Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Yeah, it’s just from a lot of pics I’ve seen of them the colours seem a bit desaturated, the fingerboard a bit grey and laurel-like, and the sunburst being a bit uneven, having too much black on the upper horn, not enough red, etc.

I’m sure they’re nice to play and I would def go for a Vintera II over a Player, the pickups will be much more vintage-voiced.

Haha very true…probably why mine lives in a case 99% of the time.

Nnnnnnice!

RIP Albini, damn.

Fucking hell, what shit news to wake up to.

Fun challenge for you. A mate of mine is opening a rehearsal space out here in Whitstable. What bass and giutar amps should he provide?

Not the MG100s we were using last night, fucking hell

Boring answer is a couple of Hot Rod Deluxe. Better option is a massive Bandmaster from the 70s with 4x10 cab, or a similar silver panel, because they're big and dramatic and nobody can house them anymore so they're cheap.

I'm thinking some sort of marshall head and a couplf of 2x12s (so that folks can bring their own heads if they want) plus either something fendery like a twin or deluxe. That would cover pretty much every style and be a reasonable balance of affordable/flexible/reliable.

Yes! A pair of un-loved SF TWins and big box of spare valves would probably be my choice.

The option for own heads is definitely worth having, my metal band guitarists do that as we can’t reasonably expect any studio to have suitable amps for that.

I’d say that fender amps are the same at the other end of the spectrum though, I don’t find them particularly neutral (but it might just be because I don’t personally like them)

If it were me I'd probably go with BlackStar. Can be had for relatively cheap used and sound great. Do they make bass gear as well?

Is it just one room?

The cheap Eden bass combos from gear4music are de rigeur for practice rooms these days. 2x12 ought to do it

Oh yeah bass gear! It’s two medium sized rooms.

Thanks for the suggestions.

The best bass setups I've found in rehearsal studios are Orange stacks, very reliable & cover most tones (despite their image).

Fender Rumbles are pretty good for the money. Just anything other than Ashdown ABM's!

Yeah I used to have an orange 4x10 bass cabinet, sounded really good and absolutely indestructible.

Starting to think about selling on my Vox AC4TV... Just figured I'd check if there's any interest on here that might sway me in the direction of saying goodbye?

Had a quiet life, played at home and treated well, comes with a waterproof cover. £175? Great little crunchy tone machine!

Pointless post alert, but I just had quite a poor blues jam session where lots didn’t seem to work, but it somehow also massively cemented my love for my mustang again. That guitar just speaks to me on a way that my others don’t.

(The stuff that wasn’t working was not guitar related, funnily enough)

Well that's good. Weird that innit. I had a period lately where I was actually considering getting rid of my Tele on the grounds that I'd just massively gone off it. I didn't seem to be comfortable playing it, i'd convinced myself I didn't like the nack shape and I didn't like the sounds I was getting. Picked it up on Friday and was completely back in smit.

I do need to shift some more stuff tho. The problem is, most of it's low value and with some sort of sentimental angle... such as the Squier SHOWMASTER I rescured from the dump, or the Scroungeocaster that I cobbled together with gumtree bits and generous donations from here. The Guild Acoustic I started stripping to refinich and never finished. They're all taking up wall space and gatheting dust.

Take the Scrounge-o-caster. It's a collection of half decent and very cheap parts slightly shoddily assembled by me as a project to teachmyself to spary nitro during lockdown. It's a nice memory and it looks great (at a distance) but realistically, it's never going to be a really decent usable guitar. So do I keep it and never play it or sell it for half of the cost of parts to a kid who's just starting out and wants something bargainous, functioning and cool looking?

Or option three. Keep it, fettle it and upgrade some parts?

I have this same issue with a project strat that I put together, I made a body and bought a cheap neck but never finished it properly, just screwed it together and played it. It's nice to noodle about on but I have the itch for something new, but realistically no one is going to want the one I made (and it's perfect to leave around the kids), and I have a self enforced no buying unless selling rule....

Tom Bukovac and Guthrie Trapp are such a fun combination

https://youtu.be/3MoE6MwjEmM?feature=shared

You set on a 60's? I have a MIM Fender classic 50's I don't really play anymore

3 years later and still not been played. It's like this but with the OG pickups:
https://reverb.com/uk/item/75318303-fender-classic-series-50s-stratocaster-1999-2018-daphne-blue-bare-knuckle-irish-tours

If there's any interest I'll go take some photos.

Ok, officially selling my Vox AC4TV with a Celestion 10" speaker - great little crunch tone machine, it can sing and it can fart. Just not something I need anymore so looking to shift, mostly to get some gear funds to reinvest because gear. They average around £200 on Reverb, so £175 for the forum?

It's in great condition and comes with a cover, never left the house. 1x 12AX7/ECC83 preamp valve and an EL84 for 4w, Volume, Tone and Power Scaling controls (4w, 1w, 1/4w) which actually makes it fairly home-friendly in terms of volume.

Will post pictures in due course, here's a Reverb demo of it, though I'm pretty sure the one they're playing is the 6.5" speaker version, NOT the 10" version as stated in the blurb. It does definitely look smaller than mine, and sounds bit boxier/smaller than mine, too.

https://youtu.be/Rhv0uP9c3b0?si=FtPtSlMk9-m5opgU

EDIT: here's a demo of the 10" version, albeit not very well recorded. Does show those Vox-meet-Tweed tones it pulls off though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHTcdJwyMw