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I really cannot understand the concept of spending that much for cat pee smellin' wires just because a) old b) gibson Gonna start up an store, scavenge old wire out of goodwill electronics, write GIBSON on it and sell it with the following slogan unlawfulsoup posted:Sometimes the old wires are the best wires. Hello retirement at 35
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Code Jockey posted:Hello retirement at 35 Haha, you think you would live long enough to retire. Back to the plow, that field won't till itself serf. White Dog Eggs posted:"Hey, you know that guitar you were building for me? Well I just brought an Epi Explorer with EMG's so now I'm broke. The guitar is nearly finished right? So you can probably sell it soon, does that mean I can have my deposit back?" What is it about audio equipment (audiophiles, musicians, and all their ilk) that makes people shut off the rational side of their brain so much. I was at GC getting some strings and I overheard two nerds getting into an argument about locking tuners ruining tone. Tone glue? Honestly I would love some of these people to participate in a double blind test with any of these things to be proven the complete fools that they are. Of course, they would never ever admit they are wrong because this is more of a religion for them than anything else. unlawfulsoup fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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White Dog Eggs posted:The angry racist guy was funny because he left that as a voicemail which I then played to some other people out of the band he was in (the bassist and drummer, I think). He got booted-out and apparently the vocalist beat the poo poo out of him then chucked his shoes in the river. That's such a delightfully weird climax. Spanish Manlove posted:honestly, restringing a floyd is easy so long as you remember the one rule of floyds: you're its bitch. As I was harshly reminded recently, intonating a floyd is when you're hit smack in the face with a stern reminder that you are indeed its bitch. Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:And these people have the temerity to get offended when Scott Grove calls them loving morons. I believe the correct term is, "Dumb mother fucker".
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Dirt posted:Tremolos are dumb unless you are Jeff Beck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9esxpAUP0 that divebomb. theory busted.  also jeff beck sucks. not as much as clapton, but at least as much as joe walsh
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:And these people have the temerity to get offended when Scott Grove calls them loving morons. Grove is just an offensive 'that guitar guy', regardless of him usually being right.
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Clitch posted:Grove is just an offensive 'that guitar guy', regardless of him usually being right. I think he is insufferable, but then again anyone who wants to listen to some nobody talking down to his audience deserves exactly what they get.
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Code Jockey posted:I really cannot understand the concept of spending that much for cat pee smellin' wires just because a) old b) gibson
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Spanish Manlove posted:they're not as good as two fulcrum trems and like to go out of tune if you do anything harder than a light vibrato on them
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Oct 10, 2014 02:15
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bigsby good floyd rose bad
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Cartoon posted:Rubbish. More contact points on a floating string suspension = more places to hang and gently caress up your tuning. Name a reason to favor a six screw trem over a 2-point that isn't some form of "That's how it was back in the day, so it's obviously better."
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SubG posted:Too much competition in vintage wire. Get in early on the new industry in vintage solder. Make up some poo poo about prewar solder being made before the first nuclear tests so less radiation in it blah blah tone tone tone bitches. Man as much as this is snake oil stuff, I know a guy looking into cryo freezing tubes and I can't help but think that's pretty drat awesome, if not for TONEZ then for the life span of the tube being increased, in theory.
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Clitch posted:More contact points on a floating string suspension = more places to hang and gently caress up your tuning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlODWd4GeM&t=84s
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Jedrick posted:bigsby good is that mastery tele bridge any good, i've heard it's not really worth getting because the original is perfectly fine
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a Breadwinner and a Flying V had a baby. It was an inbred stillborn: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Left-Handed-Guitar-/131318240525  "Set up left handed could be right Nice sound Duncan Seymour pick up Very original guitar Had it made up So one off nice condition"
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The guitar for people who crave pickguard. Also, I am not sure why but something really really bothers me about single pickup guitars. I know Esquires and Melody Makers tend to get by with one, but it just irks me. Like you live in North Korea or a former Soviet republic and all you get is one pickup. unlawfulsoup fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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unlawfulsoup posted:The guitar for people who crave pickguard.
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Cartoon posted:Not what I'm saying. Two point is definitely better, but the six screw system can be used for utterly insane trem action without any serious tuning issues. Certainly going well beyond a 'light vibrato': Richie Blackmore doesn't count.
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http://www.musicswopshop.com.au/stock?search=MSS+29125 Should I buy this?
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darkwasthenight posted:Did someone say vintage wiring? Here's the Honda Soundworks Spice pedal: I.... I almost want one. Allen Wren posted:The comeuppance is great, but having one's shoes thrown in the river sounds like such an 18th-century-style upbraiding. "Levi spake harsh words to Bartholomew last night, and Bartholomew threw Levi's shoes off into the river." One of the main music pubs here is about a 2 minute walk from a river, I guess it all kicked off outside there. The guy looked like a stereotypical slapheaded Pantera fan and wore these massive Dr Martens boots, so there is probably about £200 worth of footwear at the bottom of that river. Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:As I was harshly reminded recently, intonating a floyd is when you're hit smack in the face with a stern reminder that you are indeed its bitch. Floyd's are one of the few pieces of guitar hardware that haven't been copied 100% perfectly. The genuine (non-licensed) ones are made out of hardened steel that doesn't wear out at all, all the copies I've seen are made out of softer stuff. The genuine ones are loving expensive though, the cheapest I can get one is is £170 and that's at wholesale, I think retail is about £220 for a standard one at the moment, oddly the low profile ones were a little cheaper. Clitch posted:Grove is just an offensive 'that guitar guy', regardless of him usually being right. A lot of the older guys I work with end up with a really similar attitude, I guess playing music at a professional level for a few years just makes you super-cynical. They tend to make the best customers though (they know what they want and actually pay in cash, plus if they like the work they spread the word), so it's all good. I just brought some guitar lessons off Scott Grove's website as my playing is loving terrible. They were pretty cheap and they seem to be pretty well received, so we'll see. Fair Hallion posted:a Breadwinner and a Flying V had a baby. It was an inbred stillborn: Haha, that's foul. Seriously considering bidding though as I could probably sell that for less than it would go for on ebay. Carnaticum posted:http://www.musicswopshop.com.au/stock?search=MSS+29125 Yes.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Floyd's are one of the few pieces of guitar hardware that haven't been copied 100% perfectly. The genuine (non-licensed) ones are made out of hardened steel that doesn't wear out at all, all the copies I've seen are made out of softer stuff. The genuine ones are loving expensive though, the cheapest I can get one is is £170 and that's at wholesale, I think retail is about £220 for a standard one at the moment, oddly the low profile ones were a little cheaper. Yeah you gotta spring for the real deal, and maybe that's why everyone seems to hate them or they're just used to the lovely Ibanez knockoffs. I replaced the licensed one on my pointy Jackson about 20 years ago and apart from the metal on the bridge lock screws turning dull it's still like new. Once you get it set up and intonated you never have to worry about it again. The strings will die long before it ever drifts out of tune.
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Some guy in a regional gear swap facebook group I'm in posted a listing. Selling 3 schecters. Someone responds. "do you entertain trades?" "Other schecters". 
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Schecter guitars are really nice if you can get past their dorky metal reputation and ugly inays on some models . Especially used ones. They have poo poo for resale value, so you can find used ones for dirt cheap.
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I am cool with schechter guitars because for $10 at GC I got a really nice case that took like 2 minutes of modifying to fit my Strat.
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Someone mentioned Richie Kotzen, so I had to look him up. Is this the most clichéd wiki page for a guitarist? Especially this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Kotzen#Guitar_playing_style 
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am cool with schechter guitars because for $10 at GC I got a really nice case that took like 2 minutes of modifying to fit my Strat. I have one of their hybrid Soft/HSC for my Bass VI and it fits like a loving glove.  As for Schecter, our bass player gave me his "Diamond Series Deluxe-4" bass for a week or two to try out my bass rig. I guess I'll see how I like them since I've never played any of their lines.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Pretty much this. Try arranging the springs like this (maybe have the claw a little closer to the body than in this picture); I opened the back and the springs were set like the picture so I moved them parallel to each other. I had to unwind the screws quite a lot to be able to move the springs so I have spent about the last 2 hours getting it to float and have the strings in tune with each other at the same time. Between moving the springs and putting some new strings on it seems to have done the job thanks.
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Fumble posted:I opened the back and the springs were set like the picture so I moved them parallel to each other. I had to unwind the screws quite a lot to be able to move the springs so I have spent about the last 2 hours getting it to float and have the strings in tune with each other at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQlXNH36mI
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Despite the, "LORD MERCY PLEASE!" feeling intonating two knock of Floyd's brought me a fortnight ago I'm now in widdly widdly heaven. Still in tune. 
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Fumble posted:I opened the back and the springs were set like the picture so I moved them parallel to each other. I had to unwind the screws quite a lot to be able to move the springs so I have spent about the last 2 hours getting it to float and have the strings in tune with each other at the same time. It's nice to see my lovely advice wasn't too damaging then. I swear my IQ drops a few points when I'm working.
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Heh. I had that exact Millenium Falcon model kit, when I was a kid.
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Lord Vader, we have located the rebel bass
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I am sure in concerts you can yell 'punch it chewie' while you swell the volume up. Assuming one ever took it out of mom's basement.
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Fair Hallion posted:Lord Vader, we have located the rebel bass 
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am sure in concerts you can yell 'punch it chewie' while you swell the volume up. the star wars tribute band, featuring han "solo"
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I had a great idea for the TONEZ knob so I modified the STL to give it a try. I suck with like any CAD since I'm a CS/electronics person. Now I just have to wait for a time at work I can print it that no one will see what the hell I'm up to, since we run camps with kids and I don't need to deal with a kid coming in to seeing that. I don't want to give it away but let's just say I'll be replacing something that a lot of goons don't like.
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am sure in concerts you can yell 'punch it chewie' while you swell the volume up. You laugh but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCgQiW2gLhk.
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booshi posted:I had a great idea for the TONEZ knob so I modified the STL to give it a try. I suck with like any CAD since I'm a CS/electronics person. Pokerchip?
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Sockington posted:Pokerchip? pog?
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ThePutty posted:is that mastery tele bridge any good, i've heard it's not really worth getting because the original is perfectly fine Never tried one myself, but they seem like a good(read: bad) way to waste $180. I could be biased though, I'm not a fan of teles (to play that is, they look amazing).
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