Are we willing go used/vintage/rebranded in our all-yammy band? I was about to say cymbals might be a deal breaker but thankfully some coked-out exec in the 80s decided to market cymbals:

https://www.drumforum.org/threads/who-m ... 0s.168168/

Consensus seems to be these are rebranded Zildjian, but who cares when they’re zooming to the waterfront gig in your Kenny Powers jet-ski!

penningtron wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:32 am Maybe I have mush ears but I've never tried/heard Yamaha gear (drums, amps, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos) that didn't sound at least pretty good, even when it had no right to.

A couple of things...

For a good stretch, the Yamaha MD8 minidisc eight track was the unit that most of the recording that I(along with a circle of folks who borrowed it...) recorded on. I think that it used ATRAC compression.

The thing went all over the place, and I think that one if the line inputs finally gave it a couple of years ago. Will still play just fine.

Also seems like the old "Analog..." board a Schubas was a Yamaha.

Heard untold numbers of completely solid sounding shows mixed on that thing.

As for the Revstar?

You can slap whatever "Humbucker Mount..." pickups you like into one, and no one is going to start having an episode about you having demolished it's "Collector..." value.

One last thing...

The Yamaha TC series of amps that Micheal Soldano designed, and Yamaha supposedly tweaked a bit by the time it got to the production model?

Total keeper.

things i dearly wish someone had told me 30 years ago: 'you can handle 90% of what any situation needs with a Pacifica 112V, a solid state amp with an fx loop, and committed practice. everything else is make-believe.'

numberthirty wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:39 am One last thing...

The Yamaha TC series of amps that Micheal Soldano designed, and Yamaha supposedly tweaked a bit by the time it got to the production model?

Total keeper.

I've got one - it was my one "I spent more than I should have on this", but it really is great! It has the whole Soldano association, but the cleans alone are worth the price of admission.
Another one here by me for $500 and I'm considering grabbing for when a friend needs a bulletproof great amp https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 941034d194

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:03 am

numberthirty wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:39 am One last thing...

The Yamaha TC series of amps that Micheal Soldano designed, and Yamaha supposedly tweaked a bit by the time it got to the production model?

Total keeper.

I've got one - it was my one "I spent more than I should have on this", but it really is great! It has the whole Soldano association, but the cleans alone are worth the price of admission.
Another one here by me for $500 and I'm considering grabbing for when a friend needs a bulletproof great amp https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 941034d194

Straight talk...

I often find myself wondering why Yamaha didn't have the good sense to sell just that "Top..." channel as a one channel head/combo.

I would have bought at least two.

As for it being bulletproof, I saw the following with my own two eyes...

The combo was my younger brother's live amp for years. Horn player was standing on top of it taking a solo. Said horn player loses their balance, and the combo goes over facing forward with the horn player falling into the open back like a Swiss army knife that someone was trying to close.

It never stopped working. They tipped it right back up, and kept right on playing. Finished the show, and played a bunch more show with it working just fine.

dfglv wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:55 am things i dearly wish someone had told me 30 years ago: 'you can handle 90% of what any situation needs with a Pacifica 112V, a solid state amp with an fx loop, and committed practice. everything else is make-believe.'

The Yamaha Ty Tabor signature guitar might be a really nice guitar.

Just saying...

Those old Dixon drums sound really great, for not a lot of money. I had this ugly green kit, and it sounded great in our practice space.

Lu Zwei wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 2:14 am Those old Dixon drums sound really great, for not a lot of money. I had this ugly green kit, and it sounded great in our practice space.

Confession: I like the green.