New MP3: How To Use a Tube Amp!!! 14 minutes of so
Current mood: productive
This MP3 explains how to use a Tube Amp effectively (in my way). It's to get different kind of tone from your guitar's pickup switch, tone control, and your volume control. it's pretty practical when using a Tube amp with just one channel. turn down the volume for cleans, turn it up for more grit.
I used my Strat and my Blues Jr. with the EQ: Volume 12 Fat Switch ON Treble 12 Bass 12 Mid 12 Master Volume 2 Reverb 3
my strat has: Musikraft Flame Maple Neck Fender MIM Body RockMonkeyGuitars custom handwound pickups (7.7k, 7.8k, 7.7k) .010 ernie ball strings 250k volume control with 470pF treble bypass cap Fender TBX Master tone control 5-way switch
this was all done in one take, and I didn't mess with my amp's EQ at all during the recording. All I did was mess with my pickup switch, volume knob and tone knob on my guitar. My guitar has a Fender TBX Tone Control for my master tone control, and a 250k volume control with a 470pF treble bypass capacitor.
I'm open for questions. please post the questions in this blog with the format:
"What pickup config, volume, tone at *insert time here*?"
i finished my '60s vox clyde mccoy clone!!! and i have quite a few words to explain this baby. i've modified quite a few dunlop crybabies, but this one is the first that i did it from a crybaby shell and a vero board. it is simply:
Amazing, admirable, brutal, complete, dynamite, exceptional, fantastic, hellacious, marvelous, masterly, perfect, super dupe, surpassing, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, just a fucking awesome pedal.
it's just a '60s vox clyde mccoy clone with fulltone wah pot, whipple inductor, and a carling DPDT switch. original pedals ftw. this is better than any other crybabies i've modded over a couple of months.
Mk. so i'm writing a blog. it's 12:55AM and i'm freaking bored. i think this is called improv writing because it's complete improv with no topic just me being bored. I'm talking to makuseruskotto on AIM. we're talking about varitone circuits inside guitars. He made a light up guitar with LEDs in the bridge pickup position. I think i broke an LED lead/pin right now with my left palm. Oh yea i sanded my ukulele neck today after glueing my fretboard on. feels pretty cool. it needs a little bit more sanding around the headstock thoguh. the whipple inductor for my wah just got in my sight. oh jesus. i want to use this thing so bad. but stupid futurlec hasn't shipped my order of parts for my super crazy wah pedal. it's gonna be a vox '60s Clyde Mccoy clone with few touchups on it. its gonna have a vocal adjustment, mids adjustment, BC109C transistors, fulltone wah pot, whipple inductor, awesome specs. what else? im still bored. i think i should go to bed, but im too lazy to even walk to my bed. (6ft) i checked the tavern today, and the only forum that grows everyday is the off-topics forum. the tone zone never grows. i like that concept of tone freaks in there. but there aren't any. i felt lonely so i left and came back here to write this stupid shit. is this considered a diary? iono but i didn't say 'dear diary' so i guess it's not. I want to buy a strat body for my neck. i checked on ebay and those bodies even unfinished ones are going for $75~100 w/ shipping included. god damn that's so much for just a body. i'm so stingy i can't believe it. my tubes are coming for my blues jr too. my tubes. my tubes. i love tubes. but stupid fedex tracking system is not working. or... it wasn't working like an hour ago. i'll try it now. god damn it. im tired of hearing the "System Currently Unavailable" thing. no more tube talk okay. but my blues jr doesn't sound good with these crappy tubes. i want to break them. I have a runny nose. i need kleenex... okay back to ukulele talk. i wanted to make it after seeing my grandpa's martin ukulele over winterbreak when i went back to japan... it was awesome. and then seeing paul mccartney play ukulele in "Something" at the concert for george back in 02 was amazing. so i decided to shell out $100 for a stewmac ukulele kit. for those of you reading this far and interested, it's here: Ukulele Kit at Stewart-MacDonald so yea. i should work on grammar and paragraphing. i haven't pressed the tab button in this blog yet. or the enter button. my grammar is horrible. no capitalized first letters of a sentence. i got the periods down tho. but no essays start a sentence with the word 'but' or 'so'. jesus no essays include links to stewmac's ukulele kits... im gonna be writing a paper of a classical concert (like symphony orchestra and stuff) for my music class in college. it's a class for people with no music knowledge, but i took it because my friend wanted to take a GE class with me. even though he didn't go to class on friday i still went. that day the professor wanted a guy who knew where the notes were on the keyboard, so i raised my hand and sat in the middle so i can help others struggling with the keyboard. then there comes the only semi-good-looking girl in the class and sits next to me. yay. i talked to her, she's pretty cool, and i helped her out with the notes on the keyboard. she even ended up saying 'thanks for helping me out today' after... i mean i wasn't expecting that... haha. 'thanks for helping me out today'. i was kinda blushing. hehe. FUCK i want the tubes to come. my blues junior sounds like crap. i know i went over this but my old tube boxes came into my sight. also my piggy bank. it's white. pretty nifty. it says 'college fund' on the side but bull shit that's not gonna pay for my $1000/quarter tuition. it's pretty heavy now tho. but i won't count money. too late for that. i like my watch. from 'seiko', solar powered, it's silver and was like $150'ish in USD. i bought it in japan. well, my grandma bought it for me. that was cool. she bought me the CIJ strat in my profile and a new brown adidas shoes. notice i like the color brown? i think it's relaxing. haha. thats why i like duracell batteries too. do i sound like i smoked pot or drunk??? well, i havne't... i never done drugs. i've seen people do drugs and my dad drink and smoke cigarettes... but i never tried nor intend to do drugs. yea. i said it. i took D.A.R.E. program in elementary school. i need to be a good boy. in all honesty though, im just such a chicken and i don't want to do anything that could harm my body. sad huh? but its the truth. be the lame party pooper at every parties cuz i cant drink. always the designated driver whenever applicable. ooo i found sharpies. i need to return these to my mom cuz i borrowed it to write some certification stuff on the wah-wah pedal i got to mod for somebody. thats my business. if u read this far and if u want a wah-wah pedal modded by me, follow link here: Gear Ad i hope you find it cool haha. i just signed my name and dated it, and wrote my company name. kinda cool. i don't know anything about the legal stuff what-so-ever. yea. that's about it on a cold saturday night/friday morning kicking off a three-day (four for me) weekend of a college student.
Man... First year in college. It sucks to begin... but I still have to keep on going with my love of guitar and gears. Being an unemployed fulltime college student sucks. I can't work!!! I'm finding a way around it though. Building pedals for people who can't afford boutique effects. i'm the middle of mass produce crap pedals and boutique pedals (cuz i can't say my pedals are totally boutique...). So I got everything planned out!!!
I'm all ready for my next purchase probably on monday, for my new neck!!! I'll buy from Musikraft, a '50s headstock strat neck!!! Flame Maple one piece skunkstripe construction, with a Clapton V neck profile and 7.25"-9.5" compound fretboard radius. I'm seeking this neck will solve my problem with the ABNORMAL high action on my strat, because i get buzz at my 8th fret. This better be a cool investment of $360ish...
This winter, I'll be on a trip to Japan, my home country. It should be a cool trip cuz: 1. i get to meet my grandparents, and that is $$$. 2. i'm gonna buy my MIJ Strat!!!!!!!!!! I've heard enough about MIJ strats. Their quality control is superior to american made ones, and i cannot let this opportunity go. I'm getting one. this is like $500? yea. MIJs are good quality but really cheap. good deals!!!
Along the line I'll be building a guitar not from scratch, but gathering parts for cheap. Probably the old neck coming off my strat would be used for the neck, and I might buy a Humbucker routed Telecaster body or something. I want a guitar with humbuckers. I can't keep on playing ZZ Top kinda gritty music with chimey single coils... they're great but not for this purpose. Still thinking on the pickups and such.
AMP!!! I'm gonna buy a Fender blackface. That's for sure. I'm not sure if I want a reissue or a vintage... Vintage is pricey compared to 5150s and JCM800s, since they're not QUITE vintage yet. pre '65 blackface are pretty darn pricey on eBay... But i was still blown away by the Custom Vibrolux Reissue I played at Guitar Center... That amp is insane. I'm dying need for it.
Pedals!@!@ I'll probably start making prototypes of various pedals as I go through college and getting money from doing random jobs. Im thinking to build: an A/B/Y box, another wah with set values, not adjustable, chorus (maybe), non germanium treble booster, fuzz, buffer on a wah, etc. I want to build a lot. but i know i'm forgetting some on this list.
Yes, this blog is basically me expessing my GAS on gear right now. but if you don't like it, don't comment on it. If you like it though, please comment on it. i'm sure there are lots of people wanting stuff like me. so lets share our GAS!!!
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i am excited.
be the lame party pooper at every parties cuz i cant drink. always the designated driver whenever applicable. ooo i found sharpies. i need to return these to my mom cuz i borrowed it to write some certification stuff on the wah-wah pedal i got to mod for somebody. thats my business. if u read this far and if u want a wah-wah pedal modded by me, follow link here: 
