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OT: Epiphone Valve Jr Combo on sale for $79
Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 2:38 PM on 12.10.10 |
| ->> If any of you out there are looking for a good little valve (tube) guitar amplifier (http://tinyurl.com/27c6ggg) Guitar Center is selling off their Epiphone Vavle Jr combos (in store only and limited to current stock) for only $79. I got the email from GC this morning and picked one up at lunchtime. The staff may not know about this sale but they can look it up on one of their terminals. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 3:44 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> Nice! Thanks for the tip.
What guitar(s) do you play/have?
I hav e a '94 Fender Jaguar. It's sweet. |
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Michael Granse, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 4:13 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> My main guitar is a Yamaha Pacifica 812w with custom electronics, Sperzel locking tuners, and a Wilkinson bridge. The finish is transparent honey maple, hardware is satin silver, and it has a crushed pearl pickguard. The modified electronics are two single coil size hot rail humbuckers in the neck and mid positions and an EMG 81 humbucker in the bridge position.
My rack "head" is a POD XT Pro modeling processor, an old school Alesis Midiverb III in the effects loop of the POD XT Pro, a DBX half rack compressor, and a Samson Concert Series half rack size wireless receiver. This all fits into a single shallow depth SKB road case.
I used to use Marshall heads and cabinets, then switched to Marshall combo amps, and more recently have switched to the modeling processor which is usually set up with the Soldano SLO-100 model. The Marshall gear sounded GREAT, all of them were very sensitive to irregularities in the line voltage of the various clubs in which I was performing. Even with good power conditioners, it seemed like a constant struggle to get "my sound" in one environment vs the next to say NOTHING of the amount of time the Marshalls used to spend in the repair shop. I did not like the modeling processor at first, but once I adapted to the idea of it and learned to treat it as I would a regular amp I really enjoy it now.
I am not performing anymore, but I do play at home at least twice each week for 20 or so minutes just to keep my fingers from forgetting how. I also dabble a bit with software synths, Steinberg Halion, Korg M1, and Korg Wavestation and have a recording interface for my computer which works with Cubase. |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Scott Evans, Photographer
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Bay Village | OH | USA | Posted: 4:33 PM on 12.10.10 |
| ->> Thanks Jim, I have an Alvarez Yairi Bob Weir. Don't plug in often but if my son is playing any percussion, it's nice to get the boost and that's a great price! |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 4:48 PM on 12.10.10 |
| ->> My Jag goes into a bunch of pedals, including a 70s MXR Dist +, EHX Polychorus, Ibanez AD-9 delay, then into my amp, which is a 70s Fender Princeton silverface. |
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Mark Abbott, Photographer
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Durham | NC | US | Posted: 5:10 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> I have a 1929 Gibson L-1 no amp needed
But the deal you posted sounds like a good one |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | US | Posted: 5:54 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> Dude, Mark wins this one hands down. That's a fine, fine guitar. There's a vintage music shop here in Dallas that had one for a very brief period of time. That instrument lived up to every preconceived notion I had ... and then some.
You're a lucky man!
- gerry - |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 6:40 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> My guitar is an Ernie Ball/Musicman Axis Super Sport with Duncan P90 pick-up and a hard tail bridge, usually into a Behringer V-Ampire 120 watt head and 2x12 cabinet. For bass I have a Spector Pro LS-4 going into a small Eden head and cabinet.
I'm going to be modding the Epiphone after a few weeks. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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| | | Posted: 8:33 PM on 12.10.10 |
->> Yamaha BB Series Bass ... that I have changed pretty much everything on since I got it when I was 15.
My favourite guitar is one I made that is a copy of a Strat body made from a table top (thanks to the help of someone who knew how to use a router far better than I did!) with a Jackson neck.
I used to like modifying and tinkering with guitars (best one is a late 70s Kramer that I tore apart) until I had a kid and ran out of time. I always preferred playing the bass. |
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Michael Isdes, Photographer
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Honolulu | Hawaii | USA | Posted: 8:44 PM on 12.10.10 |
| ->> Thanks for the heads up! I've been using a old Cameo 6 string.It sure would sound nice plugged in. |
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Robert Irvin, Photographer
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| NJ | USA | Posted: 12:25 AM on 12.11.10 |
| ->> PRS single cut and a Hot Rod Strat. |
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G.M. Andrews, Photographer
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Mobile | AL | USA | Posted: 12:57 AM on 12.12.10 |
->> Ah, yes. Guitar Center. The store that had my camera bag searched before they would let me leave the store following an assignment for the newspaper. The same assignment where I photographed the manager of the store in their big "guitar humidor". The same store where I'm sure their loss-prevention team watched me the whole time on the closed-circuit tv system.
Yes, that store. The one that treated me not like a media professional, but like a common shoplifter.
One day I'll upgrade from my 1980's MIJ Squire Strat to Fender made in America.
And you can bet I won't buy it from Guitar Center. |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:18 AM on 12.12.10 |
->> "One day I'll upgrade from my 1980's MIJ Squire Strat"
Why? Those MIJ Squires are some of the best guitars ever made. If the Tele I had, bought new in the 80's, hadn't been stolen I'd still have it. |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | US | Posted: 10:49 AM on 12.12.10 |
->> Thanks G.M. Our affinity for initials aside, you are spot on. Of the few times I've wandered into a Guitar Center, I can count on one hand the number of positive shopping experiences I've had and still have about five fingers left over.
By and large the staff seems clueless and could care less about being helpful. Most prefer to sit around and chat about how cool life will be when their shitty screamo-emo band gets signed.
Guitar Center is basically the WalMart of the musical instrument world (which is why they can offer wholesale deals like the aforementioned), but if that's your pleasure, go nuts.
Oh, and for anyone interested, the Albertson's by my house is offering a sweet deal on generic, processed cheese spread -- two for the price of one!! |
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