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Edvard Munch said:
so a small amp I wouldn't mind at all.
sound quality and volume are not related to size


size and wattage of amp mainly determine the quality of sound
no

what makes a good amp good other than size?
size doesnt matter

first there is preamp and speaker
and there is combo a combination of both

this is one of my preamp
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this one has "tube blend"
tube preamp gives saturation (distortion) if you push them
and i plug that on my active monitor

before that i was using a "pod" & headphone

from what you describe (your situation) what i would get (if you go electric) is a amp + headphone
but some people dont like to wear headphone
are you one of them ?

as for watts is all relative, you dont need more than .5 watt if you go with a tube amp

on the cheap side you have things like that :
(oh and yes the size of the speaker will influence the capacity to produce low end result, but a guitar doesnt produce much low end)

small amp
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http://www.zzounds.com/item--EPIEPABKJR
150 $ 5 watts Class A.(tube)
lots of people thinks if a cool amp for the price (read rewiew)
(is that over your budget ?)
gearwire has a vid about it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVIAX8Ifsmg
lots of vid on youtube

but yeah i would go with a nice pre + headphone (grados sr-60 %) )

but those option are 2-3 times the price you paid for that acoustic
(still you can check in the used)
but those option are quality for a low price,

buying cheap stuff then selling them to buy more cheap stuff until getting some good stuff is usually more expensive than starting with decent stuff that will still hold some value when you are gonna sell them in the used

ill post this n ill come back with more intakes depending on what you ask
i dont know that much about (combo) amp either, i dont even have one ;)
i was into buying a little 5 watts (tube class A) a little while ago but didnt do it cuz i felt i already had something better (active monitors + pre)
 
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i love how teles sound. sadly i no longer actually own it - i had to sell it when i moved to tahoe for my first season and it paid for most of the car i got when i got up there :)

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
i love how teles sound. sadly i no longer actually own it - i had to sell it when i moved to tahoe for my first season and it paid for most of the car i got when i got up there :)
Aye, Tele's are great, especially the old ones - so utilitarian and that back pick-up <3

Sold mine and an AC30 in 1980 and bought a fridge and a freezer - what was I thinking of 8) :! :\

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Fishface circa 1976
 
junctionalfunkie said:
I've been noodling on the guitar for over 20 years and I am teh SUCK.

I have a Esteban acoustic I got for $50 (no hat)

I got an Esteban acoustic for Christmas one year, when my father thought this guitar thing was a little phase. It was one of the worst acoustics I've ever played. Always came out of tune, no matter what strings you use. I usually use DR or Dean Markley's for acoustic, but I ended up breaking the neck one day getting out of bed when I left it on the floor the night before. I was pissed because it was my only acoustic, but I was glad it broke, that guitar just made me mad. It seemed very cheaply made. I mean, what would you except from a guy who sells his guitars on fucking QVC!!
 
Yeah, I bought it at a pawn shop in Minneapolis when I had to scurry up there and clean up. I had left everything behind, and just needed something to play through the long, sleepless nights.
Yeah, it's a terrible guitar, but we've been thru a lot together, and I'll never get rid of her. :)
 
Well, I´ve been playin geetar for 13 years, I have a studio which I´´m using and building simoutaneously, it´s a space 7 meters deep 3 meters from wall to wall, thing is in a big flashy weird building, it´s at my mother´s house in Buenos Aires, I´m currently staying at my girls, anyway I have the part that has an arch made of glass instead of a ceiling, so there´s loads of reverb and light, but it´s cool. I been in so many bands I can´t remember, but always me and iony my homeboy and a-la brian may/rivers cuomo/graham coxon like killer riffs, we always played together, nowadays I barely see him maybe once a year but we rock out, anyway.

I use a Dell and an Acer laptop, an external M-Audio card with 6 1/4¨ inputs, 2 midi ports and 2 digital outputs.

My fav guitar I own and play, which you can see in my gallery is my 1965 Fender Mustang, everything original, pre-cbs era fender, and it´s sanded down which gives it more of a natural feel of the perfectly made american guitars of that time,though I dunno how many owners it had (it has the name james harrel written on the back of the headstock) and the top is full of glitter and glue, which i really dig...when I bought it in Matt Umanov´s Guitars in NYC it had rhinestones on the inlay dots making it impossible to bend the strings, they wanted to charge me $400 extra for a Luthier to calibrate it and shit, lol in Buenos Aires my luthier did it for $30.

I also bought in NYC, but on 47th a guitar I love and use a lot, it´s an american white Fender Stratocaster 57´reissue, and I spent even more cause I changed the mics to the 3 different lace sensors in the same configurations Billy Corgan used in the Siameses Dream/Mellon Collie era, wanted to have that sound, an the playability is great.

I owe my luthier $750 now for another project guitar I made the mic of the bridge of a 50´s Les Paul with it´s original wiring and screws, I know it´s no bull, and played that les paul in the past and sounded PHAT.

Before he decided to sell 50 LP to some assholes for a whole lot of many he called me and put the atomic humbuckers from a fender toronado I gave him and sold me all the originals, he thought I´d might be interested in the original mics and wiring and asked $1000, I got it down to $900.

Anyway if you´re still here I Have a fucking killer guitar, my main whore for lower affinations like Db for example, it´s a 99´ Candy Apple Red tex-mex Fender Toronado with every change from hardware to wiring done by me, customized and being awesome, I put the bridge mic fom the 50´s les paul with it´s wiring and screws in the bridge, and the neck one on the neck, but didný liked the sound, I tried to put instead a Fender´s 78 Strat single coil neck mic, which was a really hard task but worth it, but then I tried at a store an epiphone with p90´s, and fell in love, and decided to buy a Gibson´s neck position P-94 mic...it was an excellent idea! it fits like a humbucker but it´s a single coil, and when you put the mid position of the selector and fuck around with the knobs you can tell the texture differnces, and the versatility, since it´s lie a lkes paul where you have 4 knobs and can control each mic individually, and playability of that guitar.

Well the Toronado is stickered out, has a fender body but gibson mics all the wiring from the mics has been changed with originals and I fucking love her, also bought her in NYC back in 2000, but it´s totally pimped now.

I have a custom made electro-acoustic guitar, made by my luthier in Buenos Aires which has the neck of a mexican fender stratocaster and the wide body with an f-hole and a mic of an acoustic guitar which fitted perfectly into the neck, sounds lovely.

I also have a Spanish Guitar I aqcuired in buenos Aires, with porcelain strings I love hand picking, it, s made of very good argentine wood and painted red, gotta change the strings though.


I have loads of keyboards and pedals, but it´s way to late so I´ll post it later, also gonna get some pics if i can, Rock On!
 
ninjadanslarbretabar said:
i dont think that youtube likes duplicated, so dont try to re-upload the same video
try to cut it in half

I finally uploaded the bastard thing. :D

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cool, that was good
im happy that you finally got it uploaded
(and nice ass angle hehe)
do you have original material ?
post moar :D
 
Thanks, ninj. :)

I haven't done any of my own stuff in years, and it was never that great to begin with. So I don't think you'll be hearing any of that.

I might get around to doing another video (seeing as you were so nice about it). Let me brush up on my skills for a bit. I'm still rusty.

You should post another one too so I don't feel like such an attention whore. =D <3
 
I'm thinking of upgrading my shitty "starcaster" with new pickups since I've gotten good enough that the stock pickups just don't cut it anymore. I'm looking at getting lace sensors since you can get a whole bunch of different tones from different types. would that be a waste of money or should I just buy another guitar?
 
Riconoen said:
I'm thinking of upgrading my shitty "starcaster" with new pickups since I've gotten good enough that the stock pickups just don't cut it anymore. I'm looking at getting lace sensors since you can get a whole bunch of different tones from different types. would that be a waste of money or should I just buy another guitar?


Fender Starcasters rule as they are imo, if it´s the fender I´m thinking about the one with the odd inverted neck, that johnny greenwood and a mexican band´s guitar player play. Great if you have a decent valve amp. how much did you pay for it? If they are the ones I think they have humbucker type mics if i´m not mistaken so the lace sensors would be hard to exactly calculate the angle for them to be optimal, if I were you I´d look into the DiMarzio and Gibson lines of mics, and always ebay, you can get really odd vintage shit there. I´d say for the bridge go with a fat mic that distorts well, and on the neck I´d go with a p90s style since coil so you don´t have to adapt to the body of the guitar, playing in the mid position with my p-94 on neck and vintage les paul (not reissue, from an old les paul from the fifties) plus a rewiring totally changed the sound on my fender toronado for the best, and though i´m a big lace sensor fan and own a 57´strat reissue with the black blue red lace sensors Billy Corgan used in his I´d only use them on a guitar that already has single coil slots, I´d put some on my 65 mustang but since everything´s original and sounds great I just leave it like that....if you change mics don´t thro your starcaster mics away!! unless there´s been a reissue made of is a very rare and sought after guitar having always all the original pieces, that way they pay you way more that if it´s altered, even with tye best mic combination possible.
 
here´s all I have for now, now that I have a decent camera phone with flash it´ll be easier taking pic, I´ll find some more on the computer at my house later.


1965 Fender Mustang, Everything original...used to be red, but was snaded down had at least 2 previous owners (I´m thinking more in the lines of possibly more than 15 on this 43 years it has in this mortal coil) I also have the tremolo bar but took it off the bridge cause I never use it .

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The Young Geezer said:
Fender Starcasters rule as they are imo, if it´s the fender I´m thinking about the one with the odd inverted neck, that johnny greenwood and a mexican band´s guitar player play. Great if you have a decent valve amp. how much did you pay for it? If they are the ones I think they have humbucker type mics if i´m not mistaken so the lace sensors would be hard to exactly calculate the angle for them to be optimal, if I were you I´d look into the DiMarzio and Gibson lines of mics, and always ebay, you can get really odd vintage shit there. I´d say for the bridge go with a fat mic that distorts well, and on the neck I´d go with a p90s style since coil so you don´t have to adapt to the body of the guitar, playing in the mid position with my p-94 on neck and vintage les paul (not reissue, from an old les paul from the fifties) plus a rewiring totally changed the sound on my fender toronado for the best, and though i´m a big lace sensor fan and own a 57´strat reissue with the black blue red lace sensors Billy Corgan used in his I´d only use them on a guitar that already has single coil slots, I´d put some on my 65 mustang but since everything´s original and sounds great I just leave it like that....if you change mics don´t thro your starcaster mics away!! unless there´s been a reissue made of is a very rare and sought after guitar having always all the original pieces, that way they pay you way more that if it´s altered, even with tye best mic combination possible.

No, it's not that staercaster, it's the rebranded squire one you buy at target on the cheap. they're great for beginners, but now that I've gotten better I'm being held back by the weak pickups. I was thinking of putting a blue lace sensor in the neck, a gold in the middle and a red in the bridge so I can play chunky bass heavy les paul type stuff, keep the strat tone I love but one that distorts better in the middle, and make my guitar go really high gain brain melting solos in the bridge.

But since it's a cheap guitar I don't know if it would make much of a difference. I tried out an ephiphone sg at my music shop that goes for $250 and I liked it, but I still want my strat single coil twang and I love the way mine plays. so yeah, to your knowledge would it make a difference since a set of lace sensors is cheaper.
 
cheap target guitar? Why dress it up with pickups? Theres little point investing in it, spring for a decent instrument thats at least made up to some kind of industry standard. Theres plenty of single-coil strat-type guitars to be had in the 200 dollar range.
 
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