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dubkitty wrote:i'm extremely familiar with Garcia's setup, but it's way too much firepower for what i do. plaster would fall from the ceiling of the apartment downstairs, and there's little likelihood i'll play in a place big enough for a rig like that again before i die. i also don't have Steve Parish to move all that shit around. and i don't really want to do that close of a Jerry-copy thing...i burned out on doing that back in the 80s though i occasionally whip it out when provoked. it would be extremely easy for me to buy a Wolf replica and have a Dead cover band, but i don't need that kind of attention. i learned with my band in the early 80s--a sort of early adopter of the jamband concept that played to acidheads in Eugene, Oregon--that Jerry had a really shitty job, and why he had to do heroin. i just want the cleans. my speakers are Dead, though. i have a 12" Weber California (a JBL D120 clone) that i play guitar through and a real JBL D140F coming tomorrow for my bass setup. i also like Greenbacks which are in the AC15 and the Laney VC30 that probably needs a new power transformer, but not as much.

i've been all EL84s since the late 2000s except the Electar Tube 10 which has one 6L6. i wanted to get away from the sound i'd been using for the preceding 35 years. but now i'm tired of clean tones that aren't really very clean.

at some point i also want to try a smaller Roland Jazz Chorus amp for the painfully clean approach. that might be a good option for looping where i don't want very much coloration of the sound. or a Quilter might be a thing for that application, but probably not as my general-purpose amp. i'm hoping the Pro Reverb will be clean enough for looping and still have the Fender amp character i like when playing without the loopers.

Blackened Soul wrote:Ok before I start.



Right then, have comming 2 basses, the first is a musicman usa sub5.. this dude had a listing on reverb (still has it up on ebay)… stock picture.. not the same color as the bass listed says.. so I think the bass will be blue.. anyway.. I was in a mood so I made an offer for under half the asking price and they accepted.. waited to the time limit on shipping to contact me about shipping it.. asked if I was ok with them taking the neck off the ship.. I was fine with that.. then they needed little more $ (still kept it less than half the listing price) because the shipping pice they had on the original listed was less then they could get it shipped for…. I said ok.. and the bass is making its way to me.. slowly… so we will have to see what shape it actual in... what color it will be… and if it is a real musicman…

2nd one…. Last February I put in a preorder for a shecter dug 12 string bass.. they kept pushing out the date so in June I cancelled my order and found a builder that had made a couple of 12s to make a neck for me instead, the neck took 3+ times the time estimate and when it got to me the neck was not the dimensions we agreed on.. the heel was the same as a 4 string.. they are not sure how it happened… so the neck is on its way back and they are refunding me.. and right after I packed it and labeled the neck a Galveston 12 string showed on on reverb… FOR THE SAME PRICE AS I PAYED FOR THAT NECK! So I got that comming, more than likely I will have to make it a new body for balance reasons but still I see this as best outcome..

Paul_C wrote:A long time ago I had a lot of Yamaha SB/SBV basses but never the guitar version, in part because the bridges looked huge and clunky which spoiled the look of them for me.

Having bought way too many Telecasters I thought I was done with guitars buying, but persistence threw up this:



Which should be in my hands sometime this week

Blackened Soul wrote:

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coldbrightsunlight wrote:

Paul_C wrote:A long time ago I had a lot of Yamaha SB/SBV basses but never the guitar version, in part because the bridges looked huge and clunky which spoiled the look of them for me.

Having bought way too many Telecasters I thought I was done with guitars buying, but persistence threw up this:



Which should be in my hands sometime this week

Woah did they ever make these stock with the tune-o-matic or is it a mod? I've played one a bunch (Eivind August's) and never had an issue with the bridge but this one looks cool anyway

Paul_C wrote:A long time ago I had a lot of Yamaha SB/SBV basses but never the guitar version, in part because the bridges looked huge and clunky which spoiled the look of them for me.

Having bought way too many Telecasters I thought I was done with guitars buying, but persistence threw up this:



Which should be in my hands sometime this week

dubkitty wrote:i got curious and looked at old Yamahas on Reverb and came across this little guy. sometimes a guitar just reaches out to you, and this is so adorable i want to take it home and love it and hug it and call it George. it reminds me of a old Guild Bluesbird. that poor baby needs moisturizer all over. i don't love it $900 worth, but i love it.

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