfect.
Great episode Rick... thank you... 🎼👑
Just sold my Boogie Mark IV after 11 years and now I have 3 Laney amps. The IRT Studio rack 1w or 15w 3 channel which is my main amp and a Lionheart 5w 1x12 combo British built immaculate. I have an 8" Cub too which is so simple but brilliant, just volume and tone 5w tiny thing. You don't need high wattage amps!
I got a Danelectro 59 Dano 12 and it’s a beautiful guitar to play. Stays in tune and sounds great as well. I had a Ricky 360 12 and I prefer the Dano!
More of these gear talk video's please. My future topic suggestions: Alnico ceramic in speakers and p/u's, Fasel Inductor, Clyde McCoy, etc, cabinet wood comparison.
I’ve had a few of the Gibson amps. I’ve got a few of the scouts for a couple hundred dollars. And taking out that big capacitor out of them and I can’t remember off the top of my head what to replace them with makes a huge difference and gets rid of the high end shrill so I am use a single coil guitar with them. The tremolo is awesome
Been playing Mesa Boogie since 1993.....My Lonestar for ever!!!!!
Can't do without my Friedman PT-20. Just amazing. Use it with an EVH 2x12 cab. The EVH 2x12 is one of the best values out there at $499. Great stuff guys, keep it up.
ADA MP-1 (NOT the classic) still sound great, also the Peavey Rockmaster and TubeFex are HUGELY underrated, amazing devices
yea I loved my MP 1 that thing rocked . I had the alesis multi effects and a bbe sonic maximizer . I should've kept that rack. it's crazy how many great rigs I've had over the years. I always wanted to try the peavey rockmaster it looked nice.
My favorite bass amplifier company is Glockenklang. Hard to find in the USA.
Demeter makes one of my favorite compressors, along with my dbx 160A.
Carvin used to make very reasonably priced bass cabinets. I own the Carvin BRX 10.4 NEO.
Yamaha Magicstomp? AH used them for years to the end. Load all of Allan's patches and there you have it!
Fender Ultimate Chorus amp? Fantastic loud crispy clean from a SS amp. Dirt cheap on the used market and great for pedals.
Yamaha guitars, especially the top shelf ones, SA semi-hollow, worlds better than the Ibanez AS and possibly the best modernized 335 for around 1000 used.
There's a lot of sleeper gear actually.
Trev Wilkinson designed vintage guitars are awesome for the price,really solid builds with some classy appointments mixed with real common sense design,I have the v52 tele which has compensated brass saddles,vintage locking tuners and quality pickups,i also have the 'lemon drop' which is based off the famous Peter green les Paul , the pickups are the star of the show with the out of phase middle position.great range of guitars and you can pick them up used for a song.excellent video .
I've a v100 cherry burst (l.Paul).
Gorgeous guitars
The "drip edge" Fender bassman! They changed the chassis to a silverface in 1967 but the circuitry is still the same as the Blackfaces until 1972 I think? When they changed the circuitry, they took away the plastic piping around the grille cloth (where it gets the "drip edge" name from) and added a master volume. Got my '68 for $300 because the guy thought a 50w silverface Fender wasn't worth anything, but that thing SCREAMS.
another great video Rick.
I use a 100 watt Tophat Emplexador. Ive used it on the road for almost 15 years. Great amp
I bought a red bear 4x12 brand new 4 days old off a buddy for 250 back in 97ish. Sounded great had celestien 65 watt speakers that I loaded into a late 70s early 80s Marshall large checkerboard empty cab I got in like 07 for 50 bucks. My fab cab ever
Laney Lionheart amp and the Tech 21 Richie KOtzen Flyrig are a great combination. The Lionheart comes in a 5 watt and a 20 watt in combo's and heads. I have a 5 and a 20 watt combo and they are way louder than you need to get over a drummer and sound killer. I have an extension 1 x 12 cab that I run mine with and I love it. I think people would be surprised
Also got a '95 MIM White Strat w/a maple neck and a stock Fender whammy bar. Replaced the tuners, Graphtec nut & saddles, Carvin pickguard assembly w/3 single coils, added a spacer under the single string tree. Stays in tune GREAT! Tone for DAYS, plus the controls are different than a regular strat. Tone knob controls all *3* pickups, in place of the extra Strat tone control it has a mini-switch that turns the bridge pickup on regardless of the position of the 5-way switch - so you get 2 extra pickup combinations: all-3-at-once, and neck-and-bridge, which is *DECIDEDLY* Tele-like!
I have a Carvin Bolt kit that I made, and I spend a LOT of time in the ‘Tele’ config. It sounds amazing. All three single coils on sounds like poo however.
My desert Island gear: Gibson Les Paul ,Rozon Amp & 4x12 cab, my pedal board & alot of Ernie Ball 9's strings & Dunlop.71 picks!
HOWDY, THIS VIDEO WAS GREAT, YOU 3 GUYS TOGETHER HAVE A GOOD THING GOIN ON HERE, I DIG IT, KEEP THE VIDEOS COMMING, ROCK ON, COUSIN FIGEL
David Linley, (Guitar Player for Jackson Brown and Linda Ronstadt ) and his band " Plaid " with all the Vegematic Guitars that sound great , David tweaked the electronics " No big name instruments live and they sound incredible
Love my cheap little Chinese Moen Unicomp compressor pedal, and my original Neunaber Wet reverb pedal.. Both super simple, both sound amazing.
I used to have a Sundown Artist 100watt which was immensely flexible with a built-in powersoak it could be played quietly. I have a THD now, beautiful.
I love headless Steinberger guitars, such a balanced feel; and also Music Man guitars: these are widely ignored superb instruments.
I think in terms of sleeper pedals the Akai G-drive and Hexacomp are fascinating pedals.
I have an early 90's Korean U2 that is a real joy; $65 in an ATL pawnshop. Great reminder to not get too sniffy about gear.
Thanks for the mention, Rhett!
I'm with you Dave with the Gibson amps. I have a mess of them. I'm currently selling a stock GA77. The ones made in the 50's sound tremendous.
Original Sansamp from Tech 21. All kinds of amp tones in one analog box! I've had one since 91'.
I had one of these. The small trademark 10 combo. Sounded amazing mic'd up for live gigs. Someone stole it! Did find a SansAmp tri-a.c. pedal which i still have and use. Great gear!!!
Yep, getting expensive now. The best other pedal they did was the GT-2 and those can still be had cheap. The PSA-1 preamp is also a great sleeper piece of gear.
hide from XJapan was using one live.
Completely agree. I think with so much digital emulation around, most people these days are looking to flip one switch and get full-on wide-screen wet, stereo, effected tone all at once. It's understandable and appealing. But what I like about the SansAmp is that it's just the pure, raw amp sound (and analog to boot). Starting there, you can tweak, layer, and effect to your liking and have a sound that is more your own than is a pre-packaged preset.
I think the big response the Iridium pedal got shows that a lot of people really do want as close as they can get to an amp in a box. And the SansAmp still delivers good stuff after all this time.
Yes the Sans amp in the studio is magic, so simple and so great , they
Nailed that one !!
Nice vid lads. There needs to be a discussion re amps that are suitable for home that will give great tone. Presenters talk about such and such a great amp, it comes alive when the vol is set about 7 etc. Problem is that most guitarists live with others that dont necessarily appreciate the beautiful tones at these volumes. I have a Marshall VS100 for over 25 years and I dont know if it has ever been turned up above 2 apart from the day I got it to try it so it is not reaching its best tone. Can you do a vid that will give great toes at reasonable volume. Keep it up
I've got a tele-shaped guitar made out of pine. I love it.
The Squier CV Tele is pine...I had one, it was great...it was pretty heavy, too
Rick- enjoying your videos. My sleeper gear is....mid-70's Musicman HD130 head. It's still going.
hey guys thanks you really brought back some cool memories I remember my first pedal I bought it used in 1981 was the mxr flanger what a great pedal I've never heard a flanger you know built into the amps and stuff like that that sounded anything like that flange of dead. For some reason I remember it sounding metallic I don't know if that remembering back.thanks guy for the blast in the past and please excuse any typos misspelled words definitely lack of punctuation I suffer from mr. Magoo syndrome I am severely legally blind and I'm using speech to text and it does what it wants to when it wants to apparently as you'll tell from this comment on making sincerely yours, bout the blind bedroom
Got a Fender Concert amp 1993 reissue back when they first came out (the reissues that is). This has been the most reliable combo I have ever owned. The clean channel has tone up the wazzoo. I have not been a fan of the Fender's early gain channel and this one is no different. It's a tube amp with solid state so 1/2 and 1/2. The first time I had it repaired was last year. cost $80 to fix so, still very happy with it. To make up for the gain channel that I do not use, I run a Mesa Twin V for tube gain. Whoa baby!
Outside Seattle WA in about 2001 I went to a garage sale where there was some unknown old amp that they said didn't work, I asked price, they said make offer, I offered $17 (seventeen dollars) and explained that it was all I had. I replaced a 50 cent diode power supply ground and fixed it. It is a Sound City 120 that is so loud you could easily shatter windows if the room were air tight. Active EQ whereby the low/mid/high tone knobs are effectively just volume controls.
@Rick Beato you will be pleased to know Kim Thayil used the Bi-FET boost on his boards with early 90s Soundgarden :)
My favorite effects unit in my system is the ART SGX 2000 Express coupled with an X15 Superfoot midi controller. This thing brings SOOO much clarity to my sound, since I'm running it through a Behringer V-Amp Pro (for amp modelling, also with full midi implementation) into cheap, clean amps. And yes, All my sound is stereo. I'd be ripping myself off if I didn't!
A guy at church asked me if I'd be interested in an old amp he had. Turned out to be a 1959 Rickenbacker M14-A. I made a trade for the amp and had an old school electronics tech go through it. Some of the wiring insulation was so brittle, it just broke off if you touched the wire. All it needed, other than replacing bad old cables, were new caps. The original tubes tested 95%. The thing is a killer!
Orange has a fuzz that is based off the Foxx Tone machine. Also a cool fuzz/distortion is the Brothers pedal, by Chase bliss. The best fuzz I have ever used though is the Clusterfuzz by Functionf(x), it is a completely original design.
Original run ADA MP-1 (edited to add:) paired with a Digitizer 4 delay. Best delay I have ever come across.
I love my DOD pedals, especially the Bifet boost, 250 and the 53, which sounds like a fat tube screamer. That bifet boost is almost always on my board.
TRUTONE speaker cabs - especially the 2x10. With all the combo amps and 4x12's out there, the tight sound of a 2x10 has a special character and clarity all its own in a studio or small venues. I discovered a used TRUTONE 2x10 at a guitar shop in Hawaii; not a lot of options if you're not into slack key, LOL I went in to buy the obligatory 4x12 and yet I still don't own one. This boutique TRUTONE I got for a steal has a Weber AlNiCo and a Weber Ferromax in it.
Matamp s3000, total sleeper amp. Seemingly, it’s only really doom guys I ever encounter in matamp land, but these things kick ass at just about anything!! Gorgeous clean right up to near fuzz-like drive, greeeeaaaat amps.
Also own a dany u2, fantastically fun guitars!! Always craving a u1...
Fab stuff guys, great to get to listen in on you guys riffing on old gear! ;)
I have loved my Zoom 9002 since I got it in the 1980's