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Thanks for the welcome Brad, Mel and Mike!
The Astroglides are continuing to work in Israel, and I'm tying to help the
replacement guitarist find good gear. There is a plan to make a mini California
tour, in which I'll be playing, but it's questionable if it'll work out since
the plane tickets cost about $1000 per person.
In the meantime I started meeting with my new San Diegan friend Hans, and we're
just goofing around on guitar and bass, until we come up with something
interesting. It also helps because I'm forgetting how to play guitar as we
speak, so I need practice, lots of practice.
OK, this is the short part of the reply, now for the gear list,
My gear, which is supposed to be chugging along it's way on a ship contains:
1 69 Twin Reverb (blackfaced and with NOS Philips 7581A power tubes, old
Telefunken, Mullard and other pre-amp tubes), in a head cabinet. When I first
joind Cowabunga, Mel helped me make the decision to buy this amp.
1 Semi-home-made guitar cabinet, Dual Showman dimensions, 2 15" JBL D130
speakers (bought form Steve Soest). I installed some Weber VST hi-end diffusers
on this one.
1 Marshall 1960BV cabinet, also with the diffusers.
1 Semi-home-made bass cabinet, refrigerator size, 2 15" JBL E-140 speakers.
1 63 re-issue Fender reverb tank, modified with NOS tubes and cap change.
1 Charvel 475SP guitar, tuned to D with 13-56 strings and high action. My main
axe until I can afford a US made Jazzmaster. Wish it could take even thicker
strings.
1 Danelectro Hodad tuned to D with 12-52 strings.
1 Crappy Les Paul knock-off (Madeira) which tuned to B with barritone strings
and Jackson pickups (I don't really use this one).
1 Crappy Les Paul bass knock-off, short scale (Gherson).
These last two I got for free.
My wife has an Ibanez 35" scale BTB Q400 bass guitar, tuned to D. Thinking of
putting thicker strings and tunning down to B.
I also have some pedals, mainly some distortion, overdrive, EQ, boost, and a
loop switcher my buddy made for me, so I can alternate between the reverb unit
and the distortion pedal.
I have a Weber VST MASS which is a speaker simulator/power soak which I used for
recording with great results.
Some microphones, mic stands, a computer with 2 Gadget Labs recording cards
(total 16 channels).
I came up with a pretty effective guitar amp set up for 2 guitarists in a live
situation, but this post is already too long, so this is it for now...
Thanks,
Ran
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