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From: herman@amc.ece.cmu.edu (Herman Schmit)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Preamps
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:12:17 GMT
Reply-To: herman@amc.ece.cmu.edu (Herman Schmit)
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: herman@amc.ece.cmu.edu



A few weeks ago someone mentioned a preamp circuit in the Guitar
Handbook (by Ralph Denyer).

Has anyone ever built this?  I tried to figure out the schematic from
the wiring diagram last night and it just didn't seem to make
electrical sense.  Could someone mail me a working schematic?

The circuit described in the book has more capacitors and resistors
than I would expect.  Is this to give it a certain frequency response?
I have read that pickups respond to velocity, so that the high
frequencies have larger amplitudes than low frequencies.  Do preamps
generally compensate for this by boosting low frequencies?

Anybody else have good, small (single op-amp), preamp circuits that
they are willing to share?  I'm trying to build a preamp that will
gradually clip (rather than with a sharp edge like most transistor
circuits).  Is this old hat for anyone?  How does it sound?

Enough questions, thanks,

herman
From: rex@aec.msstate.edu (the rexter)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Aftermarket Pickups
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:13:19 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics:  Geographic Information Systems

Hi Axeslingers,
	I have a Peavey T-60 that I wish to hot-rod.  For those of you not
familiar with this awesome <dripping sarcasm> guitar, it is a solid-body,
very heavy, with two humbucker pickups.  My question is, what company has the
widest selection and (in anyone's opinion) the best pickups?  Seymour Duncan?
EMG?  Gibson (I'm thinking of the PAF)?  Also, what are the aftermarket sources
(read cheap places to get them)?  Thanks a lot.

-- 
Rex Jones                      | "After all the jacks are in their boxes,
Mississippi State University   |  and the clowns have all gone to bed,
Geographic Information Systems |  you can hear happiness staggerin' on down the
rex@aec.msstate.edu            |  street, footprints dressed in red" J.Hendrix
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: rfries@telecaster.ub.com (Robert Fries)
Subject: Re: What so great about Martin guitar ?
Organization: Ungermann Bass
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:59:25 GMT

In article <22195.9204131703@thor.cf.ac.uk> scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk (Gordon Walker) writes:

>A question for Martin afficionados: how much variation do you find
>between different instruments of the same design? Are all HD-28s as good
>as each other? Are they *always* better than D28s?

IMHO, there is PLENTY of variation between Martin guitars of the same model.
Last year I bought a D-35P. Great action, nice tight grain on the top, 
great sound (and getting better every day.)

However, I've played several other new D-35's recently, and none matches
mine for sound or playability. I've seen some with VERY WIDE grain in the 
spruce top. I'm not sure of the significance of this, but it sure looked
UGLY!

I've also played new D-28's and HD-28's. There have been examples where 
I preferred the D-28 over the HD-28, in side-by-side comparison, though 
this is still an exception.

But SO WHAT? It's always been true, and still is, that you should PLAY
before you buy, then get what you like best. If you're spending this much
money ($1200 - $2000, a lot in my opinion), you should play as many as you 
can get your hands on. Maybe you'll get lucky, and prefer one of the less 
expensive models.

Robert


/* Opinions are mine, not those of my employer. My employer probably
doesn't have opinions on guitars, anyway. */
From: mohawk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mohawk Dave)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: I Seek Bass purchase advicxe
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:50:55 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


I've been looking for an Electric Bass for quite a while; Can't seem to
find too many I like.  I've been playing guitar for quite a while and I 
plan to continue play 6-strings but I'm interested in playing a bit of
bass also.  What suggestions would you guys make for a low-priced bass,
but high enough priced to where it's a good instrument.  I'm not interested
in low-end junk or fancy high-end stuff.

You oughtta reply by e-mail, since this place is flooded
with stuff like this that no one wants to read.  Thanks for any replies.
From: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se (Brad Steele)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Recording a Classical
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:15:12 GMT
Reply-To: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

Does anyone have any ideas on ways
to record a classical guitar?  I'm
having difficulty getting a good
sound on tape.

---
Brad Steele
From: ferg@brahms.udel.edu (Christopher Ferguson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: TAB: "Gloria" (U2) intro
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:32:59 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Apr16.123657.27460@descartes.waterloo.edu> elee@descartes.waterloo.edu (Salty Freckles) writes:
>In article <167CAEB11.MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu> MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett) writes:
>>
>>BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
>>taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.
>
>I'm not sure, but I think it was originally meant to tune a banjo, or some
>other 4-stringed instrument. Each word has a certain pitch it is sung in, which 

I'm not sure about a banjo, but a Ukelele (I can't spell it) is tuned that way.
Are a banjo and the instrument I just mentioned tuned the same way?












ferg
From: scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk (Gordon Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: What so great about Martin guitar ?
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:58:41 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <rfries.21@telecaster.ub.com> rfries@telecaster.ub.com (Robert Fries) writes:
|In article <22195.9204131703@thor.cf.ac.uk> scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk (Gordon Walker) writes:
|>A question for Martin afficionados: how much variation do you find
|>between different instruments of the same design? Are all HD-28s as good
|>as each other? Are they *always* better than D28s?
|
|IMHO, there is PLENTY of variation between Martin guitars of the same 
|model...........

|
|
|I've also played new D-28's and HD-28's. There have been examples where 
|I preferred the D-28 over the HD-28, in side-by-side comparison, though 
|this is still an exception.
|
|But SO WHAT? It's always been true, and still is, that you should PLAY
|before you buy, then get what you like best. If you're spending this much
|money ($1200 - $2000, a lot in my opinion), you should play as many as you 
|can get your hands on. Maybe you'll get lucky, and prefer one of the less 
|expensive models.
|

Well - exactly! This thread all started because there were claims that
the HD-28 was *always* better than the D-28, and this was *definitely*
because of the scalloped bracing, etc etc. This is what, in my own
humble way (:-), I was trying to say sounded like a load of rubbish to
me (looking in from the outside, so-to-speak). 
So, are you HD-28 fans going to tell Robert he is wrong that he's found
some D-28s he's preferred to HD-28s? What happened to the scalloped
bracing this time?? ;-)
What it looks like from the recent postings, is that the HD-28 is
generally better made all round, and has extra things like different
purfling etc. There's no denying it has scalloped bracings, but things
like this can be real red herrings without proper *proof*. And the only
way to do that would be to get an unscalloped braced guitar, and compare
it (both analytically and subjectively) with the *same* guitar after it
has had its bracings scalloped. If that can be done somehow (ie
*without* even removing the top plate, because that would add more
changes to the guitar with the removal and re-sticking) only then can
you comment on the effect of the scalloping.

And at the end of the day, its what the guitar sounds like to *you*, not
what other people tell you it should sound like.

That's my latest 2p worth anyway!

Gordon
From: stevenra@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (needs changing)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: 7-string guitars (was Re: Buying a GOOD guitar...)
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:12:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.45667
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr15.041822@IASTATE.EDU> alib@IASTATE.EDU (Richard A Brown) writes:
>Anyone else know of other good 7-string players to listen to?
>
>--
>Ali Brown	

 Didn't Vai get the idea from that acoustical play, Adrian Below 
 (his name was something like that Adrian ???)

 Alex Stevens
 stevenra@feserve.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: cmurray@esk (Christopher John Murray)
Subject: Re: Buying a GOOD guitar.. any suggestions?
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 03:55:15 GMT

>> 
>Well, I don't think Malmsteen's vibrato is exaggerated, he just utilizes a
>classical vibrato... which is supposed to be a bit wider than most 'rock' or
>other idioms... 
>but for the real question... 

I thought classical vibrato was a vibrato which raised and lowered the note,
as in a voilin vibrato, the vibrato you get by varying finger pressure on
a scalloped fingerboard will, like most guitar vibrato, only vibrato
above the note.  sorry if I'm being picky.
>
>There is undoubtedly a PLAYING difference between the scalloped fretboard and
>tall frets... the thing about the scalloped board is it allows you to add
>subtle semi-tones at a faster speed than you can bending a string... 

yeah but if you _press_ on thick/high frets in the same way as a scalloped
fretboard, you get just the same effect. *honest!!*
>
>
>(in much the same way I think Vai's 7-string is a good idea... or even an
>eight string with one extra high so we could reach higher notes lower on the
>board and one low so that we could interact with the bass plater... but I
>thikn this despite the fact thata lot of people buy it because it is VAI'S
>model...)
>
     Vai's 7 string is a damn good idea.  Guitars have been so similar
in the mainstream we really need something like this to get popular,
just to show guitar companies it can work, like 5 and 6 string basses.

     On that note.. has anyone played a Stick ?? You know, those
weird things with ten strings..

>-- 

-- 
                                       /  Choose the day..
        Email to:                     /  And choose the sign of your day..
   cmurray@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au  /  The days divinity..first thing
                                    /  you see ...     The Doors.
From: GEN2022@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (RYAN ORLANDO)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: never thought about it!
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:00:32 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.12.SMU

You know.....I never thought about it but alt.guitar si just like taking
private guitar lessons.  Not only can you get music(tab, chords) but you 
can also get help with techniques, purchasing equipment, song writing etc.
  I just want to thank evveryone for making alt.guitar for what it is now.

A happy camper..
Ryan.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: Re: Looking for JT particulars
Keywords: James Taylor, right-hand
Reply-To: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Washington State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 22:00:57 GMT


I read once in a magazine article that James often plays in "D" chord
forms capoed up to "E".  This explained difficulties I had emulating
his sound (I didn't think of a capo).  

--
Joshua Yeidel               | yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu
Academic Computing Services | All standard disclaimers apply
Washington State University |   "Believe it if you need it, 
Pullman, WA 99164-1226      |     or leave it if you dare..."
509/335-0441                |         -- Robert Hunter
From: goo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (frank.m.macauda)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Princeton Replacement Speaker
Keywords: Fried Jensen
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:24:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

A friend of mine recently gave me a '64 Fender Princeton that
he dragged out of his crawlspace. It had a shorted power
transformer which I've replaced only to find that the 
12" Jensen has a blown voice coil. This amp was originally
fitted with a 10". Anyway, I need to replace the speaker
or have it reconed and I'd like some advice from y'all 
on a suitable speaker for this fine piece. Should I get
the Jensen reconed? Should I pay big $$ for an EV? Should
I just say fuck it all and buy an old Peavey Mace?


Frank Macauda 
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: poirier@bnr.ca (Daniel Poirier)
Subject: Tab requested: Rush - Closer to the heart, and Spirit of the radio.
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:21:15 GMT

I guess the title says it all. I need some tab for two Rush songs
'Closer to the heart' and 'Spirit of the radio'. Anybody out there
got it and is willing to share? I'd be forever in debt....

Thanks.

-- 
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 Standard disclaimers... - BNR does not own or share my opinion!
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: lonewolf@ecst.csuchico.edu (William Jospeh Bestor)
Subject: Crazy Riff.
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 19:46:12 GMT

Here's a riff from Crazy Train:

E|-|
B|-|
G|-| 
D|-|
A|-------4---4-0-----4-0-----4-0-|
E|-0-2-2---2-----4-0-----4-0-----|

LoneWolf.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Re: Great Kat
Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation / Beaverton OR & Milpitas CA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 15:39:30 GMT

In article <29EA24EB.29851@noiro.acs.uci.edu> jgray@laguna.eng.uci.edu (Jeff Gray) writes:
>It's kinda funny, every time I hear The Great Kat's name mentioned it's 
>usually followed by some comment like (YUCK!).  What's the deal, why
>is she (she's a she, right) so horrible?  I haven't heard her stuff
>which is why I'm asking.

    It's not necessarily her playing that people are responding to - it's
    her attitude.  She has pronounced herself the spirit of Beethoven re-
    incarnated.  She's a classically trained string player and has stated
    that all of Western music for the past few hundred years is "boring"
    and that "The Great Kat" has just what we need to jolt us to our
    senses.  If her playing was the same quality as her ego, Vai wouldn't
    be able to stand on the same stage with her.  As fas as I can deter-
    mine (from just a few cuts), Steve's in no danger of being blown off
    the stage by "The Great Kat." (Very few other people are in any dan-
    ger either.)

-- 

    Larry Huntley / Logic Modeling Corporation / Beaverton  OR
    Fire and Chains and/Fire and Chains and/Fire and Chains and...
                      [Stop Continental Drift!]
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: chhabra@cis.ohio-state.edu (Tall Cool One)
Subject: SEND ALL TAB to NEW TAB Site!!!!
Originator: chhabra@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:23:18 GMT


Could everybody who has any tab in their account send any tab they have 
lying in there accounts to the new tab site... ftp.nevada.edu

in the pub/guitar directory there is a README file of where and how to 
send it ... Come lets take advantage of this....

-Ashim
From: jakaroub@happy.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Please send Chords14..
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:43:26 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


	Could someone who has CHORDS14 please encode it and send it to this
news group or somewhere accessable to people who don't have acess to FTP
sites... Thanks.
						Jakaroub@happy.colorado.edu
From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: RE: Fender HM Strat
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:29:07 GMT

In article <CMM.0.90.2.702305813.clane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, clane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Usually Dazed) writes:
> 
> 
> I have a Hm and I also payed only $400....I love it altho I only have one
> humbucker witch I replaced with a Seymor Duncan JB (Jeff Beck) pickup.
> It also has NO finish on the back of the neck, just FINELY sanded wood.
> Playes real well...I recommend it, alto the FR Spyder Tremlo isnt the
> greatest thing in the world
> 

I bought a HM (2 single coils, 1 Dimarzio Super Distortion Humbucker) 2
years ago.  I really like the wide neck.  I have considered replacing the
Dimarzio, it is a little too harsh for me.  Oh yes, I paid $400 also!

-- 
David Swanger,   Auburn University,   swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu 
"Slight movement during exposure is often the cause of serious degradation of 
 image quality, although photographers often seem to prefer to blame their 
 equipment, usually criticizing the lens quality!", Ansel Adams, THE CAMERA.
From: avedian@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jonathan R Avedian)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: REM TAB ftp site
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:00:37 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

There was a request for REM TAB not long ago.  I have found a site with
most of their songs in files by alblum.  Each song has lyrics, chords,
and TAB for appropriate parts.  As far as I can tell, they are well done.

Alblums include Life's Rich Pageant, Murmur, Reconing, Dead Letter Office, 
Fables of the Reconstruction, Document, Green, and Out of Time.

If you like REM, this is definately a site to check out.

It is : cs.uwp.edu in the /pub/music/chords/rem directory.

Happy FTPing! 8+)

P.S.  Within a week I will be buying an amp (my first) in the $300 
      price range.  Anybody with experience and or recomendations
      please let me know.  I am looking for a flexable amp to be
      used for clean acoustic to metal grinding.  
      Thanks!!!!!

e-mail : avedian@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: miani@ibm1.uucp (Rich Miani)
Subject:  need an instructor
Organization: NYNEX S&T
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 15:35:45 GMT

Can anybody recommend a guitar teacher here in li'l old Hoboken ? There is
not a single music shop ( at least that I'm aware of ) in this town...

Thanks in advance,
Rich
From: frankc@faatcrl (Frank Coffman)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Yamaha Price List? Advice!
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:13:17 GMT

2358michellp@vms.csd.mu.edu (Paul J. Michell) writes:
> Another question I have is:  I am also thinking of getting a new Fender
>American Standard, or American Standard Plus...  Is it worth spending the
>$650-$850 for a Fender, or should I go for a cheaper priced Yamaha or Ibanez? 
>I am mostly concerned with sound quality and construction.  I want this guitar
>to last me awhile.

Why not look for a used Fender.  I bought a used Deluxe Strat Plus a
year ago for less than $400.  The Fender will also hold it's value
much better than the Japs.


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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett)
Subject: TAB: "Gloria" (U2) intro
Organization: Rice University, Houston, TX
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 21:42:56 GMT

This is what I have for the intro to "Gloria." I wish I had more, especially
the harmonics part.
E--0--0---10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0-10-12-10-0|14b16b14-12-0-10-0-9-0-10-0-12-0--
B-10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0--0--0-------------|--------------------------------10
G-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------

E--0--0---10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0-10-12-10-0|-9b10b9---------------------------
B-10-12-0--0--0---10-12-0--0--0-------------|--------12-0-10-0-9-0-10-0-12-0---
G-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------

Anyway, that's pretty damn close, if not exactly it. I could never get the
second parts of each line sound right. Maybe I'm not hitting everything on the
right beat. I always seem to half a quarter-note's worth of dead air waiting
for me at the end of it. Oh well.

BTW, could someone explain this "My dog has fleas" business to me? I've never
taken lessons, but I imagine it has something to do with tuning a guitar.

And thanks to whoever posted "Get It On." Now maybe my "I'm a Boy" question
will be answered (if you missed it: What are the words? How do I play the
middle bit?). And does anybody know the last verse to "Sweet Home Alabama"
(the "Mussel Shoals they tried to swamp us..." bit)?

Marc Hirsh

"I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means
  of communication. I say we use all of the words we've got."
   ---snappy end-of-file sign-off quote from Inherit The Wind, which reminds
         me: I have to do my religion report soon. Damn.

\ /
 ^  ---ugly red source of all evil, so don't even try to stop me
 V

Say, have I told everybody that I saw U2 on Monday?
From: u4212@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Brunet Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Homebuilt amps?
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:57:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hi there,
      I wondering if any of you great bears have some GD tabs.I'm search for "the other one"
and others underwater like this.I try the FTP gdead.scr.edu(something like that)and I find
a lot of goodies.If you have others FTP sites with GD tabs or you have some,can you please
send it.

There is some Zappamania here!I say FZ fanZ out there who want to talk about a very good 
guitar players and a man who have a shadow behind him!So you, plastic people,wake up
and make some cheeseburgers...

%%%%%
Electric country man
u4212@jsp.umontreal.ca             University of Montreal
Newsgroups: alt.guitar