tele4tone said:
Capn, we must have similar ears
I suspect we do! Do you like ampeg combos as well? I think the Gibby's are a close albeit darker sounding cousin especially using 7591's
Hi Jeff: I'm not to be mistaken for a serious player ... I'm a Stoly-sipping toe-tapper with a rhythm-playing front-man R&R fantasy ... but I'm good with a soldering iron. I'm old enough to remember the ratty sound of crappy bands at after-school sock hops ... the sound these guys might make:
To get that sound, I currently use one of these; a 'reclaimed' (DOA, covered-in-paint) Gibson GA20T ... the one in my siggie with a pair of Bendix 5992s, 6087, Sylvania 5879, and a '59 C12Q ( .... an effort to end my alnico addiction). That's a Gibson GA8
(threaded here) sitting in the background ... traded away for a MIM tele:
Agree that the 6V6/7591 Gibsons are dark ... never had the pleasure with an Ampeg but did listen to one of our better-playing members play through his Guild 66J which, with all due respect to Guild, is an Ampeg M12 in almost everything but name. One of our members recently bought a vgc vintage Reverberocket ... he's crazy about it ... another has a RI RR and another I think still has a Gemini VI ... Ampeg spoken here. :wink: