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Mooer Micro Looper vs. Ditto TC Electronic

Cal Collins

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Sunday Flowers. Acoustic improv and nature...

Japanese MANN Howard Roberts guitar (Ibanez 2453...

Christianm77 thank you for the explanation. Now I understand your point of view. Yes, I'm interested in more fusion sounds and I know people think more of a chord-scale approach in this genre....

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Not much of a jazz-fusion guitar fan here but I enjoyed your approach nonetheless, John! And thanks to everyone who took time to listen to my clip and comment.

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

I used to own Ditto (small one) and loved .. then I did not use it for a long time and when needed some cash sold it. Now I seem to use looper more (I use one on delay FX station but want a separate...

Mooer Micro Looper vs. Ditto TC Electronic

You’ll hear lines that focus for example on the first five notes of the minor scale 1-2-b3-4-5, the diminished tetrachord 1-b9-#9-9 on dominant chords, The pentatonic outline thing 1-2-3-5 is...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

To invoke a meme - Yes.

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

There is a "range of excitement" that includes this: Upward movements are more exciting than downward movements. Larger movement increments are more exciting than smaller increments. So for...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

After testing a few other speakers I settled for these Pyles in my Twin Reverb because they sounded best! So maybe not exciting in terms of value, but an underrated speaker imho!

Can someone ID this speaker?

I bought a gig bag from a member of this forum, who I later heard on a radio talk show, playing in a popular Broadway show that he played the oud in. He was improvising brilliantly on the thing, and...

Does anyone here play Oud as well as guitar?

John Coltrane was quoted as saying, "We'd all sound like Getz, if we could", in the book Coltrane on Coltrane.

The cool sound of Stan Getz

Great player. I caught him live at Bechet's, a club in NYC.

Cal Collins

I fell in love with oud back in the '80s, largely through Munir Bashir. I found a decent Turkish style oud at the Music Inn in NYC and had some lessons with Syrian and Yemeni oud players. I formed a...

Does anyone here play Oud as well as guitar?

Never seen those position markers on either an L-48 or an L-50...... or on any Gibson for that matter. Replaced fretboard? Custom order? Also the wood of the back seems too nice for an L-48 and I...

Gibson L-50

Congrats! Looks like a find. Sorry to digress a bit, but the Epi headstock inlay has always intrigued me. It's quite complicated, yet very common even on later, inexpensive Korean and Chinese Epi...

Japanese MANN Howard Roberts guitar (Ibanez 2453 ?)

I wasn't familiar with Charles Altura, but I listened to some of his clips. Very modern sounding, very fluid. It's a style I know precious little about and I can't scat lines like that. I'd venture...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

A few months later I stumbled onto another one in a bargain bin?? Absolute bargain I reckon.

Cal Collins

Jgbe virtual jam, round 1

RIP Gibson Archtop guitar

Some very cool new amps coming from Fender.

Your Gibson L-5 Choice

2003 Epiphone Emperor Regent Video added

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

Is this a fake Gibson?

Green Heritage JS?

New Ibanez Thinline Hollowbodies

I built a Champ!

Thinline acoustic archtop?

1988 Gibson ES-175–woohoo!

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