Crate Palomino V32 And Mexican Telecaster Are Blueheels Singer And Guitarist Robby Schiller's Sonic Arsenal
August 22, 2007
Pat Ogle interviews Blueheels' guitarist and lead singer Robby Schiller about the gear behind the Blueheels' farm-core sound, and finds out that for Robby Schiller, it's all about what sounds best. Playing a Mexican Telecaster through a Crate Palomino V32 is just what sounds best for Robby and the Blueheels.
Robby Schiller describes his music as "post nu ambio farm-core," and we're not quite sure what it means, just how it sounds. Listening to the Blueheels, it makes perfect sense that they call Neenah, Wisconsin their home. If you give their tunes a listen, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Check out the interview for more on Robby's gear, the Blueheels, and a mysterious guitar tech known as "Food Beard."
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interesting -- i thought palominos were discontinued but walked into a store yesterday and there it was! a V32 combo!
i asked how they got it and they said they bought out the last two they could get their hands on from crate. so i had to get it, didn't i? if i walked out without it, i'd regret it the rest of my life, wouldn't i?
then i come to find out after buying it that it's made in vietnam with a "US design", not made in the US like i thought the original palominos were. if the originals were indeed of US manufacture, i was duped into thinking that this was of old stock, which doesn't make me very happy.
it gets worse: now i see that one major web site is offering them under a "clearance," both the combo and the head. but they say they have a limited supply (or will have soon.) i don't see any for sale anywhere but there, so maybe they are indeed hard to get. or maybe not.
the chinese made series seems to have been discontinued and now conincidentally these are showing up again. hmm.
the amp sounds pretty good, i must admit. i might upgrade the speaker (a Celestion-branded Palomino model of uncertain heritage -- not bad but I'd like to compare against a real Greenback just to see what happens) and eventually the tubes.
the distortion is more usable than a comparable fender blues deluxe (the fender being a 6v6 class A/B amp -- this is a class A with four EL34s) -- i like to roll off the treble a bit because the overdrive is still a bit buzzy. but yeah, i'd use the overdrive on a gig, which i would never say about the original blues deluxe. footswitch included with LED status indicators for overdrive and a separate mid-boost.
clean, it's got a lot of headroom, and has a really nice articulate chimey tone to it. it's plenty loud for what i need.
fit and finish are good, not great. the knobs have little amber jewels on them as pointers (really classy, like a cadillac convertible with fur interior) but they're not lined up correctly with the scale 1 - 10. i'm not sure how they come off yet: i see no set screw, but they sure don't pull off easy either. it has a nice soft leathery feeling handle, and gold hardware on cream tolex makes it the pimp's choice for blingy stage presence. it's a heavy little bastard.
all in all, 8.5 out of 10. no regrets buying it.
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