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Post by creolian on Nov 9, 2019 19:08:51 GMT
In the last few days I've been listening to the...Sex Pistols!!! And watching a few John Lydon interviews on youtube...Funny and intelligent guy, isn't he?! Frank One of the more paradoxical experiences working w/ muscians Ive had was discovering that punk rockers are some incredibly thoughtful and gentle persons...
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Post by creolian on Nov 9, 2019 18:06:40 GMT
This is not presented as well as it could be, but nonetheless it is interesting to hear it all crammed into a few minutes. I guess that spending time with Eric Clapton, Jesse Ed Davis, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Ravi Shankar and one or two others had something to do with George's beautiful slide guitar style and musicianship. George was an extraordinary and amazing artist. Shine On Michael The sheet music on "free as a bird"... says it all ! George Harrison was one of those cats who IS music and always will be... what an incredible soul !
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Post by creolian on Nov 9, 2019 17:55:47 GMT
Erc (god) gave me an introduction to the blues..
... and an introduction to soap operas.
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Post by creolian on Nov 5, 2019 18:03:41 GMT
Thanks for posting this... harp guitars are some of my favorites. I find they generally sound like a sophisticated Kora... I have an old friend here that plays harp guitar almost exclusively, Phil DeGruy. He's a bit eccentric and makes some beautiful sounds with his custom electric "Guitarp". He had an antique acoustic Guitarp that was for sale last time I saw him. I think it had some serious issues from years of tension. Still it had an incredible sound sometimes similar to bagpipes with the low strings droning. Sadly, I never heard him play the acoustic on a gig... his current ax is A semi hollow body W 7 regular and 17 ? High pitched strings that he gets an ethereal harmonic effect from...His website is www.Guitarp.com... This a gallery of harpguitars from wiki p... it looks like some of the same instruments in Michael's op + some other oddballs. One thing certain, these arent factory mass produced;-) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp_guitar#/media/File:Dyer_Harp_Guitar.jpg.02- If you ever get the opportunity to hear a competent harp guitar player, dont pass it up. They sound beautiful. j
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Post by creolian on Oct 31, 2019 0:28:28 GMT
Speaker AND tube quality make an enormous difference... I had two momentous experiences. 1) 30 years ago found in classifieds a beat vintage Marshall 4x12 slant cabinet with greenbacks. Was amazing. Never heard anything as sweet as that sound from any local band playing ordinary gear. Humble Pie and Beano in my garage. Sold it to a recording studio for 10x what I paid. 2) Had a no name 100 watt head (the one that drove the Marshall cabinet) that was loaded with choice vintage USA tubes. Realized I would not be able to get much $$ for it, so removed and kept all the tubes and loaded it with garden variety sovtek or whatever tubes...sound quality was significantly degraded. I became a true believer in speaker and tube quality... I cannot agree more. Ive been on the hunt for a couple of grail vintage Jbl D-120 or 130s for a long time... supercool ampeg B-15 page... contains hendrix ! : reverb.com/news/the-golden-age-of-the-ampeg-b-15-1960-1980for Mitch... I confess, my little 20w ss hiwatt amp is powering a military ship hailer... the marshall likes the 8" speaker. Ships hailer... 12" dynamic compression driver... loud as ? Sounds like 1941. Attachments:
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Post by creolian on Oct 30, 2019 20:06:57 GMT
mitchfit levels*-- for the sane cowards who run from HIWATT amp SPLs or hide from other sonic weaponry sources behind ear plugs inserted under headphones like itself. how counter-intuitive does that plan sound? Lol... I see the HiWatt badge and I know whats coming... . I've done just that on many occasions. Using gun muffs over earplugs... considering how loud things were, the combined attenuation had me listening at 85 db instead of 115. Counterintuitive no doubt... better than bloody eardrums. ( continued over exposure has injured my hearing ) Conversely, To really isolate what is getting printed to tape in a loud room I use in ears under the gun muffs. My ears ring so bad... Im not confident I can judge tone objectively any more... I probably should start looking for a hiwatt... Whatever works, J😎
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Post by creolian on Oct 30, 2019 3:15:24 GMT
I had an issue with the opening gambit on that web page- the decibel is a unit of sound? Maybe so, but for me a decibel is a ratio of one thing to another, be it power, voltage, current, sound pressure level etc etc. Note that because (in simplistic terms) it's a product of voltage and current, a 3dB power change would not reflect a 3dB change in the associated current or voltage. The decibel is useless without a reference level. That's why you see loudspeaker efficiency expressed as dB to a reference level- usually one watt? How many folks look beyond the power rating on a loudspeaker? In that article, the writer was using 50 watts as a reference for 100 watts, hence 3dB. I was on board with the rest of the article though. It soon becomes obvious why JP's Supro amp sounded so loud and why a Fender Deluxe can be such an animal. 100 watt stacks are just testosterone pumps in my geriatric view! e&oe ...Hey stevie, this is how I understand the specs... e&oe fo sure ! The decibel is misleading in that it expresses an algebraic expansion based on the inverse square law. Not linear, Twice as many decibels is not twice as loud. Just like my motorcycle reaches a top speed of diminishing returns based on air resistance vs HP, so does sound. While 50-100 watts gets you a 3db increase, a 1000-2000 watt increase gets the same three db. the harder you punch the air, the more resistance... ( a3db increase is what a non critical listener will notice) ...in a lab, at 100 mph my bike would need double its 65hp to go 103mph. For every doubling of power input, you get the same incremental increase... Also and I think you allude to, factory stats are meaningless without input parameters. "My amp puts out 30w" means nothing. without saying it puts out 30w based on a .01v input signal at 440 hz... or does it put out music at an average 30w ? The output wattage without load at what frequency is meaningless in that if you output any amp into a zero ohm load it will output around 2000w ( 20 amp circuit) and quickly fry... most amps are tested for output wattage and thd distortion at 1000hz. An octave and half above middle A. We are left with our ears... no laws apply other than gravity... that soldano weighs 85lbs. Im crunk... best all! jeff
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Post by creolian on Oct 28, 2019 20:38:13 GMT
Read an interesting facebook post recently. Valve amps (circa 30w) sound best with the treble full and bass off, max volume! It's how Muddy Waters / Albert King etc set theirs. There is a 'scientific' reason for it too... TT Hey Deuce, I worked a few of Albert's shows at tipitinas in nola in the late 70s... he was using an Acoustic brand PA head and speaker... he had a set of louvered window shutters in front of his speaker ( to diffuse the blast ?) ... one thing for sure... it was cranked very loud and cut through everything. The acoustic ( I wanna say 360 ) system had a plastic horn over something like 6 10" speakers and the sound of his rig made a statement. I never worked a MW show but I saw him once at a tiny club and he blew the roof off as well. Edit: the amp albert was using was a solid state acoustic 270. 201 cab, Horn and 2 15" speakers. www.popscreen.com/prod/MTU3OTczMTAx/AcousticControlCorporation271201270comboGuitarAmplifierI have no idea what tone settings etc but the science with tone controls varies. Most single knobs are a variety treble cut only like Pete's vox. Other amps use a variety of boost, cut, phase relationship and other schemes depending on how many psychedelic experiences the designer had. The link in my earlier post has the schematics and the how of various small amp tone controls. Turning bass one way and treble the other is a recipe for comb filtering which is a result of phase relationships not being aligned. Comb filtering usually sounds bad but specific effects pedals are made to do it... whatever works ! One thing about every older bluseman Ive known, they ignore science and just twist away. Best, Jeff
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Post by creolian on Oct 27, 2019 22:37:08 GMT
Having trouble tuning the bass down and the treble up as my AC30 only has 1 tone knob . Any chance of a link to the ‘scientific’ reason , as I also have amps with 2 and even 3 tone knobs . Pete chasingtone.com/yourguitaramp/guide-to-single-knob-tone-controls/
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link don't work for me... had to paste the address into duckgogo ? Sorry bout the multiple posts, dont know why ?
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Post by creolian on Oct 27, 2019 22:34:52 GMT
Disregard...double post
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Post by creolian on Oct 27, 2019 22:34:05 GMT
This is my current favorite... 36watts 2/12" eminence . These settings pretty much never change... other than volume. At 7 its LOUD, Im afraid of what it might do At 11 I can get what I need from the guitar.
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Post by creolian on Oct 22, 2019 15:58:53 GMT
Hello all,
Ive seen a couple muscians using Hi Fi tube amps... Papa John Creech, Jean luc Ponty both were using the iconic McIntosh mc300 600w tube amps with the aqua blue meters. Both were running two amps briged mono at once. Their sound was envelopingly loud and clean... unfortunately those amps weigh a ton... 98lbs each. Ive used a crown dc300 w a guitar pre and it worked really well for acoustics.
Wondering if youve ever used that beauty as a guitar amp ?
Green w Envy,😎
Jeff
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Post by creolian on Oct 19, 2019 12:33:22 GMT
I've only discovered Jo Ann Kelly in the last few years and I'm so impressed with her singing and guitar playing. I don't know how I missed her since I've been collecting records of British blues from about 1970 on. One of my first concerts in the early 1970s was Savoy Brown. I'm (very slowly) trying to improve her article on an online encyclopedia. Mostly I've been gathering reliable sources before improving/fleshing out the text but I hope to start writing now that I have 12 to 15 good sources, including Pete Moody's three-part biography, her obituaries in three major English papers in 1990, Wirz's discography ( www.wirz.de/music/kellydsc.htm), and several blues encyclopedia bios. There's some great info here in various threads but I'm hoping I can ask for some help on a couple of items. 1. Kelly's first EP, "Blues & Gospel", is widely reported online as released in 1964, which has always seemed strange when her first major LP on Epic was in 1969. Then I found the liner notes from the compilation "Blues & Gospel: Rare & Unreleased Recordings" (2004) ( ia902900.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-9e414d66-1375-4851-b451-957eac2fdc4d/mbid-9e414d66-1375-4851-b451-957eac2fdc4d-20863916689.jpg) which indicates it was probably released May, 1968. Tony McPhee is extensively quoted about the time frame and circumstances around the recording and release. That seems sourced enough to accurately date the EP but I was wondering if anyone had other info about the EP. 2. I need a photo of Kelly for the article. The use of copyrighted material/photos is, basically, impossible. Even using an album cover requires the cover to be notable enough to specifically talk about it in the article and none of Kelly's album covers fall under that situation. So I'm looking for a photo of Kelly that the copyright owner would be willing to release under a Creative Commons "Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike" (CC BY-NC-SA). Anytime the photo is used, it should be attributed to the copyright owner, cannot be used for commercial purposes, and can be used in derivative works. This does not affect the actual legal copyright, just how the image can be used. There is more info here: CC info I don't know who to ask about getting a photo. I've been trying to track down Pete Emery and Dave Kelly with limited results. Plus it seems creepy for me to cold-email either of them on this matter but if anyone has a current email to share, I'll do it because I want Jo Ann to be remembered.
Thanks,
N'awlins
Hi there, You might want to try the Library... Here, we have the Library of Congress which has a ton of archived material. I was tangentially involved in research for the music exhibitory at Mud Island in Memphis. Most of the photos and recordings there came from the LOC. A good portion of any Ken Burns documentary comes straight off the library shelf... There are also some really impressive music streaming offered by local librarys. The Boston library in particular. Through my local library here in the parish I can listen to some of Michal Messers work... as well as scrapper Blackwell, etc... I dunno what is avliable in the UK but you should be able to access USA hosted sites. Here in New Oyunz Id never heard of her... found this www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jo-ann-kelly/ Enjoyed a listen... Mission Accomplished ! Red Beans and Mustard Greens for all, Jeff
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Post by creolian on Oct 18, 2019 21:54:29 GMT
Open Mic rig as seen in America
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Post by creolian on Oct 18, 2019 21:43:16 GMT
Shine On Michael Hello Michael, all if this is what I think it is, I hope it catches on. always enjoy hearing yall play and have made a few nice discoverys from the what Im listening to thread...
Still a luddite not wanting to join the app based universe... best I can currently do is email a wav file.. OOPS ! I saw this by itself in recent posts and thought it was a new thread...lol. Might not be a bad idea to have an open mic topic so that forum members can hear each other more accessibly... Reminds me to try and see if the add attachment option will allow a wav or mp3 file to run without downloading... off to record a 15 second song 😎 Best, jeff ps, listening to Mitra, rolling n tumblin... I never get tired the of layers of rhythm and timbres in your performance, my thighs get a workout playing along tho.... really astounding !
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