Orange with a humbucker guitar… love it.
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An interesting US record producer/guitarist by the name of Brad Allen Williams, recently came out and stated that the only Fenders worth buying are pre-1964 ones.
He argued that the quality had really gone down well before the 1965 buyout of Fender by CBS and that there was a specific date for the sudden drop of quality - 9 Feb 1964.
That is when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show which resulted in a massive spike in demand.
In 1963, Fender were producing 3-4 thousand electric guitars of all models a year. In 1965 (at the time of sale to CBS) this had exceeded 100K units a year with a $9 million inventory back order (that is 1965 dollars). In 1966, there were over 150,000 Fender Mustangs alone on back order.
If you ramp up production that quickly and cut many corners to meet demand, the quality of the product is going to massively drop. And it stayed crap for the next few decades.
Which is why Keef Richards, apart from 2 custom builds in the mid 70s, only bought pre-1963 and preferably pre-1960 guitars. Likewise, Neil Young also sticks to pre-1960 Gibsons and Fenders (apart from his Grech guitars and Epiphone knockoffs and the one Fender he bought mid 1980s (that was quickly and always going out of tune) was when he was sticking it to Geffen).
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Thats just silly.
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If I was rich and famous, just like other products wouldn’t you just ask for a custom built on specs and replication?
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I played a 58 strat once. Pretty underwhelming. But I was probably expecting a religious experience. For the record, one of the best guitars Ive ever played was a frigging squire. Weird.
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Fenders were always designed to be made cheaply & quickly, weren’t they?
flat bodies, bolt on necks.
I believe so. Think I read that in a book titled The Birth of Loud (?). But Leo still had an emphasis on quality in the production process, before he lost control.
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Stand back, I’m about to play E minor.
Is anyone a bit of a pedal board/pedal/signal chain guru? For some reason my Keeley Goldstar Reverb seems to boost signal audibly when engaged. I’ve tried it with the blend/mix at zero and there’s still a bump anytime it’s active. To my knowledge there’s no internal trim pot on the unit. I love it for the compression and distortion settings, but it just gets so much louder when active.
Current chain is guitar > korg pitch black > Seymour Duncan pickup booster > Friedman IR-X (from the send) > Keeley Goldstar verb > Aquapuss delay > front end of the Laney GH100L.
Have you turned off the pick up booster? Might be funky cocktail business there depending on your pups
I’m not familiar with this pedal, but I’m guessing it has a buffer that’s changing the impedance of your signal and restoring high-end. This can be perceived as a volume boost.
It’s pretty audible. I might see if I can’t record a quick demo of it.
Yeah, this is an always on for me (à la tube screamer driving front end) but I’ll try it with it out of the mix.
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Sounds like an awesome pedal, is it same across all settings? Or have I got the wrong thing here?
“The Gold Star seems a nice addition to the brand’s collection of “themed” retro pedals: it’s said to draw inspiration from Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound, as developed in the Gold Star Studios (hence the name).
It has three different reverb modes (Compressed/Distorted/Flanged) and I like what I’ve heard insofar.
Considering you’re hearing a volume boost even when the mix is set to zero points to a buffer built into the circuit being the reason.
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Try the keeley in the send return of the irx. Then run the irx into laney effects loop
I find digital delays and reverbs are best suited to the effects loop at the back of your amp (if it has one). Actually I find that’s the case with all digital pedals. Digital in back, analog out front.
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Just to add, I use a keeley hydra reverb/trem pedal in my effects loop. Works great back there.