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LampkinsMateSteve posted:
Beautiful, I love Casinos - I used to own one and I’ve been thinking about it lately
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 Got a Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 yesterday. It's lovely. Here's a short clip of the first sounds it made: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvV3iVjlyuM/
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I'm building a fet-based JCM 800 2203 preamp and wanna have a built-in boost/overdrive. TS is the standard choice but I'd also consider various boosts... even a Rat. What would make a 2203 preamp pedal "complete" as far as making a fun little "chugga chugga" box? edit: crap this is perhaps posted to the wrong place. apologies.
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:So the MIJ Jaguar I posted last month didn't take. The money I would have needed to put into it to get it into playable shape made it a bum deal, and I just didn't care about it as much as I loved my MIM Jazzmaster. Update: had band practice for the first time this morning since I got the new JM. It's amazing through a tube amp!
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I'm building a fet-based JCM 800 2203 preamp and wanna have a built-in boost/overdrive. TS is the standard choice but I'd also consider various boosts... even a Rat. What would make a 2203 preamp pedal "complete" as far as making a fun little "chugga chugga" box? The BOSS distortion (or is it an overdrive?) is the one I associate with "the box I put in front of my JCM800." The RAT is great for this too, of course.
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Mar 24, 2019 04:46
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Dr. Faustus posted:I'll have to check with my buddy who has the real amp, but I think the preferred pedal is actually one of the BOSS distortion pedals. "The yellow one." sd-1 it's basically a tubsecreamer but with asymmetric instead of symmetric clipping. you can mod it into a ts808 with some component swaps and jumping one of the op amp diodes The Muppets On PCP fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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Mar 24, 2019 05:03
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Dr. Faustus posted:I'll have to check with my buddy who has the real amp, but I think the preferred pedal is actually one of the BOSS distortion pedals. "The yellow one." Of course people love to mod those as well. The TS is great but I stopped using it because I felt it killed the presence from my amps (Peavey Classic 50s, essentially) which is why I wouldn't necessarily recommend that one for a Marshall sound. Isn't RAT->JCM800 what all the thrash and death metal guys were doing in the 80s?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I'm building a fet-based JCM 800 2203 preamp and wanna have a built-in boost/overdrive. TS is the standard choice but I'd also consider various boosts... even a Rat. What would make a 2203 preamp pedal "complete" as far as making a fun little "chugga chugga" box? a switch to engage the boost and bypass the eq with a lowpass on the input to mimic rolling the guitar tone knob to zero for that celtic frost sound
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SuperiorToaster posted:
I have a large amount of envy. I remember when this first got prototyped and basically everyone was like "what the gently caress is this weird VHS hype video thing?" and the instrument itself was only weirder.
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Mar 24, 2019 05:18
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The Muppets On PCP posted:a switch to engage the boost and bypass the eq with a lowpass on the input to mimic rolling the guitar tone knob to zero for that celtic frost sound 
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Mar 24, 2019 08:53
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Hah yessss and label the switch “ooogh! Death grunt!”
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I'm building a fet-based JCM 800 2203 preamp and wanna have a built-in boost/overdrive. TS is the standard choice but I'd also consider various boosts... even a Rat. What would make a 2203 preamp pedal "complete" as far as making a fun little "chugga chugga" box? Distortion+ was my choice when I had a 2204.
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rickiep00h posted:I have a large amount of envy. I remember when this first got prototyped and basically everyone was like "what the gently caress is this weird VHS hype video thing?" and the instrument itself was only weirder. Definitely the most chaotic instrument I've ever played, but it actually isn't as difficult to tune as people make it out to be if you turn off all the modulation and study the structure a bit. SOMA / Vlad Kreimer has some really wild poo poo and his youtube channel makes you feel like you're high. I'm kinda lusting after his Ether radio receiver. I've also been watching videos on his new Pulsar-23 drum machine and the DVINA string instrument prototypes.
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Mar 25, 2019 00:12
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Van Dis posted:-fix the broken latch on my one hard bass case Checking this off the to-do list with a shiny new latch. Old and busted:  New hotness: 
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Mar 25, 2019 00:24
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poo poo, I did it again. I bought another Ibanez. They introduced a new RG that really ticks a lot of boxes for me. It's this guy, the Ibanez RG1070FMNTL. FMNTL meaning flame maple/natural finish. I was actually browsing the current line of Charvel/Dinky guitars because they look drat cool. Except I never found one with a finish I liked that also had the electronics and hardware that I want. The guitars that were H/S/H, which I love, had ugly paint jobs and vintage trems. The guitars that had nice finishes and pretty woods were H/H but had Floyd Rose trems. There was no instrument that had all the stuff I want at this $1K price point. Being real, I really want that Guthrie Govan model, but wow that's expensive. So I decided to look at what Ibanez was up to and found this model. Sweetwater had three of them and of the three this one had the best flame maple top. The others barely looked figured at all in the pictures. It has some really great features, so let me run down the stuff that I think is especially cool: Panga-panga fretboard with mother of pearl offset dot markers, stainless steel frets with rounded edge treatment, luminescent side markers, and the fretboard is bound with another wood binding. An 11-piece neck. Really. Look at it, it's gorgeous. Some of the features are familiar from the 1993 USA Custom that I shared before: FM top on a mahogany body, all-access neck joint, neck heel volute which I really like a lot, with top-mounted pickups and electronics so no pickguard over the figured top which is a very clean look. The pickup loadout is exactly what I wanted in my next "hot-rod" guitar. It's probably blase now but I have never had a Tonezone before. My late friend had almost nothing but Tonezones so I'm glad to finally be getting one. It also comes stock with the Dimarzio True Velvet which I already have and love, and an Air Norton in the neck position which I know I like. No need to swap out any pickups on this guy, and they are cream colored which looks great on that top as well. Gold hardware looks really nice on this particular guitar, including an original Edge trem. Gold dome knobs. Gotoh locking tuners. I mean, drat, it's like they read my mind. It reminds me of the JEM Woody model, but I like this guitar more. I have pictures from Sweetwater of the actual instrument but they are not the full-res beauty pics so I will have to take my own pics when it gets here. I'm very stoked, this guitar just has a laundry list of features that I really really love.         Yay it comes with a ... gig bag.  ...and I bought a cool tweed Fender cable and another new tripod stand. Today has been fun.
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Mar 26, 2019 00:51
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Faustus how many guitars do you own, and are any of them not RGs or JEMs?
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I just spent time playing the RGA61AL and it still own imo
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Gnumonic posted:Faustus how many guitars do you own, and are any of them not RGs or JEMs? Own a bunch of RGs and now people really need to know what's wrong with you that you own so many "identical" guitars. None of mine are identical, though. The electronics alone give them unique voices, and they each have their own character in the way they play and look. I just counted, because I have some instruments that I own but don't take out often and I was curious to know the actual tally myself. I have seven guitars that are the JEM/RG style. I have two T-types. I have one real Stratocaster and one home-built Strat-style. My starter guitar is a p.o.s. Kramer Striker. I have two basses, one hollow-body Fender jazz box that my dad gave me, a classical guitar which was a gift, and two acoustics: one Breedlove and a 1938 Martin Orchestra Model that my dad's dad bought from Mel Bay and played on the St. Louis club scene many decades ago. I need more guitars: I still don't have anything with P-90s so I need another guitar for that. I'd like to have a couple other flavors of Stratocaster. I wouldn't turn my nose up at a fun EVH style Charvel one-pickup rock machine. I *really* want a Robben Ford signature model Fender. I'd love to own a couple twelve-strings (one acoustic, one electric) as well one of those Fender bass VIs. I could rattle off about ten guitars that I don't have but I wish I did in addition to that, and that's without getting into the neater stuff like a Joe Satriani, or a Petrucci Music Man, or a Steinberger, or Reb Beach's Voyager guitar, and I could go on.
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Didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with having a bunch of Ibanez guitars. I kinda loathe those vintage Fender/Gibson cork sniffers. Yngwie has the right idea with his $500000 pile of vintage strats that he's scalloped. Well, actually, the one thing wrong with collecting Ibanez guitars is that they aren't Jacksons! I also own too many guitars to easily count, though most of them aren't as high end as yours. If I'm remembering everything right, I have: A MIJ Jackson DK2T, a MIJ Jackson RR-5, a USA GJ2 (Grover Jackson's post Jackson company, merged with Friedman) Glendora, two Warmoth parts strats (one scalloped), a Schecter Loomis 7-string, an Ibanez RT-150 (my favorite neck on any guitar), a pre-prestige MIJ RG570, a Yamaha Silent classical, and an Ibanez bass. Oh and I might still own an old Schecter C1 classic. Can't remember if it's somewhere in one of my parents' houses or if I sold it. I should track that down, I liked that guitar. Actually since the bass and the classical are new, I'll contribute. Here's a family photo of what I actually have on hand in my apartment, minus the RR-5 which is impossible to get on a stand or prop up: 
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Mar 26, 2019 04:28
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Guitar envy intensifying
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Neat!
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Dr. Faustus posted:I enjoyed this question because I've reached the point where I have lost track of exactly how many instruments I own so I get to stop and really take stock. But also because it seems that when it comes to guitars that aren't Fenders or Gibsons people act like it's weird to collect them. No one asks how many guitars do you own that aren't Stratocasters or Telecasters or Broadcasters or Les Pauls or Les Paul SGs, etc. If you own a garage full of old Les Pauls or 60's Strats there's no question at all about it. Those guitars are super desirable so of course you'd be thrilled to own "thirty guitars that are all identical." Lmao, this is very true in my experience, even though my days of hoarding are long past. Can you list your JEMs/RGs? I have two myself, both hardtail 421s, and I love them (gave up on floating trems 15 years ago).
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You hoity-toitys with your name-brand guitars... I got this pink beauty yesterday for all of $60 at an antique shop. Holds its tuning, reasonable intonation, action not crazy high. Came with a flimsy nylon case, spare strings in a ziploc bag, and a bonus hair elastic. I got it for travellin'. It has no branding on it, or any other markings whatsoever.
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I'm starting to get the itch to get myself another guitar and on one hand it's like "you have three, that should be more than enough" but at the same time, one's a $100 epiphone that I mostly use out of nostalgia (my first electric) and for the fact it's the only one I have with humbuckers), one's acoustic and the other's a telecaster. I can't see myself needing more than three more at the absolute "I won the lottery" limit - a twelve-string, a bass and maybe something nicer with humbuckers... Honestly, I'm tempted to get one of those ibanezes with the low meedly-meedly action because my hand strength sucks and my fingers are short and I'm tired of my hands just plain hurting when I play a lot. And no trem because restringing a floyd rose is literally the last thing I ever want to try again. And then I say to myself "what the gently caress is wrong with you, maybe buy a guitar after you write a song ever" Whoa yikes, this post got out of hand quick.
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I vacillate between "I am completely satisfied with my gear" and "ahhh gently caress I need [X] guitar RIGHT NOW." I bought 4 guitars between 99 and 06 and then went ten years without buying or selling anything, until 2017-18 when I bought/built 5 new instruments. It's stupid because 100% of my playing is at home. I could sell everything but my LP Studio and be fine, but I enjoy the variety. Picking up each one brings out a different mood and different music. If I had $5,000 to blow on guitars, I'd rather buy ten wildly different mid-range guitars than a single vintage Strat or whatever.
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I have four guitars that I use for 3 bands that require to be in standard tuning (2 in EADGBE, 1 in BEADGBE and 1 in F#BEADGBE). The rest of my guitars are in a hodge-podge of tunings that come and go because hot diggity, playing standard tuning doesn't always do it for me. Thanks to Devin Townsend, though, as of recently I've gotten to appreciate how convenient for composing Open Tunings are. Having the Digitech Drop working on it also does wonders for variety.
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Lester Shy posted:If I had $5,000 to blow on guitars, I'd rather buy ten wildly different mid-range guitars than a single vintage Strat or whatever.  .Variety is the spice of life, compadre. 
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Honestly I don't think anyone's that deep into the rabbit hole until you start hiding a dozen of them around the home. Under beds, closets, behind couches, in the pantry, etc. Wherever they fit and don't create Malmsteen-style piles. I may have a problem.
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Problem is once you have over a dozen guitars + basses, that you all got for specific tunings/tones/feels, it becomes hard as hell to pare down. It's like, "I could sell an 8 string, I have 5... but one's an active pickup semi-custom with super low action, one is a 30" scale single pickup djentmachine, ones a multiscale, ones a 3 pickup custom with a mid singlecoil, and one's a 28" DA8-equipped modern metal rocker". If I did have to keep only one, it would be the Oakland Axe Factory tho. Besides being a wonderful guitar, it helps me forget about losing 2 grand to the Bernie Rico Jr "Black Friday" scam, lol. Still bitter about that after what, 9 years now? gently caress that guy so hard.
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Dr. Faustus posted:I still don't have anything with P-90s A reply in three acts:   
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I realized recently that I don’t think I actually like P-90s. If I sell my Casino I’ll probably never buy a guitar with them again.
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Picked up a new pedal today: Devi Ever Shoegazer fuzz. This pedal is an absolute BEAST. I've dialed in the left side (torns peaker) to closely emulate a big muff, while the right side (the soda meiser) just drives the amp to make the fuzz take on a digital sounding grit that's just freaking awesome. This thing rips! 
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Hell yeah Faustus. The first thing I thought when I saw your new guitar was “hey that looks a lot like the Guthrie signature Charvel but probably just as well-made and a lot more affordable” lol. If that thing didn’t have the offset inlays, I’d have half a mind to pick one up myself. No disrespect to the guitar of course, it looks fantastic.
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:It's here, and it's phenomenal. I didn't think it would sound so different, but this body is so much more resonant than my MIM Jazzmaster. The 9.5 radius is so much more playable, and I love the modern C neck. Say hello to the finest thing I've ever owned. That is a super super pretty guitar.
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Gnumonic posted:Didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with having a bunch of Ibanez guitars. I kinda loathe those vintage Fender/Gibson cork sniffers. Yngwie has the right idea with his $500000 pile of vintage strats that he's scalloped. Well, actually, the one thing wrong with collecting Ibanez guitars is that they aren't Jacksons! Van Dis posted:Lmao, this is very true in my experience, even though my days of hoarding are long past. Can you list your JEMs/RGs? I have two myself, both hardtail 421s, and I love them (gave up on floating trems 15 years ago). GreatGreen posted:Hell yeah Faustus. It really does remind me of the Woody JEM (my buddy bought one and it's very nice, except I hate those gears on the pickup covers) and I can't wait to take a shitload of pictures to share. I just hope it's a keeper. Also I believe the Ibanez logo on the headstock is "luminescent" like the side-markers on the fretboard. Is it just some sort of radium paint or how else does that work? Dang It Bhabhi! posted:A reply in three acts: Kilometers Davis posted:I realized recently that I don’t think I actually like P-90s. If I sell my Casino I’ll probably never buy a guitar with them again.
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et tu, kilometers?? 
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Betrayal of the highest caliber! 
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I am sorry 
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New Guitar Day Part 1 'merica Glen Burton LP copy, set neck, arched top, with the flag, for $82. Corny and tacky, but c'mon, it was dirt cheap. Has some dings and paint cracks, but is solid and doesn't play bad. NGD Part 2  Harmony Strat copy, made by Samick in 1985. Gold hardware, bullet truss rod, a whole lotta dirt, and a kickass Chuck Taylor sticker that I will try to preserve when I clean it up.  
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