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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and sometimes I WANT TO ANNOY the family :cool: |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by stephent28:
and sometimes I WANT TO ANNOY the family :cool: Amen, brother. |
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Location: Chipping Sodbury, England | Bill,
I often work from home and when the family are out I like to make some noise!
Also I've been playing some Paul Weller (don't know if you've heard of him?) "unplugged", ie non-electric, stuff and ironically can't get his sound with an acoustic alone. Sound like he uses some reverb and chorus.
Finally, I need an amp to drown out the noise of a pig being f****d by an elephant, which passes for my singing. Or as my 5 year old son so nicely puts it "Daddy, why are you pretending to sing?" Maybe I should take up heavy metal, seems to me my voice is perfect for that!
Squeeeeeel like a pig.......... |
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Location: Chipping Sodbury, England | Well, after much auditioning, I finally went for the Marshall AS50R.
It brought out some real warmth from the guitar whilst preserving the bright crystalline character which seems to be a defining sound for this guitar at least.
The onboard reverb and chorus work really well and give me a lot of scope to play with.
There are some great amps out there the AER acouticube 3, and the Ashdown acoustic radiator 1 being outstanding, but for the money the Marshall was unbeatable, and is an amp I'll grow into, rather than out of.
Thanks to everyone who offered advice.
Mr B from Chipping Sodbury |
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Location: Parrish, FL | we now pay £1 a litre for gas = $1.85 !! Let me see....
Hmmmmmm
1 Pound/ltr for petrol, about 4 ltr/gal= 4 Pounds /1gal
A gallon weighs about 8 pounds.
That's what I thought, you're getting it for 1/2 price. Quit whining. :D
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Location: closely held secret | Bradley, I don't know if you noticed, but the AS50R also has send/return and a nice little XLR on the back which is a DI out. |
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Location: Chipping Sodbury, England | Waskel,
Oh yeah, it has, thanks! Something else to play with.........nice.
BluesSailor,
Not sure about your maths there me old mate, if you divide $1.85 by George W's IQ, multiply that by the the average miles per gallon of a typical SUV, add the exchange rate, divide my the difference between a US and a UK gallon, allow for the fact that the gravitational constant is lower here cos we're further East, and add Jerry Springers salary, I reckon we pay 20,000,000 times more for our petrol than you do.
Everything's more expensive, the medicine to control my multiple personality disorder costs $2500 each per year, and there's 5 of me!
Bradley, Alphonso, Mary, Kurt, and George W |
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Location: Parrish, FL | :D :D :D :D :D
....and there is 5 of me.... :eek:
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Location: Chipping Sodbury, England | So which one of you is the ovation fan shipmate? |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | I purchased a Barbetta 23C about six months ago mostly to use as a portable PA system. It has 5 line and one mic input. This thing is lightweight, yet has a 15 inch speaker/horn and packs a pretty good punch for small venues. I play my 1537 through it for leading worship and the thing sounds pretty remarkable. A bit pricey in the $400 range, but it compares favorably to my Mackie/EV PA system. I have also ran my wifes XP60 Roland and a bass and it makes a great combo. Even use a converter to plug in a second microphone, although tough to get a lot of volume out of the second mic. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Welcome back, Jeff. Where you been? I finally added a 1537 to the arsenal. I've been working on that (mostly whining about missed opportunities) since you last posted. Now if I could just play worth ____, I'd host a NW OFC gathering. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Trust me, it is not a prerequisite! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When I bought my Classic, I was in a little music store in Moscow, Idaho for my daughter's graduation. A guy I work with who has an office 2 doors down walks by and stops and plays Classical Gas. Wow! I just had to have that guitar, but it has never sounded as good as when he played it. I bought my 1537 and showed it to him. He fiddled around with it and said it was the best acoustic he ever played and the action was almost as good as an electric. Of course, it hasn't sounded as good when I play it. I've figured out that if I played better, the guitars would sound better. |
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What amplifier?
