Re: OT: Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Guitar/Bass/Drum Trios

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@q.com>]

Interesting.  The whole debate over what gear to use for jazz boxes is 
hilarious.  I can't believe some of the arguments I see, when everything 
basically comes down to personal taste. And then you see what Mary is 
using 
and it defies a lot of other recommendations, which is great.  What is the 
cleanest or best amp? What is the cleanest most flat frequency response 
speaker? What archtop projects the most or has the fattest acoustic sound? 
What is the best jazz guitar?  And so on ad infinitum. Everyone has the 
best 
answer.  In the end, there is no jazz guitar or jazz amp per se, 
especially 
when you have guys like Joe Pass using Telecasters.

With my new Mirabela 17 inch archtop, I went with the following:

I run into my Boss VF1 for reverb and a tiny bit of delay (and chorus, if 
I 
want a Mike Stern/Abrocrombie sound), then.....and then....because I can't 
make up my mind on whether I like an ultra clean SS state tone or a warm 
and 
spongy tube tone, I decided to have it both ways. Out of one channel of 
the 
Boss VF1 I run into an Acoustic Image Claris 1 head and a JBL 1X12 sealed 
and ported cabinet, in which I installed an Emincence Delta Pro 12A 400 
Watt 
speaker. It is a very obedient speaker, like the rock of gibalter :)  Out 
of 
the other channel, I am running into a Peavey Delta Blue 1X15 tube combo 
amp, which I bought new last month but now selling and replacing with a 
Fender Hot Rod Series Blues Junior NOS 15W 1x12 (Jensen speaker) Tube 
Guitar 
Combo Amp....because the Delta Blue is just too god damned loud....crimey. 
Excellent tone, but is really for a bigger club with no PA.

So I will have an interesting blended set of tones.

Kris

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Forgot to add this OT earlier:

Mary Halvorson's gear when I saw her was her big fat jazz box (1970 Guild 
Artist Award) and using a Rat distortion (pretty sure it was a Turbo Rat), 
a 
DL4 (left on one of the delay settings with an expression pedal), and a 
volume pedal.  (A nice variation on the vintage Bill Frisell set-up!)

She got good use out of the volume pedal as her guitar has acoustic sound, 
she'd keep playing even when the pick-up volume was at zero.

Jessica Pavone had her viola was plugged into a Fender Blender pedal.

I can't recall amps, but wouldn't be surprised if they were borrowed for 
the 
gig.


ted h.