Any guitar players in here?
 

Just bought a new fender stratocaster today and Im lovin it much

What is it. American or Mexican ?? My dad just bought a American Deluxe (sunburst), it is a sweet guitar itself. It looks just like the SRV model, with the exception of a maple finger board, Standard tremelo, and missing the srv logo.

I was going to buy one also but they cost to much for me right now, $1100.00. I would love to have one with a Peavey Supreme Half Stack and a Line6 Podxt live effects processor. Man I'm starting to droll now ..

Here is info on the foot controller: http://www.line6.com/podxtlive/
Here is info on the Half Stack: http://www.peavey.com/products/shop_online/browse.cfm/action/details/item/00461720/wc/1A1B217/fam/TT/tcode/7/surem.cfm

Mesa Boogie Rectifiers are nice also ..

Unfortunately its mexican but still well made and it was hanging right next to a srv signature strat which I drooled over for awhile. This one has the maple finger board also and its the sunburst. I smell an upgrade though before the end of the year.

Actually about the only diff between the Mexican and Amercan are the pickups. I know a couple of people who have mexican models with better pickups and they sound as good as the Amercan models .. :) That is a sweet guitar you chose, Fender are the best ...

Just broke it in with the band tonite. Its gonna work out real nice. We've almost got a full set down now. Really starting to come together. Not bad for a bunch of old geezers. If I ever get any kind of recording of us Ill make it available for fun. Lol!

I'm a Gibson guy. Got a '60s Melody Maker and a '72 "Paul" reissue of the '52 "Custom". And a 'tweaked' all TUBE Bandmaster converted from 6L6's to EL34's.

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I've got an old Castillia accoustic guitar that I've had since I was 13 (I'm 27 now). I won't ever get rid of that thing, that guitar is more an extension of my body now then a musical instrument. It's soooo beat up now though, there's a small hole in the side of the body, the spaces between the frets are all convex now, it's actually been broke for a month (just a string peg).

I've also got a really nice left handed Ibanez SR500L Bass that plays great but the active electronics annoy me at times. My left hand (pick hand on guitar) middle finger is blistered from practicing some fretboard tapping and bends earlier tonight.

I keep telling myself that I'm going to do something with this ability that I have, but I honestly get so frustrated with the people that I've been working with in the past couple of years. I can't seem to meet anyone that actually has both the dedication, and the ability that I need... I can't work with alot of people (guitarists mainly) simply because they can't keep up. I want to play bass in a band, but if I'm better then the guitar player what good is it for me to be sitting on the bass? And I've got a slew of songs I've written for the guitar that I can't find anyone to play. I don't think what I do is exceptionally hard, it's just because of the odd chords, harmonics and rhythms in my music.

Oh well, I've got college classes to think about again... fare thee well oh distant stage.

They are cool models. I always been fond of the Gretsch Roy Orbison Limited edition myself. If I could find one I would deff figure out a way to buy it ... Other than that I play mostly Fender. I tried Ibanez, gibson, washburn, kramer, hamer, dean, schector, prs, ect, but always ended up going back to fender ... Gibsons are my second favorite, they weigh to much though. Then Gretsch ..

Now traded the strat in and got an epiphone les paul standard. I'm truly a gibson guy myself. I dont mind the extra weight. I think the sound is worth it. I think if had switched the stock strat pickups for humbuckers I probably would have been happier. Click the link below to see my latest. I can't tell the difference on this one from a real les paul. Just that the head doesnt say "Gibson"

http://soulspirit.n-i.com/Picture%20008.jpg

Yeah the epiphone models have diff pickups, electronics and such in them. They are nice guitars as well. I still think fender are better though ...

But for us financially challenged folks who want a decent guitar to play and dont have $1000 or more to pay out this guitar fits the bill and I like the humbucker sound alot better than the stock strat pickups. I think its all a matter of taste. I put it through a marshall MG100DFX 100 watt amp and it comes out sounding just fine. This one comes with 100% american made humbuckers. Lol!. Hey and its nice to see that some folks here are into this stuff. Just shows again how diverse B1 is. Maybe we need to start a forum for this kind of stuff. Maybe get a B1 band going. Lol! Just noticed I spelled guitar wrong when I started this thread.:eek:

I split the coils on both my guitars. You can open a Humbucker and see where they tied the two coils together. Undo the tie and run the wires to your tone controlls. Instead of 'tone' you can now 'fade' between dual or single core pickups. A Gibson will never sound like a Fender but a split Humbucker will give you a sound you can't mistake as single core.

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The only thing I play on guitars are chords...and only a few at that! My main instruments are the violin and piano.

Heck, with all the talent we have here, we COULD have a band of sorts. If you know how to play a mandolin, it wouldn't be too difficult to learn to play the violin...same fingering...without the frets of course.

Alas, my main focus was classical.

You can do that with any humbucker tube, gilmour did it on a couple of his guitars. Also not to many guitars could ever be a fender, many have tried to imitate them but none can succeed.

Gibsons are nice guitars they sound so sweet. The mahagony body with the sustain and non feedback is to die for. The weight is something to extreme though. After about an hour of playing one of them your shoulder hurts so bad you can hardly move your arm lol ..

My brother just bought a Tobias bass, that is something you should check out also. It is so light, you would never know it is a bass. I also sounds so good. Then seeing that he paid $1500.00 for it I would think it should sound good lol ..

Thinking of trading in my marshall 100 watt combo amp on a crate 120 watt half stack with 4 12" speakers.

Not familliar with your particular models but, I hope they aren't 'hybrids'. It's important to have both gain and power tube stages. For the power stage, 6550's are more robust and cleaner. EL34's are both 'sweeter and funkier'. If you know what you're doing, you can mod your amp to run on either but you need to watch the plate voltage if you mod a 6550 to run on EL34's.

If the pre and power stages are 'pure tube' then it's just a matter of taste.

About preamp tubes. Most preamp gain stages are based around the mighty 12ax7(a) with a 12at7 phase spliter to drive the output tubes. I highly recommend the Yugo (EI) "large plate" as it is a damn good Mullard clone. Mullard was a British company who made some of the most renowned audio tubes ever! In fact, the Yugo plant bought the old Mullard 12ax7 equipment.

I've A-B'd the Yugos against vintage Mullards and can state the sound is 100% true. The only prob is quality controll. If you need 2, buy 4 :D Fortunately they are relatively cheap.

More about tubes later.

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Here's a good tube source in the USA.

_http://www.tubesandmore.com


There are only about 5 or 6 factories making tubes these days. 1 in Yugoslavia, 2 in Russia, at least 1 in China, and a few more I can't remember. When you see some Ruby Red "Groove Tube" in a music store, it came from one of the above sources.

I've been buying tubes from tubesandmore for over eight years and just thought I'd let you know they are "legit" so you don't have to worry about giving them your credit card info etc.

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Price is a consideration here also $499.00 minus the trade in value of my marshall. I'll probably pick it up for 200-250.00. Not bad and some of the solid state amps emulate the tube sound pretty good. Believe me I'd rather have tubes but the price is out of my range right now. A full stack would certainly be more to my liking. I'm getting there in stages.:D

Got the new amp today. Line 6 Spider II 212
 

Spider II builds upon the best-selling Spider to deliver 12 unique amp models and 7 different effects with 3 available simultaneously using Smart FX knobs. Delay times can be adjusted via tap tempo. Features 150W of power, custom Celestion 12" speakers, a front-panel tuner, reverb, and a headphone out. . Go here for a better look:http://www.line6.com/spiderII/about_212.html

Line6 is better than Marshall and Crate combined. The first amp I had was a crate 10 watt, it was garbage. A freind of mine had a Crate Clue Vodoo Half stack, I didn't like it either. The sound of those things are just to out there. Marshall you see to many of, they are also made for one type of music genre. If you want something that is all around then something like Peavey, Fender, Line6, and Mesa Boogie are good choices. Other very goods one are Vox and Hiwatt, Carvin make some very good amps as well. But if I had to choose I would go with either a peavey or Mesaboogie Half stack with the Line6 XPod live pedal board, then the xpod rack mount system is nice also ... :)

Yep. I had a chance to really turn this thing on at practice tonite. I just wanna tell you it rocks. No trouble being heard and the 4 button pedal is real handy. I would have got the short board but it was alittle pricey for now. Maybe next month. Everyone I spoke to said the same thing as to the line 6 over the crate. Its got some killer effects.

They are sweet james. I believe you can get a expanded pedal for them to have more control over the effects ..

Yep thats the short board. I just got the 4 button pedal for the moment but I plan to upgrade maybe next month

Guitar Chord Buster Pro 4.2.0
GUITAR CHORD BUSTER PRO - probably the World's largest chord Encyclopaedia - Choose from 302,314 chords (up to 5 fret finger spread) / 140,255 (up to 4 fret spread) in standard tuning. All possible chords also available in 43 non-standard tunings plus your own custom tunings. Guitar Chord Buster is a guitar in a computer, enabling you to set-up and play any chord and pick sequence that may be played on a real guitar.
http://www.guitar-club.ac.psiweb.com/

Well I traded the marshall in for a line 6 spider II 212. 150 watts of power and lot of amp models and effects. Im also replacing the pickups in my epiphone les paul with some very hot seymour duncan pickups. Things are lookin' up.

Good choice on the amp James. Marshall aren't what they used to be .. Line6, in my opinion, makes them look like beginner garbage. And, Seymour Duncan Pickups are one of the best, I always liked the screaming deamons myself. Then, that is because Lynch uses them ..

Pickups replaced. Used a seymour duncan "pearly gates and alnico II" pickups. MUCH better. Also bought a Takamine GS330S Acoustic Guitar and had a pickup installed on it. Things just keep getting better. Lol!

Now upgraded to a Line 6 HD147 300 watt head and a 4x12" cab going to get a gibson sg monday. Cant wait to put some real volume on this amp. Cant believe the depth of the tones in this one. Picked up a schecter diamond series guitar also but trading it in monday for a gibson axe. The real thing finally. This amp was just sitting there calling to me when I walked the store

The amp rocks. The thing just blew me away tonight. I ripped off some leads and the amp just wouldnt quit. I did get the Gibson SG I wanted also. I think I hane a great combination here. My ears are still ringing. Lol! Band was really in sync . WE have a new rythym guitar whos fitting in real nice. I can see a betaone band coming. Lol!:eek:

Now have my latest toy. A limited edition "none more black" american Fender Stratocaster.http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg=141/g=home/search/detail/base_id/130175

New Band Name
 

Our band is named "KO" and we hope to be gigging somtime soon. Will keep you informed. As soon as we get some tracks recorded I will make a sample to post.

Good news
 

Just just informed yesterday the the band may have a chance to perform at a televised variety show here in town. Told the other members and they were instantly amped up about it. Time for some serious rehearsal. Lol!:D

Sounds GREAT James! Looking forward to hearing a sample. :)

Pics
 

Couple crappy pics of things:http://home.comcast.net/~jamesc57/Name.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jamesc57/US.JPG

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