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  1. Bass and treble, that's it. Pretty bare bones.

    I use mine with an non-powered 16-channel board that has effects built-in. Run 2 XLRs out to the speakers, plug in 3 power cords, and you're set up. I've done 5 vocal mics, bass direct, and some kick drum (for a little fattening) and it handles it just fine. We're not playing MSG, though.

    Haven't run any electric guitars through it, but my daughter went direct with my Ovation acoustic and it sounded pretty damn good.

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  2. My pair are a year, maybe a year-and-a-half old, so is that current enough? I know they make one step up now (MLS1000), with a 10" sub (these have an 8").

    I guess it depends on how you plan to use them. Mine have seen relatively light duty, with me doing the set-up. They aren't subjected to apes beating on them, so I can't really speak to their road-worthiness, but the build quality - especially at this price point - is very good. I got these so I wouldn't have to grunt powered 15" EVs and subs, and yeah, they won't match THAT sound, but I'm no longer trying to take your head off. Plus, a pair of these (2 towers, 2 subs) weighs about as much as one of the old EVs. My back loves that.

    For the money, they sound amazing. The bass is punchy and the mids/highs are clean and clear no matter where you stand in front of them, and with good volume. I have a 15" powered sub if I want extra kick drum thump, but it really isn't necessary.  Are they as good as the Bose, EV, etc line arrays? No, but those are what, like 5 times more expensive? If I were gigging regularly I might want something more robust, but these would definitely get used until they died first.

    At $300, you should try one. You can always send it back. But I'm betting you'll buy a second one...

     

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  3. GHamerProto.jpg

    Nice guitar but the neck was pretty small, like the Specials of the era (it's an '81). Moved on to another HFCer.

    In photos, the Prototype body shape was just sorta 'meh' to me. After owning one, they look 1000% better in person. Hamer maybe should have put more emphasis on them and less on the Junior/Special-style bodies. A Proto with a fat neck and a single P90? Fuggitaboutit. An archtop would have been killer as well.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Cboss said:

    Really beautiful:) how much would this have been new in '79?

    I believe the Standards were going out the door around $575 at the time, and Deluxes were $550 (or maybe the other way around). My LPC was $675 + tax (ordered in late Nov. '78, built in '79. Three month wait. Not sure what the MSRP was). Talking to another store owner at the time, he said he would have done it for $625 (both stores were privately owned).

    Back then you chose from Deluxes, Standards or Customs, not a different model for every day of the year. Fuck I'm old.

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  5. On 12/26/2023 at 8:15 AM, Jakeboy said:

    It’s the current engineering culture where people want a song constructed perfectly down to each individual note….as opposed to just playing and capturing a performance.  This is why anyone with an iPad and access to artificial intelligence can build a song. All without even actually playing a real instrument.....

    Drummer Bob (it's his kid) was telling me how they recorded just him on drums and let AI create a song around it. He said it sounded great. But then he's a drummer. And his kid grew up on all the computer-perfected crap the same way we grew up on Zeppelin, so it is to be expected. It's sad in the same way my guitar was to my accordion-playing Dad.

     Autotune is one thing, but the whole AI bit makes me want to puke. I have less than zero interest in that.

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  6. I just recently picked up a Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe, having sold the previous one some years ago. It does the Trower thing really well and I missed that.

    But, other than 'color' pedals, my basic rig hasn't changed much for a couple of years: The Carl Malden AC-Tone pedal displaced the OCDs on the big board, but the OCDs aren't going anywhere - they're just too perfect for Fender amps. Josh's Cowpie Customs were perfect in my LP, so the Shishkov and the Special FM both got some. I put Eminence Lil Texas neodymium speakers (light, punchy, not shrill) in the amps/boxes I use most and love 'em.

    I think my current tone is the best it's ever been (after cringing at recordings from about 10 years ago) and different colors are just a stomp away.

  7. You know you're old when you can't remember which ones are from this year.....

    1. IYV thinline Tele. Plays/sounds fine. Nice and light. Currently strung up in Nashville tuning.

    2. Cozart 12-string Strat. It's not bad but will get a bridge replacement. Super light and decently built, the bridge being the low point.

    3. Squier Tele. Put an All-Parts neck on it straight away and it's not half bad. Does all that Tele stuff pretty darn well.

    4. Guild Surfliner (factory 2nd). Bang-for-the-buck winner right there. Has some really nice greasy Strat/Tele sounds in there, and I used it to record a bunch.

    That's under $800 in guitars (new) and 3 of the 4 I'd have no fear gigging with tomorrow. It's unreal, these cheap guitars. Especially when compared to the stuff I grew up with.

    My only real want for the new year would be a carbon fiber acoustic. That sound.......

    Edit to add a picture which is dated 12/2022, so I lied.

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    I guess the Squier Tele was the only new guitar in 2023.

     

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