badpenguin

Ok, I stopped gigging a while back, and yet I still have WAY too many amps. how many do you have, and why? I'll start:

Roland Blues Cube. (early 90's version) Transistor amp that does almost everything well without the need for pedals. 60 watts of Fenderish bliss.

Roland Bolt 60. Tube hybrid. Again 60 watts that after changing the pre-amp tube from an AX 7, to an AU7, came alive. Darker sounding than the cube.

Carvin SX200. 100 watts of transistor power, loud. VERY loud. On the bright side of things, but takes pedals extremely well, and can be quite versatile. (Reasonably light too!)

Epiphone 5 watt tube amp. Uhh, it was cheap, and sounds good.

Gibson G10. 10 watts of that wonderful transistor 70's tone. Takes pedals well, with tremolo. And it was cheap.

Yamaha THR10. Perfect little recording amp, lots of tones, and records superbly.

Roland BN60 Bass amp. Used it for a LONG time and love it. if I need more power, I plug it into the board. BEAUTIFUL chorus!

Ibanez GX40 bass. It was 20 bucks, and my cats love it as a scratching post.

I've only had 2 tube amps that I actually miss. One was an OLIVER G150R I think it was. Fantastic cleans at 35 watts, that didn't overdrive. I couldn't get it to distort. I loved it. But alas, I didn't sell, it blew up spectacularly one night during a gig. Sparks flew, fire erupted, you know, bad things for a tube amp to do.

And second was a Seymour Duncan Convertible 100. I had all 5 modules for it, and it sounded awesome in any setting. The b*tch of it was the fact that the "100" in the name wasn't for wattage, (Though it was 100 watts) it was for weight! Schlepping that thing up and down stairs, into the car, into the gig, was NOT fun. Sold it with a tear in my eye, and a hernia.

Thanky DM!

Nothing fancy or incredibly rare, just a good playing decent sounding guitar.

Aria Pro II RS Rev Sound Series, made by Samick in Korea, around 89 or so. Plays good, no problems other than a bit of a nut binding issue, but it's plastic, eventually I'll replace it. very nice and comfy neck, with decent frets. Pickups are... okish. Came originally with a coil tap on the bridge, but it was so thin and nasally, it was rewired to a 7 way option. (N+B, all 3 on) And it was approved by Mrs. Penguin! Yay!!

Floyd! Floyd! Floyd! 

On 9/20/2023 at 7:33 AM, Guitarman22 said:

I've been thinking about taking it apart and soldering removing the surface-mounted momentary switch and soldering in a cable in its place. Then I'd run the cable out the former button-hole (it would need to be drilled a wee bit wider first), then attaching a small enclosure with a momentary footswitch installed in it to the other end. 

 

You answered your own question

21 hours ago, Shalom Joss said:

I have an rc-3 looper  and one of the inputs doesn't work, to send it to get fixed almost costs as much as i payed for it so it isnt worth it. I am ready to replace the input jack my self but i cant find the piece online. the jack seems to have soldering points. can i just buy any jack that also has three tips?

Yes you can. Question is, will the tabs match the board? If not, here's an idea that has worked for me in the past with amps and input jacks. Flip the jack around, and wired it to the board with wires.

19 hours ago, Milton Ross said:

Serial numbers 052 2099 does anyone happen to know the year of this particular forcing bass guitar

Nope. But pictures can help.

11 hours ago, Jacob O said:

I have a Series 10 black electric bass guitar, trying to find the value. My dad bought it for me used for $100 in 1997 and I learned how to play on it.

It came with plastic silver machine heads all on one side of the headstock. I have not been able to find any others online that have that.

Thank you for any help!

Series 10 are, for the most part, bottom feeder starter guitars. Sure, some may play nice, have a nice look, or be something weird, which is always cool, but they are.... not good. And the price reflects that.  (I have an Encore Ric 12 string hollow copy that I overpaid for, but it's so cool, that I don't mind.)

On 9/8/2023 at 11:19 AM, Brew7jmac said:

Hi I have a Dean Electric guitar, I believe it’s vintage since my grandpa collected most of his guitars between the 60s and 70s. The serial is E120852, made in Korea.

 

You can view photos here: https://richmond.craigslist.org/msg/d/colonial-heights-dean-electric-guitar/7663500634.html

Nice way of getting it attention. But alas, it's not worth a lot.

I would bet something along the lines of Randell or a Crate just due to the time period.

Yes, and in both ways too!

First off, if I haven't played it seriously for a year, maybe 2 years, it's gone. but I bought this Gretsch Elctromatic 26something or other a few years ago. it was.... ok. Nothing special, nothing magical, just an ok guitar. I have too many ok guitars to leave it in the rack, so a few weeks ago, picked it up, with the intention of sending it off to feebay, and did my usual play with it, making sure I get the description right for the potential buyer. Well, 2 hours later, thought to myself, "Why the freak am I selling this???" It's in regular rotation now.

The other end of the spectrum was this Gibson Les Paul Voodoo. Ash body, mahogany neck, faded finish, you know the drill. Great guitar, fantastic sound, just cut through the mix like a hot knife thru butter. Put it away for a year after moving, pulled it from the case, and played, and absolutely HATED it! Setup was the same, but it just felt like crap to me. Someone is happy with it from feebay.

I know, I know. It's the only reverse headstock I have left. It has some Ibanez floyd like creature I can't make go out of tune, and it only has 3 switches other than the 3 way. (p/p neck coiltap, pp bridge ct, and middle on/off. but it can sound like everything!)

I still have my Mel9 pedal, and do enjoy it. The strings.... god the strings.... But then again, I still have and use this beast.

Really aren't. here goes, and feel free to add.

Reverse headstocks. Yeah, I know, they look cool, but when in the middle of a song, you notice "Hmmm, my G's a little out" and you go to reach for the tuner, you always have to hunt for it.

Floyds. Need I say more about the tone suckers?

Overly complicated switchings. Use to LOVE having a lot of tonal options, but if I need a schematic to get the tone I want, no.

I mean, what the hell is this?

10 minutes ago, ksl said:

Greetings,,, I just picked up on a set not in the original box... Wires are B/W, B/W, & B/Yellow, and looking at different online photos, most show the B/Y in the bridge, though many do have it in the middle....  Though there's no polarity issues, the eq on the bridge pup is different from the others. 
The 2 B/W's measure 10.9k, while the B/Y is around 10.5k, & wanted to know what's what, & what to do...?
Thnx in advance ॐ

Every time I wired them, yellow was the middle.

On 8/1/2023 at 8:11 PM, daddymack said:

" this guy "?

Whoops, didn't copy over....

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Uhh... it was white? Does that help?

*Throws hands up in the air and walks away mumbling about "... guitar players.... commonsense... where has it gone.... read people....."

I think I said as much when you first started this journey. Good luck.

If looking on Feebay, look at the feedback score. And read them. If they are garbage tubes, people tend to say so. If good, people tend to say that too.

I've used this guy before, and at over 22,000 sales, with a feedback score of 99.9%, really can't go wrong.

Depends. What amp are you using, does it have an effect loop, and does it have a master volume control? 

I see a Rat, Tubescreamer, or some variation of the Maestro line of pedals. (I think they have some fuzz face kinda thing.) Think vintage pedal, since that's what they had. Run it thru your effects loop as a gain pedal.

My "better" suggestion is thus: Find a soft strap that feels right, then add locking strap locks to it.

On 7/12/2023 at 2:26 PM, J.G said:

I had recently purchased a MAC-780. I never knew this guitar even existed. It was a limited edition. I do know this model was discontinued. The only model that comes close is the PE-780. I searched all over the net just to see are there anymore out there. I haven't haven't found another one yet. What makes this guitar so unique is the headstock has roses on it. And the neck also has a vine with roses on it as the inlay. Where the fret marker would be on the fretboard, it is replaced with white roses. The sound of the pickups are well balanced and in the coil tapped position. The guitar really shines. I couldn't be more pleased.

Pictures, or it doesn't exist. 

Simple: go to Reverb, type in Fernandes strat blah blah blah, and then see what it sold for recently.