• wim06
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Topic: new kid in town

Hello,

Quick presentation big_smile

- Wim Van Wassenhove, belgian, flemmish (Dutch speaking), living in France (Nice, Cote d'Azur) since 2000 (gush, 9 years already!!)
- Research engineer in risk sciences, Ecole des Mines de Paris.
- Hobbies : bonsai, reef aquarium and ducati motorcycles (racing, mechanics)

I used to play in a little band back in Belgium, but since I live in France, my gibson les paul classic and fender stratocaster plus merely served as a decoration in the living room, the marshall JCM 800 4212 combo gathered dust...

Since Xmas last year, I began to play the guitar again on a more regular basis.

So I bought a Epiphone SG custom (3 micros)  did a correct setup of trus rod and action, changed stopbar and tailpiece for a tone pros set, swapped my gibson 500T and 496R mics of the les paul classic plus a new 490T into the epi, changed the pots for RS guitarparts ones. Now she's not bad at all, great sound and plays well! The les paul hereted of a 57' zebra and a P90 (I modified the P90 a bit to fit it in the les paul, but I will probably change this for an other 57'...) and RS guitarworks pots also as oil/paper caps.

I bought a second hand mesa boogie V-twin pedal, looking for a different sound...

In the mean time, I stumble on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16QKr36hdM

Jesus!!
I fell of my chair...
The music I like and that sound, a powerfull les paul sound just whatI looked for! And who the #### is Joe that I didn't ever heard of him???? (I must say that since I live in France, music is on stand by, I didn't explore new things, I stuck with my led zeps, rory gallaghers, allman brothers and jimi hendrix...).

I quickly filled the gap in my musical knowledge big_smile
So I'm here!
I never go at concerts, but Joe, when you pass at Nice (France) I surely will go to see you! big_smile

So, very nice but Joe got me puzzled in a way that I couldn't sleep any more... How does he get his fabulous sound?

Next step, I got to the store to test amps.
Fell in love with the blackstar artisan 15, but I have to separate me from my JCM800 to finance... Tested a lot of pedals on the blackstar, didn't found Joe's sound... sad  I figured out "Another kind of love", and you need a thick sound to play this...

Last night, after browsing through this forum, revelation!! Joe plays with several amps, boss DD3 a bit of TS808 so if I buy an artisan 15 head (get rid of the mesa boogie to finance), keep the JCM800 I can play with the JCM800 plugged in one of his 12" speakers, the artisan head will be playing through the other 12" speaker of the Marshall (Eventualy swap it for a celestian vintage 30 speaker). This will give me a lot of possibilities of sounds. A bit like Joe's home set up with his Marshall 25th anniversary and Fender 65 princeton. Even if I don't find 'the sound of Joe', there will be enough to amuse me, I think... big_smile (--> comments on this welcome!)

So this was my little presentation!

Cheers,
wim06.

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Re: new kid in town

Welcome wim06, from your first post I can see you will fit it here just fine. Can't wait to see your first post after seeing him live...............

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  • Ges
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Re: new kid in town

WHi Wim

A massive welcome.
How can such guitars gather dust ??
Amazing.

I'm a great fan of Belgium (where I first heard Joe of course) - it's a beautiful country with friendly people in my experience.
We also holidayed in Nice for the past two years.
Very nice (no pun intended).

thanks for sharing a little of yourself. Very interesting.

The latest UK Guitar Techniques magazine gives an idea of how to get a Joe sound:

Bridge humbucker through a Marshall tube amp and a Tube Screamer is likely to get you quite close to Joes tone. What you're aiming for is a good dose of overdrive, but with plenty of clarity in the mids......... is what they say.

They also recommend amp settings of:

Gain  7
Bass  5
Middle  7
Treble  7
Reverb 0

Give it a try and let us know how close it is as you seem to have the requisite equipment smile

Regards,
Ges

  • wim06
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Re: new kid in town

Hi, thanks for the welcoming smile

Nice people in Belgium, thanks!!!! smile
Nice people in Nice - I my opinion, Nice is not as nice as Belgium, but we have a lot of sun, the sea and fabulous nature! cool

How can such guitars gather dust? hmm
Well, my amp needed a repair (done last february, new lampes and condensators), I didn't had a place dedicated to play (and the amps is LOUD, a part in the living room and I have a little girl who used to sleep a lot and early in the evening. Now she has almost 4 years, so I can play a bit after dinner when she's playing before going to sleep. And of course, I had other interests. I did a lot of mechanics in the evening to keep my bikes running, did some track racing last year etc. It's all question of priorities/time you know... There are simply not enough hours in a day...

I'll check out your settings!! You're sure there isn't a bit of reverb...?

Wim063.

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Re: new kid in town

Hi Wim and welcome to Joe's forum. Great that you saw Joe on TV. We're still waiting for that momentous occasion to happen here in the UK!
Sounds like Joe has inspired you to pick up the guitars again which is fantastic, don't know if the neighbours will agree though!
Hope you get to see a show really soon.

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Re: new kid in town

Jean Claude Van Damme?  He plays blues rock guitar?

huh?

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Re: new kid in town

No Jeff,

That's Steven Seagull................................not from Belgium..................but I'm sure you know!!!

A welcome from me too Wim en ik spreek gewwon nederlands. Belgie is een prachtig land met vreselijk aardige mensen! Nice lijkt me ook leuk!

Andre Wittebroek