LIVE Viewer Comments & Questions 14 March 2022

Following cars with a bag of poo on the rear wiper. Just willing the wiper to activate :)

Happy Birthday Mick! My SG was a birthday present to myself as well. Taking much joy in that I as part of your Gold Top reveal!

Happy birthday Mick!!

dear Mick, dear Dan i am about to buy a Victory Amp but i can not make a decition and need your help. Witch one to cover : SRV, Gary Moore, Santana, a bit Van Halen. Some Hard Rock 80-90`s tnx

Happy Birthday Mick, and congrats on the Goldtop and the new butt, that's awesome!

In the USA a Raino' is called a drizzle fanny.

Mick, Happy Birthday, young man!! 🎂
Congrats, congrats, congrats on your new Gold Top!! So sweet… 🎸
PS: glad you have hung up your motorbike boots. You made it through in one piece! Drive the new Lester from now on….. 🎼
Cheers

Andy and Devin at breakfast in CA......that must have been awesome!

I appreciate Micks thoughts on the tube issue. Myself, I’ve been playing since the early 90s and never owned a tube amp. I’ve played through them and they’re great. I’m not an expert or anything, but I truly don’t have a problem with my Tone Master Deluxe Reverb blonde. I know I know, but if tubes truly do get scarce, lots of options exist. We can still play!

Out of curiosity, I went online after this episode to see if I went online just to check if any “Tubes” were available for purchase. Every where I checked; “sold out.” Leave it to “Fear” to bring out the “Hoarders!” Thinking of the film “Watchmen” for some reason right now

Happy Birthday, Mick! 🎂🎂🎂🍷🍷🍷

Selfishly I'm happy that Mick sold his motorcycle, so we won't lose him to life's random tragedies. That's funny about the rain barrel...that's exactly the kind of gift I get myself. Happy for you Mick, and happy birthday.

Happy birthday, Mic!

Happy Birthday, Mick! Great discussion as always :)

I've got myself a Jazzmaster with that same awful bridge, and as a heavy/high-gain guy I find I have to be very methodical about where I use it. Love the thing, but I have to restrict it to cleaner parts with a lighter touch as much as I can. As a slight tangent, I've got a squire tele with a maple board that I put a standard hardtail bridge on and switched the bridge pup for a humbucker and it is probably my favorite guitar ever. It's hot trash, but it's the most inspiring thing to play for me.

I volunteer as apprentice. I give up all worldly possessions here forth.

Dear TPS, is it possible to make a donation to book a question if we can't log into the live streams for super chat? Many Thanks

Happy Birthday Mick!

Rain Barrel. Happy B-day.

Mick getting het up about one of the core tenants of stoicism, may be the most Mick thing ever. 👌

Hey guys, missed this as I was celebrating my own birthday. I found your channel a while ago and particularly enjoyed the show featuring Ed O'Brien and was wondering if you guys will ever do one with Jonny Buckland assuming he was up for it? I know Coldplay isn't necessarily known for crazy guitar solos but he's my favorite guitarist.

Agreed re Mark Knopfler - first guitarist I was actively listening to when I first got a guitar aged 13. I never realised it at the time but he is one of the biggest influences on me. When I got my Strat recently I found myself unconsciously noodling on things like Sultans of Swing.

Interesting to go off on a plant knowledge tangent. That Petal Show.

Brothers in Arms was a DDD recoding, digital recording equipment, digital mastering, digital media. It was recorded at George Martins' AIR Studio in Monsserat on a Sony 24-track digital tape machine through a Neve 8078 board which was the last of the 80 series of hand wired analog mixing consoles designed and built by Neve. It was one of the first albums intentionally recorded as a full DDD for CD release.

Could a FET-based device be designed to plug into be a tube socket and function in a tube amp? As a stop gap measure in times of scarcity?

We call it a rain catcher here in the southern states.

I just found r/ThatPedalShow on Reddit!

CONGRATS on the goldtop that thing is magic

Howdy guys, hope all is well. Did Earthquaker ever get round to sending you some of their products for you to try? They're one of my favourite pedal makers and I have a few of their creations on both my guitar and bass pedal boards.

I foresee many more Roland JC-40 sales in 2022

Hi Dan and Mick!

Congrats on the goldtop, Mick! Regarding the differences between that guitar and Dan's '02(?) R8, that I believe you talked about in the last VCQ, it would be interesting to see if some small and easily reversible hardware changes to the R8 could make them closer (if that is something Dan is willing/would like to try -- perhaps it will result in some more treble and airiness ;-) ).

I suspect that the goldtop has steel bridge posts and steel thumbwheels under the wireless ABR-1, long (i.e., 1" threaded portion) steel tailpiece studs screwed into long (>=1") steel inserts, and a lightweight aluminium tailpiece. This may contribute slightly to its clear and airy voice. You could, for instance, check if the material is steel with a small magnet during the next string change.

On the other hand, I think Dan's R8 may have brass bridge posts with brass thumbwheels under a wired(?) ABR-1, shorter "historic length" (7/8" threaded portion) brass tailpiece studs screwed into shorter (7/8") steel inserts, and probably a lightweight aluminium tailpiece (I think those were introduced around 2001, so perhaps check the weight to see if it is around 30-35 grams). Again, this could be checked with a magnet to see if the components are nonmagnetic for brass. For example, trying out some steel 7/8" tailpiece studs may yield a small difference in the sound and is reversible. Similarly, steel thumbwheels may have a tiny impact and is also reversible. The posts, however, would require a bit more work to screw in and out.

Note that the vintage Les Pauls supposedly had brass bridge posts and brass thumbwheels, long steel tailpiece studs and aluminium tailpieces.

Keep on doing what you do!

Mick’s mention of Communiqué reminded me of a fav Dire Straits song: Single Handed Sailor. Enigmatic lyrics, great clean Strat tone and a long fab guitar outro…can’t beat it!

Who is John Galt?

Can we return to the discussion of guitar nuts?

Mick, Communique is one of my favorite albums. I believe it was recorded in Nassau Bahamas at Compass Point Studios and mixed at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Mobile Fidelity's 45RPM Original Master Recording of Communique is an excellent pressing (If your turntable supports 45RPM). Congrats on the Gold Top LP, that's the best sounding LP I've ever heard. Playing it must be sublime.

Again, it's all about the gain but you must set the gain so that it is a gain, again.

Regardless of gear or current state of technology the quality of an audio recording is dependent upon the ear of the one in charge. That one may be the producer, the engineer, or the artist, or any combination which allows the quality to be maximized. Convenience must consciously be placed way down the priorities list.

I must, at some point, stop plowing so I can sharpen that plow.

I started on piano and had to learn a whole new set of skills to get on path with the guitar to allow joining that instrument into my musical aspirations. Transcribing from piano to guitar was only a start because while each instrument is a tool they all speak a slightly different language.

Hi fellas! Will you be carrying Chase Bliss pedals at That Pedal Shop soon? I really want to get an Automatone MkII Preamp and the used prices are nearly the same as new, so I rather get new if you get a cut. Cheers!

Mick’s LP growls even when it’s not plugged in.

Listening to the Dire Straits record mentioned, it does indeed sound great! Neve 8078 recording console recording to a Sony 24 track digital tape machine apparently. 🤘🏻

Very good news about new Kingsley pedals. Having said that though, a Eunuch generally lost only the testes - so they had no balls but a knob.

My comment on Daylight Savings time in the US was wrong they did make it permanent.
Fake news of fake of ………

Tube amps are not going away any time soon so dont worry about not getting tubes. All big amp manufacturers still get them. What your hearing about is them not being able to find suitable replacements for "lots or sets" of tubes they purchased already. They still get thousands of them all the time.

I got the humdinger and completed the wet dry setup this week. Was pleased that it didn’t require anything more than increasing the mix on the mods and delays to work. The movement in the air is quite the sensation. I can’t think of a way to do it, but any way to get my phaser which I run before my gain stages and the split to just go to the wet amp? The phaser sounds good wet in both, but I know it’d be even better wet/dry.

I had the original tubes in my 71 Marshall Superbass up until about 2008. I figure the replacements in it should last me until I'm too old to care anymore. I toured playing full-time throughout the late 80s, 90s & 2000s. The guys with an issue are gonna be the egotistical players that have to have new tubes every year because of "Tone". Just play & be the tone yourself & things will be fine. 😉👍

Congrats on the Paul Mick!

About the tube shortage, I'm super glad my amp of choice is a Crate BV300H, I never have to crank it, the headroom is basically ridiculous, I can't even crank it, anything past 6ish is hard to handle, and you lose the note clarity when your ears are bleeding out :P however, it's my favorite piece of gear, biggest part of my sound as far as i'm concerned, it's probably more important than my #1 guitar tbh, I do need to get a backup set or two, I'd cry and cry if I could never play it again, it is definitely an experience.