I killed a Sovtek in less than 9 months service on the 5E3, not a performance failure but it's construction method lead to internal bits coming loose & rattling. It now has a NOS ex USofA military tube - quite different construction method & looks worthy of going to war with. Probably made by woman too.
Amazing to see the thing in mint condition after all these years (1943ish), they must have stored stock in a vaccum container or something, the cardbard box showing no degradation, pins shining in the sunlight.
Good work on the gearfest & telling the story too.
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TBH, I've never seen the need for a seven string. I'm just not that adventurous, and I wouldn't have a use for it. Well, not one that I can see now anyway.Vince wrote:ANYWAY... I really really liked that Crafter ABG.
I'd love to get it but I can't justify the expense. So I was thinking:
I have this Breedlove 5 string ABG that I never use. I've never got the action right, and it feedbacks like someone that has sex with their mother. Other than that it's like new and has a great sound.
Should I sell it and buy the Crafter? It seems silly to sell something that has all that potential (the 5th string) to buy another 4 string?
Or should I have one last go at getting the 5 string set up so I finally like it? And maybe save up for a parametric EQ?
What would you guys do? Say you had a 7 string guitar...
The question is, would you miss the 5 string if you ditched it? If not, then flick it and get something you would miss if it went.
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I really have no idea. I've never managed to have it feeling right. It (setup) seems like such a minor problem, and yet there's been heaps of times when I could have gone to the luthier and never got around to it. I just never seem to get around to taking that bass off the rack, let alone play it, let alone shlepping it into town.hamo wrote:The question is, would you miss the 5 string if you ditched it?
And yet... a whole other string... it's definitely interesting.
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On a 5E3? what type of sovtek tube are you talking about? The Sovtek 5U4G is routinely used as the stock mesa dual rectifier tube - Clarry Scholum raves about them, and I am quite happy with the one in my 5G9 clone (which is a combo) after 2 years of pretty constant gigging abuse. No reliability problems that I am aware of.calling card wrote:I killed a Sovtek in less than 9 months service on the 5E3, not a performance failure but it's construction method lead to internal bits coming loose & rattling.
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A Sovtek 5Y3GT, working fine just rattled more & more, kind of like an annoying rattle in a car dashboard. On inspection I could see a square plate on the end of some pedestal legs retained by folded tabs, looked like the plate was loose there.
Don't want to start a toob can-o-worms debate, it still did it's job.
Edit 30/11/10: Everything takes more of a beating as this amp is a combo. Probably fare better in a head.
Edit 07/12/10 This little amp works hard - in a mini marshall way.
Don't want to start a toob can-o-worms debate, it still did it's job.
Edit 30/11/10: Everything takes more of a beating as this amp is a combo. Probably fare better in a head.
Edit 07/12/10 This little amp works hard - in a mini marshall way.
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