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  3. Bands sought for new music podcast from The Flaneur

    in Networking

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    Hi,

    The Flaneur is a large cultural blog and we are launching a podcast based around new music.

    We are looking for new bands and singers who would like to feature on the podcast. Any genre is suitable as we have eclectic tastes.

    There are more details here:

    http://flaneur.me.uk/01/join-our-podcast-team/

    Please send an MP3 and details about the band to podcast@flaneur.me.uk. Please name the MP3 with the name of the song and the band.

    Thanks

    Who are you calling large?    :laughing: 

  4. Guitar Setups

    in Musicians' Corner

    Posted

    I've been setting up, rewiring and customising my own and friends guitars for years.

     

    I can now quote for work on Electric Guitar repairs and setups if anyone wants to PM me for details.

     

    I've bought three guitars from Dave.  He can make a cheap guitar play good and a good guitar play better..... :)

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  5. Bridge Coming Off Body On Acoustic Guitar

    in Musicians' Corner

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    Could be a bunch of reasons for this.  Unless you are really lucky, adding fresh glue to the dried-out residue will just be a temporary fix.

     

    When you take this to the luthier, he will need to know if you've been tuning up two steps, or using 14s, on a skinny cedar top.  He'll likely shove a mirror into the body, to see if braces behind the bridge are broken or loose and he'll perhaps tell you to pay more attention to the heat and humidity in the room where the instrument usually lives.

     

    I've seen bridges 'fixed' with bolts and wood screws.  Your Luthier will not be doing this.  He'll remove the bridge with heat, remove all the old glue, prepare the mating surfaces carefully, re-glue and clamp the repair, for a day or two.  He'll also sort out any internal braces, that might have been causing the problem.

     

    Cheap, fast and good............  in repair terms, you can only pick two.  :)

  7. Facebook Etiquettne For Performers...

    in Musicians' Corner

    Posted · Edited by Flaneur

    Getting good sound is like having good guitar tone..... it doesn't happen by accident- and the best musicians usually seem to have both.  Unless the PA is actually broken, it's the player's responsibility to make sure he or she is happy with the sound- on stage and in the room.  Blaming external circumstances is weak and slagging off the sound guy, in public, is pitiful.

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  12. replacing tele neck humbucker

    in Musicians' Corner

    Posted

    As you've found, the repro WRHBs on Mexican Tele Customs (and Deluxes) are the Achilles heel of an otherwise well built and designed guitar. The original WRHBs- with CuNiFe magnets- were rightly revered as classics....... but I believe the magnets are no longer made.

    Jason Lollar is the guy most American owners look to, for a solution to your problem. This is a great but expensive way to go.

    http://www.guitarexperience.co.uk/pickups/lollar-pickups/lollar-regal-humbucker.html

    I have no experience with this company - but I see you can buy an interesting alternative made in Manchester......

    http://www.at-the-creamery.co.uk/custom-handwound-pickups-from-the-creamery/wide-range-thinline-humbucker-replacements.html

    Not sure what kind of tones you like. You might prefer to have a custom pickguard made and drop in some Gibson sized alternatives? This wouldn't be cheap, either- as I'm sure you've surmised. You might get a company to rewind your existing pickups, which would save some cash.

    Hope I've given you somewhere to start looking from......... good luck. :)

  19. Looking for a Resonator Style Guitar

    in Equipment

    Posted

    http://www.fineresophonic.com/contact.htm

    This Guy. Problem being, he's in Paris :) It's a really specialist thing. Most people in Britain who claim to have lots of experience with Resos....... don't.

    Dropping a National cone in your guitar would improve the tone no end. Sounds like the original one may be done......

    For all the talk of 16-60 sets on Nationals, serious dealers like Frailers don't recommend anything past a 14. If you're using super low tunings, you might get away with it though.

  20. Korean 335 dot

    in Equipment

    Posted

    To be fair, Ronz, you are speaking more as a trader, than a player, when you say that. If I'm looking for an affordable, upgradeable guitar- and someone has already done the work- especially on a fiddly instrument, like a Hollow or Semi-Hollow body, then I might easily pay a premium for that.

    I'm sure people buy guitars with a view to cannibalising them, too. A cheap purchase with a good pickup added might have a quick profit in it, for the right person.

    Korean guitars are commanding a premium over similar Chinese instruments. In terms of fit and finish, the good ones can be very good indeed. I think the OP has set his price at a reasonable figure (with room to haggle?).

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  21. Looking for a Resonator Style Guitar

    in Equipment

    Posted

    Obviously there are huge differences in tone between metal and wooden guitars and between bridge types. This is just a matter of taste, although you won't hear many country players using metal bodied instruments, or Delta blues lovers using Dobro type instruments.

    http://www.frailers.com

    This is a good place to look for new and used guitars- the best selection outside of London (and they will haggle).

    Ozark and Recording King guitars are pretty good for the money, as are the Chinese Hound Dogs (made for Gibson). The Goldtones, that Frailers sell, are better value, IMO. Great second hand- but you need to know what you are looking for, with resonators. Faults are hard to correct and the stresses the instruments suffer can be terminal. Busker guitars are building a reputation among steel body players- but I have never had my hands on one, so can't comment from experience.

    Ozark and Recording King are often sold locally and come up second hand, from time to time. Expect to pay no more than £250 and walk away, if the neck isn't perfectly straight and solid, or if the cone rattles and squeals excessively. If you were thinking of spending much more than that, look at a new Goldtone Dobro- and play as many steel/brass bodied instruments as you can.

    Amplifying a Resonator can be a pain- so don't get your hopes up:). Some of the best players use an SM57, rather than messing with Piezos. Others nail on a humbucker- which works, in a not very Resophonic way......

    We are not talking about the difference between a Mex and a US Tele, if we compare an Ozark with a National, by the way. If you are really into slide blues and want to spend £500 plus..... save your money and buy a used National, for £1100 or so. It's an investment, in every sense of the word.

  24. Is it worth it?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    A friend of mine took a beautiful vintage amp to the Oxjam last friday- but ended up playing through a Fender Mustang, with no complaints about his tone.

    I A/B'd a CV Squier Tele with a Partscaster full of boutique pickups, on sunday. The pickups would cost as much as the Squier, if you bought them new. Both guitars sounded great and work well in a live mix.

    Most posters here could think of similar examples, I'm sure. The incremental differences we obsess about- and pay for- are near-indiscernable to the audience.

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