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Nine out, two and a half in over the past six weeks or so. Not a bad ratio, but hard to keep up because it was all low-hanging fruit. Sold 5 great condition non-Hamers, and donated 4 not-worth-muches in good condition to a local charitable make-those-kids-play-guitar effort. All the Hamers still here, plus a new-to-me 12ver Eclipse. On the lookout for a Duotone, but I guess I have competition on that front 'round these here parts. A nice Les Paul Standard 50's is the other part of the two. The half is a Fender baritone conversion neck to attach to a nice lightweight Tele-type body I had lying around, so now they are joined together and I am in the very slow process of trying to set it up. The slimming down and refocusing also entails a Boss WAZA reactive amp expander that will not only let me attenuate my tube amps (and therefore let me get the most out of them that I can, considering the neighbors) but will also be a way to hear whatever modeler I end up with, without resorting to headphones. The drought was lengthy, but now things are greening up.

My thanks also.

PM'ed.

RIP Michael and condolences to you on the loss of your friend. Nashville has a lot going for it.

Gotoh bridge, if you're not a 2 Tek fan. In Arkansas, apparently.

That's a great-looking graphic, with the kind of wear you'd expect to see, but it looks a lot less faded/yellowed than a lot of them. Most of the hardware has been changed - tuners, pickups, knobs - but it looks like it still sports the long switch tip, if you've been looking for one. I agree that the price seems unconnected to current reality, but I looked for quite a while for mine and had to pay over the odds as compared to a non-graphic Special of similar vintage. If the selling prices get anywhere near that, I might persuade myself to let mine go.

Squars and bars? Great fiddle!

If we don't have what you want, we'll sell you what we've got.

I started listening to a capture of the entire first show. After Xanadu I was excited and interested to see online complaints of the plummet in ticket resale prices after the extra shows were added, thinking I might make an attempt to go after all. Then I heard Geddy croak out Limelight and now I think I will remain satisfied with the four tours I caught in the 80's. It's normal and natural for singers to lose their fastball, so to speak, but they have plenty of other fans to fill the seats. More power (windows) to them.

So, if it sounds good, it is good? I think I read that somewhere.

Raising a question I don't have the answer to - if the control cavity is shielded for noise suppression, would that also suppress the smart tag communication signal? I'm also in the don't trust the movers camp. Computers, guns and guitars travelled with me while I sent furniture, sheets and clothes, pots and pans in the moving truck.

Interesting. I guess I have been believing that whatever other coloration happened to sound as it was being recorded, at the least some highs were being attenuated. Whether it's described as sounding "warm" or "under a blanket", I figured that with a live source you had highs that didn't make it onto recordings.

@santellavision's post on his recording equipment thoughts, plus @mathman's remarks on whether amp/effects modelers output a "live" sound - presumably what you should hear right off the speaker cone of a guitar amp - or a "recorded" sound - presumably off the speaker cone of a studio monitor or headphone - have sent me spiraling. TL;DR: ============================================================================================================================ I am shopping for a modeler for use at home. IF (big if) I ever wanted to inflict my musical stylings on an unprepared world, I'd expect I would use it there, too, but that's not the main purpose. What difference would it make to me, in either case, if it was modeled to be "live" sounding, or "recorded" sounding? And which particular brands/products produce which sounds? ================================================================================================================================== Leaving effects aside for now, I see that some of them allow you to build modeled signal chains that take your guitar input and run it through an amp sim and a cabinet sim on the way out to something that will make the noise. To that point, it should be a "live" sound, to my reading. Some of them allow a further application of a microphone sim, which I suppose would tend toward the "recorded" sound, although by the time I hear something recorded it has been committed to tape or run through A/D, processed through a recording board and later through a mixing board, and committed to the playback medium and pumped through whatever playback system I am using, each element of which presumably has a signal response bandwidth of its own which has the potential to affect the sound that reaches my ears. Hearing AC/DC in my car is not the same as standing next to Malcolm's amp cabinet, got it, but which should I be after in my home? Or does it matter? I'm lost in the sauce. What I know is that I don't care for the sounds of my 12+ year old Line6 Floor Pod and I hear that the intervening years have produced great strides in modeling quality. I want to divorce the loudness in my subdivision home from the knob settings on the virtual amps in the modeler. I can decide for myself whether I want to commit to this or that proprietary software format for adding new sounds according to the value the developer offers with additional package, the vigor of the user community, etc. I suspect I am like most people in that even if there are several dozen modeled amp choices available in a given system, I will settle down on a couple or three that I like and never touch the others again, so it only matters if a product has those two or three that I can enjoy. Demoing candidates before purchase is another matter, of course, which I why I want to try to figure out what is worth my attention and what isn't.

So it's a 1996 guitar that they call a 1999, sans rear trem cover and no mention of a case, for $1599 (asking) in Kennesaw, GA.

Not like Debbie did Dallas?

I just flew trans-Atlantic on a United 777 in cattle class as befits my status and overall being. Going forward from my seats, you passed Economy Premium, which didn't appear very different but was farther forward, then Premium Plus which did look like a better seat with maybe a touch more room, and then Polaris Business class, which was pods with little fridges and better entertainment and only half the seating density of economy. Then you exit the aircraft without defiling with your presence the first class seating further forward, which I can only imagine employs harem girls with palm fronds and bunches of grapes.

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

I haven't tried it but isn't Private/Incognito mode on the various browsers supposed to prevent information from being hoovered up by websites?

RIP JohnnyB. Condolences to his family and many friends. I was also a beneficiary of his kindness and willingness to share his knowledge. I had been missing him around these parts lately, like many of you. A big loss for the HFC, we already miss you JohnnyB.

Changing "Short" to "Brief" is even worse for those of us who misread and think it's about stage attire.

As long as he isn't still alive, you got it right.

Congrats! That could also be described as Virginia Tech colors.

Quite a few hits on "rainsong" if you search the forum, back to 2008. Uniformly positive impressions, from what I saw.

Tom really is Terrific to deal with. Someone buy his Special - everybody needs one!

I was wondering about that, but I didn't know how to comment without somehow pooping on someone's FS post. You clearly state who made the guitar. No misrepresentation there. It's of interest to me because just today I received a gen-yew-wine Fender baritone conversion neck for a Tele body I've had lying around for quite some time, almost certainly a copy. So when I put them together, it's a lowdown partscaster. But the neck is Fender and it has a Fender serial number, which is all I think any all-Fender guitar has in terms of individual identity. I don't do much selling, and I don't expect I'll ever sell it online, so I don't know how a case like that would fly. Also just today I learned that Made In Mexico is now Made In Ensenada, although the serial number still begins with MX. Anyway, good luck with the sale and contending with the powers that be.