Pipeline

[hooper]

Okay, here's a Pipeline update with 'Rhodes' piano added and a little bit of mixing and EQing.   The piano is not a real Fender Rhodes, just a soft synth. 

In an effort to preserve more of the guitar tone from  Farmjazz's recording (which was a second generation mp3 in Greg's recording)  I loaded both versions into Sonar and then put a low-pass filter on Gregs version to keep the bass but filter down some of the guitars. That did take some of the pick-pluck out of the bass but one of FJ's guitars is playing pretty near the same thing. Hope that's okay.

I enjoyed sitting in with ya, FJ and Greg.  Nice playing!

later,
Hoop
  

[galestermusic]

Hooper and FJ the pleasure was mine! Great mix hooper! Miles away and able to do this. Love technology. This was a lot of fun

Greg

[Farmjazz]

Sorry for the delay in responding - its crazy around here with all the fires. There are literally hundreds of them, and close. There are evacuations being ordered all around me. Who knows, I may lose it all. Except my guitars and BR of course!

Blooby - the model of my Ibanez is 43052WH. That may not help much, but I remember it being the 'Frank Gambale' model. Very thin body, extremely comfortable neck, floating bridge, etc. The best feeling and sounding electric I've ever played. I've used it in big band, fusion, rock, country, pop, reggae, traditional jazz, and now surf music styles with great results every time.

hooper - nice keyboard part! As I was saving the original mix to Mp3 in Audacity I scrolled down the genres list to click on surf and, lo and behold, it was not there. What do you think about that? They had every kind of crazy music type under the sun listed except surf.
I'm on a mission now. I'm not going away until every man, woman and child listens to surf music!

[galestermusic]

FJ I wish you all the best and hope you're safe from the fires. Turning surf music into a crusade! YES! We need remakes of the beach movies. LOL

Greg

[Blooby]

Blooby - the model of my Ibanez is 43052WH. That may not help much, but I remember it being the 'Frank Gambale' model. Very thin body, extremely comfortable neck, floating bridge, etc. The best feeling and sounding electric I've ever played.

Funny you should mention that guitar.  If I'm not mistaken on the model, I have informally been looking for one for a while on Ebay as the Ibanez Sabre.

Funny story:  I was outbid on one before a trip to Alaska a couple years ago (I live in Florida).  In Fairbanks, I was killing time in a music store, and I saw a similar model.  After talking with the owner, it was revealed that he was the one who had outbid me, and I was staring at the same guitar.  He only had received the guitar a few days prior.  Small world.

I wish you luck with the fire situation.

Blooby

[64Guitars]

Blooby - the model of my Ibanez is 43052WH. That may not help much, but I remember it being the 'Frank Gambale' model. Very thin body, extremely comfortable neck, floating bridge, etc. The best feeling and sounding electric I've ever played. I've used it in big band, fusion, rock, country, pop, reggae, traditional jazz, and now surf music styles with great results every time.

I can't find any reference to an Ibanez 43052 model. Could you perhaps mean the 430S2 (or 430S-II)?



http://www.ibanezcollectors.com/discus/messages/14/7919.html?1098492204



I believe that Frank Gambale used a 540S. Then, in 1991, Ibanez introduced the FGM100 Frank Gambale model.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1991/fg.jpg
http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1991/fg_2.jpg

[Farmjazz]

Sixty-Four - The model # could very well be 430S2WH. Looking at the original warranty and the model # was hand written in red inkpen, and somewhat sloppily. The serial # is F023098 for sure, if that helps.

Now, the pictures you posted have the right body shape and color, but my axe has a V2 Humbucker at the bridge position, S1 single coils at the middle and neck positions, and black vol/tone knobs and black trim around the pickup selector switch.

A local guitar shop has this same model wired up to demonstrate a guitar synth they're selling, and so many people want to buy the guitar itself when they play it, they had to put a big sticker on it GUITAR NOT FOR SALE. Apparently people still beg to buy the guitar at any price even though its all marred up from the synth install. I feel their pain. I knew I wanted this guitar within 5 minutes of taking it down from the wall and playing it - and I hadn't even plugged it in! She and I have had quite a relationship alright.

[64Guitars]

The serial # is F023098 for sure, if that helps.

The 'F' in the serial number means that your guitar was made at the FujiGen Gakki factory in Matsumoto, Japan.

http://www.ibanezregister.com/history/history-dating.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FujiGen

The '0' after the 'F' indicates that it was made in 1990, and the remaining digits indicate that it was the 23,098th guitar built that year.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ibanez+serial+numbers

[64Guitars]

Sixty-Four - The model # could very well be 430S2WH. Looking at the original warranty and the model # was hand written in red inkpen, and somewhat sloppily. The serial # is F023098 for sure, if that helps.

Now, the pictures you posted have the right body shape and color, but my axe has a V2 Humbucker at the bridge position, S1 single coils at the middle and neck positions, and black vol/tone knobs and black trim around the pickup selector switch.

It sounds like it's a 440S II rather than a 430S II (the "WH" just means it's white). From looking at the 1990 catalogs, it seems that the 430S II had three S1 pickups. The 440S II had a V2 at the bridge and S1s in the middle and neck positions. There was also a 440S (no "II") which had the same pickup configuration as the 440S II but a different tremolo and string locking mechanism -- the 440S had an Ibanez "Edge" Tremolo and Top Lok III clamps behind the nut while the 440S II had an "HQ-J" tremolo and Gotoh Magnum locking tuners instead.

1990:
http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/expansion.php?cat_id=184&now=7

1991:
http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/expansion.php?cat_id=190&now=12

Notice that in 1991 the 440S II's pickup configuration changed to V6, S3, S2 and it wasn't available in white, so yours must be a 1990 model.

It's interesting that the 440S II is only shown in the European catalogs; not the American ones. Where did you buy it?

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/page.php?cat_id=185&year=1990

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/index.html

[Farmjazz]

At that time I was living in Gilroy, CA and I bought the guitar at a nearby music store in Morgan Hill, CA. They were called Morgan Hill Music at that time, but now they are 'the Music Tree.'

I went by there about two years ago as I was passing through and I couldn't believe my eyes - they were selling Orange amps! I had an Orange stack back in the seventies. I thought they were out of business, but they told me that many big-name artists are using them now. Same graphics on the head/cabs and everything! Man, oh man. Talk about retro-flashback!

Well, regarding the model # on my Ibanez, its not a 440S according to the warranty. It does have the locking tuners though, if that helps. They used the number 2 instead of II when they hand-wrote in the model number.

Why don't you post some work 64 Guitars? Even us pros need to blow off some steam now and then. C'mon bro. Post somethin'!