Lu Zwei wrote: Sun May 12, 2024 9:37 am

Selmer Treble N bass 50 watt 1965

Does not suck!

I have a croc version of one of these and I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing, maybe a different rectifier or something, but it’s totally a great amp. I was going to buy a fancy blonde Bassman and got the Selmer instead because it was cheaper pre-2020. For a time it was also cheaper to import amps from the UK than to buy the same thing domestically, so I had mine shipped from London to Texas.

I doubt it will make any sense, but these amps are supposed to be kind of like if Jim Marshall full-English’d a blonde Bassman instead of a tweed. EL34s do some kind of soaring sound that is hard to explain but this amp in particular sounds good at any volume.

FM free meat deserves half the credit for this purchase for sure. He put me up to it, after I loved his guitar sound for almost a decade.

Finding it on Reverb, was an easy task. And I found one in Germany, right away. Luckily.

Just dropped it off today for a slight inspection, my friend will open it and see if anything needs to be done.

We are two very similar idiots. May it always ruin the hearing of others.

AKG P4 may be my new favorite snare mic. It's small and easy to place and it sounds great for for something like $60.

croc skin selmer is a grail amp for me - I believe it's the swervedriver studio amp of choice?

So I’ve been on a sdc kick lately since my last post about stereo pairs. I was able to find single examples of AT4051, KSM137, and a C451 all for about $150-$250 each so I could just try them my own damn self, or I would have bought FM Nate’s Oktavas as soon as he listed them.

It turns out that I loved the sound of a C451 on my Taylor acoustic guitar. It totally killed the At4051 and KSM by just sounding like a good acoustic guitar on a good record. I think mine is a C452EB, which is the same thing but made for phantom power. I don’t know if mine has the fancy CK1 capsule.
It did pick up a lot of bleed from voice, though. Maybe more than the others? The phase was pretty ok since I was singing into a dynamic but it messed me up a little when I tried to add a little fake Plate to the acoustic sound, which caused a weird-not-good room resonance on the voice.

Between the AT4051 and the KSM137 I preferred the KSM solo’d, but then preferred the 4051 as tracks were added. The sound of the Audio Technica just seemed to speak more w/ stuff piled around it.

I like the 4051 on percussion and kind of halfheartedly tried the KSM137 as well and it sounded totally fine.

Anyways, they all sound fine but I am pleased to have a clear preference.

That is awesome, I'm going to see if we have a C451 around

On the coldest day in Chicago history, FM steve welcomed me on an off day to bring some acoustic guitars to record them - I recorded about 4-6 hours of tape and footage of Steve going in depth as to mic'ing acoustic guitars (Taylors specifically) and then my work's marketing dept. completely bungled it all getting edited as a video series and never released. Steve was, as you can imagine, too cool to about it. Now with his passing I have some arm wrangling to do to release it as, why not get as much steve content in the world as possible - and acoustic mic technique is fantastic

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 5:34 pm I recorded about 4-6 hours of tape and footage of Steve going in depth as to mic'ing acoustic guitars (Taylors specifically)

?!?! Of course that would be great to see, but it’s cool that you were even able to make that happen. Couldn’t imagine

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 7:43 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 5:34 pm I recorded about 4-6 hours of tape and footage of Steve going in depth as to mic'ing acoustic guitars (Taylors specifically)

?!?! Of course that would be great to see, but it’s cool that you were even able to make that happen. Couldn’t imagine

it was all steve really. I just brought stuff, my friend/veteran filmographer-ier and spouse as "Tedious Task Person" (oh the pre-cancer days). To add spice to the story, the people that played the guitars were Andy Cohen, Rob Bochnik and Eric Ziegenhagen, who were all amazing. (As expected)

Hayman 4040 arrived today. Baseball-bat neck with no taper, Kind of like a Ric, but thicker than the one on my 4003. Sounds like a cross between a Ric and a P. Currently strung with flatwounds, I bet it would growl with roundwounds.

Turns out it's the same one featured on this page: https://blackguitars.com/burns-1969-hayman-4040.html
I had seen those photos before, and when it arrived and I saw the indian head nickel in the headstock, I immediately recognized it.