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Hi Hank,
We’re a few hours north and west of Nazareth. But I have been there twice.
I’m trying to my explain to myself why I haven’t run into any other players. There have to be some here, but they seem to be hiding. 😉
Daniel
Not primitive; wild.
The humidity is higher here than in France, so there would be a difference if I had brought an acoustic instrument. But given I had to travel with a gig bag and two kids as a solo parent, I brought a solid body 5 string emando. So it sounds the same here as there. 😉
Daniel
I wish my little corner was a neat and tidy as yours! But I have kids. 😉
We’re in Pennsylvania for a good portion of the summer (California will have to wait until our next US trip). So this is the view from my practice space this morning….
That’s the Little Pine Creek running south (left to right) in the background. The land across “the crick” is state park land as is the creek. So we’re pretty isolated here. It is quiet. Loads of wildlife including otters, deer, black bears, and eagles.
We had a mild and really wet winter. It’s drier now, the sun is bright and very high in the sky. (10pm right now and it ain’t dark. And there are just over 25 degrees latitude difference between Key West, FL and Laon, FR)
Spent some time on the patio with a Rainsong, a Martin, and the SCGC relearning Stephen Stills’s “Daylight Again” in double dropped D today after trimming 25 meters of hedge (sides and tops) and cutting the grass.
Life is good,
Daniel
the lengths of the strings behind the nut add a little bit to the harmonic overtones coming out of the guitar. And sometimes that’s not a good thing.
I think this is a case of “If you like, do it. If you don’t, change it.”
🙂
Daniel
Lots of fundamentals in the tone?
(My very limited experience of German spruce is that it was super responsive and very focussed, but that could be becaise the guitar was brand new.)
Daniel
I missed your birthday wishes! And thank you!
We had a house concert. The place was packed. 🙂
Gigging next Friday night at a local bar/restaurant.
Hope you are all well!
Daniel
I’m making loops recently.
Gigged with an acoustic guitar (Rainsong OM-1000) last night as well as an electric mandolin and an acoustic octave mandolin.
(Added “Apache” to the set. The Thrill is Gone is next.)
Used to be really happy with cheap electronic amps, but I recently pulled out my Ampeg Jet II, J-12T. It needs work but sounds so. much. better. than the tiny solid state Marshall’s I’ve been using. Tube driven tremolo and reverb is so sweet.
I had a six pedal board. Noticed I was using 2 pedals regularly. Cut the board down to three. Now spot number three is in rotation between the OM-2, the BF-2, and the CE-3.
Made the Esquire-ization of my Squier Telecaster premanent by putting in a decent pickup and getting a new pickguard. Then I put flatwounds on it. Not sure if I’m digging them or not.
Me and Fred, my bass player, added a bodhrán player to the band. We haven’t adjusted the repertoire to suit him, he’s adusted his playing to suit the repertoire. Pretty cool, really.
Talking to a couple of flute players and a violin player (not a fiddle player).
Daniel
Tad,
I still don’t have one. PM your address and I’ll send you a $20.00 bill.
I’ll be in the US for the month of July. So I can wait if I need to.
🙂
Daniel
Not that I can tell Tad. It’s all 15w tube driven. The external step-down transformer just makes it safe to power up in Europe, where everything is 240v. Any other effect is a bonus.
Been watching a lot of Psionic Audio on Youtube. That guy is really good. Sometimes my eyes roll back into my head because the subject is a bit opaque to me too. But sometimes I learn stuff that’s useful in playing an amp, like why stand by switches exist.
(I also learned why, when I worked at the Mesa/Boogie factory in Petaluma, we always had touring rigs coming back for repairs. I won’t be buying a Boogie.)
BTW, I tested out the tone control. It’s not just a treble cut. The lows are boosted when you roll back and cut when you pass 5. Putting the control at the top is insanely bright with an Esquire on it’s open position (bridge pickup wired to bypass the tone control). It could almost shave with it.
This is different than the Fender way of doing things, and you need to adjust your expectations a bit. But I have found a sweet spot by tweaking the guitar’s volume and tone controls in conjunction with the tone control on the amp.
Daniel
Hi Richard,
Nope. This is a single channel amp with two inputs. One is labeled “Guitar” and the other “Accordion”. The “Accordion” input has a small Db cut relative to the “Guitar” input.
There’s a volume knob, a single tone knob for the entire stack, two controls for the tremolo (speed and intensity), and reverb.I don’t know enough about how the tone stack is wired to say whether it’s just a treble cut (like a guitar) or something more active.
I leave the volume at 2 for the time being. It doesn’t get louder after 4, just gnarlier. 2 is clean when used gently and gets pleasantly dirty by boosting the input either by using a boost pedal or turning the volume on the guitar all the way up.
No effects loop, no second speaker output, no footswitch. It’s a “if you like it, mic it” kind of amp.
This is my actual amp…
https://www.tdpri.com/attachments/img_5749-jpg.609900/
https://www.tdpri.com/attachments/img_5751-jpg.609899/
Have been playing waltzes with the tremolo at 3 and 5 respectively and the reverb at 4. It’s dreamy sounding.
Daniel
I’ll be happy to drop a 20 in the mail, if anyone would send it to me here inFrance. (Eric and Jamie are not shipping overseas currently.)
🙂
Daniel
Interestingly, this amp has both reverb and tremolo. And even weirder, 5 knobs! There are more controls for the trem and reverb than for the preamp stage! It’s like someone said, “Let’s build a dirt simple Class A amp. Fifteen watts, volume and tone.” And then another guy in the room said, “No one will buy an amp without reverb. Add it.” Third guy in the room says, “You know all those really cool old Fenders had tremolo rather than reverb. Why don’t we use that?” And finally the boss said, “I love it! One model with the reverb, and one with both reverb and tremolo that we’ll sell for $100 more.”            And no one said, “Hey, what about splitting the tone control?”
To be sure, I love the trem on mine too. I usually just set it at three for both speed and intensity and leave it on. It would be nice if I could turn it on and off without rolling either the speed or the intensity all the way down.
