Recent content by DavidRees

I've posted before about having had my Yamaha SG500 adapted to purely slide playing, no fretted notes at all. Underneath the strings by the raised nut I have slotted in a small piece of leather to slightly mute the strings at that end in a similar fashion to the George Van Eps device or the...

for many years I have been playing a Yamaha MSG. A 25" scale strung with 10s [started with 9s eventually went up to 11s which seemed to choke the guitar, for a year now back with 10s]. The tuneamatic and stop bar tailpiece set up offered the option of stringing through the body 'tele' style in...

I was posting a few months ago about 15” speakers and how well they work for guitar in some circumstances. Well I took the plunge and now it has arrived – courtesy of Paul at Zillacabs – green on black tolex with a basket weave grill cloth and a Jensen Neo 15" [courtesy of Hotrox] and it looks...

Anyone tried it? The ads used to say that Vai, Satriani, Carlton, Ford etc couldn’t live without it but their names seem conspicuously absent from the BFTS website now

It looks like I'll be hanging on to my Classic 50 2x12 combo but would like to modify it to better deal with my current needs. In order to address 1] cleaning up the clean channel, and 2] making it less heavy to carry I was thinking of 1] replacing one of the 12AX7s with a 12AY7, as previously...

Advice please - I am looking to get a small amp for home use [jamming with friends acoustic guitars electric keyboards occasional saxophone] and want a primarily clean sound, nice and simple single channel - no reverb - friendly to pedals [MXR custom overdrive and Carbon copy] 10" speaker but...

I have an old Peavey Classic 50 combo and am wondering if there is a way of making the normal channel more clean than crunchy - are there people, in the London area preferably, who can take a 'host' amp and tweak it - I've always imagined that most mods are for people seeking something more...

Thinking of trying a 15 inch speaker set up with my Peavey Classic 50 - any advice/comments/suggestions? Thanks David

thinking of getting one - any comments from those who have tried/use one? regards David

I have a old Yamaha SG500 set up for slide guitar with raised action and strung in standard tuning with 15 - 56s. Its open coil humbuckers were way too hot even when screwed down they refused to be tamed and I am looking toward suitable replacements - any suggestions? what about the humbucker...