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Amp Rx Part 2 - The Gibson GA-20RVT
Amp Rx Part 2 - The Gibson GA-20RVT
Howdy do tone brothers and sisters.
This week has been really fun for me.
I recently acquired a Gibson GA20RVT amp. Gibson has made amps with this model
designation several times over the past 40 years or so; I’m talking about the
latest incarnation ... from around 2001-2007.
These quality hand-built amps can be had cheap, so they qualify as a "sleeper" amp. This model sports 12ax7’s
in the pre amp and a pair of 6V6 tubes in the power section and is (very
conservatively) rated at 20 watts. She’s
a real looker, and her beauty ain’t just skin-deep;...
Amp Rx Part 1 - The Peavey Windsor Studio
Amp Rx Part 1 - The Peavey Windsor Studio
Hey tone brothers and sisters! I promised a guy a while back that I would do
a little research and see what WGS model most improves a Peavey
Windsor Studio amp. Well wait no
longer! Vaughn’s Rx for a small, sterile
and lifeless Peavey Windsor Studio: 1. Switch the EL34 to a 6L6 and 2. Install a WGS ET65.
The result: more useable headroom and bottom end, and a much more
three-dimensional sounding amp. Here is
the video, next week, we tackle another tone-challenged tube amp, the Gibson
GA20-RVT (reissue). Oh, and one update, since I did the video, I...
Pic Wars - The Pics Strike Back (quest for the ultimate plectrum part 2)
Pic Wars - The Pics Strike Back (quest for the ultimate plectrum part 2)
If you have not yet ... go back and read Part one of this blog. This time around, I'm gonna shut up and let the pics do the talking ... okay, truth be told, I still do way too much talking ... but this week I'm doing it via video; take a look:See ya next week fellow tone junkies!
Congrats Noah Hormann!
Congrats Noah Hormann!
It's official - Noah Hormann has won a WGS speaker - courtesy of WGS, The WGS Facebook page, and THIS BLOG! Awesome pics, dude! So, shall we send you an Invader or a Liberator ... oh, and at what impedance? Check out all of Noah's pics on our FB page - man, WGS folks are a cool and creative lot.
Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney
If you have liked even one single thing that I have written in the past year and a half of this blog, I
almost certainly stole it from Andy Rooney.
Andy has been my writing mentor for decades now; not officially of
course; Mr. Rooney doesn’t do that type of thing. His take on the whole idea would be something
to the effect of "I’d never mentor any one so ignorant as to want me as a
mentor". Rooney has taught by example. I,
like generations of Americans, grew up mesmerized by his ability
to distill big concepts down to a few flawlessly chosen words ... small...
Pic Wars - The Phantom Menace (quest for the ultimate plectrum)
Pic Wars - The Phantom Menace (quest for the ultimate plectrum)
Hey guitar folks, ready to delve in to some serious pic discussion? This is a blog that I’ve been simmering on
the back burner for many weeks now; ever since the summer NAMM show. At the NAMM show I did something quite out of
character for me, I actually dropped ten bucks and purchased a meager four "V-picks". They were enticing, with oh-so cool looks, and
promises to improve my tone and speed, and not fall out of my fingers. Right then and there, I decided I could make
one heck of a blog outta comparing these new-fangeled picks to old
standards. Later that...
So, the Big Tshirt giveaways are over - Now What??
So, the Big Tshirt giveaways are over - Now What??
Now the contest for who wins the free speaker begins, that's what! Our three shirt winners are now in the
running for a new WGS speaker (that's a 1-in-3 shot). It all
comes down to who can deliver the coolest photo with the new t-shirt. Will it be Andy from Alabama,
Noah from Washington,
or Mason from Vegas? That, my WGS friends is
up to all of you! Here is how it’s going to work: Andy, Noah, and Mason - post your uber-cool
t-shirt pics on the WGS facebook page,
as many as you like, whoever garners the most "likes" (combined from all pics),
will get their...
Winner Chosen In Final (for now) T-Shirt giveaway!
Winner Chosen In Final (for now) T-Shirt giveaway!
Hi WGS gang! Congrats to Mason (forum user id mbundschuh), our newest recipient of a gratis WGS t-shirt! Now, mason, please email vaughn your size and shipping address.Thanks to all of you for entering and playing along - it's been fun, right? I just bet we'll do this again, so keep reading!Now, to our three shirt winners, get ready to fire up your cameras - the most popular pic on the WGS facebook page wins a free speaker! I'll give you all the details in my next blog.Here is the entry from the winner chosen by my random number generator...
We have a new T-Shirt Winner ***THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED***
We have a new T-Shirt Winner ***THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED***
***THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED!*** See winner info here.Here is this weeks winning entry:--------------------------------------------------------------------------Sat, 2011-09-10 22:43 — noahtoriousbig Righteous pictures for your righteous t-shirt. If its righteous pictures your after my wife and I are professional photographers... just sayin. www.kavodphotography.com (not a shameless plug, just to corroborate my story.) Apart from that I'm already spreading the good news about WGS speakers out here in the Pacific Northwest and to to help me in that pursuit: a t-shirt is an aweful...
And Now, A Rare mid-blog Update:
And Now, A Rare mid-blog Update:
Howdy Gang! A couple items
of business here: First, concerning my
last blog on "wood wars". I’m going to clarify
something here. This topic is relevant
and made it into my blog for two reasons: 1. it affects guitar players and, 2.
it affects US manufacturing. It was not
intended to be political; a few of you seem to have taken it that way. Please note that I did not mention that in
2008, when the Lacey Act was expanded to include plant species and Gibson was
first raided, George Bush, a conservative Republican, was the president. I also did...