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- #John mayer where the light is amps pro#
That being said, I think some of the people who had bad experiences were people who were difficult to deal with themselves.
#John mayer where the light is amps upgrade#
He sold an upgrade to Fender Deluxe/Twin amps called the Ultriphonix. In some ways a lot of the designs were like mega souped up Fenders and indeed he did get his start modding Fender amps for name players like Robben Ford. That design may not work for your style of playing. He never licensed his designs to others and the many copies that are out there from other makers might be based on one specific amp designed for a particular player who got rid of theirs. He had a lot of guys calling him at the height of the studio guitar scene in the 1980s and with people calling him to chit chat about his amps and actively preventing him from working on amps for paying customers he took steps to prevent that. Back in the 1980s you could spend around $3000-5000 on one but the prices have leaped thru the roof and went straight into orbit partially because of the limited quantity, he was a bit unusual to deal with (if you paid him for an amp and checked on when it might arrive he might decide to keep what you had paid and never delivered you the amp). There was an extensive Guitar Player Magazine interview/article in the early 1980s I found enjoyable. I've been around a very long time and my perception is that where Dumble built his business was one man building one amp out of a solid billet of aluminum specifically geared to the player. His point about new valves/tubes seems to be a common view, a lot of amp builders (Tonetalk podcast with Dave Friedman) comment on how bad the newer manufactured ones are, I'm not sure about spending $150 on a preamp tube though. I'm sure John knows what he means and perceives his experience a certain way, and he's clearly a legend of a player, but the way he's explaining it is the opposite to how it's generally known among players. John is saying the Dumbles respond instantly and don't sag, so he's kinda saying they respond more like SS amps, but that instant response tends to make playing more effortless, not the opposite. Usually people who go from SS amps to valve amps say the valve amps punish you more, and that is precisely because they sag and have a less instant dynamic response than SS amps, you have to work harder and play cleaner with valve amps but they sound better and have more dynamic range. I'm not really getting his logic, he's saying the opposite to what most players say and experience (myself included). His most heavy hitter songs in concert are probably Gravity and Slow Dancing In A Burning Room - they'll always feature him stretching out. There's a handful on YouTube.įor his solo work, find some live videos from 2018 or 2019 from his solo band. You really get a sense of his ear and his feel. Some of raw feel and talent are really on display on when he does livestream guitar lessons. His solo here on Such A Night - which he almost certainly had no idea was coming or did any prep for since it was a loose sit-in - is relaxed, melodic and just solid playing without stealing the limelight.
#John mayer where the light is amps full#
He's guested with Joe Russo's Almost Dead (a great, great band full of top players) a couple of times and I really like how at ease he is fitting in.
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Some heavy-hitters for Mayer in that band are Sugaree, Althea, Brown Eyed Women and Morning Dew. I think the band is much better recently than its early years so anything from 2018 or 2019 should give you a good idea.
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#John mayer where the light is amps pro#
For most pro live uses that doesn't matter because you're only using the FRFR as a monitor and the audience is hearing a direct line out feed to the PA, which sounds like a mic'd amp, and hell the "in the room" sound can be a hindrance by increasing stage volume. A modeller with an FRFR does not give you the same "in the room" experience as a real amp. Different dynamic response, different sound and feel. I know we're splitting hairs a bit, but there is a difference. The sound you get with a modeller is the mic'd up sound of an amp, so in your example it would be more like mic'ing your amp up and then walking in front of the PA to get sustain/feedback. I get what you're saying but it's not the same experience at all, I play these days with a Helix as my main rig and it's fantastic, but it's not the same as playing through a real amp.