rectify your love

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The mesa boogie amps are refered to as "rectified"... What does this word mean??? They kick ass???

S8-N
 
Rectifier: A device that allows current in only one direction.

In otherwords some electronics mumbo jumbo that makes for a good amp name.

They are good amps for sure, tried one out ages ago - to damn expensive.
 
I guess then a rectum is a sort of rectifier......at least for some of us.
 
Thanks to the wonders of POD we can now all afford Mesa Boogies...
The only amp emulation missing in the POD in the greatest amp of all time:

The Peavy Audition 20 !!!

Now that amp is balls galore!!!!

Yo DMC... nice anus reference...

S8-N
 
S8-N:

Much to the chagrin of my wife, the anus and the variety of products it yields is one of my favorite topics.

I'll return the nice reference comment to you on the Audition 20. That was my second amp after I decided that my Holmes amp and Hondo guitar would best be used by someone who had no desire for tonal quality. The audition was tube amp modeling in it's infancy with the saturation knob.

Hey, what about Holmes emulation, or Gorilla emulation, or better yet, what about those amps you could order out of the back of the Sears Xmas catalog made by Me Sucky Circuits in god-knows-what 3rd world country?

Man, when I was 12 and all I had was a tennis racket and Michael Jackson's "Thriller", I dreamt of a Sears guitar/amp combo. Ahhh, the simple life.

Is it just me or is Global Groove the funniest show on TV?

dmc
 
My first amp was a KAY... Or was that my first guitar???
I think I had a KAY amp and the logo looked suspiciously like a Peavy logo... But then again I had this halfbreed guitar that I bought at a flea market that was a bass with a guitar bridge and tuning pegs...
It is hard to remember...
Then I got an Audition 20 and it sounded like a marshall stack compared to the flea market amp... Then I got a guitar that this crazy man built that was parts from a strat and parts that he put together and I blazed those frets compared to the hybrid guitar-bass with the strings 3/4 of an inch off of the fretboard with the pickups that shocked you if you touched them...
It is all very fuzzy...

S8-N
 
My first guitar was a Palmer. It was an arch top, semi-hollow body, gibson rip-off. I don't remember the amp I bought, it was a small practice amp, and it had the gray carpet finish with neon green trim.
 
I think my first electric was a white Danylectro. It sounded like an angry bee, like there was constantly a touch of fuzz to it - the tone range varied between treble and more treble.
 
Speaking of 1st electrics, mine was a clip-on sound hole pick-up on a Gibson Hummingbird. Wasn't til 12 years later, after using other peoples guitars (mostly fellow bandmembers, fed up with the horrible feedback from the acoustic that took pity on me) that I bought my first solid electric, a standard SG. First amp: The Fender Champ!
 
i cant believe none of you guys learned on a harmony...that along with a "guitar buddy" amp and i was rockin....then i remember the addition of my first distortion pedal...a arion! haha...

spin
 
I can't remember the brand of my first electric guitar. But there use to be an old acoustic of my sisters kicking around.. I beleive it was a harmony. The neck was broken at the body, so it was pretty much fudged. Strings an inch off the fretboard. The first amp I bought was a Traynor.. Canadian company, now Yorkville sound. Decent little amp, sorta like the smaller fenders of the same vintage. I do remember having an Arion In-Line tuner for awhile, around 86 or so. what happened to that company.

Anyway.. ramble on.
 
My first guitar was a 3/4 acoustic that belonged to my grandfather. He was a swap meet junkie and had taken two busted 3/4s and grafted the good neck from one onto the good body of the other. I had it for 15 years and nursed it through a cracked side, a 6-peg hole routing, and two broken necks, both at the nut. The last surgery required not only lots of epoxy but a 3/8 inch bolt straight through the head stock. It still played but after that I had to switch to nylon stitches...er strings. I finally had to put her down back in '95. Now I'm sorry I did.
 
my first guitar was a horrible SG copy. On the 12th fret the strings were almost 3/4 of an inch off the fret board. I fixed it by putting a piece of linoleum<sp?> flooring under the base of the neck .. pretty bad, my first amp was a tiny Starfire practice amp that i got on a trade for some skateboard wheels.. i loved that guitar till i got my hands on a real SG .. the old one is still in a case in the back of my studio.. every once and a while i take it out and plug it into that tiny Starfire amp and jam my old tunes.. hehe..
 
my first guitar was a horrible SG copy. It didn't even have a brand name on it. On the 12th fret the strings were almost 3/4 of an inch off the fretboard. I fixed it buy putting a piece of linoleum flooring under the base of the neck (yucK). I loved that thing until i got my hands on a real SG! My first amp was a tiny Starfire (anyone else have one of these?) that i got on a trade for some skateboard wheels. The guitar and amp are still in the back of my studio right now.. every once and a while i pull the guitar and jam my old tunes from back then.. hehe..
 
My first electric was a Memphis Les Paul knock-off that I played through a Barcus Berry amp. I attached some stereo speakers to to make it look like a half stack. I also ran an Ibanez Tube Screamer and Phasor for additional balls. I traded the Memphis in for a strat copy made by West. Later I upgraded the amp to a Peavey Rock Master and a couple of Marshall 2x12" cabinets. The Peavey is long gone, but I've never stopped using the 2x12's.
 
My first guitar was a nylon strung Yamaha. I was fourteen or something. One day I say to my mom, "man, I just can't play the blues on this sissy thing." So my first "real" guitar was an Ibanez EX180. Junk but fun. Had to replace the single coils with D'marzio. Still have it. No amp so I plugged it into the stereo. The stereo broke. My first amp was a Peavy Studio Pro 60 that I bought the following year. It's sitting right here in front of me. It was the first and only amp I've ever bought since I started playing 10 or 11 years ago. I hated it then. I hate it now. My first multi-effects pedal was a Boss something or other that I got 7 years ago. It's also sitting in front of me in piece cause none of the buttons work...have to ark em with a screwdriver. Still works though.

Man, I feel pathetic now. The only thing great that I've ever bought was my Les Paul which I got for $999 used ('80 Custom...soo nice). I bought the amp for $150, the effects pedal for $100, my bass for $125, my bass preamp for $129, my junk acoustic for $0.0 (freebie), my 4-track for $100, my SM57 for $0 (that's what happens when you leave stuff at my house and move to Seattle) and everything else that I have (not much...wah pedal and some other stuff) were gifts from when I was still in high school. What's wrong with me? Why can't I force myself into debt to buy a nice amp? Does the fact that I pretend to be satisfied with this junk equipment make me a bad musician? I don't even have a guitar stand...I lean them on stuff. Donations welcome :) :)

Slackmaster 2000
 
I jump in... Ma had this gorgeous guild classical that hypnotised me to start playing. Oh the tone, solid mahagony body, rosewood fretboard, ten year old strings...
I joined up into a band as soon as able (I found a drummer who sucked as bad as me). I needed electric though to be a real rock star, enter grandpas 1957 supro. A les paul body type with a single pickup and 5 tone switch. The main stage amp (we never played a gig) was a peavey decade. The band broke up, lets blame artistic differances, and I went solo buying a spiffy new atlas 12 string guitar. That is still my axe of choice and hands down the finest 12 I have ever played.
 
Of course I've got to load in on this one --

"My first guitar" was a Global Les Paul copy that I loved. I wish I still had it, actually. Folks bought it at Montgomery Wards, along with a Marlboro amp (I discovered it was a Marlboro after pealing off the monkey wards metal sticker over the name). The amp was pretty marginal, but I could make it squeal with an MXR distortion box and sufficient volume. The whole rig probably cost my folks $200 -- those were the days...
 
This is a fun Topic!

My first guitar was a Stella...(Plywood) guitar painted black and red sunburst...Over 10 million sold nationwide by Sears! (I exadgerate a bit!) I tried the 5 dollar contact pickup through an old Silvertone amp, and the constant feedback drove my parents crazy. So they bought me my first electric. A Teisco Del Ray 3 pickup, faintly resembling a Strat. After High School and my first Job, I finally could afford my first "real" guitar....A 1971 Natural Ash finished Semi-Hollow body Telecaster!.......Boy I would love to have that baby back!

Sincerely;

Dom Franco
 
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