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Today, 09:10 AM
List of covers. I can't pretend I've heard them all. Find the ones you like. They seem to like Harry Connick, Jnr.
Cover versions of I Concentrate...
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Today, 09:09 AM
By the way, although Miles Davis took credit for writing Donna Lee, the first two phrases are almost identical to the opening of Fats Navarro's solo...
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Today, 09:06 AM
I wanted my solid body to sound more like an archtop, so I cut a strip from a cotton sock and did two-three rounds in between the strings by the...
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Today, 09:06 AM
I’ve personally owned some 15 Heritage “old guard” guitars. Each was perfect in its own right. It’s a pity that you didn’t own, nor play, such a...
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Today, 09:04 AM
This is why i will not bother to buy a guitar from overseas.I had a guitar damaged just going overnight from New Jersey to New york by UPS.The guitar...
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Today, 08:50 AM
The legend 1058 has higher sensitivity and quite a bit less bass response than the beta 10. I made this same swap in my RE cab too (motivated by the...
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Today, 08:31 AM
I was kind of surprised not to see you in the Zoom, Christian. I think you would have gotten so much out of it.
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Today, 08:26 AM
All too familiar. I have similar sentiments regarding UPS. A good percentage of good experiences and enough bad ones to put a permanent red flag on...
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Today, 08:22 AM
Thanks. Now I'm hearing an extension of that idea - the first two main phrases over a Bbm7 Eb7 | Am7b5 D7 | Gm7 | progression:
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Today, 07:53 AM
Ah that’s quite clever!
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Today, 07:51 AM
Mancuso’s people are going to be after you for libel.
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Today, 07:48 AM
A single-bar ii7b5-V7-Imaj7 progression that I associate with Cole Porter (I'm thinking the opening to I Love You, Night & Day and the second phrase...
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Today, 07:35 AM
My ES-175 is from 2007 and has a similar construction, without the rubber grommet around the switch and with the same style tailpiece. I'm very happy...
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Today, 07:27 AM
Take a look at this video first. I have some comments.
My educated guess is the box was either dropped a considerable distance with the front...
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Today, 07:25 AM
Great choice! Using another option, I put a Jensen Jet Tornado Neo in my Rich built RE10 and got a similar improvement, along with a 3+ pound weight...
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Today, 07:24 AM
I’m also a big fan of one part haha
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 07:23 AM
Workers making low quality guitars because of management choices still means they were making low quality guitars.
Heritage has a bespoke...
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Today, 07:21 AM
Actually for guitar I would recommend about lot of two part haha. It’s more than my brain can deal with honestly.
According to Remes Bach taught...
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Today, 07:11 AM
That could be the hangover...
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Today, 06:45 AM
Ah the manchso fingerings - I notice a distinct lack of emotion and nuance.
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Today, 06:40 AM
Hello everyone,
I am looking for versions of said tune: so far the ones that I have heard that stand out are
Sinatra obviously
TIto Puente...
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Today, 06:23 AM
wolflen, I think that Ted spend a good period of time practicing the Bach Chorales for up to 12 hours a day. Maybe Barbara's book might reveal more...
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Today, 05:47 AM
Ok so that brings this NGD x 2 to a close
Seller sent some vids and discovered a crack on the back (laminate back) that went all the way...
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Today, 05:30 AM
There you go.
Happy Peter???? Are you happy now??????
https://youtu.be/Ol5q6dQCj_E?si=GvPGv-RZehkNsJlr
You can’t see my fingerings. They are...
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Today, 05:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbyBIJI0a4
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Today, 04:35 AM
Hello
wanted to share my last experience with the Quilter amps.
I finally opted for the Quilter Tone Block 202 which I have paired with my RE...
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Today, 04:16 AM
My favorite gypsy jazz player.
https://youtu.be/_RqM72fk75E?si=OwbSf5_qTmqM0qzz
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Today, 03:37 AM
The tailpiece assembly is part of the system. There are several factors to consider when setting up a stop tailpiece, especially when the guitar got...
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Today, 03:08 AM
Exhibit 1
"Prenotched" doesn't mean we are good to go. It just means that we don't have to notch the saddles ourselves prior to slotting. Also...
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Today, 01:53 AM
I have an 18 inch blond acoustic Campellone. I'm thinking about electrifying it.
It's rather plain with no bling, but it's beautiful. It has a...
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Today, 01:28 AM
Cummings has taken a nuclear action, terminating the performing rights agreements for all the Guess Who songs he wrote, removing the copyright...
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Today, 12:51 AM
Individual style is important. To develop it you have to balance assimilating your influences with cultivating your inner values. Then practice hard...
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Today, 12:45 AM
I don’t understand what you’re describing. There is no such thing as a DC transformer. Transformers work because AC in the primary winding induces...
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Today, 12:45 AM
That was exhaustive- and exhausting- reading. The minutiae of guitar production and collecting is frequently astonishing. Especially in mass...
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Today, 12:40 AM
Randy was a close friend of Lenny Breau's, so he might have some interesting guitars for auction.
He's also Canadian, so maybe he's even got a...
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Today, 12:39 AM
I just did a quick test with my Joyo American Sound pedal into a solid state amp using a 1Spot power supply. I was using a single coil...
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Today, 12:33 AM
Epiphone are making really excellent guitars these days. I find they're coming back to the early 90's Korean quality
I tried one of the very new...
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Today, 12:09 AM
Maybe, I just don't think of it that way because I could pick any set of notes and reassemble them like that, in this case the first eleven notes of...
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Today, 12:05 AM
You are correct. If the tone pot on typical magnetic pickup equipped guitar is rolled all the way back, the tone cap will be in parallel with the...
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
The longest I've used it was for a 4-hr job, running a Quilter combo and my 9v pedalboard using an iSpot. It only went down one bar. I can't...
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Yesterday, 11:46 PM
I have blonde Emperor F and it's the guitar I play the most.
As already mentioned, they don't have carved tops. They're made with lighter/thinner...
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Yesterday, 11:36 PM
thank you!
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Yesterday, 11:17 PM
The HOF mini is a pretty good reverb pedal, small and light. For power, I use a small 9V battery box with rechargeable lithium batteries. It's not...
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
I sometimes think of it in this extremely utilitarian way (I am left-brained to the extent that's a real thing).
You choose a tune you like. Not...
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Yesterday, 10:50 PM
I thank everyone for their comments and knowledge.
I have worked on guitars and made changes that usually improve the instruments. Pickups, pots,...
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Yesterday, 10:48 PM
No. Some guitars sound better to me with footed bridge bases, some with solid. I've found no reliable way to tell, even after swapping, and it's...
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Yesterday, 10:47 PM
Faber makes both the ABR-1 and Nashville. Nether have a retaining wire. Very precise also. Fine threads and solid brass. Not sloppy and rattly like...
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Yesterday, 10:41 PM
Another way to mute the strings between the bridge and tailpiece is to use grommets. It only takes three, although some people use more. I have one...
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Yesterday, 10:26 PM
Lots of great posts here. One thing I would add is once you are ready to record the final takes, record those at 24bit/96,000hz to get the maximum...
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Thanks!!
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Yesterday, 10:21 PM
That one on G&J is a B-420, which is his equivalent of a D'A New Yorker. There's some cosmetic damage on it (I don't know how severe), but someone;s...
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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
regarding stuffing the guitars, me and Bob Roetker both stuffed our L5s after I studied with martino in the '70s and he convinced me to try it. There...
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Yesterday, 10:16 PM
Power stations have inverters, which convert DC voltage to AC. Much of the cost and weight of power stations is from the inverter, but they're still...
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
Have you compared them to the Guild Reissues? What did you think?
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
Did it need any work when you got it?
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Yesterday, 09:53 PM
The anxiety of influence. You can never actually be you until you acknowledge your influences.
I'll let you know when I get there.
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Yesterday, 09:37 PM
Batteries are great. But to power an amp, for example the Quilter SB, one needs an inverter. To take full advantage of the amp, it needs AC power,...
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
I tried to find a used one for about a year back in '20/'21. I'm in Canada though. During that time I saw 2 come and go on Reverb. Like real quick....
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Yesterday, 09:19 PM
All great questions. What I'm saying is that years of pursuing the external distracted me from developing the internal. And, it was only when I...
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Yesterday, 09:07 PM
Very tempting for the price!
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Yesterday, 09:00 PM
I'd be fine with listening to where you take it...but I know your playing and know you'd sound good.
Strangers? I'm having a Black Russian. Tall.
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Yesterday, 08:54 PM
SS's experience points clearly at the truth that there is no era of Gibson's (or any other manufacturer's) output being uniformly good or bad. Have...
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Yesterday, 08:52 PM
Yeah, so I really don't know which way it will go; it may just depend on who's up on stage. As you may remember from the lockdown jams, I tend to...
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Yesterday, 08:50 PM
Dang, that's nice.
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Yesterday, 08:49 PM
You don't say whether the original TOM bridge is an ABR-1 or a Nashville style bridge. The ABR-1 has a retaining wire to keep the screws and saddles...
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
Rirhett- your observation is certainly worth questioning - and I see your point. Jake , in a prior post also inquired about saddle compensation.
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Yesterday, 08:39 PM
What are you saying? That's the big question that iconic and individual players ask themselves every time they play a note that becomes a solo.
I...
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Yesterday, 08:24 PM
Lack of QC isnt the domain of the worker its the responsibility of management. A master craftsmen builds something to the spec they're given they're...
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Yesterday, 08:21 PM
Thank you and its nice to see you're still alive and well. Your website hasn't been updated for many years so I was wondering if you were 'still...
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Yesterday, 08:16 PM
I feel empathy to your situation. I have also have had a ceiling of around 180 for playing tunes like this. It's frustrating because it's just not...
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Yesterday, 07:58 PM
I too would be looking for the door if someone called my favorite things. Maybe soloists can sound good on it, but I doubt a random rhythm section is...
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Yesterday, 07:54 PM
I'm not sure which subforum this belongs in.
I've been thinking about individual style. The old question was, "can your mother recognize your...
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Yesterday, 07:54 PM
All my guitars have ebony or rosewood bridges/saddles. That is all I need enough said, at least for me. It is all in the eyes of the beholder.
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Yesterday, 07:46 PM
It's not about knowing or not knowing anything...this tune invites overindulgenge.
You ain't John Coltrane.
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Yesterday, 07:35 PM
There are players who report knowing a thousand tunes.
How does that happen?
Warren Nunes claimed that if he heard a song once on a jukebox,...
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Yesterday, 07:35 PM
This is my experience too. Though writing it down doesn’t usually take me much time, the learning always takes way longer than the transcribing.
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Yesterday, 07:29 PM
That's a good point. I'm talking about living room (read: by invitation) jams. I've rarely gone to public jams. When I have, and it's a "no books"...
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Yesterday, 07:28 PM
I watched and listened to the Barry Greene video in post#31. I tried to emulate that with s-gear and adjusted from there.
I started with the Jazz...
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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
The Faber comes prenotched and is a drop in replacement. I have them on L-5’s and S400’s and they are far superior than stock. 1st order you get 20%...
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Yesterday, 06:40 PM
Yeah they exist in New York, DC, and probably a handful of other pretty big markets.
We also established that you’re generally talking about going...
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Yesterday, 06:30 PM
Again, no first hand experience, but if you haven't seen this video, it may give you an idea about the sound etc.
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
Hi jazzdod,
nice playing, sound great. I am curious about your S-Gear settings, would you be able to post a screenshot of the S-Gear screen? for...
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Yesterday, 05:55 PM
Topic hijack, I guess.
When I get invited to jams, the players generally know the top 50 jam tunes, give or take, that you usually see on tune...
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Yesterday, 05:52 PM
I had a 2008 ES-175 that had a neck twist that made getting the action where I like it to be, impossible. My 1997 ES-175 is superb as is my 2017...
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Yesterday, 05:48 PM
I hope you are well-protected by your credit card agency, Archie.
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
I was expecting the Epiphone to be shipped today but it wasn’t.
I've asked twice now for a couple of vids via whastapp but nothing yet, although we...
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Yesterday, 05:38 PM
I would have thought the price for these would be around £1,500 so $2,000 is not crazy high.
They are well made but they are quite heavy and can...
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Yesterday, 05:37 PM
check this out at 8:40. also 13:45 is probably the best recorded example of his playing in general and the one-note chords
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Yesterday, 05:32 PM
yep.you really need to turn your speakers up for this gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G7FGYuUEjE
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Yesterday, 05:29 PM
Do you all find that some days you are really like an athlete playing these tunes? Yesterday I simply struggled to keep a smooth and even melody line...
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Yesterday, 05:29 PM
I know next to nothing about guitar amps but I do know that a 5W amp could mean it can peak at 5W, give 5W "RMS" or 5W continuously. Those don't give...
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Yesterday, 05:27 PM
Would this not qualify as using a lick as raw material for improvising?
And tab in an instance like this is not super useful … maybe you could...
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
This whole amp is just a chip running DSP software. If you want to call it something based on the behavior that the software emulates rather than the...
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Yesterday, 05:25 PM
I've got 2012 and the neck is not great. I don't think they were using very stable Mahogany back then. Or more accurately, they weren’t quality...
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Yesterday, 05:18 PM
I have a blonde Jazzline and I like your Pickguard.
The Jazz line is a copy of Jim Halls D’aquisto. OR maybe more accurately, the D’aquisto model...
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Yesterday, 05:14 PM
There’s a wonderful Tony Mottola release from 1959 (when I was 12) called Mr Big that has Al Caiola, Al Cassamenti, Don Arnone and Tony Kay on it. ...
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Yesterday, 05:09 PM
He was one of the few guitarists I heard of while growing up out in the sticks. He got some radio play.
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Yesterday, 05:01 PM
Attenuator might be the wrong term, but master volume kind of is, too. In a tube amp, the power section is intended to have color/character. The...
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Yesterday, 04:39 PM
Yeah, I feel the same way, it can take me less time to figure it out than write it all down, so I'll usually only write down the phrases that really...
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Yesterday, 04:31 PM
So you're saying this song is not one of your favorite things?
Well then, how about brown paper packages tied up with string? Please don't tell me...
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Yesterday, 04:26 PM
This tune is in a jam setlist. If I hear the pianist laying down some McCoy Tyner quartals, I'll know where I am (that's a relative statement).
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Yesterday, 04:21 PM
Ha, there are some pretty usable reverb pedals like the TC hall of fame, for a good price. Actually i didn't like the integrated presets a lot, but...
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Yesterday, 04:15 PM
You obviously set your input to high impedance (Inst)?
Do not blame the interface. I'd rather blame the plugin/settings, strings, pickups or...
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Yesterday, 04:10 PM
Personally, at this point in my musical evolution, licks/phrases are rarely raw material for improvisation unless I deconstruct them. For example,...
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Yesterday, 04:08 PM
I have used the Apogee Duet since they were introduced. I had the first and second iterations, and currently use the most recent, the Duet 3. It is...
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Yesterday, 04:00 PM
His fingerings do make the most sense for bland vanilla phrasing (i.e., no dynamics, slurs or any other nuances). However, in one instance, the...
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Yesterday, 03:59 PM
In addition I use Logic Pro. Im grateful for the eq advice re the high pass etc. I do have decent monitor speakers and decent KRK headphones. I find...
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Yesterday, 03:56 PM
My son is a former drone pro, so he knows batteries and charging in and out. The drones would never carry a power station, i.e. the battery pack and...
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Yesterday, 03:53 PM
I have this one, as well, picked up from Apple iTunes. It's full of, um, interesting arrangements.
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Yesterday, 03:46 PM
Thanks fep. Great help on here. Barry Green states on the video below that that he uses a UAD Apollo Twin and plugins. He describes his setup in some...
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
Question: that power station from Amazon: how long does it take to charge up? How many hours can you go on it? How many power outlets can you use,...
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Yesterday, 03:40 PM
All that customisation was a reason Heritage wasn't doing well financially. The business is apparently in much better shape now. I've played some of...
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Yesterday, 03:40 PM
This is what I've trying to preach for years. Quilter manages to fit an excellent reverb chip to the SuperBlocks, so why is it impossible for other...
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Yesterday, 03:37 PM
thank you, very clear.
I must agree with "is meant to mean "as loud as a 5 watt tube amp".
I wonder if anyone here has experienced rehearsals or...
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Yesterday, 03:34 PM
I have an album on the Bainbridge label called 'soft guitars' from around 1980
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Yesterday, 03:32 PM
PS- I recently bought one of these when my old gas generator went on the fritz for the 2nd year in a row. Got a super buy on it because they were...
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Yesterday, 03:21 PM
I have a Beaudens and it worked fine for about a year, then it got a little noisy. So I upgraded to this.
(What''s odd is, I was going to give...
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
This is an important factor. The numbers on the attenuator do not correspond with the actual wattage of the power amp. The Tone Master Twin Reverb is...
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Yesterday, 03:16 PM
It's good to hear these are carved. Makes the price tag a lot more reasonable considering there really aren't that many places you can buy a carved...
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Yesterday, 03:14 PM
That is really bizarre. Is there any chance that the saddle has been flipped around on the posts? Usually the step is to compensate from the four...
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Yesterday, 03:09 PM
I had a bunch of nice stuff on vinyl that never got reissued on CD form so it's pretty much gone. On a Savoy CD reissue, it's got the cover on the...
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Yesterday, 03:08 PM
I just wish these amps had reverb, but of course they're bass amps, so...
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Yesterday, 03:06 PM
Thank you all for great ideas. I fell down the rabbit hole and have stumbled upon the archtop tribute series. Im trying to work out how much it would...
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Yesterday, 03:01 PM
Vintage is anything my age or older.
Retro is stuff that came after I was born.
Simple as that.
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Yesterday, 02:50 PM
I have that record, also have this one on Savoy as well
Al Caiola Quintet - Love Letters (youtube.com)
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Yesterday, 02:48 PM
Thx Steve! And congratulations!!! That was a fantastic buy for a Comins! No doubt the new owner will be very pleased!
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Yesterday, 02:41 PM
One of the greats along with Sal Salvador, Tony Mattola, and Herb Ellis who could play anything and made their livings in the LA studio scene. I came...
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Yesterday, 02:34 PM
Amp sims are awfully good these days. I've heard some great tones with amp sims. And, I still think your original post video sounded great. I...
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Yesterday, 02:26 PM
I haven't checked recently, but Pete Farmer is the Master Builder at Heritage, and has made some gorgeous Custom Shop guitars in the years following...
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
He isnt, but Bryant is…
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Yesterday, 02:15 PM
Tim: If you are in the Old World, buy from Frank - you'll save a pile of $$ in unnecessary VAT.
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Yesterday, 02:13 PM
Come on guys, this is easy. It'll be the changes in iReal.
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Yesterday, 02:11 PM
Brian Setzer Orchestra version!
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Yesterday, 02:11 PM
There is a single pu version, which pretty much nails everything you want. If you like red.
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Yesterday, 02:10 PM
Nice - also love that Homer quote. I forgot how great the music was in that show.
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Yesterday, 02:09 PM
Lol.
I've actually never heard this called, so there's no telling how cowardly I'd actually be. I mean, at one time I DID transcribe all of McCoy...
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Yesterday, 02:06 PM
I believe the Maestro is all solid carved, not the laminate you are looking for.
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
Cowards
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Yesterday, 02:00 PM
So, actually MY side of the Atlantic
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