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I've heard these are good but aren't they quite small practice amps?
Should I buy this guitar?
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klang
klang
small and quiet. not gig-worthy.
great drive though.
(i was just pissing about tbh)
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Their travel guitars are quite cute 
seeformiles
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I use a Fender Blues Junior but, if you’re more on a budget, Roland Cube 30 (or 60) watt gives out a depth and a volume more suited to an amp 4 times its size.Not after a guitar but a new amp. I've been thinking of getting back to live music/gigging. I play mostly blues and some jazz. I offloaded my old gig combo years ago because it became too heavy to lug about, what with bad knees, bad back and with me generally coming apart at the seams... and because I'd stopped gigging. I've been looking at the Fender Mustang LT50.
It's lightweight and seems to suit bluesy jazzy sounds. Anyone got experience of one of these?
heinous seamus
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There's this:
The Muso Equipment Nerdery Thread
I feel like I've accidentally usurped it by bumping this silly old thread
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
There's this:
The Muso Equipment Nerdery Thread
I feel like I've accidentally usurped it by bumping this silly old thread
Fair, not sure I qualify as a muso though.
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It's all peddles. I have a few but never use them. Truth to tell, at home I can't be arsed to plug my guitar into an amp as the Joe Pass has a pretty decent acoustic quality.
Not after a guitar but a new amp. I've been thinking of getting back to live music/gigging. I play mostly blues and some jazz. I offloaded my old gig combo years ago because it became too heavy to lug about, what with bad knees, bad back and with me generally coming apart at the seams... and because I'd stopped gigging. I've been looking at the Fender Mustang LT50.
It's lightweight and seems to suit bluesy jazzy sounds. Anyone got experience of one of these?
I play through one of these at my mate's house. Well one variant of the Mustang anyway. Sounds pretty good to me. I've not messed with all the settings and don't think it would be up to metal but works for what we're doing.
I'd probably look at a Boss Katana if I were needing a relatively light versatile amp as well.
Actually yeah, how did I forget. I got a Boss Street Cube. The newer model new version, lower end of the 2. The clean and crunchy sounds on it are fucking great. Loads of reverb. Can plug a mic and backing music through the aux. Only thing it's crap at sound wise, is metal but I got a little Marshall for that.
It's also really light. Don't know how well it would stand up to a live drum kit, probably not too well but more than loud enough otherwise.
E2A is this one.
BOSS CUBE-ST2R Street Cube Battery Powered Amp Red
The BOSS CUBE Street II, seen here with a Red finish, is a lightweight and versatile battery-powered amp that gives you all the tools you need to deliver your musical message in any mobile settin...
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Good job I'm not playing metal then
The katana is a good tip.
seeformiles
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I’ve played medium sized pubs with the Cube 30 (with full rock/blues bands) and only had to turn it up halfway. I also was able to carry it on the bus there and back which was a bonus.
maomao
普費斯
I have a 3w plastic Blackstar thing and it's genuinely great and overpowered for a bedroom guitarist. Only problem is the headphone channel is rubbish and too noisy.I've got a diddy little Blackstar. It's great. In fact the sound is beautiful. Dunno how heavy the bigger Blackstars are. Weight is a big issue for me in my current unhealthy stateWhich is why I was looking at the Mustang. It's pretty much light as a feather and weighs in at under 10 lbs.
I also have a Harley Benton valve amp which is lovely. It doesn't need to go full volume for valve distortion, a clean boost makes it break up nicely. Would recommend but still not big enough to be giggable.
Steel Icarus
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I have a Blackstar HT Club 40. It's very good
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What's the weight?
Steel Icarus
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About four fucking tons
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That's out then
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hopefully not gimboid
I use fender super champ XD at work (now discontinued) about 20lbs and plenty loud enough when cranked, they are pricey on the second hand market though these days.That's out then
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I don’t even know how many guitars I have, think there are a few in my parent’s loft. I have a handful of nice ones and a load of shite that I’ve accumulated from boot sales/cash converters over the years.
First one I had was a second hand metallic pink Marlin Sidewinder with one of those twatty floating trems that never stayed in tune. Bought from Electric Ladyland in Old Market about 35 years ago, preposterously they still seem to be in business. Didn’t get on great with it, probably one of the reasons I wanted something with a Gibson type neck after, in case it made me play better (it didn’t). Kind of gave up and switched to bass after a while, but now mostly just finger picking on the acoustic when I pick it up.
Here’s a pic of some of my collection circa 2006:
From L to R:
Lincoln (made by Fernandez in Japan - nice through neck, solidly built with half decent pick ups - £35 off boot sale)
John Birch Custom SG
‘Virtuoso’ custom jazz bass, bought from local session player (played with Tasmin Archer/Notting Hillbillies)
Some homemade school project type thing, £2 from the boot sale, works (barely)
Cheapo 1970s les paul copy, horrible thing with body about 1cm thick.*
Hondo precision copy, fairly solid but fucked electrics.*
Some nasty Marlin 1980s metal looking thing*
John Birch 8-string bass (ex Black Lace!)
Some nasty but cool looking 70s thing, friend who I sold it to reckoned it was a Teisco. He managed to make it playable and flogged it for a decent amount.*
Ones marked with a star I don’t have anymore, sold or given away after my cellar flooded with a couple of cm of drain water in a storm (insurance company put them in a skip and paid out, I took them back out)
Off the top of my head I also have:
an identical Lincoln to the one shown
two Lincoln basses the same as the guitar
A Westone Thunder bass - my main bass for quite a while, £8 off the boot sale.
Westone Concorde bass
A nice late 80s Japanese Vantage six string - cash converters type place sold it for £25, think they thought it was Vintage, not a Matsumoto factory product!
Eko acoustic bass, fretless with flat wound nylon strings. From cash converters, they’d tuned it an octave higher like a normal guitar, bowing the neck (was fine once de-tuned)
Eko 12-string acoustic, covered in god botherer stickers and has a load of cracks in the body, reckon someone mugged a nun before selling it to me for £8 at the boot sale.
Unbranded but likely an EKO six string acoustic
Some other acoustic that belonged to an ex.
I think that makes 15 still in my possession but might have forgotten something. I also loaned out an Encore bass to a friend about 20 years ago so that is technically still mine if it still exists.
First one I had was a second hand metallic pink Marlin Sidewinder with one of those twatty floating trems that never stayed in tune. Bought from Electric Ladyland in Old Market about 35 years ago, preposterously they still seem to be in business. Didn’t get on great with it, probably one of the reasons I wanted something with a Gibson type neck after, in case it made me play better (it didn’t). Kind of gave up and switched to bass after a while, but now mostly just finger picking on the acoustic when I pick it up.
Here’s a pic of some of my collection circa 2006:
From L to R:
Lincoln (made by Fernandez in Japan - nice through neck, solidly built with half decent pick ups - £35 off boot sale)
John Birch Custom SG
‘Virtuoso’ custom jazz bass, bought from local session player (played with Tasmin Archer/Notting Hillbillies)
Some homemade school project type thing, £2 from the boot sale, works (barely)
Cheapo 1970s les paul copy, horrible thing with body about 1cm thick.*
Hondo precision copy, fairly solid but fucked electrics.*
Some nasty Marlin 1980s metal looking thing*
John Birch 8-string bass (ex Black Lace!)
Some nasty but cool looking 70s thing, friend who I sold it to reckoned it was a Teisco. He managed to make it playable and flogged it for a decent amount.*
Ones marked with a star I don’t have anymore, sold or given away after my cellar flooded with a couple of cm of drain water in a storm (insurance company put them in a skip and paid out, I took them back out)
Off the top of my head I also have:
an identical Lincoln to the one shown
two Lincoln basses the same as the guitar
A Westone Thunder bass - my main bass for quite a while, £8 off the boot sale.
Westone Concorde bass
A nice late 80s Japanese Vantage six string - cash converters type place sold it for £25, think they thought it was Vintage, not a Matsumoto factory product!
Eko acoustic bass, fretless with flat wound nylon strings. From cash converters, they’d tuned it an octave higher like a normal guitar, bowing the neck (was fine once de-tuned)
Eko 12-string acoustic, covered in god botherer stickers and has a load of cracks in the body, reckon someone mugged a nun before selling it to me for £8 at the boot sale.
Unbranded but likely an EKO six string acoustic
Some other acoustic that belonged to an ex.
I think that makes 15 still in my possession but might have forgotten something. I also loaned out an Encore bass to a friend about 20 years ago so that is technically still mine if it still exists.
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Yeah, but do any of them go up to 11?
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Can't remember how many I've owned. About 12 I think. I had an SG copy in the 70s plus a home made strat type thing with a woolies neck, 3 pickups and a weird sound (now with the oldest lad). I had a cheapo Boston strat copy from a flea market that I gave to the youngest lad. Also had an Epiphone 355 type bass and a 1950s Hofner President (these last two mentioned before - bass lost in France and Hofner destroyed). Now I've got the Epiphone Joe Pass (mentioned earlier), a Vintage solid body (can't remember the model), precision bass copy (forget the make) and a Countryman acoustic bass.I think that's it. Oh, I've also got a Romanian made Greek bouzouki that was acoustic but I fitted a pickup for a couple of gigs. And I've got an ancient ukulele banjo that my dad got me for my 7th birthday (he picked it up from a junk shop).
I've probably missed a couple out. Best amp I ever had was in the 70s. It was an old Vox AC30 valve job, made in the 60s and picked up for a snip from the long gone Mazzel's shop that used to be near Piccadilly Station in Manchester. It was way better than the bulky 100 watt Marshall I'd been lugging about for punk gigs back then. I'd just switched from punk to a soul and blues band and the Vox was a much better match.
I've probably missed a couple out. Best amp I ever had was in the 70s. It was an old Vox AC30 valve job, made in the 60s and picked up for a snip from the long gone Mazzel's shop that used to be near Piccadilly Station in Manchester. It was way better than the bulky 100 watt Marshall I'd been lugging about for punk gigs back then. I'd just switched from punk to a soul and blues band and the Vox was a much better match.
heinous seamus
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HT1? That's what I have.
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Smaller than that. It's a 3w Blackstar Fly. Perfick for noodling in the living room
heinous seamus
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I'm thinking about getting the bass guitar version of that. I need a small bass amp.
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The guitar amp is decent. I only ever have the volume at half way. But if you're using it for anything other than living room (or with a drummer ), you might want a bigger model.
), you might want a bigger model.
seeformiles
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I had an AC30 in the early 80s - bought for £50. Getting EL84 valves for it was really difficult at the time as everyone was going transistor. Wish I still had it as vintage gear goes for a bloody fortune these days. This Fender Fuzz/Wah/Volume pedal (made 1968/9) cost me a tenner in the mid-80s. I saw one on eBay a while ago for nearly £500!
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I really really really want a Fibonacci arch top like this. Just "a bit" out of my price range though.
heinous seamus
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Look what's popped up on Facebook marketplace. A steal at £30 
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Worth £30 for the tremolo alone.
Bellwood super something Japanese guitar. Some were great, some not so much. Worth a punt at £30, as it could play / sound like something worth ten times that. . . . And if not? Meh £30.
Bellwood super something Japanese guitar. Some were great, some not so much. Worth a punt at £30, as it could play / sound like something worth ten times that. . . . And if not? Meh £30.
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