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Picked up my new Tele today. Love it. I used to only have one guitar and one amp before I started reading posts here. 
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'sup Amp buddy?
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Jun 19, 2013 08:32
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So I got this really awful Kingston amp today. Actually I bought it a few years ago and gave it to my dad who kept it in his office to play at work. He's retiring and clearing out his office and asked if i wanted it. It sounds truly awful but in an oddly cool kind of way. The reverb borders on insane and the cab looks like it has 2 6" speakers. It's not very loud, like maybe 20 watts Solid State. 
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Jun 21, 2013 04:08
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 New Lakland Skyline 44-02, fretless.
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Jun 23, 2013 19:24
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Mustang III V2. I ordered this over three months ago. It took forever to come into stock in Australia. It's been out for ages elsewhere but has only just come into stock in this last weekend.
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Jun 24, 2013 00:40
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Need to lay some bass down on some recordings, so decided to pick up one of these: Plays very well. Active 3-band EQ which is very flexible. Looks edible. Result!
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Jun 24, 2013 20:19
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 Not a super recent purchase, but it's my baby! (A Yamaha VA5 viola)
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Jun 24, 2013 20:54
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 I have a hihat now! Set of fairly old Zildjians and a Tama stand, bought from Craigslist. They've obviously seen some miles, but everything works great and sounds great. Unfortunately, fitting it into my existing kit is like playing Trauma Center and Tetris simultaneously, except you're bent double trying to get all the stands to fit together and everything weighs a jillion pounds.
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Jun 25, 2013 04:47
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Allen Wren posted:
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Jun 26, 2013 22:17
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I just got one of the baller deals of the decade. TC Helicon VoiceTone Synth, brand new, in box and sealed, for, somehow, $109. Can't find it anywhere else online for under $212. A lot of places have it at $299. Nothing else on the website seems to be as good a deal as this, so I guess it's just one of those crazy things that comes up once in a while. If anyone wants to join me in adding some hot autotune goodness to their band, jump on this son: http://www.proaudiostar.com/tc-heli...CFciY4AodWE4ABA
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Jun 27, 2013 03:11
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My newest bass... a Mosrite. 
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Jul 1, 2013 06:22
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Does it count if it's a whole bunch of wood I've bought and assembled myself from plans? 2x Bill Fitzmaurice T60 pro audio folded horn subwoofers.  aaand a pair of Omnitop 12s to go with those.  The subs are complete and got caned at a DJ gig on Saturday and the existing pair of Omnitops handled the top end. The entire system hammered the poo poo out of the venue with crystal clear sound and naff all distortion. It sounded amazing. I'm doubling up though because y'know, overkill...
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Jul 1, 2013 13:17
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There is no overkill. Just open fire and WHAT DID YOU SAY? Nice job.
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Jul 1, 2013 13:36
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treble posted:My newest bass... a Mosrite. Unghhhh. Unghhhhh fuckkkkkkkkkkk.
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Jul 2, 2013 06:17
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When Arturia's Spark first came out I didn't think much of it; especially since I had just gotten NI's Maschine. I've since become a huge fan of Arturia's stuff. It's getting better and better and is really fun. I got the Spark Vintage Drums with the V Collection 3 (which is a must if you're into synths) and when I started playing around with it I finally began to see how awesome the controller would be with the software. So, my Spark just arrived in the mail today. This is such a fun instrument. For anyone who has Maschine or other drum machines, I would still whole-heartedly recommend getting a Spark.  For anyone into synths, I would also recommend checking out Arturia's new Analog Lab as well. It's predecessor, Analog Laboratory, never did much for me and seemed buggy as gently caress. The new Analog Lab though is fuckin' great. I have the old Arturia keyboard (Analog Experience 49) and it instantly recognizes it and automaps the best parameters for any synth. Also, if you have the V-Collection, you can open the synths up directly in Analog Lab for more extensive editing. It's sweet; buy it. Fake edit: My apologies for my huge boner for Arturia; I'm just getting more and more stoked on what they're doing.
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Jul 2, 2013 07:04
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I bought a used PA for a $500 show out in the middle of the desert. We needed a PA and nobody would lend us one, except for one guy who wanted to rent it out for $100. Fifty dollars extra and now I have my own. EDIT: broken link, bleh; different site, different price. We got it for $150 along with a couple of good quality stands. Jeff Goldblum fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 03:30
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treble posted:My newest bass... a Mosrite. You have good taste.
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Jul 3, 2013 05:10
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After 12 years of playing a Yamaha Pacifica, I've finally bought a real electric, and it's essentially the guitar I lusted after when I was a kid   American Special!
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Jul 6, 2013 06:13
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Didn't mean to post anything yet, just a big fan of seafoam/surf green guitars! I haven't paid for Imgur, so I don't think I can link images the way I want to. I thought it was free, but I think I am mistaken. Here's the 1988 JEM77FP with the new Seafoam Green "Premiere" JEM70V. Bridge Evolution replaced with a Crunch Lab, in parallel by default but series is available by pulling up the tone knob.  Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Jul 6, 2013 09:53
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88h88 posted:Does it count if it's a whole bunch of wood I've bought and assembled myself from plans? I'd love to see a step by step construction of this. Maybe not appropriate for this forum, but I'm curious. Hypnolobster posted:
Congratulations. Does it live up to expectations?
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Jul 6, 2013 10:07
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Automatic Slim posted:Congratulations. Does it live up to expectations? It does. It feels very very alive compared to my Yamaha. Obviously it sounds a lot better, but just the feel of a note is huge. I don't adore the finished maple neck, but it's not bothering me. I think eventually I might pick up a rosewood board neck for it, and I want to load a pickguard from Warmoth with P90's 
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Jul 6, 2013 14:04
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Gimme that floral Jem now.
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Jul 6, 2013 16:01
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Automatic Slim posted:I'd love to see a step by step construction of this. Maybe not appropriate for this forum, but I'm curious. They're built from plans purchased from Bill Fitzmaurice and there's a forum where people post their builds. You can vary the width of these designs for more output, mine are both 18" wide (so internal panels are 17" wide, plus the two 0.5" sides = 18"). There's a guy building 16 full width ones for a club install he's doing and he's documenting it all really well, his craftmanship is also exemplary, the thread's here if you want to take a look http://billfitzmaurice.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=19854 it's not quite step by step but gives you an idea of the amount of work that goes into putting one together. The end result is worth it though if you have the time and are willing to learn the processes involved, the bass from these things is amazing, the folds filter out distortion so your bass notes are all stupidly clear and defined, if you've not heard a folded horn they're really a different experience. And these big bastards have output down to 25hz so they're serious bits of kit. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jul 6, 2013 |
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Jul 6, 2013 18:33
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Hypnolobster posted:It does. It feels very very alive compared to my Yamaha. Obviously it sounds a lot better, but just the feel of a note is huge. Put another $200 into a project like that and you'll have a whole separate guitar!
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Jul 7, 2013 14:04
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Perhaps I'm crazy but I loving LOVE maple necks, seriously. I love everything about them and I dunno why people prefer rosewood fingerboards.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:17
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I like ebony otherwise, but maple fingerboards with a tung oil finish on strats should be federally mandated.
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Jul 8, 2013 01:23
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cat doter posted:Perhaps I'm crazy but I loving LOVE maple necks, seriously. I love everything about them and I dunno why people prefer rosewood fingerboards. Aesthetics. Tonal differences.
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Jul 8, 2013 05:58
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I've never believed there's a tangible tonal difference between fingerboard material, but the feel between a glossy finish neck and an oiled neck is massive. I stray to rosewood or ebony just because they're usually oiled, and for some goddamned reason maple necks are ruined with laquer/urethane/whatever.no dad im not gay! posted:Put another $200 into a project like that and you'll have a whole separate guitar! So you're saying I'm doing everything perfectly?
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Jul 8, 2013 23:47
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Maple necks can have stability problems without a hard finish, which is why most manufacturers apply one. I hate those thick lacquer coats on necks too, but there are plenty of maple-necked instruments with thin finishes out there. I have a maple-on-maple necked SX Jazz 5 with a very nice finish that a luthier friend of mine applied. It's perfectly stable, but so thin that you can feel the wood grain.
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Hypnolobster posted:After 12 years of playing a Yamaha Pacifica, I've finally bought a real electric, and it's essentially the guitar I lusted after when I was a kid I just bought this also, same surf green color. It's my first electric in about 5 years as I've only been playing classical. It's probably in the top 3 guitars I've ever played. It is the best Strat I have ever played. The only con so far is that I am not in love with the tremelo. It feels a little cheap, sort of like the ones on the Squiers. Luna fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 09:46
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Apropos of maple necks, I built this guitar to be my "blues guitar" in 1992 because a friend of mine at NCSU had this Schecter neck and was willing to sell it to me for $50. It's all maple, 22 frets, flat radius with big frets. When I bought it, it didn't have an excess of finish on it anywhere. Sure, it's pretty thick compared to something crazy like an Ibanez Wizard ruler-thin neck, but I've built this Swamp-ash guitar around it and I clean it with steel wool and the neck feels great and does not move. When the seasons change and I am adjusting truss rods on my other necks, this guitar just stays the same. It's not a baseball-bat neck dimension, either. I have had the frets leveled (it's 21 years old) and it is ready for another leveling. Otherwise, it's the same neck as I put on it in 1992. Now, I started out with a three-ply white pickguard and various brands of "authentic" single coils. Eventually I put the Fender pearloid pickguard on it (which has yellowed a LOT) and a Pearly Gates with push/pull series/parallel switch on it, and the other two pickups are mid and neck Texas Specials (I did this before the Jimmy Vaughan guitar came out, so I'll just take the credit) and until I got my RG471AH it was my only fixed-bridge go-to all-purpose guitar. Years of scrubbing and oiling this neck means there's little finish left anywhere on this maple neck, and yet it's more solid to temp/humidity changes than the rest of my collection. Maple doesn't have to be a glazed doughnut to be awesome. What have I done for the body? Well, I initially put Benwood paste-wood filler into the end-grain which turned it that ugly orange color. I fully expected to paint it, which is why I filled the grain and ruined the color. Instead, I've just kept it as-is and maybe, someday, I'll fill in the dents and dings and have it painted grand piano black. I'll probably just leave it alone. I know you have all heard this before, but this is what she sounds like through Amplitube 3. 
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Jul 10, 2013 01:50
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Maple fingerboards age wonderfully.
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Jul 10, 2013 02:08
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seriously, old rear end maple that has been around the block a few times is the best option for fingeboards. In other news, I just ordered a Matrix GT1000FX to power my Axe-Fx 2. I'm pretty excited for it to get here!
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Jul 10, 2013 02:21
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Scarf posted:Maple fingerboards age wonderfully. No argument here:  Although to be totally honest my preference (based solely on looks, not tone) is rosewood or ebony.
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Jul 10, 2013 02:26
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I have a hand-me-down strat with a worn down maple fingerboard and it rules. Rosewood always looks cheap to me.
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Ragehaver posted:Rosewood always looks cheap to me. You and I are opposite people. All of my guitars have rosewood fingerboards. I didn't realize how much of a hassle a terrible maple board could be until I got my '85 MIJ Tele. It was so glossy that my gross sweaty fingers would prefer to stick to it rather than astroglide gently along it. Bends were a nightmare. Swapped it for an AVRI Strat neck with Rosewood board and will never ever under any circumstances buy a guitar with a maple board as long as there's the rosewood option. That being said, my uncle's '73 Strat has a maple board and it plays wonderfully. Nope, my man, rosewood is where it's at. It's always at least a little bit gritty and sandpapery, always dry and never sticky. The tactile sensation that you get from it that lets you know it's there, and that you're actually pressing the string into something and getting a feedback response in return. What a terrible way for me to explain what I'm trying to get across. Reading that back, I don't even think what I just said makes sense, but that's what I get from rosewood. I would post a picture of my most recent gear purchase but it's just 10 male/female XLR jacks and 25' of DMX cable from Mammoth Electronics. Gonna solder this motherfucker up some little baby patch cords is what I'm gonna do. 
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Jul 10, 2013 08:02
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The maple necks on the current American Deluxe Strats are the best I've ever played. Very hard sturdy wood with a smooth feel and the tone is clear and punchy. You get a tactile feel of how each note pops off of the neck from your pick and blooms throughout the body. That said, I'm also fond of the mahogany + ebony top combo. You get the warm woody tone from the mahogany with a nice maple like snap bringing the sound to the forefront. Wood 
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I like rosewood fretboards so much that I bought a guitar with a solid rosewood neck. 
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Jul 10, 2013 16:37
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sofullofhate posted:I like rosewood fretboards so much that I bought a guitar with a solid rosewood neck. "Whatever motherfucker." - George Harrison 
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So my Fuzz Hugger Algal bloom arrived a couple days ago. It was wait listed 3-5 weeks but it ended up arriving in less than 3. It came highly recommended from this forum and I gotta say it really is the exact fuzz that I wanted, it really is the most versatile fuzz I've ever owned.
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