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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:50 pm
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All you can hear on that is the Big Muff prototype he played through being manipulated by the volume control. Even when he cleans it up it's a horrible raspy sound if you ask me.

I agree Nik and let's face it; at Woodstock i think tone from their amps was the last thing they were thinkin' about! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:53 pm
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If Santana wasn't a guitarist, he'd be a champion gurner.

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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:10 pm
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nikininja wrote:
If Santana wasn't a guitarist, he'd be a champion gurner.


Aw, he's no Peter Jackman.

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:45 am
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orvilleowner wrote:
nikininja wrote:
If Santana wasn't a guitarist, he'd be a champion gurner.


Aw, he's no Peter Jackman.


Pete! What are you doing Pete???

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:46 am
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If you play professionally you deserve to have the best IMO. Or Unless you have tons of money to dish out on musical equipment, then i say stick to what ever you can get by on. Like for instance. I recently bought a Fender American Standard jazz bass. I love it, but a musician in my particular circumstances could easily get away with playing a nice high end squier or a low level fender. perfect example being the modern player. Which i recently purchased a modern player jazz bass and it sounds, plays looks amazing, and its more than enough instrument for any musician in my opinion. however if you really want to spend the money and buy an American fender, then i can dig it. is it even close to necessary, hell no!

thats just my two cents. if you arent getting paid to play music, or you dont do it professionally. stick to your work horses!

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:37 am
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That's the thing. I record and play out. If I had some really expensive or valuable guitar, I'd doubt I'd want to gig with it. Record, yes. I'd rather have some souped up beater to do shows with. If something happened to it, at least it wouldn't be as a tremendous loss. It's the same with amps, I think. I'm not going to drop $3000 on some amp to play a club where the average listener wouldn't know the difference between boutique and Behringer. That's what I like about Fender. You can get a great sound without a lot of money.

By the way, You have more or less the same set up I did in 1991. Except I didn't have a 2x10" cab and my Jazz bass was a '71 or maybe '77. I have my doubts these days because even though I was told it was a '71 when I bought it, it looks more like the Squier 77 Jazz Bass copy they have now, with those black skirted amp type knobs. It doesn't matter now, that bass is long gone. I also had a Peavey Databass amp. That was a nice amp. In some ways, I regret getting rid of it. It was a loud S.O.B. Sounded pretty good with the Jazz, too.

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I wouldn't get anything but high end to gig with. Gigging is what I do, I'm not interested in mucking about at home, recording is something I do only when I'm called in. Stage is where it's at as far as I'm concerned.

I've just fixed our singers Fender Deluxe 90 this morning. Which I'll freely admit is a killer sounding transistor amp. However it has done great for rehearsals. Six weeks of gigging and it's gotta be opened up and sorted out.
The Blackstar HT100 I bought for him to use, blown up in less than a month. Just cos I decided to play it with everything on 10. Valve power section and transistor pre budget amp.

The days of cheap reliability are behind us and never coming back. Gear you can depend on costs in this day and age.

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 1:46 pm
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Yeah, everybody should use best whatever works for their situation. That's how I feel when it comes to music and gear. It's usually not all one size fits all, I think where that is concerned. For example: A huge Marshall stack is a nice amp, but I don't think it would be practical for my situation. I think it would be underutilized and I really don't intend to become a full time guitarist when I'm gigging, where I could really use it to it's full potential. Besides, I don't want to have to haul that beast around just to maybe play a couple of songs.

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:08 pm
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The days of cheap reliability are behind us and never coming back. Gear you can depend on costs in this day and age.


+1

And worth every bloody farthing!

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:16 pm
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I will say sad but true. I'm not quoting the Wookie, James Hetfield, though. :P

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:35 pm
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One thing I've remembered is you should just about always use a power strip to plug your amplifier into.


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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:38 pm
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nikininja wrote:
The days of cheap reliability are behind us and never coming back. Gear you can depend on costs in this day and age.


+1

And worth every bloody farthing!

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+1 you seriously get what you pay for

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:44 pm
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Occasionally, you get lucky with a great deal, too. I have on a few occasions, at least. The $7 no-name brand coffee maker, for example. Knock on wood, but the little bastard seems to keep going a lot longer than expected something like that should. Maybe whoever made that should get in the amp business. :P

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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:36 pm
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I did well with my new amp. I did have to pull the electronics out and clean the preamp volume pot. It was temporarily shorting the amp, causing the compression to shut the amp down. A power strip.. and some rubbing alcohol put a stop to all that. Something to do, I guess. Cleaned house while I was in there.


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Post subject: Re: Tube Or Not Tube...That Is The Question
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:33 am
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I have a couple of practice amps that are temperamental with the volume knob and input jacks. Right now the Peavey Basic 60 I have is behaving, but I should try some contact cleaner and see if that helps. I have a Hartke B20 that's even more of a pain in the $@! with that. It would go from a overloading, farting mess now, to no volume at all a few years ago. In fact, when it the volume stopped working a few years ago, I just stored it away until recently and I hooked it up and it was working fine. After awhile, the volume started farting instead of silence. The last time I used it, it was fine. I live in a place that goes from very cold and dry weather in the winter, and it can get very humid in the summer. I don't have any climate control and live in an old house 1/4 mile from a beach. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it? I did have an issue with an Ibanez bass a long time ago with the controls and I used contact cleaner in that and it worked fine afterwards, but I've never bothered messing with those amps.

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