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05-05-2017, 02:30 PM #426
If you don't have a metronome on, you're not practicing. Whatever you're doing - working on scales, learning new chords or arpeggios, learning a new song, etc. - will benefit from learning to do it in time. You should have a metronome on pretty much the entire time you're practicing. If you can't keep up, turn the tempo down.
Outlive the bastards - Ed Abbey
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05-05-2017, 08:37 PM #427
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05-05-2017, 09:51 PM #428
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05-05-2017, 10:07 PM #429Putting the "core" in corporate, one turn at a time.
Metalmücil 2010 - 2013 "Go Home" album is now a free download
The Bonin Petrels
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05-05-2017, 10:10 PM #430
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05-06-2017, 11:13 AM #431
"Let's just start with something easy in 4|4 to help everybody relax." ...
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05-06-2017, 08:48 PM #432
Tone
Grant Green, like 'Trane, needs no room made. Grant Green's tone can cut through the thickest mix without any additional volume. You can always hear every note Grant Green plays.
Grant Green played his ES330 with his fingers and there was nothing but cable between him and his Fender Tweed, Super, or Twin.
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05-07-2017, 07:10 PM #433
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05-08-2017, 09:00 AM #434
I just got a SWEET Fender Road Worn Players Tele in trade over the weekend. It's a "fat" model, so it has a Seymour Duncan '59 in the neck. This thing is GREAT! Amazing neck! Feels like a Charvel. Kinda loving having a Tele again! It's been a while.
Gravity. It's the law.
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05-08-2017, 09:27 AM #435
I used to have a '70s Twin that had the single greatest clean tone I've ever heard in an amp. Like you say, it just cut through everything, yet remained totally clean and full sounding (unless you wanted to overdrive it). It was amazing. It also weighed about a thousand pounds and was HUGE when in a road case, and it was too powerful to use as a home amp. I eventually sold it in favor of something smaller (a modified '70s silverface Deluxe), but I've always missed that sound.
Last I heard I think Derek Trucks ended up with it. Glad someone who deserves it ended up with it.Outlive the bastards - Ed Abbey
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05-08-2017, 03:48 PM #436Galibier Designcrafting technology in service of music
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05-08-2017, 09:50 PM #437
Couple of repeats but this is the current stable, more or less. Some of the USA Reverends are in different configurations now.
Reverend Bob Balch Sensei, 1969(?)Ampeg VT-40, Guytron 2x12 (V30 and CL80)
Reverend Daredevil with G90 pickups
Music room at the end of the Metalmücil era. The Korg keyboard has been replaced by a 61-key MIDI trigger. Modified Squier J. Mascis Jazzmaster in the stand.
Acoustic stuff. Mandolin not pictured.
Reverend Volcano RA prototype
Reverend USA ENG Rocco, Reverend Ron Asheton Volcano, Reverend Volcano custom, Reverend Sensei HB-FM (sold) Reverend Hellhound (one of two)
Reverend USA top to bottom Rocco, Avenger, Slingshot
Crews Maniac Sound OS series SG.
Reverend neck on partscaster thinline Tele and the Slingshot again
Not pictured: Squier Jaguar bass, Roland DB-500 bass amp, bunch of pedals and stuff. Planning on picking up an Explorer being held for me in Japan in a few weeks.
That's me in the background regulating against a rowdy crowd during a Metalmücil show. RnR baby!
Putting the "core" in corporate, one turn at a time.
Metalmücil 2010 - 2013 "Go Home" album is now a free download
The Bonin Petrels
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05-08-2017, 10:29 PM #438
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05-09-2017, 01:23 PM #439
Tone
vid, but that's even better. Who do you hear?
Some of it's just physics, a Torres-scale guitar, even with 2 or more tops, can not sing as loudly as a steel string dreadnought Gallagher. I guess Chester just wanted to gig his Ramirez* to up the $$?
That's not Ol Hoss btw. Doc was jamming Ol Hoss by the fire pit one night in 1974, and set it against a log, where it slid down into his accustomed path while he played someone else's guitar on an old fiddle tune. When he got up to go tinkle, he stepped right through it.
Chet could play. But you only get a glimpse when he yards on it with his thumbpick held as a flatpick.
Meanwhile, Doc's tone walks all over him, even when he can't hold the pic any lighter. Doc flatpicked with light gauge strings, and not a very hard pick. We can't hear the bottom of his dreadnought or the Fender bass in this clip.
* or Hauser, or whatever it is
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05-09-2017, 04:24 PM #440
Tone
Killswitch Engage records a bitchin rhythm guitar tone.
Tastes vary. Say what you will, but their tone hits the nerve because
1. it's percussive as well as hudge JVM
2. you can hear every string, and block chords don't fall apart into a muddy muddle of mids ("clean" "tight" "too tight..."),
3. it propels the singer's voice and delivery like the warm compressed breath of a Balrog, and cradles it like hard expanding polycyanide foam.
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05-09-2017, 04:31 PM #441
Tone...
...Tone sold more albums than technique ever did.
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05-09-2017, 05:53 PM #442
Fabulous Tone Comes From the Right Hand
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05-10-2017, 05:06 AM #443
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05-10-2017, 07:14 AM #444Registered User
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05-11-2017, 03:20 PM #445
Right Hand
"Tone, son."
"No. You can't join Cobra Kai. And you already know how your Momma feels about her only boy playing football..."
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05-13-2017, 02:28 PM #446
Tone
I need a mic like this...
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05-19-2017, 10:45 PM #447
Father forgive me as I have sinned.... again...
This is a late '60's/early '70's Ventura copy of a Gretsch Country Gentleman, though there's no leather pad on the back and it has a bolt-on neck. Picked it up in very well worn but solid shape off of CL the other day. Lots of patina and sweat on this one, and it's coated in baked on dust.
Plugged it in for a minute when it got home and it sounded cool, but the switchgear and pots were intermittent so hard to get a good vibe on it. Been soaking them all in cleaner and I suspect they'll work fine. They usually do.
It is now in pieces on the workbench. Some disassembly required. Scraping gobs of solvent resistant goo off the fretboard and metal bits, and someone had put nail polish on the fretboard markers. All the metal was at one time gold colored which I didn't know until I took the pickups apart and saw that the covers, below the mounting rims were all yellow! The faux Bigsby once was gold too, but not anymore. I like it better non-gold anyway.
These were made in the "lawsuit" era in either the Fujijen or Matsumoko factories - still in existence and made some good shit, along with some junk - when the Japanese were knocking off all the great axes of the day but were eventually stopped by the major American manufacturers' lawyers.
Of course in those days we turned our noses up at them. I can't afford a real one any more, and this is, I think, pretty well put together for less than 10% of the real thing and some elbow grease. Top and back appear to be solid wood, nice binding, painted on f-holes (same as Gretsch). Really a pretty design.
The two switches on top are three-way: on, off, split coil for each pickup (I think). One volume control, one tone, pickup selector knob (1,2, 1+2) and a kill switch. The funny looking thing on the bridge is a string mute. It pushes a piece of rubber up against the strings so it sounds a little banjo-like. The Gretsches had these too. Need to figure out how to soften the rubber though as it's hard as a rock.
Have I mentioned I like mutt guitars? Sometimes they just call out to me and I succumb to their sirens song.
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05-20-2017, 08:44 AM #448
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05-20-2017, 01:24 PM #449
I've been lusting after a semi hollow. I dig the master volume on the lower horn a la gretsch.
But Ellen kicks ass - if she had a beard it would be much more haggard. -Jer
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05-20-2017, 04:00 PM #450
They can be cool. I have a few (mutts) in the semi range. One of my guitar regrets is selling my '74 ES335 long, long ago. Dumbass.
This one is actually pretty much completely hollow. There's block of wood about 3" wide inside starting just aft of the bridge pickup to the tailpiece. Clearly for anchoring the bridge pins and tailpiece, but that's it. I believe the Gretsches had a block all the way down the middle but not sure. That knob on the lower horn is actually the pickup selector.
Once I get it back together I'll be able to figure out how all the knobs and switches actually work, but it was not fully functional when I plugged it in.
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