THE UPDATERDEC 2024
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Separate those pedals that are a steal fromthose who are stealing from you at any price!IF IT WAS WORTH KNOWING IT WILL BE HERE FIRST!
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MY MONTHLY RANTIt was a totally crap month!!! ...and if it wasn't... I wouldn't admit it!! The Black Friday deals sucked. They merely headlined with the things they have had on sale for weeks!! 3 years ago some things were 40 and even 50% off!!
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THE GOOD NEWSI did it !!! I did it !!! I got a modeler ...well ...not really😟 ...but I got the Friedman IR-D a Plexi in a pedal that is all tubes, tubes, TUBES!!! 😎 I can not tell you how I did it but I got a full $200 off of the price, hee, hee, hee!! NO!! I will keep my dear old amp, Mr. Plexi ...but like me he will be in semi-retirement.
TOYS FOR THE
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OLDER BOYS
FENDER HAMMERTONE FUZZ
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This fell between the cracks in 2022 when Fender brought a line of 9 pedals all at once.
It became a blur of some pedals good, bad or indifferent. It is a clone of the Vahlbruch Octavia which is their take on the 1976 Roger Mayer Octave Fuzz. It is NOT the over the top Doom
Metal Octave Fuzz. What you get is a seriously good every mans Fuzz for $80.00 USD.
NOBELS DEL-mini
It has tap tempo and your basic Digital, Analog and Tape voices but you can get some Star Wars things by holding the footswitch. It has many extras that are not obvious. It is very user friendly.
The BIG DEAL is it is arguably Strymon quality of sound or at minimum in that league. For $100.00 USD I was expecting a good pedal but NOT up market. It is a nobrainer choice.
FRIEDMAN IR-DIt is 2 channel Marshall Pre in a pedal with tubes and all, except the damn thing can emulate a Modeler like circuit with IR's to sub as speakers, it has an amp simulator, plus a touch of room reverb and even a Marshall 4x12 half stack simulated resonance, in short its famous 'Thump'.
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NEW PIC OF MY BOARD 12/1 2024
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THE GUITAR KIOSK
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| EASTWOOD DEVO Cloud $850.00 USD This is Bob 1's '59 Gibson LP Custom Yes, it did not look after itself for 65 years and got totally out of shape ...the mahogany got all flabby and the maple top has a beer belly ...but the shine on the PU's celebrates the 'Golden Years' |
OK GUYS ....HANG ON ...I just got started on Dec, more, a lot more to come
The Eastwood guitar is a copy of Bob's Ibanez 'spud' or potato guitar. Derived from Gibson-ish ideas, for sure, but Ibanez, not Gibson.
ReplyDeleteOh my a take on an Ibanez PF350 ??? It was a favorite of mine in the early 80's to show off pedals. I was an Ibanez product specialist. The guy at the all the trade shows showing the hundreds of dealers new products and teaching guys who seriously thought a Tube Screamer bizarre, LOL. Guys who wanted to know in a hurry so they could get over to Yamaha where the exciting stiff was. That stuff was student Reeds, Horns and sheet music stands.
ReplyDeleteActually at that time Ibanez had a big meeting to tell us that they were dead serious about closing down the Ibanez guitars because new potential players were buying Analog Synths from Moog, Arp, Korg etc. EVH single handed resurrected the electric guitar or Ibanez would have tanked. everyone wanted a guitar again. We sold a sh@t load of Blazers every month. The BL50 was about $150. It was a thing to swap out the neck HB with a DiMarzio Super Distortion. In fact a few stores I knew of always had a demo model with the swap already done :-)
The Ibanez Performer/PF's were cool, a shame they didn't keep the model alongside the Artist series. The Concert/CN series were cool too. And swapping out Super 70 pickups? What a waste! Thanks for the fun memories.
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