Post by scorpiodog on Oct 29, 2020 10:24:48 GMT
Well, I'm glad I decided to post this as a day rather than a Tuesday or a Thursday. NTWAD is bad enough.
Drunk browsing on YouTube is never a very good idea. I found myself staggering down the rabbit hole looking at demos of the Tonewood Amp. And as is always the way when one's senses are impaired, the common sense is no exception, so I went straight to Andertons online page and bought myself one.
It arrived on Tuesday, but for various real life reasons I had to wait til I had a few minutes last night to fit it. And it is really easy to fit. Took me less than half an hour and that included watching the videoa on the Tonewood Amp website on how to fit it.
I put it into my Gibson J15, which is quite a nice guitar anyway, but it really does make playing stupidly good fun. I actually bought it to put into a really lacklustre Fender Catalina I've had for nearly 40 years, but as that doesn't have a pick up, and I discovered I have to get a part for my Fishman Blend soundhole pickup before it will work, I couldn't wait for that to arrive, so I stuck it in the Gibson just to try.
So what is it? It's a little battery operated effects unit that attaches to the back of the guitar using a magnetic doofus that sticks inside the guitar back. It goes on and comes off really easily, and enables you to add reverb, delay, trem and some other things not normally available for an unplugged acoustic guitar. It's a gimmick, basically, but it essentially uses the soundbox of the guitar as a speaker cone, so the sound comes out of the soundhole (although Sharon said she couldn't tell where the sound was coming from - she could hear it behind her!).
I really can't see me using it much, but we'll see. It certainly is good as a toy, and a good performing player could, I'm sure use it to great effect, although I can't see that it replaces a good preamp/pedal/amplifier chain. But it's fun to use at home, and because it just sticks to the back of the guitar, it doesn't take any time at all to bring it into play. I think I might take it to my local folk club sometime, just to irritate the purists there.
Would I buy it sober? Yep. Will I sell it? Nope. It's a couple of hundred quid's worth of fun, and I'm glad I've got it. But I'll have to wait til the weekend to put it into the guitar I had in mind when I bought it.
Here's the vid that took me down the rabbit hole.
Drunk browsing on YouTube is never a very good idea. I found myself staggering down the rabbit hole looking at demos of the Tonewood Amp. And as is always the way when one's senses are impaired, the common sense is no exception, so I went straight to Andertons online page and bought myself one.
It arrived on Tuesday, but for various real life reasons I had to wait til I had a few minutes last night to fit it. And it is really easy to fit. Took me less than half an hour and that included watching the videoa on the Tonewood Amp website on how to fit it.
I put it into my Gibson J15, which is quite a nice guitar anyway, but it really does make playing stupidly good fun. I actually bought it to put into a really lacklustre Fender Catalina I've had for nearly 40 years, but as that doesn't have a pick up, and I discovered I have to get a part for my Fishman Blend soundhole pickup before it will work, I couldn't wait for that to arrive, so I stuck it in the Gibson just to try.
So what is it? It's a little battery operated effects unit that attaches to the back of the guitar using a magnetic doofus that sticks inside the guitar back. It goes on and comes off really easily, and enables you to add reverb, delay, trem and some other things not normally available for an unplugged acoustic guitar. It's a gimmick, basically, but it essentially uses the soundbox of the guitar as a speaker cone, so the sound comes out of the soundhole (although Sharon said she couldn't tell where the sound was coming from - she could hear it behind her!).
I really can't see me using it much, but we'll see. It certainly is good as a toy, and a good performing player could, I'm sure use it to great effect, although I can't see that it replaces a good preamp/pedal/amplifier chain. But it's fun to use at home, and because it just sticks to the back of the guitar, it doesn't take any time at all to bring it into play. I think I might take it to my local folk club sometime, just to irritate the purists there.
Would I buy it sober? Yep. Will I sell it? Nope. It's a couple of hundred quid's worth of fun, and I'm glad I've got it. But I'll have to wait til the weekend to put it into the guitar I had in mind when I bought it.
Here's the vid that took me down the rabbit hole.
Jo whoever he is.
