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Topic: MSA Legend & Fender Vibrosonic, weight = tone. |
Johnny Cox
From:
Williamsom WVA, raised in Nashville TN, Lives in Hallettsville Texas
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Posted 27 May 2014 12:46 am |
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I recently purchased a Fender Vibrosonic Reverb amp. I've played my MSA Legend through it several times now. It's a winning combo. Also played the Emmons LLIII and sounded great as well. The amp belonged to my pal Randy Lindley and was used by Dickey Overby on a couple of Amber Digby records, a DVD and many shows before Dickey retired.
We all have searched for that illusive tone from days gone bye. After having many steel guitars, amplifiers, racks and everything one could imagine I have come to the conclusion that great tone comes in heavy packages. Emmons PPs, Sho-Bud, MSA, ZB and other steels are heavy. The amps our heroes played through are heavy.
So many agree that the benchmark tone is Buddy Emmons Black Album. This was recorded on a 67 cut tail push pull through a Fender Twin.
So my Fender will end up in split head/speaker cabinets. None of my guitars are light except for the Encore. I just don't think one can get great sound from a 15 lb amp and a 35 lb guitar.
I know that there will come a time that I can't carry these anvils. When that time comes I'll figure out a way to get someone else to carry them.
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Johnny "Dumplin" Cox
"YANKIN' STRINGS & STOMPIN' PEDALS" since 1967. |
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Ron Whitworth
From:
Yuma,Ariz.USA Yeah they say it's a DRY heat !!
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Posted 27 May 2014 2:24 am
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Uh- huh !!
Now you're talkin' !
Ron
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"Tone is in the hands. Unless your wife will let you buy a new amp. Then it's definitely in that amp."
We need to turn the TWANG up a little
It's not what you play through, it's what you play through it.
They say that tone is all in the fingers...I say it is all in your head 
Some of the best pieces of life are the little pieces all added up..Ron
the value of friendship. Old friends shine like diamonds, you can always call them and - most important - you can't buy them. |
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Rex Thomas
From:
Thompson's Station, TN
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Posted 27 May 2014 6:12 am +1
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Vibrosonic always worked best for me, even when I thought what I was using at the time was better.  |
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Marty Holmes
From:
Magnolia ,TX USA
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Posted 27 May 2014 6:18 am
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| Dumplin, you my friend stumbled across the holy grail of tone.i have five tube amps,two twin reverbs black and silver,a silver face vibrosonic a black face vibrasonic and a musicman hd 150 all sound quite phenomenal through my emmons s12 my sierra s12 or my fessenden s10 tubes and jbls or emenince clones or bw 1501 are the main key to great TONE!!! |
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 27 May 2014 6:51 am
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| That was my 1st steel amp- '63 brown Vibrasonic w matching brown Fender reverb unit- great tone- and really heavy!!! |
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Jack Aldrich
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 27 May 2014 9:34 am
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I played with a Fender Twin from 1978-83, when I got my Vegas 400. Since I play both steel and keyboards, I needed a twin amp. Currently, I use a Peavy Classic 30, which has a tone similar to the Twin, but weighs a lot less, when I don't need to play piano. If I play both, I haul out the Vegas, whsich weighs a ton! I miss the Twin, tho. I sold it to a blues harp player in 1985 for $250 - DUMB!
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Jack Aldrich
Carter & ShoBud D10's
D8 & T8 Stringmaster
Rickenbacher B6
3 Resonator guitars
Asher Alan Akaka Special SN 6
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Mike Vallandigham
From:
Martinez, CA
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Posted 27 May 2014 10:13 am
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| I have a Vibrosonic Reverb (like a 1979) and a 1960 Brown Vibrasonic. Both are delicious with a Steel Guitar. |
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 27 May 2014 9:44 pm
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That rolled off smoothness of a sho-bud s/c sure comes alive with a tube amp too...I think "bubbly" is the way it's described in the guitar world...although there are so many subjective undefined adjectives used to describe tone that the lexicon leaves alot to the imagination.
I'm using a Twin-styled (clone) circuit with some really broad spectrum 6L6's.
I'd say though - that an E66 is kindof voiced like what I hear in a tube amp...through a solid state amp....open to critique on that observation. But there is a lot of sweetness and chime built into an E66, wonder if the voicing of it didn't start with that in mind. |
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