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Well, within 12 hours. Totally didn't expect this one, buying another amp was pretty much the last thing on my mind, but when one you've seriously considered before comes your way for $125...
It's a Yamaha G100 112, mk II. 100 watts, solid state, I guess Paul Rivera had something to do with them, notoriously heavy because of the giant transformers (really nice ones, I might add). The first time I ever played one of these was about 2 years back, the school I was going to at the time had a guest artist guitar player named Jim Greeson. Nice dude, good player, had amazingly awesome tone that night. I had a lesson with him that day and used the amp, it made a f-in strat sound jazzy. I think his had a JBL or EV in it though, i know it wasn't the stock speaker cause it had an aluminum dust cap on it and the stock one doesn't. That was the first time I think I ever played with a typically "jazzy" tone that I liked--before that I would play jazz but it'd be hyper-clean almost hi-fi ish jangly neck pickup tone. I had rolled off the tone all the way on my guitar a few times and thought it sounded dumb so it was a real... tonal turning point i guess.
Today in between classes I went the shop I get all my repairs and stuff done at... real hit and miss selection of gear (usually miss but there have been and are currently BF fenders in there), and there it was, $125. Non-functioning reverb but who cares that's a $40 fix max. Plugged in a cheap 335 copy with flats on it, figured out how the hell the front panel worked... it's kind of complicated... and there was that sound, or at the very least a very convincing approximation of it. Perfectly dark cleans, round and fat without compromising any sort of clarity. I might have to email the guy at some point and see what speaker he used, but that may honestly be years away cause it sounds pretty good as-is.
I was gonna wait a week til I get paid to buy it but I think I'm just gonna buy it tomorrow before lessons--my new teacher is a big Pat Metheny fan and apparently he used the 2x12 version of this for like 20 years. Plus I have jazz ensemble after that and I'll finally be rid of that .lkaenf s,md f,sd fdfm va blues deluxe. I think for the time being I'm just gonna keep it at school and use it for ensembles and jammin with people between classes, but I figure once I start playin jazz gigs it'll be easier to lug around than my twin.
they look like this. I'll post pics of mine soon
It's a Yamaha G100 112, mk II. 100 watts, solid state, I guess Paul Rivera had something to do with them, notoriously heavy because of the giant transformers (really nice ones, I might add). The first time I ever played one of these was about 2 years back, the school I was going to at the time had a guest artist guitar player named Jim Greeson. Nice dude, good player, had amazingly awesome tone that night. I had a lesson with him that day and used the amp, it made a f-in strat sound jazzy. I think his had a JBL or EV in it though, i know it wasn't the stock speaker cause it had an aluminum dust cap on it and the stock one doesn't. That was the first time I think I ever played with a typically "jazzy" tone that I liked--before that I would play jazz but it'd be hyper-clean almost hi-fi ish jangly neck pickup tone. I had rolled off the tone all the way on my guitar a few times and thought it sounded dumb so it was a real... tonal turning point i guess.
Today in between classes I went the shop I get all my repairs and stuff done at... real hit and miss selection of gear (usually miss but there have been and are currently BF fenders in there), and there it was, $125. Non-functioning reverb but who cares that's a $40 fix max. Plugged in a cheap 335 copy with flats on it, figured out how the hell the front panel worked... it's kind of complicated... and there was that sound, or at the very least a very convincing approximation of it. Perfectly dark cleans, round and fat without compromising any sort of clarity. I might have to email the guy at some point and see what speaker he used, but that may honestly be years away cause it sounds pretty good as-is.
I was gonna wait a week til I get paid to buy it but I think I'm just gonna buy it tomorrow before lessons--my new teacher is a big Pat Metheny fan and apparently he used the 2x12 version of this for like 20 years. Plus I have jazz ensemble after that and I'll finally be rid of that .lkaenf s,md f,sd fdfm va blues deluxe. I think for the time being I'm just gonna keep it at school and use it for ensembles and jammin with people between classes, but I figure once I start playin jazz gigs it'll be easier to lug around than my twin.
they look like this. I'll post pics of mine soon
