That's a beautiful live rig you have there, PickAttack.
I bet you could get that huge Brian May "staggered / delayed multiple guitar players" sound from all those amps.
Nowadays, I only play in my studio, recording direct into Pro Tools.
I'm still using my vintage 1989 Korg A3 (one of the earliest digital mulit-effects processors) for recording all my guitars & basses, direct:
I haven't used my Randall RB2000 Bi-amped Bass Stack since last playing a couple weekend gigs @ the Whisky, back around '94.
I guess that's a fitting place to finish a gigging career.
That's a beautiful live rig you have there, PickAttack.
I bet you could get that huge Brian May "staggered / delayed multiple guitar players" sound from all those amps.
Nowadays, I only play in my studio, recording direct into Pro Tools.
I'm still using my vintage 1989 Korg A3 (one of the earliest digital mulit-effects processors) for recording all my guitars & basses, direct:
I haven't used my Randall RB2000 Bi-amped Bass Stack since last playing a couple weekend gigs @ the Whisky, back around '94.
I guess that's a fitting place to finish a gigging career.
Thanks, I guess if I want to chain them together and play them all at once.
Cool, you played at the Whiskey back in the day, must be some great memories....
I'm currently looking into recording gear for my "studio", something PC based with Pro Tools, heard there is a pretty decent learning curve with Pro Tools but that software keeps coming up when I ask about that sort of thing so it must be the one to use.
My setup's pretty basic right now, using Line6 Guitarport with Gearbox, plus my old desktop took a dive so I'm in the market for a new laptop, cha-ching cha-ching!!
I bought 2 guitars this week and 1 guitar the month before last (November 2017).
The day before yesterday in Croydon I scored a vintage rare Italian 1950's parlor guitar in okay condition, got home, found the shop didn't know what they had which troubes me slight since the owner is a really cool guitar guy and he had final say over it; didn't know what it was and listed it this other vintage sticker a shop stock on it when it went for sale, and named/listed the guitar as the shop, did some minor detective work, found what it was... It's a 1950's Catania Carmelo and thanks to Reverb.com - I was able to determine what I had and how rare they are and how much they are... I under paid by at least £100.00 (I paid £200.00) but I'm asking for £350.00 because I like it and I don't mind keeping it in my personal collection.
I found a minor crack, went to Feline Guitars of Croydon (a trusted luthiers and repair shop) at the end of the end of the day yesterday, the repair's another £50.00; showed off my guitar, told 'em my little story I told you, of scoring it and finding out what it was my own way...
I also believe it was listed in a 2014 auction because... It looks like my guitar, it's an Italian auction site, and the lot was listed in the same county as me/Surrey UK...
It's probably the same guitar but I have to subscribe to their website to see how much it sold for..
So based on what I know about studying up on buying a Stella by Harmony built in Illinois after Harmony bought Stella from Oscar Schmidt Company of Jersey City, NJ (of all places, I've been through there in 2001 literally driving through en route to NYC from Seaside Heights/The Jersey Shore/Ocean County basically)... - This Catania Carmelo is nice...I bought because I have been seeking something a lot like it, an old cool parlor guitar without a truss rod.
I like how it sounds, I like how it looks, it's certainly grown on me it/love playing on it.
I guess I can forgive it for not being a Stella by Harmony.
This is what I bought
and this is what I found online https://www.the-saleroom.com/it-it/...0008/lot-b1d8e66d-aad9-4dd9-9641-a430018ad4a8
I bought this the day before yesterday, at the moment/yesterday I booked it in for a repair, it's playable, sounds great, just gluing shut a minor crack that mostly went unnoticeable until I discovered jamming in the night.
The same night I bought a Stella by Harmony, a 1951, without a reinforced neck on Reverb from Rivington Guitars of NYC, NY.
Item was shipped yesterday, have tracking on it.
Might have to take care of import duties.
(Seller's photo's)
My heart sank a little when I found out they're cheap guitars, my heart grew a little when I found out they were rare, my heart sank a little when I found out that mine wasn't... My heart grew a little at the sound, the tone and the even its twang, my heart sank a little when I summed that the p+p is going to eat up what profit if any I could maybe make from this guitar, my heart grew when I remembered its excellent condition...
Yesterday I was on the phone with Vintage & Rare of Bath (who have the only other Harmony Parlor not in private hands that I cam find in the UK) who quite honestly told me when comparing what I've got coming to a Martin... They said... Yes... It is a cheap guitar (my Stella by Harmony that's coming) compared to a Martin... But it's all about what tone do you want? and that even though it's cheap, it's got that 'twang' as I call it/that tone, then the guy there named a bunch of blues guitarists who's worked with them, and that lifted my spirits tremendously after finding out after I purchased it online from YouTube that they're cheap guitars.
Then I found and saw this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_(guitar)
I was pleased to see a picture of one like the one that's coming on its Wikipedia page.
And pleased to see the list of notable players contain names I've heard of/like too.
Last November I got my 2005 Goldtop Dark Back Gibson R7 Les Paul, had the pickups I like put in/a set of Slash signature pickups (close enough the APH-1 Alnico II Pro Humbuckers)
and a tonepros bridge.
I paid £3, 995.00 for a 2005 Gibson R7 last November.
I also spent £145.00 on the pickups I like and £60.00 on a new TonePros bridge I like (£50.00 for the part, £10.00 to have it installed).
£4, 200.00 in total.
It's an awesome guitar.
Almost bought an R9 that day from a near by shop for £3, 225.00 but the R7/guitar I found/bought is one I really wanted and was in budget, so I'm happy about it.
I set myself a budget that day of £4, 000.00 looking in the first shop where I saw that chambered R9, so when I found the guitar I wanted for £3, 995.00 - I played it (unplugged), loved how it sounded, bought it.
IDK who this girl is, but she in the end sold me that Stella Harmony (make and model I went for in the end after looking at a few vintage Harmony parlor guitars) the same way Slash sold me a Gibson Les Paul and a pickup make and model. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bag_6VUBfeH/?taken-by=pepper.rose.slc
I even tried to get the same finish as she had, but I couldn't find one
Like what I've got, even though I haven't played on it yet.
IDK who this girl is, but she in the end sold me that Stella Harmony (make and model I went for in the end after looking at a few vintage Harmony parlor guitars) the same way Slash sold me a Gibson Les Paul and a pickup make and model. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bag_6VUBfeH/?taken-by=pepper.rose.slc
I even tried to get the same finish as she had, but I couldn't find one
Like what I've got, even though I haven't played on it yet.
I have the original scratch plate... but it's broken... I lost the knobs, or they'd be on there right now, as things go, it's got a new shiny scratch plate and knobs harvested from some Strat' copy I had, maybe the Marlon Slammer? IDK... A Strat' copy from somewhere some-when... and... Looks like this now.
I think this guitar is Japanese, I also wonder if someone painted it red?
Either way, this was my first guitar, bought by my older sister in the 1990's in the local music shop/guitar shop that sold me a Catania Carmelo the other week; and she moved out, left this guitar, I took possession of it, she imigrated etc...
I want to ship this out to her one day, but I want to score one now for a 'parts guitar' and kick myself for passing on one in 2016 for £45.00 with the original scratch plate and knobs I wanted. - but when the day comes/when the guitar is ready (with the parts I need/want for it)...
I want to send this £40.00 guitar to America and wonder how much I'd ever have to pay my sister so she can get it through US customs and duty and taxes if I did that in today's money?
She says keep it/sell it/no room at hers, but I still want to unite them oneday.
I want to do it for her birthday one year too...
Or maybe Christmas.
My first guitar though, lovingly restrung the other day by yours truly, I usually have my guitars restrung/set up but this was just a bonding moment for me and this guitar, it had 5 old strings, gave it a set of new strings and cleaned it up, looks/sounds great.
I soon realised, out of all of my electrics, this was the trickiest, and usually when something's tricky, I palm it off/out source it to a professional... But lazily and perhaps diva-like even, for years now, just habitually have my guitars restrung/set up for me by professionals (because I like to feel like rock star, I won't lie, so I pay like £30.00 a guitar + strings), it was novel to me, how I unwittingly saved someone the hassle of this Kay's tailpiece and bridge as I was doing it looking at all the guitars I have and how I by chance picked the tricky one.
Was a cool bonding experience with it... And bought back a lot of memories I forgot about it, like how tricky it's bridge and tailpiece was to restring (I just forgot until I did it myself again) and how, when you wipe it, the cloth you use turns red).
All things I've not done in over 12 years I did this week. (These days I have nice guitars and pay other people to do it) so working on my own first guitar was just an awesome trip down memory lane for me, and it came out great.
I once had this pickup sent to Bareknuckle pickups in 2010 to be rewound/potted/waxed etc so all in good order.
It also had a jumbo refret then because the frets needed attention too.
This was one of 3 guitars that were hand me downs that were my first guitars, before I bought my first 2 guitars the same week in 2000 when I was 13.
I only found out this week, somebody painted it a very cool red/and not the factory.
I've known this guitar since 1994 and it's been more or less mine since 1999/2000
I recorded it last night, my first guitar sounds/plays like this.
I haven't honestly played this guitar since 2001 or even 2008... Still taught me guitar/was my first electric.
My first Gibson I bought in February 2011, is that 1996 Gibson Custom Shop Red Sparkle Top Les Paul...
Paid £1, 985.00 for it, was reduced from £2, 800.00
It's got 60's neck profile and a chambered body... This was love at first play.
Last November I got a guitar I've been ******* over for as long as I can remember ******* over guitars...
My 2005 Gibson R7 VOS Gold Top/Dark Back Les Paul. That cost me £3, 995.00 last November.
This has a 1957 neck and a solid body.
Both of these guitars felt and sounded amazing (unplugged), otherwise they wouldn't be here...
Both of these guitars are also sporting my favourite headstock/truss rod cover and machine head combination too.
Both of these guitars I bought in the same location, but this shop had two different names and two different owners/changed ownership... - everything else stayed the same.
I bought my 1996 Custom Shop in Vintage & Rare Guitars on Denmark Street, and years later, my Gibson R7 in NoTom Guitars on Denmark Street (same shop/different name/owners).
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