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  1. On 9/4/2021 at 12:46 PM, ksl said:

    Hi all~ As I prepare to replace the piece of "you know what' input jack on my Pro Jr ...

    Does the jack need to be replaced or just reseated and resoldered on the printed circuit board?

  2. 3 hours ago, Phil O'Keefe said:

     

    Elton's a good piano player, a great showman and a fantastic singer IMHO, but from a songwriting perspective, I really think it's hard to give one more credit than the other. Both were essential to the quality of the final results IMO. 

     

    I agree, absolutely.

    I think of someone dropping off a stack of poems and then sitting down at the piano and turning them into timeless musical masterpieces - sometime in the length of time it took to play through the song (according to legend). To me, that's Paul McCartney level of musical genius - especially the ability to just keep doing it for decades.

    When I was getting started, back in the early '70s, my piano teachers were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Carole King albums and sheet music. I remember how excited I was when I found the book with all of the songs from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. 

  3. 23 hours ago, Phil O'Keefe said:

    So basically Bernie Taupin is going to profit as a lyricist, but Elton John won’t since he only writes the music? How is that fair when both contribute significantly to the final song? :confused2: 

     

    ... and, not taking anything away from Bernie, it's Elton's genius that brought their wonderful collaborations to the world.

  4. 8 hours ago, New Trail said:

    I played in a band with a female singer who had the same idea, except she was going to copyright all of them in her name.  Then later on she took songs that we, the band,  had written together and copyrighted them in only her name.  Good times!

    That's the kind of thing that breaks up bands - friends and collaborators end up in bitter disputes up on cripple creek.

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  5. I also suggest looking at (and listening to) the Boss Katana.

    I bought the inexpensive 50 Watt model for practice and portability but now I use it for almost everything.

    It has several amplifier 'types' including one for acoustic and the settings can be dialed in then stored in multiple memory locations for easy recall when you switch guitars.

  6. I have a couple of comments to make.

     

     

    1. Shortly after finishing a project that involved a lot of editing in Pro Tools, I was half listening to "Inner Visions" while doing some repairs on piece of studio equipment. I heard an edit that I hadn't noticed before. For a fleeting moment I thought "I need to go back and fix that."

     

     

    2. I recorded a quick demo for a singer/songwriter who was a better writer than singer and some of the vocals were a bit "pitchy." One of my musician friends had grown up and was still friends with a well known producer and sent him a couple of the better songs (without my consent). The producer's reply was a terse "The girl can't sing" and that was the end of it.

     

    The demo was about the songs but the pitchy vocals were enough of a distraction so the songs didn't get a fair listen. I realized then that there is a place for pitch correction and, had we used it on this particular project, the songs would have had a better chance.

  7. Does your amplifier have separate Reverb Level controls for the Clean and Drive channels?

     

     

    I would suggest opening the amplifier and reseating the ribbon cable connectors.

     

     

     

  8. Mod #1 Look at the inputs. Both of them have that same 68K resistor. What's the point in that? The guitar sounds exactly the same through both of them. I want more gain and brightness out of input #1. I'll swap out that 68K resistor for 20K. This allows the signal from the pickup to hit that preamp tube harder. Less resistance means less attenuation of the trebles at lower volumes too. Try other resistors and see what you like. If you reduce it too much you might get too much distortion at lower volumes. Leave the 68K on 2 to keep the original circuit there for the purists.

     

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    Hi,

    The input #1 has a 34k resistor and the #2 68k resistor. No need to change it.

     

    berl is correct

     

    both inputs #1 and #2 use switching jacks - plugging into #1 removes the shunt from across the 1Meg resistor and, with nothing plugged into #2, the two 68k resistors are in parallel resulting in an effective resistance of 34k.

     

    plugging into #2 disconnects the parallel resistance and, with nothing plugged into #2, one end of the second 68k resistor is tied to ground creating a voltage divider circuit that results in half the output voltage of the guitar going to the control grid of the first tube.

     

    this is not to say that replacing one of the 68k resistors will not increase the effective gain of input #1 - it will also decrease the gain of input #2 by changing the ratio of the voltage divider.

     

     

     

     

  9. Yes it is a tele neck pickup. The guitar is strung 10-52 and tuned down a half step.

     

    Unless I'm going for something specific, the Wes thing always seems to creep into whatever I'm doing. I really got into Wes after George Benson got a lot of exposure with the Breezin album.

     

    I also think Benson is a fabulous player and singer - it's like having Wes and Stevie in the same person.

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