Let's see your guitars

[chezuki]

I picked up this Marshall CODE 50 last week. It’s a modeling amp that does a fairly decent job of emulating some of the old tube amps I can’t afford, and has a ton of onboard effects.

 

[tbhausen]

This is the one that gets all the love these days, because I live in an apartment and have to keep the noise down. I play it through this:

THR30IIA Wireless Acoustic Guitar Amplifier - Yamaha

Shop Pacifica Electric Guitars. Professional performance originally designed in collaboration with our Los Angeles custom shop, Yamaha Guitar Development.

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With this:

https://shop.line6.com/hardware/wireless/line%206%20relay%C2%AE%20g10t%20transmitter-1.html

Pretty damn cool to be able to walk around my apartment while I play. The amp has Bluetooth in, so I can jam along with backing tracks or songs on my phone. It actually helps me learn songs better because when the guitar and the source come out of the same speakers, you can really feel the music. Out of time or wrong chord/note? So much easier to react to and correct than being behind the guitar and having sound come out the front of it.

 

[pinkiron]

1985 Gibson Explorer

 

[tbhausen]

I also have a 100% carbon fiber Rainsong from 2000 (back when they were still built on Maui) with a Fishman blender, and the 30th anniversary Ovation from 1996 (the same one that’s pictured on the cover of “The History of the Ovation Guitar” book). I still have the hardcover book which came with it, signed by Charlie Kaman. I’ve owned both of these since new.

The History of the Ovation Guitar Amazon product ASIN 079355876X

 

[tbhausen]

Two more… Me playing guitar (and cbhausen playing keyboard!) as freshmen or sophomores at Indiana State, 11th floor of Cromwell Hall. Mom gave me this 1983 Ovation Balladeer as an early Christmas present.



I still own it, though it’s on loan to a high school classmate’s daughter. So I’ve also posted a picture of her playing it, almost 40 years later!

 

[Leo]

tbhausen, is that lightweight a Yamaha guitar? The lunchbox amp looks like the Yamaha one. I assume it has a piezo pickup? I have a few necks from projects in the back and 20 plus pickups, bridges, tuners, etc. I already built one 6 string cigar box with Telecaster pickups, I am thinking a headless skeleton guitar might be fun.

Around the holidays, I have been playing a little OM sized acoustic when people are around. I still keep an electric on the stand by the amps.

The pictures in post 165 are a good reminder that we were once young.

 

[tbhausen]

It’s a Yamaha Silent Guitar SLG100S (the very first model they released). I bought the thing and basically left it in the box for the better part of 20 years. Pulled it out when I moved into the apartment. There have been two models since then that added different microphone modeling and chorus, but the amp does all that stuff anyway. The first model was also made in Taiwan and had superior workmanship to the subsequent models which came from Indonesia and China respectively.

 

[ancjr]

Got it for $30 at a yard sale.

 

[Snapdragon]

I have had my beautiful blue Yamaha acoustic/electric for ten years and have never stuck with playing it because it was just too big and uncomfortable for my stubby little arms. I finally broke down and bought an Ibanez PN1 parlor guitar, and it's a much better fit. Now I have no excuse not to start learning for real.

 

[MindfulMan]

That's a nice, small guitar, Snap ! I've always liked the Ibanez offerings.
Now get busy !

 

[ancjr]

I didn't know Ibanez made acoustics, still less parlor guitars.

TBH, I'm not much of a guitarist. I just pluck around and bang on it.

Probably has something to do with the fact I actually play bass guitar.

 

[phylodog]

I didn't know Ibanez made acoustics, still less parlor guitars.

TBH, I'm not much of a guitarist. I just pluck around and bang on it.

Probably has something to do with the fact I actually play bass guitar.

Getting my first bass is working its way up my priority list.

 

[Twangbanger]

Getting my first bass is working its way up my priority list.

The Gretsch short-scales that GC sells for 2-something are a good crossover for a guitar player, and have the benefit of kinda looking like your Pauls:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Gretsc...Short-Scale-Bass.gc?rNtt=gretsch bass&index=1

The longer scale of the bass still always gets me. I would love to be able to play fretless decently, but my finger-memory from guitar really throws a wrench in that. I got one of these, and have stopped myself a couple times from taking the fret-pliers to it. I am old enough to know better.

 

[ancjr]

The Gretsch short-scales that GC sells for 2-something are a good crossover for a guitar player...

Those are fun. Also tends to be easier on the fingers than long scale due to lower string tension.

The irony is that the short scale basses in standard tuning have more apparent low end than a long scale in standard tuning.

 

[chezuki]

I think I have a bass around here somewhere.


Confirmed. There’s an old Ibanez in the closet. lol

 

[MindfulMan]

I think I have a bass around here somewhere.


Confirmed. There’s an old Ibanez in the closet. lol

Likewise ! I like to hook up an MP3 player through the PA speakers, and play bass along with old Beatle songs.

 

[Leo]

Those are fun. Also tends to be easier on the fingers than long scale due to lower string tension.

The irony is that the short scale basses in standard tuning have more apparent low end than a long scale in standard tuning.

I bought a short scale (30") Dean bass, mostly to record some back ground tracks to play guitar over. It was fun but my fingers never forgot it was a totally different instrument. Not harder, just different. I ended up buying a Fender sidekick 30 bass amp and a buddy would play it when he came over. Since he always complained about the little bass, I traded it off for a full size Ibanez, which is a lot better instrument. He played it and liked it. Then he moved away. I still use it to put a bass line on a looper sometimes, probably should have just bought an octave pedal. I did not find the long scale, (34") any more difficult than the short 30" short scale.

 

[ancjr]

I bought a short scale (30") Dean bass, mostly to record some back ground tracks to play guitar over. It was fun but my fingers never forgot it was a totally different instrument. Not harder, just different. I ended up buying a Fender sidekick 30 bass amp and a buddy would play it when he came over. Since he always complained about the little bass, I traded it off for a full size Ibanez, which is a lot better instrument. He played it and liked it. Then he moved away. I still use it to put a bass line on a looper sometimes, probably should have just bought an octave pedal. I did not find the long scale, (34") any more difficult than the short 30" short scale.

I was just saying 30" scale is lower tension, all other factors being equal. Approximated by tuning 34" down to D C G F and using a capo on the second fret. Muscle memory of knowing where the notes are across scale lengths is the other part. Sounds like you got it.

 

[Snapdragon]

I have a sad. I have been practicing on the Ibanez parlor since I got it, and I don't think I am going to be able to keep it. It feels better than a regular dreadnaught or my acoustic-electric, but there is still a lot of strain on my right shoulder. There is so much "me" in the front that it takes up a lot of my lap room, and my arms are too short for my right arm to reach over the body of the guitar to strum. My shoulders are really in bad shape, particularly might right one, and I can't afford to mess it up any more. I need replacement surgery, but I'm taking care of my mom and just can't do it right now.

Maybe one day I'll be able to play. Have the shoulder surgery. Lose some weight. (Can't grow my arms longer though.) Or maybe I should just cross guitar off my bucket list and get a ukelele.

 

[MindfulMan]

I have a sad. I have been practicing on the Ibanez parlor since I got it, and I don't think I am going to be able to keep it. It feels better than a regular dreadnaught or my acoustic-electric, but there is still a lot of strain on my right shoulder. There is so much "me" in the front that it takes up a lot of my lap room, and my arms are too short for my right arm to reach over the body of the guitar to strum. My shoulders are really in bad shape, particularly might right one, and I can't afford to mess it up any more. I need replacement surgery, but I'm taking care of my mom and just can't do it right now.

Maybe one day I'll be able to play. Have the shoulder surgery. Lose some weight. (Can't grow my arms longer though.) Or maybe I should just cross guitar off my bucket list and get a ukelele.

Ahh, don't give up ! You never have to play 'well', just good enough to personally enjoy it.