The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

Hi guys I found a simple/low cost solution how to reduce soundlevel from a speaker cabinet. I bought a 100W 8ohm "constant impedance " potentiometer (for 10 euro) and installed in it in my 8 ohm speaker cabinet. The load impedance ( for the amp) is between 7.5-10 ohm over the whole control...

I hope that I don´t need to replace the pre-Amp tubes the first thing I do when I get the amp.
I checked with two swedish Egnator amp owners ( Tweaker and Rebel) and they has not had any problems with the Sovtek 12AX7 tubes in their Amps.
/Kalle

The GAS attach was too hard and was accepted by the wife , so I have ordered a "tweaker" from GUITARGUITAR UK.. It will be my own "christmas present". But I need some sort of "attenuator" or DI box to be able to use the amp "noiseless" when I play with the wif...

Hi guys Yesterday I tested new Tube Amp at a friends home. It was an Egnator Tweaker (15W) http://www.egnateramps.com/products/Tweaker/TweakerHead.html It really fills up the name "Tweaker" as it can be tweaked to sound as any other wellknown tube amp on the marked. We runned it through a ...

No facebook for me- I refuse to conform. Kalle, is your daughter going to be staying anywhere in particular, or going all over the place? She is just now in Carnarvon (west australia) and have started to work in a hotel. She and her boyfriend had all sorts of traveling plans when they left sweden, ...

Hi Guys
I have now became a Facebook user..
More or less due to the fact that my youngest daughter (19) is backpacking in australia and I want to be in contact with her.
How many of you are using Facebook ?
/Kalle

Hi everybody As you now I have been doing Guitar Lesson and worked on a guitar solo in the Santana song Black Magic Woman. And now I have been "noodling" over a backing track (with song) of Black Magix Woman. The intro part is is as Santanas version , but the long solo sessions are on the ...

.... First lady is still on the set of strings the luthier put on after the refret job... uhm.... 2 years.. That's why I use elixirs Hi Hans Are you using elixirs "coated" Nanoweb/Polyweb strings ? The coating should reduce string "corrosion" caused by finger sweet and dirt. But...

Hi Guys How often do you change strings on your electrical guitars ?? This is a standard question/issue that is up on many guitar forums. And the "answer" could be, change before every gig or every second week too I just change strings when I brake a string. As a "only playing at home...

Hi Guys
Here is my first take on my second solo lesson homework.
A simplified version of the guitar solo in Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)
http://www.box.net/shared/bs7ld1h0nk
/Kalle
PS New file with a more Marshall Plexi amp sound, more drive

Hi Everybody As you know , I have been working on a guitar lesson of a "simplified" solo from Black Magic Woman. The first recordings I did with the Behringer V-Amp2 Multieffect unit using "Modern Hi Gain/4x12 speaker" settings with bit of delay and reverb. But I wanted to find o...

Sometimes power tubes just dies of whatever reason; vibration, too high bias(running to warm), bad quality (cheap chinese tubes) etc.
JJ EL84 tubes are recommended here http://thetubestore.com/el84review.html
/Kalle

Hi Gerd "So you really have to play it note for note from the sheet?" The lesson in the "book" says: Copy the solo from the solo example the best as you can. Next ; Improvise a solo where you use the major second note as much as you can. My Comment; Carlos Santana often use the N...

Hi Tabs "Kul att träffa på en Svensk gitarrspelare här" Not many Swede´s in this forum or in other english spoken guitar forums. I have been in several of them during the last years. This Guitar forum is one of the best and most active. In this forum the music and guitar playing is in the ...

Yes , You can also be "pupils" and Judge/teachers in my guitar course. First , you should be judges . Here is the sound example in the guitar book of the "Black Magic Woman" solo http://www.box.net/shared/44329txvao How good or bad is my latest "copy" version , played w...

Lesson no 3: The teacher likes my playing, but my bends was not perfect, so now its back to basics.
Next Home work ; A slow solo with many full bends from the old Kinks song "You Really Got Me".
"Bending training"
/Kalle

Sorry double post, my computer acted up... Hi Guys Thanks for the nice replies. One thing that I find difficult when playing on Hi Gain settings, is that the low sound from resonating non-played strings will be amplified and give not good sound . A typical problem is that when you release a bend, yo...

Hi Guys Thanks for the nice replies. One thing that I find difficult when playing on Hi Gain settings, is that the low sound from resonating non-played strings will be amplified and give not good sound . A typical problem is that when you release a bend, you will also release other strings with near...

This was actually a homework from the second lesson. We are using a swedish guitar school book "Electric Guitar Rock and Blues". It has scores, tabs, chords and a CD with examples of the solo´s. It took me 5 evenings of 2 hours each to learn the solo (bar by bar) to this level. If I compar...

HI Guys I have started to take guitar lessons. My first "Home Work" was to learn a 30 second long Guitar Solo ,that is a simplified version of a one of the solo´s in Carlos Santana´s Black Magic Woman. Here is how it sounds when I am playing the solo. http://www.box.net/shared/v0fj80217n /...