Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I am consideing buying this little amp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGpIRj6MZTM

Barber - what is the amp you are using?

Company 'EVA' English Valve Amps, check out their website,

Ended up with it because i wanted a marshall 2061x (the 20w handwired lead and bass head) - but it was ~£1000,

I stumbled across EVA through some good reviews, and they do a clone of it (with some improvements, better components, and a standby switch) for circa £600, and a nice Celestion vintage 2 x 12 cabinet for £400...

After reading reviews and speaking to the guys there, i ended up going for the 'TMB' model, which has a master volume and treble middle bass control, its essentially the marshall that marshall never made... Very clean signal path, all point to point turret board wiring, all english made components, hand made woodwork and nice chassis machining etc... all in all a very nicely built amplifier... and a very loud 18w

i ended up with a NOS mullard something or other in position 1, which gives a bit more headroom than stock, although i try to play on 75% pre-amp vol, and 75% master, no pedals, using the guitar volume for volume/tone adjustments, a la kossoff.

i couldnt be happier with the amp, certainly not a bedroom amplifier though.

edit: Just need some nice PAF replicas now!

Sounds great dude. Soon as i've finished the path racer i'm going to look at new amps. i've been an old fender + fender fan for years now but recently i've been broadening my tastes a bit. Been playing a wonderful Cornell "bluesbreaker" clone in rehearsals. Tis a thing of great sonic beauty.

Been trying various cheapo fuzzes lately but none have made it into the gig-bag just yet. So that's me.

Post yr pedals!

For nice velcro-y fuzz, I recommend the Guyatone mini, if you can get a hold of one.

My pedal selection is pretty sparse:

First pedal I ever bought. Still really rate it, despite not really getting on with any Boss products since. Warms everything up nicely, good for the odd bit of grit.

Not a great 'fuzz' pedal, but the boost switch turns it into a screaming box of noise, which I'm in favour of.

Eats current, but sounds surf-tastic when teamed with the spring reverb on my Fender.

I had a shot of the T-Rex tremster last week (through a pristine Boogie Mark II no less). Amazing. Must have one.

edit: Just need some nice PAF replicas now!

What are the brands you are looking into now?

I have a set of Tom Holmes. Bought them when they were still affordable. Fralins should be good although I only have them in my strat - nice vintage sound. All my friends who put Fralins in their LPs are very pleased with the pickup.

To be honest I need to do a bit of reading into it first,
and contemplate the rs guitarworks wiring kit upgrade to get the most out of them.

'throbak' pickups get great reviews, so do the seymour duncan antiquities,

I think that at that 'quality' of pickup, the difference between the pickups is going to be down to personal taste, not sound quality full stop (as any set is going to be nice)
but as 'try before you buy' isn't really an option in most cases,
im thinking its just a case of taking the plunge and getting a set and hoping you like the result, which im sure i will...

mine has 57' classics in it at the moment which are nice, but not doing it for me,
i want that real glass shattering shimmer!

@ Old Gold. Nice selection dude. Weirdly, I never got on with the OD3. A couple of years ago my ears were getting tired of that very mid-spiked Tubescreamer sound (I usually use either a TS9 or Digitech Bad Monkey*) and wanted to branch out into other overdrives, so after trying shedloads and reading even more I bought an OD3. I tried it at a gig (at the Purple Turtle in Camden) and after two songs I had to unplug at and go back to the Tubescreamer.

I was so used to that honky almost nasal mid spike cutting though the din of the band that not having it there was like being lost in a sea of mush. I kept turning up and up looking for that clarity that never arrived. Seems to work great for some people but just didn't do it for me. Perhaps it's that thing of Fender Single coils plus big Fender tube amp = a very lush sparkly but mid-scooped sound. I think that's why Tubescreamers and their clones and neighbours work so well in that environment? That and I was frantically trying to fill space in a noisy three piece who's bass player was always dinking about on the top end. Dunno.

*Awesome mega-bargain pedal. Think I paid £30 for mine new. Sounds almost as good as the TS9 andis a quarter of the price. It's tougher, better made and has way more useful controls (treble AND bass!).

I've not really had a chance to try out the OD3 with my evil twin yet to be honest. I totally sympathise with the need for a bit of cutting overdrive... the sparkly headroom is unreal.

Hello there all...

So the Ibanez is gone in place of this...

G&L Legacy, one of the first ones after Leo Fender died, signed by "Phyllis Fender on behalf of Leo"

Also got one of these...

Line6 DL4...

About to get one of these...

Blackstar Artisan 30H

It's well good!!!

Who wanted a wah?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread37567.html#post1203057

Who wanted a wah?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread37567.html#post1203057

Fuck that, I'm buying the NES!

Cheers for the link.

got my eye on the giant peg meself.

I spotted this acoustic guitar on some classfieds and thought it looked pretty dandy. Seller doesnt know anything about it, and there is no makers name on it anywhere.

It is a bit of a mission to go over and check it in person, so was wondering if any of you lot may have an inkling to what brand it might be, and if it looks like it is made of decent wood.

@ Zed: ARRRG I FUCKING LOVE MATAMPS.

Me and the other guitarist from my band both have Matamp 412s. Slightly deeper than most, so they really do move some air.

I really want to get a head!

http://www.lfgss.com/thread37882.html

I spotted this acoustic guitar on some classfieds and thought it looked pretty dandy. Seller doesnt know anything about it, and there is no makers name on it anywhere.

It is a bit of a mission to go over and check it in person, so was wondering if any of you lot may have an inkling to what brand it might be, and if it looks like it is made of decent wood.

It looks a bit like an old Eko? I'd need to have a proper looky inside to figure out what kind of construction it is judging from that fancy central piece on the back though i'd be surprised if it wans't all solid.

What's he asking for it? Also, it may not have a logo on the headstock but I can see a maker's label in the soundhole. Maybe get them to read that?

^ Nice haul of planks! :]
Anyone got an MXR Micro Amp they wanna get rid of? Ta muchly...
I've decided I've gotta start playing more...

Niiiiice stuff Jeez.

Yeah you do 'slain! No mini amp here though sorry.

I've got an awesome week of guitar related shenanigans lined up:

• Tonight i'm practicing for impending re-union of my old power-pop math rock type trio.
  
• Tomorrow i'm practicing with the early rock n roll party covers band (augmented with sun sessions esque versions of other cheesy rockers and floor fillers)
  
• Thursday I'm rehearsing with my new band and we're working on Singapore by Tom Waits as well as load of new stuff. Mark Ribot impressions a-go-go.
  
• Saturday I'm starting recording drums for our first errr... recording.
  
  

Couldn't be happier to be amongst it all again. At the moment I am secretly trying to master the guitar solo to "You Shook Me All Night Long" to surprise everyone with on Wednesday. It's getting there. I'm 90% happy with the first half and 10% happy with the second half.

*Wails

dooks

if i asked you whether fatherhood was a tactical decision and whether you have long legs would you have a clue what I meant or would you think i was utterly bonkers?

jeez

Haha that's weird. Yes I know what you're onabout. Reveal yourself!

Wow innernets forum crossover flashback weirdnes! You're not Albert are you? No, of course you're not. I Fear Satan? I can't think of anyone else other than Albert who got banz0red from there? I miss Plan B actually. The forum died cold lonely death before the mag disappeared. I miss the mag though. The forum... meh.

And yes I know exactly who you're talking about and I know how you feel. She was/is an amazing person in many ways but yep, I wouldn't want to have found myself on her wrong side.

I give up. What was your name on there?

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im hankering after a cornell romany plus

might have to take advantage of virgins 0% interest balance transfer,

it works out at £100 per watt of power - jeeeeessz ( < nothing to do with the fact that the above poster is called jeez)

Father Fred! Hello! Small virtual world. I had no Idea you'd been ousted from there. You'll hav eto try harder to get booted off here I can assure you.

Concur with all of that. I'm yet to find a replacement for Plan B. Wire's too po-faced for me, Artrocker's always been a shower and Rock-A-Rolla is pretty good but doesn't really seem to cater for my tastes these days.

im hankering after a cornell romany plus

might have to take advantage of virgins 0% interest balance transfer,

it works out at £100 per watt of power - jeeeeessz ( < nothing to do with the fact that the above poster is called jeez)

i have one. its the nuts. its one of the new ones with A B C AND D output stages.
one of my favorite amps.

someone buy something;
http://www.lfgss.com/thread37882.html

Those cornford's look nice. 10 watts is a nice size for wee gigs. Think I'd still prefer an old princeton for the money though. And you're right... that's a LOT of money. My bandmate picked up a beautiful all original '61 Ampeg Jet R12 (15 watts) for £500 last year.

http://www.blueskyguitars.com/images/ampeg1.jpg

Here's a beautiful Princeton.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1971-Fender-Princeton-Reverb-Amplifier-Silverface-Amp_W0QQitemZ190372341579QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c5313674b

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