burton@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Jamez de Coilier) (06/07/91)
In <6118@mindlink.bc.ca>, I could have sworn Gord_Wait@mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Wait) managed to say: >Here it goes again...... The answer to good, smooth, great sounding guitar >distortion is TUBES! Throw out those nasty bipolar/jfet/cmos/digital >are real messy to manufacture) > > :> Borrow somebody's marshall or hiwatt or fender TUBE amp, and check it out. No need to spend much money if you just want to record, or otherwise mic up a tube amp. Remember what a gramophone is, one of those record players from the 1960's? They contain a stereo ( possibly ) valve amplifier. The plan is to get hold of one of these ( surely less than $5 ) and rip out the ceramic cartridge in the tonearm. Wire your guitar lead/ keyboard lead across the input, and away you go. I won't be real loud, but you're unlikely to burn out the input stage very easily so play around with pre-amps and stuff. -- from the office of, James Burton. Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Email burton@latcs1.lat.oz.au