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Talking to the GF about getting back to the States after this study abroad trip I lead ends. Me - "The plane ride from Naples to Atlanta is 11.5 hours, and an upgrade to Delta One is $1400. That's something like $120 an hour, but maybe I could actually sleep for once." Her - "Or you could look at it as the price of one guitar, and you certainly buy enough of those every year." Me - "You know far too much these days about how expensive my hobbies are."

Ha! I was at this concert! Nassau, NY 12123, is just over the border from Tanglewood. We chased the band’s limo back to the hotel and my girlfriend accosted the drummer for his sweaty towel. Ah. Yute.

There is an acronym for home recording. JFDI Just fucking do it you get better once you fuck up some but it is very much a fun thing to do!

You might need two for stereo.....

^^^ She's got a point, fly coach and buy another guitar with the money saved.

Also, NOHTHATYR.... No one has to hear any thing that you record

on hold

Mine will be at the Sarasota show this weekend.

When you're feeling fancy but still want to represent.

Oh how I miss MTV from back in those days.

I remember "Sign of the gypsy queen" and "Just between you and me" getting a lot of play on MTV back in the day.

What will help with the analysis-paralysis is if you can find someone experienced in recording to help you with your DAW, plugin recommendations, hardware recommendations, etc. it will save both time and money and get you to making music quicker, IME.

Well, it isn't wrong....

I went for it. I do have enough guitars, and I still have to drive from Atlanta to Oxford, MS, after landing. Getting some sleep on the way back means making that trip day of rather than spending a couple hundred bucks on getting a room in Atlanta due to be too exhausted to drive another five hours.

“infamous builders”?

I don't know about the pricing for those specific items, but he does enjoy some notoriety and he seems to not sell junk, but stuff that's in good shape and has been worked on by professionals. The only Dean 1980 3 pickup Cadillac on Reverb is asking $15k.

I am a big fan of home recording. Here's some thoughts on my obsession. (Yes, I am obsessed, and probably need to seek help) I dig hard rocking tube amps. Nothing like a pants flappin' 4x12 loud Bogner or Marshall or Boogie. Really the only place you can do that these days is at home - haha. Smaller clubs hate you. That's probably why smaller, lunchbox 18watt amps are so popular. If you don't own something like a Friedman Runt - 18 watt type amp, yeah, they get plenty loud, more than enough to play with a drummer. (I'm talking classic rock, not metal of course). I still have a few tube amps because, there just something to that feeling we all love. Now, one of my things is home recording. I have bought and sold a lot of desktop/rack gear to try to capture great recording guitar tones. It's been quite a ride. My quest is to get both the best amp tone AND feel without an amp. I've been searching for best of the best amp sims you can get. I've owned a lot of the usual suspects, like AxeFx, Kemper and Synergy. I've owned a ton of older preamp/amp sim devices from way back. Digitech, Art Powerplant, Rocktron, Sansamp etc. And, a bunch of the latest, like Walrus, Quilter, DSM Simplifier and Dumble pedals. Universal Audio Lion/Ruby, ToneX (Another fav, some awesome Joe Satch captures), Strymon Iridium etc. I also did get a Neural Quad Cortex that is pretty amazing. Might be my favorite new guitar pedal. If I were gigging again, I think I would use the Quad Cortex, it’s that good. The captures they have are... outstanding. I've also tried some new Software sims like the ToneX desktop and Neural Archetype: John Mayer. Also, I have tried some nice Attenuator/direct boxes like the Universal Audio OX, TwoNotes Torpedo, Boss Waza Tube Expander, Palmer, RedSeven EVO and just got the new BadCat PurePath. OK, the Purepath is pretty freakin' good and really does an amazing job of capturing an amp, attenuating it (on or off, no middle) and outputting one of the best cab sims ever. Total Voodoo here, It was stunning. No frills, but the exact same tone coming out of the amp. I just got it and it's sweet. It was named the best product at this year's NAMM for good reason. All these boxes have their uses and can fit certain music better than others. I can understand why a lot of big name bands use AxeFx's on stage these days, that says a lot about the quality of their tone. I also understand reliability and setup ease does come into play. Quick Side Note. I was totally blown-away after watching the George Thorogood 'Rig Rundown' on Premier. No live amps, just a pedalboard into two, cheapo, Electro Harmonix '22 Caliper (22 watt) stompbox-size power amp pedals into two 2x12s. I've seen him a few times and damn, he sounded great. Whatever works, works! Back to my little rant. We all have a tone in our heads that we've heard over the years on great recordings or live. Or, have owned old vintage amps and remember how cool they were. I had a Marshall Plexi and a real '57 Gibson Goldtop in High school (All that stuff was just, old 'used' gear back in the 70s). Now, when recording, I get pretty critical as I listen on high-quality monitors (Dynaudio BM15/Sub18) in my home studio. An important thing besides tone, is feel. Does it feel like a cranked amp when playing? Most of the amp sims seem to lack a bit in this area. I big part of that is how the guitar resonates with a loud amp. It's almost like a drug when that the guitar is on the edge of feeding back, it almost plays itself. I am a big Synergy fan. All-analog, no modeling. I have a bunch of tube amp modules that sound great. Their system does have a Sag control that gets a bit of that feel back. I recorded my last album almost entirely with the Synergy modules. My latest new toy is the Tone King Royalist pedal. Tone King has just been killing it with cool amps and now pedals. They have the Imperial pedal which is a Fender Blackface/Marshall combo 3 tube pedal with a 0-watt power amp simulator inside. And now the Royalist which is a two-channel, all British pedal with different flavors of Marshall and the 0-watt and a bunch of cab IRs. OK, I love it. I mean really love it. It has tone that is strikingly real, more so than most of the other gear. And, it feels great. I close my eyes and I am playing a Marshall. So good (It only does classic Marshall to slightly hot-rodded tone, not metal level gain stuff) It also takes pedals well if you want to boost it even more. Check out the review below and hear how good it is. I hope you can check it out, you'll love it too.

Hi Folks, After beating my head against the wall trying to fix a known migration bug effecting attachments in IPS for more than 20 hours. I decided to cut my losses, purchased, installed Xenforo and migrated all of our current data to it. It took a while but its been a SUCCESS and attachments work in the new forum! I'm in the process of validating the content and configuration with the help of Chris Matthes and Kiz. Once that is complete, I will open it up to everyone in parallel to the current board for further testing. Once we confirm its all good hopefully a few days. I will reimport the data from the current forum and swtich us over to the new one. All your ids and log in information and groups (supporter) should work in the new forum. Thanks all for the patience. Its been a journey but I can see the end in sight!

Hi from the beautiful Milano, Italia this baby has to go, too much stuff in this appartment... 1993 Hamer Special, excellent shape, some small dings but nothing really visible except a small crack in the varnish at the neck junction (just the paint, nothing structural) original Hardshell case, in very good condition slim neck, Schaller tuners MODS : -Lollar neck P90 -I put the original neck PU (SD SP90-2n MJ) in the bridge position (polarity changed for phase purposes) I love that PU in this position, the original bridge PU was sold -knobs changed but I have the original ones -copper shielded cavity -wiring with 1 Vol and 2 tone, as I like it happy to ship to HFC members with anticipated paypal F&F, vivible in Milano or France (I travel a lot between IT and FR) thinking of 1400 EUR + shipping, I paid 1600 EUR 5 years ago to a french fellow and didn't use it that much as my beloved Newport Pro is still N°1 take care!

After taking over Norman's Rare Guitars, too, Carter Vintage seems to be THE AUThORITY in vintage guitars. Not only USA-wide. So, finally, a T 51 from 1990 gets ennobled being worthy to be sold by Carter online: https://cartervintage.com/shop/hamer-t-51-1990s-blonde/3DgbM43L6XnCYvLu3kMScgZhX0s?utm_campaign=12566845-Latest+Arrivals+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=421831865&utm_content=421831865&utm_source=hs_email Enjoy!

Just imagine how good he mighta sounded with a Dumble! I JOKE! I JOKE!

1994:

I believe that was a concert in Winterland 😃👌

1980-10-03 Yes Los Angeles, CA (Millard Master via JEMS Volume 158

I've been amazed at how quickly anything he puts up for sale is gone, seemingly regardless of price. Good for him.

I long back to the days of the $500 Sunbursts! My first was $300 in 1982. Sold it, then bought it back for $1000 years later. Long as they keep up with inflation!🤔

It would also narrow down your choices by telling us what sound/music style you're after

Personally, if you use in ears, take them to try out with it. That's the one thing for me about in ears is having the guitar through it. A lot of people overlook the ISP stuff too. They have FRFR cabs and it has a button that you can simply disable the tweeter on it. Also they have a cab emulation built in you can turn on if you like. I've tried the Friedman IR stuff, but for me there's a frequency I don't like when you really crank the gain up.

I too keep a couple of amps. A Friedman PT-20 and a Carvin Steve Vai model. Just a note: Malcolm Young used Amplitude on a couple of tracks on I think it was Black Ice. I've used a lot of the modelers (Boss, Line6, Atomic, Fractal, Tonex, Headrest). Each has flaws, but so does any equipment. The biggest mistake most folks make is not doing a high cut on the cabinet block. Of the YT guys, Leon Todd says he'll go as low as 5k on a crunch tone. I've found about 8k on cleans, and 5 or 6k on overdriven tones to work well. If it's really distorted, even a bit lower. They're meant to sound like a recorded guitar, not you're standing next to an amp, which is to me why the high cut is useful.

I had the original Simplifier DLX when it came out, not the newer 'X' version. Not exactly sure what they mean by '0-Watt' amp sim and there are no tubes in this, like the Tone King and Synergy stuff that started the '0-Watt' amp thing. Hmmm. Sorry, I can't remember the original tones that well on it. DSM Humbolt does make nice stuff. I did try their latest Dumble box and it was pretty nice, I liked the clean a bit better than the OD side.

Great guy. I always enjoyed his posts about any & everything audio. His expertise was 2nd to none. What a damned shame. 😞

lets not forget Carondolet!! arniez

Atomic can take up to 30 days to post something in their inventory. They’re MASSIVE!

I just saw Triumph with April Wine in Atlanta. Rik Emmett and Gil Moore are at every show playing the whole time. Brian Greenway is the old timers in April Wine with a history going back to 1976. He was part of the classic lineup. I like April Wine, and have three or four of their albums. I like, and recommend, Starz.

Loved April Wine! Loved a lot of albums and songs, from Roller which was a real rocker, to I like to Rock... always loved the end where they played the Satisfaction riff, in a round with Daytripper and other parts of the song on the fade out (if memory serves me correctly!). I even liked them all the way to The Nature of the Beast album with their biggest success on the charts. I thought it was interesting to have Phil X playing with Rik and Triumph, another band I liked, but it made more sense to me when I found out just yesterday that Phil took Riks place in Triumph around 1992-93.

It’s just the Dark Metallic Gray finish (Gunmetal) that has a yellowed clearcoat. It looks green over time, but isn’t. I’ve had a Phantom in that color before, and the color under the pick guard was the original gunmetal finish.

What a day. First I found the Sylvain Sylvain and the Teardrops LP for 3 bucks. Then I took a cup of coffee and found this gem recorded for Swedish TV in 1982. Enjoy:

My 5 string Chaparral Bass is that color. The flash brings out the green. I guess it's just faded.

Want me to assist? Wouldn‘t be the first time 😁

That's killer, but the trem arm has to be the tire tool from the tour bus! Reminds me of the Phil X' Flipstick from BITD

I remember going to Arnold & Morgan Music in Garland TX in the late 70s, they had this poster and one of the employees had scrawled across it BARBARA STRIESAND PLAYS IBANEZ!!!

Awe damn. He is responsible for some of the better gear around here and was my go-to for any audio questions that came up. He taught me a lot. Always willing to compare and share and point you to the best bang-for-the-buck. And he always found great deals. He has been missed for some time now. Wherever you are JB, I hope you have their system tweaked and turned up to 11. R.I.P., JohnnyB.

I got word yesterday from JohnnyB's wife that he has peacefully passed away. John was a very good friend... He was passionate about music both playing and listening. He was an audiophile and had 2 incredible sound systems for listening. He was a master BBQ-ist. And he was a masterful conversationalist. Most importantly he was a fierce and loyal friend. The saddest part is his dementia robbed him of so many things over the past few years. I hope he is at peace and talking up storm in heaven. God bless you John, you will be missed.

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