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Concatenation posted:yeah this thread has a constant problem with understanding how much it costs to build anyhthing if you're not, like, owned by roland corp or whatever. chase bliss makes some pretty groundbreaking stuff and they're still a pretyt small operation  I wish I could even slightly wrap my head around what goes on at Chase Bliss. Someday I’ll definitely take the plunge and grab one.
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Philthy posted:Almost the standard cost for pedals these days that aren't from Aliexpress. I usually look at things like Boss and Electro Harmonix and those prices are pretty reasonable still. A hiundred bucks or so for a tremolo, compressor, chorus, overdrive/dist, fuzz, all of the basics. But sure, once you go with the hipster bullshit brands the prices start creeping up. If the pedal looks like a beat up unfinished metal chassis with sloppy hand writing on it watch the gently caress out.
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Boss and Electro-Harmonix aren't literally one dude in a shed.
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Siivola posted:Boss and Electro-Harmonix aren't literally one dude in a shed. also: https://reverb.com/ca/marketplace?query=boss+waza https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=electro%20harmonix%20organ turns out electrical engineering, production engineering, and DSP programming are time-comsuming and thus expensive when you will sell maybe a couple hundred pedals a year.
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Inherent mojo: https://reverb.com/item/30764535-1972-gibson-es-335-walnut-with-ohsc-free-shipping I'm 100% in favor of making your guitar into a ridiculous eyesore but make it your own ridiculous eyesore, don't buy somebody else's.
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Wark Say posted:Tone Sparkle? Yes please
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The basket case BC Rich Warlock bass I refinished had those nail in pyramid studs all around the bevels. I pulled them out and filled them before painting it. It also came with a CD of some dude I never heard of that said he used to play with Marilyn Manson.
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I though those were push pins at first. Didn't realize it was bedazzled. Though what really gets me is the upside down freebie AAA sticker between the pickups, I can't wrap my head around that one unless it's covering some damage? I also feel guilty that I never come across these gems (ha!) worthy of being shared in the thread.
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Turbinosamente posted:I though those were push pins at first. Didn't realize it was bedazzled. Though what really gets me is the upside down freebie AAA sticker between the pickups, I can't wrap my head around that one unless it's covering some damage? just go on your local craigslist and you'll find something horrible worth posting like I did just now      M VAMPIRE BIO-TECH
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the hell of it is, that's listed for $500 and that may actually be a steal, I have no idea.
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I'm going to have to go ahead and call that a sweet-rear end piece of guitar right there.
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Yeah that's fully sick. Edit: I googled Chris Compston and holy poo poo   
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hexwren posted:the hell of it is, that's listed for $500 and that may actually be a steal, I have no idea. ESP's custom shop is the real deal. $500 is absolutely a steal.
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I can guarantee it plays like a million bucks unless the previous owner trashed it, and honestly the graphics seem pretty restrained by metal guitar standards. From ten feet away it'll just look like a swirl.
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Dec 26, 2019 02:42
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The purple swirl thing is diet weeb as gently caress and I love it.
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rickiep00h posted:ESP's custom shop is the real deal. $500 is absolutely a steal.
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Yeah that'll be a 400 series LTD which is good for $300-400 depending on how it plays. Decent if not spectacular, the more recent indo made models are better than stuff made before about 2016, which I suspect that guitar probably is. Dipshits buy their limited run graphic versions and expect them to keep value though so good luck bargaining
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What would you say to a friend who has been collecting the LTD versions of the ESP (Kirk Hammet?) horror movie poster guitars and cases? I mean, they seem to be decent instruments and I am certainly not in a position to throw stones when it comes to "liking what I like." But this friend of mine has several of these now, and he's tracked down gravestone/coffin cases for them. I think he's reached the point where he's decided he must have them all; and I just don't see the appeal. I'm guitar-shaming and that's not cool. Sorry.
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His taste in horror is very fun and those guitars look awesome to me.
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While I don't quite get the appeal of buying poo poo for the sake of buying poo poo or the appeal of hobbies that are wholly just boil down to "I spend money for fun," ... I forgot where I was going with this. Eat the rich.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:His taste in horror is very fun and those guitars look awesome to me.
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Well it's obvious I never had a leg to stand on to judge, so consider me shamed and enlightened. There is not, and never has been, accounting for taste. Thanks, goon friends.
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I like the dumbest poo poo imaginable and the older I get the less I care about anything other than what makes me happy.
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I think it might be part of me being broke and not ever being in a place where I can do such as a thing (I have three guitars - a basic acoustic, a $100 epi and a squier tele), but I don't really understand collecting guitars beyond "well, they all play differently and make different sounds" - I totally understand going "here's my two les pauls, here's my rick, here's my supershredder vai special, here's a bari, there's a jm and a tele" but "here's my collection of fifteen nigh-identical strats/LPs/whatevers" just makes me scratch my head. in other news, I was looking for something and ran across this again, so here, now you have to deal with it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTO5XdvXd1I edit to add: HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER as to the whitest guy on earth 
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Spanish Manlove posted:While I don't quite get the appeal of buying poo poo for the sake of buying poo poo or the appeal of hobbies that are wholly just boil down to "I spend money for fun," ... I forgot where I was going with this. Eat the rich. under capitalism we're all paypigs in one form or another hexwren posted:in other news, I was looking for something and ran across this again, so here, now you have to deal with it again in a way i feel bad that he'll always be known as an internet weirdo when he's actually pretty legit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3BGL6AtreE The Muppets On PCP fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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The Muppets On PCP posted:under capitalism we're all paypigs in one form or another 
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hexwren posted:I think it might be part of me being broke and not ever being in a place where I can do such as a thing (I have three guitars - a basic acoustic, a $100 epi and a squier tele), but I don't really understand collecting guitars beyond "well, they all play differently and make different sounds" - I totally understand going "here's my two les pauls, here's my rick, here's my supershredder vai special, here's a bari, there's a jm and a tele" but "here's my collection of fifteen nigh-identical strats/LPs/whatevers" just makes me scratch my head. Bruce Springsteen tours with approximately 15 identical butterscotch Teles and the one actual Broadcaster they're all based on. Even when you're rich as gently caress like The Boss, I don't get it.
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rickiep00h posted:Bruce Springsteen tours with approximately 15 identical butterscotch Teles and the one actual Broadcaster they're all based on. Even when you're rich as gently caress like The Boss, I don't get it. I mean, he's famous for his super-long concerts, so I can understanding taking the absolute worst-case rate of guitar failure and extrapolating it over his three-hour shows. Or not wanting to risk swapping in a new guitar mid-tour so he travels with vetted ones. Really, if those guitars form a net positive on your income and a drop in the bucket expense-wise overall I can't argue. Also, if people want to collect and admit they're collecting, sure why not. Not the way I'd spend my hobby money, but that's their hobby, not mine. I only get annoyed when collectors wield their disposable income in the place of expertise to poo poo on people actually making music.
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I was looking at American Teles on Reverb earlier and one thing I saw multiple times was dudes bragging about never having played their instruments. My dude, a loving American Standard is not going to appreciate unless you hold onto it for 40 years, and in 40 years society will have collapsed and nobody will care about mint American Standard Teles. A mass-produced guitar in your closet has 0 value if you're not playing it.
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Dr. Faustus posted:What would you say to a friend who has been collecting the LTD versions of the ESP (Kirk Hammet?) horror movie poster guitars and cases? I mean, they seem to be decent instruments and I am certainly not in a position to throw stones when it comes to "liking what I like." As long as your friend isn't putting himself in financial trouble playing guitar pokemans then more power to him. If I could afford it, I'd be collecting PGMs and get an extra to add the weird fringe thingy to. 
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rickiep00h posted:Bruce Springsteen tours with approximately 15 identical butterscotch Teles and the one actual Broadcaster they're all based on. Even when you're rich as gently caress like The Boss, I don't get it. First thing is that touring is super hard on equipment. Collectively my band went through three guitars, two amps, and a pedal on a single two month tour this summer and we were only doing thirty minutes sets. Everything got repaired on the road except one guitar that needed woodwork, but you want to be confident you've got backup on the night. Standard tour abuse aside, Bruce is notoriously hard on his guitar electronics because he sweats like a monster and regularly dunks his head in a barrel of water at sidestage. The original Broadcaster has it's pickups sealed and drainage holes drilled along the bottom of the control cavity to let the sweat run out. Finally there can be a lot of variation in sound and feel between two guitars from the same production run, nevermind the same style. If you're a telecaster nerd and you play three hour shows every night then you can get really involved in the differences between them so if you can afford to take them all out then why not? Guitars are fun and playing lots of them is even more fun!
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darkwasthenight posted:Standard tour abuse aside, Bruce is notoriously hard on his guitar electronics because he sweats like a monster and regularly dunks his head in a barrel of water at sidestage. The original Broadcaster has it's pickups sealed and drainage holes drilled along the bottom of the control cavity to let the sweat run out. I wonder if Angus Young has had anything similar done to his guitars. He's more sweat than man when on stage.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:I wonder if Angus Young has had anything similar done to his guitars. He's more sweat than man when on stage. Yup. Interview with his luthier.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:I wonder if Angus Young has had anything similar done to his guitars. He's more sweat than man when on stage. Angus young also travels with like 30 Marshalls but only uses two at a time for just the same reason. According to his tech they blow an amp just about every show. Luckily those old things are just a handful of point to point components, but still that's gotta be annoying.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Angus young also travels with like 30 Marshalls but only uses two at a time for just the same reason. According to his tech they blow an amp just about every show. Luckily those old things are just a handful of point to point components, but still that's gotta be annoying. Ac/dc also travel with a tube tech, and so their amp tech biases their amps by blowing a tube, then rolling it back a little.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Angus young also travels with like 30 Marshalls but only uses two at a time for just the same reason. According to his tech they blow an amp just about every show. Luckily those old things are just a handful of point to point components, but still that's gotta be annoying. Awesome. Thanks for this. 
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I wonder how many Marshall heads AC/DC own. edit: Hundreds? Thousands?
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The Marshall Plexi circuit is beautifully simple and thus easy to repair nightly. You can thank Leo Fender for that.
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I was thinking so long the dude has room to keep em and maybe show em off then it's cool. But then I remember the Yngwie Malmsteen video of just a bazillion guitars stacked on each other and that kinda makes it a moot point. Just collect whatever and sleep on em if you run outta room.
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