Members CarmenJuandeago Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 like would the cables/jacks match up and stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stuehmer13 Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 why do you got a time machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members panther_king Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Everything is pretty much the same, save the innards of digital equipment. All the same technology. The real question is whether its sad that nothing has really changed in 60 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Why? Anxious to try out that new time machine? Seriously, though -- the standard 1/4" TRS jack and sockets date back to the late 19th century; they were developed for telephone switchboards. Therefore, I don't think you'd have any problems with stuff in the 50s and 60s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members caveman Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Standard 1/4" is all I ever saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members etawful Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 You might not be able to find a place to plug in a 3-prong power cord, but the audio cables would be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Back in the 50s, I believe there were the standard connectors: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Yes. Unlike mobile phone chargers, they haven't changed every fortnight. In fact, many of the technologies of the 50s and 60s were built to last, so I am personally very glad that this little pocket of it has survived. You can't say the same of most things developed in the last 20 years or so - companies are much more concerned with quick profits, and feeding off the increasingly short attention span of a consumer saturated global population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thick_mike Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 It's Marty McFly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members artiem Posted June 22, 2010 Members Share Posted June 22, 2010 Not a chance. If you could magically go back to the 50s, you'd ever get the Line 6 Monkey to properly download driver updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kulardenu Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 No! In those days they have not yet been invented. And sex was not as sexy either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Carroll Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 No 3 prong plugs brah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefchr Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 No 3 prong plugs brah. Ahh just rip off the 3rd prong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EADGBE Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 If you took a modern amp and guitar back to the fifties and started jamming they would probably complain saying it's too loud and too distorted. You might even be arrested for disturbing the peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members caveman Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 No! In those days they have not yet been invented. And sex was not as sexy either... You had to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Citizen_Insane Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Uh....how else do people play vintage guitars and amps from the 50's and 60's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Everything is pretty much the same, save the innards of digital equipment. All the same technology.The real question is whether its sad that nothing has really changed in 60 years. guitar players are trapped in tradition... they really don't want anything new and I don't know if they ever will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flummox Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Most mics were high impedance and had a non-xlr connector standard, and there was no phantom power for condensers. But usually the only thing mic'd onstage was the vocal anyway. I have seen some guitars whose output jack was a threaded thing sort of like a BNC coax. Don't know what it was called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphamarquis Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 guitar players are trapped in tradition... they really don't want anything new and I don't know if they ever will. Guitar players will want something new when something new is genuinely better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flummox Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 guitar players are trapped in tradition... they really don't want anything new and I don't know if they ever will. Many other instruments have designs that date back hundreds of years. Innovation is a fine thing, but in general, more music gets made by playing an instrument than by endlessly reinventing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EADGBE Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Yeah electric guitars are still relatively new. I mean string instruments have been around for thousands of years. The electric guitar less than a hundred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 59humbucker Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Everything is pretty much the same, save the innards of digital equipment. All the same technology.The real question is whether its sad that nothing has really changed in 60 years. I think there have been significant changes. Even if you discount the massive changes as a result of 80's shred (locking trems, high gain and active p'ups, cascading gain stage amps, extreme cutaways, neck through, multi rack fx etc) you'll find a lot of minor changes to clasic designs that are reflective of the changes in the way people play (flatter or compound raduis necks, taller frets, more switching options, more noisless electronics etc) Changes haven't always been for the best (plywood bodies and solid state pcbs in amps) but they are definately there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drawdeep Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Depending on when in the 50's, you might be out of luck on active pickups and pedals that run off 9-volt batteries... not invented until 1956. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Why? Anxious to try out that new time machine? Seriously, though -- the standard 1/4" TRS jack and sockets date back to the late 19th century; they were developed for telephone switchboards. Therefore, I don't think you'd have any problems with stuff in the 50s and 60s... So, I can plug my guitar into the switchboard? Cool. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Citizen_Insane Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Guitar players will want something new when something new is genuinely better. I don't think that it at all. Modern trem systems are far superior to the old ones, they have much better tuning stability. However, I wouldn't want anything besides a vintage 6 screw trem on my strat. See, that's completely illogical, but a 2-pt trem system on a strat just looks wrong to me. There are many other examples of guitar technology that is superior these days, but most people aren't interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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