A few years back I saw a 412 cabinet at my local Music Go Round. It was built by a company I didn't recognize, but I did a little research and found out the cabinet was from the early 70s and, if the speakers were original, would contain 4x Celestion Green Backs. I borrowed a screw driver from the guy at the counter and opened the cab. Sure enough, there were 4x early 70s Celestion Green Backs. I traded them to a guy in Asia for a half ounce Canadian Gold Maple Leaf. I paid $100 for the cabinet. Today, gold hit a near all time high close to $3000/ounce. I sold that half ounce bullion round for $1500. THAT is how you score at the music store, my friends.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
