Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Waza air meant to be good.

Yeah Waza Air are good if you want the app type of experience and it sounds good. The little Fender Mustang Micro is a solid option as well, the newer Plus one has a screen on it so you don’t have to remember what all the settings are. And it’s a lot cheaper than the Waza Air.

It's a long way to the shops if you wanna sausage roll!

Sounds great ! Love it.

Opposite end of the amp spectrum, but I used my new (to me, courtesy of Sheppz) Orange Terror Stamp for my rehearsal last night. Took my Tiny Terror as well for loud times comparison and I’m pretty sure the Stamp is louder, and stays clean at a higher volume too. Might sell the head to fund a Victory or something…

Having trouble with my fuzz pedal in “live” situations. Using it for lead lines, pushed almost to the limit, and it sounds like lower volume. I think it’s just an eq thing but potentially it’s not workable as part of my pedalboard and will be stuck to just recording work

Thanks to those who indulged me on my dithering over whether to buy a tele thinline last month .

I ignored my own advice, didn’t go and try anything out, and didn’t get a thinline. Saw this Squier tele on Reverb and kept going back to it so pulled the trigger. It’s a 40th anniversary and supposedly akin to a classic vibe. The seller had made quite a few decent practical mods to it. (The strat knobs are absolutely staying). Anyway, am really enjoying it. Though if I’d dithered longer I may have ended up with the new white hello kitty strat.

Also bought this bugera amp which has a built in attenuator and 0.1w setting, I live in a block of flats so can’t crank it. Debated between this or a THR. THR would have made a lot more sense on many levels, but the bugera does at least sound great. Fun playing an electric again, it’s been years.

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I miss my Thinline Tele. It was stolen by the estate agent when I was selling my flat and then he left the country. Bastard.

Gutted. Still tempted to get one but I don’t want to go down the road of having multiple guitars. Already live that life with bikes

Lovely guitar and great to have an amp that can actually be played! I do take objection to the strat knobs, oh I really do, but different strokes hey! Would be black witch hats all the way for me...!

I've had an amp that went to 1/4w and loved it (hope @Dooks-Fatberg is loving it as much these days!) but the real game changer for me was getting a dummy load with a line out - been plying through my valve amps in my headphones ever since which I've loved, makes recording and playing along to music so so easy. That's a drum I'll bang to anyone who has a guitar and plays at home!

Tentative feelers out for selling my 1963 Gibson SG Standard. Was going to get it refinned in Nitro. After waiting all year for a slot the person is now ill and not taking on anymore work, but after thinking long and hard I feel if I did get it refinished I'd want to keep it, and the point was to do that to make it more attractive to buyers.

So I'm looking for in region of £2K if anyone is in the market?

Hey congrats man!

Tentative feelers out for selling my 1963 Gibson SG Standard. Was going to get it refinned in Nitro. After waiting all year for a slot the person is now ill and not taking on anymore work, but after thinking long and hard I feel if I did get it refinished I'd want to keep it, and the point was to do that to make it more attractive to buyers.

So I'm looking for in region of £2K if anyone is in the market

No. never.

Send pics.

Lovely guitar and great to have an amp that can actually be played! I do take objection to the strat knobs, oh I really do, but different strokes hey! Would be black witch hats all the way for me...!

I've had an amp that went to 1/4w and loved it (hope @Dooks-Fatberg is loving it as much these days!) but the real game changer for me was getting a dummy load with a line out - been plying through my valve amps in my headphones ever since which I've loved, makes recording and playing along to music so so easy. That's a drum I'll bang to anyone who has a guitar and plays at home!

Yowser. I do dig the little Vox, although tbh, I haven't really used it much. I keep my silverface fenders plugged in and that just sits there looking pretty. It was going to live downstairs but getting a puppy put paid to that!

Pots date to July 1963

It's in thick Poly - bad

It was originally re-finished (previous owner) due to break in headstock to the neck knuckle (hard to photograph well)

The dot is missing over the i of the Gibson logo. There's some chat online about this being fairly common on Sixties Gibsons. I was going to ask the luthier to see if it's been covered over by previous finish

The tuners/pegs are not original. Nor the volume/tone knobs, nor is the Lyre trem arm. The scratchplate is. The neck is really nice. The pickups and covers are OG.

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Hnnnng. So nice. And such a bargain considering a decent 90s or 00s one is gonna be around a grand anyway. Mine's a 1997 I think and cost me £900 a couple of years back. I love it.

Although the idea of trading up to '63 for a grand of incremnental cost (assuming I sell mine) is very tempting, I reckon i'd end up where you are in wanting to get the re-refin done.

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Yeah that's the crux really. It's a lovely thing as it is but that would really elevate it. Trouble is as I say, I'd spend £800 ish getting it done then want to keep it, and I'm trying to downsize!

Receipt from sale SH in '68 (which I just noticed was 56 years ago yesterday!) and period catalogue

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Ooh the receipt and catalogue is ace

cheers. Knew the knobs were going to be controversial.

(This amp has a headphone socket, but it's on the back - will definitely be getting used).

Beauty

I really don't need an SG, but... 😳😍🤣

Have sent pics to mate who may well be up for buying.

I’m visiting him in Germany next week, could take it with me!

What are you using for your dummy load. IR loader ?

Yep, had a basic Harley Benton for a while and then upgraded to a Torpedo Captor. From there I go into Logic and load IRs in there. There's a lot of plugins that do it, some for free, but since getting the Captor I use their Genome plugin. It comes with a load of dynamic IRs though I tend to default to the York Audio IRs I have which sound great!