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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 5:00:25 GMT -7
Longish clip of the CAZ 45 with chunks of about 25 tunes. Thought it might be helpful to someone pondering the amp. Really though, I just sat down for a while and fooled around playing guitar.
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Post by Russell B on Jun 29, 2021 6:05:05 GMT -7
Adam, your videos are always great. Thanks for sharing them with us.
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Post by BritInvasion on Jun 29, 2021 7:24:47 GMT -7
Wow , nice playing man! That rocked!
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Jun 29, 2021 7:47:15 GMT -7
Great stuff Adam Questions 1) Did you adjust amp settings or were those the same settings? Pedals or straight in - time effects not included.
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Jun 29, 2021 7:47:35 GMT -7
Great stuff Adam - thanks for sharing! Questions 1) Did you adjust amp settings or were those the same settings? Pedals or straight in - time effects not included.
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Post by Russell B on Jun 29, 2021 7:55:55 GMT -7
Great stuff Adam - thanks for sharing! Questions 1) Did you adjust amp settings or were those the same settings? Pedals or straight in - time effects not included. Mike, I know there was at least one different setting in that video.
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Post by steiner on Jun 29, 2021 8:09:15 GMT -7
Gettn' yer Uncle Ted on! Nice...
Love the Neil, Jimmy, Tony and especially Ronnie!!!
Thank you.
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 11:03:16 GMT -7
Love the Neil, Jimmy, Tony and especially Ronnie!!! Thank you. I thought the Ronnie was fun too. For some reason with this amp when I just sit down and play, I'll play something and think "boy that sounds pretty close"... to what I remember in my head anyway. It probably isn't as close as I think, but it feels that way anyway. No need to thank me, but thanks back to you!
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 11:14:31 GMT -7
Great stuff Adam - thanks for sharing! Questions 1) Did you adjust amp settings or were those the same settings? Pedals or straight in - time effects not included. I played most of it one one setting and got up at some point and twisted some knobs. Not really sure why or where. Was probably playing something and it made me want to change something. The whole process was 1. Sit down and play and record it and hope nothing clips. Probably 1.5 hours of playing. 2. Pull the 2 tracks of audio up on a daw/mixer. Find a generic balance between the 2 mics. 3. I had a slapjack sound from and old cheap lexicon up, then found a reverb on an older better lexicon that kind of worked. 4. Sit there and listen to the whole thing and record that through the mixer back to another track in the daw. As it was playing, I'd play with the balance of the mics, maybe more verb or slap, maybe none, etc. At some point I played with the panning of the mics. Just kind of messing with it as it was going. 5. Take that stereo mix into my other area (the garage!) and kind of "mastered" it, just listening to little chunks. Render that. 6. Bring video and audio mix into video program and just started cutting out stuff that was less crappy than the stuff I kept. 7. Render video. 8. Upload to YT. That took forever for YT to process the file, like hours. I think it was trying to figure out copyright stuff and then just gave up after a while.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jun 29, 2021 15:29:12 GMT -7
I really like the Zep thing at the end. Good stuff, Adam. It really shows off what that amp will do when it's properly massaged.
Question for you, were you using the Air Brake? I can't make out the switch settings or tell for sure whether it had both jacks in. Thanks as always...
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 16:20:53 GMT -7
Dave - no, not using air brake. Haven't even tried it with that amp, just feels like it doesn't need anything. No pedals, for the same reason. The Zep thing, probably the best example in there of how it cleans up from the guitar volume, even with the gain at 3pm. It has that huge range (probably more) of what I hear (or remember) on the Rain Song from their live record. Kind of fun, and maybe some hindsight to that, I just looked at the amp settings from the Montrose stuff to that Zep thing and they are the same. Guessing a bit, but I probably had the tone on the guitar rolled back quite a bit on the Montrose thing and higher on the zep thing. I usually start with bridge pickup tone back around 5 or 6, get a sound on the amp from that, then switching to the neck pickup works a lot better with the tone there on 10. Like not so muddy, has a little sparkle and make the neck pickup just more useable to me. Back to the bridge, you can then warm it up a bit or add more top clarity and bite depending on what's going on. Maybe the coolest thing to me looking back is some of the ferocity in the TN bar chords. I've never had an amp that did that stuff. I could sit and arm chair quarterback about it's the rectifier doing it's thing, but I have no idea. It just sounds cool to me. If I only had this amp in '77.
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 16:22:15 GMT -7
Great stuff Adam - thanks for sharing! Questions 1) Did you adjust amp settings or were those the same settings? Pedals or straight in - time effects not included. Sorry, I forgot about the pedals. No pedals.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jun 29, 2021 16:32:54 GMT -7
That's a great tip on the tone thing; I need to work at that. I was just playing my Heritage 535 and I have a bad habit of running my tone controls wide open. I've been doing it like that since the '70s and I still haven't gotten the message...I'm going to work on learning this old dog a couple of new tricks. I sure am glad that you have become a regular here, Adam. I'm picking new things up all the time and I always enjoy and learn from your great contributions! Thanks so much. Back to the amp and how controllable it is, it simply amazes me how well voiced it is. The complex chord inversions come through and the harmonics are just beautiful. It's so much fun to play and I really dig hearing you tear into the TN stuff then wind right down to Rain Song sweetness. So cool.
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 18:46:02 GMT -7
Thanks so much Dave. I'm still learning all the time too.
I got that tone control tip from watching a thobak video on how to setup pickups. I bought some of those, but I found I really liked my LP with the stock pickups once I dialed them in. Then I saw that guy who plays with Robin Ford (and has a guitar lesson thing he does too) talk about it (he uses throbaks) too, and I figured he got it from him. Then I saw Tim Pierce talk about it and getting it from that last mentioned guy. I think it all goes back to that throbak guy, so putting credit where it's due. He probably picked it up from someone else too.
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Post by adam on Jun 29, 2021 18:49:03 GMT -7
And Dave, I think this was that video.
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Post by steiner on Jul 1, 2021 12:12:06 GMT -7
I adjusted most of my guitars after watching that video. It makes a huge difference!
I love that chord progression from "Good Rockin' Tonight"! Satriani used the same riff in "Soap On A Rope" with Chickenfoot - another Sammy band. You executed it flawlessly!
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Post by adam on Jul 1, 2021 19:30:32 GMT -7
steiner - Yes, worth the time to fool with and doesn't cost anything. And thank you.
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Post by nicholas on Jul 4, 2021 3:10:05 GMT -7
Hey, nice work Adam. All your demos are great, This one stuck out to me as particularly useful from an amp shopping perspective. I liked hearing just the amp without a bunch of other stuff going on. I also liked how you pretty much left the amp alone and didn't try to totally nail the tone of each song in exacting detail. It reminds me of how most people would actually use the amp, find a good universal tone and just play it. That's how I'll use it anyway. Just ordered the last one from Matt's music. Your demos helped. So thanks for that.
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Post by adam on Jul 4, 2021 6:09:25 GMT -7
Thanks Nicholas. It will do a lot more sounds too, I just kind of like that amp somewhere around those types of settings. If you are really going for something specific, there's a lot of options in tone between the sensitivity, gain, and aggression. Couple of examples of that maybe being when the sensitivity is high, it get sort of a "spitty" attack which kind of reminds me of some of the cranked fender steely dan solos. With the aggression high, it takes on a lot of what I hear in say some of Nuno Bettencourt's tones.
For me personally, if I was playing in some heavy rock thing, or even say a Zep or Rush tribute, the amp would just kill. Someone mentioned Warren Haynes the other day, and it would kill at that too. If the situation requires a lot more clean sound as a base, better to start with a different Z.
The sound examples, like with band or not, I think they both have merit. Guitar is really an ensamble instrument to me, so in context, again to me, kind of makes sense. The Tom Sawyer one in particular I was pretty happy how the guitar came out. Just throw a single mic on it, set the fader level, and the guitar worked perfectly to me there. Some of that is just their arrangement of the tune that made it work, but nevertheless.
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Post by nicholas on Jul 5, 2021 5:22:11 GMT -7
Thanks Nicholas. It will do a lot more sounds too, I just kind of like that amp somewhere around those types of settings. If you are really going for something specific, there's a lot of options in tone between the sensitivity, gain, and aggression. In your original demo (1:06-1:57) you did Ice9 by Satriani. I'm actually not a huge fan of his tone of that era, but the way you had it set up it sounded more like his current tone, which I quite like. Much more organic than his older stuff. That's pretty much how I'll set it up and real close to the tone I'm always going for. If I can clean it up with the guitar volume and get into Billy Gibbons territory I'll be a happy dude
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jul 5, 2021 5:34:42 GMT -7
Nicholas, you're going to be amazed at how well this amp is controllable via guitar volume. It's the most responsive amp I've ever owned.
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Post by adam on Jul 5, 2021 7:20:25 GMT -7
If I can clean it up with the guitar volume and get into Billy Gibbons territory I'll be a happy dude It will clean up. The Gibbons thing, or at least how I think of his old tones, comes from a different place, I think. You could probably get close dialing the amp differently though. Or just play full out and you are pretty much in that Sharp Dressed Man era of stuff. Regardless, good luck and hope enjoy the amp!
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