His research into PAF humbuckers is also pretty extensive. He's a fellow North Westerner, those long rainy winters tend to have us huddled in our "laboratories" working on tone (and drinking lots of good coffee). Not much else to do
skyboltone wrote: After my tele build I do think I'll dip into Strat waters.
Possum
I've bought Lollars. Also a Pacific North Westerner. When I get too sick of this place I'm gonna go build a house on my lot in Port Townsend. Then I'll be one again too.
Dan
The Last of the World's Great Human Beings
Seek immediate medical attention if you suddenly go either deaf or blind.
If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years time there would be a shortage of sand.
skyboltone wrote:I've bought Lollars. Also a Pacific North Westerner. When I get too sick of this place I'm gonna go build a house on my lot in Port Townsend. Then I'll be one again too.
Dan
Port Townsend is awesome. My wife grew up in Seaside, OR. For me, Cannon Beach just does it. But it you go south of there, it gets pretty cheap, at least for this east coaster. We bought a Shar Pei from some good folks in Sequim, which is in the rain "shadow" of Olympia, so they don't get the rain like the rest of the northwest. But man, keep telling everyone about the rain so we can keep the secret
Jason, I believe is using machine winders. Possum (Dave) still does every one by hand.
skyboltone wrote:I've bought Lollars. Also a Pacific North Westerner. When I get too sick of this place I'm gonna go build a house on my lot in Port Townsend. Then I'll be one again too.
Dan
Port Townsend is awesome. Sequim, which is in the rain "shadow" of Olympia, (so's PT. 17" average rainfall) so they don't get the rain like the rest of the northwest. But man, keep telling everyone about the rain so we can keep the secret
Jason, I believe is using machine winders. Possum (Dave) still does every one by hand.
I lived and worked in the Vancouver/Portland area for 8 years. Had a beautiful home on the hillside overlooking the Columbia etc. The boom/bust economy of that area chased us out in 2002 and we spent a few years in Fairbanks as I finished up my career. You learn not to complain about the weather after living in Fairbanks. I've seen 66 below. The temerature has to go up 98 degrees just to get to freezing. Big money there though.
The Last of the World's Great Human Beings
Seek immediate medical attention if you suddenly go either deaf or blind.
If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years time there would be a shortage of sand.
skyboltone wrote:I lived and worked in the Vancouver/Portland area for 8 years. Had a beautiful home on the hillside overlooking the Columbia etc. The boom/bust economy of that area chased us out in 2002 and we spent a few years in Fairbanks as I finished up my career. You learn not to complain about the weather after living in Fairbanks. I've seen 66 below. The temerature has to go up 98 degrees just to get to freezing. Big money there though.
I lived in Portland at the same time as you. Same boom/bust economy forced us to move to Dallas. I only lived there a year before I got an opportunity to move to Seattle. Been here ever since. Fortunately the Seattle economy is a little more stable.
Yeah, I never complain about NW weather. In Dallas it seemed like the weather would change faster than you could complain about it. Well except in August where it would be 110+ for thirty days straight. AC would only handle about a 30 degree temperature differential, so it is 80+ in the house with the AC running constantly, and that $500 electric bill at the end of the month is a bit of a shock.
You know, even when I'm recouping my finances between amp builds, I still troll the ole Amp Garage just for links to sound clips. This sound clip is so soothing, I think I felt my blood pressure drop. I truly believe that the big music machine of corporate america is missing the real talent that is out there. Instead, they focus their publicity on the ill mannered, non talented kids who forget to wear under pants in front of the papparazzi. This kid is the real deal. Some people are just talented enough to channel their souls into the strings of a guitar. If I were only so lucky. Thanks for the clip. It is definetly going into my M3 player that I listen to every night when my head hits my pillow.
Oh yea, really sweet tone in the amp. I don't have enough technical knowledge to understand what you are talking about as far as the inner workings and their combinations, but I do know a great sounding amp, guitar and player when I hear one.
Great job! Thanks for sharing.
Andy
Experience is nothing more than a collection of screw ups.
I remember getting into an argument about "emotion" on some old board about a particular shredder. Later I realized that "emotion" wasn't the right phrase, but "range of emotion" better describes it. There are a lot of technically good guitarists out there, but only a few can do "reflective" or "introspective" because they try too hard to impress with technical mastery.
I'll take one BB King note over everything Malsteem has ever played.
If you always thing "more notes are better" you might be a good guitarist, but you are a lousy musician.
Some wise musician once said the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes, don't remember who said that.
That clip is SWEET. I built a JTM45 with EL-34's awhile ago, but I don't have anywhere to crank it up. It sounds sweet at low volumes. I hope it comes close to this when I finally get a chance to crank it.
clarkydaz wrote:damn that clip is sweet. is it pretty much just a jtm45 with el34s then?
Yes, with a few changes. The OT has a 3.4k primary. It has higher filtering in the power supply, 64 uf and 32 uf versus 32 uf and 16 uf. 415 on the plates. Tube rectified like the JTM45.
Here is another short clip of the amp, same player:
I forgot to add some details about that clip. The sem-clean tones are straight into the amp. The later lead tones are using a germanium transistor based fuzz face.
If you've never tried Strat -> original fuzz face -> Marshall, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Something about how the fuzz face loads the pickups and interacts with the amp is magical, almost like it is supposed to be part of the circuit. Rolling back the volume gives clean to crunch tones, full up gives those sort of Eric Johnson violin tones.
Only downside is those germanium transistors are so sensitive to heat they change just by breathing on them. Literally, when you are trying to measure them for the proper gain, you have to pick them up with tweezers because the heat from just momentarily touching them will change their measurements.
