Sunday, December 1, 2024

HOW LOUD IS LOUD


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 $20 dB meter
HOW LOUD IS LOUD  
- 60 dB conversion between 2 people 
- 65 dB is bedroom practice level. 
75 dB is maximum level allowed to play music etc in your home. 
(it is vacuum cleaner level.]
85 dB  is how loud a guitar is needed not to be drowned in a band. 
It translates to 40 to 50 watts with a tube amp. 
100 to 200 watts with a Class Type D transistor amp. 
50 watts with an old Class A/B amp.  ...(Orange still uses them because they have balz.)
95 dB is the legal sound limit of a band 
95 dB to 110dB is the range in which drummers use from a drum kit. A need to know as a drummer with a volume knob is impossible to find.
 
___THE BIG TRIAL
I have just started going through my tunes doing nothing but tuning in the clean channel with a bit of boost that matches the sound off my PLEXI. It is not so much better as 100% consistent from bedroom levels to band practice loud. So far it appears to not add or subtract something in its sound to make me feel I will have to re-access all 68 pedals on my board to be happy. That said, I am just two tunes in and some dirt pedals needed their EQ or level tweaked but they are still the right pedal for the tune. 
It gives me a lot of options but at the moment I want to get back into playing and practicing. If I quit for a week my memory sucks remembering all 34 tunes. Plus my chops suck. 

HITCH HIKING

JOYO JF-25 BRIGHT DAY OD
It is simply the best clone I have ever heard that does a BOSS Blues Driver. In fact 
it does the Waza Craft version. At 37.00 USD, a Black Friday Sale made me pull 
the trigger. 
The name Bright Day??? Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has used a Boss Blues 
Driver for years. 
The #5 best seller for a new 2024 pedal is the Keeley Muse Drive, Blues Driver 
clone and the #2 best seller for all pedals new or old is the Boss Blues Driver. 

KEELEY SUPER.BASS 
Marshall made a 200 watt amp so Bass players could keep up with guitarists with their Stacks. Then guys like Ritchie Blackmore discovered they were ideal to make his Strat cut like a meat cleaver with all that headroom, LOL  It is a Ltd. Ed. only sold by Sweetwater.
 
It is a now or never so I scooped one 😇
 

3 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Oh 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.
    Actually 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 :-)

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  3. 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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