Headgear: How do you like what you have? - Gadgets

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signmeuptoo Thank you Yankees Premium join:2001-11-22 NanoParticle kudos:4 Reviews: ·Comcast ·Optimum Online ·callwithus	reply to Gomez Re: Headgear: How do you like what you have? I've owned numerous guitars and amps, being a former musician. I don't know what makes the difference, if it is more the wood, construction and form of the material, or just the electronics, but a 58 Strat and a Beatles Era Rickenbacker sound incredibly different and PLAY different. Ricks lack sustain but have more of a punchy clunky sound, Starts have a quack quack sound that makes me move my jaw while I play. Even a Tele is different from a Strat significantly, and the grade of them does make a huge difference too. I had a Luthier made electric just a few years ago with SD on it, it was a gorgeous guitar, too bad I couldn't keep it, sold it at a big loss because it wasn't brand named (go figure). My old Dual Showman Amp had fantastic sound with the matching dual speaker setup. Very clean and just a little warm. Until recently, nothing could beat a real tube amp. Roomate can't believe there is a difference, but there is. Roomate used to work for Tektronics but a long time ago. If I were to buy a new guitar and amp today I'd get a Hughes and Kettner Triamp and a PRS guitar, something like Santanas, and another Ricky too. Speakers I don't know, good vintage speakers aren't easy to buy and I don't know the new stuff at all, as far as musician speakers. -- Join Teams Helix and Discovery. Fight cancer and disease, it's easy, you can get help, and you'll make a difference! »Team Helix »Team Discovery Please pray for Colin, he has ependymoma, a brain cancer.
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Gomez ha ha, charade you are Premium,Ex-Mod 06-11 join:2001-02-21 Atlanta, GA	said by signmeuptoo: I've owned numerous guitars and amps, being a former musician. I don't know what makes the difference, if it is more the wood, construction and form of the material, or just the electronics, but a 58 Strat and a Beatles Era Rickenbacker sound incredibly different and PLAY different. Ricks lack sustain but have more of a punchy clunky sound, Starts have a quack quack sound that makes me move my jaw while I play. Even a Tele is different from a Strat significantly, and the grade of them does make a huge difference too. I had a Luthier made electric just a few years ago with SD on it, it was a gorgeous guitar, too bad I couldn't keep it, sold it at a big loss because it wasn't brand named (go figure). My old Dual Showman Amp had fantastic sound with the matching dual speaker setup. Very clean and just a little warm. Until recently, nothing could beat a real tube amp. Roomate can't believe there is a difference, but there is. Roomate used to work for Tektronics but a long time ago. If I were to buy a new guitar and amp today I'd get a Hughes and Kettner Triamp and a PRS guitar, something like Santanas, and another Ricky too. Speakers I don't know, good vintage speakers aren't easy to buy and I don't know the new stuff at all, as far as musician speakers. Good stuff.. Nice to see someone into all this.. The Rickenbacker is totally different animal than a strat, hollow body if I recall. And the Strat and telecastor are mainly different in the pickups, humbucker vs. 3 single coils ( I own an HSS strat, one humbucker, 2 single coils). There is a lot of superstition in all of this, but rarely quoted are the professional musicians. Found this interesting some time ago: »www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/F···-hendrix And yes, the amp makes a ton of difference. Nothin' like a vintage Fender with tubes for that rich warm sound. -- It's a fact : Chicks dig Mafia players. 'Wanna help buy a goat?' - »www.kiva.org
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signmeuptoo Thank you Yankees Premium join:2001-11-22 NanoParticle kudos:4 Reviews: ·Comcast ·Optimum Online ·callwithus	Remember the good old Leslies from yesteryear? Some still use them for the natural effects they have. One thing I can say: The nature of a guitar's attack and decay greatly affected how it was played, and an amp could alter it even more. This will sound nuts, but my favorite electric to this day was my first, a cheap old Hagstrom III Black Triple replete with all the switches on it: »www.guitar-museum.com/guitar-537···ar-Black A real Steve Vai type guitar, it was sold back then as "the world's thinnest neck" and it played fast and had a ton of different sounds due to phasing and the pickups. I had a ball with that thing and miss it terribly. -- Join Teams Helix and Discovery. Fight cancer and disease, it's easy, you can get help, and you'll make a difference! »Team Helix »Team Discovery Please pray for Colin, he has ependymoma, a brain cancer.
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Gomez ha ha, charade you are Premium,Ex-Mod 06-11 join:2001-02-21 Atlanta, GA	reply to Sarah said by Sarah: I do really like the idea of the swivel cable attachment. I wish IEM manufacturers would just use good cables. It can't cost that much. If Westone can make a fantastic cable - no microphonics, tough as nails, thin, flexible, tangle- and memory-free... why can't everyone else? There's no excuse for, e.g., the appalling cable on the Ultimate Ears Triple.Fi. It's the worst cable I've ever used on any headphone and it's also the most expensive one I've used, by MSRP. Shakespeare Wolverines sounds like it would make a good X-Men spinoff "Hark! My adamantium claws doth slice thee!" As it turns out, the 'hands free' cable I ordered, is 535 compatible, so I just swapped out the stock cable with the mic cable.. Sweet. -- It's a fact : Chicks dig Mafia players. 'Wanna help buy a goat?' - »www.kiva.org
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