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Well, it got here. The seller even supplied me with some vintage tubes
for it. It's plugged in and sounds great! That splashy warble can be
easily had by turning the reverb ammount knob all the way up. I haven't
noticed any real change in the sound by fiddling with the power ammount
knob but it may be too subtle for me to notice..
Anyway, here's a 400k file of me putting a few chords thru my new baby:
Wow - I almost sound like I know what I'm doing, there. :)
My reccomendation - if you see one of these for sale, GRAB IT! I think I
actually saw another, older one up on ebay for less than I paid for this
one. It doesn't say Fender on the outside, but because of that you can
expect to pay less for it, while still getting good quality surf.
cheers, gang!
-c*
Man, that sounds great! That's really nice and wet -
BTW, how did you record that clip? Was that miked, or did you go straight
from the amp to the recording device? Just wondering . . .
Thanks!
-Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Sutor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Premier Reverb Tank is here!
>
> Well, it got here. The seller even supplied me with some vintage tubes
> for it. It's plugged in and sounds great! That splashy warble can be
> easily had by turning the reverb ammount knob all the way up. I haven't
> noticed any real change in the sound by fiddling with the power ammount
> knob but it may be too subtle for me to notice..
>
> Anyway, here's a 400k file of me putting a few chords thru my new baby:
>
>
>
> Wow - I almost sound like I know what I'm doing, there. :)
>
> My reccomendation - if you see one of these for sale, GRAB IT! I think I
> actually saw another, older one up on ebay for less than I paid for this
> one. It doesn't say Fender on the outside, but because of that you can
> expect to pay less for it, while still getting good quality surf.
>
> cheers, gang!
>
> -c*
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Hi Chris,
Wow this tank sounds great!!! You see it hasn't have to Fender to sound
like that :-)
Jerry S; from Belgium " great fan of less known spring reverb outboard
tanks"
Dick Messick wrote:
>
> Man, that sounds great! That's really nice and wet -
Yep. I'm totally happy with it. Best $200 I ever spent. I can't
reccomend this thing highly enough.
> BTW, how did you record that clip? Was that miked, or did you go
> straight from the amp to the recording device? Just wondering . . .
The Guitar plugged into the reverb tank.
The reverb Tank is plugged into a Line6 Guitar Port:
...which is a USB device hooked to my computer. It models various amps
and speaker cabinets through software emulation. I used the "64 Black
Panel 'Lux Reverb" amp with the "1X12 '64 Black Panel 'Lux Verb" cabinet
- this simulates a classic Blackface Fender rig.
Now, I have my GuitarPort wired up backwards from what they reccomend.
They tell you to hook your speakers to the GuitarPort's output, and run
your soundcard through it - this is because sound travels from your
guitar, down the USB cable, into the computer, gets modeled, then sent
back out the USB cable to the GuitarPort, completely bypassing the
soundcard. So, plugging your sound card's output through the GuitarPort
is the only way to get both your guitar, and your computer to play
throuhg the same set os speakers.
Or so they claim. What I've done is hook the speakers to the computer as
normal, and run the guitarport's outputs into my computer's line-in...
so sound travels from the guitar, into the computer, gets modeled, then
back out to the Guitarport, which dumps it directly into my soundcard.
This lets me record with any package that could normall record sound
coming throuhg the line-in.
For that snippet of guitar music, I used Cool Edit Pro to record a wav
file. The wav file was converted to mp3 by an external conversion app
(ejay mp3 studio).
And that's all there is to it. :) Mind you, the GuitarPort is great
since I can swap styles and play anything from surf to heavy metal to
fuzz guitar just by changing amps and switching on some effects. It's
the next best thing to having a room full of antique amplifier
equipment, and costs a whole lot less, too.
Cheers, gang!
-c*
