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The Nux Amp Academy you mentioned is also a complete amp, effects, and cab sim/IR loader. For $200 (and cheaper used) I bet it's worth a look. Though I've learned the hard way that the buy-once-cry-once thing is for real. Just get the HX Stomp. 
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JamesKPolk posted:Thanks y'all, worth demoing all of these at least. I think what got me looking at the Iridium the first time was wondering if I could get a cheaper HX haha. Like that the Boss has bass amps too. Nope! The CABM has a firmware upgrade that includes a preamp modeled after a Fender Bassman. If you don’t like that you can certainly run your own preamp into it for power amp and cab sim. It’s usually in the $200 range on reverb which is cheaper for less amp models. I own one and use it a lot and it works fairly well
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lazerwolf posted:Nope! The CABM has a firmware upgrade that includes a preamp modeled after a Fender Bassman. If you don’t like that you can certainly run your own preamp into it for power amp and cab sim. It’s usually in the $200 range on reverb which is cheaper for less amp models. I own one and use it a lot and it works fairly well Oh wow that sounds fantastic actually. Thanks for the rec, glad I asked!
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luchadornado posted:My sweetwater rep is pretty cool and has helped me out a ton even though I've only spent <$1500 there. Went out of his way to talk to the Gibson guy and get details on left-handed Tangerine Bursts, and I mentioned I liked root beer barrels, and I always get some now. I'll shoot the breeze with him once a year for that. Okay you sold me on SweetWater.
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Mar 8, 2023 09:21
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MrMojok posted:Where is a good non-Amazon place to buy strings online? I bought a lot of strings from https://www.stringsandbeyond.com/ and never had an issue. They don't send candy though
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This thread reminded me to that I have like 4 bags of Sweetwater candy. I’m down to the green peppermint things unfortunately.
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Mar 8, 2023 15:06
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Has anyone used StringJoys? I see them pop up on Instagram and other guitar YouTubes and wondered if they were anything special.
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lazerwolf posted:Has anyone used StringJoys? I see them pop up on Instagram and other guitar YouTubes and wondered if they were anything special. A few people a few posts ago said they were good and let you assemble custom sets og gauges.
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lazerwolf posted:Has anyone used StringJoys? I see them pop up on Instagram and other guitar YouTubes and wondered if they were anything special. They are decent strings for sure and the custom gauges are cool if you need that sort of thing. Not good enough to pull me away from daddario
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I’ll have to try stringjoy, I use their calculator but didn’t realize there was more to the site lol. https://tension.stringjoy.com/ The calculator is so worth it tho. Have a 6 string 27.7” baritone I tune to drop-f#, and every existing set sucks. But with the calc, I was able to build a nice set (15p,20p,28w,38w,52w,70w) that has a pretty balanced tension, with the lowest a bit lighter for tone and bends.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:02
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Guitar newbie milestones: - successfully played twinkle twinkle and frere jaques (not very well) - figured out what the dots are - figured out that tele -> rat-> xenyx mixer w/gain up = good enough to hear guitar w/o an amp or cab - figured that I still need a cab or cab sim anyway baby steps \  / now to actually not suck eventuallyIs there a way to get less-dangerous looking sixth strings tho? That poo poo always feels like it’s going to cut my pinky off.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:32
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Stringjoy is definitely good. They also have good customer service. If you manage to break one they'll replace it for free.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:38
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Pollyanna posted:Guitar newbie milestones: Learn some Sabbath
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Speaking of Sabbath is Master of Reality the greatest Christian rock album of all time, or just the greatest rock album of all time?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Speaking of Sabbath is Master of Reality the greatest Christian rock album of all time, or just the greatest rock album of all time? Everyone needs to get a lil stoned and listen to sabbath records on headphones that's all I know.
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So I've been trying to get out of a creative rut lately and part of what I do for that is just blatantly ripping off other people/styles My main project is industrial noise but I absolutely love old prog poo poo so this is my take of an Alan Parsons/Early Pink Floyd track that would never make it on to anything I'll release but I think it's neat so I wanted to share it. And to make it interesting beyond just "here's a rando posting a track" it's a good sound demo for the Tim Henson neural plugin because all the guitar stuff is through that and the bass is darkglass. https://vocaroo.com/19IDycz1M0Va
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Gramps posted:Learn some Sabbath I think I figured out a BYC riff, how’s that? Maybe I’ll figure out Supernaut next.
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Pollyanna posted:I think I figured out a BYC riff, how’s that? Maybe I’ll figure out Supernaut next. YES let the power of the riff consume you
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Mar 8, 2023 17:04
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i start my first guitar lesson next week, my goal is to eventually be able to play through this whole album with solos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAC1vr_pcg
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Gramps posted:YES let the power of the riff consume you https://youtu.be/myqSETD5_bs 
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Baron von Eevl posted:Speaking of Sabbath is Master of Reality the greatest Christian rock album of all time, or just the greatest rock album of all time? its actually the black parade
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landgrabber posted:its actually the black parade What about Diary?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Speaking of Sabbath is Master of Reality the greatest Christian rock album of all time, or just the greatest rock album of all time?
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pinky shredding 6th string adventures: - up the string gauge - get annoyed at the tension - downtune play some sabbath - tune back up and practice enough to get the callouses - get in a rut, lose callouses - give up, played bass Though jokes aside, I only needed the most minor of callouses once I got the fine motor control to press the string just barely enough to get a clean note. Now even though I'm not really well enough to play regularly & keep up the callouses, it feels so much less like a cheese slicer.
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No seriously how do you make it so that string doesn’t annihilate your poor fingies 
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Pollyanna posted:No seriously how do you make it so that string doesn’t annihilate your poor fingies tough it out for a week or two
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keep at it then one day you'll wake up and realize you have no feeling in any of your fingertips and pray it's related to the guitar
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Pollyanna posted:No seriously how do you make it so that string doesn’t annihilate your poor fingies no shortcuts. Practice like a banshee for a couple weeks and your callouses will be mighty
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Ever since I discovered Yvette Young I have tapping calluses. It rules.
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TheMightyBoops posted:What about Diary? i was posting black parade just for the bit. it's not even the best MCR album (which is three cheers). diary is really loving good though. in circles is kinda the essence of emo to me-- some clear punk influence but more emotional, interplay between clean, twinkly guitars and heavy dirty ones, and octave riffs. honestly for me??? it might be jimmy eat world - clarity. you do not expect it from the band that made the middle, which is a good song-- but clarity is like, an impossibly well executed blueprint for like every melodic punk/emo album that came after it. but it's also so much more progressive and large scale at times and yet it feels so cohesive. and the drums sound really loving incredible. it's really rare that i actually get addicted to an album after listening to it. it's only happened three or four times before-- but god it's such a crazy feeling.
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lazerwolf posted:Has anyone used StringJoys? I see them pop up on Instagram and other guitar YouTubes and wondered if they were anything special. depends on how much you need a set of strings that a company you already like doesn't sell for a cheaper price
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landgrabber posted:i was posting black parade just for the bit. it's not even the best MCR album (which is three cheers). The singer from SDRE went turbo Christian at some point. I like Clarity a lot too, there was a DJ in Milwaukee radio who would always play stuff off of it when I was in hs. Edit: Also even without the singles Bleed American is good front to back. TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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TheMightyBoops posted:The singer from SDRE went turbo Christian at some point. yeah and somehow the singer from SDRE still doesn't have the worst takes (which goes to nate mendel, now in the foo fighters, who thinks AIDS isn't real). bleed american is probably my least favorite out of the clarity/BA/futures run, with the caveat that sweetness is easily their best song and like probably one of the best songs ever
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The lovely folks at Mesa walked me through diagnosing my Mark V over the phone and found a blown 12AX7 and told me how to replace it. Now I don't have to impulsively go into debt for a Mark VII, hooray!
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i am officially the biggest moron in the thread   it's a CS NOS '62 time capsule Im loving dumb as hell god I am dumb ethanol fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Kazinsal posted:The lovely folks at Mesa walked me through diagnosing my Mark V over the phone and found a blown 12AX7 and told me how to replace it. Now I don't have to impulsively go into debt for a Mark VII, hooray!  (Also works for Porsche fans)
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ethanol posted:i am officially the biggest moron in the thread If I someday had 3000 dollars of disposable income I’d definitely buy one of those used Gibson hollow bodies from the custom shop.
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TheMightyBoops posted:If I someday had 3000 dollars of disposable income I’d definitely buy one of those used Gibson hollow bodies from the custom shop. tbf i have to sell 2 also strat guitars to cover this
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ethanol posted:i am officially the biggest moron in the thread how does it feel/sound compared to a (not busted) american standard strat? custom shop guitars like this are an unknown quantity for me, best guitars i've ever played are just japanese and american production instruments like esp e-ii, prs s2, etc.
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 I too made a questionable financial decision. But an excellent musical one 
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