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| Analog Kid:
--- Quote from: RJSV on December 26, 2024, 09:08:30 pm --- Ironically, we fret over (no pun intended) perfection in tuning and reproduction electronically, but then along comes JIMI, bending strings, and introducing massive distortion. --- End quote --- Ah yes, Jimi, AKA God.* If you listen to him you realize that his intonation was dead-on. His musical ear was impeccable. * I actually saw him, at the Chicago Opera House (horrible venue) at the age of 15, ca, 1967. He was my hero back then. |
| RJSV:
I, actually, liked Vanilla Fudge band (Oakland Collisium, 1968). I had been expecting, a 7 ft. tall JIMI, screaming and busting up every instrument in sight, but, alas, he was a mildly spoken, wirey and slightly effeminate dude, talking calmly to the crowd. Vanilla Fudge was an LSD themed bunch of freaks, waving around like seaweed in the surf... (But they had good vocal arrangements). Anyhow, I've been reading more about FRANTONE circuitry; my first FUZZ box was constructed by putting a toy tape recorder circuit board in the line, before the AMP. The guitar input was routed to the (former) tape head input, which normally is a very low level magnetically generated signal. The 'overloaded' input generated a heavy and pleasant distortion, for playing 'Sunshine of Your Love' including FUZZ chords. That tape recorder circuit generated ongoing noise, when fed with just a bare 'open mike' sitting there, pops and sprackle. Course, (you know), JIMI didn't invent much of that,...witness Beatles Taxman, or other jazzy use of the famed 'E major flat third', as well as FUZZ, or use of whammy bar. |
| Analog Kid:
But his use of wah-wah was incredibly groundbreaking. Other guitarists used it as some kind of toy; he made that damn thing talk. (Listen to "Up From the Skies" on Axis: Bold as Love.) |
| RJSV:
...Since you've woke up my Historian side, I'd say that Hendrix had liked using major chords, especially ballad style, like in 'Rolling Stone'. Seems like, in retrospect, he would have been more like heavy metal, with lots of minor and dissonant chords. Style-wise, Jimi presented total control, of playing volume (intensity), and general excitement levels, up & down. Audience was left in the edge of their seats, waiting for a next, peak in intensity. That, rather than artless volume with no sound pockets or breaks. The Woodstock solo impresses me by the ability to re-focus the band, for resuming a full sound, in that Spanish sounding effort using octave fingering. |
| RJSV:
As dull as it sounds, some readers might appreciate a couple tips on how to bring out some speaker output, for connection to whatever, like your own speaker. I've gone round and round on the options, such as simply bringing out the two wires, from a music device, speaker output. You would maybe add in a switch, to cut out the internal speaker. Or, a second switch, to optionally cut out the external sound. One option, banana jacks, like the two shown, create a wire-it-yourself situation. Even better, would be with another pair of banana jacks, normally connected by a jumper on each, so normally you can have the extra speaker, but if needed, you can pull off one jumper, to keep the extra speaker silent. That might seem overkill, but I'm thinking in terms of how frustratingly delicate many audio cables are, (especially stereo signals 3 wires on a stereo mini-jack cable.) One pair of banana jacks is the AMP output, and other is to your extra speaker. OR, the second pair is for the internal speaker, if you wish to have yet more ways to use this. But I'd prefer the former, plus having a switch to cut the internal sound. You could either solder the two jumpers, (underneath the little plastic panel, or you could put the two continuity jumpers into the upper screw-down portions, (doubling up with any other wires.) To the right, in the picture, is the nice to use junction block, having four screw terminals, that naturally connect to four outputs. End result is you would have a small flat plastic panel, with maybe a cable clamp, so that you could hook up either a speaker that connects with two wires, or to use a speaker that has an input jack connect style. For that, you would construct a cable that has, say, a 1/4 inch PHONE jack, for the external speaker box connections. It can be hard to decide, unless you want to spend a few hours, soldering and stripping cable wires. The delicate cables really require some manual skill - dexterity. |
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