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Dirt posted:Yeah the Midwest sucks. Northeast PA, but yeah.
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Dirt posted:Yeah everywhere outside a major city sucks.
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Allen Wren posted:I visited some family and high-school-era friends last summer, and I found out that the part of the world I did most of my growing up in unironically thought that numetal was an important musical trend and a foundation to be built on. I mean, yes, that's where Breaking Benjamin came from, but like all the local bands I had recordings of played to me and the newer bands they listened to (aside from the one my brother joined, which was described as "weird", probably because it's got a keyboard in it) were in that whole BB/Chevelle/Staind/Shinedown/Disturbed/Godsmack vein. I saw Godsmack live in Birmingham years and years ago. They were terrible and a fat 40-something woman threw up near me then glomped me and screaming "BLESSED BE" in my ear with her puke-breath. Also she whipped her tit out at me later in the evening. It was not appealing. This "chuck poo poo I've got lying around together" guitar is looking surprisingly ok;   (apologies for the poo poo picture, the light in this house is terrible and I'm too cheap to buy a decent camera) Everything on that body is pure 'B' stock. Huge scratch on the control plate, the bridge has rust-spots on it, the jack plug came off a horrible cheap guitar that was beyond saving and the pickups were piss-cheap on ebay because the Chinese seller listed them as "libstick pickups". Still going to stick ToneZ on the headstock though.
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I would buy the poo poo out of that thing if I found it languishing in the dusty corner of a local pawnshop.
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Nov 5, 2014 22:14
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Sockington posted:Also, don't order one. Find one in a shop and decide on it. Yeah, all of that is good advice. I have heard the Bass VI horror stories as well, and after my CV50 experience I am pretty firmly in the try before I buy camp. I also have my heart set on a Casino so I am not really going to be able to afford a VI anytime soon.
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Allen Wren posted:I visited some family and high-school-era friends last summer, and I found out that the part of the world I did most of my growing up in unironically thought that numetal was an important musical trend and a foundation to be built on. I mean, yes, that's where Breaking Benjamin came from, but like all the local bands I had recordings of played to me and the newer bands they listened to (aside from the one my brother joined, which was described as "weird", probably because it's got a keyboard in it) were in that whole BB/Chevelle/Staind/Shinedown/Disturbed/Godsmack vein. That's pretty much the worst case scenario.
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W424 posted:That's pretty much the worst case scenario. I have a record of one of those bands on my iTunes as a solemn reminder of a shameful period in my music listening history.
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Carnaticum posted:How do you good people feel about 7 and 8 string guitars? I've been looking for a decent 7 string to add to my hated collection, but might end up getting this monstrosity because its so cheap at a place nearby: While Ibanez is totally awesome, if you're after a cheapie 7 or 8 it's worth checking out the rondo music store as they have a ridiculous number of options and scale lengths available for 7, 8, 9 and 10 strings. The build quality is pretty decent - I have an Agile Septor 727 and after I got a pro setup job it plays very nicely and is among the best sounding of my guitars. Ignore the grandad hate.
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I've mentioned this before, and while I don't really care for the most part, sometimes the 'genredad' stuff gets me, probably because I feel so on the spot with it, because I definitely fall into most of the categories, older (nearing 40) guy playing metal/rock (gently caress blues) pretending I'm a rock star or something on the weekends, I dunno. In all seriousness, when you younger guys are going to see a show, is it weird for you if someone my age is onstage? I've never really paid attention to it (unless it's a gimmick like the baby metal thing or whatever), but I'm curious. edit: vvvv - ohhhh, well poo poo I'm old and dumb and these inter tubes are confusing as hell get off my drat lawn I've got some djent to make iostream.h fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Dude, iostream, you're actually a working loving musician. That's something that half the people in these threads (including scrublords like me) can only dream about. thingdads are dudes who buy hella gear and only sit around in their office when they're not doing lawyer/doctor/whatever poo poo and play blues licks on $12k of studio-grade equipment. If you're gigging you're automatically exempt from bluesdad status. Also older people that still rock out own incredibly, so keep on keepin' on. 
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muike posted:genredad doesn't actually play shows or with other people is the joke "I'm going to spend £4k on an Fender/Gibson/PRS/et all electric guitar that I'm going to play, unamplified, twice a month whilst closing my eyes and making stupid orgasm faces. I'm also going to go on forums and poo poo on everyone who isn't playing what I am playing how I play it. Smug smug smug smug."
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Schpyder posted:I would buy the poo poo out of that thing if I found it languishing in the dusty corner of a local pawnshop. umalt posted:
Not 100% how the body is going to turn out when I apply the varnish, it's weird-rear end wood.
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Schpyder posted:Dude, iostream, you're actually a working loving musician. That's something that half the people in these threads (including scrublords like me) can only dream about. thingdads are dudes who buy hella gear and only sit around in their office when they're not doing lawyer/doctor/whatever poo poo and play blues licks on $12k of studio-grade equipment.  Although, I do take issue with the bit about you guys only dreaming about it. I've hit up several folks from over in ML about this and there's a couple that, as a result are apparently gigging fairly regularly (or preparing to). Even had a long chat with a younger guy at the music shop earlier today about it, if you want to go gig, there's no reason not to, it's easy as gently caress and doesn't take a lot of (or 'special') gear or anything. I've been working on a 'So You Want to Sell Liquor for Bars' thread for a while now and just haven't posted it because I don't know if it's pretentious or something. But seriously, go forth, make music.
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White Dog Eggs posted:"I'm going to spend £4k on an Fender/Gibson/PRS/et all electric guitar that I'm going to play, unamplified, twice a month whilst closing my eyes and making stupid orgasm faces. I'm also going to go on forums and poo poo on everyone who isn't playing what I am playing how I play it. Smug smug smug smug." Bonus for going on forums arguing about tonewood and serial numbers of said guitar. 'Oh you have a studio, how quaint.' 
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unlawfulsoup posted:'Oh you have a studio, how quaint.' "I bet that sounds great through your TRANSISTOR SOLID-STATE AMPLIFIER. Do you even know what a tube looks like?"
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White Dog Eggs posted:"I bet that sounds great through your TRANSISTOR SOLID-STATE AMPLIFIER. Do you even know what a tube looks like?" Mine is hand built by the indigenous people of Arakakakawa who channel the tone spirits of their fallen ancestors. Only me and Slash's cousin's nephew who knows Eric Clapton has one.
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Concatenation posted:While Ibanez is totally awesome, if you're after a cheapie 7 or 8 it's worth checking out the rondo music store as they have a ridiculous number of options and scale lengths available for 7, 8, 9 and 10 strings. The build quality is pretty decent - I have an Agile Septor 727 and after I got a pro setup job it plays very nicely and is among the best sounding of my guitars.
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unlawfulsoup posted:Mine is hand built by the indigenous people of Arakakakawa who channel the tone spirits of their fallen ancestors. Only me and Slash's cousin's nephew who knows Eric Clapton has one. Each of my tubes is cyrogenically frozen using only the finest liquid nitrogen from specially tone-tapped tanks made from pre-ww2 metal made from sunken U-Boats (universally revered for their tone-shaping abilities) and audio calibrated using naturally occurring magnetic fossilised boar tusks. I actually felt dirty typing that out.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Each of my tubes is cyrogenically frozen using only the finest liquid nitrogen from specially tone-tapped tanks made from pre-ww2 metal made from sunken U-Boats (universally revered for their tone-shaping abilities) and audio calibrated using naturally occurring magnetic fossilised boar tusks. Cryogenically treated, ha, that is so 2003. Mine are superheated to demagnetize the ionic bonds... Yeah, this is awful.
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How 3D and hi fi does it sound now?
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fappenmeister posted:How 3D and hi fi does it sound now? Like SRV is in the room wailing with me.
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http://i.imgur.com/jDjCSZD.jpg This better be a built in metronome.
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When I was assembling the cables for my expression pedals and external switches for my MIDI controller it took FOREVER to find the properly maintained McIntosh receivers that I required to strip the quality wiring from. The heathens over at TGP said it wouldn't matter, that it was a 'digital' signal and just needed to pass simple, non-audio information, but I know. I KNOW...
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I finally got around to building one of those SUPER HARD ON clones that everyone seemed to be going wild for forever ago in the thread -  Gotta admit - this thing is pretty :rad: Any other super cool fairly simple circuits I should check out? I had a lot of fun putting this one together.
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White Dog Eggs posted:I saw Godsmack live in Birmingham years and years ago. They were terrible and a fat 40-something woman threw up near me then glomped me and screaming "BLESSED BE" in my ear with her puke-breath. Also she whipped her tit out at me later in the evening. It was not appealing. That guitar looks sweet btw, don't like tele headstocks but flat necked dc's are awesome. iostream.h posted:I've mentioned this before, and while I don't really care for the most part, sometimes the 'genredad' stuff gets me, probably because I feel so on the spot with it, because I definitely fall into most of the categories, older (nearing 40) guy playing metal/rock (gently caress blues) pretending I'm a rock star or something on the weekends, I dunno. iostream.h posted:Even had a long chat with a younger guy at the music shop earlier today about it, if you want to go gig, there's no reason not to, it's easy as gently caress and doesn't take a lot of (or 'special') gear or anything. As I said though, I have a plan, just have to ask the one drummer I know personally about it. Allen Wren posted:I visited some family and high-school-era friends last summer, and I found out that the part of the world I did most of my growing up in unironically thought that numetal was an important musical trend and a foundation to be built on. I mean, yes, that's where Breaking Benjamin came from, but like all the local bands I had recordings of played to me and the newer bands they listened to (aside from the one my brother joined, which was described as "weird", probably because it's got a keyboard in it) were in that whole BB/Chevelle/Staind/Shinedown/Disturbed/Godsmack vein. Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Allen Wren posted:I visited some family and high-school-era friends last summer, and I found out that the part of the world I did most of my growing up in unironically thought that numetal was an important musical trend and a foundation to be built on. I mean, yes, that's where Breaking Benjamin came from, but like all the local bands I had recordings of played to me and the newer bands they listened to (aside from the one my brother joined, which was described as "weird", probably because it's got a keyboard in it) were in that whole BB/Chevelle/Staind/Shinedown/Disturbed/Godsmack vein. it's like that in australia, only replace numetal with metalcore it's hell
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JohnnySmitch posted:I finally got around to building one of those SUPER HARD ON clones that everyone seemed to be going wild for forever ago in the thread - You can make other boosts, like the Stratoblaster/LPB-1 circuit, Beavis' Audio's Trotsky Drive, a killswitch, or a kickin rad can of beads
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ThePutty posted:replace numetal with metalcore I don't even want to know what the negligible difference is the names are stupid enough
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gnarlyhotep posted:I don't even want to know what the negligible difference is basically mix lovely thrash with numetal
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JohnnySmitch posted:I finally got around to building one of those SUPER HARD ON clones that everyone seemed to be going wild for forever ago in the thread - Put two together and make a Super-Duper 2-in-1.
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ThePutty posted:it's like that in australia, only replace numetal with metalcore metalcore isn't quite as common as that in perth but in guitarist fb groups every day there's people looking for band members and it's always "yeah we're a metal band influenced by [list of bands of which 80% are the same as all the previous posts]." Went to fix coil rub in my old australian 2x12, pulled out the working speaker for comparison and in the process a huge chunk of the speaker cone tore out. Pretty pissed at myself right now, patching it up with tissue paper and mod podge but I'm going to need to get a recone (they supposedly have alnico magnets and sound really really nice so if it's not more expensive than replacing them I'd rather do that).
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Sleepflower posted:I'm going to need to get a recone (they supposedly have alnico magnets and sound really really nice so if it's not more expensive than replacing them I'd rather do that).
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Dr. Faustus posted:Brevity: Good plan. dr. faustus: scroll past
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ThePutty posted:basically mix lovely thrash with numetal I now have chugga chuggas in my head, broken by harmonics on the guitar, and autotuned clean vocal parts. gently caress.
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fappenmeister posted:I now have chugga chuggas in my head, broken by harmonics on the guitar, and autotuned clean vocal parts. gently caress. i don't know if you've heard metalcore or not but this is absolutely 100% accurate, i'm not even kidding the only thing missing is the occasional lovely metal scream every now and again
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ThePutty posted:i don't know if you've heard metalcore or not but this is absolutely 100% accurate, i'm not even kidding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0
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Thanks, I needed to end the night with something truly abominable.
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