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Post by salteedog on Feb 7, 2020 19:55:54 GMT
Sounds good to my ears. But that green Tele....wow it's a beauty!
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Post by Djangle on Feb 8, 2020 11:44:42 GMT
In the comment section of YT Thomann admit it's basically a clone of the Laney Cub12 but with "far better tubes and attenuater " the tubes can also be swapped out without biasing. They also mention they are not aware of the identical Monoprice amp . Sounds pretty good but they do mention the fizz when the gain set over 5 although aren't most open back tube amps of this type prone to this?
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Post by Djangle on Apr 24, 2020 10:56:35 GMT
This amp is no longer on Thomann website no doubt the current "pandemic" had a hand in this also the price of a Bugera V22 increased by around £40 since January with more price increasing on some gear these last few weeks. I hate being a doomsday merchant but the way the economy in general is heading due to current events the future looks pretty depressing right now. On the bright side I still have a crate of Stella and a 12 pack of bog roll In reserve before venturing back out for more supples next week. Happy Days
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Apr 24, 2020 13:17:53 GMT
Don't forget wet wipes Djangle, they are a necessity in my book! 😂 😂
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Post by Djangle on Apr 24, 2020 14:43:36 GMT
Don't forget wet wipes Djangle , they are a necessity in my book! 😂 😂 Just remember not to flush them down the loo cause at some pont the sh@t will hit the fan and make plumbers richer
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Apr 24, 2020 16:38:42 GMT
Yeah the call out charge is often more than the cost of the work. Plumbers have a licence to print money! That statement will probably require me to put my tin helmet on 🤑
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Post by Scurvy on Apr 25, 2020 9:17:50 GMT
Don't forget wet wipes Djangle , they are a necessity in my book! 😂 😂 Just remember not to flush them down the loo cause at some pont the sh@t will hit the fan and make plumbers richer Now that's funny right there regardless of who the hell you are. All in good jest my friend. Lol As most of you probably already know, we can't get HB amplifiers here in the United States due to voltage and electrical plug differences. Which is sad as I would like to try out their tube models... European voltages are 220 if I am remembering correctly and here in the states we run 110vac with a crazy ass plug that has one side wider than the other. So it only goes in the socket one way. That's all fine and dandy as long as the place/venue you play at has the correct polarity and grounded outlets. In my gig bag at all times is a polarity tester just to make sure. It gets stuck in the outlets of any new place I am playing at regardless. Reverse polarity can have some deadly effects on your body if not grounded properly. Lol I even asked the techs at Thomann in the past if it were feasable to just leave the power transformer out of the unit and sell it directly, but it's too much of a legal issue to mess with. With that said, It looks to me that the HB 15watt tube model is a carbon copy of the monoprice version. I wonder if HB contracted out the making of their version from monoprice?
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Post by Scurvy on Apr 25, 2020 9:31:56 GMT
The mono price had quite a few good reviews, did that have a celestion in it? This is making it hard go hit the buy button! I couldn't agree with you more about the monoprice 15 watter blindwilly3fingers. Best deal on the market here in the states for a 15 watt tube amp with real spring reverb. I will be buying one some day soon, but alas this is also on hold due to the 17 million other musical projects going on. Sigh.. lol It's 4:31am here now and I am still in bed, but later on I'll snap a couple pics of a 1974 fender vibro champ that is a basket case. I picked it up for $25 U.S.! There goes a few more 100 dollars out the window for a complete rebuild. Lol Best regards,
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Post by Djangle on Apr 25, 2020 10:59:52 GMT
Good luck on your amp restoration Scurvy that would be one sweet amp if you can get it working again.
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Post by Scurvy on Apr 25, 2020 12:13:24 GMT
Good luck on your amp restoration Scurvy that would be one sweet amp if you can get it working again. Oh I know my friend djangle, as I already own a 1972 standard silver face fender champ that's all original and still working top notch to this day. I didn't have the vibro champ version though and it's amazing what you find at garage sales here in the states if you get off your **** and do the legwork. As promised, here is a link to a few photos I just snapped of the '74 vibro champ: imgur.com/a/0XmtaZ7I am doing this from a damn smart phone right now so I can't post the pics properly and I apologize about that. As you see it in the tub is as I found it at the sale. I paid the $25 dollars U.S. and ran the hell out of there. Lol Here in the states these little champ amps are highly sought after and don't come cheap. Normal prices right now for one of this vintage can fetch around $600 to $800 dollars usually. It's outrageous I know, but the tone of these little buggers is astounding. Hopefully the link works okay for everyone and sorry about not posting them correctly again. Don't worry. This bad boy WILL be saved and brought back to life... Best always,
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Post by Scurvy on Apr 26, 2020 6:31:42 GMT
I have a little book here called 'Strat in the Attic'. It's about similar finds to yours Scurvy. It's a fascinating read and the guy who wrote it has come across some absolutely incredibly valuable vintage stuff, sometimes from the original 50s designers. I can't help feeling the same discoveries aren't quite to be had in the UK. Maybe though...somehow... Oh I am sure there are treasures waiting to be discovered in attics and basements of the UK as there are throughout the rest of Europe also. One of my bucketlist fantasies is to go on guitar/amp safari in the whole of the UK and Germany first. I like so many others musicians here want an original 1960s English built Vox Ac30 amplifier and either the 6 or 12 string Vox teardrop guitar from the same time period. For my stomp through Germany it would be to target at least an original Hofner Beatlebass from the 60s to start. The list goes on and on... lol There are certain methods I use in hunting for gear that still apply back before we had the internet readily available, but people have become wiser these days as to how much vintage gear is worth so I don't find deals like I used to every week. It's been since the late 70s here when the collectors market really took hold and now in 2020 the names of Gibson and Fender have become synonymous with everyone including those that don't even play an instrument. You should see the amount of fender squire guitars I see whether they be affinity or bullet models at garage sales that people will put a price of $650 to $800 just because they say "Fender". Mainly they are priced like that because individuals have that mindset that they are all of the same quality/desirability. Like I have said before, I am no brand snob by far although I do own a 1968 gibson les paul deluxe goldtop and a 1971 fender stratocaster. That doesn't make me any better than the next musician. I just got lucky in finding those two instruments at garage sales and have been searching for decades. Hands down for me though the flatter radius of this HB fusion II I own is 10x's easier to play and the quality is there also. Here is an older photo of the lester polfus and the strat. Unfortunately I don't own the flying V or the danelectro silvertone anymore. Well I got off the original posters topic so I'll end my blather here. Best always,
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Post by Scurvy on Apr 26, 2020 10:38:46 GMT
Here I tend to find it's electronic stuff that can be found for bargains. I was virtually given a 70s Korg MS-20 modular analogue synth and its expansion unit. They look like a couple of mobile telephone exchanges and had been owned by a BBC engineer who had looked after them since day one. Came with the original receipt. I installed them into my mate's studio where he is currently attempting to understand them.To date I've only manage to make whooshing and radio interference noises on them but one of the nice things about them is that it's easier to understand what the oscillators and filters are doing on them because you are in the bowels of sound generation. That appeals to my novice mind. I like to understand how stuff works from the ground up in a very non-scientific way. Most excellent! Very interesting and I would love to hear more about you and your mate using the Korg and what applications are working. I know just enough about logarithmic analog processing to be dangerous, but have no equipment in that field to use it. Another expense I can ill afford at this juncture for me and my wife's musical budget. I also owned a theramin for a short while and attempted to play it, but couldn't get past making any other sound other than sounding like I was on a Star Trek mission. Lol That picture of your Korg makes me think of Pete Townshend sitting in his studio in 1970 banging out the final edits to "Won't Get Fooled Again"! I would have to google what type of analog equipment he used, but I am sure it was a vast collection. Thank you for sharing that DefJef. Enjoyed the read... Best always,
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Post by DefJef on Apr 26, 2020 11:15:58 GMT
The only viable recording we've made with the Korg stuff so far, Scurvy, is for an intro for a live song that we do. I wanted an atmospheric sort of radio tuning in sound and some white noise but I needed it to set the tempo to cue me to start playing too, so got my mate to make it pulse to the required tempo. I hear 4 pulses and I know when to start playing guitar and at what speed to match my delay preset. Works every time. I'm sure it can do more than THAT though . I tend to be rather visual in the clues that I give to my synth mate though. I ask him to work rather cinematically, suggesting certain movies' visuals as a clue for the sort of soundscape I'm looking for. God knows how helpful he finds it having me ask him to generate "the feeling of that field of wheat in The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford"! He's currently been given the lockdown task of finding "Alaskan sounds". God help him!
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