Daniel Sorbera

Listed on ebay

I'm changing up my rig and I want something with more power so I'm selling my hand built (by me) single ended class A 6v6 tube amp. It started as an ax84 P1 kit that I modified to my liking.

I built it into two epiphone valve junior cabs that are stacked (bolted together) to make a "mini stack".

All the components are the best available, including the input and output transformers (very important).

The controls are,

Master volume

volume (gain)

bass

mid

treble

on/off

standby

It's nothing super special, just a good sounding low watt tube amp thats great for recording or playing with low stage volume.

I love the sound, I just need something with more power so I can get a loud clean volume before breakup.

I'm looking to get $300 + shipping.

Djembe not included

I'd much rather hear the guitar itself, played through an actual amp, than the overprocessed sound from a pod.

The pod doesn't sound "overly processed" in my opinion. In fact if I told you that I had recorded it with a vox AC-30 TB and original tube screamer I wonder would anyone know the difference? Hard to say.

Hell, any guitar plugged into that setting will likely sound pretty much exactly the same.

What you think about the tone of the pod aside, different guitars sounds like themselves through it.

The recording also emphasizes the sound of the pick on the strings-- which makes me wonder if it's the guitar's fault or the pod's (I'm guessing it's the pod's, but you see what I mean).

That is just my sub-par playing.

Why can't MY Pod sound that good?

It's all in the guitar

I like your ideas about "this is the bridge pickup with *** amp playing ***" or something like that.

I'm just not seeing the banana, but you get +10 points for being unique

Recorded with my Pod XT Live USB into audacity.

Amp model, Vox AC-30 TB (on the edge of breakup)

pedal model, Tube screamer (level maxed, drive at half)

Guitar, Mahogany/maple single cut with seymour duncan distortion pickups

The bridge pickup was used for the recording

No EQ, all effects (slight reverb and delay) are from the pod.

Excuse my less than amazing playing, it's the best I can do.

Link

This is my first attempt at recording. Aside from playing better/something more interesting what tips do you have?

Reverb and delay is all you need,trust me on that...to be honest,you don't even need the delay.

I just have my reverb pedal(boss rv 5) set up to be noticeable,but not too deep,and it REALLY helps.

Send me your email via p.m. and I will attach a sound clip of me playing the intro lead to fade the black with nothing but stock amp gain and reverb.

+1

the right reverb and delay (mostly reverb) will make or break your solo tone.

The matching mini-tuners and control knobs is pure genius.

Maybe in the future you can disguise the sustainer to look like a humbucker where one coil is your single coil pickup and the other coil is the sustainer... Just a thought.

I've done this a couple times and never had any problems. Just sand it back like you normally would and continue as if it were never there. As Wez mentioned tru-oil doesn't penetrate very deep.

It's upside down in that photo, strings facing the chair.

Nifty!

psst...you're supposed to go build an acoustic one of these days real soon now, remember? Make some acoustic nifty of your very own!

Daniel: not sure I understand the question. The back's wedged, not the top - the guitar's lying face-down, epoxy curing in that picture. Front and neck geometry are entirely unaffected. Essentially, you're tapering heel to tail and side to side. Easy enough with a dish.

What I mean is this, with the back angled the way when you hold the guitar the bass strings are closer to your body than the treble strings, which changes the pick attack so that when you strum your picking more "into" the fingerboard instead of parallel with it, which causes string buzz.

But I've never played one, so I may be over thinking it and it's not an issue at all.

BTW I LOVE that abalone, my next one will have to have full abalone binding now after seeing yours. Beautiful to be sure.

How does that work for pick attack? Wouldn't you be hitting the strings more toward the fingerboard than normal (and therefore increasing string buzz and other undesirables)?

So your going with no binding on this one? Thats interesting.

It's looking good, I like your "player" sound hole.

Bit late, but FWIW I love schallers.

Your pains are not limited to "budget" models. Yesterday I was in guitar center with some time to burn so I went into the acoustic room and played every high end guitar on the wall. Including $3000+ taylors, breedloves, Martins, and gibsons. I was not impressed by any of them.

But than I walked over and picked up a taylor DN3 (I think thats what it was) it was a $900 dread with sapele back and spruce top with no electronics, obviously taylors budget model. But I was blown away with not only the sound, but the playability. That was the single nicest sounding and playing acoustic guitar I have ever played, and I've played a lot of $4000+ guitars. The lows were strong, yet not boomey in the least, the mids were strong and every note came through great, the highs were clear and everything had definition. Plus is was LOUD. Very loud. I could drive it hard with a pick and it wouldn't miss a beat or I could touch it with fingerstyle and it would sing. Everything I played on it sounded good.

If I had the money on me I would have bought that guitar in a heartbeat and put in a fishman matrix infinity or something because holy freaking crap that was the nicest guitar I've ever played, and I know a good guitar when I see one.

Now I know all taylor DN3's aren't going to be like this one, but sometimes factory guitar get lucky and pump out one "fluke" guitar that actually sounds good. Just keep shopping around, you'll find something that turns you on. Oh and remember all those guitars your playing in the store are setup like crap and have 3 month old dead strings on them. If you find one you really like get the store to throw in some new strings and a good setup.

Sounds like a paint incompatibility issue.

I really like the headstock. I think it works perfectly with the body.

The levels of spam are getting brutal. I'm not a forum admin pro, but here are some things that might help:

- new captcha for registration

- prune the userlist. Maybe some spambots are using old logins?

- additional mods

Regarding the 3rd one, it doesn't have to be full-on mods or anything, enforcing rules, etc. It could just be trustworthy people who are simply willing to delete spam threads. I'm on here at least every other day, sometimes multiple times a day, so I'll gladly volunteer. Unfortunately, "Delete thread" and "Delete Post" is one of the highest mod privs, so it'll be hard to give someone that sort of control/power without giving the whole mod shebang on paper. But in practice, they could just be deleters. Y'know?

Greg

I wanted to post the same thing earlier today. It's getting ridiculous! I'll throw in my application for helper mod.

I know the mods are busy and you can't be on 24/7 to clean things up, but maybe the answer (at least temporarily, since it's a big problem lately) is to add more mods.

They might even consider giving mod status to more people but making it so they can "police" only in the off topic section (although these spam threads are now showing up in other sections).

Check this out...

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff185/r...08/P1190757.jpg

Bling meets cigar box guitars, nice.

http://www.gibson.com/Promotions/ReverseFlyingV/

It's just so... wrong.

Okay. I just changed my mind. Totally forgot about this one! Gibson usually make beautiful guitars, but I think someone was drunk while making that shape. 2000 years of hideousness combined into one guitar.

Or, knowing gibsons quality control, the person making the guitar had the template backwards when they routed the neck pocket and management was like, "hmmm I I think I could sell that"

Do you have the correct springs on the pickup mounting screws?

Just how loud are you playing?! Hearing loss is no joke.

how much does it weigh? How does it sound? The pictures looks great, very cool build.

I actually think chrome pickup rings would work better than anything else in this situation.

Looks amazing, but we have a rule around here to post 1 image and make the rest links. It took me a while to load that page even on highspeed.

Ok I'm confused. I have read your post numerous times and I just cant make out what you are talking about. Is there a question somewhere in there? What stage is this guitar in right now and what do you plan on doing with it?