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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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--- In , Ran Mosessco <burnman@n...>
wrote:
> Thanks for the welcome...
Ran,
Tell us more about the diffusers. Do they work? Are they cool? What
do they sound like? I've never heard of anyone using them.
Interesting concept. Did you use them for recording? ~Mike
Mike,
Yes - the diffusers do work. I first got them for the Marshall 4X12, as some
of you might already know, those cabinets have a thin "cone" of extremely
ear splitting treble frequencies just in front of them. I was trying to turn
them to the side, put tape on the grill cloth, all with moderate success. I
got the diffusers and they really got rid of that.
At that time I wasn't using the 2X15" JBL cab for live performances anymore,
but I orderd diffusers for that one, too. The JBL's with the aluminum center
cap have a very shrill high end to them, but you gotta have some of that for
the wet reverb sound. I installed those, and I think they work ok, but I
should probably have gotten the diffusers which are 5" in diameter instead
of the normal 4", as those speakers might be too big for the 4" models.
Regarding recording:
When we recorded the Marshall cab, there was some weird phasing, that COULD
have been caused by the diffusers, but could also been reltaed to the small
room and other factors. We chose to record using only 2 of the 4 speakers
(the cab allows that), and the phasing was gone.
With the JBL cab, there was no problem.
Note - I never use a mic on axis up close to the speaker, that never sounds
good to me (always too scratchy and with no "air"). If you like to do that,
the diffusers might be a little problematic.
Anyway, I think it's a good product, it's pretty cheap, easy to install, and
certainly helps even out the sound projection of the cab. Weber VST is also
a good small business with good customer service, so it's always nice to
support them.
Hope this helps,
Ran
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:16 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: New to this group - gear and more
> --- In , Ran Mosessco <burnman@n...>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the welcome...
>
> Ran,
> Tell us more about the diffusers. Do they work? Are they cool? What
> do they sound like? I've never heard of anyone using them.
> Interesting concept. Did you use them for recording? ~Mike
>
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