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[EWG]

Keeping both guitars is perfect guitar logic. Well done.

I’d post the family sometime but since it’s gotten a bit out of control I think it’d be kinda embarrassing.

Here’s a teaser though. I went and picked this cabinet up from a guy about a year ago. 69 Fender bandmaster cab. Couple hundred bucks. Guy tells me he has the matching amp but it’s messed up and that he’ll give it to me for free. I take it.

Turns out it’s 67 bandmaster and even though it’s silver face it was early so it has the blackface circuit. And all it needed was a new plug. Score.

Damn thing sounds like angry butter. It’s awesome.

[highangle]

Does it sound better with single coils, or p97s?

[oftpiste]

Score!

[leroy jenkins]

Keeping both guitars is perfect guitar logic. Well done.

I’d post the family sometime but since it’s gotten a bit out of control I think it’d be kinda embarrassing.

Here’s a teaser though. I went and picked this cabinet up from a guy about a year ago. 69 Fender bandmaster cab. Couple hundred bucks. Guy tells me he has the matching amp but it’s messed up and that he’ll give it to me for free. I take it.

Turns out it’s 67 bandmaster and even though it’s silver face it was early so it has the blackface circuit. And all it needed was a new plug. Score.

Damn thing sounds like angry butter. It’s awesome.

Thats fucking awesome, congrats.


I just pulled the trigger on the two smallest spark amps, and, on a whim, got a good deal on an epiphone mandostang, so that should be fun to fuck around with. I've played an electric 4 string mandolin before and they're fun in their own right, but I'm also thinking it will be a good prelude to learning how to play fiddle/violin, being the same size, scale, and tuning, but obviously fretted and picked/strummed.



What do you guys think about the used (not vintage) market in general right now? After the pandemic surges in prices/demand, it seems to have fallen now, and there are some deals around, although typically nothing like the above mentioned amp deal. I'm tempted to blow some money on some things, i've always wanted a les paul specifically, but wondering if perhaps it would be smarter to wait.

Do you guys think prices will continue to fall?

[rideit]

Well, I don’t have a new rig to show off, but today was better than any NGD.
I haven’t been able to play since about last October. I had thumb and shoulder surgery on the same day (left arm and hand) back in January. It realistically looked like it was going to be another three or four months until I could even hold a chord, so I just accepted that I was out for almost a year.
Well, guess what? I picked up my Tele today, and could play, actually much better than I could have imagined!

This was a recovery milestone, even though I could only play for about 4 minutes.
Onward! I’ll share a vid for laughs, it really feels as if it’s someone else’s hand….the stranger.

Jan 12:


Tonight (March 14)

[rideit]

Hunh, I lied. I got a few guitars since the Pandemic started…

[EWG]

Amazing how you can just sort've "forget" about new gear accumulation, right?

I think I have that same Martin - SC-10e, right? Awesome acoustic.

Most importantly, heal up quick man! I knew you had gotten hurt but I don't think I ever heard what happened. But super glad you can play again, even if it's just starting up slowly. What went down?

[chicken feathers]

Decided to set up the bass amp last night. 1995 Trace Elliot. The ones up to 94 were coveted. This one has the serial number and date of manufacture written on the back in sharpie. I don't think I've ever needed to turn it past 4, even for live gigs. It had been in the garage since moving last fall. More than once mice have cached food inside of the amp, but have never chewed on any wiring far as I can tell. Played it for about an hour without it bursting into flames. Success.

[rideit]

Thanks, EWG!
Basically, my thumb was simple severe arthritis, just breaking down from a life of various repetitive motions (heh). Probably a lot of trail building, trying and de-tensioning thousands of wheels, etc. since I was going to be ooc anyway, I decided to get a cleanup in my shoulder, which never healed right from another surgery a few years ago. It is healing slowly, but I still might need a shoulder replacement, unfortunately.
Life!

My kid also got a Squier Mustang Bass and a basic Yamaha acoustic, do those count?

[leroy jenkins]

Thanks, EWG!
Basically, my thumb was simple severe arthritis, just braking down from a life of various repetitive motions (heh). Probably a lot of trail building, trying and de-tensioning thousands of wheels, etc. since I was going to be ooc anyway, I decided to get a cleanup in my shoulder, which never healed right from another surgery a few years ago. It is healing slowly, but I still might need a shoulder replacement, unfortunately.
Life!

My kid also got a Squier Mustang Bass and a basic Yamaha acoustic, do those count?

I've probably got this surgery ahead of me at some point. Whetheryou call it skiers thumb, servers thumb, guitarists thumb, or masturbators thumb, I think I've covered my bases well enough I've got it coming. Glad it went well for you.

I just pulled the trigger on this 1966 guild. https://reverb.com/item/80702287-vin...ource=sendgrid

[EWG]

I've probably got this surgery ahead of me at some point. Whetheryou call it skiers thumb, servers thumb, guitarists thumb, or masturbators thumb, I think I've covered my bases well enough I've got it coming.

I just pulled the trigger on this 1966 guild. https://reverb.com/item/80702287-vin...ource=sendgrid

Well that's a cool as shit guitar.

Also, you are making me feel better about my GAS problem. So thanks.

[leroy jenkins]

Cool looking at least. There are examples in better shape for more money but yea, something about that one just called to me. I think my blues chops got slightly better just by clicking buy. It does seem to sound pretty fucking good too, and i have the reissue of this amp, so should sound simiilar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kypXC0wr8o

I've always been hesitant to buy anything vintage, but I talked myself into it with some interesting mental gymnastics. Its pretty good, bear with me.

I think societal collapse is coming, the euro dollars are coming home, the herpes that has become endemic will combine with covid or the vax to turn people to zombies, or at the very least, the rising wealth disparity will lead to a kind of neo feudalism, but, as has been said, they aren't making any more vintage instruments, and the wider the wealth gap gets, the more the wealthy are looking for places to put their money, assets to own and what have you. So I plan to hoard vintage guitars to barter to my overlords for my ration of soylent people.


It does seem like there are good deals to be had right now. I paid a few hundred less than the listed price for this with reverbs offer feature. Notsure if prices will continue to fall.

[rideit]

That thing oozes style. And hopefully some soul.

[El Chupacabra]

I have a Peavey Vypyr amp that I don't like (noisy, over complicated, seems mostly good for making terrible distortion), so am unloading it. Considering picking up a Fender Champion 40 for very cheap. Any reason not to? I've liked the sound of other small Fender amps I've heard - they seem to sound pretty good for cleans.

[EWG]

I have a Peavey Vypyr amp that I don't like (noisy, over complicated, seems mostly good for making terrible distortion), so am unloading it. Considering picking up a Fender Champion 40 for very cheap. Any reason not to? I've liked the sound of other small Fender amps I've heard - they seem to sound pretty good for cleans.

I think that's a good plan if you want an inexpensive clean solid state amp (though I have to say that's an amp I know from reputation only - haven't played it.) A Vox AC4C1 would be a nice semi-clean tube but is probably more money. A Fender Super Champ x2 is a good clean tube amp that's usually a good value - just don't use the modeling settings (modeling settings work fine, it's just that you don't want them on a clean channel.)

[altacoup]

Fender champion 40s are good clean solid state amps and handle pedals really well. Modeling isn’t horrible for what it is and the price.

[El Chupacabra]

Thanks - I'm going to see if I can grab it. Will update if I do.

A Vox AC10 or AC15 would be fantastic, but not realistic in the near future. I need to practice more than anything else!

[EWG]

Thanks - I'm going to see if I can grab it. Will update if I do.

A Vox AC10 or AC15 would be fantastic, but not realistic in the near future. I need to practice more than anything else!

Yeah, I have an AC15 and it's awesome. Loud though. The little AC4 looks very cool for 200 something used and more appropriate for home use:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/VO...BoC0DEQAvD_BwE

[leroy jenkins]

I don't have time with that amp myself, but I feel like almost any decent small lightweight solid state modeling amp is going to be pretty good these days, and that they all sound "sort of' similar.

I have a fender rumble 40 studio, the bass version of what you're looking at basically, and I like it.

[El Chupacabra]

Picked it up. Nice condition. $80!

[EWG]

Nice price right there.

[El Chupacabra]

I also have a lead on a Boss Katana 50 MK2 for $100. Should I grab it? Reviews are generally positive, I've never messed with one. I don't want another overly complicated amp though.

[EWG]

I also have a lead on a Boss Katana 50 MK2 for $100. Should I grab it? Reviews are generally positive, I've never messed with one. I don't want another overly complicated amp though.

I had a Katana 100mk II for a while. It can do a ton of stuff, especially if you connect it to a computer. I ended up buying a helix floor, which left me in 3 major modeling ecosystems - line 6 helix, spark, and boss katana. Too much for my weak brain. So I replaced the Katana with a catalyst, which is in the line 6 world, so now I'm down to two - Line 6 and Spark.

All that said, I thought it was a really good system and for $100 I think I'd grab it. Very good deal for a capable amp in a rich modeling ecosystem.

[El Chupacabra]

Thanks. Tempted, but I don't know if I really need it. Guess I could sell it again.

[oftpiste]

Fuck all that modeling bullshit. Get a good tube amp and call it a day.

https://reverb.com/item/6933261-dumb...th-flight-case