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From: holtslander@skyfox
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: John Lee Hooker et. al.
Date: 14 DEC 92 16:06:29 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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I saw the greatest show last night on the Arts and Entertainment Network.
It was a show called "RAVE" the episode title was "John Lee Hooker and
Friends".  Actually I only saw the last ten minutes.  J.L. jammed with
Ry Cooder and then they had a finale number J.L. with Bonnie Rait, Lonnie
Mack, Charlie Musselwaithe, John Hammond, Robert Cray, Roy Rogers, Johnie
Johnson, and a bunch more fantastic blues musicians   I assume the show had Joh
n Lee playing with all these musicians seperately.  A&E usually rebroadcasts
their shows so watch out for it.  Definitely a must see.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: lrm28@cas.org ()
Subject: Small shops making guitars
Summary: Starting in 1993 ( I hope )
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:35:54 GMT

I know a guitar maker in Columbus OH who is/will be producing
handmade acoustic guitars.  He's been working on them for many
years.  He's also made the Moon Bridge for 5-string banjos.
When I get more data, I'll forward it.

I'm not releasing his name or address because I don't want
him to get buried with info requests.  He's a one-man shop
at this point.  I've seen a prototype that played extremely nice.
Most of the tooling for the pieces is done.

More info as it comes.
-- 
Luke Mayercin  lrm28@cas.org  "Why does ear wax taste like it does?"
Chemical Abstracts Service is not responsible for these comments.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.music.makers
From: barothwe@floyd.cca.cr.rockwell.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: ==> +30db GAIN Circuit for Your Guitar: $25 <==
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:17:43 GMT
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I wanted to make anyone who is interested aware...

	A local service tech has come up with a really slick circuit
that will add 30 db of gain to your signal!

		o  +30db of PURE GAIN
		o  DOES NOT change your tone

	He builds a kit that is already pre-wired and ready to install in
your guitar. It replaces your existing potentiometer(s). It is an active
circuit that operates on a 9v battery. The pre-wired kit includes:

		o  Potentiometer
		o  Toggle switch (toggles the gain function in and out)
		o  9v battery connector

	The discrete parts other than the three just mentioned are siliconed
to the back of the pot and switch... real nice handiwork.

	He wants to sell the pre-wired kit, ready for you to install for just
$25.00 each (1 required for each pot or you can add this kit and use it as a
master).

	If anyone is interested, email me directly and I'll be glad to put pass
along the particulars.

Later.

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  Rockwell Int'l - CCA                      / \______/     might be shared by 
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From: jw@ddsdx2.jhuapl.edu (Jeff Wong x6599)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Sperzel Locking Tuners
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:22:33 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University

In <mgstrand.724117577@vincent1.iastate.edu> mgstrand@iastate.edu () writes:

>Maybe I've missed the obvious, but I don't understand how locking tuners
>help to keep a guitar in tune. The purpose of a locking nut is to lock
>the string right next to the nut, to prevent the strings from slipping
>through the nut during tremelo action. But what do the tuners have to
>do with this? Why would locking tuners prevent the string from sliding
>through the nut and causing tuning problems?

>Any opinions, and especially personal experiences, are welcome.
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mark Strand  | mgstrand@iastate.edu
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------I do not have Sperzels, but I do have a PRS with locking machines similar in
concept to Sperzels.

First of all, if the tuning problem is caused by strings hanging on the
nut, locking tuners will not help much. That's why you see so many
graphite and roller nuts on guitars with whammies and no locking nut.

Locking machines such as those on my PRS help assure that string tension
returns to its original state after whammying by 1) locking the string
firmly to reduce slippage and 2) reducing the windings around the tuning peg to
less than 1 (on a PRS strings typically only wrap about half the peg).

With normal machines, the string wraps around the post several times. The
state of this wrap is maintained by the tension in the strings (i.e. if
you cut the string at tension you notice it unwraps at the machine). Each
time you whammy, that wrap loosens or tightens slightly. If when you release the
whammy, the strings do not fall right back where they started at the peg,
the tension will be slightly altered and the guitar will be out of tune.
Part of the trick to this includes restoring pressure between adjacent
wrappings around the peg (a problem which you do not have if you do not
wrap the string around the peg more than 360 degrees which you can do with
locking tuners).

Having used both locking nuts and locking tuners, I think that the locking nuts
probably stay in tune _slightly_ better, and locking nuts also sustain
better through heavy whammying. However, there is no comparison in the
pain in the butt factor when it comes time to restring. I can restring
tune and stretch the strings on my PRS in a little over 10 minutes and
pretty much stay in tune all night. To get my double locking hex wrench
Floyd Rose into the same state easily takes a half hour. Since I restring
at least once a week, the PRS machines have saved me _lots_ of time.

-jeff
From: barothwe@floyd.cca.cr.rockwell.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: WANTED: Power Soak -OR- Red Box -OR- ???...
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:06:39 GMT
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I'm looking to acquire something along the lines of a Power Soak
or Red Box Cabinet Simulator.

The reason is two-fold:

	1.  I have a Fender Princeton Reverb amp that I'd like
	    to record without a microphone.

	2.  I need to feed the output of a Power Soak (or equiv.)
	    into a Sonic Maximizer 422A, which only has line level
	    inputs.

If you have anything like this you'd be willing to part with, let
me know.

If you've got a better idea, let me know.

Please respond directly to me with email in addition to posting, `cuz
I can't read the news as much as I'd like.

Thank you,

Bruce

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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: fdvlba@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Fort Davis VLBA site)
Subject: Re: Blue tubes...again.
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:56:15 GMT

There is nothing bad wrong with a tube glowing blue...just a little gas.
Gassed tubes have a unique sound, softer and less bite.  The blue comes
from the high voltage, not the current, so biasing will not change the
blue (until you gas the tube from too low a bias).  Fix the blue glow,
indeed!

Steve Cowell, tube amp freak
.
From: mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: SLide guitar
Date: 12 Dec 1992 00:26:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <Bz27oM.G4y@acsu.buffalo.edu> v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN) writes:
>I was jamming with a friend, and we were drinking (big shocker there!)
>Anyway, on a whim I picked up a half full can and started playing
>slide with it. The liquid inside gave it a weird throaty sound.
>It was the coolest thing in the world. Try it! You can drink the beer
>every now and then for slight variations in the tone and get a 
>pretty decent buzz too :)
>
>mike 

"Gee, shweety, I'm shoory I'm sho late.  I was tryin' to get (hic!) just
the right tone out of my shtrat, so I hadda keep shtarting over with
'nother beer, shince I'd drunk pasht the perfect amount."

Michael Breen
shinging and (hic!) philoshophizin'
(and trying to get a Mickey's 40 oz. bottle to work)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: larsoe@rs6111.ecs.rpi.edu (Eric D. Larson)
Subject: >RP-1 
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:19:44 GMT

I bought an RP-1 yesterday... It's great, I really like it. I have it going 
through a Rockman XP100 stereo amp and sounds excellent. I thought my amp had
a good distortion generator, and it does, but the RP-1 has so much more 
flexability. I'm curious how this unit will sound when I try using the
reverb/delay for vocals in the studio... If anyone has tried this already,
what settings work best? I would assume just a plain reverb/delay setting
with all other effects turned off would sound pretty good. Anyone had any 
problems/complaints?


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From: andyb@andyb.mentorg.com (Andy Bishop)
Subject: Re: Sperzel Locking Tuners
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:24:12 GMT
Organization: mentor
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

I put some Sperzels on my '62 reissue Strat and they worked great.  Changing strings is s snap also...just thread it straight through the tuner, lock it by twisting the underside of the tuner, cut off excess string, and then bring into tune in about 1 wrap....less wraps, less string slippage...pretty neat!

In article <Af=9unK00aPC4qKlwK@cs.cmu.edu>, Thomas.Sullivan@cs.cmu.edu writes:
|> Excerpts from netnews.rec.music.makers.guitar: 11-Dec-92 Sperzel Locking
|> Tuners mgstrand@iastate.edu (666)
|> 
|> > Maybe I've missed the obvious, but I don't understand how locking tuners
|> > help to keep a guitar in tune. The purpose of a locking nut is to lock
|> > the string right next to the nut, to prevent the strings from slipping
|> > through the nut during tremelo action. But what do the tuners have to
|> > do with this? Why would locking tuners prevent the string from sliding
|> > through the nut and causing tuning problems?
|> 
|> > Any opinions, and especially personal experiences, are welcome.
|> 
|> > Mark Strand  | mgstrand@iastate.edu
|> 
|> It isn't the action of the string sliding through the nut that you are really
|> trying to prevent with a locking nut, it is really taking out the
|> possibility of
|> slipping from your tuners  (which puts your strings out of tune).  By
|> making tuners that lock and don't slip, there is no need to lock things at
|> the nut (and no need for allen wrenches, etc!).   I've heard pretty good
|> things about the locking tuners, but I don't have any personal experience
|> with them.  I've considered getting them for one of my guitars so I could
|> avoid hassling with the locking nut, but haven't gotten around to really
|> checking in to them seriously.
|> 
|> --Tom

-- 
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From: brunetm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Brunet Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Blue tubes...again.
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:51:51 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Dec11.175615.23371@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> fdvlba@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Fort Davis VLBA site) writes:
>There is nothing bad wrong with a tube glowing blue...just a little gas.
>Gassed tubes have a unique sound, softer and less bite.  The blue comes
>from the high voltage, not the current, so biasing will not change the
>blue (until you gas the tube from too low a bias).  Fix the blue glow,
>indeed!
>

So the tech said right...I knew!!!


{Electric CountryMan}
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar,alt.guitar,sci.electronics,rec.audio
From: pkor@phoenix.oulu.fi (Pasi Korhonen)
Subject: Re: Sovtek tubes
Organization: Ripff Industries
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:40:19 GMT

Robyn Landers (rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:

: Sovtek gets great review in the book I have.

	What is this book you're talking about ?

	Pasi

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From: Thomas.Sullivan@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Sperzel Locking Tuners
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:48:19 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.rec.music.makers.guitar: 11-Dec-92 Sperzel Locking
Tuners mgstrand@iastate.edu (666)

> Maybe I've missed the obvious, but I don't understand how locking tuners
> help to keep a guitar in tune. The purpose of a locking nut is to lock
> the string right next to the nut, to prevent the strings from slipping
> through the nut during tremelo action. But what do the tuners have to
> do with this? Why would locking tuners prevent the string from sliding
> through the nut and causing tuning problems?

> Any opinions, and especially personal experiences, are welcome.

> Mark Strand  | mgstrand@iastate.edu

It isn't the action of the string sliding through the nut that you are really
trying to prevent with a locking nut, it is really taking out the
possibility of
slipping from your tuners  (which puts your strings out of tune).  By
making tuners that lock and don't slip, there is no need to lock things at
the nut (and no need for allen wrenches, etc!).   I've heard pretty good
things about the locking tuners, but I don't have any personal experience
with them.  I've considered getting them for one of my guitars so I could
avoid hassling with the locking nut, but haven't gotten around to really
checking in to them seriously.

--Tom
From: mfallero@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Blues radio shows in Utah
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:33:17 MST
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Dec14.153345.10925@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>, mongeau@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Mike Mongeau) writes:
> I'm trying to put together a list of Blues radio shows across the country.
> If you know of any Blues shows in your area, please email to me the 
> specifics and I will post the list at a later date.   Here is an example
> of the format I am using:
> 
> City             Station/Freq  Day/Time          Show
> -------          ------------  ------------      ------------------
> Boston, MA        WGBH  89.7   Fri 9pm-1am      "Blues After Hours"
>                                Sat 8-9pm        "NPR's BluesStage"
>                                Sat 9pm-1am      "Blues After Hours"
>                   WERS  89.9   Mon-Fri 11pm-2am "Bluesology"
> 
> Worcester, MA     WICN  90.5   Thu 8-10pm       "Blues On The Ceiling"
>                   WCUW  91.3   Fri-Sat 6-9pm    "Blues Hits Big Town"
> 
> Thanks !
> 
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>                     "Saved by the Blues..."
>       Mike Mongeau                        Raytheon Equipment Division
>       mongeau@tif162.ed.ray.com                          Marlboro, MA
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
Here's the only blues show that I'm aware of in my area:

City		Station/Freq	Day/Time	Show
Salt Lake City  KRCL    90.9FM  Mon 8pm-11:30?? Red White and Blues

I'm not sure how long they're on, I usually fall asleep listening
to the show.  

Mark Falleroni
From: MIZUTANT@fred.wharton.upenn.edu (Taka Mizutani)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Replacement speaker for amp
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:07:42 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.makers.guitar
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi,
I have a MESA/Boogie Studio .22+ combo amp with a 12" Black Shadow speaker.
The amp has a real "dark", kind of laid back sound.

I got this amp to replace my Marshall JCM800, which was way too loud to
play with at home (floor vibrates, walls shake). I liked the relatively
bright, clear sound of the Marshall, and it complemented the sound of my
modified American Standard Strat nicely. However, when I changed amps, the
tone I got just became too dark.

Can I replace the stock "Black Shadow" speaker made, I think, by
MESA/Boogie, with a Celestion, as long as the impedances match? Is this a
bad idea?

Also, what type of Celestion 12" should I use? Since my amp is only 22
watts, can I use the reissue "Greenbacks", which I believe are rated at 25
watts?

All responses are appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Taka Mizutani
MIZUTANT@fred.wharton.upenn.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:12:50 EST
From: Scott Jung <SRJ102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: Strat for Sale

     Me too, maybe.
                     -Scott
From: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: ZOOM upgrade ??
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:06:36 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University

Hey,
I've got a zoom9000 and am wondering what are the advantages of upgrading
to the newer rackmount version? Are there any new fx, and how about dumping
and reloading the patches to something external like a pc or tape unit.
I find myself wanting to re-arrange the patch order but I don't like to
have to reprogram each patch. Am I lazy or what?!
dmc
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: gord@jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
Subject: Re: blue tubes
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:34:44 GMT

In article <Bz1IrD.F0M@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>brunetm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Brunet Martin) writes:
>
>

>There's no gas in a tube to go into a 'gaseous state', that's why they're
>called vacuum tubes.
>Red is just the heater glow.
>Blue is bad and means you've got something in the tube that shouldn't be 
>there.

Yes, but at the price you pay for tubes, the Vacuum is FAR from
perfect, so, yes there is a bit of gas floating around in there (even
on new tubes).

(I thought the doppler shift theory was a riot too.. Let me see, if I
stand on the cathode side of the tube then the electons are moving
away so I get a red shift.. no wait, the electrons move to the cathode
so I get a blue shift.. no wait.... etc)

-- 
Gord Wait 	SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
uunet!jericho!gord
gord%jericho@uunet.uu.net
From: jkiparsk@reed.edu (Jonathan Kiparsky)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: mandolin tab
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:29:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec13.202941.16636
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In article <1992Dec13.033019.4577@athena.mit.edu> juggle@athena.mit.edu (furious axe demon) writes:
>>E|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
>>A|------------------------------------|--0-0-0-0-------2-------5----------|
>>D|----R--------0--------4-------5-----|-----------------------------------|
>>G|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
>
>
>Hmm. . .  Excuse my possible ignorance, but isn't this tabbed
>upside-down??  (or maybe lefty?)
>I'm not really sure how Mandolins are tuned (never having played one),
>but I would imagine that they are tuned with the bass strings on top like a 
>guitar and bass, etc.  

This is with the bass strings on top. Mandolins are tuned in fifths.
-jon
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: fdvlba@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Fort Davis VLBA site)
Subject: Re: strat hard case question
Keywords: strat
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:37:56 GMT

When I bought my Strat Plus, I paid extra for a wooden case.  I turn my bar
pointing straight back toward the end pin when I close the case, seems OK.

My small spring was missing, causing the bar to be too floppy.  The spring is
concentric so it can squash into itself, and maintains tension on the tremelo
bar.  Works much better with it.

I removed the tremsetter, don't like 'em.  Purrs like a kitten now.


__
Steve Cowell...tube amp freak
From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: blue tubes
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:13:21 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

gord@jericho.uucp (Gord Wait) writes:

>In article <Bz1IrD.F0M@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>>brunetm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Brunet Martin) writes:
>>
>>

>>There's no gas in a tube to go into a 'gaseous state', that's why they're
>>called vacuum tubes.
>>Red is just the heater glow.
>>Blue is bad and means you've got something in the tube that shouldn't be 
>>there.

>Yes, but at the price you pay for tubes, the Vacuum is FAR from
>perfect, so, yes there is a bit of gas floating around in there (even
>on new tubes).

Of course, and that's why valves are fitted with a getter. Even if you DID
manage to remove all the gas and obtain a perfect vacuum, you would STILL get
free molecules floating about due to outgassing by impurities in the
materials. Again, the getter would mop them up.

Cheapo valves will be hauled off the ion pump early and leave the poor old
getter to do all the work, better valves will be left on a bit longer.

Duff valves will probably have a knackered getter due to overwork as well
as other things.

Remember, the aim IS to achieve a perfect vacuum in order for the valve to
work properly. In practise, a perfect vacuum isn't feasable (unless they want
to load up the Space Shuttle with 12AX7s!!) so the manufacturers (used to) try
 and reduce the number of free gas molecules floating about inside the glass
to point where they have no "appreciable' effect on the valves performance
where interpretation of the word 'appreciable' is variable.

>(I thought the doppler shift theory was a riot too.. Let me see, if I
>stand on the cathode side of the tube then the electons are moving
>away so I get a red shift.. no wait, the electrons move to the cathode
>so I get a blue shift.. no wait.... etc)

What? You don't believe me? Oh ye of little faith!!
Anyway, your forgetting to take into account the angular velocity of photon
spin...very important.

Dave

-- 
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
From: ivaliote@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lotus )
Subject: Tele/Strat query
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:06:02 GMT

Being a completely uninitiated dink, I was curious if anyone here could explain
to me, in the simplest terms possible, the sound difference between a Strat and
a Tele.  What kind of music would you be more prone to use each for, etc?  
Thanks for tolerating my ignorance.

Peace,

Matt I.
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