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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:A question came to me, as it does everyone, when looking at a Diezel VH4: What is the most ridiculous "high gain" amp? Ridiculous can mean anything from price to ostentatiousness to how insanely bad the tone is. You know who I mean... amps that look/sound like some dipshitted Alienware PC hosed a Carvin.  300 Watt Bass or Guitar Amplifier. Really loving expensive (marked at 2700 starting price). Really good loving sound. It weights 90 loving pounds, though.
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Ha I just sold my Meatsmoke Preamp. The full beast is indeed bonkers.
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look up used prices for randall warhead and x2 amps
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The Muppets On PCP posted:look up used prices for randall warhead and x2 amps Looked up those amps... which led me to this fantastically economic future purchase:  https://reverb.com/item/654890-rand...m_source=google GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Risky sale when the cabs form a load bearing wall.
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Which three are the real ones!
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Hah. Free shipping.
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I hate that fuckawesome420 style of writing
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Spanish Manlove posted:I hate that fuckawesome420 style of writing HarmonyCentral.com gear reviewer Rip Glitter is the only guy who was ever any good at it.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:A question came to me, as it does everyone, when looking at a Diezel VH4: What is the most ridiculous "high gain" amp? Ridiculous can mean anything from price to ostentatiousness to how insanely bad the ton Wouldn't put this in the same category as the VH4, but the Metasonix G1000 loving Fucker wins for me.  5 grand price tag, intentionally sounds horrible and does weird unpredictable poo poo using obscure vintage valves. And it's got a dial labelled 'ream your rear end'. No idea how many of these things actually got made but I bet it got em the attention they wanted.  This is my first SA post after paying the forum tax and immediately found this thread...for all I know, posting that thing here is basically cheating.
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Oh wow, I forgot R*_ Animal Babies existed. Probably for the better.
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Biscuitbeard posted:Wouldn't put this in the same category as the VH4, but the Metasonix G1000 loving Fucker wins for me.
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Biscuitbeard posted:This is my first SA post after paying the forum tax and immediately found this thread...for all I know, posting that thing here is basically cheating. it's not quite ibanez jem level but it has its place in thread lore
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Biscuitbeard posted:Wouldn't put this in the same category as the VH4, but the Metasonix G1000 loving Fucker wins for me. Christ I hate Barbour's schtick.
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Biscuitbeard posted:This is my first SA post after paying the forum tax and immediately found this thread...for all I know, posting that thing here is basically cheating. rickiep00h posted:Christ I hate Barbour's schtick. This is the manual. Jesus wept. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 07:06
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I assumed you were exaggerating for effect. This was not the case. Jesus did indeed weep, as that is some terrible pretentious bullshit.
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He's like that in interviews, too. I think the first time I saw him was in the modular synth documentary I Dream of Wires and every moment he was on screen I wanted something terrible to happen to him like he'd get attacked by a pack of roving hyenas or something equally monkeycheese, as would befit his idiom. He's like a 14-year-old punk kid got blessed with savant-like circuit design knowledge.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Howdy! I like the first bit where it basically says that the about is so terribly designed that it won't survive more than an hour turned on. And that's assuming no heat sources like lights or a lovely crowded basement with no AC. Although crowded might be pushing it...
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Imagine spending all that time, energy and money to be an edgelord. Lol At least Friedman’s amps are good, if given juvenile names.
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Sticking some Way Huge pedals into Friedman amps must lead to tonal bliss.
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I have 2 Friedmans, and I would still rock the loving fucker given half a chance.
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lol apparently kiesel's next on gibson's nuisance suit list. they got a cease and desist letter over their single cut prs and backward rhoads v knockoffs
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The Muppets On PCP posted:lol apparently kiesel's next on gibson's nuisance suit list. they got a cease and desist letter over their single cut prs and backward rhoads v knockoffs
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Imagine spending all that time, energy and money to be an edgelord. Lol
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Kinda want to cut my arm off now https://youtu.be/qSKBtEBRWi4
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Wark Say posted:Wasn't 2019 one of the first years they had in like forever where people weren't out-and-out making GBS threads on their QC and whatnot since... I dunno, the early 00's or something? Like holy gently caress, Gibson, you're just getting over a dadgum bankruptcy, dig up. Gibson’s QC from around 2002-2008 (when I was playing and selling them) was such crap. Bad nuts, uneven fretwork, multiple guitars from factory with cracks or warped necks. I remember hearing our shop owner going on a rampage and smashing at least one LP Custom because it was unacceptable and Gibson was giving him crap about exchanging. I mean, he was known for that sorta nonsense towards Gibson (the shop was part of the early Ed Roman crew...), but if they weren’t taking their crappy guitars back, I can’t be too bemused. If they finally got it back to good QC, only to immediately go and make nuisance suits...
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Death Panel Czar posted:To be fair, his poo poo ended up on the DOOM soundtrack, so if nothing else he’s apparently being edgy “correctly”. I appreciate him embracing "wrong" concepts, though. Orthodoxy in music electronics is obscenely prevalent and has no business in the creation of art. Had some boomer amp tech gently caress tell me that ultralinear amplifiers are objectively un-musical (lol). I pointed to bazillions of successful bands who have crafted their sound around such amps and his response was "oh... huh. there's music like this?"
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Slothful Bong posted:Gibson’s QC from around 2002-2008 (when I was playing and selling them) was such crap. Bad nuts, uneven fretwork, multiple guitars from factory with cracks or warped necks. I remember hearing our shop owner going on a rampage and smashing at least one LP Custom because it was unacceptable and Gibson was giving him crap about exchanging. I mean, he was known for that sorta nonsense towards Gibson (the shop was part of the early Ed Roman crew...), but if they weren’t taking their crappy guitars back, I can’t be too bemused.
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gibson had several periods of putting out bad product, in fact their 70s/early 80s slump is what led henry juszkiewicz to buy them out in the first place
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70s guitars are notorious for being heavy in general and Norlin Gibsons were one of the worst offenders.
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Wark Say posted:I remember getting (phone-posting so I'll check that in later if I can check my previous posts) one of the few old-rear end lefty LP Customs that had the lovely Silverburst painting that degraded with exposure to sunlight and it turned kinda green-ish. I don't know which year that one was it (it was probably pre 80's at least), but the three things that I remember about it were: Adam Jones of Tool plays those lovely early-'80s LP silverbursts specifically because of the finish, which he claims is the secret sauce in his tone. I don't believe it, but also he has a bunch of 'em and a pile of money and can say whatever he wants regarding his tone mojo I guess. I can get a reasonable enough facsimile of his tone with a lovely chambered Epi translucent LP and an EMG-81 and some modeling, so whatever.
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$8k-$9k worth of meticulously engineered high gain amps all wired up in parallel $3.5k-$4k worth of speaker cabinets 12 lb slug of mahogany with an ebony fretboard and specially wound pickups Enough pedals to warrant a board the size of an office desktop “it’s the paint”
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Count me as another person too chicken to buy anything Gibson because of the quality issues. I like the sound of an SG but eeeehhh at buying one especially sight unseen. Realistically I could just get the pickups and slam them into a kit or something but  And this week on it came from craigslist:  You really, really couldn't find a neutral background spot inside the house?
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rickiep00h posted:Adam Jones of Tool plays those lovely early-'80s LP silverbursts specifically because of the finish, which he claims is the secret sauce in his tone. I don't believe it, but also he has a bunch of 'em and a pile of money and can say whatever he wants regarding his tone mojo I guess. I can get a reasonable enough facsimile of his tone with a lovely chambered Epi translucent LP and an EMG-81 and some modeling, so whatever. The Muppets On PCP posted:gibson had several periods of putting out bad product, in fact their 70s/early 80s slump is what led henry juszkiewicz to buy them out in the first place Anime Reference posted:70s guitars are notorious for being heavy in general and Norlin Gibsons were one of the worst offenders. Wark Say posted:I will never get over my love/hate relationship with LP's. At the end of the day, though? I'm still glad I got 6k for my Faded Greenish-Silverburst LP Custom.
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 Now that I’ve replaced the pots, switch, jack, knobs, nut, pickups, tuners, rebalanced the weight, adjusted the truss rod, leveled/crowned the frets and intonated my Chinese SG... well she plays and sounds like a beaut! Lol Pictured with my new Blackhawk Uruk-Hai and a t-shirt for my friend’s bike shop. Edit: I had intended to replace everything anyways and it was dirt cheap and looked cool with a set neck. Worth the gamble.
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