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From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Fender tweed fabric?
Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation of Beaverton Oregon
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:05:35 GMT

    Anybody know where to get tweed fabric like that used on the old
    and re-issue amplifiers?  I've got a genuine 1959 Bassman that is
    dying to be recovered (the original fabric is long gone) and would
    like to use the right stuff.

    I'm sure I could get it from Fender through a dealer, but if it is
    available elsewhere, I could go for that.  I know that it is similar
    to covering that was used on suitcases of that same time, but don't
    know if it might be had from a luggage repair shop or not.  Seem
    dubious.

    Thanks for your help,

    - Larry Huntley

    (Played with a Roland guitar synth over the weekend.  Lots of fun.
     Lots of money.  Sigh.)


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From: jkemp@bss1.umd.edu (Joe Kemp)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Samicks
Date: 13 Nov 92 07:40:31 GMT
Organization: College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, U of Maryland


	I was wondering if any one knows what other guitars were made by 
Samick.  I have heard that some Gibson's were made by them.  Are they any 
good?????


jkemp@bss1.umd.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: jtblair@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (John Blair)
Subject: Re: >Neck Warping
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:54:00 GMT

You know, a 7-month old Washburn really ought to have a truss rod, unless
it's a classical.  You know that truss rod adjustment positions can be
either on the neck neck to the tuning pegs OR inside the body under the
face of the guitar where the neck block is.  Just an idea.

john
From: bt979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Preston)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Ibenez Edge Trem System
Date: 12 Nov 1992 13:34:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bt979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Preston)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, gyenese@caen.engin.umich.edu () says:

>>these wear out, the bar hangs limp at all times. It doesn't take long 
>>for them to wear out, either: about 3 months of moderate playing on

>Consider yourself lucky!  Mine seems to loosen up and hang limp in about
>two weeks.

  Well, I suppose I should add that I don't use mine very vigorously,
nor very much -- I mostly "finesse" mine on the occasional chord. Still,
it loosens up quickly. As I said before though, I got used to it fairly
quick, and now it'd probably even annoy me if I were to replace the washers
and have the thing sticking out in the way of my vol/tone controls.
  Oddly enough, I feel lost when playing a vibrato-less guitar nowadays,
even though I hardly use the thing. I guess it's a little like switching
from a gearshift on the floor to one on the steering column.  :)
  This bridge is my only complaint (and it's a fairly minor one at that)
about this guitar (Roadstar II, model RG 440). The plating is just now
starting to bubble up after 5+ years of light-to-moderate use, but the 
plating on the saddle retaining screws started *rusting* within 8 months
of initially purchasing the guitar. These were also (begrudgingly) replaced 
under warrantee (but not before they pointed out the section in the
warrantee where it stated that plating was *not* covered). Otherwise,
this has been the absolute best guitar I've ever owned... and I've owned
some real beauts. 

  Jeff

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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: gistim@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tim Raebig)
Subject: guitar stuff for sale
Keywords: GR700, guitar, synthesizer
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:09:28 GMT

The following stuff is forsale:

                 Ampeg 1002, 100 watt, two channel tube head.
                 Asking $750, o.b.o.

                 Ibanez Universe, seven string guitar.  White
                 with custom skull graphics.  Two humbuckers, 
                 one single coil.  Asking $600, o.b.o.

                 Rocktron Pro-Q, programmable guitar enhancement
                 unit.  Pro quality.  Asking $400.

                 Heil Talk-Box, $115.

          E-mail or call Pat at (816) 531-2437.


                 Fender Twin Reverb II, 100 watt half-stack  
                 Snakeskin head and 4X12 cabinet.
                 Asking $600, o.b.o. 

                 Hughes and Kettner Metal Shredder tube preamp,
                 many features, $175, o.b.o.

          E-mail or call Tim at (312) 436-3867.
From: eomc40@festival.ed.ac.uk (K McBain)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Guitars!
Summary: question
Keywords: Equipment
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:17:19 GMT

Does anyone have any opinions on the following pieces of equipment:

Yamaha mt120  - 4 track

Alesis SR16 - Drum machine

BOSS ME-6  - multi-fx

Could you please E-Mail  all replies to me at the following address:

bsc903@uk.ac.napier.cs

as I am posting this through a friend and I don't have access to 
network news.  Any information on any of the above would be very helpful
as I am considering purchasing all three.  I  want to use the FX mainly 
for guitar but it would also be handy if they were good enough quality for
recording.

end of message.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: saunders@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Kevin Saunders)
Subject: Re: Active guitar preamp batteries
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:53:15 GMT

>What are some good indications that my electric guitar is ready for
>a battery change?

   This is a great question, 'coz a few months ago I thought something
horrible was happening to my '65 Fender Tremolux...  I was getting a
little harsh distortion/fading on power chords, and in general was
not getting a happening sound...  then I noticed it was happening with
other amps, and replaced the battery in my Steinberger (EMGs natch).

   The battery wasn't all that low, but it sure was crippling the sound.

   Powerloss!
   bonze

-- 
________________________________________
Kevin Eric Saunders (a/k/a bonze blayk!), CometMonger--"NeXT, please!"
   saunders@nmc.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,comp.music
From: kamartin@quads.uchicago.edu (kai anthony martin)
Subject: Computer music novice needs help
Reply-To: kamartin@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:28:13 GMT

Hello again,

	I don't think I phrased my last posting very clearly, so let me ask my 
question in a different form.  I am a guitarist who is looking for a package of
equipment in which I can compose guitar music on my computer.  This brings up
two specific questions:

	1)Can I do this using my current electric guitar (PRS std.), and if so,
	  what equipment do I need to do this?

	2)How close will (or can) the end product (being the music composed on
	  my computer be to my live guitar sound coming from my amp?

I'd also like to know, if possible, how much such a set-up would cost me.  
Thanks in advance.

			-Kai Martin (kamartin@midway.uchicago.edu)


===============================================================================
                         Kai A. Martin, Esquire
            Undergraduate student, Mathematics & Computer Science
                         University of Chicago

             "One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be, and
	      to hide myself from one is wrong for me."

			-Alice in Chains, "Dirt"
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers
From: cwilliam@dunned.socal.com (Chris Williams)
Subject: Re: recording bass guitar..
Organization: Dunn-Edwards Corp. - Los Angeles, CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:14:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.214555.1754@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> sihd_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dan Shimmyo) writes:
>Hi all, 
>  I was just wondering what is a cheap way to get a nice,fat, sort of 
>overdriven bass sound without spending lots of money.  I mostly want to
>use it for recording directly. I just think my bass sounds too sterile
>when I plug it into the board. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>Dan.

Here are a few ideas to try:

	- use a direct box
	- run your bass through a compressor
	- put active pickups on your bass 
	  (I've got some Duncan pickups on mine that sound great)
	- play through a tube amp at low volume and mike it

All of these techniques have been known to achieve the effect I think you're
looking for. Unfortunately, all may require additional equipment that you 
may be unwilling to run out and buy :-( Welcome to the money pit of home
studio recording :-)
-- 
Chris Williams 			chris@dunned.socal.com
Dunn-Edwards Corporation	Home
4885 E. 52nd Place		5940 Airdrome St.
Los Angeles, CA 90040 		Los Angeles, CA 90035
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: nmurrayr@cc.curtin.edu.au (Ron Murray)
Subject: Stratocaster 12-string: a question
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:13:27 GMT

   I just bought a (second-hand) Fender Stratocaster XII: just like a
normal Strat, but it has twelve strings.

   No, don't laugh. I swore around fifteen years ago that I'd never buy
another 12-string guitar, and this is it. It's made in Japan, so it's
probably no more than a couple of years old (so don't confuse it with the
original Fender 12-string electric made in the mid-sixties). It sounds
beautiful, though, and it's not very hard on the fingers (unlike my old
12-string acoustic). It's beautifully useless, of course (I mean, what the
heck do you do with one?) but I think I fell in love with it.

   The question is, though, that I'm not sure about the desirability of
leaving the thing tuned up and ready to go (tuned, that is, at concert
pitch). I did that with my old (and, admittedly, cheap) 12-string acoustic
long ago and that resulted in a neck that looked more like a bow. I don't
want that to happen with the Fender, but on the other hand a 12-string is
enough of a bitch to tune at the best of times without relieving the string
tension every time I finish with it and re-tuning it the next day when I want
to play it again. I would hope that Fender have designed enough strength
into the neck and truss rod to make it unnecessary, but I don't know. Anyone
had experience with these things: 12-strings in general and Fender 12's in
particular?

 .....Ron

-- 
                                 ***
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 Internet: nmurrayr@cc.curtin.edu.au
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: dinsmm@rs6414.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael Dinsmore)
Subject: Alvarez Regent guitar: acoustic guitar
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:58:13 GMT

i forgot to say this...
it is an acoustic guitar...

thanks...

mike dinsmore
dinsmm@rpi.edu

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson)
Subject: Re: Active guitar preamp batteries
Organization: V. I. Corporation, Northampton, Massachusetts
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:35:06 GMT

In article <TILL.92Nov11111531@acid-rain.lucid.com> till@lucid.com writes:
>   >>What are some good indications that my electric guitar is ready for
>   >>a battery change?
>
>     It's not difficult to add a battery check circuit if you're willing to
>   modify your guitar slightly.  A small hole in either the front faceplate
>   or the rear battery compartment cover can be drilled and an LED fitted
>   there.
>   A variation on this is to use one of those LED's with a built in flasher.
>   By setting the resistor value carefully it will stop flashing as soon as
>   the battery starts to get weak.  
>
>Assuming the flash circuit doesn't draw a healthy amount of current or
>throw transients on the guitar signal.
>
It does affect the guitar signal.  Makes a kind of low thumping noise.
If connected through a pushbutton though (which IS recommmended for
battery life---otherwise a 9V will only last for 48 hours or so of on 
time) then it has no effect during playing.
I suppose if you really didn't want to drill holes in the guitar you
could use a flashing LED and a magnetic reed switch mounted under the
face plate.  Then you would just hold a magnet up to the front of the
guitar and if you heard a thumping noise you'd know the battery was ok.
No thump means replace the battery.  Good for blind players also.
ron@vicorp.com or uunet!vicorp!ron
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
From: fredh@cv.hp.com (Fred Handloser)
Subject: Re: Fret position calculator
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:59:07 GMT

Larry Huntley (larryh@cabezon.uucp) wrote:
: 
: 	Yes, I know this is getting repetitive, but I worked on this over
: 	lunch, and made it more useful.
--
This is nice Larry.  Now does anybody have a formula for where pickups
should be placed so this could be added to frets.c.  Is there such
a formula based on where strings have the greatest throw or some
such criteria? 
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  Fred Handloser
  Corvallis, Oregon
  fredh@cv.hp.com   
Xref: sparky alt.guitar:9816 aus.music:1681
From: cde@mulka (Colin Entwisle)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,aus.music
Subject: Re: Bass guitar and delay pedals etc
Date: 12 Nov 1992 01:49:12 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: mulka.ph.unimelb.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis) writes:
: In <1dl0s1INNk1c@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> cde@mulka (Colin Entwisle) writes:
: 
: 
: 
: >check out tomy emanual to hear what not to do with a delay! 
: 
: Bite your bloody tongue, boy! Ever heard "Initiation"?
: 
	don't know it by name, but let me guess; its 
indulgent tripe from an acoustic guitar, a couple of juice
boxes (mainly delay), and includes a section with tommys left
hand coming over the top of the neck.
	i can almost feel the drum machines shaking in their
plugs, at his genius.

: Shit. 10 minutes into the day and I'm pissed off already.
: 
: Shckwish!
:
	get funky monkey!

					CE 
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mikem@col.hp.com (Mike McTigue)
Subject: Re: String Guages [what to use?]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:54:35 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division


Correct me of I'm wrong but a Les Paul has a shorter scale length
than a Strat. This should mean that the tension in all the strings
is less to achieve the same pitch. A Strat is something like
25 1/4" and a Les Paul is 24 3/4" (anyone know exact numbers?).

Again the tradeoff is sound. The longer scale lengths a usually
considered to give a warmer fuller sound at the expense of higher
string tension and longer reach for difficult chords.


My 2 cents worth.                 Mike M
From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: What can I do with my guitar and MIDI?
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:13:29 GMT
Followup-To: alt.guitar,comp.music
Organization: Univ. of Arizona

In article <1992Nov10.190426.14501@midway.uchicago.edu>,
kamartin@quads.uchicago.edu (kai anthony martin) wrote:
> ... my question - is it possible to get the same sound I get out of my
> amp to come out of my computer with the right set-up?

	Probably not. MIDI is just a protocol for communication between
synthesizers
(or between computers and synthesizers). For example you can push down a
key
on a DX7 and it can send a signal to another synth saying "this key goes
down" - i.e. you're telling the other synth to do something. You can send
MIDI from many computers to synths (or other computers). With guitar, the
usual thing is that you have to somehow convert the guitar pitch to MIDI - 
that can mean first a pitch to voltage conversion (typical of earlier
non-midi synth applications) followed by a conversion to MIDI (and then 
send *that* to a synth). I'm not up on what these rack-mounted preamps have

to offer, but the main thing to keep in mind is that MIDI is just
instructions for generating sound, not an encoding of any particular sound
itself.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Basinski      Internet: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ooptk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: what's the deal with CRATE amps?
Reply-To: ooptk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 21:53:42 GMT

I'm using an old ampeg reverberocket from the 60's which has a nice tube sound
and a great reverb, only prob is it ain't mine, and never will be, sooooo

I'm looking for a good tube amp. The store here has CRATE amps. Any comments?

thanks

Terry
From: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se (Brad Steele)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Exploding Guitar : -)
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:28:53 GMT
Reply-To: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

Wow!  Last night I made the mistake of turning towards
the amp with my acoustic-electric.  We had so much
going on, I couldn't tell where the feedback was coming
from until my guitar turned into 'magic-fingers'.  I thought
it was going to explode in my hands!  Has anyone ever
let an acoustic continue to vibrate due to feedback?  I
wonder which would blow first, the guitar or the driver.

Brad
From: ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Enough Already!! (Was Re: Edge is God...)
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:39:42 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon

In article <d1hej.721273495@dtek.chalmers.se> d1hej@dtek.chalmers.se (Henrik Jonsson) writes:
>caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Axeman) writes:
>
>>Oh please.  Hendirx and Page are two people whom I'm glad died.  They got too
>
>excuse me but when did Jimmy Page died???  I'm just curious
>I havent heard anything like that since I saw him 'live' on
>MTV for aprox a year ago....
>
	Guys, guys, let us stop this, shall we?  When this newsgroup was      
created, the charter explicitly stated that the discussions should be 
restricted to playing techniques, equipment, etc.  and that everyone should
make a conscious effort to avoid the "my favorite guitarist is better than
your favorite guitarist" postings.  
	So, let us leave these arguments to the rec.music.* groups and 
concentrate on more interesting stuff.



-- 
Sam Sivakumar		    |  Killer shrew, killer shrew,
ssivakum@ptdcs5.intel.com   |  K-I-L-L-ER Shrew !
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: fret positions (formula for)
From: HCHA8904593X@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (PERRETT, ANDREW)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:42:53 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

->>I know this was discussed before but could some kind soul please send me
->>the formula for fret positions (I suppose it is some factor of length
->>nut to bridge? Which, I presume, determines the scale length).
 
yup spot on..  decide on scale length and divide by 17.835 (if somebody has
a more accurate number, or better yet,tell me the formula for arriving
at a more accurate number I would be grateful i had it in a science book
somewhere but sold it stupidly) the result is where you should place the
first fret divide the distance from 1st to end and that is your 2nd fret..
continue till its done.. of course check before you hammer them in 12th
should be half way, 7th 2/3 between the nut and the 12th..
 
so if you decide on a scale length (nut to saddle) of 70cm you would divide
 
70/17.835 = 3.9248668349
 
ok now to stop the errors coming in subtract that from 70 = 66.075133165
 
now divide 66.075133165 /17.835 =3.704801411
 
so add the two number together = 7.6296682459 this is were the 2nd fret
should go.. repeat until you get to the twelth.. this should be exactly
35cm adjust as nessercary if its out but it should only be a few mm's..
then once you are confident of the measurements draw them in..
 
->>The other question is, where do you measure to? the middle of
->>The fretwire is .023'' or something so when you measure 6.xxx'
->>22nd fret (or whatever the real distance is), does that become
->>centerline
->>for the fretwire or the bottom edge?
->>Actually, if there are different formulas for relative length (from next
->>fret)
->>and absolute length (from bridge) I would prefer the latter.
 
well as you mentioned before its all got to do with teh scale length
so its useless to give hard and fast measurements.. hmm if'n i get time
ill write a program to spit out the right fret lengths if somebody
can tell me the formula or a more accurate number...
 
->>By the way, Centimeters are logical, inches are silly (but I can work
->>either).
 
god  i dunno centimetres are stacks better.. who cares how big a 1/13th of
king henrys shoe size was..

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
Subject: FTP Sites for Yes and Related Music?
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:33:33 GMT
Reply-To: rseymour@reed.edu

	Are there any ftp sites for music by Yes, Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin,  
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, or other Yes-related groups. I've already looked  
through ftp.nevada.edu, but they don't have much at all. Also, does anyone have  
any tab from _Turbulence_ by Howe or _Can't_Look_Away_ by Rabin? I'd love to  
learn some of the songs, but don't have time to transcribe them myself.

--
Robert Seymour				rseymour@reed.edu
Departments of Physics and Philosophy
Artificial Life Project			Reed College
Reed Solar Energy Project (SolTrain)	Portland, OR
From: R.T.Wieckowski@newcastle.ac.uk (River Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: String Guages [what to use?]
Keywords: jacobson_d@colorado.edu inquired ...
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:09:20 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.


String gauges eh ?
 Well this is something I have been experimenting with for a while now ...

I ( until a year ago ) had always bought .010's for my strat, partly 'cause I had no problems with them, and partly out of routine I guess. Then last November I was visiting friends and I borrowed a Yamaha GX228 ? which was kitted out with .009's and was, as Mr Jacobson has dicovered, ridiculously easy to play.

However I think this is partially because of the exercising with .010's that I'd noticed the difference, which is why I have one strat with .010's for rehearsals to give my fingers something to chew on... ...and one strat with .009's for gigs so that I can lash out with the solo's with a bit more speed when it comes to the crunch !!

Personally, I think you have to find a balance between tone and ease of playing.

 The thicker the gauge the warmer the tone ...
      ... the thinner the gauge the easier it is to play.


Incidentally, a friend of mine plays in a style not dissimilar to SRV, and he uses .012's on his Satellite strat's through a Fender Twin. ( nice sound !! )

just find your own thing ...

RIV.
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