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Chrpno posted:I fixed the SG I'm kinda drawing a blank on what happened here. Somebody tried to put in a Strat pickup in the laziest and least effective way possible?
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Anime Reference posted:I'm kinda drawing a blank on what happened here. Somebody tried to put in a Strat pickup in the laziest and least effective way possible? I took the pickups out and pickguard off, got a mystery single coil from the bottom of the pickup box and stuck it in with wood screws. Problem?
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Chrpno posted:I took the pickups out and pickguard off, got a mystery single coil from the bottom of the pickup box and stuck it in with wood screws. Problem? Tune it down to A# and play sludge with it
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Spanish Manlove posted:Tune it down to A# and play sludge with it
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Spanish Manlove posted:Tune it down to A# and play sludge with it At least with the pickup that far away you won't have to worry about magnetic drag sucking away your sustain.
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Anime Reference posted:At least with the pickup that far away you won't have to worry about magnetic drag sucking away your sustain. Is this a real thing? Because intuitively it sounds like it might be a real issue, but I'm so used to hearing guitar tone bullshit that I'm sceptical.
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sout posted:Is this a real thing? Because intuitively it sounds like it might be a real issue, but I'm so used to hearing guitar tone bullshit that I'm sceptical. it is but the effect isn't as drastic as some make it out to be
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sout posted:Is this a real thing? Because intuitively it sounds like it might be a real issue, but I'm so used to hearing guitar tone bullshit that I'm sceptical. It's widely accepted as a real thing, although I've never seen it objectively proven.
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It's probably measurable but only with really high precision instruments, not ears.
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 I love Bruce Egnater but I didn't know Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper were known for their guitar tones. Maybe they meant Ron Asheton and Bob Kulick? Hi, I'm a pedant.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:
It's an important distinction and popular music (and...all other music in the Western tradition?) has a proud history of shafting the actual performers in whatever way humanly possible and it's horrible and fight against it at all opportunities
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Aug 29, 2017 02:25
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Well I think "egnater" is a stupid name for a product, especially a kickass guitar amp, what is it an egg?
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Chrpno posted:Well I think "egnater" is a stupid name for a product, especially a kickass guitar amp, what is it an egg? lol edit: lol I completely blew past Bruce's love for the Motor City Madman. <3
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Chrpno posted:Well I think "egnater" is a stupid name for a product, especially a kickass guitar amp, what is it an egg? You're totally right. A lot of amp builders can't get past their own egos enough to give cool sounding names to their gear. The biggest example I think was back when the company formerly known as VHT's owner renamed the company to his own last name, "Fryette." They went from building amps that looked mean and goddamn spectacular just from the logo alone to slapping a giant logo on their stuff that evokes nothing but images of an effeminate frenchman. The company went from making monsters like this:  To this: 
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Aug 29, 2017 05:43
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It's more a case of they are engineers who would rather spend time making poo poo than dreaming up badass names. I don't know who the gently caress Fryette is but I guarantee Bruce was like "Egnater's good enough now back to tweaking this circuit."
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so the retrogaming thread tipped me off that there's a marathon of the early 80s video game game show starcade on twitch and watching it produced some great stupid music poo poo like this portable record player the size of a man's shoe  this keyboard that is also a calculator  and this less-than-optimal ad for a limo service that I don't have a better thread to post in 
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I don't mind the emgs but LPs with trems ewwwwwww
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Kilometers Davis posted:I don't mind the emgs but LPs with trems ewwwwwww how do they get it high enough? must be a mile off the body
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GreatGreen posted:
Okay Fryette is not a great name for an amp but it could be much worse: https://wangs-amps-usa.myshopify.com/collections/amps
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Actuary X posted:Okay Fryette is not a great name for an amp but it could be much worse: that first one is a pretty tiny wang
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Chrpno posted:how do they get it high enough? must be a mile off the body Floyd's don't really have a break angle and are routed into the body anyway so shouldn't be an issue. I've got an LP with a maestro vibrola that's got a slight route towards the tailpiece to accommodate and the angle is fine for sustain and tuning (or as fine as a vibrola is ever gonna be). Allen Wren posted:this keyboard that is also a calculator The venerable VL1! Made it on to a lot of records amazingly. I like the early Casio stuff in a cheesy way - I have one of the Casiotone 101s which is an incredibly basic analog synth with the all important 'Frog' preset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqk0jwNs2Ew
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GreatGreen posted:You're totally right. A lot of amp builders can't get past their own egos enough to give cool sounding names to their gear. The biggest example I think was back when the company formerly known as VHT's owner renamed the company to his own last name, "Fryette." They went from building amps that looked mean and goddamn spectacular just from the logo alone to slapping a giant logo on their stuff that evokes nothing but images of an effeminate frenchman. pretty sure it's more that it's fairly common bordering on convention to just name your company after yourself e.g. jim marshall, leo fender, hartley peavey, randy mesa/boogie, etc Kilometers Davis posted:I don't mind the emgs but LPs with trems ewwwwwww nah they're cool 
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darkwasthenight posted:
It's on this song too.... until they get told to "turn that bloody blimey space invader off!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XvdgeXuyPs
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Not forgetting Reginald Orange and Jeff Diezel.
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NonzeroCircle posted:Not forgetting Reginald Orange and Jeff Diezel. peter diezel is a real guy mike engl on the other hand...
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It'd be remiss not to include M. Pignose in our list of high quality amplification builders.
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Ok any time Pignose gets mentioned I will always follow it by saying the Pignose circuit is one of the best ever ok bye.
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butros posted:It'd be remiss not to include M. Pignose in our list of high quality amplification builders.
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Me: gently caress gibson, les pauls are badly designed clunky 12 lb boat anchors with poo poo playability Gibson:  Me: 
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Actuary X posted:Okay Fryette is not a great name for an amp but it could be much worse: I still think "tone fanciers" is the perfect gang tag for this thread
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never would've guessed lena dunham was a bc rich owner or a tone fancier
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When you bought an 18 string but the only song you know is Basket Case by Green Day
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That kid probably plays some face-melting Boris covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_5MEME6UU
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Allen Wren posted:this keyboard that is also a calculator Either way, I had one, and for all I know it's still in my parents' attic. It did stuff.
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GreatGreen posted:VHT's owner renamed the company to his own last name, "Fryette." They went from building amps that looked mean and goddamn spectacular just from the logo alone to slapping a giant logo on their stuff that evokes nothing but images of an effeminate frenchman. It's a dumb rebranding move, but i feel like this kinda says more about you than anyone else.
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Wasn't the deal with VHT/Fryette that he had financial troubles, put the VHT name up for cash and then couldn't pay it off and therefore lost the VHT brand name? I think I recall that happening. Can't really blame a guy for a new name when he lost the rights to the old one.
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