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esq posted:I'd been eyeballing this one for a while, so I bit the bullet last week and it arrived yesterday. 2008 Custom Classic. Anyway, ever since I got my Gretsch I've been really wanting another, a proper archtop this time. I've been checking eBay, CL, and multiple Gretsch forums daily looking for the right one. It's probably gonna be a 6118 or 6120 since, now that I've played one, it turns out I actually don't like the size and feedbackiness of White Falcons. Just gotta find one that speaks to me!
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Get the 6120; they both look, play, and sound awesome.
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Mar 21, 2010 06:49
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So I finally borrowed my roommate's camera to take a pic of my current 'station'. The Virus TI2, APC40 and LaCie drive are the latest addition to it all; had the monitors for about a year and Live about the same - can't even remember when I bought the MBOX. I've been in the dumps lately with no musical creativity so it hardly gets used, but as you can see I'm posting some sounds for a school project right there. Next on the itinerary is an SSL Duende, then either a Digi003+ or some other interface. Plus, finally upgrade to ProTools LE8 and grab a (legit) copy of Reason 4.
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Yum.
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Any comments about Mesa Boogie reliability? Thinking about getting a 5:50 1x12 Combo to replace my Peavey Classic 30 which just died 
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Hammer Floyd posted:Any comments about Mesa Boogie reliability? Thinking about getting a 5:50 1x12 Combo to replace my Peavey Classic 30 which just died I've never heard of one breaking. Like, ever.
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Hammer Floyd posted:Any comments about Mesa Boogie reliability?
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Random data point; it's no Mesa, but my Morley sent me a new bottom plate/battery cover for my $15 pawn shop find for free despite the fact that I told them it was purchased used. Mesa has a video on their site (posted all over the site, really) where they beat on the case and circuit board with a hammer to make sure everything's tight before shipping a new unit.
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esq posted:I'd been eyeballing this one for a while, so I bit the bullet last week and it arrived yesterday. 2008 Custom Classic. Love the finish on this!
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Spivey posted:Yum. I have the same combo. Contemplating the cab. Hmmmmm. Tempting, very tempting, but I don't *need* it now. It loud enough on "1" in my place for practicing.
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Schatten posted:I have the same combo. Contemplating the cab. Hmmmmm. Tempting, very tempting, but I don't *need* it now. It loud enough on "1" in my place for practicing. I'd say it's worth it if you're out playing larger venues. It's the 151HR, I nabbed mine for $325 (retails for around $600-700 normally), and it can move pure sex through the air. Playing it at 2 is more than enough for a smaller venue, higher can let you play whole auditoriums with no PA.
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Carbohydrates posted:drat, son. Prepare to never play any of your other strats again (if you had any). Seriously, the day I got my CS strat was the day I started writing the ads for my G&L Legacy, 57 Reissue, and American Deluxe. 7 Bowls of Wrath posted:Love the finish on this!
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esq posted:Honestly it's sick. I wish I had a better camera, it is not doing justice at all. Premium ash body with a transparent black burst, and a figured maple neck. Heavy motherfucker though, at over 8.5lbs. sup ash body strat buddy  The heavy ones are the best...
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I finally have something to post in this thread after drooling over everyone else's stuff for so long. So I purchased Demon Seed's Dolphin off him because I have more money than sense, but, man, this thing is pure sex carved out of wood. I can get so many tones out of her, between the single J and twin J combo. Two pounds lighter than my corvette and perfectly balanced. I can't wait to go gigging with her, though I think its gonna take a bit to get used to frets again, as I've been playing a fretless almost exclusively for the past 8 years. Click here for the full 667x1000 image. A thing of beauty is a joy forever  Click here for the full 667x1000 image. And a family portrait for good measure  Click here for the full 667x1000 image. I'll take good care of her, Demon Seed.
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Bought one of these today. Click here for the full 1247x1310 image.
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One of these is living with me while my bassist is away at college. I'm not sure that I'll be giving her up willingly.
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Finally got a job so I've been GASing like crazy, found some really good deals, and just pulled the trigger on some things I've needed for a while. Sorry for the cameraphone pix, my digicam is at a friend's. Got a great deal on this little gem on eBay recently:  MiniKorg 700s. The first Korg synthesizer, totally analog, totally stable. Sounds like pure sex. Got this off CL for $300, worth every penny. 1982 Fender Lead II, USA made smaller-bodied guitar w/ 2 single coils (replaced w/ EMGs).    I'm certain it's a refinish, but blonde/black is  and the neck plays better than almost anything I've ever held, comparable to the mid-90's USA Strat I played for a few years.Picked up these guys off CL finally, I had a GT-6 for a long time but gave it to the band I was quitting in a trade, so I've been slowly building back up my effects complement.  LBM sounds great, especially for $40; I'll be modding the VOX for true bypass next week. Finally, I've invested in some tape stuff: Otari MX5050 II 1/4" 2-track mastering deck:  If it looks like he's smiling at me, that's just because I'm smiling right back! Paid $150 plus $40 to have him serviced. I'm just not going to discuss how much mastering tape is...  Fostex X-77 cassette 4-track:  Loving the way stuff sounds off cassette lately, been bouncing from the DAW to cassette and sometimes recording to cassette and bouncing the other way. Paid $35. So yeah, I'm broke but happy and already saving for my next purchase (Twin Reverb). himajinga fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Mar 23, 2010 |
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Gorilla Salsa posted:Bought one of these today. FYI, I made a PVC/foam version of this that works great for a couple bucks. Here it is before I painted it black.  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. So if anyone is looking at buying one of these you can save a lot of cash by making your own (and make any size you want).
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himajinga posted:So yeah, I'm broke but happy and already saving for my next purchase (Twin Reverb). Are you sure 'twin' is going to be enough? 
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woodhead posted:FYI, I made a PVC/foam version of this that works great for a couple bucks. So if anyone is looking at buying one of these you can save a lot of cash by making your own (and make any size you want).  >(In all seriousness, most everything I try to make myself turns to poo poo, so I'll live with this one nicer thing, and maybe give myself a go at making one later on.)
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JumboJetDreams posted:One of these is living with me while my bassist is away at college. Congrats man! I bought my L-2000 3 years ago and to this day it remains the one stable part of my instrument collection and my most beloved possession.
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rt4 posted:Are you sure 'twin' is going to be enough? I played both the 4-speaker Super and the Twin, and I thought the Twin was more than adequate, especially since I'll probably never turn it down below 8. With 6 speakers, jesus, talk about overkill. But still... goddamnit it would look AMAZING. "Cabinet involvement"
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Laserface posted:Fender Aerodyne Jazz (MIJ), left handed. its like a bass wearing a tuxedo! drool...
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himajinga posted:drool... There are a few other Japanese lefty Fender basses on ebay, including 62 and 75 j-basses, a Jag bass, and a few more. Also, I think Fender started making the j-bass American Deluxe in lefty again.  My most recent,and again unsexy purchase:  My NEXT purchase, though, is kinda sexy: 
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woodhead posted:FYI, I made a PVC/foam version of this that works great for a couple bucks. Here it is before I painted it black. Measurements? I know what I'm doing this weekend! E: Found measurements for a 4-guitar setup: PVC: 4x 32" pieces of 3/4" (uprights and legs) 4x 27" pieces of 3/4" (cross bars) 5x 5.5" pieces of 3/4" (guitar rests) 13x 3/4" T connectors 6x 3/4" elbows 5x 3/4" end caps About 9' of foam himajinga fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Mar 24, 2010 |
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himajinga posted:Measurements? I know what I'm doing this weekend! Yea, honestly I just winged it. I think I bought 30' of PVC and 10' of foam. I counted up the elbows, 4 ways, and T's though. For the base width I just set 2 pieces of pvc about 1 inch off the ground and moved them around until my guitars all were off the ground. You'll notice in this picture it's actually a bit too tall. I took the top 2 vertical bars and shortened them by about 6" when I painted it, so now the guitars rest at about their 3-5th frets. Since there are at least 2 of every section of PVC it's really only important to cut the matching pieces equal lengths so things don't get wonky. The exact dimensions can be whatever you see fit for your gear. I had some extra PVC as well so I bought a couple 45 degree T's and made a few wire racks off the side. Good luck! It's really quite easy and only took about half an hour to make mine.
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himajinga posted:Got this off CL for $300, worth every penny. 1982 Fender Lead II, USA made smaller-bodied guitar w/ 2 single coils (replaced w/ EMGs). That thing is bad to the rear end, but please trim the excess string from the tuning machines. She deserves better than that! It's like seeing a fine-rear end woman who is all-around drop-dead gorgeous, but she has toenails that are, like, 3 inches long and cracked and yellowed and grody.
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 I helped my friend move a while ago, she grabbed this out of a box of books and said "here you might like this" -- I think it belonged to one of her parents, it is copyright 1966 according to the interior. Overall it is a pretty decent reference if I need to look up something like a retrograde canon or a perfect plagal cadence, it also has a very useful chart of instrument ranges in the back. But there are also some awesome entries like the one for "Electronic Music": quote:Music which is produced on electronic instruments such as the Theramin(sic) or Ondes Martinet which are "played" by moving the hands towards or away from a sensitive tube. The term also includes electric instruments that simulate the sound of the organ, guitar, or other conventional instruments. Used more precisely, the term electronic music has nothing to do with synthetic instruments. It refers to a kind of music which originated in the Studio for Electronic Music of the West German Radio, in Cologne, and its sound material is produced by electronic devices, recorded on magnetic tape, and heard through loudspeakers. Plus Dr. Lee looks like a pretty cool dude and I thank him for his efforts. 
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 Snapped this up on e-bay for cheap. Sounds beautiful, but haven't really found many practical uses for it. Need to play around with it some more. A couple of days before I'd bought a digitech hyper phase for £9.99 - I can't decide whether to keep it or not; it makes some pretty funky noises (especially like the random waveform generator effect) but it sounds very digital and like most x-series pedals I've used, it sucks ridiculous amounts of tone in bypass.
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With tax refunds, wicked company bonus and a deposit for a festival gig in October, I've been on a spending spree like a whore on the crack corner. Actual photos wouldn't do justice to my buying power because (1) my music room looks like the front yard on Sanford and Son, and (2) the poo poo I've been buying is all unimpressive upgrades to poo poo I already own. Sort of. KRK Rokit 8s. Musiciansfriend had a great deal on some scratch & dents - got the pair for $410 or something.  Auralex Gay Faggity Wall Foam Stuff, again, scratch and dent MF.com bargain ($80?) for 10 squares or something.  Shure studio monitoring headphones. Not so sure I like these - too bottom heavy (or my mixes have all been too bottom heavy for years)  Guitar Fetish Neovin strat pickups, finally swapping out the 25 yr old EMGs  Guitar Fetish P90s for my Ibanez semi hollowbody. I installed THESE correctly and they gave me a semi sure enough.  And then a gently caress ton of this to keep me up during those long nights in the studio:  edit: and I now need to buy one of these to keep the place clean, keep the kids in line, do my laundry, and solve all my marital problems:  or 
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The Mystery Date posted:Get the 6120; they both look, play, and sound awesome.
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warwick5s posted:I do like H-H (especially with a five way selector so you can get the outer coils and the neck in parallel) but guitars with just a bridge humbucker and volume knob are loving fantastic. gently caress yes! I didn't know Ibanez made a guitar like that. I'm partial to the ESP M-1 NTB in the same vein. It will be my next guitar now that I've scrapped my plans for the stratocaster. http://carlinoguitars.com/ESPM1neckthrough.html
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woodhead posted:Yea, honestly I just winged it. I think I bought 30' of PVC and 10' of foam. I counted up the elbows, 4 ways, and T's though. For the base width I just set 2 pieces of pvc about 1 inch off the ground and moved them around until my guitars all were off the ground. You'll notice in this picture it's actually a bit too tall. I took the top 2 vertical bars and shortened them by about 6" when I painted it, so now the guitars rest at about their 3-5th frets. Since there are at least 2 of every section of PVC it's really only important to cut the matching pieces equal lengths so things don't get wonky. The exact dimensions can be whatever you see fit for your gear. I had some extra PVC as well so I bought a couple 45 degree T's and made a few wire racks off the side. Keep in mind that most foam will mar the finish of nitrocellulose finished guitars. May want to drape a tshirt over it to protect your guitars' finish (if they're nitro).
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gvonpaul posted:Keep in mind that most foam will mar the finish of nitrocellulose finished guitars. May want to drape a tshirt over it to protect your guitars' finish (if they're nitro). Oh yea good point. I have felt over the foam to be safe. I'm not even sure if any of my guitars are nitro. How would I tell?
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woodhead posted:Oh yea good point. I have felt over the foam to be safe. I'm not even sure if any of my guitars are nitro. How would I tell?
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Carbohydrates posted:Well, what've you got? epi 335 dot deluxe kramer 1980s strat copy teisco 1966 et-440 fender acoustic washburn banjo gibson 1957 reissue vos goldtop (separate stand) i doubt any of those would be a concern.
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epi 335 dot deluxe - poly kramer 1980s strat copy - poly teisco 1966 et-440 - probably nitro actually fender acoustic - poly washburn banjo - poly gibson 1957 reissue vos goldtop (separate stand) - nitro
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