Guitarists Only NB Try Again

[PhilF]

Really cool forum, will takes months to read

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[lyc]

To be PC then we should mention........<A target="_blank" HREF=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BroadsandEastcoastBoating/>Broads & East Coast Boating

 

[steverow]

Hmmm, years probably.
Nice site.

Steve.


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[PhilF]

Yup I have 2 of them 2, a red 335 and a honeyburst Les Paul,
so little time........
PhilF

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[Kevin]

my guitar is not up to much i dont think, but my huge marshall amp is a joy to behold!!!

And im proud to say that i have never had the inclination to learn to play stairway to heaven!! does that make me not a true guitarist?

 

[c_j]

Yeh but have you tried the www.hiwattstory.com

Still have my old DR103 with partridge transformers and 4x12 cabinet.
Forum band someone?
BTW I am not a guitarist. Keyboards Inc Hammond



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[PhilF]

now there's an idea, I still have a 60's AC 30 TB reverb

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[c_j]

AC 30 hey, do you know what that is worth today?

I kept loads of my gear and I thought it was worthless until I went to part ex it against modern stuff for the kids and guess what, the Hiwatt amp alone is worth loads saw an early one (later than mine) reach $6600 on ebay.

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[c_j]

Following on from that AC 30 thread, I went to ebay to have a look for one as my 17 year old wants a combo for his birthday and there is one on there, but are you considering selling yours?

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[PhilF]

yes, I am
The ebay one sold for £940 and not even sure it was genuine
PM me if interested
PhilF

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[milltech]

I've got an old 1959 Gibson acoustic and a dealer offered me £1500 for it a few years ago, and £850 for my 1964 Harmony H77. I never was much good and now I am a truly terrible three chord strummer. However they are part of me and although its gratifying to see they're worth cash, I'll stave off (no pun intended)flogging them until I need to cash them in for a Stanner (sp?) Stairlift.


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[steverow]

Gibsons are alright if you wanna put up with shoulder ache after wearing your block of granite for two hours at a gig. I once had a red SG.... never could make the damn thing stay in tune. So now I only pay gibbo's lip service by keeping an Epiphone sheraton which I keep in delta blues tuning anyway to do stuff like Brown Sugar and some Doobies.

Now AC30's..I had my first one in 1967 and it was S/H then. Was a real Jennings one of Course witha tremolo switch and F/sw, and a "Bright Channel" where you could sound sadly like Hank...If I had kept all this stuff that I'd bought and sold over the years I'd be able to afford a better boat now..
Dont use amps that much these days...most of the set (when we're playing) is done DI into the rack mixer although I still have a Hughes and Kettner Vortex half stack, which looks the part if nothing else.

I'm probably more into keyboards these days..so if anyone wants to talk synths as well...I'll be more than happy. (Roland XP80, Korg X5D Yammie SY85...plus rack modules) and Sonar and Cubase.
Perhaps someone should organise a forum jam session...
What is it they say..too old to rock and roll, too young to die?


Steve.




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[Jenko]

I swapped my AC 30 (with Blue back speaker as intended) 18 years ago for Touque Tranny 5W amp (worth about £2)....I hated the sound of the AC because it didn't sound like Iron Maiden....As homer simpson once said...Doh!.

I have a Les paul Standard PLus, Jackson PC3, Mesa boogie Nomad 100, I also enjoy making my own valve amps, and have recently completed a cracking little 10watter.

Nice to see other Guitarists on Forum.

Paul.


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[PhilF]

I tried cubase and could never get it to run in time.
Now I use a 8 track digital Roland VS 840, great fun,
True re Gibsons, but gotta have one in the collection, I'm a Fender man

PhilF

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[steverow]

Your cubase problem will be down to something called "latency" of the sound card.
Some cheapish cards and even some expensive ones have horrendous latency.

On one of my laptops (1GHz CPU) the audio tracks can be lagging the midi tracks by a couple of secs at the end of a 3.5 min song just on playback.
On the other hand my old Sony laptop 233MHz is absolutely fine for playback anyway. (But thats the one I use on the boat for Nav now.)
I use a Soundblaster Audigy to do the recordings on a dedicated 1.4GHz music computer mostly using Sonar and this setup is fine.

Ditto on the Fender...theres nothing as comfortable or sexy as a Strat..never been bettered and probably never will be.

Do you play in a band?

Steve.


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[PhilF]

No, only bedroom performer, its never too late tho
PhilF

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[steverow]

Well, I'm still going at 49, the humping, (gear of course, or not), gets harder year by year as I get fatter!!

Lisa, our singer, is still in Iraq at present (TA), so waiting for her to come back when I'm sure we will resume "easy life" and play a few pubs and clubs again.

Maybe do the yacht club foc to get us started.

Cheers

Steve.





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[steverow]

Aaah the smell of warm ECC83's and EL34's and burning rexine.

Heaven!!!


Steve



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[steverow]

Just looked at a message on the forum called "fender Clips"..expecting to see piccies of strats and teles, and it woz abt those silly things for putting on boats...

bah..

steve.

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[Jenko]

My home made amp has 6l6's....lurrvley

Paul.



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