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Captain Splendid: Jan 7, 2009; Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

tarlibone posted:

What's with the "negative" smiley? There is literally nothing wrong with your type.

Oh, just from me being very predictable. I'm actually really happy with it. It's the most versatile "proper" bass I've played.

It's a 32" scale, a smidge shorter than what it's replacing, but it's not that noticeable.

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# ? May 29, 2024 05:31

widefault: Mar 16, 2009

Early 80s Harmony H80T Strat copy, bought because it was cheap and Made in Korea. The usual Korean Harmony Strats had better hardware or fine tuner bridges/locking nuts. Ones like this were either made in Taiwan, Indonesia, or China. It is due for sticker removal, cleaning, new strings, and a setup.

# ? Mar 25, 2023 06:45

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

here's my first guitar pedal ever

I am sure this isn't going to lead anywhere terrible and expensive :allears:

# ? Mar 25, 2023 17:25

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

Cabbages and Kings posted:

I am sure this isn't going to lead anywhere terrible and expensive

Lmao

# ? Mar 25, 2023 20:46

LooksLikeABabyRat: Jun 26, 2008; Oh dang, I'd nibble that cheese

Fell in love with a Martin DM at my local shop, thought about it for a week, and went and bought it.

It's a 90s model, with only one previous owner. It apparently was shipped to CA from London by the owner's daughter after he passed, and sold to my favorite local shop.

I bought a haunted guitar. gently caress.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 18:30

homewrecker: Feb 18, 2010

LooksLikeABabyRat posted:

Fell in love with a Martin DM at my local shop, thought about it for a week, and went and bought it.

It's a 90s model, with only one previous owner. It apparently was shipped to CA from London by the owner's daughter after he passed, and sold to my favorite local shop.

I bought a haunted guitar. gently caress.

Nice, that pretty much guarantees that you're going to write the most amazing music.

# ? Mar 28, 2023 19:05

Noise Machine: Dec 3, 2005; Today is a good day to save.

LooksLikeABabyRat posted:

Fell in love with a Martin DM at my local shop, thought about it for a week, and went and bought it.

It's a 90s model, with only one previous owner. It apparently was shipped to CA from London by the owner's daughter after he passed, and sold to my favorite local shop.

I bought a haunted guitar. gently caress.

You need to learn the name of the former owner and befriend the spirit

# ? Mar 28, 2023 20:32

Scarf: Jun 24, 2005; On sight

Crosspost from the bass thread...

I've had a first gen Tech21 VT Bass as the foundation of my tone and on my pedal board for the last 15 years... I may finally be retiring it in favor of the new Ampeg SGT-DI. Gets here on Friday and I can't wait to see how it stacks up to the VT. Gonna take it to a gig on Saturday as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A4nFrPztGo

# ? Mar 29, 2023 23:51

Slothful Bong: Dec 2, 2018; Filling the Void with Chaos

I think I�m just about done with my studio rework (minus shelving)! For being one room in a tiny 2nd floor apartment, I�ve managed to create a space I feel super comfortable in.

Picked up the following software:

Live 11 (upgrade from 10)
Superior Drummer 3 (upgrade from 2)
Komplete Standard 14 (upgrade from 12)
GGD Modern & Massive

And consolidated to one room/reworked routing - I�ve now got my main recording setup for drums, bass, gt, vox, keys etc, and a separate looper setup with MiniNova and Headrush, that�s fed into the DAW in case I want to record it.

Drums are fed via MIDI to DAW, and I have the APC40 on a stand so I can properly record while playing.
Only real hitch with drums is on the SD3 side. I had one hell of a kit set up in 2, but they�ve changed how everything works and their samples are quite a bit different. So it�s likely going to be 15-20 hours of building a kit and drum mix template from scratch again.
Thank god I�ve got GGD though! Took me a day to get the mapping and a template mix set up, and it sounds more than good enough for production use.

# ? Mar 30, 2023 16:49

LooksLikeABabyRat: Jun 26, 2008; Oh dang, I'd nibble that cheese

I also got a Source Audio Collider and a Earthquaker Devices Data Corrupter.

It's been a spendy week.

# ? Mar 30, 2023 20:58

TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

I bought another guitar and a bass.

Gretsch White Falcon (already posted in the guitar thread) and a Fender Deluxe Active P-Bass plus a cheapo Rumble 60 amp.

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monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

TotalLossBrain posted:

Oooooh. Ahhhhhh. :eyepop:

# ? Mar 30, 2023 23:40

widefault: Mar 16, 2009

I bought a box of miscellaneous garbage for $100

And old 1/4" mic, some knobs, two bass bridges, two matching vibrato arms that don't fit anything I own, a couple George L cables, some Voodoo Labs power supply cables, and a big bad of cable ends and BNC and RF connectors. Bought for these.

Bottom is an unknown Firebird pickup that looks like it might actually be a proper FB pickup, but the real reason I bought it is the top one.

DiMarzio K-10, likely from an old Hondo/Samick guitar from ~1982-3. Nice LOOOOOONG lead. Destine to go into my one Hondo that had its original DiMarzio swapped for another, newer Dimarzio that is basically the same pickup, but with cream bobbins!

# ? Apr 1, 2023 01:30

Captain Splendid: Jan 7, 2009; Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Finally got round to doing a family photo.

# ? Apr 2, 2023 22:31

TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

Captain Splendid posted:

Finally got round to doing a family photo.

hell yeah

# ? Apr 3, 2023 00:18

tarlibone: Aug 1, 2014; Fun Shoe

Captain Splendid posted:

Finally got round to doing a family photo.

... Gosh dangit, now I have to change my drawers.

I love everything about that picture.

Offsettin' for-ev-er....

# ? Apr 3, 2023 01:05

Tad Naff: Jul 8, 2004; _{I told you you'd be sorry buying an emoticon, but no, you were hung over. Well look at you now. It's not catching on at all!}

This... Is a problem

Only registered members can see post attachments!

# ? Apr 3, 2023 02:29

Armacham: Mar 3, 2007; Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

I need to show my wife that picture

# ? Apr 3, 2023 02:40

widefault: Mar 16, 2009

Tad Naff posted:

This... Is a problem

Bah, amateur hour

Hondos

Wilshires & SGs

Teles

There's another rack in the kitchen with ones to be fixed/sold, a stack of cases in another room, and an Yngwie pile in the living room I need to move into storage.

# ? Apr 3, 2023 02:47

Carth Dookie: Jan 28, 2013

Carth Dookie posted:

So uh. My sire arrived:

and I'm absolutely losing my mind over it.

"soft" case that it came with. Its semi-rigid, almost on par with Taylor's semi-rigid "soft" accoustic cases. My American Fender gig bag that my Tele came in is not as good.

excuse the cat head.

The neck is absurd. I have never, on any guitar, in any price range, including top end Fenders, seen fretwork this nice. The abalone inlay dots are gorgeous, well coloured and distinct. They can't possibly be real abalone Also the neck is actually FLAMED maple in my example. The rounded off edges are perfect. Rolled, but not so rolled you think you have a different fretboard radius, or are worried about dragging the 1st string down off the fret wire while playing. The fret ends all the way to the very end... are perfect. THEY ROLLED THE FRET EDGES ON THE TOP OVER THE BODY FOR GODS SAKE.

The profile is VERY similar to my Telecaster. I'd say its ever so slightly thicker in the middle of it so it feels ever so slightly more meaty and rounded than my Tele. I like it. A lot.

The action? perfect. Low without buzzing all the way down the fretboard. I mean the drat thing was almost entirely in tune except the high E when I pulled it out of the case.

The nut.

The locking tuners. The tuning machines are smooth as butter. I hate tuning guitars with trem systems, but this is just... great. I thought this would be one point where it would fall down and annoy me but it just doesn't. Maybe I'll actually put the trem arm in and go hog wild on it now.

Body is great. Binding is great.

So, weak points. I have discovered 2 tiny blemishes (that you can't see unless you go over it with a macro lens/magnifying glass):

Can you see it?

The tiniest of scuffs on the tip of the headstock. Possible shipping/moving ding. I can't see it unless I get right up there on it.

See it?

The absolute tiniest of overspray on the binding down near the jack.

Other parts that MIGHT be a bit of a let down, depending on opinion:

The flame down on the body isn't a huge zebra stripe. Maybe some people would prefer a more defined stripiness. Personally I think it looks great in the context of the entire guitar. Also the cream pickup covers and knobs might not be to everyone's taste. More crisp white ones might suit the pick guard better.

So how does it play?

Brilliant. Can't really get around it. With a neck that good its impossible for it not to. How does it sound? Check out Andertons or Darrel Braun if you want a sound demo - I suck and won't do it justice with my un-tuned Katana. However even with my fists of ham and coordination of a concussed duck I think it sounds excellent. The bridge pickup in particular is SPICY in a way I hadn't expected. If I had to describe it, I'd call it a Fender, but fatter in tone in general across all pickups. I really, really like it. Like; its very likely that I'm selling all my other electrics except the Ormsby (because its a weird multiscale thing), its so good.

Now lets talk some of the UNDOCUMENTED EXTRA FEATURES. Check it:

https://sire-usa.com/collections/electric-guitars/products/larry-carlton-s7-fm?variant=34034064654474

That's the main page for Sire guitars USA. Check out the specs section. I have found 2 features on the guitar that aren't mentioned, and should be because on any other brand they'd be touted as premium features.

First; it says it has locking tuners. What it does NOT mention, is that those tuners have staggered posts so that's why you don't need the string tree:

I was kinda stunned when I saw that. I mean, I suspect it might because I couldn't see the tree in any pictures, but still, didn't KNOW until I had it my hands. Amazing.

The other thing:

The "tone" knob is actually a push-push button that splits the humbucker. It has coil splitting. It isn't mentioned in the specs at all. It sounds great.

This thing set me back $1200AUD.

Overall score:

Features: 10.

Unbeatable features at this price point, or frankly, one 2-3x the price.

Neck: 9.9

0.1 off for the headstock scuff. Otherwise its just brilliant.

Body: 9.8

0.2 off for the tiny overspray. Others might think the flame a little weak and deduct for that but I am fine with it.

Playability: 10.

Action was perfect and it was almost completely in tune out of the box.

Sound: ?

I'm leaving this one until I dive deeper and try a bunch of different things, but call it tentatively a 9. I expect it to climb if its as much of an all rounder as I want it to be (and I think it will be).

Guys. Guys. Seriously. Go get a Sire in your flavour - T, S, Les Paul, 335, whatever. Just get one. Before capitalism ruins everything and they double the price. Its just so fricking good. I don't think I'll ever get rid of this one. I can't imagine getting anything better at any price I'd be prepared to pay.

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JeffLeonard: Apr 18, 2003; TV Violence

widefault posted:

Bah, amateur hour

Hondos

Wilshires & SGs

Teles

There's another rack in the kitchen with ones to be fixed/sold, a stack of cases in another room, and an Yngwie pile in the living room I need to move into storage.

WOW! And I was agonizing today over possibly adding a $500 Korg Wavestate to my hardware stable of 1 other hardware synth!

Impressive & beautiful collection, btw.

# ? Apr 3, 2023 18:48

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

QPAS, BL ZeroScope are new.

Not unlike dropping a tenstrip over a six hour period, QPAS has 4 distinct peaks.

e: "CLEAN THIS MESS UP"

# ? Apr 11, 2023 12:37

Krustic: Mar 28, 2010; Everything I say draws controversy. It's kinda like the abortion issue.

I bought one of these EHX pitchfork+ pedals basically just because it was 100 dollars off and because I used to have a POG that was fun. Looking forward to making many dumb noises with it.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PitchForkP--electro-harmonix-pitch-fork-and-polyphonic-pitch-shift-pedal

# ? Apr 11, 2023 13:26

TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

I posted this in the wrong thread before. I picked up a few music related things over the past month.

A Fender P Bass Deluxe. I bought this of Reverb around the same time I bought the White Falcon.
It's mostly for my youngest kid.

A Blues Jr Deluxe Reverb, in the scratch and dent section at GC with a note that there's no sound out.
One pre amp tube was bad, now it works great. Nice sounding amp.

I also picked up a cheap Fender Rumble 60 for the P Bass. No picture though

# ? Apr 11, 2023 14:12

B33rChiller: Aug 18, 2011

Krustic posted:

I bought one of these EHX pitchfork+ pedals basically just because it was 100 dollars off and because I used to have a POG that was fun. Looking forward to making many dumb noises with it.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PitchForkP--electro-harmonix-pitch-fork-and-polyphonic-pitch-shift-pedal

I have their sub n up pedal, and it's hilarious to put a mic signal through an overdrive, then the sub n up.

# ? Apr 11, 2023 22:22

Wowporn: May 31, 2012; HarumphHarumphHarumph

What's funny I realized recently with my pitchfork is if you add an expression pedal and have the blend set to add an octave instead of just pitch shifting, the expression pedal adjusts the pitch of the extra note, from between the note you're on and what you have it set to. You can do some weird stuff with it

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B33rChiller: Aug 18, 2011

Standby for further messy transmissions

# ? Apr 12, 2023 00:05

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

B33rChiller posted:

Standby for further messy transmissions

man I'd love to schlapp one of those around a bit

# ? Apr 12, 2023 02:35

DrChu: May 14, 2002

Krustic posted:

I bought one of these EHX pitchfork+ pedals basically just because it was 100 dollars off and because I used to have a POG that was fun. Looking forward to making many dumb noises with it.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PitchForkP--electro-harmonix-pitch-fork-and-polyphonic-pitch-shift-pedal

Was not planning on buying a pedal for a while but they had Demo version of this for even cheaper and I went for it.

They've already called about the order, I forgot that part about dealing with Sweetwater.

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NuclearPotato: Oct 27, 2011

I broke down; my Moog semi-modular collection is now complete (until I decide I want a Mavis for some reason):

# ? Apr 15, 2023 20:01

Verman: Jul 4, 2005; Third time is a charm right?

Cross posted from the guitar thread.

Just picked up off Facebook marketplace for $250. Super clean, 06 fender Mexican strat. Vox modeling practice amp. Gig bag, stand, cable. I wasn't in the market for a strat, let alone a pretty boring one, but it was way too good of a deal to pass up. Guess I just sunk further into blues dad territory. At least it's not red or sunburst.

# ? Apr 15, 2023 21:29

Dr. Faustus: Feb 18, 2001; Grimey Drawer

Just your basic black Strat but man it looks sharp. I wanna play it through that Sovtek. I bet that little rig sounds fantastic.

# ? Apr 15, 2023 22:58

Verman: Jul 4, 2005; Third time is a charm right?

Oh the sovtek sounds incredible. From the photo, it looks like a 50-60w midget but it's the full 100w monster. It's ... loud.

As a teenager (when I bought it blindly from musicians friend for $199) I loved it's nastiness. When you turn the preamp volume up, it sounds a lot like a Marshall. Oddly enough at the time I was playing my squier fat strat through it and it screams but it's so loud. Now I mostly play my telecaster, gretsch hollow, and les Paul through it. I've only pushed it a few times, once outdoors at a show during sound check (had to turn master down to 2), once when allowed to play through a full stack at my local store (master at 6). It shook the building. I had earplugs in and it wasn't enough. I felt it in my chest. If there was a definitive moment I got tinnitus, that was it. The guitar tech who repaired the bad pots, and the two sales guys present offered to buy it on the spot (probably ~20 years ago).

Now, I run it mostly clean. With that much power it has so much clean headroom, in that way it reminds me of a fender tweed. It has a lot of bottom and mid range but it can get very clean and chimey. Probably more well rounded with a different cab then my carvin british style 2x12. Running pedals through it gives it so much more flexibility, my favorites being a TC hall of fame reverb, and my Browne protein dual OD. I used to run a tube screamer (still have it) and an OG big muff which I didn't really know how to use at the time and got rid of, which is apparently more worth a lot. I still love my tubescreamer but the Browne protein is so much better.

I love it and will literally never sell it. It needs new tubes though so that's going to be expensive :smith:

Verman fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 15, 2023

# ? Apr 15, 2023 23:54

TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

Couldn't leave my Blues Jr alone and ordered a Fromel Electronics kit for it. It replaces the filter caps on the power supply, a bunch of other caps, removes the PCBA-mounted input jack with a standard jack with wires.
Sounds a little fuller? Maybe I'm imagining things but a cool project nonetheless.

Before surgery:

Components removed.

New stuff installed:

Gratitiuitous White Falcon shot and the new amp stand

TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Apr 16, 2023

# ? Apr 16, 2023 05:39

Dr. Faustus: Feb 18, 2001; Grimey Drawer

I put almost all of BillM's mods into my BJ MKIII. I love the little guy. Really glad I got it done when I did.

Let's see if I can remember it all: Standby switch, Switchcraft jack, tone stack caps and filter caps, audio taper pots for the master volume and reverb, bias control, presence control (works off negative feedback in the power section, sounds fantastic), a Celestion G12-H (UK) speaker, and both transformers replaced with beefier ones (the ones I think you can still grab from MojoTone). Somewhere in all of that I had to piggyback a cap onto a resistor but it's been years... it was supposed to prevent some kind of unwanted freq's.

High five!

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TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

Nice!

# ? Apr 16, 2023 14:42

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Doctor Best of US

# ? Apr 16, 2023 14:46

widefault: Mar 16, 2009

From Friday, a second Hondo H-1111, Made in Japan copy of a G&L F-100.

The first one I bought has non-working electronics and the rats nest of wires in the control cavity scares me. Probably paid less for the 2nd guitar than what I would pay someone to fix the first.

From today, 1979 Hondo HDLP-2WI

The D means DiMarzios, the mother of pearl logo confirms it came with them, and the slotted height adjustment screws really confirm it.

Up to 5 DiMarzio equipped Hondos and not a one still has the sticker on it.

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Red_Fred: Oct 21, 2010; Fallen Rib

Do you know of anyone who owns more Hondos than you?

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widefault: Mar 16, 2009

Red_Fred posted:

Do you know of anyone who owns more Hondos than you?

I would assume there's someone that does, I have less than 20 with over a third on the "sell it" list. I'm staying "focused" on the Made in Japan ones or the ones with Dimarzios

I do know Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys used to play them all the time and used them in a bunch of live performances and they show up in a few videos, too. No idea if he collects/collected them, but I guess a Hondo was his first guitar. I've kind of assumed he may have a bunch.

Glastonbury 1994 - Made in Japan H-1051 Fender Lead copy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDMG3boB9f0

Letterman, again doing Sabotage, H-77 Strat copy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WvgGdivQzE

Gratittude video, H-732 in orange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw

# ? Apr 19, 2023 02:22

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