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I have a Yamaha Pacifica that I use for a lot of gig work, in addition to two hollow-body archtops and two semi-hollow archtops. I play all my archtops amplified, so I don't see the need to raise the...
An improvisation from last night in very (very) loose approximation of Pat Martino circa “Special Door”, on one of my Les Pauls: https://youtu.be/-c0xqpdpyX8?si=f4nIW20X1uVijIwH
What BH taught me is to divide the fingerboard in minor 3rds. What I did is add the three finger barre every minor third that creates a first inversion triad every minor third on strings 432: ...
My experience is that you can setup the action on an archtop to be as low or the same as a solid body guitar. (After fret levelling and polish.) But, an archtop sounds better acoustically with a...
I like those sweeps, or 16th note clusters. That's trick I'd like to get down.
The best speaker I have found for my tastes in a Princeton (and indeed many other amps) is the Webers 10A125. The alnico speaker has a certain squishy thing going on with a lovely, sweet high end...
If you ever decide to sell the G&l Asat, let me know. I would be very happy to purchase it. -Charley
I have a '78 Ibanez FA-100 I bought after having gone through 2 Gibson 175s in the late 80's. I got it for a Yes cover band gig and love it to death. I've never had an issue with the binding, though...
I recall Mick Goodrick being asked about P4 tuning. His response "I considered it, there are certainly benefits to the symmetry, but ultimately there was too much meat on that triad (D-G-B strings)...
I'd like to put a speaker in my Princeton Reverb ('79 maybe?) that is better equipped to handle the output from the Benedetto PAF in my Ibanez AF120. I know this is not what Princetons are born to...
+1! + there was a time when I dived deep into it and that was my main "listening-diet". I've never played total free sets live but it does happen that I insert sudden bursts of free improv while...
Pots can be wired in multiple ways and still work, more or less. But different wiring methods affects the tone and volume differently. Some people like having the tone changed when the volume is...
Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...
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