Re: Amplification

[Teed Rockwell <74164.3703@CompuServe.COM>]

Mathias writes:

If you have an ideal, the copy never comes close enough.
If you talk yourself into wanting to find out the ways of expression in a 
cheap,
handy, versatile gear, you may find that there are more than you had, 
allthough
all different.
It means relearning the instrument, maybe?
Or even disconnect from the sound tradition (of the 60ies)?

        I would love to be proven wrong about this, but you should realise 
that I
tried talking myself into exactly that position for almost 20 years. I am 
not an
anti-transistor luddite who refused to even consider the possibility you
mention. In fact I use a digital reverb-delay as a supplement to the tube 
sound,
to get both digital brittleness and tube warmth. Part of it maybe that the
stick, not having a body, needs that extra tube tone.

        There may be something to your comment about my being connected to 
the
sixties. When I first played my stick through a fender twin, I realised 
that I
hadn't heard that sound since I gave up playing guitar 22 years ago, and 
that I
had not sounded that good since. (My original Fender twin was accidentally 
set
on fire by a Hendrix clone friend of mine who wrapped tin foil around the 
fuse
after it blew out)

        All of of these choices are highly individual, though. I'm not 
trying to
convert anybody, just to add my voice to the multitude

Teed Rockwell

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