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Post by sixchannel on Nov 18, 2010 12:49:24 GMT
LOL ! ! Guilty conscience, I guess cheers Ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 18, 2010 11:31:47 GMT
the fact that I can tell compression was used means I think it was overdone. Regards, Charlie Fair point Charlie - mea culpa!! Guilty as charged! cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 18, 2010 9:29:17 GMT
Hi Richie Yep - Hank certainly does use one. A lot of his modern sound tracks are quite clearly compressed. Even early on - eg Atlantis - compression was added - probably post-recording. By the time Id got back to this thread - TonyBiker had put up the perfect response. ACE, Mate! Yes- it is a pedal that needs care in set-up. I rarely have mine set above 11 o clock setting, even on neck pickup "Parisienne Walkways" type of stuff. I m careful where I use it. Sometimes you play tunes where you actually DO want the odd note to be quieter (for emotion and expression) and a Compressor set too high (apart from clacking on Bridge pickup) tends to rob that out. When I was learning I got into a terribly bad habit of overplaying the first note in every phrase. Rather than fixing the habit, I bought a Compressor! Sure that fixed it but it created other problems too. So, I've learned to curb my picking style and have found that a Compressor is a useful tool but not a hammer to knock every nail in. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 17, 2010 21:24:10 GMT
Hi Richie the one effect I wouldnt be without is my Compressor pedal. I have a Monte Alums modified Boss CS-3 (second hand off the well known auction site) but the cheap (but performs very well) Behringer CL9 is a Steal at the £22 price including delivery. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 17, 2010 10:48:26 GMT
£5.49!! BARGAIN!! cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 17, 2010 10:13:30 GMT
There were 10 Countdown Concerts at the NIA (17th - 31st Dec 1999) and I believe it was released on VHS tape only. However- SOMEONE must have been able to convert the tape to digital in order to get it on Youtube. How about contacting him, Richie, via Youtube and asking him what he's got. Just a thought. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 9, 2010 13:28:49 GMT
Ronnie my guess would be that it was a Style Thing. They were so blown away by seeing that first FR Strat that only matching kit for Bruce and Jet would do. The amps, of course, already matched each other. (Its what groups did in the early 60's). Howver, Bruce has played a Tele and Jazzmaster too - lots of old video footage. cheers Ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 3, 2010 8:20:33 GMT
Hi ta1 Thanks for the praise, Coll Its a Richard Hawley (from Sheffield) tune and is the flipside (if CD's HAVE flip sides!! of his "Coles Corner." EP CD. Great tune, almost dissonant in places and it was offered by Richard to Hank who recorded his track 'long range' in Oz and sent it back to Mr Hawley for mixing. Richard put his OWN guitar underneath Hanks too - you can just hear it here and there. I did a BT in BIAB and sent it to Richard for his OK before recording it. He was fine with it and said that "until I can find what I did with the master tape" I could make MY BT available to anyone who wanted it. NOTE - Its a slightly truncated version as for "Club Playing" its a bit long so I trimmed a small section out. Here's MY version - www.4shared.com/audio/_dSaIMvN/IM_ABSOLUTELY_HANK_MARVIN.html. If you want the BT after hearing this - please PM me with your e-mail addy. NO TAB AFAIK. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Nov 2, 2010 11:32:45 GMT
Lonesome Moonride BT is on Roger Paulssons "Instrumental Backtrax Vol 6". DOnt think there is a tab though. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 29, 2010 19:07:47 GMT
Researchers!! cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 29, 2010 18:31:49 GMT
It was, Richie. As a Jehovas Witness, Hank doesnt celebrate Birthdays but that doesnt stop US from remembering and being happy that he is in the World and responsible for giving so much musical pleasure over a Lifetime of Acheivement. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 28, 2010 8:56:37 GMT
My first 'electric' guitar in 1960 was a second hand cello bodied, single cutaway made by "Otwin". The pickup and controls were definitely a home made job and the neck to body joint was so Suss that if I tuned it to CP, it was 10mm action at the 12th fret!! . I had to tune it way below CP for it to be playable. I think "Apache" was learned in C minor. ;D Had no trem (of course) so used to use the bend the neck back and forth for that!!! LOL!!!! All was well (sort of) until my next electric - A Hofner V3. Because this guitar was new it tuned up great and I had to relearn everything I had played along to off Radio Luxemburg. FIrst Amp - a converted radio (Dynatone ?? )with a single control - Volume. Second amp - Watkins Dominator. Late 63, wonderful Mum and Dad stood Guarantor (as was the case in those days) for a NEW '62 Strat, Vox AC30TB (with the TB IN the control panel). THose were the days cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 27, 2010 12:20:20 GMT
Copying is one thing - 'developing' is quite another. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 27, 2010 11:32:49 GMT
On a practical level - I have run a VT60 (which has the same modelling engine as in all the Valvetronix amps) since they first came out and can concur that there is “something” wrong with the models for theAC15 and AC30. This was a surprise considering Korg OWN Vox and have access to not only all the data, but original vintage amps as well in order to arrive at the data for creating the ‘models’. Having gigged a real AC30TB from 1963 to 1975 I can confirm that the ‘model’ goes into ‘dirty’ far too early. In the ‘early’ days we maxxed our AC30s and at no time did they ever sound like the ugly mess you get if you max the Gain on the VT60, which is all distortion and no harmonics. Later on, we micked them up into a PA, reduced the volume on the amps considerably and thought the sound was quite Clean. Odd aside – when we were recording in the Studio – the Engineer was always getting us to turn the amps down so maybe it wasn’t as clean as we thought it was. To gig my VT60, I have to use theAC15 setting as the AC30 one is the worse of the two, and run the Gain at 11 o clock Max. Beyond that, I am straying into ‘overdrive’ territory. One of ‘our’ problems is that many of us are SOLO players, often only playing at home and so any straying into unwanted areas of tone is instantly audible and unwelcome. However, if you GIG a VT60 in (say) a Shads band, with all the other amp din going on around, the VT60 does sound pretty good and run at 12 o’clock, the overdrive doesn’t seem to detract from the Shads sound particularly. Go figure! I guess the issue is - what do you want to use it for – and how loud versus clean do you want it. Cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 27, 2010 7:37:08 GMT
as i have got older i have found that when you buy a brand name if you want to sell it on for whatever reason you tend to not to lose as much money on an item and it is easier to move on, ie a fender or gibson will hold its value more than a guitar with no name. Kipper - you are spot on here. I have a handbuilt Strat (responsible for almost all my Sound Files) which is a "technical" copy of the HBM 40th Anniversary Strat (without the silly lights). The 41 (yes 41) originals still fetch top money IF you can find one - thousands of pounds and you will probably get back what you put out for it - possibly more. But my UK professionally handbuilt Strat, right in all respects, spec, sounds, looks, that cost only a quarter of the price will likely lose half its value if I tried to sell it. Crazy thing is - my other Strat is a MIJ Fender 57 Re-Issue - superb guitar for the money by the way but not in the same Class - and I would likely get almost as much for it (because of the Fender NAME) as my 40th Anni copy. Hey Ho! cheers Ian[/b] cheers Ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 12, 2010 10:58:39 GMT
One of the features of turning down the Volume pot (UNLESS you have done the bleed capacitor mod) is to warm up the tone slightly at the expense of output. I found the better fix is to do the vol pot mod for sure but to then re-wire the tone pots so that the bottom one is TONE on the BRIDGE and the middle pot is TONE on NECK or MIDDLE. Then you can do what I understand Hank does now and that is to run the tone pot at 7 when playing his modern warm sound. Or if you want Max Treble, just turn it to 10. I could never understand why Fender never put a Tone control for the Bridge. why wouldnt they want to control it? cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 9, 2010 9:24:13 GMT
THanks Charlie We were nowhere near! I'd been rummaging around the 0-20 number area in the Q2 (its the lastest 79 patch version), No surprise that I couldnt find it. Another question please - Flingel Bunt - He set me to 0-18 but it didnt sound right at the gig. I thought 0-20 was better. Who is right please? cheers Ian
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Post by sixchannel on Oct 8, 2010 21:13:59 GMT
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to run my guitar through a Q2EFTP into a JMI AC30. The sound WAS awesome. BUT - try as I might I could not find a Q2 patch that matched Patch 20 on my good old Zoom2000EFTP. The patch has a pronounced first repeat and then other less repeats after and none of the Q2 patches seemed to copy it. Its VERY useful for rocky type Instros when you dont want to use the Patch 14. Any ideas please. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 30, 2010 8:49:51 GMT
LOL !! Ooops!!!! Corrected now !! cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 30, 2010 7:10:38 GMT
It was Alan Jones (one time Shadows Bassist) at Shadowmania 2010. cheers ian CORRECTED NOW
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 29, 2010 18:42:46 GMT
On its way. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 29, 2010 15:58:00 GMT
Yeah, thats the Baby!!!! I've still got a Vox AC1 - remember that one? Tiny little amp - 1 watt (downhill!), more of a toy really, but it did work and bizarrely sounded like a Vox provided that you didnt over-excite it and whack up the Gain knob. Still in box. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 29, 2010 14:55:57 GMT
Looks like an AC4 to me - an old one!! ;D If I remember right - it works off batteries as well as mains. Well done you on finding this - he'd have got good money on the well known auction site for it - even not working cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 29, 2010 8:11:02 GMT
PM me. I'm away today but I'm sure I made my own BT for this great tune. I'll check it when I get back. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 27, 2010 13:20:13 GMT
You can upload to 4Shared on a mass upload - there is a tag at the bottom of the 4Shared upload section. I trust these are your OWN BTs, not commercial proprietary ones cos that wouldnt be allowed.. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 23, 2010 20:59:56 GMT
Hi Richie I would guess that the "state-of-the art" amps at the time (AC15s) would have been working hard even in the Studio and would have "warmed up" nicely. By the time we get to 1989 etc etc the amps are so much cleaner at the same output or even get DI'd. I know Hank is NOT a fan of DI as he prefers (still) to hear what is actually coming out of the amp in real terms. cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Sept 23, 2010 9:50:57 GMT
I am being offered a Q2 EFTP with 'original' patches. By that I believe he means its never been updated. I have had my ZOOM2000EFTP forever and I love it for what it is and what it does and I just wonder if anyone can tell me what "Differences" I will hear when compared to it. Somewhere in the scheme of things, some Hank players get a really 'fat' honking sustaining echo sound that seems to be a function of the Echo unit rather than anything else. Is it the Q2 that is responsible for this? And - How old are Q2s and should I be worried if its "ancient" cheers Ian
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Post by sixchannel on Jun 3, 2010 10:24:43 GMT
Hello Al in in deepest Ormskirk I have had a CS-3 for "ever" and wouldnt be without it. Its invaluable for LIVE work but I'm beginning to wonder if I should add compression post-recording rather than at the time. Mine has the Monte Alums conversion which does clean up the "noise" signal and make it smoother without losing the sparkle of the original tone. I have even used it on my electro-acoustic! cheers ian
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Post by sixchannel on Mar 17, 2010 21:47:09 GMT
vERY CLEVER AND USEFUL PIECE OF KIT! MANY THANKS IAN
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Post by sixchannel on Jan 22, 2010 16:38:42 GMT
Hello Soren check out the youtube clip. Taken in 2008 at a Charity gig. Young Joe (aged 18 then) on keyboard and me (aged WOW!! ) on guitar. Not the best video in the world but it was great fun to play Live. cheers ian and Joe
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