El Toro's Official Guitarded Thread...

[Liquid Boom Boom]

late 80's I think...

Hmmm...how does she sound? How much are you thinking of selling it for? I didn't know EVH had an 'official' pickup w/SD. I thought it was the '78 that was supposed to be the EVH pickup.

[Sleek]

This is even more painfully obvious, but you aren't gonna replace a Duncan Distortion with anything better for LESS than $50+ used. Have you thought of tweaking your EQ for this guitar and gig? And don't you have an RG100ES? If you do I presume you're using it for this show even though Lynch didn't really use it? He DID endorse it, after all, and it DOES do the Dokken thing pretty well!

Mmm. I'm thinking that with all of the varieties of pups that have been out since the dawn of time, some good candidates have fallen through the cracks and can be found in the $20-$30 range on ebay. We'll see. I am watching some of the mid boosted Dimarzios that aren't drawing many bids...it's pretty clear that Seymour Duncan somehow won the pickup desirability wars...

The RG100es needs some work, and my amp guy doesn't really want to deal with transistor stuff...getting a good '80's metal grind out of the recently acquired Lovepedal Purple Plexi 800 (that I got in trade here) into the clean channel of one of my Marshalls with some of that Lynch style "shunk...shunk..." delay provided by the venerable Boss DD5.

The Duncan distortion just hits the front end of the Purple Plexi with a little too much bass...I have a Duncan Alnico II pro laying around...I might try that, but it might be too...good sounding, lol.

[lerxstcat]

This is even more painfully obvious, but you aren't gonna replace a Duncan Distortion with anything better for LESS than $50+ used. Have you thought of tweaking your EQ for this guitar and gig? And don't you have an RG100ES? If you do I presume you're using it for this show even though Lynch didn't really use it? He DID endorse it, after all, and it DOES do the Dokken thing pretty well!

Mmm. I'm thinking that with all of the varieties of pups that have been out since the dawn of time, some good candidates have fallen through the cracks and can be found in the $20-$30 range on ebay. We'll see. I am watching some of the mid boosted Dimarzios that aren't drawing many bids...it's pretty clear that Seymour Duncan somehow won the pickup desirability wars...

The RG100es needs some work, and my amp guy doesn't really want to deal with transistor stuff...getting a good '80's metal grind out of the recently acquired Lovepedal Purple Plexi 800 (that I got in trade here) into the clean channel of one of my Marshalls with some of that Lynch style "shunk...shunk..." delay provided by the venerable Boss DD5.

The Duncan distortion just hits the front end of the Purple Plexi with a little too much bass...I have a Duncan Alnico II pro laying around...I might try that, but it might be too...good sounding, lol.

This might just seem silly, but have you tried lowering the bass side of the pickup just a touch to lower the output on that side? Bummer about the Randall, maybe you should do like George did and put it up there for show! I really did like mine when I had them, the pull switch on the treble was the bomb on those amps! The Alnico Pro II might be your ticket, though you are right in that right before Christmas is the best time to buy shit on ebay dirt-cheap. I tried to sell between April 15 and Halloween for best price results. Ending prices really drop from Christmas season through taxtime. So if you were gonna get lucky on price, now would be the time - and DiMarzio does make a lot of great pickups too.

[Sleek]

Bummer about the Randall, maybe you should do like George did and put it up there for show! I really did like mine when I had them, the pull switch on the treble was the bomb on those amps!

I first picked up on the RGs when I was with Poison...Randall brought a bunch of stuff to the garage for the guys to try one day...then when I went over to L.A. Guns, we got Tracii a whole Randall rig for a while...they would give you almost ANYTHING. We even had the fake cabinets! Those were sweet, lol!

I really like those Randalls. I used mine as my main rock amp for years. It's the rack one, and I have this SKB pedal board with a rack built in, so all I had to do was run speaker cords to the cabs and everything else was self-contained...no running 10,000 cords all over the place just to use the fx loop.

Like this, but whith the Randall in the rack and less pedals:



The hot tip with the Randalls was they had this little gadget you could get that plugged into the back that gave it a boost so when you pulled out the knob there would be no volume loss! I wish I still had one of those!

[ElToro]

late 80's I think...

Hmmm...how does she sound? How much are you thinking of selling it for? I didn't know EVH had an 'official' pickup w/SD. I thought it was the '78 that was supposed to be the EVH pickup.

My understanding is that EVH threatened to sue SD, so they started calling it a 78.

[Liquid Boom Boom]

late 80's I think...

Hmmm...how does she sound? How much are you thinking of selling it for? I didn't know EVH had an 'official' pickup w/SD. I thought it was the '78 that was supposed to be the EVH pickup.

My understanding is that EVH threatened to sue SD, so they started calling it a 78.

What are you asking for it?

[Jack Drugless]

Fuck me. I was going to go to the rehearsal hall and pick up more
pedals but there's a fire down the street and I'm blocked in.

[lerxstcat]

The hot tip with the Randalls was they had this little gadget you could get that plugged into the back that gave it a boost so when you pulled out the knob there would be no volume loss! I wish I still had one of those!

Cool rig! I never heard of that gadget, that would be great to have for theose amps because that volume drop is the only drag about the pull pot. Though the amp would still go pretty fucking loud even with the drop, but those amps are stupid loud without the treble knob pulled. So having it stupid loud WITH it pulled would just be mucho mas awesome!

[lerxstcat]

Fuck me. I was going to go to the rehearsal hall and pick up more
pedals but there's a fire down the street and I'm blocked in.

DAMN! Keep an eye on that and stay safe, dude!

[Jack Drugless]

This will be another topic in my 'reasons I need a seperate studio / rehearsal building in the
back yard' Power Point presentation.

[Jack Drugless]

Fucking bastards, I just found out it was electrical. How fucking stupid is that?
Motherfucking threaten my shit with your careless shit-ass bunk attitude.
You don't fucking see me with like a bunch of pedals plugged into a shitty
little extension cor...

Oh shit. Never mind.

[Sleek]

The hot tip with the Randalls was they had this little gadget you could get that plugged into the back that gave it a boost so when you pulled out the knob there would be no volume loss! I wish I still had one of those!

Cool rig! I never heard of that gadget, that would be great to have for theose amps because that volume drop is the only drag about the pull pot. Though the amp would still go pretty fucking loud even with the drop, but those amps are stupid loud without the treble knob pulled. So having it stupid loud WITH it pulled would just be mucho mas awesome!

Here's a pic:



I have seriously NO idea how it worked...I guess it added in the line out signal...but that doesn't seem like enough to make up the volume

...it was the secret weapon, though!

[ElToro]

My son wants to sell his 7 string Destroyer if anyone wants one...

[wattage13]

Man those mid 80's Randall RG's killed, wish I never sold mine. Had a Laney Fane-loaded 4x12 that I ran into, that was killer combo.

Biggest issue the amps had was cold solder welds on the output side. They'd break apart over time, just need to get hit with a gun, also check where the input hits the board. See if you can find a schematic and go to a TV/Stereo repair shop.

[ElToro]

Didn't Dimebag use a Randall Century in the early days?

[Space Bear]

I had a Randall half stack in '87. Can't remember what model the head was. What are those older Randalls selling for nowadays?

[ElToro]

Several hundred, actually.

[choppersauce]

I had a Randall half stack in '87. Can't remember what model the head was. What are those older Randalls selling for nowadays?

http://instruments.shop.ebay.com/i.html ... m270.l1313

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[Sleek]

I had a Randall half stack in '87. Can't remember what model the head was. What are those older Randalls selling for nowadays?

http://instruments.shop.ebay.com/i.html ... m270.l1313

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This is the one I've got...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Randall-RG100ES-Vin ... 500wt_1156

$200? Hmmm...might be worth getting repaired after all...

[lerxstcat]

I had a Randall half stack in '87. Can't remember what model the head was. What are those older Randalls selling for nowadays?

http://instruments.shop.ebay.com/i.html ... m270.l1313

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This is the one I've got...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Randall-RG100ES-Vin ... 500wt_1156

$200? Hmmm...might be worth getting repaired after all...

I sold my first RG100ES head (not a rackmount) for $200 back in 2000 through the L.A. Recycler. A death metal guy from Manhattan Beach came and got it and made a point of telling me my price was lowball, right after he paid me. Well I had just bought TWO Carvin X-60B heads for $250 so I didn't mind him getting a great price too. I only paid $125 for it in 1993, after all.

The second one I bought in 2003 on Ebay, for $85! Plus $40 shipping of course, still cheap as fuck!! Sold it, in about 2007 I think, for $300. That was a "bro deal" on a guitar forum and just trying to pay some bills. So prices will range pretty drastically depending, but I did great even though I gave good price when i sold them too. A friend of mine who is a tube amp guy went over that head and said that it is really laid out a lot like a tube head, for being solid state. You might mention that to your tube amp guy, it might be more familiar than he thinks.

What is it doing or not doing, Sleek? Does it not work at all, or make noise, or...? I'd think it'd be worth checking into fixing it, at least. That is a true classic sounding amp!

[Sleek]

What is it doing or not doing, Sleek? Does it not work at all, or make noise, or...? I'd think it'd be worth checking into fixing it, at least. That is a true classic sounding amp!

It's making crackly noises, humming a bit, sounding funny (not like it's usual self), and has low volume output.

My tube guy says his problem with SS stuff is that the manufacturers have 1,000s of often proprietary-manufacture components to choose from, and getting replacement parts gets tricky.

...whereas tube amps use more standardized parts...a 12ax7 goes, you get another. Some weird IC chip from the '80's goes and you are on a scavenger hunt

[lerxstcat]

What is it doing or not doing, Sleek? Does it not work at all, or make noise, or...? I'd think it'd be worth checking into fixing it, at least. That is a true classic sounding amp!

It's making crackly noises, humming a bit, sounding funny (not like it's usual self), and has low volume output.

My tube guy says his problem with SS stuff is that the manufacturers have 1,000s of often proprietary-manufacture components to choose from, and getting replacement parts gets tricky.

...whereas tube amps use more standardized parts...a 12ax7 goes, you get another. Some weird IC chip from the '80's goes and you are on a scavenger hunt

Before taking it to a tech I would go buy some contact cleaner and reaming all the input jacks and cleaning all the pots. Pay special attention to the effects loop jacks. That is a common cause of low/no output and I have fixed a lot of amps by either cleaning the effects loops jacks or bridging the send and return with a patch cord. My Peavey Triumph had a patch cord in the loop for years until I put an Ibanez harmonizer in the loop instead.

The hum is probably bad filter capacitors, that's nothing he should have any trouble finding. In a 20-year-old amp that is very common. But if he won't mess with it, you could probably get a TV/VCR shop to work on it. I had a TV/VCR shop work on a Marshall Lead 100 Mosfet once. They fixed it fine - still did not sound great, but they got it working like it had before.

Filter caps would be eabout $40 plus an hour's labor to change. I bet the other issues would be fixed with a good contact cleaning. You can replace those pots and jacks too, but it will eventually reoccur. It's probably just oxidation and easily cleaned off.

[Sleek]

Do you actually know any good SS specialists around L.A.? I got a broken JBL Eon, too...

[lerxstcat]

Do you actually know any good SS specialists around L.A.? I got a broken JBL Eon, too...

There WAS a place on Venice Blvd., I think it was called Advanced Electronics, on Venice Blvd. east of Sawtelle. It's been 10 years since I had something done there, but they repaired my Ibanez DDL and HD1000 Harmonics/Delay, also fixed a Fender Champion 110, but that was just replacing an input jack. Seemed like nice guys and competent, but I didn't give them enough work to get to know them that well. But living in Santa Monica it was great to have them on the Westside and not have to go into the Valley looking for someone there.

[Space Bear]

I had a Randall half stack in '87. Can't remember what model the head was. What are those older Randalls selling for nowadays?

http://instruments.shop.ebay.com/i.html ... m270.l1313

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This is the one I've got...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Randall-RG100ES-Vin ... 500wt_1156

$200? Hmmm...might be worth getting repaired after all...

I looked through all the listings and didn't see anything that resembled mine. It kinda looked like the RG100, but it had that fuzzy carpet covering (what the hell is that stuff called?). I was a stupid shit back then... I turned the mids down all the way, and the bass and treble up full. Just call me Mr. Metal.

[Sleek]

You weren't stupid~it was just the way of youth.

I spent the first 20 years of my life trying to get rid of midrange, and the next 20 trying to get MORE.

[lerxstcat]

I looked through all the listings and didn't see anything that resembled mine. It kinda looked like the RG100, but it had that fuzzy carpet covering (what the hell is that stuff called?). I was a stupid shit back then... I turned the mids down all the way, and the bass and treble up full. Just call me Mr. Metal.

The carpet is called Ozite and lots of companies used it in the 90s. Randall still made their RG amp line but with that covering instead of Tolex vinyl. They made an RG80ES which was a lower-powered version of the RG100ES, still drove 2 412 cabs but not near as loud.

Man, EVERYBODY was going for the scooped mids back then. It was just the thing. Then we all remembered that guitar is a midrange instrument. Haha, joke was on a generation!

[Atomicpunk18]

I'm in the market for a new electric. I want to sell of my BC Rich Mockingbird and get something to take it's place for a dual humbucker guitar. I'm thinking about a Les Paul, but I'm more of a Fender guy. Does Fender make any dual humbucker guitars worth playing?

I love my Strat, I'm so comfortable on it and if Fender made a great guitar with dual humbuckers, I'd be all over it.

Any advice?

[lerxstcat]

I'm in the market for a new electric. I want to sell of my BC Rich Mockingbird and get something to take it's place for a dual humbucker guitar. I'm thinking about a Les Paul, but I'm more of a Fender guy. Does Fender make any dual humbucker guitars worth playing?

I love my Strat, I'm so comfortable on it and if Fender made a great guitar with dual humbuckers, I'd be all over it.

Any advice?

http://www.zzounds.com/item--FEN0148102

Dual hum Strat, $449. This is the maple board but they have them with rosewood boards too. Called the Blacktop Series.

[ElToro]

I'm selling a dual humbucker Charvel San Dimas Tele for $550. Super clean, black, maple fingerboard, Floyd.