--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFP00006 Date: 11/19/97 From: RICH LOCKYER Time: 10:18pm \/To: THOMAS KRAETSCHMER (Read 0 times) Subj: equipment Hello Thomas! On 18 Nov 97, Thomas Kraetschmer wrote to All: TK> Anyone in here who has any experiences with or knows more than just the TK> name of the following stuff (?): TK> - Fender PASSPORT (portable P.A.) Looks like just the thing for a group doing small gigs that may provide inadequate PA support (like comedy clubs) TK> - (Takamine) Jasmine Guitars (especially the black ES31C) Good quality, but they are low-end... generally a ply top and inferior ners. Jasmine - Takamine Sigma - Martin Epiphone - Gibson Of the above choices (they are close in price), I would take a Jasmine over a Sigma or Epiphone... of course, I HAVE a Sigma and Epiphone ~8-) C-ya! Rich --- GoldED 2.40 * Origin: Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '97 (1:218/704) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFP00007 Date: 11/19/97 From: GARY GILMORE Time: 12:07pm \/To: TIMOTHY TRACE (Read 0 times) Subj: Re-tube Time TT> Can anyone supply me with instructions on performing this procedure TT> without an o-scope? Yes. Remove the back. Pull out the old tubes. Put in the new tubes. There you go. No charge. --gary ... Adam to Eve: I wear the plants in this family! --- Maximus v3.01 * Origin: Support your local Guitar Tech! * (313)582-0888 (1:2410/400) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFP00008 Date: 11/20/97 From: GARY GILMORE Time: 01:25pm \/To: JEFF VINEBURG (Read 0 times) Subj: Re-tube Time JV> Basically you have to know what the correct bias figure IS. After this, JV> it is recommended that you solder a one ohm resistor from cathode to JV> ground. Take a reading across the resistor and adjust the bias JV> accordingly. Forget all that. The SVT has adjustment test points (as well as adjustment pots) on the front panel, behind the grille cloth. It couldn't be easier. JV> THIS THING CAN KILL YOU. It most certainly can. I was popped by a SVT (hey, it was early morning, I just got into the shop and hadn't had my morning coffee yet), and it threw me back about 5 feet into a wall. I was like a stunned deer. No fun, trust me. The SVT has some really manly voltages inside it. --gary ... Free the Indianapolis 500. --- Maximus v3.01 * Origin: Support your local Guitar Tech! * (313)582-0888 (1:2410/400) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFP00009 Date: 11/20/97 From: JEFF VINEBURG Time: 02:05pm \/To: RICH LOCKYER (Read 0 times) Subj: Philthy Guitar Show > JV> breakup. As soon as he played it, the brown sound went away... those > JV> Oxfords really have the tone. RL>Did you suggest putting the Vintage 30 in the toilet to see if it helped? :) Now why didn't I think of that? * SLMR 2.1a * I'm too sexy to be right handed --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Nuclear Fish BBS - go ahead - TRY to call us. (1:2614/705) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFP00010 Date: 11/20/97 From: JEFF VINEBURG Time: 02:08pm \/To: RICH LOCKYER (Read 0 times) Subj: Strat Differences >problem with my '78 with tilt-neck, but Vineburg's goes out >of tune every time Ira comes near. If the neck fits the >pocket tightly (Jeff's doesn't), it won't have any problems. The pukeburst was `converted' to 4 bolt before I got it. I never had a problem with that one. The original `77 slipped all over the place and I had it set. * SLMR 2.1a * I'm an ex-Jew. I gave it up for Lent. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Nuclear Fish BBS - go ahead - TRY to call us. (1:2614/705) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFQ00000 Date: 11/20/97 From: MARK VANSICKLE Time: 11:47am \/To: BILL RILEY (Read 0 times) Subj: tape Also Sprach Bill Riley: BR> MV> X WinQwk 2.0b#683 X Nadine, honey is that you? BR> BR>Naw, just another coffee colored Cadillac. See there? I just learned another couple of lyric words that I dint know before. As Chuck (and another of my taglines) would say: "I knew it was doin' my motor good". But that's from "Maybelline". I used to date a girl named Hazel who had a sister named Ernestine. Had a cat named Nadine, though. ___ X WinQwk 2.0b#683 X Honey Swottke Molly Pence --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The Flying Circus BBS (1:2410/905) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFQ00001 Date: 11/20/97 From: MARK VANSICKLE Time: 11:49am \/To: JEFF VINEBURG (Read 0 times) Subj: Philthy Guitar Show Also Sprach Jeff Vineburg: JV>One in particular sounded FANTASTIC. Karen told me it was The One JV>Karen was right. She also picked out my tweed Champ - the girl knows JV>tone. I left with it. Even paid for it first. DEE-luxe! What'd you wind up paying for it? Like $850? ___ X WinQwk 2.0b#683 X We had to destroy the village to save it --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The Flying Circus BBS (1:2410/905) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFR00000 Date: 11/21/97 From: JEFF VINEBURG Time: 12:58pm \/To: GARY GILMORE (Read 0 times) Subj: Re-tube Time GG>Forget all that. The SVT has adjustment test points (as well as justment I knew someone who knew what he was talking about would chime in. GG> JV> THIS THING CAN KILL YOU. GG>It most certainly can. I was popped by a SVT (hey, it was early morning, >just got into the shop and hadn't had my morning coffee yet), and it threw m >back about 5 feet into a wall. I was like a stunned deer. No fun, trust me Did anyone stuff you and mount your head on the wall? GG>The SVT has some really manly voltages inside it. So I hear. Them's a lotta toobs, d00d. * SLMR 2.1a * My Mother has a Granddog --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Nuclear Fish BBS - go ahead - TRY to call us. (1:2614/705) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFR00001 Date: 11/21/97 From: JEFF VINEBURG Time: 12:59pm \/To: MARK VANSICKLE (Read 0 times) Subj: Philthy Guitar Show MV>DEE-luxe! What'd you wind up paying for it? Like $850? Like 7. Ratty tweed and later speaker, but the tone is all there. The others were 8-9. * SLMR 2.1a * Definition of `cult': the *other guy's* religion --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Nuclear Fish BBS - go ahead - TRY to call us. (1:2614/705) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 175 GUITAR Ref: EFR00002 Date: 11/21/97 From: MARK VANSICKLE Time: 02:20am \/To: RICH LOCKYER (Read 0 times) Subj: Strat Differences Also Sprach Rich Lockyer: RL>Everything that CBS did gets crapped on constantly. I never had a sin RL>problem with my '78 with tilt-neck, but Vineburg's goes out RL>of tune every time Ira comes near. If the neck fits the RL>pocket tightly (Jeff's doesn't), it won't have any problems. And (somebody may have said this here some time back) the reissues have been mfd. with the tolerances Leo envisioned for micro-tilt, I expect. ___ X WinQwk 2.0b#683 X Carpe Diem: Seize the dead President of S. Vietnam --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The Flying Circus BBS (1:2410/905)