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Your settings are practically the same as I use, although I have the mids around 12 o’clock. Great jazz guitar sound alright, like I said in my post above c 2020 it’s what sold me on the THR30 11....
Stay cool in a Porkpie hat. (A cliche, I know, but an honest cliche.) Tip: Finish your set with Mingus' "Good Bye Porkpie Hat" and then through your hat like a Frisbee to your fans in the audience.
Even though Christian's post was very much in jest I find your serious reply very interesting. It clearly becomes an almost impossible task to find and choose your perfect L5 (or similar). There is...
What makes “classic jazz vocabulary” anyway? Much or most of the time it’s a strong rhythmic phrase hooked up to simple musical devices - chord tones, scales, neighbour tones etc. What I have...
^ There is a video somewhere on Youtube (that I cannot find ATM, FCK AI search engine) from a Barry Harris masterclass (London IIRC) where Barry refers to blues clichés as "swear phrases".
Maybe I should apply at a university to teach jazz history hahahaha. I met this unbelievably good young hard bop and soul jazz pianist who admitted that he doesn't know much music beyond jazz,...
My own RE200 gets regular use - not as much as my BUD6 but when more volume and spread is called for the Evans delivers. Like with many other amps it sounds best at a level just a bit above bedroom...
I've had my 1981 GB10 since 1986, it's a great guitar. I notice that with demos and such, people tend to go right to the George Benson type tone. It's a versatile guitar with many other tones in it...
PAF-OT for "thin," methinks. Note the vertical dimension being much thinner than a standard KA PAF-O pickup, which is itself already thinner than a Gibson PAF. If you have a guitar with low...
I love that attitude: "I think the band is really a family. You know, whenever we depart each other, we always tell each other that we love each other, we miss each other. If we don't play for a...
this is hand written so I’d assume it’s made in NYC, but conflicts with what the other poster said above. I’m not an expert. Regardless, great playing and sounding guitar
Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player
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