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And is that fake wood paneling? I love it, it makes the Sears brand even more...I don't know, it's just great.
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fappenmeister posted:One of these. I watched the video you posted and decided I need one as well. Placed the order mere moments ago and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it would make it here in time for the beginning of our studio stint.
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Manky posted:And is that fake wood paneling? I love it, it makes the Sears brand even more...I don't know, it's just great. I've got an old Sears (Silvertone) organ that was a thing of joy, even though I had to rip the top off to fix a wiring problem recently, and it looks like I'm going to have to commit even more major surgery on it because (I think) the fan died---it's a reed organ, so. Epi Lepi - I'd have a demo for you of the pedal, except I'm basically working and sleeping and nothing else right now (curse of the night shift), and I've never been happy with anything I've ever recorded (not like I've ever gotten more than maybe three notes in and not been so terribly embarrassed that I shut the recording off instantly), it'll probably sound like poo poo. There's demos on youtube and such with people who can actually play, so you may want to check there. I'm dicking around with a thing, but, yaknow, bleah. I'm a terrible guitarist having a crisis, don't mind me.
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The deed has been done! I've been eyeing a nice small low wattage tube amp for awhile, I used to have Blues Deville for a long time and I needed something smaller so I got a Blues Deville. I never really liked and sold it after having it for about 3 months. I went down to my local guitar shop and picked out this little beauty.   It's a 65' Limited Edition Princeton Reverb. I got the Orange mostly because they had it on sale for less than the black would cost, and they were out of black. I hemmed and hawed between this and a 65' Deluxe. I just really liked the sound of this better, it's more detailed in the high end. The difference between this and my old Blues Junior is night and day,it's like the Blues Junior is a old tube TV from the 70's and this is a brand new Plasma High Def TV. I figure it will be loud enough for the gigs I play, and it's definitely small enough to play at home. Hollis Brownsound fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Apr 13, 2012 |
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Apr 13, 2012 20:31
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Manky posted:And is that fake wood paneling? I love it, it makes the Sears brand even more...I don't know, it's just great. Sure is! Pure class all around with this thing. rt4 posted:Is the body plastic? How does it play and sound? Nope, it's solid wood of some sort, although I couldn't tell you what exactly. It honestly plays better than expected. Thick Les Paul style neck which I'm not a huge fan of (always been a Fender-neck guy). Pickups are pretty average, they sound like MIM fender single coils basically. I wouldn't use it as my only guitar, but I've got a pretty vanilla Ibanez super strat for all of my normal playing. I mainly bought it because I've been playing a ton of lap steel lately without a dedicated guitar to do it with. Slapped one of these on, put on .013's, and now I have a nice playing lap guitar that I can quickly swap back to a standard configuration if I feel the need to break out my surf side.
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Oh god my ears are gushing like a trashy porn star. 
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Blue Square posted:Oh god my ears are gushing like a trashy porn star. I know people dump on Carvin stuff sometimes but I'm a fan of their amps and guitars, my main guitar is a Carvin DC-400 and I have a buddy who plays the Steve Vai head and it sounds awesome.
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Frank Caskelot posted:I watched the video you posted and decided I need one as well. Placed the order mere moments ago and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it would make it here in time for the beginning of our studio stint. It's such a good pedal. I've got a Pharaoh incoming now as well, and thus will complete my unholy trinity of Black Arts fuzz. 
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Now I just want to put wood paneling pickguards on all my guitars and have them look AWFUL for some reason.
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Drama Llama posted:Got my tax return, went to go buy strings, saw this guy in the window and couldn't pass it up. Now I'm one step closer to fulfilling my dream of starting a Man or Astro-man? tribute band! God, that thing is ugly as hell. Looks like something Jack White would play.
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Walter posted:God, that thing is ugly as hell. Looks like something Jack White would play. Kinda reminds me of a ghastly version of a Vox Phantom
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Noise Machine posted:Now I just want to put wood paneling pickguards on all my guitars and have them look AWFUL for some reason. I second this. Just got some new things! Bought this the other week when it came out:  (not my pic, but it looks the same) I somehow made my guitar sound like a choir of 8bit trumpets the other day a la the FF3 battle victory sound. This thing is incredible. And my big present to myself! Hooray! It came in the mail today!  Squier (yeah yeah) Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass (not the Special with the active pickups). I don't have a bass and really wanted one. I had a dirth of Amazon giftcards. I could have paid $100 more and got the Fender Modern Player version, but it was uglier, apparently has worse pickups (these are "Duncan Designed"), and well...was $100 more for a name change. Pretty excited. Anyone had any experience with Guitarfetish bass bridges/pickups? Thinking about putting their Badass Bridge style thing on here, but might hold off.
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Crappy cell phone pic with lovely carpet included! Picked it up used for just under $900 Going to swap the bridge pickup in it to a DiMarzio SD. Otherwise, this plays like a dream, and is my first Gibson. Uncleanly Cleric fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Apr 14, 2012 |
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communistdew posted:Thinking about putting their Badass Bridge style thing on here, but might hold off. Just anecdotally I tried using a nice thick aftermarket bridge on my P bass and it actually ruined the tone.
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Barn Door posted:Just anecdotally I tried using a nice thick aftermarket bridge on my P bass and it actually ruined the tone. Hmm! Good to know! Might just go with a nice setup and see what happens for a little while then. So far I'm really happy with it...of course I know very little about bass. But boy does it love my fuzz pedals.
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P doesn't really need a heavy bridge. Put a Bad rear end II on my Jazz, though, and it was vastly improved.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:P doesn't really need a heavy bridge. Well huh...what about a Jaguar that has one of each pickup? It has a Jazz neck... Time to do some reading.
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Frank Caskelot posted:I watched the video you posted and decided I need one as well. Placed the order mere moments ago and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it would make it here in time for the beginning of our studio stint. It is an absolute blast playing through it. Disgusting filth to Wino tones, and it's always enjoyable changing between semi clean and dirty channels on an amp and fiddling with the pedal knobs. Bassist Hound posted:Crappy cell phone pic with lovely carpet included! Picked it up used for just under $900 That is a beautiful guitar you have there, congratulations! Major GAS! Was that a local US buy or off ebay? Have been looking at the Edwards (ESP) E-EX-110D in Cloudy Black, but people keep saying that the Edwards Explorers are crap.  So it's now Gibson vs Edwards, I like how the Edwards is modelled off the 84 Gibson/MX-2 ESP, decisions decisions! fappenmeister fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Apr 15, 2012 |
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Apr 15, 2012 13:09
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poop hit reply by accident
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My first tube amp... a 95 Blues Deville 2x12. It howls.
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^^^^ I literally sold that exact amp a week ago, it too was my first tube amp. It's a great sounding amp but holy hell is it LOUD. There is also a very common problem with the channel changing in them. It'a a pretty cheap fix if the amp tech knows this common problem, ~$60.
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fappenmeister posted:That is a beautiful guitar you have there, congratulations! Major GAS! Was that a local US buy or off ebay? Mine was a local buy. Wandered into the shop, and it was hanging on the wall, had been for a while apparently. Honestly though, the Edwards/ESP lawsuits are fine (if you can find one). The newer Edwards not so much.
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I've shown this before.  I've got no problems with it, but... well, I wanted something else when I got it. And the moron buddy who wrecked #1 still owed me. Plus he wanted it really badly because it was actually better than #1. So... #3.  Same improvements as #2: relocated string trees, well filed frets, slightly different switch. But some things look better with a black guard on 'em, and in ash. Thing is, I'm still not sure if it's caramel or blonde. It's sort of between the two.
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Well, they're about an inch further up the head on the newer ones. Where they should be, really. I've noticed on my deceased one that the relatively close to the nut trees resulted in uneven angles for the strings after the nut. I have the feeling that my first one was some kind of... not prototype, but first-run sort of thing: it came with jazz-wounds that were too big for it (the nut shattered when I tightened the strings), the switch is different, the string trees were different, the frets weren't filed down like other Xaviere guitars. (They were filed down, but not rounded off) and one or two other vaguely odd things. Oh, right, the neckplate on the newer two is engraved, as well.  Here's #1. (deceased) See the difference in the trees? DG is only, eh, a quarter inch moved, but BE is a half inch higher.
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Apr 16, 2012 18:40
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Not a purchase, but I painted my old Vox Time Machine pedal. Before:  
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Picked up a few more goodies in the past couple of weeks. Picked up a Fulltone OCD v4 off Craigslist, so far I rather like this pedal.  Korg Pitchblack, I have a Korg DTR-1000 in my bass rig that I really liked and this pedal was a good price and had all the features I'd ever want in a standalone pedal.  Got a used Boss RV-5 for some sweet sweet modulated reverb  Also picked up an ernie ball volume pedal, and a voodoolabs pedal power. I think my next purchase is going to be a pedal board, as I seem to have gotten addicted to getting effects pedals. Plus, moving all this is a pain in the rear end.  (pod is just for home practicing)
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I recently acquired some gear. Frost blue peavey t20 bass, a digitech bass synthwah, a peavey classic vtx 4x10 hybrid amp, and a fender ultimate chorus 2x12 solid state amp. Both amps were given to me. The fender and peavey bass were both broken when I got them and both required one drop of solder each to fix. I don't know why but I always seem to get smokin deals on gear.
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Found a good deal on Craigslist and splurged on my dream amp. 
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Recently sold off a few guitars and a U5. In keeping gear funds in gear funds, this is inbound and will arrive later this week. It's an MTD 435.
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Bassist Hound posted:Crappy cell phone pic with lovely carpet included! Picked it up used for just under $900 Welcome to the club!
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bisticles posted:Welcome to the club! I used to really want an Explorer, but my singer / rhythm guitarist just recently got his hands on one, and the thing is kind of annoying. The sound on the low strings is flabby, the instrument refuses to stay in tune for more than a single song, and it feeds back like a motherfucker. It's a Gibson, too, not an Epiphone. I recall something The Edge said about his Explorer in an interview a while back, that he didn't much care for the bottom end on his (it was a '76 reissue) and it was one reason why his playing style early on tended to favor droning and two-string chord shapes on the higher strings. I love Explorers and in spite of everything still want one (and am jealous of that one - nice axe), but are they as troublesome as they seem to be? EDIT: Found the quote (from an interview in 1982, quoted on Wikipedia): quote:I like a nice ringing sound on guitar, and most of my chords I find two strings and make them ring the same note, so it's almost like a 12-string sound. So for E I might play a B, E, E and B and make it ring. It works very well with the Gibson Explorer. It's funny because the bass end of the Explorer was so awful that I used to stay away from the low strings, and a lot of the chords I played were very trebly, on the first four, or even three strings. I discovered that through using this one area of the fretboard I was developing a very stylized way of doing something that someone else would play in a normal way. Walter fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Apr 18, 2012 |
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Walter posted:I used to really want an Explorer, but my singer / rhythm guitarist just recently got his hands on one, and the thing is kind of annoying. Is this feed back a high pitched squeel or a low moan? If you have pickup covers there could be a small gap of air between the pickup and the cover. Has your singer considered higher tension strings? The tuning thing is a disappointment. Guitars should be good to go out of the box, not having to up grade hardware just to get things "okay",
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Interesting. I play 11's on my Gibson Explorer with a... I think it's got an SD59' in the neck and a Custom Custom in the bridge. It is easy, especially when strumming really hard, to create more noise than actual notes, but I've learned to be a little more articulate with my right hand, and it seems to help. To be honest, I really enjoy the shape and balance of the guitar more than anything. I just love the way it hangs on the strap, and the fact that the body has some momentum to it. It's just a fun guitar to play.
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So, after a couple of days with it setup the way I like/want. I really dig it. At some point I might replace the tuners, but really I have no more issues with it going out tune than I do with my SG. It SOUNDS massive, and for what I play the floppy on the low E (C in my case, C standard... none of that drop C crap) is awesome. One of the things that I always always do with a guitar though, is get a new nut cut for the strings and tuning I use. Makes a huge difference with staying in tune.
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ESPs are my other love  . I considered an LTD EX, but I didn't want to mess with pulling the EMGs out to replace with passives.
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Hammer Floyd posted:There's my Explorer. Sure it aint Gibson, but I love the natural finish. I've never had a single problem with bottom end, but then again, I'm using EMGs... Those EMGs practically live around 300hz don't they? Here's my next purchase! oh wait that's a blank page Seriously, I'm out of work, trying to work on music, gear that I'll need to finish the work is impossible to afford and I'm getting further and further in debt. I'd whore myself out for a set of drum mics right now.
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Do you know how long I waited for an image to load there? For content (I hope this counts.) wood and fret wire and other hardware to build a bass for somebody. Gettin' into building again 
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Rotten Cookies posted:Do you know how long I waited for an image to load there? Hahaha, I was hoping somebody would fall for it.
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