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Nosir posted:I once told my ex-girlfriend that i love guitar and music so much there was no way i could love her more. That didnt go over so well and it was not so much fun explaining my way out of that one. Oh the things I've had to explain... "Rest assured that I love my guitar more than you, and it if were softer I would sleep with it instead." (This was during a fight) "Can you wait a couple of days for the anniversary gift? I know I just bought the amp, but I...miscalculated...my budget." (I ended up buying it on credit)
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Today I got one of these: and also:  Now I can make some nice sounds 
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pennywisdom posted:Kinda expensive, but I couldn't be happier. YESSSSS Hope you like it. Pair this beast with a volume pedal = make whale sounds
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Feb 14, 2009 01:53
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Agreed posted:A present for my wife for Valentine's Day, for being such a good sport when it comes to my guitar habit. Holy poo poo, way to show the rest of us up.
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Feb 14, 2009 02:28
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Agreed posted:Haha, Minto, no, this isn't a bowling ball with "Homer" engraved on it. I'll explain. Somebody's getting some thank-you sex. I got it a couple weeks ago, but I got a Schecter Stiletto Classic in Amber Satin Finish. My loving employee discount is killing me. Or, it would be, if the prices I got things for weren't as obscenely good as they are. No actual pictures of it yet, but it is easily in the top 5 for best-looking tops on Stiletto Classics I've seen (which has been alot). Crazy flames in the middle, and spalt and burl anywhere that isn't flamey. The bridge on these is easily, in my preference, the best double-locking bridge ever.
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Feb 14, 2009 03:20
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What's so awesome about that bridge? Looks like a pretty standard floyd to me?
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Gramps posted:What's so awesome about that bridge? Looks like a pretty standard floyd to me? How it's made, how it feels, how it functions, how it performs. It's a proprietary Schecter/Gotoh Floyd system. Feels super heavy-duty, too. Like a brick shithouse.
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Oh ok. Gotoh units are pretty killer. I'm an Ibanez edge man myself.
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Gramps posted:I'm an Ibanez edge man myself. I don't have as much experience with Ibanez units as I'd like. Usually, I'm a hard-tail kind of guy, but I really wanted a versatile axe with a recessed double-locking trem (I have a Killer Starrion with a double-locking trem, but it's not recessed, and a Parker Fly Mojo with a full-floating bridge, but it's not locking). I loving love this guitar, though. It's quickly become one of my favorite axes. Right now, it's one of those cases where if you asked me if I was stuck on a desert island with only one guitar, which it would be, the answer would be this one, with no hesitation. It's got the looks, the sound, the playability, and it just feels right.
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Dragon Eye Morrison posted:I don't have as much experience with Ibanez units as I'd like. You'll have to seek out some older Ibanez RGs with either the original edge or lo pro edge bridges. Smooth as butter and impossible to knock out of tune when properly set up. The newer ones are pretty good too- I liked the edge pro, and my axe has an edge zero on it which absolutely never ever goes out of tune. It's pretty amazing. I just wish the counter springs were more adjustable- otherwise it's perfection.
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Dragon Eye Morrison posted:Somebody's getting some thank-you sex. get rid of the dagger on the headstock and make the lower horn less impotent and I'm there with you. 
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Feb 14, 2009 07:27
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ZombiePeanut posted:get rid of the dagger on the headstock and make the lower horn less impotent and I'm there with you. Man the impotent lower horn is where it's at! Otherwise, it would just look like a more rounded Bunker-esque double cut. I might get rid of the stiletto on the headstock; haven't decided yet.
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Feb 14, 2009 08:31
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 Boss PS-3 I bought it so I can do a 5th Up -> 1 Oct Up pitch shift without having to resort to buying a bass whammy, which would've cost silly money. I just need an expression pedal for it now....
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Feb 14, 2009 14:48
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Gene Ricman posted:
I love all the crazy pedals Boss has made over the years..
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Stux posted:Can you explain your signal chain for the midi thing? I'm kind of interested in getting a project bass or guitar and using it for midi control but I don't really know where to start. if you have reaktor there is an ensemble called pitchreader. i have version 1.1 but i found this 1.12 http://www.patcharena.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=61&func=fileinfo&id=697 i havnt used this but vers. 1.1 works alright and it does have some pretty annoying latency but you can fiddle with it enough and get some good sounds out of it. not quite MIDI guitar but its free and kind of fun
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edit: this post was a crappy one, I made a new one down below~
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Feb 14, 2009 23:23
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Not directly music related... but I just bought this handy little gadget to help with soldering since I'm hopefully going to be starting up a little side-business within the next year  
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Feb 14, 2009 23:29
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Just finished redoing my pedalboard, almost all my old effects are gone and replaced the actual board with the SKB one. Have a loop-master AB/Y switcher being built that will replace the Morley switcher. I also got me a new map! Vox AC30CC1! 
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Pictures are a little blurry, but my cell phone camera is the only camera in the house at the moment. Glad I can finally do a post here! Bought a MIM Fender Telecaster about a month ago  Click here for the full 1200x1600 image. and just got a killer deal on a drumset off of craigslist, 500 bucks for the whole set. Ive been annoying the crap out of the neighbors all day long, heh  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. edit: woah table breaking images
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Dragon Eye Morrison posted:Somebody's getting some thank-you sex. Scheter's are not really my thing but I like that one a lot. If it had a hard tail bridge I might like it even more. Scarf posted:Not directly music related... but I just bought this handy little gadget to help with soldering since I'm hopefully going to be starting up a little side-business within the next year Where did you pick that up, how much did it run etc? I do a lot of soldering work and that would come in very handy. ZoCrowes fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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Feb 14, 2009 23:49
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ZoCrowes posted:Scheter's are not really my thing but I like that one a lot. If it had a hard tail bridge I might like it even more. $8 at Thinkgeek.com under the gadgets/tools section.
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Scarf posted:$8 at Thinkgeek.com under the gadgets/tools section. I got mine for like $10 at radio shack.
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Feb 15, 2009 01:29
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Korg pitchblack pedal tuner: Great little pedal. Accurate, simple to operate, easy to see on stage. I tried it out at a gig last night and it worked out perfectly.
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warwick5s posted:I got mine for like $10 at radio shack. I got mine for $2 at Harbor Freight, but that was on sale. Usually, HF sells 'em for $5.
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I'm posting this because there seems to be the most gear heads in this thread, plus I'll edit in pics in a second. I just got a Jackson Dinky with EMG HZ active pickups. I'm trying to put my emg 81 in the bridge but there is a problem. The stock HZ has 5 wires, and its labeled as such, Green: 1- White: 1+ GROUND Red 2- Black 2+ So 5 wires hooking to it to it, it has 5 prongs for the connector. Well my EMG-81 is only a 3 prong with White Black and Red. The connector for the HZ actually would fit right in the middle of the 81, so the Black and Green got skipped. Is this right? Basically match the black on the 81 to the ground and the white to the white and red to red and ignore the Black and Green? So far it's not working, one way not at all and the other way really quiet. What do I need to do about the extra two(Green and Black(not ground)) wires that are in the stock Jackson if my EMG-81 only has 3 spot? EDIT: WTF. Apparantly the EMG HZ is a passive pickup.....but it looks like an active and there is a battery in my guitar? Maybe it used to have actives, it is a used guitar. UGH. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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Adrian Finol posted:Just finished redoing my pedalboard, almost all my old effects are gone and replaced the actual board with the SKB one. Have a loop-master AB/Y switcher being built that will replace the Morley switcher.  Just kidding!  Are the tubescreamer and whammy pedals originals?
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Bought a new keyboard stand today. Learned my lesson by buying a double X stand this time, instead of the single. Even just looking at my old one, it looks flimsy. This one can support my weight (I tried it, twice) so holding up a 10 pound moog will be no problem. I also bought accessories and cleaning stuff I just put off for years. I shudder to think how much sweat has added up on my bass. I shudder again as I can't remember the last time I cleaned it. I definitely haven't cleaned it 3 months before, and 3 months after I threw up on stage. Oh my god. Edit: Hoooooooly poo poo I forgot how much better my Jag gets when I polish the fretboard and the body. The chrome on the black is almost loving blinding. Also, I've never really played much with that guitar all, I'm afraid all the chrome will probably blind people. Noise Machine fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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Thorpe posted:What do you think of your Cort Curbow? I've been eyeballing a 4 string just because I like the body shape.
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The last post was a pretty crummy post that didn't explain anything about the Jason Becker, so I'm re-posting for the sake of making a better introduction of the pedal. ProTone Jason Becker Distortion - Analog amp modeling in a pedal First, this is the picture of the pedal I got.  They've changed the graphic to a different painting by his dad for the newer run of the pedals, I actually really like this graphic because of how the control colors correspond to the "elemental" association of the colors behind them, and the Burn and Drive controls are touching the fire and water, respectively. But the new ones look good too, and they're probably closer to Becker's general aesthetic style (check out his Peavey with its child-like appearance, he lived a great sense of humor in everything he did). If you don't know Jason Becker's story, you ought to head over to the wikipedia entry on him, it's sad, poignant, and inspiring - I won't cheapen his life by giving a "short version" here. The pedal is made by Dennis, the sole proprietor of the Protone pedal company, and part of the proceeds go to Jason Becker's family and causes. I've had it in for a day or two now from FuzzHugger, and while I'm reserving a full review for the edition-after-next of FrugalGuitarist, I wanted to bring a killer pedal to your attention. The goal is pretty common, I guess - make a Marshall in a box. In this case, it's aiming for an analog miniaturized solid-state recreation of the amp Jason Becker used to record his early album Perpetual Burn, but with additional gain on tap to achieve some of the higher gain tones he was using towards the end of his playing and recording career. Well, okay, not even counting the official Marshall pedals to that end, that's the Box of Rock, Crunch Box, Plextortion, Hot British, etc., etc., etc. - there are tons of Marshallesque pedals. This one's different, though, in some important ways. First, all of the "volume" related controls on it have to do not just with output level but with the amount of crunch you get. The Master Volume on it behaves like an amp's master volume, increasing volume and then sort of reaching a maximum output point and past that increasing compression/distortion. It has a Pre-Amp gain control and a Drive control as well. All three of them interact to produce the final amount of distortion of the dirt side of the pedal. The other side of it is a class-A boost, very warm and clean, I love what it does to my single-coil strat (and to anything, really, it's a great boost). The boost has its own adjustable gain and is operable separate from the "amp" side of the pedal. I made a quick clip demonstrating it with my single-coil (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless-equipped) strat. For the FG review I'll have clips with a few different guitars of course. The control scheme seems a bit complicated at first glance, but it's straightforward once you get it into perspective. It's got a control layout like a relatively simple, single-channel amp with an overdrive pedal up front. So you've got your EQ section, Lows, Mid, Highs - that's clear, tweak it like an amp. Then you've got your Pre-Amp gain and Master Volume. Those are the amp's own controls. Then there's the overdrive pedal control, which is just called "Drive." The final control, "Burn," is the boost control, so it's really just a one-switch/one-knob boost that happens to be attached to the rest. It's easy to get the hang of if you've ever played an amp more complicated than the Valve Jr. Anyway, here's the clip, going for a "strat into a Marshall" tone.  Also make sure to check out Rusty Cooley's shredderific demo at the FuzzHugger page, good lord that guy can wail. If my playing is, say, a 5/10, he's about a 20/10. Never heard any of his original stuff, though.
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BlazinLow305 posted:I'm posting this because there seems to be the most gear heads in this thread, plus I'll edit in pics in a second. Yeah the HZs are passive so I'm not sure why there's a battery in there already. The EMG 81 wiring diagram is here: http://www.emginc.com/content/wiringdiagrams/0230-0014a%20%20%20H%2060%2081%2085.pdf As you can see, the connector for the 81 has only three slots, and with the arrow on the top the colour order should be red, black, silver (ie. silver is the bare wire). There are a number of different wiring diagrams but for a Dinky I think you'll probably be using #2 (1 volume, 1 tone, 1 HB in the bridge, and not using the pickup switcher cause you can't mix HZs and 81s to the best of my knowledge). HZ diagram's here: http://www.emginc.com/content/wiringdiagrams/EMG-H1-H4.pdf Personally I'd just take the opportunity to clean the whole cavity out and rewire everything neatly, but if you're not too confident soldering you should be able to reuse some of the connections that are there already (although, according to the diagram, you'll need a 0.1uF capacitor instead of the stock 0.047uF one). edit: hoep u got a stereo jack ... Concatenation fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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Hey I just bought this guitar from a pawn shop and I'm not sure what it is. It looks like a fender strat and it says Fender on the tuning pegs, but the headstock is weird-shaped and it's been painted, so it doesn't say anything on it.   Serial number decal says 8807277, which seems to be higher than any fender serial numbers I can find online. Any ideas? Plays great whatever it is.
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I have a similar looking guitar, it's like an epiphone fat strat knock off. Let me find a picture. e: woops! headstock is a bit different. ignore this. Zombies magazine fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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Feb 15, 2009 05:23
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Agreed posted:This is a very small thank you for the biggest and most wonderful part of my life. Finally the impetus to hang myself. Gratz.
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I pickup this earlier in the week (the neck holder, not the harmonica). I can already almost play both the guitar and harmonica parts to Heart of Gold at the same time, which is way sooner than I thought I was going to be able to do it.
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Concatenation posted:Yeah the HZs are passive so I'm not sure why there's a battery in there already. The EMG 81 wiring diagram is here: http://www.emginc.com/content/wiringdiagrams/0230-0014a%20%20%20H%2060%2081%2085.pdf Yeah I'm just gonna hold off for a bit and buy a 89 active so I can just have a whole active set in there. I was looking at the battery and it looks like someone just left it in there to complete a circuit when they put passives back in. I'm just gonna pay to have my active set put in, along with a setup and stuff. Here is pics though.   Sorry for camera phone but it's the best I could do right now. It's a Dinky series, I only paid 265 for it and it's in great shape. It's such a huge huge improvement over my 100 dollar peavey. EDIT: Oh yeah one thing driving me crazy is the strings on it are fairly light, so tuning 1 step down is out of the question, which is how I always play. Oh well, standard for now. I learned raining blood and Welcome Home for the bitching harmonics that guitar can pull off so sweetly. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Feb 15, 2009 |
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BlazinLow305 posted:Yeah I'm just gonna hold off for a bit and buy a 89 active so I can just have a whole active set in there. I was looking at the battery and it looks like someone just left it in there to complete a circuit when they put passives back in. I'm just gonna pay to have my active set put in, along with a setup and stuff. Jacksons are pretty awesome, even if they aren't one of the more sought-after guitar brands.
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I know this shouldn't be the thread for this kind of stuff, but we don't have a gear suggestion thread that gets any traffic, so here goes: I'm looking for the kind of sound from Andy Timmons' track "Resolution" off the album with the same name (You can hear it at the Mesa/Boogie website in their factory tour video). I know Andy Timmons uses a Lone Star, but I've got nowhere near that kind of scratch. I guess I just like that warm overdriven sound. So I had my heart set on a Deville 410 Combo for a while now, and I'm getting ready to buy it through zZounds' Play as you Pay program in a month or so, but I want to know if there are any suggestions that would give me a similar sound to that track?
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Howling Bells posted:I'm positive it's a samick. At least the neck is. The old samicks had headstocks just like that, and they played a lot better than the newer ones. I think you're right. It's funny because I also have a Samick Silvertone and the necks are identical, except the pawn-shop guitar has an additional fret. The Fender tuning pegs I can now see were put on aftermarket - there are extraneous screw holes in the headstock where the original pegs used to be. Mystery solved I guess!
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Gorilla Salsa posted:I know this shouldn't be the thread for this kind of stuff, but we don't have a gear suggestion thread that gets any traffic, so here goes: I think a blackstar ht-5 could get you where you want to go-low wattage, fat, tube driven tone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbmrjqOjsAE&feature=related (great example of picking dynamics around 3:20) There are plenty of youtube clips...they sell the head at guitar center for $299. I tried one out the other day and was stunned at how tight it could get for high gain applications. It did some GREAT inbetween sounds too...
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