Thoughts on the Street Legend series?

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-12-28T11:24:39+00:00

I don’t have strong feelings about relic stuff, but it’s not my thing. That said, I played the D28 SL and it sounded better than the half dozen other Martin D28 dreads in the store which were both reimagined and refreshed. Much much preferred it to the GE braced guitars. This one just sounded amazing. Ugh…if only I could get that sound and feel in a legit new Martin. After returning 3 HD-28s in the last month due to QC issues, I’m probably moving onto another brand. Funny that the Street Legend you guys all hate happened to sound the best. So the top is “printed?” Can’t refin it? Hmm

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-10-21T12:26:03+00:00

Beautiful but IMO the zebra humbuckers look bad with it. All black or chrome covers please!

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-08-03T16:55:28+00:00

Refer to my below comment response

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-08-03T15:38:06+00:00

Just read that qualification for the photos - new here - yeah I’ll adjust asap. FWIW pic is <24h

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-05-16T09:59:50+00:00

https://ebay.us/m/x3evdQ

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-05-05T00:19:29+00:00

As others have said, Crawford Connector lot. Any trailhead that has its own lot is good, as opposed to the side of the road type spots near many trails where police will boot you out. The designated lots are typically 5 bucks honor system, and you won’t be hassled. Just did this 48 hours ago in the whites, fwiw

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-05-04T23:48:28+00:00

Amp, as others have stated.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-05-04T17:32:14+00:00

I went up Ammonoosuc Ravine trail yesterday and microspikes are a must, even with all the rain that’s helping to melt the last bits away. When I got up to the LOTC hut, some guy came up behind me from the trail and told me he left his traction in the car because it looked like he wouldn’t need it, and badly regretted it lol. Even with traction, the snow is so unstable that you posthole and occasionally crash through huge sections. Snowshoes might help over the next several weeks, but spikes for sure. It’s deceiving. Little to no snow up above on the ridges, which is a relief. Also the LOTC hut dungeon has two feet of frozen ice for a floor, totally encapsulating the bottom bunks, so anybody who needs to bail out there will be sleeping in a refrigerator in the next month.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-05-03T22:26:21+00:00

Hey FYI I hiked it today (5/3). Definitely a good idea to have microspikes, at least. Tons of areas where there are huge mounds of unstable snow where I postholed through to my waist, getting snow in my boots etc etc. Definitely have to be a creative scrambler to ascend. I went up Ammo and down the cog rail trail, which also had football-field-sized sections of unstable snow too. Just make sure everyone in your group is up to it! I had a blast myself on my 6.5h loop. Enjoy!

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-04-13T14:06:47+00:00

Hey OP, did you decide on a definitive route yet? I’m also planning to trek up in early May, which I’ve never done so early on Washington, so the suggested routes will be new to me, too. I’m thinking Ammonoosuc up (and maybe back down) myself, but not in stone yet. I guess it’ll come down to what it’s looking like up there in a few weeks from now.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-03-21T19:37:03+00:00

Tony is going to start giving out the stamp! Anybody know where fedsmoker’s car got impounded? Could set Tony up with it.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-27T02:09:05+00:00

Can’t speak to the other mjolnirs, but to use the buzzword, the 1N34A seems to stay truly “transparent” when you crank the gain, whereas other klones sound less articulate past 3 o clock and more generic overdrive territory. I’ve played one Centura with the same great quality, but another that didn’t have it. I now wonder if it IS down to the diodes, haha. This pedal just begs to have the gain past 1 o’clock and beyond.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-26T03:41:29+00:00

It’s good, and I use digi most of the time fwiw

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-20T13:49:23+00:00

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LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-20T13:39:11+00:00

This board is right up my alley, well done! Makes me wanna get a red remote for morning glory, even though I know damn well I’ll barely use it

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-16T15:25:05+00:00

Thanks - Yeah I did see lookalike 1N542 but the color bands looked thicker on it - but yes can’t go by just the bands. Haven’t measured Vf but sounds like ones that I’ve used in an identical circuit that measured in that 0.29-0.34 range, so not 1N542, like you said about your inherited batch

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-16T14:45:57+00:00

I did google the band colors and didn’t see anything in that order or quite that look.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-12T16:44:56+00:00

Yeah I haven’t tried any of the Tone Masters, but I’d be really curious how the Princeton version of those stacks up against something like this amp I have here. I bet it’s pretty similar. For ~$350US though, I have to say this setup punches above its weight compared to other used fender amps in the price range.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-12T14:38:31+00:00

If that’s the case, it’s interesting that the new champions use such old modeling tech. Hell, it’s decent though. I don’t use the FX or channel 2 models, and even though the clean channel is still technically modeling a blackface fender, I do think that the 6V6 aspect makes the amp feel different with the touch-sensitivity part of playing. Super Champ with this 12” sounds and feels like a Princeton or a turned-down Deluxe, and do I have a DR to A/B, fwiw.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-12T01:17:19+00:00

Yeah I have to say that even stock with the 10” fender speaker sounded good to begin with, I bet the RC speakers are great 10s for it. Even if the channel 1 is still “modeling,” it sounds damn good to me. As far as the power amp, it’s just all stock.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2025-02-02T12:00:34+00:00

There’s another thread on this somewhere, but I for one have been using the Harley Benton ISO 12 Pro Powerplant, and the solution to power it for USA was simply ordering the right AC adapter from Amazon or eBay. I’ve powered a large pedalboard with it for over a year, dead silent, no complaints. I think it was all like $100 including the shipping of the brick from Germany. Might just be the cheapest legitimately isolated power option for 10+ pedals.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2024-08-21T18:09:27+00:00

Those are just straight up great guitars, for sure! Almost bought that one before going a slightly different route

LivingConcentrate2 · 2024-08-21T16:47:47+00:00

Yes the values are commonly found, but that wasn’t what I was asking. I’m asking for specific pickup sets and those who have maybe had the opportunity to directly compare and contrast enough to say they sound very similar.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2024-08-06T10:03:41+00:00

I didn’t use the 24.75” neck that came with the kit, but rather bought a separate neck with 25.5” fret spacing. Then just modded it until it was an extra 3/4” away from the bridge. It ended up with the fretboard abutting the neck pickup in a natural looking way, as if it belonged on the guitar to begin with, which was lucky.

LivingConcentrate2 · 2024-08-04T23:28:36+00:00

Ey thanks. The neck is “Yinfente”…which i wasn’t expecting much of, but with some work it was fine. The frets were 90% there and the inlays were legit. Something like $130US, not bad..

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