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Does anyone know if the current Vox Night Train 50 sounds more like an AC-30 (enough distortion with great chime ) or is it more like Marshall (fierce and savage ) distortion ? I like EL-34 tubes but not the all-metal cabinetry of the NT-50.To see the tubes is nice. The Vox AC-50 looks twice as good ...

It is funny how back then (1969) it was hip for a guitar amp like a Vox or Acoustic to have a high-frequency horn. Why not? Don't guitars have high frequencies ? Then they went out of fashion. Those Series 90 Vox amps came along when Jimi Hendrix made a Marshall more hip than a Vox. What if Jimi had ...

For the British sound of early Beatles or Who you would want EL 34 tubes as in a Hiwatt. Modern Reeves amps sound like that. Laney has a 50 watt head that gets a nice chime and distortion at the same time. A Fender Vibrolux or Deluxe will cut good.

I have the VT 120+ and it took me a good while to get some good sounds. The bigger ones like my 212 can be bassey. I never have the bass up to 12:00. Mine is loud; the others not as loud as you would expect. The built-in tuner is handy. All you need is a guitar and a cord. The 5 button footswitch ...

I have two 4003 basses and most of the time they sound better on recordings. They are not too bassey. I also have a Hofner CT 500/1 and those 'buckers get a ton of bass. I learned to set the EQ with just the bridge pickup (add bass and cut the mids some at 300-500 hZ). Then turn up the neck pickup ...

I have a Yorkville 200t (200 watts @2ohms) . It has 210s and that is about twice as much as I would need to play along with the sterio. Rain and "And Your Bird Can Sing" get me cranked up to eviction levels. Ashdown make a 40 watt/110 called Perfect Ten that would be a cool cube-shaped living room ...

The bass player I played guitar with had a Peavey like that with a 215 cabinet. It worked every Friday and Saturday for about a year.It had about 200 watts and did CCR songs about as good as a Kustom. I hated that amp.

Would it be OK to add a bass-cut cap [with bypass switch] to a non-Rickenbacker bass such as a Jazz Bass? Wouldn't it do the same thing as on my 4003 basses? I would get all of the lows from the neck pickup and use the bridge pickup for treble "seasoning".

What's that phrase,"YMMV"? :lol:

Indeed! I think the T-Bird is second only to Ricks in that department. :lol:

Obviously its the honeymoon period so I'm treading lightly here, but I honestly did not expect it to sound so good! The neck pickup soloed is my favorite sound on it so far, in spite of ...

I have seen them once in Birmingham and they were good. Check out The Latest, a newish album with the bass mixed louder than usual. On PBS they were good recently. Robin's voice has held up well.

If Rickenbacker ever make an electric sitar, it will sound better than Ronnie Wood's lo-fi sitar. Ron's has not enough low mids and the sustain is too short.

If a bass-playing praying mantis wanted a flashy bass...

I wish Paul would get a brand new Rickenbacker and play it with his band.

There is a PBS fund raiser program that's been out for a year or more that features acts from the '60's Summer of Love' kind of stuff.
The Airplane is on and Marty's got his trusty 360-12. To my surprise the whole band, with several original members, sounded fantastic ! The best thing on the show ...

Pearl, greyish or black would give it some classy texture. Could you get a metal guard that is yellow [like brass, except aluminum] ??