JingleJungle
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I just had an acquaintance over to try out one of my guitties for sale.
We plugged into my early 80s Fender Silverface Twin (Mastervolume) and off we went - volume on 4, all tones on 5, reverb on 3, master on 3.
My friend was basically looking for dead spots on the fretboard when we both heard that the E on the g string (9th) fret produced a ghost note.
It seems to be off like about a semitone or so. It gets fainter on F and Eb. we tried some other guitars and yup, the note is always there.
I can hear it in the dry channel (faintly) and in the vib-rev channel (more pronounced).
What is it? A microphonic pre tube? If so, which could it be?
There's an awful lot of pillbottles to swap around there, so I'd appreciate if someone could give me a pointer as to where to start looking.
Thank y'all!!
JJ
We plugged into my early 80s Fender Silverface Twin (Mastervolume) and off we went - volume on 4, all tones on 5, reverb on 3, master on 3.
My friend was basically looking for dead spots on the fretboard when we both heard that the E on the g string (9th) fret produced a ghost note.
It seems to be off like about a semitone or so. It gets fainter on F and Eb. we tried some other guitars and yup, the note is always there.
I can hear it in the dry channel (faintly) and in the vib-rev channel (more pronounced).
What is it? A microphonic pre tube? If so, which could it be?
There's an awful lot of pillbottles to swap around there, so I'd appreciate if someone could give me a pointer as to where to start looking.
Thank y'all!!
JJ