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Post by myles on Jun 7, 2006 11:26:19 GMT -7
Congrats on having the best amp ever made in the universe. WOW That is a pretty bold statement. What speakers do you like to use with the CG? I am looking forward to trying it with my 4x10 Zcab. Yes ... I know it is a bold statement but I have also stated .... "if I could have only one amp for the remainer of my playing days it would be a Carment Ghia". I use mine with everthing from a single open back P-10R to a Marshall 4x12. My favorite cab is either a single 12 with a P12N or a Vox Blue or my stock Z-Best cab. The amp does everything I want and you can use it with sensitive studio mics (and it will love a ribbon mic that can be easily blown out by 100 watters and a lot of 50 watters too). The amp has more focused low end than any amp I own and has better string balance than any amp I own. In a large venue if you mic two of them and set one to 9:00 and the other to 1:00 you will have great cleans and great hard rock tones with the push of an A/B button. Just set the "clean amp" board level to anywhere you want it .... with 50,000 watts of house power behind you it is easy to get more clean headroom than a bank of 400 watt solid state Acoustic 260s at Woodstock. More touch sensitive and touch dynamic than any amp I have ever played and that includes my tweed collection.
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Post by johngourlay on Jul 27, 2006 10:28:35 GMT -7
Lefty, those Daphne blues are growing on me! I don't need more stuff, perhaps just one Lentz in that colour will cure my craving?
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Post by drew on Jul 28, 2006 7:48:21 GMT -7
Congrats GrooverGeorge and Terryg. I know this has been said on many threads but I've swapped out a few different sets of output tubes only (JJ's and different matched GTs 3 to 7 rating) and was amazed at the different characteristics the amp took on. I've not messed with the other tubes yet but have read on different threads that they also change the CG tone and response. And if that's not enough, for each speaker setup I try the amp responds differently. Nice....
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 10:52:52 GMT -7
Welcome to the club. I hope you don't have money tied up in other amps. If you spend much time with the Ghia, the others will collect dust. +1I own a fair amount of amps and not just Z amps. I have a number of the "typical" amps also. I will say that 8 times out of ten when I want to play I plug into the Carmen Ghia. The way things are done today in live work where amps may me mic'd or in the backline I have found that amps of 30 watts and less (most commonly 15-18 watt amps are used actually more and more) with a great large diaphram studio mic. With two Ghias ... one set at just under 9:00 and the other set at 1:00 you have amazing cleans and great distorted tones. With megawatts of house power behind you the Ghia at 9:00 has more clean headroom in the venue than all of the amps at 69 Woodstock combined if they were all turned to their cleanest setting.
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 10:53:32 GMT -7
Just thought I'd let ya all know I just joined the Ghia club. I haven't test driven the Ghia yet but by the look of the amount of threads and owners and the positive energy about this little rig, I am on a winner. I plan to buy a tone tubby alnico hempcone for it. I am just wondering of anyones thoughts regarding that speaker? The KT45 is still on the top of my list for a rock n roll gigging machine. That thing sounds like it was invented by God himself and the Stingray well lets just say the only thing that has stopped me from ordering one is that if I do a greedy bank will foreclose on my property. Ah the dreaded credit card maxed out factor Anyway heres the link to the amp, www.groovergeorge.com/drz.jpg"KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD" Happy playing .... one of those amps that you like more and more each year.
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 11:02:26 GMT -7
my good buddy...in fact the first fellow in town to own a Z amp and the one who turned me on to one the firt time had a tonetubby cab with two alnico hempcone 12's...he got it to go with his Maz Sr. and brought it over one day to see if some of my gear would change the tone that he wasn't digging.....we could not get acceptable tone from that cab...it was dark and flabby and the low end crunch and grind that you would expect from the el-84's in his Maz just farted out...we tried a Deluxe Reverb 6V6's and a el-34 based Rivera i had at the time and nothing could overcime the basic nature of the tonetubbies...he sold it.....i'm using a 30watt Weber Ceramic Bluedog currently with a Ghia and it's the bees knees .....its darkish but still has good chime and crunch...i have a Celestion V30 that i'm gonna build a cab for too when i want more volume and zing....theres a lot of excellent speakers that cost a lot less than the Tonetubbies out there....but this is just the opinion of a couple of tonefreaks in the middle of nowhere Oregon....we do know tone though.... Speakers are very much personal preference. The post below yours states that something must be wrong with what you tried. I do not personally agree here. I only can listen to these in a closed back Marshall cab when pushed to the limit of the amp. They always sound to me as if they are not broken in and I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting. On the Weber stuff .... I love his ceramics and alnicos. I have a few clients that use the Weber 10's (don't remember if they are the 100, 125 etc as Weber has a lot of speakers) in 4x10 Bassmans. Weber has some specific choices where he has two AlNiCO 10's and two of a model of his ceramic 10's that when using two of each it is just spectacular in a 4x10 Bassman. His (Weber) 50 watt AlNiCO is a great speaker and the new Vox Gold AlNiCO 50 watter is pretty amazing too. The Weber 30 watt ceramics are great to my ears also and are great in a Fender Deluxe Reverb and also really sweet with the Z-28 in a 1x12 extension cab. But .... in the end we all have different tastes.
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 11:04:34 GMT -7
Hey all, just a quick unimportant-in-the-new-world-order (except my own) announcement that I too have paid my dues to whatever powers get dues paid to them, to join the club. My Ghia will be abused by Friday night. (montypythonesque "yay") Terry..... Hello. Have not heard from you in a while. Hope it is cooler there than here!
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 11:06:40 GMT -7
Hey......I live in Australia guys! Waiting for gear to get shipped out down here even by FED-EX is a nervous pastime. I actually just bought a 1x12 closed back cab to put my Tone Tubby in.I hope that will help some in improving low end response. if the speaker doesn't live up to expectations I will just use it wth a bigger amp like a KT45 and get a Eminence Red Fang which I hear are great with smaller amps,have an alnico amgnet and have a very punchy low end. Next acqusition = Dr Z KT45 "KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD" Eminence Red Fang = killer speaker One of the GT guys here had one in a JDesigns / Fargen 1x12 speaker cab and it was one of the best setups I have heard in a long time.
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Post by myles on Jul 28, 2006 11:07:47 GMT -7
terry - did you play it yet? did you play it yet? apparently you did catch that montypython special that was going to be on TV! ;D Congrats on the Ghia!!! Terry knows what a Ghia can do .... he has driven all they out from Chicago at least three or four times to play mine Okay ... maybe he had other reasons to be here.... I know my wife likes him more than she likes me Maybe because he is not around her as much. Maybe because he does not play as loud as I do. Maybe because he is taller or better looking or younger. Maybe I will just move on to thinking more about what I can do v1 wise for Terry's new Ghia next time he is back in L.A. See how easy it is for me to take a perfectly good conversation and hang a hard left out of nowhere!
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Post by G'OlPeachPhan on Jul 31, 2006 13:23:49 GMT -7
Congratulations to the new Ghia owners! I'm going to go enjoy my own Ghia in a few moments...
Terry, it's been too long bro! Just sent you an e-mail.
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