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Post by mitchfit on Nov 3, 2014 9:53:09 GMT
good point about that correlation MM.
Doc Watson deserves mention here also.
more amazing to itself was Beethoven composing some of his best loved music in his later years, even though almost totally deaf....
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 27, 2014 12:19:23 GMT
Tony- appreciate you finding those, but can't get sound from my old-ish machine, my son [who majored in computer tech in college] says the "sound card" has gone the way of the thunder lizard. don't place a lot of stock in 'tube videos anyway. [unless it is only a microphone into recording device] great gear that is poorly recorded can sound very bad. poor gear, that is recorded very well can sound amazingly good.
with all the digital toys out there, one can make an entry level casio keyboard sound like an angelic choir from celestial bodies light years away. or even make a venus XII sound like a moog. same is why i prefer input from actual reso players here.
Michael-thanks for the insight, will keep that in mind.
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 27, 2014 0:34:37 GMT
first off, my apologies. have been working 6x10 this week, hence the lack off response.
oldpicker,
the Solophonic looks interesting. do the [smallish] holes in the back allow much sound out for unplugged usage [as compared to a national 1133]? also, web site gives no actual measurement for nut width, standard tele neck with strings spaced marginally close to fretboard edge? not a lot of clarity in image for advert. will troll the net as to availability west of the atlantic. again, pics are vague, long scale?
MM, realize cone sonic qualities ~may not~ be a major consideration for electric use, but what are your thoughts on 'continental' brand cones?
pete1951,
pls give a review if you find one. music stores of any inventory depth are about 100 miles one way, closest. PM sent.
thanks to all for above postings, mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 24, 2014 20:13:54 GMT
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 19:31:25 GMT
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 19:14:37 GMT
momentary thread jacking, [pls forgive me MM, i know i already have misbehaved recently]...
pete1951--about what would a used, but in decent condition cooper-S model with 1275cc motor run on today's market in the UK?
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 19:01:05 GMT
pete1951 said:
You can also remind her that the Mini (I`m guessing that's the car , not a short skirt) will be worth less ever year, whereas your guitars should be worth more as time goes by!
i used to rationalize my gear/kit habit expenditures away with that very premise. but then i started figuring how much inflationary loss goes with it, opposed to dealing only in numerical values.
IE: thinking my 2014 dollar value against 1970 dollar value.
then i saw a thread at a gear/kit-head web site [thegearpage.net], where someone was asking about the best choices for amps to purchase as a long term investment. as i suffer from chronic lethargy, i copied and pasted my entry below to save myself all the mental and labor intensive gyrations of writing a proper response here---
"some where back there some one said basically buy them to play them.
good advice.
if you got lucky and picked one that appreciates ridiculously, cool. if it doesn't even keep up with inflation, YOU STILL HAVE AN AMP YOU LIKE PLAYING....
put it this way, my first axe/amp was a package deal. bought in the mid '60's. was a vox super berkely reverb twin, along with a fender jaguar. was OK for a while, then all my music heroes started playing high gain crunchies. that sweet old push-pull EL84, 18 watt vox would only begin to feedback when topped out on the control panel and the mild jaguar PUPs and controls following suit. sold them both about 10 yrs later for around twice what i had in the set, fetching about $400, each.
just got lucky and bought them from a guy who needed money quickly. there's no point in cyphering out what they might fetch now, had i held on to them. you'd need a calculator to figure out whether i had made a mistake by selling then. until the late sixties, gold was about $40 an ounce, so i'd need to realize 40x my original purchase price of $400 for both to break even in the $1,600 per ounce reality of today. doubt very much they could be worth $16,000, now.
you guys paying into your retirement plan accounts paying attention, here?
that pair of instruments MIGHT have gained 40x in value if:
kurt cobain hadn't been playing an early version of a "pawn shop special", and had instead used a stock jaguar.
brian may had a used wall of berkely twins instead of AC 30's.
but those scenarios didn't happen. maybe YOU can hit on the amp lotto, and pick the new product that will end up being the next train wreck. or maybe just a wreck, how well does your crystal ball work?
would your crystal ball have said to go buy an amp that was basically just a tweaked bassman circuit in the early/mid 1960's, one that was spec'd out according to the whims of a drummer who owned a music store in west london?
in that same time frame, would it have said to go buy a low budget supro amplifier, same resplendent with chip board cabinet, low quality cheap electrical components, AND designed by the same company who drew out guitar amplifier schematics for montgomery ward's mail order catalog?
also same time frame, would it have said to buy a modded fender amp from a couple of hippie partners who owned an old chinese grocery store that had turned into a music store, in mill valley, california? (that's right, B. J. Hunnicutt's home town.)
IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THOSE 3 QUESTIONS IS NO, buy an amp you love playing.
maybe you'll turn out lucky in love.
mitchfit"
[above was base on gold prices circa 3-2013, currently down to $1240 (+,-). i should also mention that there was much more sweat equity involved that can't be factored in as to my first axe/amp purchase being funded by riding many a mile delivering newspapers on my bicycle in birch bay, WA]
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 18:24:12 GMT
Mitch, get some assorted pieces of cloth and you could have many nice (and expensive) amp-tables all around the house, perfect for tea sets and flowers...! Just concentrate on combos only. but what will i do if the wife has her friends over for, say--tea, and one of them puts a pointy toed high heel shoe right through the speaker cloth and driver? :-0 mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 16, 2014 20:20:07 GMT
Zak,
why are you holding back?
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 15, 2014 20:26:22 GMT
the trick is to keep the inventory down to practical levels. this can be difficult to define, and harder to self enforce. we can all take solace in the fact that there are others out there far more afflicted than ourselves... www.tdpri.com/forum/amp-central-station/517541-quality-hoarding.htmlhello, my name is mitchfit. i am a recovering ampaholic. i have been sober since i ordered the latest clone build to begin.
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 4:40:18 GMT
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 4:33:58 GMT
..."And, there's that awful Americanism"... www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soddingmy first exposure to this half word use was from UK comedy, "Last of the Summer Wine". [or maybe Monty Python's Flying Circus, too many years ago for certainty] mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 4:17:27 GMT
..."I'm sure the speech mannerisms of the SW would drive ya'll loco"...
though "ya'll" was more a deep south [SE] colloquialism.
same is actually 3 distinct subsets of southern "drawl".
saw Steve Landesberg absolutely nail all three in a TV talk show once in order to show the difference.
he was such a talent...
mitchfit
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 3:44:34 GMT
the guitars are easily differentiated from all the others she has seen. even the 2 strats are different colors/fretboards.
recent amp acquisitions tend to induce color blindness. likely 'cause the 4 winfield thomas amps i have are all cocoa tolex with gold piping. the 2x12, 1x15 and 4x10 cabs from him are cocoa with oxblood grill cloth. the 1624T supro head clone currently being built will also be cocoa/gold.
death by hot chocolate.
not an intentional guise, wanted the interchangeability among cabs and heads.
oh yeah-- a vox nt 50 w/2 ea 4x12 i keep at "jam bud's" house. these she knows i scored to avoid moving better loved amps constantly when gone to make too much noise. way too marshallesque for my tastes, even with 12AT7 in V1, 12DW7 in V2 & V3 into 5751 at V4 {PI}. clean or dirt channel. was thinking the VOX name implied a VOX tone. at least it won't require any more room when i finally have it gutted and reuse the overkill trannies to get it morphed into a one knob KT66.
the peavey delta blues looks kinda like the 6L6 victorilux 3x10...kinda. whether or not you can choke this down, the lowly peavey is a great sounding amp.
then 2 ea fender ultra chorus stereo amps, with a BXR 200---that played downstream from an active 3 way stereo crossover, bridged mono bass circuit--it downstream from a digitech 2101 LTD twin disc surviving from my pre-vacuum period. [don't really count 12AX7 pair pre-amp circuit as much more than a tease].
think that many more of 'em will get me moved into the yard for space to store them in. shouldda been a guitar addict instead, the dozen or so of them take much less room....
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 2:46:11 GMT
reverb.com/item/289405-harmony-h-165-nice-vintage-usa-made-60s-maghonany?_aid=pla&pla=1&gclid=COfrqPiDq8ECFabm7AodhSUANgnice, warm sounding guitar. put a high nut on mine, used for slide only. heavy neck, with adj truss rod. also installed a circa '70's "Hi-A" model H3-A acoustic guitar magnetic pickup right beside the bridge. see page 21, under "Bartolini Guitars": www.ece.rochester.edu/courses/ECE140/resources/Guitar-Project/Mag_pickups.pdfgood luck trying to find one of those, but blended with separate tone/volume pots, surprisingly accurate sound when used with a Dean Markley under bridge piezo placed about 1 inch above the bass string, and about 3/4 inch beyond/outside of where the strings attach to the bridge. also added rotomatic tuners. with heavy gauge phosphor bronze strings, sweet slide sounds acoustic only also. quite a bit higher co$t than the one i have, but it was in ~very poor~ condition when it was purchased, mid 90's... mitchfit
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