I am loving that Epiphone ES339. It just needed to have a few frets levelled. pickups sound good to me.
You make me feel so young, I was born in the 90s but I love older music an want a 1960 triumph trophy.Beginner and intermediate import instruments have become seriously decent instruments over the last 25+ years or so.... WAY better than the crap of the 60s-70s sold cheap for starting out. I was at a rehearsal a few years back and grabbed my drummer's cousin's Ibanez starter pack bass and jammed it through a cheap 1x12" Ampeg combo for 20-30 minutes with the full band and blew the 2 of them away with how good it sounded... $99 with amp, strap, and cord! My 1970s short scale Harmony bass from the Sears Wishbook needed tuning every 2 minutes and sounded like hitting wet cardboard with a length of copper water supply pipe!
Still, I will give my money to the boutique guy making their own products. I 'know' the people who have made my basses and cabinets... and some of my pedals. My current amp was a imported, but I interact with the designer on a facebook group for amp builders regularly. Even my main solid state amp from the 90s until a few years ago was designed by a guy I email with from time to time and is on my Linkedin page
Even my vape stuff (I'm still successfully not vaping) was all from original designers/builders
I am loving that Epiphone ES339. It just needed to have a few frets levelled. pickups sound good to me.
I was 12 in 2002 haha, I started guitar in primary school though. My first electric was a les Paul vintage gonna check out them epiphones soonMy first guitar acquisition was when I was 12 in 1963. That's when guitar lessons started. The Ventures were hot and every new guitar player had to learn "Pipeline" and "Walk, Dont Run". I was hooked then, but when the Beatles and the Stones hit I knew I had to be in a band!
The Ventures were hot and every new guitar player had to learn "Pipeline" and "Walk, Dont Run".
instead of the Chinese one
I love a good dealI had a Ventures "Learn to play the Bass" book plus album when I started in 1980.
My Squier was a gift and needed tuners, pickups and pots to be decent, I would have bought the Mexican version had it been my money spent. I do agree those Epiphones are decent, here is a limited time deal that is hard to pass up... Stupid Deal of the Day | Musician's Friend
I just can't do 6ers or I would have kept mine. It was heavy as hell but the stock PU and pre were actually pretty good on a gig. Be amazing with a full Aggie or Nordy setup though.
I am a 5er guy and can do B-G or E-C but B-C just screws me up!
Full octave below is crazy though. .266 string must be a pound on its own!
I do agree those Epiphones are decent, here is a limited time deal that is hard to pass up... Stupid Deal of the Day | Musician's Friend
It didn't take any skill on the salesman's part to get me to drop the money on my HT Club 50. It's the first affordable amp that I found to be an upgrade from my Tube Works MosValve with twin Vintage 30's.I don't generally do modeling amps. If I want that kind of feel I just use my pc with modelling software. I like amps that are just amps. To each their own right? There's just so much stuff out there now. I would buy a blackstar ht. They are amazing
Alot of amps use that, my last amp was a blackstar. Came with a distortion pedal which was pretty cool but was damn heavy.I brought home the Peavey Vypyr Tube 60 last Sunday and took the Roland Cube 60 to church yesterday. The Peavey is way too heavy to transport for me these days and the newer small SS amps are plenty loud enough to use, especially when mic'ed through the PA.
The Cube sounded great and I can walk off with it like a medium sized suitcase without having to bend over to balance! I'm thinking now about trading the Peavey on something more the size of the Roland. Gotta have a 12" speaker and 40W-60W output, though.
Any suggestions on what I need to look at? I like effects built in. I use distortion, flange, chorus, reverb, and a slight delay mostly.
Alot of amps use that, my last amp was a blackstar. Came with a distortion pedal which was pretty cool but was damn heavy.
I had a tube amp by indie which would fit your needs but haven't been able to find any indie amps since
I know what you mean there, I use a 60 watt Peavey amp for gigs & does for practicing too but I've used a fuzzy big .... for a good few years. I like noisy grunge soundSince everything on our stage is mic'ed and I'm listening through a Shure beltpack with earbuds, my amp needs have been reduced to a minimum as long as the tone and good, usable effects are there. Once upon a time I lugged around a 4x12" Peavey and even an 8x12" Gibson amp before that. Of course, both were overkill, but it was the 70s and bigger was better on the backline!
Nowadays, I can just put a mic on it and use a tiny amp with great tone.