Gearventory

[Tig***]

I dunno... I think you need more!

I really love the white Strat, all of the Gibby's, and that Bassman.

[rylanmartin]

I would like to announce the newest member to my family.

I just sold my JCM2000 TSL100 and picked up a new Fender MIJ Jaguar Special!



The electronics took me a good few minutes to figure out their practical application, but I have to say, this is a REALLY fun guitar!

I'll try and post some vids and/or soundclips of some of my toys over the next few weeks.

[Eric***]

I would like to announce the newest member to my family.

I just sold my JCM2000 TSL100 and picked up a new Fender MIJ Jaguar Special!



The electronics took me a good few minutes to figure out their practical application, but I have to say, this is a REALLY fun guitar!

I'll try and post some vids and/or soundclips of some of my toys over the next few weeks.

Sweet! Congrats on the new axe.

What is the deal with all of the switches and stuff? I'm too lazy to look it up right now, and I'm not sure I'd understand anyway.

[ZMAN]

Rylanmartin: I could not believe it when I saw that Sonax. I have a 720G that I have owned for over 40 years. When I first got it I was told it was made by traynor amps in Toronto for Yorkville Sound which were affilated. I have not seen another one in all those years. There is nothing on mine that says Gretsch. I lived in a 3 story walk up appartment and carying my Super reverb up and own those stairs almost killed me. I ended up selling it and buying the Sonax. It is SS and the two 10s are very light. Any idea what it is worth?

[rylanmartin]

What is the deal with all of the switches and stuff? I'm too lazy to look it up right now, and I'm not sure I'd understand anyway.

Alrighty...

There are two different modes to this guitar; Rhythm and Lead (not like a pickup selector, but actually tonal modes). The switch in the top horn selects these modes.

When the switch is down, it operates in "Lead" mode. The bottom three switches are simply "on-off" for the neck p/u, bridge p/u, and a bass cut. So in "Lead" mode, it kind of operates like your standard dual humbucker guitar. The two control knobs near the input control volume and tone.

When you flick the top switch to "Rhythm" mode, all the switches and knobs on the bottom half are erased from the equation. In this mode, only the neck p/u is selected and the two horizontal slats are knobs that control tone and volume. This mode is great for Jazzy tones. It's essentially just the neck pickup with a "halfway" tone knob setting.

At first this seemed unnecessarily elaborate, but I found it really useful when playing into a slightly over driven amp. In Lead mode, I'd treat this guitar much like I would a Les Paul; all knobs 100% up and just switching between pickups at will. However, in the Rhythm setting, I'd roll the volume knob down for a cleaner tone, without sacrificing a pickup position (like rolling the volume of the neck pickup of a Les Paul). It's a great guitar for stepping away from the pedal board for a while.

[rylanmartin]

Rylanmartin: I could not believe it when I saw that Sonax. I have a 720G that I have owned for over 40 years. When I first got it I was told it was made by traynor amps in Toronto for Yorkville Sound which were affilated. I have not seen another one in all those years. There is nothing on mine that says Gretsch. I lived in a 3 story walk up appartment and carying my Super reverb up and own those stairs almost killed me. I ended up selling it and buying the Sonax. It is SS and the two 10s are very light. Any idea what it is worth?

I couldn't tell you much. I paid $100 bucks for mine. I don't think these are worth that much at all. I know that these were made by Yorkville, but there is an affiliation with Gretsch behind these...don't ask me how. All I know is that the knobs on this amp are very similar to those on my Gretsch guitar. I guess we've both got cool looking, worthless noise boxes .

If for some reason someone finds out that these are actually worth something, I take everything back and would love to sell it to the highest bidder .

[ZMAN]

I added a couple of pictures to my post. I don't care how much it is worth, it is a pretty bad amp. I was just interested to see one. I haven't heard of them in 40 years.

[Lev]

My wife wanted a cool looking amp

yeah, my wife is constantly nagging me to buy cool looking gear!


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