So, blown power tubes

Pacomc79 · June 2004

my dilemma. Do I choose the obvious cool name and all of a Fender obviously I love the look and feel, or do I get a custom built Carvin, knowing it will come set up perfect and solidly built exactly as I want it but potentially be left desiring a different name on the headstock and perhaps a different set of pickups eventually. Thing is the Carvin is still probably $250 less and that makes it tempting not to mention the ebony fingerboard.

House53 · June 2004

I have gone through that before...

I had a Reverend Slingshot... great guitar, but the name on the headstock was wrong. Now, the Townshend SG is a better guitar, better build and materials, I like the pups better, better tuners, etc... but the Gibson on the headstock makes me like it more.

With my tele, it isn't a Fender, but you can't tell that from a distance.

If you get a Carvin, get a body shape that is close to the Fender if you can... that really helped me with the tele. Where as the Reverend has a very unique body shape and design.

Most importantly, you have to find a guitar that you are comfortable with and has the features you like. Being comfortable on a guitar makes such a big difference...

I hope that I will still have the two guitars I have now in 25 years... in 35 years... (I will likely have other guitars too, but really have an instrument be MY guitar)

So, do you want a Fender? That's cool... Fender makes some great guitars, you can get the pups and wiring you want done to it at some point and it will have resale value if you ever change your mind...

The Carvin? Custom made, to your specs. Well made and with options the Fender doesn't have. It says Carvin on the headstock... Nothing wrong with that either. One drawback I do see with the Carvin, you can't play it before you buy it... guitars are so subjective, each one is different... it is nice to be able to search through for a good one...

I would get the best Fender you can get your hands on... try a bunch of them, and get the one that feels the best.

Pacomc79 · June 2004

well, carvin has been building guitars for years almost as long as fender, and I've played and seen enough as well as examined the specs to know, it's going to be perfect when I get it whereas the Fender will almost certainly need to be set up. Regardless I've been lusting after a stratocaster for so long I'll probably go with the Fender that is if I can find one in the specs I want in a store.

Everytime I think about trading the LP Studio I play it and the neck is just so perfect. Damn I love ebony, but if I found the right PT SG. I'd be all over it.

House53 · June 2004

I prefer maple or rosewood on a neck myself... if you like an LP Studio neck, the neck on a PT SG is much different.

I have never had a thing for a Strat. If I were looking for a guitar to replace an LP Studio... I would probably get something like a tele with humbuckers... you move to the longer scale, but keep the beef of the humbuckers... there is a big difference between strat pups and humbuckers (I know you know this, but it is worth repeating)...

In my book you can never go wrong with a tele.

Pacomc79 · June 2004

I like a lot of different necks actually and the PT SG's are some of my favorites, I like lots of gibson necks, the problem I have with them is they don't offer ebony on any guitar I'd really want. The LP Standard with the neck I have now would be perfect but the quality of the rosewood and inlays on the LP Standards is really in the toilet lately. I'd take cheap ebony over cheap rosewood any day. I like maple too, but not on a Gibson.

House53 · June 2004

I agree on the quality with LP Standards lately... they are unimpressive on the whole... they still have some nice ones, but you really have to search...

All Those Yesterdays · June 2004

Tubes can blow, then can short out anything can happen. Thats just how tubes are. Sometimes they'll last for years, next time they last for a month. Just the way it is. Welcome to tube'ville. My first tube amp, blew a power tube took out a board with it a year after I bought it. 3 months later the power tubes failed again. Now they've been in there for almost two years, and no problems. Keep it.

LemonYellowSun · June 2004

Originally posted by mccreadyisgod
Believe me, I know EXACTLY how you feel. Right now, I want two Fender '72 Tele Custom reissues with new pups in both, a Boss DD-6, and a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power unit. I'll definitely get the DD-6, and am working on the Pedal Power. The Teles will have to wait. Like, a few years.

Just got a DD-6 about three months ago. My question is, "what can't it do?".......I mean this thing has so many features it's actually quite a steal for around $150. I find that the hold function is very useful on the fly and the reverse delay is out of this world! If you get one, enjoy!

mccreadyisgod · June 2004

Originally posted by LemonYellowSun
Just got a DD-6 about three months ago. My question is, "what can't it do?".......I mean this thing has so many features it's actually quite a steal for around $150. I find that the hold function is very useful on the fly and the reverse delay is out of this world! If you get one, enjoy!

I've used them (and the other DD units, the 3 and 5) many times before, and I love them. I currently have a rack delay unit that I love to death, but it's a pain in the ass to use for gigs. Not to mention cabling it into my signal path... I run my phaser into my tubescreamers, then into my delay, and finally into my reverb. Going from the pedalboard to the delay and then back to the pedalboard is a cabling nightmare.

I'll have one soon enough... thanks...

So, blown power tubes

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