KVR Audio

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:46 am

justin3am wrote:I don't really care about looks when it comes to instruments. Everything I use turns ugly.

There are a ton of guitar shops in the LA area, I'm sure I'll find something to fall in love with. If not I can look into building something custom. My needs aren't very special though, I'm pretty easy to please.

Just so you know, a squire Tele custom and the warmoth neck set me back under 500 dollars. You could leave the guitar stock with stock bridge and pups (I didn't because I had most of what I needed) and you can do it with many guitar types. The warmoth neck will take about 4 weeks but it will one quality neck and it's a direct replacement (no mods needed)

Of course mine is now stereo with two pre-amps (one for each output) and a switch to choose between stereo and mono (in mono mode one pre amp is bypassed)

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:53 am

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:Oh lord this by looks and description sounds like it would be a killer amp for studio work and has susiwong and maybe Eric written all over it:

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/I ... eview.aspx

Want to try one! That is amp pr0nz

Fantastic !
Gotta love those innovative concepts ...

I sure could find a place for one of these, unfortunately it's $2900.

First I have to recover from the amp accident that hit me lately ...
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 67#4607867
Honey, I shrunk the amp

Cheers,
susiwong

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:38 am

btw, at the World Guitar Show yesterday, I played a 1955 Telecaster and a couple of 1994 PRS's through a Victoria Bandmaster Reverb and a Bogner Duende. The Tele's bridge pickup sounded absolutely stunning through the Duende but the thing was just a complete pain to play. The neck felt stiff, notes were hard to bend, etc. It just felt like it was fighting me every step of the way AND IT WAS WINNING.

The PRS's were great, although they weren't a massive step up from my SE. Again, the Duende sounded fantastic with both of them, I'll probably have to pick up one of those amps some day. The Victoria was a disappointment with all three guitars.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:46 am

Alrighty then, it's official. I'm sorry I sold it

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:47 am

On a serious note, despite my lack of "expertise" in setups, I personally believe most people would be delighted with the ibbys or the charvel as well

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:51 am

Uncle E wrote:btw, at the World Guitar Show yesterday, I played a 1955 Telecaster and a couple of 1994 PRS's through a Victoria Bandmaster Reverb and a Bogner Duende. The Tele's bridge pickup sounded absolutely stunning through the Duende but the thing was just a complete pain to play. The neck felt stiff, notes were hard to bend, etc. It just felt like it was fighting me every step of the way AND IT WAS WINNING.

The PRS's were great, although they weren't a massive step up from my SE. Again, the Duende sounded fantastic with both of them, I'll probably have to pick up one of those amps some day. The Victoria was a disappointment with all three guitars.

It's a sacrilege, but I hate vintage frets on a lacquered fretboard, too.

After a good refret these Teles are pretty tough to beat though.

Of course you always have to consider collector's value, that's why I mostly prefer well playing and tweaked "normal" guitars you're not afraid to play and maybe even mod. Guitars are still instruments ...

Ymmv,
susiwong

Re PRS, try a DGT and play it loud !

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:18 am

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:Think they go for $425 USD each for the non-fancy but US Wound transformer model (The '46U' model).

Meh, it's a $50 Chinese mic with a $35 part soldered in. Get an Apex and DIY it. Lundahl is cheaper for you Europeans, too.

If you do not mind me asking, What were the cheap chinese ones you had made for whatever the price vs the fairly budget friendly to fair priced 'brand' models?

The ones I had made were basically the Golden Age R1 Active MkIII. Those are really great mics for the money. Chris Lord Alge's second engineer did a shootout of 24 different ribbons that demonstrated that my active ribbon sounded exactly the same as the R84, a passive one I made with an upgraded transformer got the closest of any of them to the R121, and the CAD Trion 7000 sounded exactly like the R92.

If you have any audio clips would really like to hear them.

I'll try to post the entire shootout some day.

Then after the price range here the step up would probably be a Royer R121 or similar yes?

The description of the R-101 in the shootout makes it seem intriguing to me:

http://guitarsquid.com/Squid_Picks/July ... n-mic.html

dimitar · Post by **dimitar** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:50 am

hibidy wrote:I'm getting "file not found"'s

Sorry! Try again!
Here are two samples:
http://nalbantov.com/2011/Dimi_Squier1996.mp3
http://nalbantov.com/2011/Dimi_Squier1996_Solo.mp3

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:54 am

Oh yes susiwong and the shrink! I like the description of that Steavens mate, Even more so that it flanks your Blue Angel so well also makes the deal a sweet swap and rid of that amp that was a PITA for you

Ribbons cheers Eric and noted for if/when i go for one in future

Cheers

nearly as shocking that price as my confessional...a 7ender HotRod Deluxe III 1x12" combo...JFC whats the world coming to

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:17 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:nearly as shocking that price as my confessional...a 7ender HotRod Deluxe III 1x12" combo...JFC whats the world coming to

Caught you! Yeah, that's a weird match for you, it sounds great with the clean channel pegged but the gain channel isn't worth much.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:26 pm

Hink wrote:Eric if you read this find out what we are looking at for a capsule but I still need to think on it.

It's not good news, I'm afraid. $72 + shipping. You may as well get a new one for that price.

Anyway, I like the idea of you using your cousin's mic. It's the way things ought to work.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:29 pm

hibidy, buy this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 500wt_1202

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:28 pm

Nah, I'm probably going to thin the herd some more. I just suck too bad.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:18 am

hibidy wrote:Nah, I'm probably going to thin the herd some more. I just suck too bad.

Oh no you don't....

My style..if that is what one calls it

..tends to be less shred and more melodic...I'm suspecting that your style is more along that line...I'm thinking that that keeping the Ibbys is a good thing here..because they can be melodic as well...

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:08 am

I tend to feel lucky if I can make an A chord without flubbing it.

Shred? Oh man, I can NOT shred. I can do a blues lick somewhat decent

Your next guitar?