New guy in New Orleans

Sidney Vicious · Post by **Sidney Vicious** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:30 am

The story on the guitar is the usual - eBay, patience, and luck.

The guitar appears to be completely original and came with a shortscale Fender hard case with the tailed amp logo. Only fiddly thing is the ground wire under the control plate (?) Sometimes the guitar gets noisy until I bang on the the control knob. Need a permanent fix. Sweet neck.

The amp too bone stock and minty! Unusual in that instead of board with the components laid out in typical fashion - this is my third 6AQ5 model - this one has a metal strip down the middle of the guts with the components wired to it - or wired point to point.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:40 am

Welcome!

I think my favourite colour combo on a fender is black pickguard on white body. That just never gets old for me.

I've heard that those musicmaster bass amps are amazing as guitar amps and lousy as bass amps.

Sidney Vicious · Post by **Sidney Vicious** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:02 pm

astro wrote:Welcome!

I think my favourite colour combo on a fender is black pickguard on white body. That just never gets old for me.

I've heard that those musicmaster bass amps are amazing as guitar amps and lousy as bass amps.

I too am partial to the white and black combo - particularly once that white gets all mellowed and yellowed.
The MMB amps are indeed sweet guitar amps - the big 12 inch in the big cab gives it a great tone - for guitar - once I put the Weber it it will really sing. I have owned both the 6AQ5 and 6V6 models and to my dull ears didn't notice a difference that wasn't likely the result of everything but the tubes - condition, cab construction - particle board or pine, speaker, etc. All things being equal I prefer the 6AQ5 for its oddball funkiness. The earlier amps were the 6AQ5 and so are more likely in the pine cabinet. The pine model is shockingly light in weight for its size.

Thanks for the compliments to astro and all - and all for welcoming me to your fine site - and Richard for helping me figure out Flikr.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:13 pm

i also have a white 'n' black MM and accompanying amp.

i've used the amp for two gigs now and it sounds great. not much use past 5 on the volume, but if it's mic'd up that's fine.

Sidney Vicious · Post by **Sidney Vicious** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:46 pm

stewart wrote:i also have a white 'n' black MM and accompanying amp.

i've used the amp for two gigs now and it sounds great. not much use past 5 on the volume, but if it's mic'd up that's fine.

Sweet pair, Stewart!

Beyond 5 too much break up?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:55 pm

Sidney Vicious wrote:Beyond 5 too much break up?

yeah, if it's much past 5 and i whack a fuzz through it, it doesn't really like it.

it needs a service and i might switch the speaker just out of interest, maybe that'll tidy things up a bit.