Robben Ford Discussion

I guess this song title might sum things up a bit. The fact is that Robben is not a major recording artist who can expect to sell millions of CD's. He has chosen to follow a diverse career path and fo ...

I'll try anything once. Make mine a double!

Andy

I also fitted treble bleed capacitiors to the volume pots. This helped, but I felt I got much closer to what I wanted when I changed the value of the pot itself. By the way, the pot values were 500k o ...

I nearly changed the bridge for a tonepros unit. The bridge unit is very poor quality on my guitar. The saddle slots are rough and probably over-deep and two of the saddle screws are very loose, resul ...

Pedro, I am hoping to get to the Sheffield gig. I will be going to the manchester gig for definite as that is local to me, but Sheffield is just close enough to make the drive. Long way off yet though ...

My mistake. The London gig is at the Mean Fiddler, not the Jazz Cafe (as spotted by Rocking Rick). Sorry to mislead!

Andy

Found some dates for the UK
9th Manchester University (Academy 3)
15th Boardwalk Sheffield
18th Jazz Cafe London
Also another date may be at Nottingham (used to be Rock City)
I will be getting ti ...

I have an old Quadraverb (pre Quadraverb GT so no compression-type effects). I run it in the loop of my Fender Hot Rod deluxe. This is a series loop and I am sure that the tone of the amp is somewhat ...

My faves are Supernatural and Mystic mile (I also favour Handful of Blues). I like all Robben's stuff, but these are the ones I keep coming back to. Not sure what tracks are on the Blues collection al ...

Bill, I also look forward to your comments, considering you own the real thing. I suspect that at least tonally there will be a fair difference(!) Really enjoying mine since I changed the bridge volum ...

I also have a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I love the clean tone, but find the lead channel tones a little harsh and thin when used at reasonable volume. I didn't have an OD pedal until recently, but I did ...

garyguitar, you hit the nail on the head for me. Most of us here are into Robben Ford because his music touched us. We like to buy his recordings and see him perform live because we know that we will ...

Fitted a 1000 k ohm (1 meg ohm) volume pot (for the bridge pick-up only) on Saturday. Took me around 90 mins to make the change as I am not an electrician, and I was also very careful not to damage t ...

Enrico,
I'm still waiting for the 1000k ohm volume pot I ordered to see if this helps the bridge pick-up tone enough. My gut feel is that I will end up changing the pick-up, but it's a lot of money f ...

Thanks for the info. The TBX explanation makes sense (although as a non-electrical type, I don't understand how it works). Thanks also for the info on 250k vs 1M ohm pots. I'm definitely going to try ...