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BigHustle posted:TL;DR: I bought a combo amp designed to play stadium sized venues without being miked through a PA to play the practice space and clubs the size of a broom closet. Dude, this story has more touching details in it than I can count. Please post a follow-up after you've spent more time with it. Great story. White Dog Eggs posted:Don't polish frets with wire wool without putting masking tape over the pickups. quote:Plug that fucker in and TESTIFY!!!!! Yessssss. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:Dude, this story has more touching details in it than I can count. It's not that 0000 steel wool won't work, it works fine, but that poo poo gets EVERYWHERE. I'll use it in a pinch but I try to use 2000 grit paper which is a kind of a pain for me to get sometimes so occasionally I have to use steel wool. When I'm done I take a magnet to my workbench otherwise I get that poo poo stuck to the pickups of every other I work on for a month.
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Snowy posted:
BigHustle posted:TL;DR: I bought a combo amp designed to play stadium sized venues without being miked through a PA to play the practice space and clubs the size of a broom closet. There's overkill, and then there's cutting your steak with a chainsaw.
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Mar 13, 2015 12:22
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I play our practice space (see my house) with a v4 (105w) and a custom sunn/v4 (120w) going through a biamped 412. It's stupid really.
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Mar 13, 2015 13:29
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Sounds much like the 70s Music Man HD 212 that I have.
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Mar 13, 2015 13:29
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Planet X posted:Sounds much like the 70s Music Man HD 212 that I have. When the preamp transistors in the MM die it sounds like a swarm of angry bees. Shouldn't have sold mine. 
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Mar 13, 2015 14:50
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fyodor posted:sounds like a swarm of angry bees. so it sounds like a crass album?
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Mar 13, 2015 16:12
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Dr. Faustus posted:Dude, this story has more touching details in it than I can count. My Facebook post was more gushy. That was my first amp, brought back into my hands after ~23 years. Not the same model, the exact same amp. It looks like I may have just worked out a deal for a set of Black Widows for it. The speakers in it now are not stock. The Black Widows are the normal stock speakers for that amp, and will make it even louder as well as add about another 8 pounds to it. It's roughly 70 pounds as it is. Planet X posted:Sounds much like the 70s Music Man HD 212 that I have. Pretty much the same concept. Stupidly loud, heavy as poo poo, two 12" speakers.
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Mar 13, 2015 16:28
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My uncle's one of those country guys who had a Peavey Mace and holy gently caress that thing is loud.
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Mar 13, 2015 17:08
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I jammed for years with a guy who played lovely distortion pedals into a Renown 400. It was a fight every time to get him to point that loving thing away from me. I mean, Jesus Christ. I loving hated that amp. I just remembered his first distortion pedal. It was an Arion and I've never heard anything worse, at any volume. Then he moved on to a Boss Digital Metalizer, with the doubler/chorus setting turned way up. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 19:47
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Dr. Faustus posted:I jammed for years with a guy who played lovely distortion pedals into a Renown 400. It was a fight every time to get him to point that loving thing away from me. I want to fight this guy
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TheChaosPath posted:I want to start a band with this guy e: gently caress look at the heatsink on that thing  my first big boy combo was a 160w special 112 boat anchor and i swear half that thing's weight was in the heatsink Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 22:27
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BigHustle posted:TL;DR: I bought a combo amp designed to play stadium sized venues without being miked through a PA to play the practice space and clubs the size of a broom closet. Smash it Smash hit posted:I play our practice space (see my house) with a v4 (105w) and a custom sunn/v4 (120w) going through a biamped 412. It's stupid really. Ages ago when I was in a dumb teenage garage band we had 2 120w guitar amps and a 100w bass amp, all turned up most of the way, just to be able to hear ourselves over the drummer. The guy insisted on being as loud as possible and our only option (we couldn't kick him out, it was his garage) was to try to overpower him. I'm assuming now that this is one of the causes of my tinnitus.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:37
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The best screws for levering out bridge studs are those short ones you get with electrical socket faceplates. They're the perfect size. Just drop them in head down.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI Chet Atkins is better than your favorite guitar player. Fact. Actual content: Gibson does kind of suck;     I'd play the poo poo out of those reverse V's though. Dirt fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 04:02
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Dirt posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPkQn5nDTZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQhECkexmSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9Oy06IHXc Chet ApprovedTM Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 05:24
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Dr. Faustus posted:Unless your favorite guitar player guitar is Chet Atkins-Certified Guitar Player Tommy Emmanuel: Ohhh man. Well played. Chet is the man though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J73TLFheyAQ Chet is why I own thumb picks. Dirt fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 05:28
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Can we agree to agree? 
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Dirt posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI 1.) Chet Atkins is incredible. Gretsch guitars are pretty awesome as well. 2.) Nothing says class than a poorly done drunk looking woman on your guitar.
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Dirt posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE 1:13 quote:i want this but with delta burke
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTVLIZaxMk Mark Knopler's face at 1:35 ish e: i've seen this video at work so many times just for that loving face he makes Weird BIAS fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 06:51
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I've been mining YouTube and this stuff is just heart-melting. It's beautiful. Chet and Tommy play "To B or Not To B" together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sn6k1MF868 Chet presents Tommy the C.G.P. award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OZfS2G2Xzg Tommy shows his Chet sweep-pick influence, too (about 2:08-ish); but he throws in all this percussive stuff (reminds me of Michael Hedges a little bit) where he plays guitar with his left hand and uses his right only for percussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GARRVAs6vRs I'd love it if we could do a little Michael Hedges tribute next. Chet is clearly the innovator and Tommy the student. Michael and some other more New-Agey dudes did some crazy poo poo, too. I'll start with mentioning really out-there tunings, percussion, and of course, harp guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3439l4HR0&t=106s This is neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnm__lNNUg&t=89s Found this crazy two hour link to his last full show, where most of this probably came from?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4AysS-WN0A Anyone else enjoyed Michael? I loved The Funky Avacado and his take on Sheila E, The Beatles, and Dylan; not to mention the amazing two trans-trem tracks he did on his studio album "Taproot." (Point A and Point B) but my favorite track is called "Scenes (on the road to Shrub)" which had this incredible beat in the middle. O, and his musical adaptation of e.e. cummings' "i carry your heart" with David Crosby and Graham Nash on vocals with him is goddamn gorgeous. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 07:39
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Dirt posted:
all of gibson's "future guitars" are pretty bad but this is a new level
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shiksa posted:all of gibson's "future guitars" are pretty bad but this is a new level Even worse is that for stores to have Gibson inventory, it's often part of the deal they have to take things like this with inventory. The local mom and pop shop says he couldn't afford half the hangers in his store to be Gibson products like the deal required, but also the inventory they pushed you to take with the "good guitars" was new level retarded. His friend that runs a different store clears out the oddball stuff immediately for $20 over cost as to not sit on them.
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I'm really curious to see what the actual sales of new Gibsons are like - I get the feeling that they're struggling big time kinda like Harley Davidson pushing everything on their retailers.
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can you please stop ruining the thread with acoustic wank
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sorry not sorry, totally would how much are they asking for this absurd thing?
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comes along bort posted:e: gently caress look at the heatsink on that thing I had one of these for like a decade and almost never used it, I just lugged it around apartment to apartment like some sort of cursed burden. I finally tried to sell it and couldn't find a buyer, went to trade it and they wouldn't take it, I left it in the parking lot of a guitar center and left watching someone trying to lift it into their car.
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The Stroker Ace posted:I had one of these for like a decade and almost never used it, I just lugged it around apartment to apartment like some sort of cursed burden. I finally tried to sell it and couldn't find a buyer, went to trade it and they wouldn't take it, I left it in the parking lot of a guitar center and left watching someone trying to lift it into their car. Jerry Steinfeld posted:can you please stop ruining the thread with acoustic wank
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Dewgy posted:sorry not sorry, totally would $2,775, limited edition run of 350 back in 2009. http://www.gizmag.com/less-is-more-expensive-gibsons-holy-explorer/11081/
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O wow, this is gorgeous even without all the production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QCz6K2F6w I wish I could write songs like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNMUdV5IzAc Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Jerry Steinfeld posted:can you please stop ruining the thread with acoustic wank you clearly don't understand the technical prowess of my favourite easy listening guitarist
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ThePutty posted:you clearly don't understand the technical prowess of my favourite easy listening guitarist It's a very different thing to be easy to perform that piece. As usual you grab the low-hanging fruit to attack but you miss the entire point. There's a reason for this, but....
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BigHustle posted:$2,775, limited edition run of 350 back in 2009. 
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Lifehack: Never play organ for a band. Not only are my boards all heavy as poo poo but club monitors universally suck so I have to carry an amp rig to be able to hear myself onstage and it's all so loving expensive. I'm used to paying for guitar poo poo but a couple of hundred will get you a usable rig. With keys I'm looking at a hundred for a loving metal stand that if I'm lucky won't collapse straight away, and either a few hundred minimum on a busted up clonewheel or ten grand on a vintage Hammond/Nord. Then if a single osc chip happens to blow in my busted rear end organ I'm probably hosed, I'll either have to buy a second board for salvaging or just scrap the thing and buy a new one. I love the instrument but loving hell.
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darkwasthenight posted:Lifehack: Never play organ for a band. Thanks, that's not as helpful as using a water bottle to separate egg yolks, but thanks.
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darkwasthenight posted:Lifehack: Never play organ for a band. My old band's keyboardist had his lovely stand collapse under a M1 and a Korg Delta (both heavy as poo poo) at a gig. He flipped out and started ripping keys off of the M1 and managed to cut open his hand in the process. It was p cool.
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Hollis Brownsound posted:Thanks, that's not as helpful as using a water bottle to separate egg yolks, but thanks.
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Bought babbys first pedal today, an SD-1. Also saw the new JEM reissue, looks mighty fine.
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Hollis Brownsound posted:Thanks, that's not as helpful as using a water bottle to separate egg yolks, but thanks. Np mate, good luck with it. SaNChEzZ posted:Bought babbys first pedal today, an SD-1. Also saw the new JEM reissue, looks mighty fine. I have an SD-1 that looks like it came off the ark with Noah, they can take a lot of punishment. Prefer the BD-2 these days but nothing wrong with either of them as a boost, with the added bonus of being able to buy a replacement in any store in the country if you somehow manage to kill it. Which you won't without using water or heavy firepower. darkwasthenight fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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