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Sometimes the Universe provides. 🙂
Wish I could go for a bike ride! They’re currently illegal here and carry a 135 euro fine.
Stay healthy!
Daniel
Thanks Matt!
It was a weird one, what with the stay home order and all. A few adult beverages and adult conversation (even in my shit French) would have been nice!
Daniel
Thanks Matt,
I had no idea that swapping tubes was a thing!
But I think my Ampeg Jet II uses EL-84s.
And now I wish I still had my 65 Fender Bandmaster 50w head!
Daniel
Given Chris Thile’s ‘Live from Home’ efforts (in lieu of has normal weekly radio program), sharing video might be easier. 🙂
Daniel
Thanks guys!
Stayed home with my family and our new trio of chickens, Dolly, Emmy Lou, and Linda. 😉
Daniel
What draws me to electrics is tone control. You can control/tweak/change an awful lot more about the output of an electric than you can an acoustic. With modern low-wattage, low-power amps you can get tones that 20 years ago were only possible at anti-social volumes.
Do a lot of cross-over work: play your songs and tunes on the electric and tweak amp settings until you get a sound that serves the music. It’ll be there. And don’t be afraid to push the envelope.
Enjoy!
🙂
Daniel
Tad,
With all the amazing builders in the Bay Area, you went and bought an off-the-shelf guitar?! 🙂
Daniel
I enjoyed that. Thanks guys!
Is there some way you could credit the music you use at the opening? Maybe tag it on Soundcloud?
Thanks!
Daniel
A man for whom the word ‘inappropriate’ had no meaning. 🙂
Reminds me of a scene in Hamlet:
…A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy… Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
He is missed.
Seeing his face makes me smile. Thanks Tad!
That’s a beautiful guitar!
I’d not have thought to use mahogany. I bet it sounds a lot warmer in 6 months without losing any articulation.
🙂
Daniel
Hi Tad,
It worked really well! The only reason I was at all unhappy with it was that the sound guys were rubbish and they could not put the stage together properly. Going through the PA alone left me entirely at their mercy.
If my car was closer to the venue, I would have run for my amp.
Daniel
