Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I had a Mark III a while ago. Loved it, but boy was it way too loud for my flat.

I've always thought they were super boring sounding.

What would you suggest?

Thanks - good to know.

You'll only get one answer from me, move heaven and earth and get an 80s Super Champ. Best amp I've ever played through.

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Agree with @RonAsheton, never liked that whole series from Fender, including and especially the Blues Junior - why that amp is so popular will forever remain a mystery to me.
Hot Rods also have a tendency of eventually burning off the PCB, which isn't exactly repairable.

What amps do you currently have and what are you looking for? Partly to recommend something, mostly to live vicariously through your got-money-to-spend on gear POV.

The problem with the hot rod type fenders was that they were voiced so mid-scooped that they just disappeared in a band mix.

I spotted a cheap early 00s Deluxe on MarketPlace a couple of days ago, mustered all my willpower to resist. Went back for another look an hour later and it had (thankfully) gone.

Kinda regret it now. 😐🤣

But no Fender master volume so probably not for me anyhow.

There's also been a Marshall 1974x with a matching extension cab flirting with me on MarketPlace for the last few months. I'm very tempted to flog my full stack and grab that bitch.

And then build the retirement project wall of small-to-medium sized tube amps. I want a Princeton, a Deluxe and a Vibrolux. Don't ask me why, I'm just not well.

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Oh delicious! Love those 1974's!

Do eeet!

Man they are purdy.

I’m breaking out the silverface Vibrolux for some dorky rawk jam fun this evening.

The zip on my trusty gig bag bit the dust yesterday, I thought I'd get a Mono bag as they look great but the price is a bit ooof.

What should I be looking at? I found a BOSS bag that looks pretty good and was a third of the price of a Mono, what else is out there?

I just bought a TGI 4830 which is essentially a Mono copy. So far so good

They look great, fantastic price too but unavailable down here in Oz. 😐 I'm looking at the Boss CB-EG20 which actually looks very similar to that TGI one.

They're all quite boring, aren't they? I was looking at getting a Mono a few years back and they seemed much more exciting back then, they just look a bit dull now.

So good!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4jQ5K3O1E9/?igsh=OTNub3ZpenBvbGg0

Heh, the sweet weird dudes at the local bumfuck Kent radio station we practiced at, papped us and posted it. https://www.instagram.com/p/C4lQ_B_sS0Q/?igsh=MTgyaGczdHB2c282ZA==

That was literally the first time me and the drummer had ever played a note together, it was the first time he’d set up his kit in ten years and he didn’t know the tune. Gawd bless him.

I really liked my Hot Rod Deluxe. Not the hippest amp, quite vanilla, but it's great as a big clean amp platform. Loves pedals.

The lead guitarist in my old indiepop band had a Hot Rod Deluxe. I’d agree it wasn’t a terribly exciting amp, and the overdrive was hopeless, but it had a beautiful almost crystalline clean tone, and the reverb was nice.

Anyone have any idea what Gibson model Christopher Cross is playing in this Rick Beato video?

Looks like it might just be a J-45 just in a colour you don't see as often?

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Looks like a J-45. Could be a J-50 in Antique Natural and looks slightly darker due to lighting? Hard to tell

Or a J-45 in Mahogany perhaps

Fret marker inlays look non standard though?

Maybe this?

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594595

Certainly the parallelogram inlays anyway

Ahhh that certainly looks close, thank you.

Yes the inlays were what was confusing me!

Search on Gibson Southern Style maybe. It could be a custom colour of course