Finishing up 2023 & wishing all a great 2024

 

Hi all you fans of Goletasound, including myself and band members,

Thank you for making Goletasound a successful band. We would not do this without your support and the venues and owner's support.

We play for fun, and for ourselves, and for you, and we hope you enjoy our music.

Please keep checking our website for upcoming gigs, and if you have any suggestions for places to play, or songs to add, please send us a note to goletasound@gmail.com

Thanks from all of us to all off you, and let's have a great 2024 full of music, happiness, prosperity, good health, and fun.

Goletasound

The Haven at Whitesails

UPDATE: Unfortunately this location has closed, but you can still enjoy culinary products from their Ventura Business - located at  -Montalvo Square Shopping Center - 1780 E. Victoria Ave, Ventura, CA 93003

This place is a gem and the word needs to get out. The food is great and the atmosphere

 too. 

 Goletasound Trio performed at the Haven at Whitesails on Friday February 17 from 6-9 PM

It was a great night with visitors from Ventura, Simi Valley, Akron Ohio, The Philippines, and of course Oxnard and Channel Islands Harbor. There were some regular customers, like Tom to mention one, a former record producer, who told me about him working with Steve Morse, Rick Emmett, Steve Howe, back in Toronto Canada.

Goletasound in 2023 & recap of 2022

It's been a long time coming.

Now that we're here, everything's clear, what's going to happen is just happening here. (Those are lyrics to a song we wrote).

2022 brought us back to gigs at the Waterside, the Shores, and events for Habitat for Humanity, the Oxnard Ambassadors, and the Santa Paula Pumpkin Patch. New places include the Portside Marina in Ventura, the Mission Bay Boat and Ski Club in San Diego. Goletasound's connection to playing near the water is from our name- Goleta is a small boat, and Sound is a small body of water. 

The Trio of Tal, Bob & Pete performed at the Boatyard Pub, and will add The Haven at Whitesails this coming year as a featured venue.

We are grateful to all the friends who support us, and new friends that we have met. Thank you Bob and Karla, Larry and Mari, Rob and Kathy, Stan and Brenda, and Tal and Mabel for the many new friends and music lovers we have met through you.

Musical highlights this past year were many, but notably when Steve Reid joined on bass. He was our bass player until he moved to Arizona. We also brought in Dave Cain who adds keyboard sounds, need I mention Hammond B3. Another highlight was when Juan Carlos Rosales joined us on bass for a few gigs, and saved us from losing some gigs. Of course we always welcome Celia when she sings with us.

How can I not mention the introduction of White Ice, aka Rob Lalonde, who takes on another dimension when he raps on the song he and Tal do.

So in 2023, we will be having fun playing gigs and trying to get more. The calender is open, and we will try to play more at wineries and try some festivals or street fairs.

We hope to see you all again in 2023.

checkout our website at Goletasound.com, or https://goletasound.godaddysites.com

Goletasound the Band - At the Waterside Restaurant

My new tube amp - Fender Super-Sonic 22 V-Custom Limited

  I purchased a new tube amp on e-bay,  a Fender Super-Sonic 22 V-Custom limited. It has custom gold color tolex with black tolex (with white piping) in a v-pattern on the top panel. It also has a Celestion Vintage 30 (12") speaker, and black grille cloth. Only 150 were made, so I think it is special. It was delivered to me in its original packaging, and I couldn't wait to to try it out. So, I turned it on and it sounds great at all settings, except I had a problem with the reverb - it squealed with feedback at settings higher that 3-4 on the reverb knob. It was not feedback from the guitar, since it fed back with nothing plugged in - just by turning up the knob, then excessive squeal. Since it was brand new, I felt like sending it back, but since it was so special, I didn't feel like sending it back either. So, I sent an email to the company I purchased it from, and asked what to do. In the meantime, I couldn't wait to figure this out, because it seemed rather minor to me, because with the amount of reverb I use it is  below the feedback point, and I really did not want to send it back. I thought to myself, I still could use this amp - even with this minor flaw. But, being the engineer that I am, I decided to fix it, and I started out by doing a web search for everything under Fender Supersonic 22 reverb feedback. All the suggestions led me to tapping on the tubes, which didn't lead to any reason why I should change a tube, but then taking me down the path of removing the reverb tank and bag. After just looking inside, and trying to touch anything I noticed a grommet out of place, causing the reverb spring assembly to be in contact with the reverb tank enclosure. It also limited movement of the reverb spring assembly and probably less reverb, that I didn't notice due to the squeal. After I partially re-assembled everything, the squeal was gone (at first). After I added the screws to hold down the bag and reverb tank, there was still some squeal with the reverb knob above 7. My next step was to try to isolate the problem, and my guess was that by tightening the screws, the reverb tank was getting some resonant frequency from the cabinet. I decided to try to isolate the tank mounting from the cabinet, and I then added a small piece of foam under the reverb bag, and I also added plastic spacer in between the bag and cabinet, held in by the screws. This worked with the screws loose, but when I tightened the screws too tight, and turning the reverb knob, the squeal cam back, so I loosened the screws just enough to hold the tank in place, but not allow feedback squeal to occur. After I did some more web searching, it turns out that is sometimes a common problem with spring reverbs mounted to the cabinet. So much, for new discovery. But now I can keep my special amp and know that it is even more special to me.