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Location: WV | On another post I relayed some of the story of an ebay 1271 I just got.
After the rounds with various shops in town it looks like the finish is original and in pretty good shape - the only probem seems to be that someone lowered the action by taking a steak knife to the nut slots.
Now to the question - I've never had a good amp with previous vipers - now I have a reverend 5/15 tube with a bunch of settings to simulate fender black and silverface, vox and marshall sounds. In its current state of setup I haven't been able to get the tone I have expected from the viper. The strat style guitar I built sounds better even with cheap pickups.
I assume that when I get the set up right it will get better, but does anyone have favorite tube amps they like with the viper and how wide open do you have the tone/volume and amp settings?
thanks
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 11. |
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Location: Midland, MI | 11? Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? |
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Location: SoCal | Why do I feel like I'm in Spinal Tap? |
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Location: Midland, MI | I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really, it's like a Mach piece, really.
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Sorry I can't help on the amp question. When I had my Viper (1271), I was able to get a great tele-twang out of it with a Peavey Transtube Bandit. I don't recall the exact settings, but I'm sure it was the clean channel, with the tone stack ever-so-slightly scooped in the mids. I do recall that the Viper was bright as all get out, though. I figured that was due to the maple cap on the maple neck coupled to the ash (alder?) body. I think you'll just have to twiddle knobs until you get it dialed in. :\ |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cruster:
I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really, it's like a Mach piece, really. ...What do you call this piece? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The viper is in the telecaster "family". How ever you'd run your tele would be how you'd run the viper. Of course, subject to you're own tweaking. For me, it varies as to what I'm playing, sometimes clean, sometimes dirty. Really depends on the contect.
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Location: Midland, MI | Speaking of tele's, saw a group on BET-Jazz the other day, I think they were called 'Airmal Special,' but I could (and likely am) wrong. The guitar player had a beautiful beat old blonde tele. He was no Ed Bickert, but man it sounded great. More bepop/blues than I cared for, but, hey, clarinet, vibes and an old tele...a recipe for fun, no?
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I could tell you the name of the piece, but I bet Miles/Al would censor it. :0 I have to say, though, I laughed when I read your reply, as I hadn't thought that far through the scene when I posted the 'Mach' thing. HAHHAHAHA 'People cry when I play it and I don't know why that is.' |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Rock On, Nigel!
Caught your show in Cleveland...thought you'd never make it on stage, but loved the Violin on Guitar solo.... |
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Location: Midland, MI | "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history. An ancient race of people, The Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing."
I'm going to have to get that back out and watch it again. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Gonna stick my neck out
I've got a '66 Fender mustang with vintage pickups and the sound is a lot different than my '76 Viper. Why?? The Viper has twice the windings of it's pickups so it is a different animal, but it can really scream if you plug it into any type of modern amp. |
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tube amp settings for 1271
