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From: wolski@bmera252.bnr.ca (Will Wolski)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: PRS Amplifier
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:42:49 GMT
Reply-To: wolski@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

I have a Paul Reed Smith HG-70 combo that has a balanced direct out that
has a 4-12 
cabinet simulator built in. This amp has killer tone and when jamming or
recording
I just mike it. It would be nice to occasionally just run the direct
into the mixer
for practicing. I have not been able to get THAT tone out of the direct out :( 
Does anyone else have one of these amps out there and have experience
with the direct out? Only about 120 of these amps were ever built by
PRS, so if you
have one please post a reply. 
Thank You

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Bell Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 
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From: Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick@csa3.lbl.gov>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Fender Princeton Amp Prices?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:25:41 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Can anyone give me typical US prices on a Fender Princeton Reverb amp?  I
saw one in a San Francisco area store for $350; don't know year, it was a
silver face, from the condition I'd say made in 70's?  The guy also had a
black face Princeton (non reverb) for $300.  I think these are both
overpriced?
From: cde@mulka (Colin Entwisle)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Thumb chords
Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:51:01 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne
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Michael R. Kesti (mrk@gvgspd.gvg.tek.com) wrote:

: Take a look at a couple of more recent successes: Joe Satriani and Eric
: Johnson.  I feel that both of them have achieved their heights by combining
: their ability to express and excellent technique.  Do you disagree?

	i sort of rest my case on this kind of arguement
	so yeah i sort of disagree
	what heights
	what cost
				ce

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: rfries@sceng.ub.com (Robert Fries)
Subject: Re: 57 strat
Organization: Ungermann Bass
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:22:16 GMT

In article <C15szK.JI2@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (L'Angelo Misterioso) writes:


>       I tried out a 57 strat (Reissue) at Jackson Music (Grand Island, NY) 
>on Monday, and I'm looking for opinions on others who have tried them or who 
>own one. The one I played seemed to have a problem with the ground - it hummed
>until I touched the strings. The neck also felt very slow and sticky. Has
>anyone else encountered these problems? Has anyone else dealt with Jackson 
>before? 

>mike

I have a 57 reissue, and I love it. Mine was made in 1985, two tone sunburst.
Sounds great, has no unusual hum or ground problems. It's basically a
good strat. I got it used for $450, and I prefer it to all the
American standards and Strat Plus.

I have a friend who has a white one. He still prefers his 65 Strat, but
likes his 57 reissue also.

I don't know about slow and sticky. These things feel like Fenders to me,
and I've been playing Fenders for a long time.

The Japanese Fender reissues are pretty nice , too. And about half the cost
of the American ones.

Robert

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Ungermann-Bass Inc.

DISCLAIMER:
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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: rdr4972@u.cc.utah.edu (Rudolf Daniel Riet)
Subject: Re: Goodbye Blue Sky ( was Re: Lesson a week (NEW) )
Keywords: Floyd TAB
Organization: Agnostic Jihad
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:23:46 GMT

Please do it!

Thanks!

Ciao!


-- 
: Rudi "The Drudi" Riet    "I'll miss Dan Quayle.  He's the only actor  :
: rdr4972@u.cc.utah.edu     out there where if you give him a line,     :
: rudi.riet@m.cc.utah.edu   it's guaranteed he'll get it wrong"         :
: GrimbleGru@aol.com			  - Tom Barberi, 1/19/93        :
From: brian.morrissey@almac.co.uk (Brian Morrissey)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Classic Guitar Setup
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:02:00 GMT
Reply-To: brian.morrissey@almac.co.uk (Brian Morrissey)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371

Quoting Steve Wyrick:
SW>strings still go out of tune very quickly for about a week.  I think this
SW>is normal for this sort of string; I have the same problem with gut or
SW>nylon strings on my violin.

I have found new strings going out of tune a ploblem too, and would be
very interested in finding out if there is a way to avoid it.
Tutorials, books, mags, etc. I have read don't even mention it as a
problem. Is there a way round it ?

                                       brian.morrissey@almac.co.uk
---
 . SLMR 2.1a . It's deja vu all over again.
                                                                                   
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn)
Subject: Re: Lesson a week (Organising volunteers)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:33:18 GMT

Great! Looks like things are starting to roll.  To the people who suggested
only doing lessons by a subject line - I only suggested the original detailed
plan because of the hundreds of personal E-mail messages I received suggesting
the various parts of the plan (i.e. archiver, editor etc.) Now, as it should
turn out, any one who wants to post a lesson will just send a personal
E-mail to the editor.  Then the editor will take all of the lessons from that
week and post it to the net.  Then the archiver will post the lesson to the
FTP site. 

I would like to suggest that when the weekly list of lessons comes out, that
a small paragraph be appended at the end which explains what we are doing 
with this project, somthing like:

Net News Guitar Lessons of the Week
Date:
Send lessons to: (editor E-mail address)
Also available at : (FTP site)

         
... just to make it easy for any body who gets into this long after this 
discussion dies.

    
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*	Bill Quinn			billq@ms.uky.edu		*
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From: ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Lesson a week (NEW)
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:46:35 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

U15708@uicvm.uic.edu (Hmmm, catchy name!) writes:

>To start the ball rolling, this would be my request for a somewhat advanced
>lesson in jazz theory:  I'd like to see someone explain the workings of the
>chords in the piece "My Favorite Things".  I've heard Coltrane do it and
>I'm hooked...  How come the same melody fits different chord sequences
>both in the A and B parts?  By the A part I mean the the first 16 bars
>that repeat:

It doesn't answer your precise question, but you should examine Marc
Sabatella's Improvisation Primer, available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.njit.edu, in the /pub/jazz-primer directory.  [Send email containing
the single word 'help' to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com for instructions, if you
don't have ftp access and want to know how to ftp by mail].

Marc's contribution will go a long way to answering a lot of the general
questions you folks are discussing here.

Russ
From: borst@cs.utexas.edu (Christoph W. Borst)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Guitar Player's Stack in a box
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:27:53 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: saltillo.cs.utexas.edu


If anyone has built Guitar Player's stack-in-a-box or something
similar, I would like to know how good it sounded . . .
From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: INFO needed on HAGSTROM guitar please...
Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:02:59 -0000
Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
NNTP-Posting-Host: calamari.hi.com

In article <1993Jan26.152321.30775@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
>In article <C1GuCr.Ls0@news.udel.edu> walt@diusys.cms.udel.edu writes:
>>Anybody know if Hagstrom guitars (made in Sweeden) have any value to them or 
>>are they one of the dime-store guitars?
>
>    My first electric was a Hagstrom....a long time ago.  IMHO, it was a
>piece of junk.  Unless vast improvements have been made in the past 30
>years, Hagstroms still are.

The mid-70's Hagstrom Swede - a Les Paul-influenced solid-body - was a damn
good guitar.  The other guitarist in my bar band (Bestiary) had one, and
I preferred it in feel and sound to my own Les Paul.  So did he, 'cause
he repeatedly refused my offers to trade...

AWR
old fart at play
From: gallag@happy.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (gallag)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Gibson guitar take 2
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:20:21 GMT
Organization: EEAP, CWRU, Cleveland
NNTP-Posting-Host: happy.eeap.cwru.edu

In article <93028.133949WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
>In article <82240@hydra.gatech.EDU>, pw14@prism.gatech.EDU (WALKER,PETER G)
>says:
>>
>>What does everybody think about this offer for a guitar.
>>
>>The guitar is 1984 Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop Edition.
>>Its a two piece maple with clear finish.  The hardwar is
>>gold plated.  Every year Gibson puts out a very limited
>>number of its Custom Shop Edition.  In 1984 I understand
>>they put out 500 of them.  Mine is the first in the series.
>>In the back of the neck, there is a Custom Shop Edition logo
>>and  a serial number 84-001.
>>
>>The guitar is in like-new condition.  I haven't touch it in
>>6 years.  Now here comes the hard part- the price.  I think
>>that the price of a brand new Les Paul Custom (regular kind)
>>is around $600.  So I am asking for around $600.
>
>Are you confusing a Les Paul made in the Custom Shop with a production Les
>Paul Custom?
>
>The current Gibson list price for a Les Paul Custom in either Ebony or Ivory
>hovers close to $1800.00.  Add $200 for Honeyburst, Heritage Cherry Sunburst,
>etc.  If you want a LP Custom Deluxe with a highly figured maple top add
>another $200 or so.  These normally are discounted by most major retailers.
>I paid $1350 for my Honeyburst Les Paul Custom with Gibson hardshell case,
>tax included, at San Jose's Guitar Center last October
>
>I am unfamiliar with Les Pauls made in Gibson's Custom Shop.
>
>Without my copy of Gruhn's "Vintage Guitars" handy I can't verify a Custom Shop
>serial number or the history of your instrument.  Most Les Pauls have a two
>piece maple cap over a solid mahogany body except the LP Studio Custom which
>often has a three piece maple cap.
>
>>If you think the price is too high, make an offer. Let me
>>know what you think.  Thanks.

I have been looking for one of these. It is a nice instrument.
If you decide that you want to sell it send me some E mail I
would be interested.
 
>>
>>I want to by my first electric guitar. Is this a good deal?
>
>From your post it seems you already have an electric guitar.  And a damn nice
>one to boot.  Keep the Les Paul.
>>
>>Ta.
>>
>>Peter
>
>Brian
From: Thomas.Sullivan@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Ovation Preacher?
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:19:19 GMT
	<1993Jan19.181610.21489@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
	<BIRCSAK.93Jan20162705@cmpass.mps.mlo.dec.com>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Hey, glad you asked!

I'm a former and present Preacher owner.

It is a solid body Ovation guitar, 2 humbuckers (sort of Gibson SG
shaped, double cutaway), 24-fret neck, Schaller tuners, stereo wired
(can send each pickup to a different amp or effects chain), brass bridge,
ebony  fingerboard, very nice neck.   I just didn't like the sound of the
pickups too much, but the axe is very well made and feels really nice.  
Why,  did you find one somewhere?

In high school in the late 70's, the lead guitarist in my band had a 
Preacher (he still owns it!).  I was playing a strat copy at the time (I
played rhythm then) and found a used Preacher myself, so I sold the
copy and bought it.  I liked it, but was always a strat lover, so I eventually
traded it in on a real strat.  A few years ago, I went on a quest to find a 
Preacher again, because I loved the feel of it, and wanted to customize
the electronics.  So, I searched all over Boston (I was in school there
at the time) and finally found one with a beat up body for $125 w/case.
I knew I'd get one cheaply if I found one, as no one else really knows 
what they are.  I stripped it and re-finished it natural wood (they used
nice mahogany on these), put an extra dual-sound humbucker in the 
middle, installed a coil tap and phase switch, and put in a 5-way strat
switch for all the pickup combos.   It sounds pretty good now.  

If you've found one, chances are you can get it cheaply.  I think they were
one of the most underrated guitars ever made.  Other Ovation solid bodies
in that line included the Viper (single cutaway, kinda like Gibson L6) with
two single-coil pickups and maple fingerboard, the Preacher deluxe (gold
hardware and pearl-block inlays), the Deacon (weird shape) 12-string.

Even if you have a favorite axe right now, they're a great backup 
guitar.

--Tom
From: denio@seismo.CSS.GOV (Dennis O'Neill)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: INFO needed on HAGSTROM guitar please...
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:16:57 GMT
Organization: Institute for Obfuscatorial Dynamics

In article <C1GuCr.Ls0@news.udel.edu> walt@diusys.cms.udel.edu writes:
> Anybody know if Hagstrom guitars (made in Sweeden) have any value to
> them or are they one of the dime-store guitars? I have one I picked up
> at a yard sale cheap and it needs a little work. I'm just currious if
> it's worth it or not.

Some Hagstroms were OK, some were pretty good.  There was a line of
Hagstroms that looked more-or-less like Strats that were OK.  They
had a Les Paul-like guitar called the Swede that was pretty good.
(Larry Coryell used one for awhile, in his Eleventh House days.)
They also had an ES-175-type guitar that was pretty good.  I'm not
familiar with the ES-335-style Hagstrom.
-- 
Dennis O'Neill (denio@seismo.css.gov)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: kew@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (steve.w.askew)
Subject: Re: REQ:Fender Super Reverb
Summary: Super Reverb
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:43:02 GMT

In article <MADA.93Jan26145117@iridiumx.electrum.kth.se>, mada@electrum.kth.se (Marcus Davidsson) writes:
> Hejsan!
> Does anybody know how to squesee the best out of an Super Reverb amp?
> Which tubes, modifications, speakers, etc.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Marcus Davidsson
> mada@it.kth.se
> 

	Well every amp is diff but! Have a competent amp tech go thru
	it. 

	Depending on age you may want to replace the filter caps(big
	cans under the rectangualar cover on the outside of the chasis).
	Clean and or replace all the pots. Might even want to replace
	the 100k resistors in the preamp section. Also you may want to 
	replace the output transformer  (they take a real beating). A
	OEM or direct replacement can be expensive.

	As far as tubes are concerned get the best you can afford! 
	Sovtek, Phillips, Tesla, RCA(good luck), Stay away from Chinese
	Power tubes(My oppinion)

	If the speakers are ragged you may want to replace them(although
	you may like that "broken in" sound. If you option to replace them
	Kendrick or THD makes a very nice replacement speaker. Also if you
	do replace the speakers KEEP THE ORIGINALS!!! When you go to sell
	those original speakers will keep the amps value high. If you want
	to recone them be carefull, what you get back may sound terrible
	You can recone speakers in the US for about $35 a speaker. The 
	replacements cost about $75 each. I think the speakers are
	an area that considers a little thought . The sound of the
	Super is defined by three things 1. The Power supply, 2. The out
	put Impeadance, 3. The cheap speakers Leo Fender used. By getting 
	replacement speakers you are getting drivers voiced for a Super
	/Bassman. If you recone you take the chance of having the drivers
	 mechanical compliance(Q) altered forever. Of course you may be 
	able to find a company that makes a original style cone, but that 
	will probably cost almost as much as replacement drivers.

	As far as Mods, there are some hot rod things you can do. But
	I dont think thats what this amp is about. If you want mods you
	can by a channel switching, monster gain fuzz machine for the
	about the same money restoring the Super correctly will cost.
	This amp is about Blues and old Rock & Roll. Thats what it does
	best. Besides most mods will detract from the amps value. In
	the Chicago area these amps are Highly regarded as the perfect
	amp for live Blues. A black face Super in stock trim can go
	for as high as $1000.


	Steve
	Doin That Blues ThAng!
From: a_mosch@pavo.concordia.ca (MOSCHOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Fret buzz & whammy bars
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:29:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hi everybody. I bought an Ibanez 540RLTD and an ART SGX-2000 a month ago.. it's 
my first guitar, so there's a couple of things I would like to know...

Is fret buzz on the low E string common, particularly in the upper frets?
(... or is that lower frets? The frets furthest from the guitar body). 
I'm wondering if this is ok or if it's something I should look into while
I still have a warranty.

Next, the whammy bar is one of those where you just push it in to the
guitar and pull it out to remove it... after only a week or so, it
lost all its stiffness (torque?) and now always points straight down. The
manual mentions the bushings on the bar. Is it just a matter of getting
those replaced? And how loose should a bar be... should it point neckward?
Or is that just a matter of personal preference?

Finally, what can be done about scratches in the finish... is there some
stuff you can slop on that will make them magically disappear (my
guitar is black) or do you have to get the guitar sanded and refinished,
which is more trouble than it's worth?

I'd appreciate any advice. I was only a synthesizer/Midi guy till now so
all this stuff is new to me.

Thanks,
Thanos Moschopoulos.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: ezad133@chpc.utexas.edu (Jim A. Andrews)
Subject: Re: RP-1 and JCM900 - pairing the two
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 22:25:45 GMT

I have a JCM900 and a Digitech Legend, which is essentially the same
as your rig.  I also thought that the sound was WAY too bright with
the standard patches, but I found that there is more than enough EQ on
the Digitech to fix the problem. However, I didn't (and don't) recall
things being too bright when the Digitech was bypassed, only when it
was kicked in!!??  And I'm using the effects loop on the Marshall.

Now for some more bad news.  About a month or two after I got the
Marshall, the Digitech started winking out during practice.  I have the
controller mounted in a two-space flight case, which I sit on my amp
head.  It has plenty of ventilation, so I don't think it's overheating.
(The other rackspace is empty.)  The possibilities I can see are:

1.  The effects loop on my Marshall is freaking out.
2.  The Digitech is freaking out.
3.  The foot controller for the Digitech is freaking out.
    OR
4.  The cables are, you guessed it, freaking out.

I stopped using the Digitech for right now.  I can't risk having it
go out in a gig.  

Any comments or advice out there?  Aside from "Put your equipment in
the shop" (that's where it is).  Thanks . . . 
 
 
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From: poirier@bnr.ca (Daniel Poirier)
Subject: Re: Mesa Boogie Triaxis questions (Price, availability, etc.)
Keywords: Boogie, Triaxis, Price, Features, Availability
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48:33 GMT

In article <1jojtgINNi8t@rodan.UU.NET> ender@rodan.UU.NET (Pete "Ender" Walsh) writes:
   >
   >I've got a few questions about the Mesa Boogie Triaxis that I'm hoping
   >someone out there can help me with.
   >
   >1)  I know that Boogie prices are pretty much "standard" everywhere.
   >    What's the going price for a Triaxis at this time?

List price, which is darned close to what you'll end up having to shell out,
is $1200 on its own, $1500 with the Abacus MIDI foot controller. Some dealers
may give you some free goodies or lower the price on the purchase of something
else along with the Triaxis, but you will most likely not be able to get anyone
to sell the Triaxis for much less than list.

   >
   >2)  What does that price include?
   >

The Triaxis itself, a sub-miniature tiny little pocket-sized booklet which is
supposed to be the user manual, the power cord, some packaging foam material and
LOTS OF TONE.

   >3)  Does anyone know of a Boogie dealer in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore,
   >    MD area?
   >
   
Call Mesa Boogie at (707) 778-6565, and they'll give you the names. You can also
ask for their Triaxis Product Profile, which is a single glossy page (double-sided)
with some info on the Triaxis.

   >4)  Anything interesting to add about the Triaxis in general?
   >

It sounds like god-send! I spoiled myself and bought a Triaxis AND their new 
290 SwitchTrack power amp, and the combination is amazing. Keep in mind, however,
that the Triaxis has only one single mono input, and only one effect loop with a
single mono effect send and a pair (stereo) of effect returns. Why should that
affect you, you may ask? Well, in my case, I would LOVE to use my effect unit IN
FRONT of the Triaxis (simply because compression sounds much better before any
kind of pre-amplification). However, my effect unit is stereo, and therefore I
have to choose between the lesser of two evils: Use the unit in the effects loop
and therefore say goodbye to compression, or use the effects loop in front and say
goodbye to my nice stereo patches. Another point: it has two nice jacks in the 
back labelled RECORDING. These are outputs for recording or console. However, these
are NOT a stereo pair. Instead, one is "wired" for optimum clean sound MONO recording,
and the other for optimum "dirty" sound MONO recording. Keep that in mind.
All in all, I love it. I'd rather put up with all those problems than live without
that tone.

   >Thanx.
   >
   >Ender
   >

Nothin' to it...

-- 
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From: dnj@kauai.verity.com (Dave Johansen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Mesa MK I 4 SALE (CA) (short head 100w)
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:39:12 GMT
Reply-To: dnj@kauai.verity.com (Dave Johansen)
Organization: Verity, Inc.  1550 Plymouth Ave, Mt. View, CA 94043


I've got a Mesa Mk I Reissue for sale.

Bought it early last year (1992).
It's in pristine condition. Never been gigged.
It's the original Boogie.. It's basically
laying around not being used so I will
entertain all serious offers... 

This originally cost $899 from Boogie:

Basic 100w amp with reverb (NO EQ) 
in 18 3/4" chassis. effects loop
Documentation, and cover...

This is an amp head, without any speakers!!!

Make offer over $500.. 

Email me @ dnj@verity.com
or call    (415) 960 7674
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