I played a classic vibe squier tele today

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:34 pm

Seems as though one of the proclaimers has now bought one and posted up...

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Skip · Post by **Skip** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:27 pm

sounds great
what will fenders strategy be when everyone realizes the cheap ones are awesome?

ultraviolence · Post by **ultraviolence** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:41 pm

rediculously overprice them, just like they did with Jags & Mustangs.

but they'd have to go the extra mile on this one, and change it from a Squier Tele, to a Fender Tele!....and then get a bunch of famous rockstars to play them

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:14 pm

Got mine reserved... collecting thursday... yay...

.... plays like a dream !!

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:13 am

i love the fucking one handed vibrato this guy is doing 10 seconds into the video.

who needs a fuckin wammy bar when you can pull off that shit?

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:09 am

othomas2 wrote:
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wow, i liked the modded one the least. the stock one sounded great.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:21 pm

mewithoutus wrote:
wow, i liked the modded one the least. the stock one sounded great.

I know, what the hell. The new transformer and speaker together probably cost more than the goddamned amp did and made it sound like a farty piece of trash.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:27 pm

mewithoutus wrote:wow, i liked the modded one the least. the stock one sounded great.

Aye, I looked at mods for them and they all sounded arse, they just add more gain. The stock one is great through a cab and not bad through the 6" speaker.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:57 am

yeah i dont understand why you want more gain out of this amp. overdrive pedal, anyone?

the stock one sounds cool. if i had some extra scrilla, i would consider picking one up for jammin at home.

it just irks me that the corksniffers have to add all this crap to an already primo amp to get more gain and shit. jeez.

i might replace the tubes, and i might consider a speaker swap (and thats if i was really bored) but thats it.

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:50 am

It's amazing how close the original and reissue sound given that they're completely different circuits.
I liked the Champ 600 I played - it's really nice for just strumming or plunking out some chord-melody stuff. TGP asshats have to try to make everything into a Marshall or Mesa - ruins it for everyone else cause guys like that drive the market. It's almost impossible to find a clean sounding tube amp these days - even the new DRRI start to distort at 3 with a tele.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:45 am

That's not because of thegearpage, it's because people like to get the best out of Small Tube Amps (i.e. power tube breakup). If you want Clean headroom, try looking at something that actually... has some?

The Deluxe Reverb is a 22 watt amp. It has never been a clean machine, hence why I like it.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:13 pm

The vintage one sounds good. The other two are awful.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:38 pm

Got my Classic vibe tele today.... fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffukin lovely !!! ... in every way.. bye bye jaguar...

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:03 pm

Haha at the little kid in that video/.

Post by **Doog** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:30 pm

jcyphe wrote:The vintage one sounds good. The other two are awful.

+1, way too much bass and nasty trebz.

Post by **Doog** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:31 pm

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Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:38 pm

Zaphod wrote:
mewithoutus wrote:wow, i liked the modded one the least. the stock one sounded great.
Aye, I looked at mods for them and they all sounded arse, they just add more gain. The stock one is great through a cab and not bad through the 6" speaker.

your's should sound amazing as it has double mojo doogfest explosion mojo arrows

my problem is at the minute, i have a window of overtime pay coming through and am in two minds wether to get a classic vibe tele or save it for a baja tele in desert sand.

RadioSilence · Post by **RadioSilence** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:52 pm

DuoSonicBoy wrote:Soooo - in the vid with the 3 champs: What did the Mercury Magnetics mod do besides making the amp really noisy and shitty sounding?

The tele still sounds good, though.

yeah, i've got that amp and that video's persuaded me to keep it stock

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:13 pm

Progrockabuse wrote:
Zaphod wrote:
mewithoutus wrote:wow, i liked the modded one the least. the stock one sounded great.
Aye, I looked at mods for them and they all sounded arse, they just add more gain. The stock one is great through a cab and not bad through the 6" speaker.
your's should sound amazing as it has double mojo doogfest explosion mojo arrows

my problem is at the minute, i have a window of overtime pay coming through and am in two minds wether to get a classic vibe tele or save it for a baja tele in desert sand.

I wasn't keen on the baja but think the opposite of the classic vibe in the short time I've had it...

.... reasons... neck too fat... gaps at the side of the bridge... over complex pickup selections... and was more money than a used jag which I was also after at the time...

Everythin' mentioned above is rectified in the classic vibe... obviously heavily based on opinion of course...

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Post by **Mike** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:46 am

If you think the Baja switching system is complicated, you must have a fucking 'mare tying your shoelaces. It's an extra position at 4 which is a series combination and then a push switch for the two "both" pickup selection positions to flip the phase of the neck pickup.

OH MY GOSH!