paul-e-mann
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Thats right its been over a year! I usually go fairly regularly just for fun, at least once a month or so. They lifted the mask mandate in my state so this was also my first full day out in public maskless (I do have both shots), the weather here in the Baltimore area usually goes from cold to hot with only a short spring and fall so today was 93 degrees already and no mask was welcome!
So getting back to my GC story, I didnt know what to expect inside, new gear, used gear, the place empty or full, I seemed to be the only person walking around without a mask so that shows you right off the bat the numbers of people who didnt get their shots, but nobody cared I was walking around, maybe 20 people in there. The first thing I notice is the glass sound booth is fully stocked with high end equipment as usual so I go in and peak around, nice stuff! Then walk out to the main floor and notice the used gear section has very little gear almost none, then the wall of new guitars I notice is empty of any good stuff, its all low end gear. I really wanted to plug in a P90 Gibson but none to be had so I grabbed a Squier Strat and tuned it up, the strings so rusty they blackened my fingers, mind you this is a lefty guitar so I was probably the first person to ever handle it, it took quite awhile to get it to stay in tune, I really broke it in for the 3 hours I played it! The new amp section seemed to be pretty loaded, not entirely as it used to be but not bad. Here is the list of amps I plugged into in order:
Yamaha THR10 - small modeling combo, was fun!
Supro Delta King 10 - the name was deceiving, research found it to be 5 watts with 10" speaker, sounds nice!
Boss Nextone Special - 80 watt solid state, not bad
Orange CR60C - 60 watt solid state, not bad
Vox AC10 - 10 watt, very nice
a few Fenders for the heck of it - not a fan so glossed over a few popular models for the heck of it
Marshall DSL40CR - pleasantly surprised, typically dont like DSL, very nice and versatile
Marshall SC20 combo - sounds good even at low volume
Marshall Code 25 - was fun to dial through the models, would need alot of tweaking
Marshall Origin 50C - too clean to get anything out of at low volume, nice clean amp though
The clear winner of the day was the Supro Delta King 10, a 5 watt 10" speaker combo, I highly recommend this amp if you need a blues amp, they had the Delta King 12 which is a 15 watt combo with a 12" speaker but something was wrong with it I couldnt get any sound out of it. The 10 sounded surprisingly full, look up the features its just a really nice amp, if I had some spare change I'd take one home. And a shout out to the Squier Strat, after I broke in the strings it really held its own!
My intention was to post a picture of the Supro but my picture hosting site mediafire of 10 years seems to have changed their picture sharing ability (Im not gonna pay), I guess I wont be using them any more, gonna need some suggestions where and how to put my pictures. So any way, here's a link to the Supro on the GC site:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Supro/1820-Delta-King-10-5W-Tube-Guitar-Amp.gc
It was a fun Sunday afternoon!
So getting back to my GC story, I didnt know what to expect inside, new gear, used gear, the place empty or full, I seemed to be the only person walking around without a mask so that shows you right off the bat the numbers of people who didnt get their shots, but nobody cared I was walking around, maybe 20 people in there. The first thing I notice is the glass sound booth is fully stocked with high end equipment as usual so I go in and peak around, nice stuff! Then walk out to the main floor and notice the used gear section has very little gear almost none, then the wall of new guitars I notice is empty of any good stuff, its all low end gear. I really wanted to plug in a P90 Gibson but none to be had so I grabbed a Squier Strat and tuned it up, the strings so rusty they blackened my fingers, mind you this is a lefty guitar so I was probably the first person to ever handle it, it took quite awhile to get it to stay in tune, I really broke it in for the 3 hours I played it! The new amp section seemed to be pretty loaded, not entirely as it used to be but not bad. Here is the list of amps I plugged into in order:
Yamaha THR10 - small modeling combo, was fun!
Supro Delta King 10 - the name was deceiving, research found it to be 5 watts with 10" speaker, sounds nice!
Boss Nextone Special - 80 watt solid state, not bad
Orange CR60C - 60 watt solid state, not bad
Vox AC10 - 10 watt, very nice
a few Fenders for the heck of it - not a fan so glossed over a few popular models for the heck of it
Marshall DSL40CR - pleasantly surprised, typically dont like DSL, very nice and versatile
Marshall SC20 combo - sounds good even at low volume
Marshall Code 25 - was fun to dial through the models, would need alot of tweaking
Marshall Origin 50C - too clean to get anything out of at low volume, nice clean amp though
The clear winner of the day was the Supro Delta King 10, a 5 watt 10" speaker combo, I highly recommend this amp if you need a blues amp, they had the Delta King 12 which is a 15 watt combo with a 12" speaker but something was wrong with it I couldnt get any sound out of it. The 10 sounded surprisingly full, look up the features its just a really nice amp, if I had some spare change I'd take one home. And a shout out to the Squier Strat, after I broke in the strings it really held its own!
My intention was to post a picture of the Supro but my picture hosting site mediafire of 10 years seems to have changed their picture sharing ability (Im not gonna pay), I guess I wont be using them any more, gonna need some suggestions where and how to put my pictures. So any way, here's a link to the Supro on the GC site:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Supro/1820-Delta-King-10-5W-Tube-Guitar-Amp.gc
It was a fun Sunday afternoon!
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