Recent content by lpdeluxe

$1200 will buy a new Mesa/Boogie Walkabout Scout. I have played outdoor gigs with mine, and the tone of my Precision through it is to die for. It would be my only amp if I didn't also need a lightweight bass amp for senior citizen centers and whatnot. Mesa/Boogie's construction is exemplary...

I've been through a few bass amps over the years I've been playing bass (starting in 1981) and you pretty much get what you pay for. Cheap bass amps don't cut it. The best price/sound ratio I've found was an Ampeg B100R (no longer made); the best tone I've found was my current Mesa/Boogie...

There's a thread on the X at The Gear Page that was 40+ pages long when I checked on it last. I wish Gibson would go back to what once made them successful, which was to craft beautiful guitars that musicians loved. Apparently Henry J sees himself as competing with Steve Jobs. lt's the sad old...

Update: I traded my SG Special Faded + Bigsby for an '00 Martin B-1 ABG. So now it's a '60s Ventura V-7 with custom top and bridge, '86 Bull Frog Mountain custom flamed maple jumbo, 11/84 Dobro D-60 round neck, late '30 Regal spider bridge reso, '90s Samick HF-650, '00 Gibson ES-335, '06 Fender...

I'm a great believer in DI for recording bass. Unless you've treated your room you'll have problems cranking up a bass amp...and the smaller your room, the more problems you'll have. Bass frequencies are long, and hard to deal with in tight spaces. Added to that is that it's extremely difficult...

I bought a Mesa/Boogie Walkabout Scout 1-15 last January and it's my lifetime amp. You can get something with more bling but not with more tone. I've played through it at outdoor gigs and at senior centers. It's the best sounding amp I've ever heard and it is always present without being...

And this is called the "Lunch Box Amp Review" because.... I was interested in your impressions, since I contributed to a team evaluation of that amp. So, think you can maybe mention it in your next post?

I play Dobro and it has made me crazy trying to get the right sound without metal fingerpicks, which cut into my fingers. I've flat picked (hard to do rolls with that!) and also sat with a pair of needlenose pliers and carefully shaped the flared (Dunlop?) fingerpicks to fit, only to watch them...

After thinking it over, I realized that 90% of the guitars I have owned have been crap. Cheap crap. I hate 'em. I pretended they were OK when I couldn't afford anything else, but they were cheap crap, and no amount of tinkering or modifying or setting up or replacing hardware made them anything...

I'm very much in favor of other people spending big bucks to buy one of my guitars. That's how I funded my blonde 335 -- I gave about half of what I got for my '63 Chet Atkins Country Gent for it.

Can't improve on that.

The fact is, with offshore manufacturing and CNC machinery, and the mature design of solid body electric guitars, it doesn't take a large sum of money to get a musically useful and satisfying instrument. We're in a golden age of mass production, when consistency and quality unobtainable 40...

The guy who took my place in a working honky tonk band would answer in the affirmative: he played the same tired walking bass part on EVERY song he played. He learned that figure, then I guess his hard drive was full. When I left and he took over, the band started getting fired from gigs...

Well said. So you put all that work into it and it's not what you want? Change the damn thing back and charge the time to the "lessons learned" account. You shouldn't feel that your herculean efforts to improve the bass deserve a memorial. Get it where it's playable again...or didn't you know...

Check this out: http://www.pacair.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=topics I found Music Man amp schematics at the Ernie Ball site, but just took a look and think they may be gone. Do a google search and you might find something. My HD-130 Reverb is now gone, replaced by something I can...