Lets look at our guitars thread
Discussion
Ekona said:
I really need to go try one of these. Currently using a Victory V30 and 2x12 cab which I absolutely adore but I need to free some cash up so they will be going, and I've only heard good things about the Katana 50 so reckon that could be a reasonable replacement. I've also got an old Peavey Bandit red stripe which I was really happy with for years, but there's something not quite right with it atm and I'm not sure I really want to spend any money into trying to fix it. I play a mixture of rock stuff from Nirvana through AC/DC to Metallica, so hopefully the K50 will be able to cover those bases.
Any downsides to the K50 you've found yet? Or what's the most irritating thing about it?
I haven't found a type of sound I can't get from it yet but I only play at low volumes.Any downsides to the K50 you've found yet? Or what's the most irritating thing about it?
With the 50W since the 2.0 software update you have 4 presets (2 banks of 2) which is awesome but you can't switch between banks on a foot pedal so you're still limited to 2 sounds without touching the amp. (Holding the panel button for 1 sec switches banks). The 100W version can use a much more useful foot controller but for what I need it was not worth the extra £150 on the amp & more expensive foot controller.
Re the reverb - have you tried the different types? I found the spring reverb to be very twangy, room or hall were better but I've not fiddled that much.
vladcjelli said:
While not in the same league as most of the guys and gear in this thread, being only a beginner plinker (despite owning a few guitars over the years, never really got round to playing them).
Anyway, I posted a bit back about my Westfield (?) Les Paul copy, needing a bit of attention.
Long story short, I had a tinker, rewired it with minor success, but still not 100% happy. Still feels very low output.
As a result, Mrs C is threatening to buy me a new guitar for xmas.
After talking to a guy prominent in the local music scene, she's been suggested one of these
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g... (Other colours are available).
At least one review described the pickups as very 'hot' which I assume will mean more output to play with.
Is this a good move? Will I be happy with it for my ham fisted attempts at playing along to Spotify?
If you think you will stick with guitar, I'd go the proper upgrade route and just get the Gibson version.Anyway, I posted a bit back about my Westfield (?) Les Paul copy, needing a bit of attention.
Long story short, I had a tinker, rewired it with minor success, but still not 100% happy. Still feels very low output.
As a result, Mrs C is threatening to buy me a new guitar for xmas.
After talking to a guy prominent in the local music scene, she's been suggested one of these
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g... (Other colours are available).
At least one review described the pickups as very 'hot' which I assume will mean more output to play with.
Is this a good move? Will I be happy with it for my ham fisted attempts at playing along to Spotify?
rsbmw said:
I find it difficult to get a decent SRV tone out of it, got somewhere i was reasonably happy with last night but volume does need to be up a bit, not so good when you have a 4 year old and a pregnant wife who are in bed. Not actually tried through headphones yet
From what I've read it seems a lot of people are using a high master volume with a low channel volume to get the same effect. As said I have been spending my free time building the tele rather than playing so definitely not an expert yet!First coat of Tru-Oil going on, applied with a bit of old T-shirt wrapped around a bit of sponge and some Neck in progress pics for DrZ:
First coat of oil applied to frets 1-5:
Before:
After 1 coat:
enjo said:
First coat of Tru-Oil going on, applied with a bit of old T-shirt wrapped around a bit of sponge and some Neck in progress pics for DrZ:
First coat of oil applied to frets 1-5:
Before:
After 1 coat:
Thanks for this! Fantastic job on the bursting!First coat of oil applied to frets 1-5:
Before:
After 1 coat:
The tru oil looks very good, not too much of a tint, but I'm thinking I might need quite a few coats to fill the pores in my neck. I'm gonna test a small patch in the back of the headstock with tru oil & shellac to see how they work.
Dr Z said:
Thanks for this! Fantastic job on the bursting!
The tru oil looks very good, not too much of a tint, but I'm thinking I might need quite a few coats to fill the pores in my neck. I'm gonna test a small patch in the back of the headstock with tru oil & shellac to see how they work.
No problem and thanks!The tru oil looks very good, not too much of a tint, but I'm thinking I might need quite a few coats to fill the pores in my neck. I'm gonna test a small patch in the back of the headstock with tru oil & shellac to see how they work.
I will be wet sanding both the neck and body using the Tru-Oil as the 'wet'. I've done this before and it worked really well for pore filling.
rsbmw said:
I find it difficult to get a decent SRV tone out of it, got somewhere i was reasonably happy with last night but volume does need to be up a bit, not so good when you have a 4 year old and a pregnant wife who are in bed. Not actually tried through headphones yet
It may also be worth turning down the guitar vol pot and compensating with EQ. I'm sure you can get somewhere near, but the recorded tone from SRV came from a blasting Marshall amp, and into who knows which mic / desk / outboard gear and onto which medium.
There is, if you're interested, quite a nice version of an SRV type tone on Guitar Rig 5, I was playing around with it earlier.
This is something Andertons in particular annoy me with, they demo an amp like a DSL40c and I reckon in the room sounds pretty different to what comes through their £800 mic into a desk. I dont think there's any intent to mislead, they're just doing what they think is right, but it's not giving the exact same tone from coloration of various things also going on at the same time.
That said, you might play the exact same rig as someone else and each get completely different sounds out of it.
enjo said:
Starting to get a bit of shine - this will be a long process!
Nice! I treated my neck to an osmo oil finish, couple of coats:
Raw/unfinished (as posted before):
I'm liking the satin/wet look, as it's now more consistent with the back of the neck which was starting to get darker due to my playing. I understand that the purpley look of the unfinished neck can't be preserved (as it's due to the wood being exposed/unfinished). I have given it a shellac coat on top of this. I can't feel the pores as much as before. Give it a day to harden and then, the litmus test will be a hot and sweaty gig. Hope it doesn't grip too much. Do like a fast, slick feel.
andy-xr said:
There is, if you're interested, quite a nice version of an SRV type tone on Guitar Rig 5, I was playing around with it earlier.
+1 for these type of modelers to get those classic recorded tones. Decent sound card + good in ear monitors, and you can start to feel like SRV (if you also have the chops, that is). 
I have the amplitube 4 custom shop. Was messing around with a model of a silverface dual showman through a 2 x 12 JBL D120Fs with my jazzmaster...wind the spring reverb up and blimey, this is that classic jazzmaster sound everyone has heard of. Very good.
Was more of a hope to own one, when I joined. Unfortunately, still remains a hope.
Last night I went to an event our local guitar shop put on for a chap called Thomas Blug.
The guy blew the doors off the place. Stadium level guitar player in a small rugby club bar covering anything and everything without any real set list.
He plugged in a Vintage (Wilkinson rather than relic) strat to a micro amp he was touting, and the tone he pulled out of it was something else.
Reading between the lines, he used to work for Hughes and Kettner, then set out on his own. I dont think necessarily he's Germany's answer to Dave Friedman, but the amp itself is very clever, very light and pulls really really nice tones.
Worth a look at his video to listen to the sounds out of the amp; http://www.bluguitar.com/AMP1.html
His playing is somewhere between Satriani in legato and out and out Stratty blues twang.
I'm interested specifically in the amp/cab sim pedal he has, but they're out of stock for a while. From the H+K days he's acquired some very nice cabs and sim'd them to a pedal, which is interesting to me for home recording.
The guy blew the doors off the place. Stadium level guitar player in a small rugby club bar covering anything and everything without any real set list.
He plugged in a Vintage (Wilkinson rather than relic) strat to a micro amp he was touting, and the tone he pulled out of it was something else.
Reading between the lines, he used to work for Hughes and Kettner, then set out on his own. I dont think necessarily he's Germany's answer to Dave Friedman, but the amp itself is very clever, very light and pulls really really nice tones.
Worth a look at his video to listen to the sounds out of the amp; http://www.bluguitar.com/AMP1.html
His playing is somewhere between Satriani in legato and out and out Stratty blues twang.
I'm interested specifically in the amp/cab sim pedal he has, but they're out of stock for a while. From the H+K days he's acquired some very nice cabs and sim'd them to a pedal, which is interesting to me for home recording.
andy-xr said:
I'm interested specifically in the amp/cab sim pedal he has, but they're out of stock for a while. From the H+K days he's acquired some very nice cabs and sim'd them to a pedal, which is interesting to me for home recording.
DO you mean IR loading or just already in the pedal? The new Mooer might scratch your itch if it's IR Loading during your wait.Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff