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Topic: Supro 8-string console. Video |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Joe Burke
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Toronto, Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2024 3:13 pm |
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| Love it - sounds great! |
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 17 Dec 2024 4:12 pm
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Early Christmas present! Guess you were good for 2024!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Joe Elk
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2024 5:37 pm
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Doug I surprised buying yourself a early Christmas gift!!!!! I would have the same thing!!!
Joe Elk |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2024 2:29 pm Very Nice!
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Sweet little lap, Doug! Reminds me of my '60s Airline Rocket. Probably both made by Valco?
 Reminds me of my '60s Airline Rocket. Probably both made by Valco?
Loved your recording, btw. Great tone!! What amp are you using?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 18 Dec 2024 4:34 pm
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Hi Mark, yeah, definitely Valco Co. products. They have the same look, and the same legs and control knobs. Probably the same pickup as well.
Regarding the recording…. I did something unusual for this clip. I played through two amps... a Quilter TT-15 (with Tone Block 202 head) and a 5 watt Fender Vibro-Champ Reverb amp. I ran a cord from the Signal Out of the Quilter into the front of the Fender. So the sound is a blend of the Quilter (with a 15" speaker) and the small tube amp. Plenty of reverb coming from both amps! I didn't notice that when I was playing.
By the way, I notice that the iPhone has some kind of a limiter on it's mic. Regardless of how loud I crank the amps, the volume of the video that's recorded is always fairly low.
I was told that this Supro is a 1967, and I think that's accurate because there is no metal tag w/serial number on the back of the headstock. Around 1964 Valco stopped using the metal tags, and instead used an adhesive foil sticker with the serial number. Problem is... a lot of those stickers peeled off eventually. This guitar has no metal tag and no sticker. Also no holes in the wood for the little nails that would have secured a metal tag. So the guitar was likely made between 1964 and 1968. The company went of of business in 1968.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 19 Dec 2024 4:23 am
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That guitar sounds great in your hands, Doug. Cool design look too.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Peter Jacobs
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Northern Virginia
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Travis Brown
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2024 7:03 pm
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Sounding great!
Those old Supros are super cool, and the 8 strings are not common from what I have seen.
Congrats! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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For some reason, I associate this model with surf guitar music. Maybe it’s the look of the guitar and the fact that it was introduced in the early ‘60s when surf instrumentals were popular. It was also the “space age” era, and that is reflected in the design IMO. And it only weighs 6 lbs!
