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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: hamfist on March 29, 2009, 08:50:38 AM
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It's a happy and a sad story really.
I seem to have come to the end of an intense three year journey of getting my whole guitar/amp rig sorted.
It's finally there !! My two guitars are perfect for me. My pedalboard is pretty much perfect (OK, I might want to add a wah at some point). My amps (2 duplicates plus another spare set of transformers) are perfect. My two identical cabs are now also perfectly suited to the rest of the rig.
The bad point is that this has been my main hobby for those years (yes, more so than actually playing the guitar). I have so enjoyed cruising the www, researching, buying, selling etc. But it's all over now. I feel a bit lost.
OK, so I've got the best tone I've ever had, and I really enjoy it, but I do miss the tone quest.
If I was made of money, I would just add to my gear but, unfortunately finances have tightened up a lot for us recently, and it's a strictly "sell one to buy one" motto for gear now.
I am to be pitied :(
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Give me all your gear and start again.
It's the only way...
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i've actually been feeling the same way.
i dont have much, but ive been through a lot.
right now i have 2 guitars i really like and as much as i look at others, i just don't feel a need.
i have a few heads that do different sounds.
pedal wise i'm there, i don't use much, so it's down to tuner, wah, delay
i've never tried messing with cabs and speakers much, because a lot of the time i use cabs provided by promoters unless i tour myself. and then i end up in the position of lending it to others. but ive been generally happy with 1960A cabs, even in comparison to mesa cabs and some other things.
so yeah, while i COULD do some work still, i don't feel a dire need.
i could play with speakers in preparation for recording.
I'd probably wire a mixed pair into a 1960A.
amp wise i have a dual rec, a jcm 800 2205 and a soldano avenger.
dual rec and avenger i swap between mostly.
speaker suggestions welcome.
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Don't worry Alan, it won't last, you'll still be cruising the net, and you'll find something that then needs to be factored into your rig. Or you'll get a new guitar that doesn't work with your current rig.
I'm not going to pity you just yet, I've got to know you too well :D
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It'll change, it'll change!
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What about a guitar teacher to refocus?
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Luckily I'm not where you are yet Alan
But I can understand why you would feel like this at the end.
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As my first martial arts teacher told me "perfection is to be strived for, not achieved"
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There is a strange thing about tone, in my experience at least, in that what you think is the ultimate gradually becomes the familiar and then becomes the" its ok but it aint quite there" and then you get back on the tour bus to tone heaven. I guess what you are saying is that it is better to travel than to arrive.
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if you've got all the gear that you want, and you're happy with your tone, then it's time to start a new journey to making beautiful music!
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What about a guitar teacher to refocus?
It's a good idea, but guitar teachers cost money. :(
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As my first martial arts teacher told me "perfection is to be strived for, not achieved"
Your martial arts teacher obviously doesn't have as great a guitar rig as I do now ! :wink:
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What about a guitar teacher to refocus?
It's a good idea, but guitar teachers cost money. :(
You could sell some stuff... but that then means that you'll have to buy stuff... which you could then sell...
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You could sell some stuff... but that then means that you'll have to buy stuff... which you could then sell...
The eternal problem !!
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What about a guitar teacher to refocus?
It's a good idea, but guitar teachers cost money. :(
Learn from the net, or set a goal, like a song you've always wanted to play. :)
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What about a guitar teacher to refocus?
It's a good idea, but guitar teachers cost money. :(
Learn from the net, or set a goal, like a song you've always wanted to play. :)
Johnny, to be honest I struggle to be motivated to play or learn anything that is not directly linked to playing with a band of some description.
My whole "raison d'etre" for playing guitar is to play with others in a live setting. If it's just playing for playing's sake or simply practicing just to get better, then I lose all motivation.
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You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
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You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
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Ironically, my whole enjoyment of the music ( and the guitar as it's vehicle ) only kicked in properly, when the 'Tone search' ended.
Yes; in the final stages a bit of the good old narrowing down of genre specific components - and getting the best prices was as enjoyable as ever - but when ( after 30 years ) I could just let go of the gear search - and got on with trying to make my playing / music better, I felt great .
For me the eternal search ( which of course began again with every genre I experimented with ) - was not invalid as such , but to a great degree - it was an excuse to delay what was really needed ; - and that was bl***y hard work and study / practice.
The three strongest elements of transition for me where :
1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
2) Seeing a video of Joe Pass ( playing a "nice tune" ) whilst going D.I. into the front of house public address system - and still delivering a great evening's music.
3) Reading Matt Otten ( After watching his silky smooth demos for Peerless Monarch guitars on 'You Tube ' e.t.c. ) - saying that for him the tone search was not a path he felt that important, compared to study of the music itself.
To now get excited ( as a self taught, not music college player ) about song structure, melodic possibilities, nice harmonies - and the challenges of solo playing. Has been the best evolution I feel to have ever made.
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
Presumably they're not like mine, who has built himself a little bus-stop-like shelter in the back garden so he can sit out there at 3 in the morning shouting "JAH! RASTA-FAR-EYE!" at random intervals.... :|
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Theres always something else.
Always.
And youre going to change your mind about stuff you have too.
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
Same! :? haha i always seem to just play random notes until about 8 sound good together, and then play them over and over again :)
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
Presumably they're not like mine, who has built himself a little bus-stop-like shelter in the back garden so he can sit out there at 3 in the morning shouting "JAH! RASTA-FAR-EYE!" at random intervals.... :|
Lol !!
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And youre going to change your mind about stuff you have too.
Highly likely, knowing my history. I just wish it would happen soon !!
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Anyone want a tenner down on Alan still having the same gear in 12 months time? :lol:
Didn't think so!
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Anyone want a tenner down on Alan still having the same gear in 12 months time? :lol:
Didn't think so!
I'll lose a tenner just to see him sweat :twisted:
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Anyone want a tenner down on Alan still having the same gear in 12 months time?
A year !!! That's ridiculous ! Surely no-one keeps gear that long !
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
Presumably they're not like mine, who has built himself a little bus-stop-like shelter in the back garden so he can sit out there at 3 in the morning shouting "JAH! RASTA-FAR-EYE!" at random intervals.... :|
Blimey he sounds a bit mad! You could have a jam with him Philly!
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
i know it too! even if i'm just starting to live it like a real problem... certainly not for the bloody tunes people wants me to play, but because i'm starting to feel much less secure about my playing skills than i was just a couple of years ago...
You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
Presumably they're not like mine, who has built himself a little bus-stop-like shelter in the back garden so he can sit out there at 3 in the morning shouting "JAH! RASTA-FAR-EYE!" at random intervals.... :|
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make him a friend... so he'll hopefully begin to OFFER... :lol:
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1) Realising I could not respond adequately to someone saying " play us a tune then" .
Oh, I know that feeling. :(
i know it too! even if i'm just starting to live it like a real problem... certainly not for the bloody tunes people wants me to play, but because i'm starting to feel much less secure about my playing skills than i was just a couple of years ago...
You could always play to annoy your neighbours?
I like my neighbours !
Presumably they're not like mine, who has built himself a little bus-stop-like shelter in the back garden so he can sit out there at 3 in the morning shouting "JAH! RASTA-FAR-EYE!" at random intervals.... :|
make him a friend... so he'll hopefully begin to OFFER... :lol:
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make him a friend... so he'll hopefully begin to OFFER... :lol:
Blimey he sounds a bit mad! You could have a jam with him Philly!
Not a chance! It's actually pretty creepy going in the kitchen in the middle of the night and hearing someone shouting or mumbling crazily about 20 feet away. I'm glad I'm on the first floor.
Here's his bus stop. Why the hell would you build that in your garden?
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/IMGP2611.jpg)
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The brand new Axe FX will give you a reason to start over
http://www.fractalaudio.com/products-fa-axefx.html
:)
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I can imagine Philly, that would drive me mad to be honest, which is exactly what he sounds like! Does he smoke huge spliffs in his bus stop?
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I can imagine Philly, that would drive me mad to be honest, which is exactly what he sounds like! Does he smoke huge spliffs in his bus stop?
Dunno - I'm afraid of accidentally making eye contact! :lol: I imagine he does....
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make him a friend... so he'll hopefully begin to OFFER... :lol:
Blimey he sounds a bit mad! You could have a jam with him Philly!
Not a chance! It's actually pretty creepy going in the kitchen in the middle of the night and hearing someone shouting or mumbling crazily about 20 feet away. I'm glad I'm on the first floor.
Here's his bus stop. Why the hell would you build that in your garden?
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/IMGP2611.jpg)
:idiot2:
it could have been worse. he could have built a sign too.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Duuuuude, I'm so getting a backyardbusstop. <--- sweet band name
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it's perfect for stoner... a bit like backyard babies, indeed...
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If I was gojng to build myself a shelter for smoking in, it would have doors and a small heater so I didn't freeze my t**s off. (I don't smoke so no problem)
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Lol. This must be one of the most bizarre transformations of a thread.
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Yeah well... We just didn't want you wallowing in self pity :D
Edit: cr@p, I really must remember not to post from Sue's PC - Ailean.
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You only need to really worry if one night you hear a diesel engine and look out to see a large red double decker in the garden.
On the gear point I can easily see how this can become a factor but one of the biggest influence on tone and presense is the player so let that be your motivation for the moement then you will find that you can outplay your current rig
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Are you sure that he bought it - have you noticed a missing bus shelter around you?
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This guy seems like a legend. I'd kill to have a bus stop in my garden :D
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Just be glad it's not a less stable relation of Dave ( Twinfan ) - he'd have at least two ... :mrgreen:
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:lol:
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I bet the buses in his garden are more frequent than they are in my area.
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I bet the buses in his garden are more frequent than they are in my area.
In his mind, they probably are.
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It's a happy and a sad story really.
I seem to have come to the end of an intense three year journey of getting my whole guitar/amp rig sorted.
It's finally there !! My two guitars are perfect for me. My pedalboard is pretty much perfect (OK, I might want to add a wah at some point). My amps (2 duplicates plus another spare set of transformers) are perfect. My two identical cabs are now also perfectly suited to the rest of the rig.
The bad point is that this has been my main hobby for those years (yes, more so than actually playing the guitar). I have so enjoyed cruising the www, researching, buying, selling etc. But it's all over now. I feel a bit lost.
OK, so I've got the best tone I've ever had, and I really enjoy it, but I do miss the tone quest.
If I was made of money, I would just add to my gear but, unfortunately finances have tightened up a lot for us recently, and it's a strictly "sell one to buy one" motto for gear now.
I am to be pitied :(
So to get this thread back on topic..........................
Has anyone else noticed that since posting this Alan is selling his Krank Distortious Maximus pedal and has bought a Gordon Smith GS-1?
As I predicted, it didn't take long then hey Alan? :lol:
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So to get this thread back on topic..........................
Has anyone else noticed that since posting this Alan is selling his Krank Distortious Maximus pedal and has bought a Gordon Smith GS-1?
As I predicted, it didn't take long then hey Alan? :lol:
A very pertinent thread revival! :lol:
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I think it's been passed onto me. I feel I don't have anything to buy. I have guitars, and am going to sell guitars. And I have an amp, plus Martin is going to build me a cabinet.
I'm.. G..A..S..f..r..eee......free...FREE......FREEDOOOMMMMM!!!!
I don't like the feeling so far.
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I'm.. G..A..S..f..r..eee......free...FREE......FREEDOOOMMMMM!!!!
I don't like the feeling so far.
It won't last. Don't worry.
Or worry. Whatever feels most appropriate.
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It's a happy and a sad story really.
I seem to have come to the end of an intense three year journey of getting my whole guitar/amp rig sorted.
It's finally there !! My two guitars are perfect for me. My pedalboard is pretty much perfect (OK, I might want to add a wah at some point). My amps (2 duplicates plus another spare set of transformers) are perfect. My two identical cabs are now also perfectly suited to the rest of the rig.
The bad point is that this has been my main hobby for those years (yes, more so than actually playing the guitar). I have so enjoyed cruising the www, researching, buying, selling etc. But it's all over now. I feel a bit lost.
OK, so I've got the best tone I've ever had, and I really enjoy it, but I do miss the tone quest.
If I was made of money, I would just add to my gear but, unfortunately finances have tightened up a lot for us recently, and it's a strictly "sell one to buy one" motto for gear now.
I am to be pitied :(
So to get this thread back on topic..........................
Has anyone else noticed that since posting this Alan is selling his Krank Distortious Maximus pedal and has bought a Gordon Smith GS-1?
As I predicted, it didn't take long then hey Alan? :lol:
I'll also admit to selling and buying a cab in the meantime too. :oops:
But on the positive side, I haven't bought a new amp for months !!! That is a big step for me.
And Jonny ..... I feel your pain !
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What cabs are you using now then, Alan?
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make him a friend... so he'll hopefully begin to OFFER... :lol:
Blimey he sounds a bit mad! You could have a jam with him Philly!
Not a chance! It's actually pretty creepy going in the kitchen in the middle of the night and hearing someone shouting or mumbling crazily about 20 feet away. I'm glad I'm on the first floor.
Here's his bus stop. Why the hell would you build that in your garden?
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/IMGP2611.jpg)
is it legal to smoke in that shelter - it has three 'walls', contact environmental health :lol:
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What cabs are you using now then, Alan?
Two identical Laney 2x12's (GS212ie), both now fully loaded with greenbacks. My vintage Marshall 4x12 has now gone.
I had a "magic" event when my rig just sounded so perfect, playing through one of the Laney cabs. It just didn't sound as good through the Marshall, so I sold the Marshall, and put together another identical Laney cab with greenbacks. Two greenbacks on their own is just not quite in the safety zone for me for gigging. Four is fine though. The two 2x12 cabs gives me a pretty flexible setup too. The gig I did on saturday, I set them up on top of each other, end on end, to have a really thin but tall stack .... didn't take up much space but got plenty of sound up around my lugholes.
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Interesting - sounds like a flexible rig...