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Woof aGuitarSolo! That's an old looking hand for such a young kid in the photo above. That's a mistake you'll only make once. Now, with that behind you, it's time to rock that new guitar. PS - Aloe is your friend.
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I just checked RS Guitar. They don't list Heritage any longer. They used to list them. Too much variation in hand built guitars??? I have no experience with Mojotone harnesses. I would guess that if you call or email Sweetwater, they'll get you an answer. The jack plate looks like the proper one. Perhaps @TalismanRich will know and pipe in.
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Perfect! I see so much about wire gauge and transferring electrical energy. When one thinks about it, you could use quad 0 wire gauge for your instrument and speaker leads but ultimately the connection between your jack and instrument cable is just a fraction of a square mm, smaller than pin point. I've heard about these jacks but haven't seen them for sale. Thank you golferwave! https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Tone-Full-contact-Mounting-Hardware/dp/B0BXB73DT8?th=1
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I've a guitar buddy with a Two-Rock; beautiful amp, it even has a gain stage worthy of its pedigree. I'm familiar with Ceriatone, the others have escaped my review. I've owned a VHT Pitbull and still have the Classic (both Fryette designed). My experience with VHT is a positive one but dates before the company was sold. There are many Dumble designs on the interwebs. Some, I've been told are quite good. The secret is not that secret. IF the company (VHT) has maintained the previous owner's integrity, I'd assume they have something there. Your mission, should you decide to accept, is to let us know how well behaved the little beast is.
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Granted, most of the amps burning here are 60's Marshall clones. Even with the Marshall JTM 45, JTM 45-100, Heritage Colonial or Fender Vibro King, I lower the volume and drop the tone to clean up the sound. Perhaps old habits die hard... I prefer less treble most of the time. I think you wrote about linear and logarithmic pots above. Dave, from Ann Arbor Guitars, does a superb job discussing the difference. There are 6 videos in all. IMHO Well worth the time. Here's #1:
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This is the first I've heard of a (relatively) large amp manufacturer coping a Dumble amp. I believe Two-Rock does it, but aren't they smaller than VHT? On the surgace it sounds cool. Who is designing for VHT these days since Fryette sold it?
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I started with RSGuitarWorks. I stopped using them when they forgot how to make an H-575 harness; they wanted to charge for a custom assembly even though I know they've produced them in the past. The H-150 harness is the same as the Les Paul's. They'll get you going with schematics. Drop your volume to the 5-8 level and lower the tone as needed. The change is eye opening. I don't hear a lowering of volume as much as a cleaning up with the volume pot. The pot values make a huge difference in the circuit between the pickups and amplifier. A good harness should allow you two or three useful tones without adjusting the amp. RS recognized that and created a better mousetrap.
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Not as rare as desirable. To be natural there needs to be a superior piece of wood with interesting grain throughout. Bursts were instigated to cover drab wood at the edges. Wild curl in wood often washes out when getting to the edge. Congrats on your find.
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I've never met a guitar (any brand) that didn't improve from an upgraded harness. Heritage is no different.
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A lot of components used on new guitars are simply placeholders; the plastic nut, POS bridges and Especially the wiring harness. The $100 spent on the upgrade was the best investment ever - except they're addictive; be very careful.
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'Tis an H-575 custom indeed. They were upgraded H-575s. I'd imagine you're mid to upper $3k mark. By revealing yourself as a nube, you've invited every bottom feeder on the internet. PM if you would like assistance with this.
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Metropoulos Metro Plex MK II is now available
Steiner replied to Steiner's topic in Amplification and Effects
Or render them insensate... I like the way you're thinking! -
Metropoulos Metro Plex MK II is now available
Steiner replied to Steiner's topic in Amplification and Effects
If only you and I could do a mosquito riddled rendition of Cinnamon Girl on it. -
Metropoulos Metro Plex MK II is now available
Steiner replied to Steiner's topic in Amplification and Effects
Spank you, I depreciate that. Coming from you, that really is significant. We should plug that new, Pelham blue H-150 into it and have at thee! Then we can fire up that dirty, old H-157 you have laying about. -
Metropoulos Metro Plex MK II is now available
Steiner replied to Steiner's topic in Amplification and Effects
Today is the official kickoff to the Metro Plex Mark II shipping. Been playing the prototype daily for the past few months; there's no buyer's remorse, just happy to get the opportunity to play it. When you follow a good designer, good things happen. The following quote comes from - https://www.facebook.com/MetropoulosAmplification/ "Gentlemen, the Metro-Plex MK II era officially begins today. I've pursued this tone for decades. Just as many others have. I've obsessed over the minute details. I've endeavored to learn electronics just so I could apply those skills to this goal. I've chased this tone not because I wanted to be a great amp builder. It was a far more selfish pursuit. From the days I spent as a teenager, in my bedroom playing through terrible amps. Staring at Carvin catalogs. Drawing guitar rigs on my notebooks in school. Listening to old records and yearning to express myself through music. On into adulthood and playing guitar for a (very meager) living. Some nights, my old Marshall would be cooking and on a different plane. Those moments where I became one with my instrument and the amp was an extension of my musical will. Every tone I desired was right there under my fingers and available from my guitar knob. That synergy between a player and their weapons. By my mid 30's I was done gigging, had children, doubled down on passion for those old Marshalls and the elusive sounds some of them could make. But only when planets aligned and they could be played at ear shattering volume. My quest was still before me. Even though I attacked it in the first person persona, as an artist striving for their own voice, I was tasked with capturing the magic of great plexi tone and delivering to all like-minded artists. Slowly, often one component or one gain stage at a time...archiving data and learning the nuances along the way, patterns emerged. Circuit topology, gain staging, asymmetrical clipping, even harmonics, odd harmonics.. Negative feedback! There is something in the DNA of these old tube amps. A code. A code to be cracked. Enter the Audio Precision audio analyzer. My missing link. The tool that put everything into sharp focus. Two decades of fumbling with inferior tools, collecting imperfect data, reading books and online posts about how these circuits work, all debunked and my understanding re-written. The books say there's no clipping in the cathode follower. Not true! Take that away and it never sounds right. It matters. EVERYTHING matters! Over time, an overview became clear. How a plexi circuit works, why it clips where it does, which harmonics are generated... The secrets of plexi tone, the code, the DNA, the golden ratios. Call it what you want, by any name it amounts to the data and experience collected to recreate the glorious plexi tones I've (we all) have chased since they defined the greatest rock music in history. That might have been enough. My quest fulfilled. Well... obviously, it was not. Recreating those sounds at 120db+ is one thing. Separating the plexi tone experience from sheer volume is something else altogether. Deep associations fire brain synapses and release dopamine when we hear and feel sounds that connect with nostalgia. Play the Heartbreaker riff through a dimed plexi stack and it's impossible not to experience a range of emotions. Euphoria, elation, fear, invincibility! Now, turn it down and try to recreate that sensation. Ugh. Back to the quest, aimed at a new goal. The intangible plexi experience, at levels that allow the baby to sleep in the next room. More analysis. New circuits. Countless starts and eventual discarding of circuit concepts. I have mountains of engineering notes. That kid who drew guitar rigs on his notebooks in school, now finds himself scribbling circuits. On napkins, on my phone, during flights. In the middle of the nights, my body exhausted and my mind refusing to turn off. Ultimately, those concepts were vetted and became eloquent circuits. Combinations of components arranged to accomplish design criteria. String enough of those together in the right order and you gaze upon a fully realized, finished quest. Decades of passionate pursuit have led me to this day. Years of living like a starving artist, ignoring health issues, devoting endless energy to things that no rational person could ever imagine would amount to something grandiose. Defying odds, battling long Covid. A true Odyssey in the classical sense. I humbly submit to you, a life's work (so far). Quest forth, as LOUD as you possibly can." George Metropoulos 9/29/23 -
Are you suggesting this film was recorded in the court of the crimson king?
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I've always wanted to play an H-150 with P-90s. They say it ain't what you know... Congrats.
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A movie titled: The Dog Walking Radio Hour?
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Remind me Hanger18, I owe you a Bells!
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Those two don't appear to be the "answer-guy" type.
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Got it. The first photo was taken from the front. The second, from the back.
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Once in perhaps 100 tries. Based on the inability to do so many other options, I'll take it.