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I'd say Chubby Checker and Slayer are as far apart musically, if not more, than Kenny Burrell and Charles Altura, yet both are colloquially referred...

Cheap pots tend to corrode somehow. Don't have to turn the amp on. I think I turned them more than 10 times.

This reminds me of what Ben Webster used to say ‘you know … all these young cats, with all those chops, they flash all about their instruments…… ...

Too late again.:smile-new:

Rob Robinette has some words on tube amp safety to share Safety

That's the ticket! I posted this a few weeks ago:

Tommy points it at the wall

Amen to that! I see that a lot, "should be $20 for the part anywhere you look..." then just do it yourself and leave me out of it!

I only play fingerstyle on mine although lately I've been playing more on my new Tele. The Ibanez is my main gig guitar so I'll be back using it...

That's great! Although suspect those P90s are the key here.

Nice nice! What are your initial impressions? That top around the f-hole looks quite "thicc"!

Off topic of guitars, I saw on Norm's instagram page that he recently underwent surgery for appendiceal cancer and had a couple of stented heart...

Richard Clayderman ?

I am uninformed :-) Hard to answer without offending the guitarist's fans on the forum (as demonstrated in some other threads) and without sounding...

Man yeah, a bunch of jazz hacks like Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard, Melissa Aldana, Tigran Hamasyan, Linda Oh, Stanley Clarke, and Tom Harrell hire...

Some more examples here: Music — Maegen Wells Guitars & Mandolins

Pretty funny and ridiculous! :-D I hear a lot of Kurt Rosenwinkel and Lage Lund in his playing. I've heard him sound a little like Holdsworth at...

Here is another suggestion. I have a zt lunchbox (200 watts), and I use it more often then I thought I would. They are just very portable and not...

Here's what I would do, with the caveat that I might be some know-nothing lunatic on the Internet advising a stranger to screw with something that...

Woah, congrats!!! Love the cello/violin style binding

Perhaps stating the melody first and then improvising would improve the listening experience.

Let's hope (and pray). The good new is they're doing some miraculous things these days. A friend of mine is fully recovering from disastrous...

Sale pending! :smile-new:

Wow! I think you hit the nail on the head. I now opened it again and I think I found something: That doesn't look good right? It actually IS...

Yes, i'm guilty as charged, with 'set it and forget it'. "Nasal" is the right word too; but at low volumes i found it warm and round, even with my...

I keep hearing that this might help, so weird :))) but hey, it's definitely good to know and I will try this! Would be a fix too easy to not try :) ...

Yes, I think the Terrence Blanchard group has a pretty cool groove, and the guitar player has a good sound that fits well with that. Cool be-bop...

Just saw that Norm is in a hospital recovering from surgery. Rare cancer: appendiceal neoplasms. Hope to hear good news about it soon.

It's very possible your ears have changed, or that the sound just wasn't working in a particular room. Are you a "set it and forget" kind of player,...

Make it with MS Word or any application that will let you make a table. Create a 4-row table, single column, full page width. At the end of the...

Would you really put Altura in the same category as the Instragram guitar speed demons who've never played a gig in their life? There's a time to...

More people would like it? Hahaha!!!!

As if the described guitarist found himself at the concert by accident....?:smile-new:

What would happen to jazz if everyone played Kenny Burell "style"...? ... another thing is that Kenny Burell plays brilliant.:smile-new:

Just listened to the clip with Terence Blanchard and wasn't very taken with the fuzzy, wah-wah stuff. Now that does sound like an annoying...

Sorry if this is repetitive. I had a similar problem with an Ampeg. Very hard to diagnose, very simple to fix. It turned out that the RCA...

Ok, I see where you're coming from. Kenny Burell is absolutely one of my own favourites and I could listen to his playing for longer than I would...

"You don't listen to much jazz in this style, correct?" Mr. B. Hi, J, I listen to Jazz/Classical/Latin music all day when I'm not playing. ...

I didn't hear much really unusual in his harmonic approach. Not a criticism -- I thought he used the usual harmonic stuff quite well and, after all,...

That's around the 40 minute mark. Something tells me that the detractors don't get that far. I mean... why would they? If you hear something you're...

Agree. I always wonder about sellers who say there is a problem that should be easy to fix. THEN FIX IT.

...which the seller did not do. With no desciption of the actual problem they encountered, we have no idea what they were trying to fix. "Some...

I've played this guitar at Music Go Round; 5 months ago. As Jzucker notes above, it has issues. I would be wary of buying it sight unseen. Needless...

The original question here was about CA's 'language'. This might help. I think it's pretty straightforward. What's noteworthy, of course, is the...

I'm not sure I agree with their assessment about the neck crack just being a crack in the lacquer. And when you sell something "as is" you basically...

I am uninformed too - I have an outstanding 3000 CDs for hearing.:smile-new:

You take it too seriously. Uninformed means just that. You don't listen to much jazz in this style, correct? There's no shame in that. But your...

Seems like they disclosed there is a problem, fair enough. Sounds like wiring, or maybe a pickup replacement would solve it.

Just in case try turning all the knobs for a while. My amp tends to sit unused for long periods and I get some nasty problems with the sound too....

Sad to see that Fender is still using those cheap Illinois caps. :grumpy: It saves them around $5-$10.00 per amp. Charge a little extra for caps...

Do you mean improvising in a chord-melody style?

Ok yes, so I will leave that to the technician. Thank you for the help.

Check the first video again - there is a song played so beautiful that you will like it.:smile-new: Best Kris

Charles Altura- - laid back and that translates to his very smooth guitar playing.I love it.:smile-new:

Hi, J, Perhaps, one day, I will become "informed" and intellectually/spiritually reside at your level. However, for the present, I will...

+1 Yes

Yes, these caps pass visual inspection. You could try buy a new rectifier tube and replace it. But if it is a bit of a shot in the dark. A...

Congrats! I can't see the pic - am I losing it?

Sorry for the pin vs. pinned bridge confusion. You did say pinned, and I was a bit surprised that it'd be necessary to go into the difference between...

Funny, I can like Kenny Burrell AND Charles Altura, and not feel the need to spout uninformed criticism at either.

Thank you for the quick reply. I now just checked the filter caps. Seem to be fine. I don't have a different rectifier tube at hand...

You can get buzzes from the saddle slot if the slot is too wide and too deep, just as you can from nut slots. Refilling a slot with cyanoacrylate,...

Oh yeah! Love the plain black board.

The Leon White guide to Chord Chemistry is really great; it’s very generous of Leon to offer it freely. I used a couple of his books back in the ‘70s...

From DownBeat "Blindfold Test: Ben Monder": Blindfold Test: Ben Monder Remy LeBoeuf “Imperfect Paradise” (Light As A Word, Outside In Music,...

Hi, E, Many who have struggled and "woodshedded" for years are not always generous in sharing their musical discoveries. The ones who do,...

And it sounds like it still does. Selling it "as is" doesn't really change anything unless the asking price has been grossly and appropriately...

from the ad:

Update: Reverb wrote me the seller's address and I was able to send the guitar back. Let's see what happens...

Sorry! Something went wrong! :smile-new:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cWfDkHN0W8

Thanks, will put them on the list to try. Ive been using RC the past year or so, am quite happy with them. 2014 Antonio Marin-Montero 640mm...

https://youtu.be/Ve7LyIh-IBU You might like this;

Yuck! Not a good thing at all.

Agree, listening to others with great time feel is critical, as it serves as a reference, just like any other aesthetic dimension. Mike Longo's...

Hi, I, A fair question for a music forum so, I will provide you with an example for your own comparison and judgment without, for me, an...

It looks great! As for the binding, StewMac has a great little video by Tom Murphy on scraping that looks like it’ll solve your problem. Given your...

I dig the phase shifter pedal.

If I used that criterion, I’d still have the ‘59 345 and BF Pro I had in high school, Jim………..and a lot more money! :smile-new:

I've been looking around amps these past two weeks and one of the best if not the best sounding combos on YouTube was Quilter head + TOOB speaker...

Two great music bands. The guitarist plays brilliantly in both bands without losing his style of playing. A very musical and sensitive guitarist....

A large part of the problems can be blamed on the buyers and sellers. Put yourself in Reverb's shoes for a minute. Some sellers don't list their...

Remaining in style: (And dang do those L48s sound nice!)

If you want a 15" but with a different sound, the Westville Corona is an alternative to consider. It is 14.8" and has a floating pickup. The top...

After shaping the headstock and installing the frets Is it time to finish this machine (sigh) When I look back at the guitars I've...

Yeah, but it's no longer listed on Sadowsky's site. Maybe OS that never were shipped to the US. Or just now only for the Japan market.

Here's an up to date recording of The Loar with Pete Biltoft's CC Pickup through a Quilter Aviator Cub. I really like the way the guitar is sounding...

In one of the bridge fitting videos, possibly the StewMac one, the luthier explains he removes a tiny bit from the centre of the base so as to deform...

The LS-15 is still available for sale new in Japan. I see about 10 new ones listed at different dealers. This one is from Ishibashi Gakki.

Whenever I post any music gear on CL, i'm besieged with spam offers from nigerian buyers who are buying an instrument for their grandson but ask if I...

Since it gets louder when you turn up the volume knob and the reverb knob, it is an indication that it is not the power tubes. (they might be bad...

They noticed enough that a few years ago, I posted about a bad experience here and they replied to the thread listing personal details about my...

The kingsley maiden into a quilter will make the quilter sound like a fender amp. The kingsley excels at clean. It's not just a boost or overdrive...

that's the one I bought a while back from music-go-round that had a lot of issues.

A real ostrich skin case would probably be close to $6k. Maybe more. Just a guess.

Yeah that didn't last long, must not have been selling well.

If you want to add a 2 pu guitar, now there's the Frank Vignola model. It appears to be just like the SS-15 but with 2 pickups. Frank Vignola...

Here's the same line-up except with Lage Lund on guitar. Compare, contrast, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkG4jGrnr5Y

I'm sure she said 'And that's Kush Abadey on drugs' :-)

I think that one problem with a solid base is that if it is badly fitted or if the wood changed with age or season, it can create several points of...

Well, as usual on the internet and particularly this place, none of the people making the harshest condemnations of Charles have any documented...

Apparently he has a degree in Anthropology from Stanford University. (there’s probably a bebop-related joke there somewhere but I can’t think of...

I think I remember seeing a guy wearing a T-Shirt that said "Nerd is the new cool". It was around 1983. That's only 40 years ago, so , yeah, maybe it...

With the solid foot base at least I am sure the downwards force of the strings is fully being collected by the tone bars without warping the arch of...

Well I don’t know, but when I see a player has played with Chick Corea, Blanchard, Ambrose etc, I tend to come to the conclusion they must have...

Nice finish. Looks like a guit-fiddle. Play her in good health.

As Neil Innes once said, 'I've suffered for my art; now it's your turn.'

When I wrote 'Nobody has bad tone' in another thread, I should have known somebody would prove me wrong.

Tbf this is usually the case with geek-tar

I see the ole switcheroo. You make me feel like a nerd - so NO - it’s you, you who are the nerds ahahaha TBF I don’t actually like any music, I...

Tony Rice and John Carlini: Banister River - YouTube

See, to me, this is almost "cool" hehe, the only nerdy part was the guitar... :behindsofa:

I've not used my Kingsley preamps in front-of-amp mode, if that's what you're asking. My guess is that it would be like a boost/maybe overdrive...

Damn good "nerd jazz"

I guess it all depends on your musical needs? If you don’t need an all around guitar to cover Rock, Blues, etc. And your happy with the neck pickup...

Yeah, I mostly stopped buying there after I bought a "mint" AS-200 (at a mint quality price) with so many finish cracks and chips that it looked like...

FWIW, I use a Sadowsky Jimmy Bruno model, size wise kinda halfway between the Jim Hall and the SS-15. Been my main jazz axe for over 10 yrs now. ...

Got to be the UGLIEST instrument ever made...:nonchalance: No benedetto ! :grumpy:. yet he still sounded like ..Pat ....:smile-new: Ray

I've come to find that if I put something in my watch list that has a "make offer" button, the majority of times the seller will make ME an...

Here's another factor to consider. An arch as a structural element is very strong when presented with a distributed load. On the other hand it is...

That is a beautiful guitar. I have a humble Levin 335 acoustic, which was basically a student model. Despite that it has great projection and tone...

You got it Jim777. Thank you very much. JD

Nerd Jazz, right? Which is OK, after all, it's ubiquitous. The thing that stumps me is when I'm made by others to feel like I'm the one being uncool...

Hes an excellent modern player in the Mike Moreno vein. I've liked him since I first heard him with Ambrose Akinmusire a few years ago. Theres no...

I asked Roger this and he replied back just now saying that when amplified, there is virtually no difference between the JH and SS-15. That only...

Hehe, well, in that case SS-15 might fit nicely in-between the 335 and Jim Hall :) Nothing wrong with the laminate! Switched from a carved archtop...