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Maybe you just want a powered speaker(?)
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11-05-2014 11:51 AM
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That's just the way it sounded 'right' to me - doesn't matter about the numbers. Everything on '1' wasn't acceptable and everything on '10' was not acceptable. Everything on '5' was just right.
Originally Posted by jorgemg1984
oldane - you're exactly right about the manufacturers - I guess that's why the boutique guys charge so much - I guess they'd build me whatever I wanted if I had unlimited funds.
But the knitting thing would be a problem - I'd probably be on some knitting forum arguing about the proper length, diameter, and material for the needles and which yarn makes the best socks. I, personally, think we're all a little touched.
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Sure they can sound good on that position. But it completely contradicts your own idea of what you like about tone. Originally Posted by Skip Ellis
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Skip it's time for you to join The Gear Page and say goodbye to hours and hours of your life as you fall down the rabbit hole known as G.A.S.
Seriously though, there are plenty of small companies making Fender inspired amps. Check out Headstrong, Fargen, Gries, Victoria and Ceriatone for a start. Even Fender is making vintage inspired amps in the style that you like.
Why count out the real thing? I just picked up a wonderful 1973 SF Princeton Reverb that sounds amazing. Plenty of options for what you are looking for!
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Brunetti makes a nice amp...
Brunetti Singleman 35 1x12" 6L6 Combo Amp 35W Amazing Tone | eBay
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I haven't got that much money in my truck!! Originally Posted by losaltosjoe
Seriously, though, I know there are lots of great handbuilts out there but they're just way out of my budget. It would be nice but groceries and the house payment come first. I checked on a BF PR kit the other day - can't afford that either. Sometimes you have to just make do with what you've got. My little MB200 is fine and I have a couple decent reverb pedals and some different speaker cabinets, so I get by OK.
Jazzpunk - not into GAS much as I don't have the means to pursue it - sometimes I envy those who are afflicted with it but in the end, I have what I have. Actually, I'm presently trying to sell a couple cemetery plots to bankroll an Ibanez GB10 or ES-165. Hope I don't need 'em anytime soon!
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Oh, but GAS can be much worse than a rabbit hole. Sometimes it's like a black hole - you loose every control, is sucked in by the immense gravity, everything - you, space and time - is distorted and finally torn apart, and you are never to be seen here again. Who knows, maybe you'll materialize in the parallel universe called TGP. Originally Posted by Jazzpunk
.... as you fall down the rabbit hole known as G.A.S.
Oh well.....
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Just who in god's name would put late 50s pickups, worth billions of dollars each, into a late 70s Les Paul?I had one real nice late 70's LP Standard with ORIGINAL PAF's in it back in the day
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This was in the late 70's/early 80's when they weren't worth much - I think I was selling them for $200/pr for awhile. I probably had a hundred of the things. I had a barrel full of parts from Gibson's repair shop that I got via a world class luthier friend of a friend (who shall go unnamed). Back then, if a guitar came in with a problem, they just yanked the whole harness and replaced it. Some of the PU's were fine, others had a broken wire in the coil. Some were easy fixes and some needed one of the coils rewound. I lost track of how many L5 and JS tailpieces I had plus tons of 50's stop tailpieces and TOM bridges and some of those multiple push button control harnesses from those old 50's Epiphones and lots of Varitones. The guy who bought me out took all that stuff to the dump after he went broke and closed the place. About this same time, I bought a '59 'burst' from a guy from Arkansas for $280 - he'd made a loan on it and just wanted his money back (he obviously was not a player). I sold it the next day to a dealer friend of mine for $800 and he probably sent it to Gruhn on consignment. Those things were just not worth that kind of money back then. We sold stacks of BF Bandmaster and Bassman heads for $75 apiece. I remember in 1970/1971, I worked at a local music store (beford i opened up) and we had a lefty '54 LP Custom with the square magnets and fretless wonder frets -we had it priced at $150 and couldn't give it away. Same with an ice tea sunburst L-4C - I think we finally sold it for a couple hundred dollars - nobody wanted it because it didn't have a pickup. My boss, one time, bought a prewar D-28 Martin for $15 and a friend of mine who ran a pawn shop bought a prewar 00045 for $25. That's the way it was back then - I paid $120 for my '68 Tele (blond w/Bigsby) in about '72. Played ot for 35 years and sold the worn out neck for $700 on E-Bay. The day I got married in '75, I had 38 guitars cases lined up on my living room wall - now they would be worth a fortune - back then, I probably didn't have $1000 in the whole mess. I'm talking a 1947 Super 400 that ended up in a museum, a mint Switchmaster, several old Martins, a Gibson Southern Jumbo, etc. Those were the days , for sure. Originally Posted by rjenkins
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I'll put forth another plug for the VVT Lindy Fralin. Simple elegance, clean rich tube sound to die for, exquisite reverb and excellent customer service. No affiliation, just a very satisfied owner. Originally Posted by bananafist
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You can say that again.
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