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everyone whose been in a 5 block radius of the Hot Rod posted:JESUS loving CHRIST MY EARS! I heard part of the reason it's so drat loud is that Fender used a Linear pot for the master volume instead of an audio, so all of the wattage is from 1-5.
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I haven't bought anything new in years AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. Oh yes, I've made plans. First up is this:  It's the General Guitar Gadgets Shin-ei Companion Fuzz kit. I've wanted a Companion ever since I first heard Psychocandy and I don't want to pay $400 to get one (thanks Radiohead). And since my U2 reissue is dying a slow and painful death, I'm going to replace it with this:  You should know what that is. If you don't, shame on you. I'm one of those people that thinks that the stuff that 99% of guitarists think sounds horrible sounds great. In a perfect world, I'd also be buying a Silvertone 1485 but alas, this is not a perfect world.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:
I'll keep it warm for you while you're gone. 
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Well. I went to guitar center today to pick up a pair of cheap monitors. I found some m-audio studio pro 3's that were returned and got a good deal. So I come home and open up to box and find: the monitors, a fast track audio interface, some m-audio condenser mic with stand, pro tools m-powered, and a ton of good cables. WTF... not bad for $80. Also, I bought this a few days ago:
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Street Spirit posted:So I come home and open up to box and find: the monitors, a fast track audio interface, some m-audio condenser mic with stand, pro tools m-powered, and a ton of good cables. WTF... not bad for $80. Gosh I hate you a lot right now
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Oct 14, 2007 04:33
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mofolotopo posted:
Seriously, we need to form the TTFA & Mofolotopo Mutual Admiration Society. We're pretty much the only people that reply to each other's threads. You're in Panama until January or whenever, anyway. PM me in January, maybe we can work something out.
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Oct 14, 2007 05:53
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PenguinBob posted:Gosh I hate you a lot right now I dunno... dumb luck I guess.
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Oct 14, 2007 05:56
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I finally found a vintage CE-2 hidden away in the back of a pawn shop today! (GIS photo)
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Street Spirit posted:Well. I went to guitar center today to pick up a pair of cheap monitors. I found some m-audio studio pro 3's that were returned and got a good deal. So I come home and open up to box and find: the monitors, a fast track audio interface, some m-audio condenser mic with stand, pro tools m-powered, and a ton of good cables. WTF... not bad for $80. do those photoshop knobs work as well as real ones
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Seriously, we need to form the TTFA & Mofolotopo Mutual Admiration Society. We're pretty much the only people that reply to each other's threads. Well maybe not the only people, but clearly we are the best people that reply to each other's threads. I was just kidding, though - I would be too scared to break your new toy. I am going to get a banjo one day, though, I swear. My level of ignorance is such that I didn't actually know that fretless banjos existed. I'm gonna dig for some youtube clips. Edit: Oh hey, neat mofolotopo fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Oct 14, 2007 |
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Oct 14, 2007 14:24
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mofolotopo posted:
Here's a cool one with "minstrel" banjo, which is often tuned even lower than the standard G banjo. Some guys got huge 14" rims on their minstrels. If you want to get a feel for banjo without having to put up cash, just play some clawhammer on your ukulele. Here's Aaron Keim, master of the clawhammer uke: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GCrnR9Yuqp4 This clip changed my life, I'm really trying hard on clawhammer uke now, and it comes along quick. You can do clawhammer on a standard-tuned uke, or you can drop the high string down on a step to get an Open C tuning. If you drop the second string down 1/2 step, you get Open C minor tuning. I'll go make some YouTube clips once I get the stroke down better. Aaron has a two-part tutorial on clawhammer ukulele up on YouTube. I should just go post a new NMD:ML thread just for that, because it's awesome.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:If you want to get a feel for banjo without having to put up cash, just play some clawhammer on your ukulele. I've been doing exactly this for about a month, and am indeed getting better at it. My main issue is that my downstrokes seem awfully quiet. I've got these Kala Red faux-gut strings on it, though, which may be the culprit.
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Engine Fortegue posted:do those photoshop knobs work as well as real ones Yup. I'm pretty happy with it.
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I picked this up impulsively yesterday after seeing it on Craigslist. It's a Magnus electric chord organ. I'm not completely sure what I'll do with it yet but, my basic plan is to use the chord keys to lay down a backing for some ambient guitar stuff. It's nifty enough. edit: I guess I didn't attach an image, here http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img9013mh5.jpg citizenlowell fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Oct 15, 2007 |
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I've been on a bit of a gear binge lately. A couple weeks ago I went down to the ol' GC pusher and ordered a DW Collector's Maple kit with a birdseye maple finish layer in hard satin Burnt Toast Burst. Sizes: 14x12, 16x14, 18x16, and 26x14. Sadly, It won't be finished until the end of January. It should look something like this, only not.  Also on the way: Paiste Giant Beat cymbals (15" hats, 18 & 20" crash, 24" ride)  Presonus Firestudio  4 SM57's Blue Baby Bottle (for vocals) random Shure drum mic kit a bunch of those kiwi XLR cables and a poo poo-ton o mic boom stands Hopefully all I'll need to get a decent home studio started. Ninja edit: Added a few pics CardinalBiggles fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Oct 15, 2007 |
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citizenlowell posted:I picked this up impulsively yesterday after seeing it on Craigslist. It's a Magnus electric chord organ. I used to have one very much like that. They can be a lot of fun, but the silly thing is that since they run on air blowing over reeds they get quieter the more simultaneous notes you play. Requires a bit of forethought to use them in a band situation.
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Street Spirit posted:Yup. I'm pretty happy with it. I was just kidding, and am also jealous 
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Engine Fortegue posted:You seriously can't even comprehend how incredibly loud this amp is; my buddy has one and say's he's never turned it over "3" No poo poo! One of the guitarists in my band has one, and we're constantly telling him to turn down! We finally gave up and just all started turning way up to match. It's a matter of time until the neighbors tell us to knock it off or his girlfriend loses her mind from the muddled mess of noise coming from the basement.
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It's a marketting scheme Fender has. They put almost all the volume in the first couple notches of the knob so no one ever needs to turn it past three, but if you ever do you'll find that 4-6 sound about the same and that you don't push much more volume at all. If you're into invalidating your warranty you can take out the volume pot for a taperred audio pot instead of the localized one they have now. I love my deluxe, but that seriously annoys the crap out of me because the clean is always to low, and then you turn it a hair and it's way to loud. It sounds amazing though.
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Syrus posted:It's a marketting scheme Fender has. They put almost all the volume in the first couple notches of the knob so no one ever needs to turn it past three, but if you ever do you'll find that 4-6 sound about the same and that you don't push much more volume at all. If you're into invalidating your warranty you can take out the volume pot for a taperred audio pot instead of the localized one they have now. You know, my Peavey Classic 50 is the same way. It's pretty much a Fender clone, so I wonder if they copied even that.
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It's a clock radio! Wait, it's a DX7 inside a clock radio, even better. a loathsome bird fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Oct 17, 2007 |
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Ortazel posted:It's a clock radio! Awesome synth. And it looks like an electric grill or something up top. Coming soon from a paycheck near me: Squier '51 Chrome hardtail bridge from Guitarfetish GFS Lipstick pickup for the neck Graphite nut One happy Supervillin Edit: gently caress waiting for a paycheck, I just pulled the trigger on an eBay '51 with a rosewood fingerboard. Will be posting pics when it arrives. Supervillin fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Oct 18, 2007 |
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yay new stuff  This was an awesome find. It's a Parker P-36, one of the Korean made models. What's unusual about it is that it's custom - the guy who sold it to me originally had Parker's Australian distributor organise one built to his specs. He gave the distributor his specs - black finish, perloid guard, Duncan Vintage Tele and Duncan Lil' 59 pickups - and they built it in Korean factory, shipped it to the US factory for inspection & setup, then shipped it over here. As far as I've been able to find, Parker don't accept custom orders for their Korean line - maybe the distributors are the loophole  I got it for cheap as a very impulsive ebay purchase and it's totally blown my expectations away. The fit & finish are perfect, the neck & action are fast and sweet, the pickups are very well balanced and the "acoustic" piezo bridge is quite cool, especially when blended into the twangy tele neck pickup. I adore the look of it - it's like a mongrel tele / modern art piece. The most classic guitar design cut up and glued onto one of the most distinctive modern bodies. So cool.  Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai! This one has been picking up some hype at harmony-central and thegearpage, so I grabbed one from a store offering a 30 day trial. I ain't giving it back. There's also a Moogerfooger delay in the mail - my credit card wasn't as happy about the recent AUS->US dollar gain as I was 
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I decided to upgrade my vocal mic, although I must say my old SM57 served me well: Blue Microphones Blueberry. Now I just need something with phantom power so I can try it out.
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I managed to find one Gibson Reverse Flying V in my city, right after calling it quits and purchasing an expensive boutique pedal and another Squier '51... Looks like someone's gonna be broke and working full overtime for the next month!
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I couldn't resist the price drop on the Variax 300 guitars. I finally have something to plug into the RJ45 port on the pod XTL. So far I'm loving the 12 string to drop d strat virtual tuning functionality, even though its a little distracting hearing the physical strings when you have some odd tuning going like Rain Song. I probably just need to turn up the amp. I still need to play with the workbench software a bit more though, it looks like you can get some really nice sounds going if you spend some time in there.
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I just bought a USA Big Muff pedal and holy drat it's the best distortion pedal I've ever owned ever. I bought it to replace my retarded Digitech Distortion Factory pedal. The Distortion Factory has a Big Muff setting, but it sounded like rear end compared to the real thing, now that I have something to compare it to.
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Orz posted:I just bought a USA Big Muff pedal and holy drat it's the best distortion pedal I've ever owned ever. Welcome to the Big Muff club! The muff is the only distortion pedal I trust with my electro-acoustic mandolin. When hooked up to my 63 vibroverb amp, you wouldn't believe the awesome sounds you can get with a Big Muff Pi and an electric mandolin. If I manipulate the settings just right, I can make it sound like a flute!
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I've used it before and loved it then, too, but I just bought (and will keep) a Metal Muff with Top Boost (full-size one with the foot switch). Seriously, what a pedal. High gain done right.
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Out with the Fender Blues Deluxe, in with the Vox AC-15 Hell yeah. I missed a buy-it-now for a used AC15 from Warpdrive Music/Cream City Music and they gave me a brank spanking new amp for the cost of the used one. That's $440 plus shipping. Awesome store, I'll be looking to buy from them in the future.
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Oh yeah, dig the fat beats! got it second hand, some kindly chap has put 1/8" outputs for each seperate instrument on the back as well.
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Zoom Tri-Metal TM-01. Jesus this thing has a lot of gain. It also has a nice bottom end unlike other metal pedals which are boxes of fizz. Solid metal construction, true bypass and probably the least noisiest distortion pedal I've ever had the pleasure of playing.
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Oh boy oh boy my birthday is in a few weeks and Christmas is just around the corner. This is what I'm adding to my home studio. Frontier Design Alphatrack:  Akai MPK49:  Massive amount of Psytrance here I come!!!
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So I got that broken $12 Fender Samarium Cobalt Tele bridge pickup in the mail, and it doesn't seem to be broken at all, just missing a lead wire. It reads 12.85k on the multimeter, but I can't find how much it's supposed to be just to verify it. Can anybody point me in the right direction as to the resistance it's supposed to be? eBay yeilds nothing so far. Edit: Found it. 13.8k, so I suppose it's close enough to be considered a functional pickup, right? Edit 2: I also got that ancient single-coil sized chrome Dimarzio in the mail, but I can't figure out how to read the resistance. The wires are black/white/green/bare and I've tried doubling some of them up to boost resistance levels but the max it's read is 3.38k, a lot lower than I've been expecting. Which wires am I supposed to group together and test with? XYZAB fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Oct 21, 2007 |
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Latest purchase just came in the mail yesterday. I loving love it!
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Handen posted:Which wires am I supposed to group together and test with? Connect white to red, measure green to black.
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Chows posted:Connect white to red, measure green to black. I always appreciate your advice, Chows.  However, there is no red wire. 
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Handen posted:I always appreciate your advice, Chows. WHOOPS sorry I ran off and looked up the standard DiMarzio color code and missed that in my haste  It looks like all of DiMarzio's current hum-cancelling Strat pups use the standard four-conductor wiring. Is it possible you're missing a lead like on the SCN pickup? edit: 3.4k sounds about right for one coil of the vintage lines so I'm guessing that's what's happened.
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Chows posted:WHOOPS sorry I ran off and looked up the standard DiMarzio color code and missed that in my haste I don't think that'd be the case... I know how standard humbucker wiring is normally some sort of 4-conductor + bare configuration inside of another shielded outer tube like this stuff...  ...But I've trimmed it down about 2cm to create fresh wire contact points and it seems like it's only a 3-conductor + bare configuration inside of a shielded outer tube. It doesnt seem like it's the case that a red wire would have been pulled all the way out, as the whole lead itself is probably a good and tight 6". Chows posted:edit: 3.4k sounds about right for one coil of the vintage lines so I'm guessing that's what's happened. I'm not exactly sure what model the pickup is per-se, but I'm not so sure it's one of the virtual vintage models, as it's got 6 hex-adjustable polepieces like a Super Distortion or Super II, and a non-removable chrome cover. XYZAB fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Oct 21, 2007 |
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