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Mark Greenway
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Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 23 Nov 2011 5:31 pm |
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| I have a like brand new Black Box. $275 shipped. I bought it from a forum member that rarely used it, and I have rarely used it. It looks brand new. |
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Alan Rudd
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Ardmore, Oklahoma
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:21 pm
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| Can you tell me more about these...I'm not familiar with the Black Box. |
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:30 pm Black Box
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This link will tell you all about the Black Box: http://www.sarnomusicsolutions.com/products/sgbb.html
The Steel Guitar Black Box™ is the ultimate tone enhancer for amplified musical instruments. It is a simple device using a single vacuum tube, yet it has a profound effect on just about any instrument signal that you pass though it. The SGBB is a true, audiophile quality, vacuum tube pickup driver (buffer/impedance matcher) especially designed for enhancing the tone of magnetic or piezoelectric musical instrument pickups. Originally developed for use with pedal steel guitar, the Black Box is equally effective at breathing life into and enhancing the tone of upright or electric bass, electric or acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano, synths and keyboards, drum machines, lap steel guitar, studio mix tracks, and more.
Ideally the SGBB is placed directly after the instrument's pickup. This pickup/tube relationship is at the heart of it's intended purpose, and by having the pickup directly "see" the tube, all of the benefits of the tube are maximized, and all of the potential of the pickup is captured. |
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Alan Rudd
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Ardmore, Oklahoma
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:34 pm
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| Hmm...interesting. So basically it sweetens your tone with the use of a tube...nice! |
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:42 pm Black Box
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Paul King, a great player in Gainesville, Texas uses the Sarno Black Box on his Emmons LeGrande III and he has a great tone, and he says that it is the Black Box, and that he would not play without one.
I was told, and I don't know how true it is, but I was told last year at the Dallas show, that Mike Johnson uses one and loves it. |
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Alan Rudd
From:
Ardmore, Oklahoma
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:44 pm
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| The you should use it, Mark! I guess it basically gives you a tube sound from your solid state amp. |
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 8:51 pm Sarno Black Box
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I would keep it and use it, but I need a liver and my little girl needs an operation. I gotta go, I can hear her crying.
   
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Pat Wilson
From:
Destin,Florida, USA
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 5 Dec 2011 9:42 pm Sarno Black Box
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Hello Pat, my email is geewhizmark@gmail.com I can answer that a lot easier. Thanks
Mark |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 6 Dec 2011 2:04 am
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The Black box is cool. I have two and am never without one even into a high end amp.
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Bob Snelgrove
From:
san jose, ca
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Eric Philippsen
From:
Central Florida USA
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Posted 6 Dec 2011 2:51 pm
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| Email sent. |
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 8 Dec 2011 7:35 pm Black Box
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Guys, I hope you figured out that I am just joking about the liver and my little girls operation.
Anyhoo, I think I have it sold, but I hope it was not because of my kidding with Alan Rudd.
My liver is just fine and my little girl is just fine.  |
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