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Post by mitchfit on Apr 6, 2024 9:14:19 GMT
looked up "mola mola" 'cause i didn't get the implications. being a pisces my self, seems kinda cool to me!
i don't really care if fellow travelers call me the most derogatory name they know. if they take the time to call you at all, you have won them over. having heard your guit playing before, let it be your name.
too far away to attend, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Apr 2, 2024 13:17:24 GMT
^^^^ brain flatulence alert!!!
the supro clone uses a 6973, not an EL84. must be olds timer's setting in. they do kinda look alike. from ten feet away.
the sun was in my eyes, and there was a tree obstructing my view.
yeah, that's what happened...i remember it clearly now.
:^)
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Post by mitchfit on Apr 1, 2024 19:42:58 GMT
could have a useful experimental application in an olde school Vox AC also? [after switching from EL34 twins used in short lived original models] would love to hear resulting impressions from one who has no monetary horse in the valve sales race.
has me wondering about a single ended EL 84 Winfield Thomas built based on the Supro Dual Tone P-P circuit without trem. and/or his "Winfield" 2X4 optional circuit with Marshallesque preamp flavoring.
also, Mark Baier once told me via email that he had gotten some surprisingly pleasant sounds from grossly miss-matched 6L6 twins he had tried in his amps.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 31, 2024 20:26:59 GMT
leary about recommending these recently developed 6BQ5/EL84 lower powered substitutes as they don't seem to have any middle ground in the user reviews. i have never used them myself. JJ mfg valves don't have a sterling reputation in the US market either. if over-driving the preamp tubes doesn't sound that good to you, or still louder than hoped for after lowering voltage to power valve(s) perhaps one (or two) of these could help? how does it still push-pull with one leg only? JJ's claims about them: JJ Electronic has introduced an EL84 vacuum tube with a twist! The new JJ EL844 power tube provides about 25% less headroom than a traditional EL84, but can be used in any EL84 tube amp without modification to the amp. If you need less headroom for your bedroom amp consider the EL844 tube. From our review: "The EL844 does exactly what the manufacturer claims. You get all the tone of an EL84 with less volume overall. The difference doesn’t end there. Because the tube has less power to give, you end up with very nice distortion at lower volumes. I ran the Pro Jr. up to a point just at the start of audible breakup. With EL84's, the Fender Pro Jr. was loud and punchy. Switch to the EL844's and cool stuff starts to happen. At the same settings the distortion was now very nice. The EL844 adds a bit of compression so the distortion was smoother and more focused. These tubes have excellent response to pick attack. With a lighter touch you can get sparkling shimmer, dig in with the pick and you can push the tubes into overdrive." [no affiliation] www.thetubestore.com/jj-el844-low-power-el84mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 31, 2024 18:20:41 GMT
would love to hear this with the entire vocal group from the album "O Brother Where Art Thou", including Norman Blake, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Fayssoux Starling, Sam Phillips, Gillian Welch [and many, many others]
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 31, 2024 2:10:41 GMT
snakehips,
it was not my intention to offend you. or anyone else for that matter. apologies if i did.
what got my dogs barking up the wrong tree was, "so you don't even need an XLR-to-XLR cable" as any other configuration seemed to imply a 3 wire to 2 wire conversion. a cure for a problem i'm not aware of.
hope you believe that i was only trying to help, not harm.
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 29, 2024 21:32:33 GMT
snakehips, the main difference between phone jacks and XLR jacks is two vs three wires. called unbalanced and balanced signal in that same order. it takes three wires to get the full signal. read--above and below the baseline. two wires will only capture one side of the baseline. if like me, you aren't a direct descendant of Albert Einstein, the math shown is of very little help. but the graphs should clearly show what's going on: digilent.com/blog/balanced-xlr-cables-explained/as far as dialing in the notch filter and fine tuning the midrange [acoustic guit main street] place the guit on a padded surface to isolate it from building/furniture vibrations. turn amp up slowly until reaching feedback threshold. then turn the notch filter until it cancels out the guit's sympathetic vibration Hz. then fine tune mids in the same way. the "acoustic chamber" of the venue and/or monitor locations will make slight variations in the guit picking up vibrations, but the instrument's sympathetic frequency will not be radically changed. hope that helps, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 28, 2024 22:23:04 GMT
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 24, 2024 19:09:03 GMT
what MM said in suchuva a far sighted overview. well stated.
would only add that his words also apply to ANY venue of music/entertainment one cares to explore. as long as the market allows the for-profit-only industry to define that subdivision for them.
could go on and on and on about that, but find it more logical to offer his corrective countermeasures instead.
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 20, 2024 2:07:15 GMT
pete1951, you could just paint "No Leo" on the front? or "Es-Squire" to avoid legal issues? or just "Squire", don't they all actually mean the same thing? before anyone takes offense, i openly admit that i have two older MIM strats. please don't kill the messenger, not implying anything. but back then, the nationality is marked in places that can't be seen from the front. would that make them worth more than ones marked on the front? guit collecting is hard to understand for me. to muddy the water up even more-- i have a late 1990s MIJ electric XII copy of the mid 1960s strat 12. clearly not the vintage model as it lacks the "hockey stick" head stock of the original. between the tuning pegs on the front it says: squire [copy right R in circle] venus [copy right R in circle] by fender [copy right R in circle] vista [copy right R in circle] www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/register-trademarkcan you tell me who actually owns this design? a trick question. below from WIKI: ..."A man named Tim George of the short-lived Mercury Guitar Company (of Atlanta, GA) has claimed to be the actual designer of the guitar, along with his company co-founder Danny Babbitt.[3] According to George, Babbitt snuck backstage at a Nirvana concert in Atlanta in November 1993 and sold the original custom metallic-green Mercury guitar on which the Venus design was eventually based to Love. Love played this guitar in public extensively over the next several years, and it is the guitar she played in the music video for Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock. Hole's song Violet.[4] The 6-string Venus model is virtually identical to Love's Mercury guitar, except with a Fender Stratocaster-like headstock."... EVEN MORE ABSTRACT-would one that was owned by Noel Redding be worth $6,612.16? reverb.com/item/74961842-noel-redding-jimi-hendrix-experience-incredibly-rare-squier-venus-12-stringso really, who cares? the most important spec to me is the squire has a 42.9 mm nut and the original Fender had a 41.3 mm nut. serious consideration on a 12 string. any body who was a collector would likely sense that a Tele neck wasn't OEM on a Burns body anyway? so much for collector value. list neck as a fake, the honesty may impress a possible player/buyer. mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 23:54:57 GMT
PS---
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 23:26:30 GMT
Eric gets a chance to reminisce also
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 16, 2024 16:23:12 GMT
they also played feel good music
and public service drug use announcements
Cheech and Chong liked this one
and still made good music even after allowing an Animal among their ranks
they were indeed a great band,
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 15, 2024 21:33:46 GMT
posted here to avoid polluting the water in archtopeddy's thread "Tricone opinions appreciated..."
"how earth friendly of me", he boasted and proceeded to dislocate his shoulder patting himself on the back?
if there were any truth in advertising, would atmosphere be known to cause cancer in California? recall when MM had to prove his guit wouldn't cause any non-repairable damage to humans just to get it through customs into the USA.
where it was being quarantined due to safety issues at that time.
the whole saturation reminds me of a story i heard about a terrified kid who was fresh out of high school being sent to the Lennox County Reality Maintenance Center charged with section 11357 PHSC. to wit, read: "excessive pleasure in a no freedom zone". please don't ask how that number is still remembered well over a half century later...
upon being greeted by the friendly night shift welcoming committee staff, the new guests were addressed by a tall lanky attendant who was slapping the palm of his left hand with a broomstick wrapped in many layers of masking tape and a leather retention strap through it around his right wrist. the guy who told me this woe begotten story noted that he looked a pale grey color like one who hadn't been out in the sunlight for decades.
yet the 8th amendment to the United States Constitution bans both cruel and unusual punishment for those being held or convicted.
he also noted the intimidation representative wasn't really the perp in this story, saying that the actual infraction was the loudspeaker system in the processing center playing War's "Four Cornered Room".
perhaps the more rules allowed, the less chance there is of them not conflicting with each other? as non-empirical proof for that theory, consider the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. they SHOULD represent the best legal minds available? yet very rare are the times all of them agree about any single issue.
whining again,
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Post by mitchfit on Mar 8, 2024 22:05:54 GMT
i wonder if a suitable metal could be used for neck replacement. problem is there are so few of these still around as to preclude the trial and error R and D that would be required.
before dissing that thought, consider that the most amazing sounding banjo i've ever heard, or was lucky enough to play a little bit was a brass rimmed Deering belonging to a friend in Alaska.
will openly admit all of that weight beyond the body would be as handy as a twenty pound golf club.
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