Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by stevejamsecono » Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:28 am

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by garyfanclub » Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:36 am

Dave wrote:
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I probably haven’t contributed to this thread since 2009 or something.

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Damn, maybe one of the nicest setups I've seen on this thread yet!

Also in the DMM + YGM-3 camp over here, a match made in heaven!

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Dave » Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:47 am

stevejamsecono wrote:
Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:28 am
Dave wrote:
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I probably haven’t contributed to this thread since 2009 or something.

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Thanks hombre, I’m pretty happy with it myself.

Just for a chuckle I actually dug back and found it, 28th of March 12 years ago. I was playing a MIJ Jazzmaster through that setup with split outs of the DMM into my 72 Super Reverb and a 70s Garnet Revolution 3 2x12 combo I had at that time.
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by Dave » Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:13 pm

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Damn, maybe one of the nicest setups I've seen on this thread yet!

Also in the DMM + YGM-3 camp over here, a match made in heaven!
Nice of you to say, I’m happy with the setup myself.

Yeah I really like the YGM, this one was made for the Ontario Conservatory of Music in the early 70s, you can find other examples with the white faceplate but I’ve never seen another with that typeface/“decal” behind the controls. It also doesn’t have the bright switch.

It’s an oddity for sure, sounds very good once you get used to the Baxandal EQ. There’s a ton of range between those two controls. Another strange thing with this one, perhaps you could comment if yours works the same way, the tremolo is “after” the reverb so if you drown it in reverb and bring up the tremolo it chops the whole washy signal. Kinda odd/not nearly as useful as the opposite but I don’t usually use it anyhow. This one has the stock dogshit speaker but it really doesn’t leave me wanting for anything different, I find it sounds just fine as is.
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by garyfanclub » Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:54 pm

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Damn, maybe one of the nicest setups I've seen on this thread yet!

Also in the DMM + YGM-3 camp over here, a match made in heaven!
Nice of you to say, I’m happy with the setup myself.

Yeah I really like the YGM, this one was made for the Ontario Conservatory of Music in the early 70s, you can find other examples with the white faceplate but I’ve never seen another with that typeface/“decal” behind the controls. It also doesn’t have the bright switch.

It’s an oddity for sure, sounds very good once you get used to the Baxandal EQ. There’s a ton of range between those two controls. Another strange thing with this one, perhaps you could comment if yours works the same way, the tremolo is “after” the reverb so if you drown it in reverb and bring up the tremolo it chops the whole washy signal. Kinda odd/not nearly as useful as the opposite but I don’t usually use it anyhow. This one has the stock dogshit speaker but it really doesn’t leave me wanting for anything different, I find it sounds just fine as is.
Nice, I've never heard of the Conservatory edition ones, they look amazing though - love the Space Odyssey 2001 vibe.

Mine's actually a very late model, so not sure how similar they are tonally (pic below), but I did just check out the trem/reverb interaction and sure enough it performs the same way, so the circuit must not have changed much. It's also the first time I've actually dimed the reverb, weird - sounds like the sitar in one of those old Yardbirds tracks with a tele bridge pickup. That said, I love the trem and reverb on this amp, reminiscent of my beloved 60s Ampegs - more cavernous and throbby versus drippy and choppy (Fender style).

On the note of EQ, it's funny, I've never really had any issues with having to use "weird" settings to get mine to sound good, though I've read dozens of posts from people that do. I'm using similar settings to you - volume, bass and treble at noon, with the the effects all at about 9 o'clock. Going for a round jazzy clean tone and the amp certainly delivers that in spades. Mine *does* have the bright switch, which is brutal and peels paint of the walls. It also makes the amp MUCH louder; with it disabled, it's a nice wooly clean tone with lots of low-mid oomph. Not particularly loud either, as in, I can play it in my apartment during the day without concern. Can growl a bit with the right pickups, e.g P90s or Guild Humbuckers, but with single coils it's pretty much a clean machine.

Speaker was replaced with a Pyle Driver, looks pretty old, but sounds fine - no reason to change it. Kind of reminds me of a Cannabis Rex? A bit dark with lots of bass presence.

As you can see, mine has seen some serious use - serial number dates it to 1979, glass etc. appear to be original.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by garyfanclub » Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:52 am

Just picked up this Magnavibe - loving it in conjunction with the Shallow Water for some old school low-fi tones (JM has flats, also using the rhythm circuit).

It's especially lovely on the more subtle settings, gets a bit too "effecty" up high, but set low there's just enough "ooooh what's that???" factor to keep me interested.

Plugging into the late-70s Traynor YGM pictured above... Needless to say, I've got nothing to complain about here.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by MrShake » Tue May 03, 2022 6:37 pm

This thread is always awesome to dip back to. Y'all have some cool rigs.

Had a weird morning, spent the afternoon doing a true bypass mod to my rarely-used Crybaby out of boredom. Put it back on my "grunge" board. Sounds better, I think.

Got in touch with teenage me and surfed on big fuzzed-out riffs for an hour. I wish I had then what I had now. Not the gear, the learned guitar skills and taste in what notes to play. But the gear, too.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by JSett » Thu May 05, 2022 12:52 am

Waking the neighborhood up with this...

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by panoramic » Thu May 05, 2022 5:27 am

Dave wrote:
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I probably haven’t contributed to this thread since 2009 or something.

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I can hear exactly how this set up sounds man, it would be some serious early Teenage Fanclub mixed with Dinosaur at my house...
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Re: Setup of the day

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by hulakatt » Thu May 05, 2022 8:27 am

I love those aluminum neck Kramers!
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by s_mcsleazy » Thu May 05, 2022 11:01 am

i had a kramer flying v bass with an aluminium neck. thing was fantastic.
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Re: Setup of the day

Post by hulakatt » Thu May 05, 2022 12:29 pm

My wife has always had an issue finding a good bass as she's also a lefty. I found a lefty Kramer aluminum neck and walnut body bass on ebay for peanuts a few years ago as some owner had covered the body 98% in colored duct tape stripes. Took a gamble and spent the next month stripping the duct tape, gunk and then rebuilding it into the dream it is today.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by hulakatt » Thu May 05, 2022 12:33 pm

I guess this is a good place to ask. Years ago, I put together a partsocaster Duo Sonic out of mostly vintage parts. After a few years, I sold it off and lost track of it and from time to time I wonder if it's still out there or what's happened to it, does anyone recognize this?

60's Duo Sonic body stripped and stained matched to a late 60's Musicmaster neck. Pickups are newer ones but I forget who wound them. Some of the hardware is Callaham including the round string tee.

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Re: Setup of the day

Post by X-Ray Spex » Fri May 06, 2022 1:58 pm

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That rips, love the colour scheme.
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