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Kilometers Davis posted:Nice! I'm always bummed when I see that kind of setup because I haven't been into sludge/doom for a while now. The gear is so fun and satisfying to slam into my Orange by way of downtuned SG but that's just not my thing right now. Because I'm lame and bad. You just need a new and exciting take on it. Like my 808 and B3 organ doom and sludge guitar "band." We are fresh and exciting.
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Dr. Faustus posted:My stable suffers from a complete lack of G&L guitars. I played a G&L Strat-style many years ago. I don't know the model, but it may be the nicest sounding "Strat" I've ever played. One of the best-looking, too. G&L is so cool to me I want all of them. Marissa Paternoster's Strat is my favs by far. <3 
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May 11, 2017 22:26
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:You just need a new and exciting take on it. Like my 808 and B3 organ doom and sludge guitar "band." We are fresh and exciting. Tell me you listen to Death Organ. Because they do cool poo poo like that, albeit more organ-focused.
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May 11, 2017 22:57
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G&L has also been a brand I appreciate but haven't had the chance to play myself. I agree that a G&L Strat would be killer. I considered one of the cheaper ones before I went with my CV60s. Could've been nice. Dang It Bhabhi! posted:You just need a new and exciting take on it. Like my 808 and B3 organ doom and sludge guitar "band." We are fresh and exciting. That's hosed up and sounds like the best thing.
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May 11, 2017 22:58
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Dr. Faustus posted:My stable suffers from a complete lack of G&L guitars. I played a G&L Strat-style many years ago. I don't know the model, but it may be the nicest sounding "Strat" I've ever played. One of the best-looking, too. They pretty much have three strat sort of things, the Legacy (very standard, I have a Tribute series one, my first electric guitar! from the South Korean factory days. I have Sinners in it.), the S-500 (still pretty standard but with ceramic pickups with funky pole pieces instead of alnico. Somehow I think it usually comes with a little toggle to pair the neck and bridge pickups when it's on?) and the Comanche (3 z-shape split-coil single coils, same sort of ceramic/funky pole piece deal as the S-500 I believe). I think they all use the PTB thing that is volume/bass rolloff/treble rolloff, and they're pretty much all made with care.
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May 11, 2017 23:02
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Dr. Faustus posted:Man, that bass is gorgeous. I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure it's the least-pretty bass in my stable (except for my upright, which is pretty bland). It's hard to compete with spalted and burled tops when it comes to looks.  In terms of replacing bass pickups, you really can't go wrong with Nordstrand. Both of my other basses are loaded with Nords (Big Splits and a MM) and they're great.
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May 11, 2017 23:58
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No it's the prettiest bass you have. Edit: I'm mostly joking, personally I've never liked "modern" looking basses but to each their own. I hope you make pretty music out of all of them.
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Dr. Faustus posted:I played a G&L Strat-style many years ago. I don't know the model
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The Science Goy posted:I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure it's the least-pretty bass in my stable (except for my upright, which is pretty bland). It's hard to compete with spalted and burled tops when it comes to looks. Hey, what's the deal with the bass on the right? I see a lot of bases like that nowadays where the top horn extends way out and merges with the neck the whole way across. Is that just an aesthetic thing or is it supposed to help with resonance or what?
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Haha I though thought the same thing - your new bass is the prettiest. I am not that old school with guitar and bass design but I really don't like the lopsided electric bass look that so many brands and builders seem to be adopting. Just my preference though. A G&L guitar and/or bass or four are on my long term instrument wish list. A friend has one and it plays like butter and sounds really good.
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GreatGreen posted:Hey, what's the deal with the bass on the right? I think it's supposed to add rigidity to the neck.
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How does that affect the truss rod? Do that have to have a shorter rod in it to avoid bending the neck where it is connected to the body?
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It's called a single cut, instead of a more traditional double cut where the upper bout has more material removed by the fretboard. The neck joins with the body in the same manner as a double cut bass - there's just no gap between the neck and the upper bout. The trussrod is the same as any other bass.  It balances and plays just like any other bass - maybe even better balanced, since the strap on the upper bout is located close to the neck, there is absolutely no neck dive. It's super comfortable to play standing, or sitting on the thigh.
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gently caress you Lavacables! gently caress you hard! I ordered a 10 stage looper for my studio pedal board. If I was using this poo poo live, I wouldn't care, but I do have a BK Butler Tube Drive, a Boss CE-1 and a Deluxe Electric Mistress and they all colour the sound a fair bit (The Butler drive is pretty deadly to your top end and the CE1 Preamp in particular are pretty bad. I love the pedals, but I do want them "OFF") so for recording purposes, I'd prefer things to be as clean as possible. There's another reason why a looper is useful for my setup, but eh...later. Once I get it up and running. Because of the looper and the way I'm arranging my pedals, I needed longer patch cables than standard. I also needed pancake jacks on one end and a straight (no pancake, no bend) jack on the other. I was super specific about this when I made the order and the guy I was talking to confirmed that's what I would be getting when I made the order. Long story short? NOPE. Bastards sent me about 20 cables of Pancake -> Pancake jacks. IT DON'T WORK NOW DOES IT? Now I need to send them back to America from Australia and wait around again for them to send them back NOT hosed up this time and gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. loving pain in the rear end. Especially considering I was so specific when I ordered the cables in the first place.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Hmm wonder how you'll like them versus the vintage 30s. I don't think I'll be able to a/b the two speakers in person any time soon, but I did check out a bunch of comparison videos on youtube. I don't mind the more "scooped" sound of the GT12Ts. I've also read that they are more suited to use in live performance, which is pretty much what I bought the cab for. I finally got to use it at band practice yesterday and my guitar really cuts through everything now. 
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May 12, 2017 23:05
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:You just need a new and exciting take on it. Like my 808 and B3 organ doom and sludge guitar "band." We are fresh and exciting. Already quoted this once but maaan your initial post made me miss dooooom more than I expected and I'm itching to drop a guitar down to A or B and play around for a while now. It's been a while. I've been fully into shreddy fusion stuff lately but maybe it's time to go full caveman.
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May 13, 2017 01:37
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I picked up this thing.
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Killbot posted:I picked up this thing. How is it?
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Kilometers Davis posted:Already quoted this once but maaan your initial post made me miss dooooom more than I expected and I'm itching to drop a guitar down to A or B and play around for a while now. It's been a while. I've been fully into shreddy fusion stuff lately but maybe it's time to go full caveman. ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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A quick and dirty thing to think about is just dropping your E down to an A and tuning to AADGBe a la Melvins in Dog Island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gpvdlY7Kyw Super easy to get in and out of and sounds nice and heavy.
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butros posted:A quick and dirty thing to think about is just dropping your E down to an A and tuning to AADGBe a la Melvins in Dog Island. God, I love that two-drummer era. Wish I'd been able to see that a few more times. Faustus, I think you may have convinced me. I was enough into an ART Pro Studio 215 to be outbid on one yesterday, because I liked the idea of having preamp, compressor, and EQ in a single unit, but if that impedance control facilitates my descent into microphone insanity, I'm all about it. It's not like there aren't a ton of the Great Compressor units to be had for cheap, anyway. Plus, your sample and everything I'm reading about mid/side is giving me funny pants-feelings.
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Sterling St. Vincent signature guitar for $489 shipped. Someone please convince me not to impulse buy it. Edit: It's gone now, thankfully. I hope one of you nabbed it. Know Such Peace fucked around with this message at 22:00 on May 13, 2017 |
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Tatumje posted:Sterling St. Vincent signature guitar for $489 shipped. Someone please convince me not to impulse buy it. Ha yea no can do bro. That thing rules.
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After The War posted:Faustus, I think you may have convinced me. I was enough into an ART Pro Studio 215 to be outbid on one yesterday, because I liked the idea of having preamp, compressor, and EQ in a single unit, but if that impedance control facilitates my descent into microphone insanity, I'm all about it. It's not like there aren't a ton of the Great Compressor units to be had for cheap, anyway. On a friend's recommendation I avoided the use of any EQ (except what's on the amp), I performed no file normalization. The clean part in the beginning is only the amp, the guitar, the two mics and pre-amp as previously shown, with a master limiter on the master bus in Reaper. No effects or plugins. I left in some string noise so you can hear the dynamics and brightness of the amp with those fresh strings on the guitar. I want to comment on the annoying growly/splatty way the amp responds to heavy-handed clean playing. I don't like it at all. It sounds like a lack of headroom, or some kind of clipping in the signal chain, or a speaker hitting excursion or something like that. I've ruled out any clipping, I've ruled out everything outside the amp itself, but I never thought to disengage the "fat" switch, so maybe that's the cause. Tomorrow when I can get loud again I'll turn the fat circuit off and see what kind of difference it makes to the low transients, if any. Otherwise, we'll hear what the BillM Audio mods do to the low-end when the amp is modded. For the clean Van Halen section of the recording, there's a tc electronic Flashback X4 delay in front of the amp with a modulation delay. I think it was the "Space" setting but it may have been "2290 W/MOD." I saved the preset and then played with the knobs afterwards so I can't remember exactly what I stored in the preset's memory. Considering that's straight into the input of the amp I'm pretty blown away with the delay. I also double-tracked it, because that's what Eddie said he did in the studio (he claims he used a parts Strat and doubled it for the chorus-y sound in an interview about the record.) That section also got a reverb on it in Reaper to fill it out a little, but I did not use any other compression or normalization. The double-tracking really brought the tapping part out. I was previously considering using compression after the mic pre-amp since the clean channel has so much dynamic range, but decided to leave that alone. I am convinced that all you are hearing is what the mics are sending through the pre-amp to Reaper. 
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! I've been listening to Yob pretty much all day while the rain and thunder has been coming down. Doom mood is in full effect.
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Just re-recorded the same stuff with the "fat" circuit disengaged. The same "splatty" sound is still there. It's not even diminished or attenuated, it's apparently just the way the stock amp sounds. Gonna move on (Hey!) to the distorted stuff so I can mod this thing and see what changes. Who knows, maybe it's the Jensen speaker. I can change that, too.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Just re-recorded the same stuff with the "fat" circuit disengaged. The same "splatty" sound is still there. It's not even diminished or attenuated, it's apparently just the way the stock amp sounds. Gonna move on (Hey!) to the distorted stuff so I can mod this thing and see what changes. I remember Wampler saying he HAD to replace the stock speaker and that it made the biggest overall difference in the Blues Jr.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I remember Wampler saying he HAD to replace the stock speaker and that it made the biggest overall difference in the Blues Jr. Nah man, this is good to know. I have most of the dirty demo recorded, so the mods can begin very soon. There are so many speakers for this amp, I'm leaning towards the Celestion Heritage G12H. Mods first, though.
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 Always meant to pick one up, found it very cheap on eBay. I think it's silly that the Push 2 has no crossfader so this thing will be the 'mixer' in my Live performances, one day.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I remember Wampler saying he HAD to replace the stock speaker and that it made the biggest overall difference in the Blues Jr. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/G12H-HER558 Bill Machrone wrote an exhaustive report on replacement speakers for the Blues Jr., and here are his thoughts on the Celestion options: quote:Celestion Greenback I hope I made the right choice. I just upped the cost of this amp by $200. lol God help me if I slip and destroy something during the modding process. Anyway, here's how the amp sounds, stock (if I recorded it correctly, which I don't know for certain). Caveats: This is the stock amp and I expect it to be harsh like a Fender with the gain up. I can't wait to see how it comes out after modding.  Here's the stock pic: 
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Since I was only borrowing the 6505 from the previous picture of my cabinet, I had to actually go buy a head of my own. I found this used for a pretty reasonable price: I think I'm done buying gear for a while. Well, maybe after I buy a tube screamer...
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Gorewar posted:Since I was only borrowing the 6505 from the previous picture of my cabinet, I had to actually go buy a head of my own. I found this used for a pretty reasonable price: Definitely get the tube screamer. Rectos have a lot of gain but not a lot of bite or definition on their own. The tube screamer will fix that in a hurry.
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My $200 gibson lp studio needed a marshall. A proper marshall with tubes. But for not much money. Found a guy selling a DSL5C, in good condition, with the footswitch for $250:  Very pleased with this budget combo. Good for my apartment situation, have it set to 1 watt. Gonna add a reverb pedal to this bitch.
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Gorewar posted:I've got the rig fully assembled now!
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I bought a guitar, a Classic Player '50s Strat, because it has an amazing neck and hardware and I found a used one at a great price.  However, I definitely don't like sunburst finishes, so then I also bought this today (already have a buyer for the original body):  And the whole reason I bought a second strat is because I played an old Strat Plus from the 90s lately and I absolutely adored the gold Lace Sensor pickups it had, so finally I also ordered these:  Hopefully I'll have it all put together by mid next week
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loving $200 for one speaker. I hope it sounds like $200 worth of speaker! Well, the amp surgery is about to get real:   I wish I could afford to buy that sunburst body off you. No can do, I'm way into this amp project. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 05:34 on May 20, 2017 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:Yeah, I broke down and bought this: I thought I told you about the Wampler thing a while ago sorry bud.  You have made the correct choice on speaker, I think. Can't wait to hear it.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I thought I told you about the Wampler thing a while ago sorry bud. You did tell me about the Wampler thing and I read it and considered it and ... then other friends piled on and I caved. The thing is, I watched this awhile ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRk9mPJ_58 And I heard him say, "quite dramatically!" and I didn't hear dramatic anything. I do hope that I picked the right speaker and you do deserve the credit (along with a buddy of mine) for my decision to go crazy and buy the Celestion. I'd never ignore you, DiB. Stand by for updates. At this point it's all work. Edit: I watched the wrong video and I deserve to be chastised. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 08:28 on May 20, 2017 |
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