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Thoogsby posted:Don't buy Epiphones. Unless they're dot studios.
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Its worth pointing out for the sake of discussion that an ES-355 is a semi hollow body and a casino is a full hollow body (though a slimline hollow body at that)
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Aug 15, 2009 00:02
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While on the topic of Epiphone, has anyone here tried one of the Allen Woody rumblekat basses? I would love to get my hands on one but I have never seen one in person.
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Aug 15, 2009 00:23
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I own a Rumblekat bass. The bass plays great and it is my main bass right now. I strung the bass with flats for more of a vintage sound. Its a short scale bass so keep that in mind if you're looking into one. The sound needed to be a little more articulate so I replaced the pickups with alumitone pickups (which I highly recommend though it took some routing and cleaning up). I'm not really too crazy about the bridge either, but there's not much one can really do about it without lots of work. If you have specific questions, I can address them over IM since I think hijacking this thread wouldn't be too cool. And I had to do it all over again, I would consider the Ibanez ARTB100. It has a different pickup configuration, is short scale, a little bit cheaper, and retains that Les Paul inspired shape. Plus, I just dig on Ibanez.
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Aug 15, 2009 00:55
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Rifter17 posted:I own a Rumblekat bass. The bass plays great and it is my main bass right now. I strung the bass with flats for more of a vintage sound. Its a short scale bass so keep that in mind if you're looking into one. The sound needed to be a little more articulate so I replaced the pickups with alumitone pickups (which I highly recommend though it took some routing and cleaning up). I'm not really too crazy about the bridge either, but there's not much one can really do about it without lots of work. I thought Gotoh made a drop-in replacement for the dreaded Gibson 3-point bridge. But I may be mistaken.
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Aug 15, 2009 05:24
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Yeah, I think Schaller and Gotoh both made one for a while, but Hipshot might be the only one left. http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=264
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Aug 15, 2009 05:36
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Scarf posted:I thought Gotoh made a drop-in replacement for the dreaded Gibson 3-point bridge. But I may be mistaken. Hipshot makes a replacement bridge, but requires a flat body (EB-O, RD Artist, etc.). The Rumblekat has an arched top so unfortunately no go on that.
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Aug 15, 2009 06:37
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Yoozer posted:
Oh poo poo they finally put those up for sale? Thank god, I was beginning to think they would be in beta forever. In other news this arrived today:  
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Aug 15, 2009 08:59
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squidgee posted:The more familiar I get with, and more I use ableton the more I start thinking I might want one of these.
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Aug 15, 2009 09:24
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Aug 15, 2009 11:34
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Leslie 18 Series 1x12 cabinet. Snagged it for a meager $400. I am absolutely in love with the way this sounds. Unfortunately, I now have to get a good Fender head to push it (and maybe another good cab to run stereo)      Super crappy pictures but I'm at work right now.
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Aug 15, 2009 20:10
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Stuck in a town far, far away from home this week-end, I made the mistake of visiting Guitar Center. I bought a Takamine EAN10C (this isn't mine, it's the stock image from Takamine's site). Yay Japanese Tak! Yay solid cedar top and solid 'hog back! I've basically always wanted an EF/EA to go with my Taylor and mahogany is one of my favourite side / back woods, so it was a pretty perfect find. This was new-old-stock, FWIW, and I loving stole it from them. I'm very pleased with myself. 
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Aug 15, 2009 22:03
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After a long time keeping my eyes out for a good true bypass overdrive, I almost lost hope until the local store pulled one of these puppies in  . Yes, I am now a proud owner of one of these bad boys, and I can say it was worth every drat penny I spent on it!! The only way I can describe it... is perfect. Exactly what I wanted out of an OD pedal.
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Aug 16, 2009 02:14
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I hope you're kidding
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Aug 16, 2009 02:33
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That is an extremely expensive tubescreamer. I hope it makes you happy.
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Aug 16, 2009 02:45
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the wizards beard posted:I hope you're kidding Bah, everyone knows that PTP = MOJOS
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Aug 16, 2009 02:50
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I'm sure it's nice, but for $350, it better increase in value by 10% every 6 months as well as make my HRDV sound like a Dumble.
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Aug 16, 2009 04:34
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Ozymandius posted:After a long time keeping my eyes out for a good true bypass overdrive, I almost lost hope until the local store pulled one of these puppies in What's different about this one? I only ask because I have a regular TS-808 and yours looks so much sexier.
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Aug 16, 2009 05:29
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7.62WorldOrder posted:What's different about this one? I only ask because I have a regular TS-808 and yours looks so much sexier. It's Hand-wired, point to point and true bypass. No PCB. Basically it's The Gear Page in a pedal.
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Aug 16, 2009 05:40
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This seems like a good time to ask about the BYOC Overdrive 2 (http://www.buildyourownclone.com/overdrive2.html), I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on it but was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions? I'm after something to boost my Engl Fireball from "painful" to "face-melting" and tighten it up a bit (playing metal, obviously).
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Aug 16, 2009 05:49
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7.62WorldOrder posted:What's different about this one? I only ask because I have a regular TS-808 and yours looks so much sexier. It looks sexier than any screamer that has ever screamed a tube before! That's the new $350 Ibanez Handwired TS-808. What does ProGuitarShop have to say about it? quote:Ibanez TS808HW Hand Wired Tube Screamer They don't mention it, but the deal is that Ibanez is only making a few of them every month in order to keep supplies low and demand high. Fly-by-night FX pedal companies have been making $300 tubescreamer clones for years and years, now Ibanez is cashing in on the action and doing it with an impressive green box which looks a lot like what I figure the TS-808 would turn into if exposed to a lot of gamma radiation, Hulk-style. What is a Tubescreamer? Well, it is an overdrive pedal which clips your guitar's signal, gives it a fair boost to the midrange, attenuates the bass a bit, and gives you some added output volume. A Tubescreamer has 38 parts; here is a schematic for a TS-808. Here are a few other things that you could get for around $350 if you were so inclined: Two Ibanez TS808 Vintage Tube Screamer Reissue pedals, or three TS9 Ibanez Tube Screamer Effects Pedal Original Reissue pedals or eight Ibanez TS7 Tubescreamer pedals with enough left over to mod each of them to TS-808 specs For $299, the Boss ME-70, a multieffects unit using the newest generation of Boss' COSM technology, as found in the GT-10; released to compete with the Line6 M16, this will do pretty much anything you need to effects-wise, with dedicated blocks for all of the effects that modern guitarists use in addition to a number of quite nice sounding dirt options. For $299, the Digitech HarmonyMan, an intelligent pitch shifter using state-of-the-art technology which tracks extremely accurately and which will allow you new creative paths as you are enabled to explore melody as a tool in new ways. For $299, the Blackstar HT-5H, a small, foot-switchable two-channel amplifier which gets a range of sounds from clean to aggressively distorted and which will power a cab to surprising volumes. For $299, either the Tonebone Classic Trimode Distortion or Tonebone Plexitube Distortion, both sophisticated, versatile, high dynamic range, dual-channel dirt pedals implementing 12AX7 tubes to help achieve very amp-like distorted tones. For $324, the ElectroHarmonix POG2 Polyphonic Octave Generator, a modern, polyphonic effect which tracks your guitar's signal and generates pitch-perfect octaves, and gives you access to a nifty synth-like filter to shape your guitar's signal to sound like things that aren't a guitar but which are very pretty. It also has 8 preset slots for quick recall. But none of those are hand-wired, point-to-point style like it's 1960. None of those are the be all end all of Tube Screamers. Could you live with yourself if you didn't have the be all end all of Tube Screamers? Could you? Edit: Collectible metal tin! Also, you can see in there how free the electrons are to move around. That's pretty much the essence of tone, if your electrons get in an electron jam because you're not using Mogami cable there's a good chance that you'll sound like the Melvins or something. 
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Aug 16, 2009 07:39
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Does it sound any different from a regular tube screamer?
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Aug 16, 2009 08:12
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Cojawfee posted:Does it sound any different from a regular tube screamer? 
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Aug 16, 2009 08:23
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Cojawfee posted:Does it sound any different from a regular tube screamer? In a sense, its as close as you would get to an original 1980's TS808 without getting one, except with true bypass and the likes. I did a lot of comparisons with every OD I could lay my hands on, including the large list of TSs and Maxon ODs. If interested on more comparison talks see here. http://www.legendarytones.com/TS808HW.html
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Aug 16, 2009 08:46
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Cojawfee posted:Does it sound any different from a regular tube screamer? Short answer NO. Long answer YES.
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Aug 16, 2009 09:59
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Ozymandius posted:In a sense, its as close as you would get to an original 1980's TS808 without getting one, except with true bypass and the likes. I did a lot of comparisons with every OD I could lay my hands on, including the large list of TSs and Maxon ODs. It uses the same parts as the Ibanez TS808 Vintage Reissue which costs half as much. Despite ProGuitarShop's marketing, Mogami cable for the tiny distances needed to put one together and point-to-point wiring isn't going to change how it sounds when they use identical parts  Edit: Also I'm pretty sure no Ibanez pedal was ever built on turret board. Hand-wired, yeah, I guess so, automation wasn't what it is today, but turret board? Agreed fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Aug 16, 2009 |
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Aug 16, 2009 16:55
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What if you get the shielded and braided wrapped power cord? With the iron fillings?
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Aug 16, 2009 16:58
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Concatenation posted:This seems like a good time to ask about the BYOC Overdrive 2 (http://www.buildyourownclone.com/overdrive2.html), I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on it but was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions? I'm after something to boost my Engl Fireball from "painful" to "face-melting" and tighten it up a bit (playing metal, obviously). Your engl needs more gain and tightness?
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Aug 16, 2009 18:50
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The Fireball I use could do with being tighter and gain-ier. The Fireball definitely isn't a Powerball.
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Aug 16, 2009 19:30
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And another one of these: I will probably have to extend my desk now. Slowly it's growing into a mutated, cobbled-together Argosy.
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Aug 16, 2009 20:57
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Ozymandius posted:After a long time keeping my eyes out for a good true bypass overdrive, I almost lost hope until the local store pulled one of these puppies in Wow... I didn't even know they were making something like that. Enjoy the hell out of it.
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Aug 16, 2009 21:10
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Yoozer posted:And another one of these: That's a good looking piece of kit, bit how do the inputs work exactly? Or are those inputs at all?
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Aug 16, 2009 21:20
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Cojawfee posted:What if you get the shielded and braided wrapped power cord? With the iron fillings? Well, in that case, of course, that's different. Hey, far be it from me to poo poo on someone for spending money on pedals. If it does what you need it to do, then it's your prerogative. I think it's a little bit over the rainbow personally but look at my gear 
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Aug 16, 2009 21:24
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IanTheM posted:That's a good looking piece of kit, bit how do the inputs work exactly? Or are those inputs at all? They look like the mounting bolts for the hardware. Maybe they slide around and lock in place when pressure is applied? Dunno.
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Aug 16, 2009 21:30
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bisticles posted:They look like the mounting bolts for the hardware. Maybe they slide around and lock in place when pressure is applied? Dunno. Yeah that makes more sense, at first I thought they were inputs for easy access to stuff that'd end up in the back of the synths/racks, but that'd affect audio quality.
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Aug 16, 2009 22:05
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Gear includes studio furniture, doesn't it? You thought my zillion rack synths would just stack like Tetris blocks and remain in that position?  They indeed slide into place; there's some flexible kind of foam/rubber/whatever in there instead of fixed holes. This also means my old rack screws won't work, as they're too long, but these come with a little plastic bag with screws. The idea of having the sides act as a sort of patchbay is kind of intriguing, though, but it's way cheaper to just jam in a Neutrik NYS-SPP-L1. Laserjet 4P fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Aug 16, 2009 |
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Aug 16, 2009 22:33
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Yoozer posted:Gear includes studio furniture, doesn't it? You thought my zillion rack synths would just stack like Tetris blocks and remain in that position? 98 Euros? Wouldn't it be ridiculously cheaper to make it yourself? Surely it can't be too difficult.
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Aug 17, 2009 02:44
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LOOK WHAT I HATH WROUGHT:  It's a Marshall Bluesbreaker clone from BYOC (their "British Blues Overdrive" model). It's my first pedal build, and I was pretty stoked that it worked right the very first time, with no adjustments or anything necessary! I also am really pleased with how well the finish turned out: I don't have a spray room or a compressor or an airbrush to spray with, so I used a couple of cans of acrylic and the sunburst turned out pretty good, I think! Plus, it matches my ES-135's finish.
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Aug 17, 2009 02:57
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Cool pedal, the Bluesbreaker is one of my favorite overdrives. Just has a really nice sound.
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It seems like the Peavey VB-3 is getting close, and jesus christ do I want one. 300 watt, 37lb ALL TUBE bass head with footswitchable overdrive, compression, and graphic EQ. $1800.
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