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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Brow on February 22, 2014, 11:41:49 PM
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Hey guys.
Just wondered if anyone was going to the British Guitar Show in Birmingham next weekend?
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mmmm spose I could, it's not far away. They usually end up being duff, though. How much are tickets?
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mmmm spose I could, it's not far away. They usually end up being duff, though. How much are tickets?
I went last year and it was ok. My mate that came with me was after an amp though so we had a purpose if you know what I mean?
Tickets are £12.50 on the website.
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A couple of mates were talking about giung & asked me but were going on Saturday and I am probably not going to be able to. Saturdays are busy for me usually.
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Yep, much more fun doing these things when you have a wad of cash in your pocket! I'll have a look on the website and see what's happening.
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Just thought I'd mention it incase anyone is going on the Sunday as I am, so could say hello :D
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You're going on sunday to see the Chumbawumba guitarist, aren't you? I wonder if there will be any deals?
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You're going on sunday to see the Chumbawumba guitarist, aren't you?
Yeah, of course that's why I'm going on the Sunday :roll: :lol:
I wonder if there will be any deals?
About 4:30 on the Sunday can be a good time for deals as the more stock they sell, the less they have to box up and take back with them! :lol:
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oooo that's a good point PDT_003
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oooo that's a good point PDT_003
Hopefully it works out as I'm after a new practice amp as my old 1 doesn't appear to switch on anymore :lol:
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D'oh!
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It's a long time since I've been to a guitar show. All this talk of bargains is giving me pause for thought... but Birmingham is too difficult to get to.
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I'm tempted.
Is it really worth it? I've never been to anything like a guitar show or whatever. Might be good to go see what its about. The website is terrible. Utterly terrible.
In other news I went to the BVExpo today. Rubbish.
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Is it really worth it? I've never been to anything like a guitar show or whatever.
Never been? I'm surprised.
I used to go to the ones at Wembley and always left disappointed and irritated, to be honest. Never found the bargains or interesting stuff I was hoping for, you have to be really patient and/or pushy to talk to exhibitors and the noise is horrible with everyone shouting at each other over the tuneless widdling.
But still I kept on going.... :roll:
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Nope. Never been.
I mean, I find with any kind of thing like this, the UK doesn't do it like other places. Like it won't be NAMM. and the BVExpo I went to today wasn't like IBC (Amsterdam). Different scale. Different cross section of exhibitors etc.
The real reason I'm tempted to go, is because I'm planning on putting a little something into production and it might be a good chance to see what these things are like, should I ever want to exhibit at one. I imagine quite similar to broadcast things I've been to.
I tried to have a look through the exhibitors. I might find something interesting there but I'm not really a big gear head. I dig amplifiers. I can't be that bothered looking around at 300 different versions of a tube screamer from different manufacturers. I'm just thinking it might be a good bit of research...
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What's the problem? I've already said Chumbawumbas old guitarist is playing and if you're really lucky you can meet ... THE MONKEY LORD? :lol:
If I decide to go say hi. I'll be the shortish, fat bloke with a beard dragging a bored looking wife around. OK that's not going to help mark me out of the crowd . I shall wear a Daemoness T-shirt.
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If I decide to go say hi. I'll be the shortish, fat bloke with a beard dragging a bored looking wife around. OK that's not going to help mark me out of the crowd . I shall wear a Daemoness T-shirt.
If I go (which I won't) I'll be the short (not-ish, just short) skinny bloke with a goatee. And no wife. And I'll wear a Blood Ceremony T-shirt.
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well... i got a ticket for saturday.
Hopefully it'll be slightly interesting
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I'm only going on the Sunday but I'll be the short, round bloke that doesn't stand out from the crowd with my short hispanic mate in tow :lol:
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I went. Was a bit odd. Anyone else go then?
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I went. Was a bit odd. Anyone else go then?
Yeah, I went on the Sunday.
It was smaller than I remember. It only took us an hour to have a good look round twice.
Buy anything?
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Nah I didn't buy anything. I was hoping for a sort of NAMM-esque kind of thing. People chatting about the things they make. I mean... there was a bit of that but generally it just seemed like the bigger folks selling direct to people. And the stands being staffed by sales guys rather than any engineers at all. Blackstar were selling combos effectively. Orange stand was full of kids playing Tiny Terrors. I spoke to the guys promoting Vigier Guitars. The Fender Booth seemed overly self important. Nobody was looking at any Marshall amps. They had one of the biggest stands and it looked empty all the time. I hoped to see the mythical Vonhatski amps but they weren't there so I'm 50/50 on whether they've already gone out of business. Guitars didn't seem much cheaper than anywhere else. I played the Davis Amplification amp. Had a curry and left.
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Nah I didn't buy anything. I was hoping for a sort of NAMM-esque kind of thing. People chatting about the things they make. I mean... there was a bit of that but generally it just seemed like the bigger folks selling direct to people. And the stands being staffed by sales guys rather than any engineers at all. Blackstar were selling combos effectively. Orange stand was full of kids playing Tiny Terrors. I spoke to the guys promoting Vigier Guitars. The Fender Booth seemed overly self important. Nobody was looking at any Marshall amps. They had one of the biggest stands and it looked empty all the time. I hoped to see the mythical Vonhatski amps but they weren't there so I'm 50/50 on whether they've already gone out of business. Guitars didn't seem much cheaper than anywhere else. I played the Davis Amplification amp. Had a curry and left.
I tried that Davis amp too, what you think?
I made a purchase but haven't bothered with a NGD thread yet.
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I made a purchase but haven't bothered with a NGD thread yet.
Oh, do tell! :)
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I made a purchase but haven't bothered with a NGD thread yet.
Oh, do tell! :)
Ok, I'll do the relevant N_D threads later :lol:
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woohoo. got my internet back.
I played it. I didn't mess with any dials. Some gainiac's had maxed out the drive one the OD channel. It was alright. It didn't blow my mind. I was a little surprised to see some 'out of chassis' wiring in the headshell, I think the primary leads for the OT were across the outside of the chassis. The dude was a pleasant chap but didn't give anything away about the circuit. It has a single valve rectifier in it as well I think. So at high volume I imagine it would sag and compress a bit. I wasn't sold on the styling.
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woohoo. got my internet back.
I played it. I didn't mess with any dials. Some gainiac's had maxed out the drive one the OD channel. It was alright. It didn't blow my mind. I was a little surprised to see some 'out of chassis' wiring in the headshell, I think the primary leads for the OT were across the outside of the chassis. The dude was a pleasant chap but didn't give anything away about the circuit. It has a single valve rectifier in it as well I think. So at high volume I imagine it would sag and compress a bit. I wasn't sold on the styling.
I really liked the cleans on it, but it's OD channel was very bland and fuzzy sounding. Whether that was because it was at low volume levels or not I'm not sure.
I really wasn't blown away for a £3k amp though :lol:
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When I played it the gain was dimed, most amps sounds fizzy like that. Low volumes won't help. Silly of me not to have a tweak but I felt on the spot enough just jammin through it. I didn't know it was a £3K amp. I'd like to know a lot more about what was going on with it for that money. Where the transformers come from, all kinds of stuff. The dude said it was ALL british made... even made it sound like the resistors and stuff would be british made... but nothing specific about where anything comes from. I'd also like to see how well it's put together.
To be fair nobody else was showing off their amp guts. Too SHOOK probably! Weak.