BlueRedWhite Posted October 10, 2009 Posted October 10, 2009 Hello my fellow Hamerites!!!! Yesterday i was talking with a friend who was considering buying some electric gear. He already owns an astounding acoustic guitar (Martin) Here's the thing, my friend like to play blues, but from time to time, he would like to play some Nirvana. He's considering a Parker. I told him about my great experience with Hamer and also gave him a bunch of sites that talk about tone, pickups configurations, wood etc. Here are my questions: 1- what guitar would satisfy such particular tastes?? I'm sure Hamer has among the available models something that could fit in here (yeah, i'm biased, so sue me) but you can go with any brand 2-What amp?? He's considering playing small gigs and jams, so i was thinking of suggesting a standard amp or maybe a mini amp for traveling. so 2.1) which standard amp? 2.2) which mini amp for carrying around, maybe for small jams?? Thank you a lot in advance!! and Have a great weekend!!! Blue
Uncle Thor's Hamer Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Newport Pro with Seth Lovers pickups. GREAT blues guitar. Put on real nickel wound strings, 10's. Right now I've got on GHS and love them. Gibson pure nickel wound sound great, too. Lots of good choices, just be sure they are 100% nickel wound, not plated with nickel.The Fender Super Champ XD is a very competent amp. 15 watts of real Fender tube 6V6 powered sound. One clean channel and one channel with digital amp emulations. The emulations are excellent. The emulations still run through the tube preamp and amplifier. The stock speaker is ok, but everybody replaces it with the Ragin' Cajun speaker, about $65 IIRC. The amp runs about $400. Loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage!Alternatively, if your friend is a tube purist, the Fender Blues Jr. would be the way to go, hands down. However, ya gotta crank the tubes to get distortion, which means you have to go loud. Another great choice would be the Fender Princeton Recording Amp. It is higher $, but sports a built in attenuator so you can crank the tubes to get the great tone, but attenuate the volume to sane levels.I've played my Hamer Newport through all of these amps, and they all sound great. The one I own and gig with is the Super Champ XD. I've never NOT gotten a compliment on how good my rig sounds.
harry65 Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Newport Pro with Seth Lovers pickups. GREAT blues guitar. Put on real nickel wound strings, 10's. Right now I've got on GHS and love them. Gibson pure nickel wound sound great, too. Lots of good choices, just be sure they are 100% nickel wound, not plated with nickel.The Fender Super Champ XD is a very competent amp. 15 watts of real Fender tube 6V6 powered sound. One clean channel and one channel with digital amp emulations. The emulations are excellent. The emulations still run through the tube preamp and amplifier. The stock speaker is ok, but everybody replaces it with the Ragin' Cajun speaker, about $65 IIRC. The amp runs about $400. Loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage!Alternatively, if your friend is a tube purist, the Fender Blues Jr. would be the way to go, hands down. However, ya gotta crank the tubes to get distortion, which means you have to go loud. Another great choice would be the Fender Princeton Recording Amp. It is higher $, but sports a built in attenuator so you can crank the tubes to get the great tone, but attenuate the volume to sane levels.I've played my Hamer Newport through all of these amps, and they all sound great. The one I own and gig with is the Super Champ XD. I've never NOT gotten a compliment on how good my rig sounds.i've gone back to my super champ xd with the rajin cajun and it just kills , fantastic blackface tones , experimenting now with output tubes, gonna try the new jj 6v6's, they supposedly have a little more headroom , for about $250 smackeroos you can buy a mint one on ebay and throw in the eminence, best bang for the buck ever............................................
gtone Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Amp-wise, I can't recommend enough Randy Fay's handbuilt Phaez amps. Many of his current circuits are sonically superior to virtually anything you'll find at a Guitar Center store. They're an absolute steal at current prices also. Sells 'em on E-Bay or by private arrangement - check 'em out...
Punkavenger Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Kurt played a Strat with a humbucker in the bridge ... Lots of nice Daytonas for sale here recently!
BlueRedWhite Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 Thank guysi'll be transmitting the info
BubbaVO Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 +1 on a swamp ash Daytona. I'm really impressed by the caliber of the instrument. As for the amp, I've been fixated lately on a mesa subway rocket. It should be loud enough for the gigs and should have enough gain to play some nirvana. And it is portable. Although, for flexibility, I have yet to find an amp that blows away a Tech21 TM60 - lightweight, powerful, and you can coax fender cleans, mesa gain, marshall crunch out of it. Is it the best clean, etc., nope. But they're good enough unless you're a die hard recording artist looking for that perfect tone.
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