Guitar Talk

[stratman]

...it's like I have a twin! I oftimes rail against the mindset typified by the average Col. MacWendybelle's et al customer...You know, the sheep who never realized they needed__________(enter useless article/product here) until they were told they did by the suited marketeers.

jimHJJ(...I take it by your moniker you're a Fender fan?...)

Yes Res,

1992 Fender Strat Plus with Lacey pick ups, factory Floyd Rose whammy, maple fingerboard, locking tuning heads made by Schaller. You can see I'm in love. It's my second Strat.

1995 Les Paul Gold top(1960 re-issue)---need I say more.

My only remaining amp, Marshall JCM 900 4102 --100 watts of glorious, warm, distortin' tubes into 2 12" Celestion speakers. Heaven my friend.

BTW my collection has dwindled somewhat.

 

[Resident Loser]

Cool...

Yes Res,

1992 Fender Strat Plus with Lacey pick ups, factory Floyd Rose whammy, maple fingerboard, locking tuning heads made by Schaller. You can see I'm in love. It's my second Strat.

1995 Les Paul Gold top---need I say more.

My only remaining amp, Marshall JCM 900 4102 --100 watts of glorious, warm, distortin' tubes into 2 12" Celestion speakers. Heaven my friend.

BTW my collection has dwindled somewhat.

...Mine, a '69 (brand spankin' new-given to me by my then fiance' as an engagement gift)LP goldtop Deluxe, the one with the small humbuckers, since modded for the larger ones, Grover tuning machines and a Schaller bridge to replace the old Tune-O-Matic...

...A mid-70s Martin D18...bone-stock save for the Barcus-Berry FRAP...

...A Gibson student model (# unknown) modded with a brass nut and bridge for slide work...

...A late 70s Peavey four-string bass...

...My original ('66)Teisco DelRay f-hole double-cutaway, acoustic electric...now sporting the pickups, bridge and Schaller tuners from the LP...

...My amp is still my original one...a '66 (bought in the same year at Sam Ash) Fender tubed Bandmaster bought for $230 when Fender was trying to introduce their SS amps...Which $ucked as per my bassist, who after only a few months ditched his SS Bassman (thought he was gettin' a valved one), for a Kustom amp with an absolutely huge, 6ft. tall cabinet with 3-15 inchers!

...and my original battery-operated Pignose...great little toy...

...and, of course, effects pedals up the wazoo...most of which are collecting dust as I mostly play finger-style acoustic jazz these days...every once in a while I plug in the E-H Big Muff Pi and Thomas Cry Baby and noodle around with Voodoo Child or some similar bit of self-indulgence...

jimHJJ(...great way to vent...)

 

[stratman]

...Mine, a '69 (brand spankin' new-given to me by my then fiance' as an engagement gift)LP goldtop Deluxe, the one with the small humbuckers, since modded for the larger ones, Grover tuning machines and a Schaller bridge to replace the old Tune-O-Matic...

...A mid-70s Martin D18...bone-stock save for the Barcus-Berry FRAP...

...A Gibson student model (# unknown) modded with a brass nut and bridge for slide work...

...A late 70s Peavey four-string bass...

...My original ('66)Teisco DelRay f-hole double-cutaway, acoustic electric...now sporting the pickups, bridge and Schaller tuners from the LP...

...My amp is still my original one...a '66 (bought in the same year at Sam Ash) Fender tubed Bandmaster bought for $230 when Fender was trying to introduce their SS amps...Which $ucked as per my bassist, who after only a few months ditched his SS Bassman (thought he was gettin' a valved one), for a Kustom amp with an absolutely huge, 6ft. tall cabinet with 3-15 inchers!

...and my original battery-operated Pignose...great little toy...

...and, of course, effects pedals up the wazoo...most of which are collecting dust as I mostly play finger-style acoustic jazz these days...every once in a while I plug in the E-H Big Muff Pi and Thomas Cry Baby and noodle around with Voodoo Child or some similar bit of self-indulgence...

jimHJJ(...great way to vent...)

Warm waves of nostalgia!!! Big Muff Pi!!!!(Electro-Harmonix)I had an envelope follower , oh the damned hands of time!! I love all the analog stuff from the heyday. I'm playing mostly jazz now, the only effect I didn't get rid of is my Cry-Baby Wah-Wah (couldn't bring myself to do it) Do you rember the the mid-70's Guitar Player mags? How much better than what they've evolved into. That LP Deluxe ('soapbar' pick ups), memories. BTW, VH1 Classic has been showing the documentary The History of Rock n' Roll, they have one episode devoted to Leo Fender and Les Paul.

 

[Resident Loser]

Actually...

Warm waves of nostalgia!!! Big Muff Pi!!!!(Electro-Harmonix)I had an envelope follower , oh the damned hands of time!! I love all the analog stuff from the heyday...

...Do you rember the the mid-70's Guitar Player mags? How much better than what they've evolved into...

...after the Teisco and Bandmaster my next purchase was the little red Sam Ash Fuzztone, one of the few available...followed by their Fuzzoola (no kidding, really) then there was a Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz-face and a Gibson Boomerang, which in addition to the wah effect was a really nice foot-operated volume control...then came the E-H Little Muff, the one that plugged directly into your guitar (as long as you had a flush-mount jack, that is)...and their Black Finger and a Flanger and an Octave box and...d@mn I forget...Interspersed with some MXR devices (another really good effects mfr.)...seems like nearly everytime I went to Ash or Manny's or Terminal, a new effects-pedal would find it's way to my home...much to the surprise and dismay of my better-half, who herself was no stranger to the muse...She owned a dreadnaught-style harmony 6-string and a Fender Villager 12 to which I added a DeArmond slip-in sound-hole pickup so as not to ruin the finish...and I bought my picks by the gross...man, l-o-o-ng time ago...

Yeah, GP mag? Fairly regular reader at one time...in fact I think I still have the Hendrix and Duane Allman memorial issues that came with those sound-sheet pages bound into the mag...Really good articles and tabs...Haven't even been tempted to thumb through any of the newer rags...must be that generational thing...

jimHJJ(...nice talkin'...I refuse to use the term chat...)

 

[stratman]

My intenerary on my first trip to New York was 1. Manny's 2. Sam Ash 3. all those little rat hole music "shops" around Broadway.

MXR, what was their little green distortion pedal called? I've heard now it goes on E-Bay for ridiculous amounts of money.

My first guitar (I was 8) was a Estella korean made steel string. I called it shredder back then (not because it's fast action)rather what your finger tips looked like after playing the cursed thing for five minutes. For some time I thought my dad was playing a cruel joke on me. I always kept it to remind myself on how to appreciate a fine instrument. Years later I mounted a DiMarzio humbucker on the blasted thing, you would have sworn it was possesed by the devil himself. My dog would bolt out of the house when I plugged frankenstein in.

 

[Sheep]

Well this is convenient... I just put 2 more springs and a set of new Elixer strings on my strat!

It's an imitation with a Maple V-neck, Seymour Duncan Quarter pounder, and a Bartolini rail style pickup. This guitar is very old though, much older then me. My pa used to play in a band. I've been taking care of it and feeding it, so it pretty much is mine.

My guitar amp used to be a Hiwatt tube head with a Heil Sound 4x12 cab. The head kept blowing fuses so I bought a Washburn Combo (BD75R). It has a speaker out, but I need to rewire one of the woofers in the cab.

I have a couple other guitars, 1 Les Paul imitation, 1 Attila, and 1 Odyssey (way back from 76 I believe). One acoustic too.

Picture.

SheepStar

 

[stratman]

First let me apologize to all concerned, I completely went overboard yapping about guitars in that last thread, so: sorry and thanks to whomever was nice enough to move all the chatter to a new thread. Moderator? Thanks.

 

[stratman]

Well this is convenient... I just put 2 more springs and a set of new Elixer strings on my strat!

It's an imitation with a Maple V-neck, Seymour Duncan Quarter pounder, and a Bartolini rail style pickup. This guitar is very old though, much older then me. My pa used to play in a band. I've been taking care of it and feeding it, so it pretty much is mine.

My guitar amp used to be a Hiwatt tube head with a Heil Sound 4x12 cab. The head kept blowing fuses so I bought a Washburn Combo (BD75R). It has a speaker out, but I need to rewire one of the woofers in the cab.

I have a couple other guitars, 1 Les Paul imitation, 1 Attila, and 1 Odyssey (way back from 76 I believe). One acoustic too.

Picture.

SheepStar

Sheep you rascal you,
You play the six string.......Heil use to (I don't know if they still do) make the talk box that Peter Framptom popularized on the song "Do you feel like we do" also Joe Walsh on "Rocky mountainway."

 

[Sheep]

Sheep you rascal you,
You play the six string.......Heil use to (I don't know if they still do) make the talk box that Peter Framptom popularized on the song "Do you feel like we do" also Joe Walsh on "Rocky mountainway."

Who and What?

I usually drop it into D or Drop D flat, so I bought thicker strings today (.012-.052).

What strings do you use?

SheepStar

 

[Resident Loser]

Don't know...

...MXR, what was their little green distortion pedal called? I've heard now it goes on E-Bay for ridiculous amounts of money.

...I have the orange one a Phase 90 their original flanger and the red one, I think it's a Dyna-Comp which was a compressor/sustain device...

Didn't realize the thread had been moved 'til you mentioned it...good idea...

Heil Talk-box? Frampton? Walsh? Looks as tho' you may as well be speakin' Chinese (casts his eyes askance)...Liked PF in Humble Pie, never a big fan of his solo stuff, the constant airplay on our local WNEW-FM of "Frampton Comes Alive" killed it for me...and one of my all time JW faves "The James Gang Rides Again"...Funk 49 and The Bomber...I love how he slides into Cast Your Fate To The Wind...

jimHJJ(...Gotta' dig that disk out...)

 

[stratman]

Who and What?

I usually drop it into D or Drop D flat, so I bought thicker strings today (.012-.052).

What strings do you use?

SheepStar

Hey Sheep,

Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9-42 on the Strat, Regular Slinky 10-46 0n the Paul.

12-52 sounds like piano wire I think that SRV played 12s. And when he bled he'd seal his cuts with crazy glue and keep playing.

FYI--Peter Frampton, icon of mid-seventies arena rock, greatest selling live album of all time. I really don't know the mechanics of how the talk box works, but it's connected to your guitar, then a plastic tube is taped next to your mike and as you play and mouth (I know, it sounds weird, but it's cool sounding) the tube you can make your guitar "talk", Joe Perry of Aerosmith uses it in the opening of "Sweet Emotion".

 

[stratman]

...I have the orange one a Phase 90 their original flanger and the red one, I think it's a Dyna-Comp which was a compressor/sustain device...

Didn't realize the thread had been moved 'til you mentioned it...good idea...

Heil Talk-box? Frampton? Walsh? Looks as tho' you may as well be speakin' Chinese (casts his eyes askance)...Liked PF in Humble Pie, never a big fan of his solo stuff, the constant airplay on our local WNEW-FM of "Frampton Comes Alive" killed it for me...and one of my all time JW faves "The James Gang Rides Again"...Funk 49 and The Bomber...I love how he slides into Cast Your Fate To The Wind...

jimHJJ(...Gotta' dig that disk out...)

Yup, I keep forgetting I'm 44.

 

[Resident Loser]

Cheez...

Yup, I keep forgetting I'm 44.

...you're still a baby...I was born when Truman was in mid-term...

Talk box was a speaker in a semi-sealed box...that plastic tube was affixed to yer mic and you could put it in your trap (like a camelback hydration system) so the sound coming out of it was actually entering your mouth...your mouth was part of the audio chain as it became a resonating cavity that was then picked up by the mike and went through the PA or another amp...

jimHJJ(...strange stuff...)

 

[stratman]

...you're still a baby...I was born when Truman was in mid-term...

Talk box was a speaker in a semi-sealed box...that plastic tube was affixed to yer mic and you could put it in your trap (like a camelback hydration system) so the sound coming out of it was actually entering your mouth...your mouth was part of the audio chain as it became a resonating cavity that was then picked up by the mike and went through the PA or another amp...

jimHJJ(...strange stuff...)

I'll tell you stranger, would you believe the talk box made it to Disco? One of the biggest songs of the time period (I wouldn't classify it as disco, but at the time you could have taken a Rag dropped in some slapped bass, hey it's Disco!!!)those guys appeared in Johnny Carson, Mike (can't remember last name, just passed away recently?)....the band in question was called FOXY (smirk) the song: Get Off (would you expect anything less from the era) they were from Miami, the drummer was the nephew or grandson or the late great percussionist Tito Puente. Anyway, the intro was a Talk-Box induced Strat.

Hot Dog!!! I just remembered, The Mike Douglas Show.

 

[Sheep]

Any of you guys know how to fix older guitar crap? I have a working digital chorus, but my Morley Wawa pedal is busted (never worked when I was playing). The thing is a monster, probably weights 20lbs.

I also have a voice box, but I've never used it before.

SheepStar

 

[stratman]

Any of you guys know how to fix older guitar crap? I have a working digital chorus, but my Morley Wawa pedal is busted (never worked when I was playing). The thing is a monster, probably weights 20lbs.

I also have a voice box, but I've never used it before.

SheepStar

Sheep usually what went bad with wah pedals was the pot, it would wear out, have you checked battery? (you wouldn't believe how people forget that, even pros), I don't know if Morley is still around, Dunlop bought Cry-Baby a while ago, Ernie Ball had a pedal, maybe one the pots can be retrofitted. Can you post picture of voice box? The reason they're so heavy (wahs) is for keeping them from moving around while you use it. The new digital stuff unless you can send it back, forget about it, I've had gear bust over the years and it always meant back to manufacturer (if they were still around), I don't remember seeing "fix-kits" for the digital stuff, I think Ernie Ball use to sell an overhaul kit for their wahs, but don't quote me on this it's been a while.

 

[Sheep]

Sure, I'll pull all this stuff out.

SheepStar

 

[Sheep]

Here you go.

SheepStar

 

[Seth=L]

I need to make a voyage to Canada to look at your home theater and guitar equipment Sheep. You are one of the most fortunete of the Canadian population. I have no idea what that means at all.

 

[stratman]

Sheep, try morleypedals.com, these suckers are still around, they have a section for old schematics and owner's manuals, plus look at all the new stuff they have.

Also, go ahead and google 'DeanMarkley Voice Box', you're gonna flip, apparently this is the same as the Heil Talk-Box, buddy you have history in your hands!

I believe the 50 stood for 50 watts, they have a shot of it with the clear tubing attached.