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#297,261
JJR58 said:
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My friend Tom Dimuzio (still works for AVID) has a 'pedal board' (an understatement - more of a 'pedal floor'!) for his (Moog) guitar playing, and a table filled with boxes with multicolour flickering lights & a network of cables to perform solo sonic symphonies. Then there's someone like me... trying to keep it as simple as possible! :)
 
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JIO said:
My Mesa M2000 (posted earlier) has eq sliders and I'm just not a big eq slider person - I also like it simple/straight forward. Luckily I had a friend who worked for AVID help me adjust it. It was probably elementary considering his expertise but he graciously helped me a lot.

Having said that... incorporating a simple eg to tame my B9 pedal made it usable live & recording. Once set the only thing I need to adjust for the room is the level. (far right slider) I was ready to stop using it until I figured it out.

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I've been wanting to try one of those out on my pedal steel.
 
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Rickplaysbass said:
I've been wanting to try one of those out on my pedal steel.
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I bet it would work well. It's calibrated for guitar - my bass was over-loading the signal. At a usable volume - low frequencies would surge uncontrollably. The eq allowed me to shape the frequencies so that didn't happen.

This is a studio recording using it pre-live eq where it was tweaked at the board -

 
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#297,268
Miles_ONeal said:
And do those spiders bite when you try to adjust them?
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You have to sneak up on them so they don't have a chance to react ;)

TBird1958 said:
I have a new (or at least recent) found love for Trace Elliott stuff, talking with Chuck about it only makes me want
to try another, it just seems to almost naturally sound good.
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My friend is a hard-core Trace fan and has a nice selection of heads and cabs. He is the reason I was looking for the head in my pic.

Someone posted this in a Trace group on FB. I am surprised his house is still standing!!
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Okay, five years ago, the City of Maastricht lost its final music shop.
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Of which I had been a loyal customer for over 35 years. I remember how that shop had the most deluxe Fenders and Gibsons and was always ahead of the curb. Heck, when as a kid, I was granted permission to play a Steinberger bass I found that to be a very big privilege.

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But the DJ culture and internet sales made it that the shop started to lose its main source of income and for many years, those racks which held the most amazing guitars became empty. Then the owner of the shop, Daan Smit himself, lost his wife and he decided that enough was enough.

Now in that picture of the interior of the shop, there are two guitars which stand out. A Green strat and a Blue strat. Which had been part of the personal collection of the guitar tech there: Arnold Smit, the son of Daan. He and I became good friends over the years I was a customer of the shop.

Last year, I bought the green strat off of him.
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And today, I managed to acquire the blue one as well. I got in contact with Arnold, and he congratulated me and also pressed to me that I should keep them both and that if anybody should continue playing them, it would be me.
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Blazer said:
Okay, five years ago, the City of Maastricht lost its final music shop.
View attachment 5495516 Of which I had been a loyal customer for over 35 years. I remember how that shop had the most deluxe Fenders and Gibsons and was always ahead of the curb. Heck, when as a kid, I was granted permission to play a Steinberger bass I found that to be a very big privilege.

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But the DJ culture and internet sales made it that the shop started to lose its main source of income and for many years, those racks which held the most amazing guitars became empty. Then the owner of the shop, Daan Smit himself, lost his wife and he decided that enough was enough.

Now in that picture of the interior of the shop, there are two guitars which stand out. A Green strat and a Blue strat. Which had been part of the personal collection of the guitar tech there: Arnold Smit, the son of Daan. He and I became good friends over the years I was a customer of the shop.

Last year, I bought the green strat off of him.
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And today, I managed to acquire the blue one as well. I got in contact with Arnold, and he congratulated me and also pressed to me that I should keep them both and that if anybody should continue playing them, it would be me.
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Can't like the post - really hate hearing long-term music stores closing. I understand it in this case, but it's still a blow. I love the vintage Burns of London he is playing and the Baldwin hanging behind him. On-line is killing these shops... progress? :rollno:
 
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JIO said:
This is the most sophisticate amp I've ever owned. My rehearsal-space amp. Two, two, two amps in one! Once it was dialed for our space - I don't touch it. Output (center bottom) always at 9:00 - 'MIX' (tube & fet)* - any further volume/tone tweaking from the bass. I almost sold it recently - decided I would regret it.

*When I turn it on, it defaults to TUBE and if distracted I'll forget to change it to MIX. We'll start our rehearsal and I'll be like.., "that's not my sound"!... Oh yah - forgot to engage MIX!

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a bass amp should not run Windows….just sayin……:facepalm:
 
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Blazer said:
Okay, five years ago, the City of Maastricht lost its final music shop.
View attachment 5495516 Of which I had been a loyal customer for over 35 years. I remember how that shop had the most deluxe Fenders and Gibsons and was always ahead of the curb. Heck, when as a kid, I was granted permission to play a Steinberger bass I found that to be a very big privilege.

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But the DJ culture and internet sales made it that the shop started to lose its main source of income and for many years, those racks which held the most amazing guitars became empty. Then the owner of the shop, Daan Smit himself, lost his wife and he decided that enough was enough.

Now in that picture of the interior of the shop, there are two guitars which stand out. A Green strat and a Blue strat. Which had been part of the personal collection of the guitar tech there: Arnold Smit, the son of Daan. He and I became good friends over the years I was a customer of the shop.

Last year, I bought the green strat off of him.
View attachment 5495538

And today, I managed to acquire the blue one as well. I got in contact with Arnold, and he congratulated me and also pressed to me that I should keep them both and that if anybody should continue playing them, it would be me.
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Hate to hear those kinds of stories.
 
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