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Well I just got paid, so if I can manage to get my guitar working when I get home, I will be buying a Fender Hot Rod Deville 410 and an EHX Big Muff Pi. If not, I'll probably be buying new pickups  Where on this forum can I ask for help with that? Pickup thread? Trivial Questions Thread? Guitar Thread? All of them?
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This disgusting looking pedal is a valve overdrive I've just got my hands on: It's hand made by a man in Devon, it's hand painted, it's true bypass, it's got more switches than I know what to do with, it's got a valve in it, it costs £150 new... and I'm really really disappointed. The website: http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/Products,%20VT1-MK3.html has some pretty nice sounding samples on it; I can't get mine to sound anything like it. I was looking for a nice light overdrive, something that could add a bit of brightness to chords and picking. At present I either get a completely clean sound, a slightly washed out sounding overdrive with an annoying prominent bass end or a really lack-luster distortion I'm either doing something terribly wrong with it, or it's going to have to go back on e-bay. Anyone have any recommendations for a nice light overdrive pedal? - true bypass would be nice.
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Jun 5, 2009 16:44
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No need to go down the tube road to get a great overdrive. Check out the Paul Cochrane Timmy, it's $129 though there's a wait-list of a few months. Great sounding dirt. Here's a clip I recorded of it, showing off its dynamics and how I suck at guitar.
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Jun 5, 2009 17:00
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Well, I did it, I just placed an order for:   I have to wait for Zzounds to approve the play as you pay thing, but my credit is solid, so I should have them next week. I'm loving excited, it's my first tube amp!
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Jun 5, 2009 19:28
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Gorilla Salsa posted:Well, I did it, I just placed an order for: and an excellent tube amp to have. I play on a 2x12 deville regularly, and the clean tone just oozes with sick sick tone. Using a strat with it, definatley helps too. I dont jive with the OD channel, unless it can be turned up LOUD, which in my case, it cant be, but i just throw an OCD or TS-9 in front for my dirt and it takes them quite nicely. Congrats on the purchase
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Jun 5, 2009 21:25
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7 Bowls of Wrath posted:and an excellent tube amp to have. I play on a 2x12 deville regularly, and the clean tone just oozes with sick sick tone. Using a strat with it, definatley helps too. I dont jive with the OD channel, unless it can be turned up LOUD, which in my case, it cant be, but i just throw an OCD or TS-9 in front for my dirt and it takes them quite nicely. Congrats on the purchase Thanks! I'm probably going to toss in a Dr. Z Brake Lite so I can crank it, but worse comes to worse, there's always the White Light.
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Carbohydrates, you have such incredibly cool guitars. There is no one in this thread I'm more jealous of, and you're always getting something better. I know everyone's always razzing on Agreed, but your purchases are 6 and 7 thousand dollar guitars... And after all that, months of reading this thread, and you play through an eighties solid state Peavey? Purty surprising.
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Jun 5, 2009 23:43
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I bought an EUB: Click here for the full 600x800 image. From this guy: http://www.mandobassman.com/2x4.html If you've been considering getting an EUB I would highly recommend this one. This guy does an awesome job putting these together and they sound fantastic. I'm a little worried about the stability of the fir but for $130 I think I can deal with some slight warping. I honestly can't believe he's selling these for this cheap because he is obviously putting a lot of work into them. This will be the perfect stepping stone for when I one day upgrade to the real thing.
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Jun 6, 2009 03:52
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PoorPeteBest posted:I bought an EUB: Any chance you could post some sound clips of that thing?
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Los Padre posted:Carbohydrates, you have such incredibly cool guitars. There is no one in this thread I'm more jealous of, and you're always getting something better. I know everyone's always razzing on Agreed, but your purchases are 6 and 7 thousand dollar guitars... - I have never paid more than $4,700 for a guitar - That Peavey is a 65 watt AB tube amp - no solid states here. It's also far from stock. - I use other amps, too, I just love that one the most!
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Carbohydrates posted:Thanks, but there are a few factual errors there: You had that amp listed as a Bandit before I would have sworn. I about peed when I saw you were running that gorgeous LP thru a lovely solid state amp. ] Now that I look closer I can see it is indeed a Bravo, which were amazing sounding amps for the money. If yours is tweaked I bet it sounds amazing.
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I had never heard of the Bravo before...how is it at high-gain modern distortion type tones?
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warwick5s posted:I had never heard of the Bravo before...how is it at high-gain modern distortion type tones?
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Right now Guitar Center is offering the Gibson Faded SG w/bag for $700 flat. If it didn't have dot inlays I'd be $700 poorer right now. e: I don't play bass but this looks like vintage sex: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/msg/1206011666.html Thoogsby fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Jun 6, 2009 |
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Jun 6, 2009 22:45
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Thoogsby posted:
Nice. Definitely not original and WAY overpriced. Original SBs had two of the mini-humbuckers. Should be $500-600 tops. Scarf fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jun 6, 2009 |
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Jun 6, 2009 22:57
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As soon as I'm done paying of that drat HRDV 410 (August  ), this will likely be the next item to feel the gentle caress of my hard-earned dollars. Maybe alongside a new bass amp? (thinking this regarding that purchase)Scarf, while you're here, can I get your opinion?
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Jun 6, 2009 23:19
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New amp next to my bass. http://stashbox.org/525909/new-amp.jpg
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Gorilla Salsa posted:As soon as I'm done paying of that drat HRDV 410 (August Unfortunately I have no experience with either Spector basses or Acoustic amps =\ Although I can say that Spectors are well respected... I've just never played one. I'd head over to Talkbass dot com and do some searches. Edit: As for the amp, just looking at the specs, it seems a tad underpowered. Especially the package as sold... The head is capable of 200w at 4ohms, little weak for a gigging situation. Plus the cabinet that comes with it is only 8ohms, so you'll be getting MAYBE 100w out of that setup as is. Scarf fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jun 7, 2009 |
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Scarf posted:As for the amp, just looking at the specs, it seems a tad underpowered. Especially the package as sold... The head is capable of 200w at 4ohms, little weak for a gigging situation. Plus the cabinet that comes with it is only 8ohms, so you'll be getting MAYBE 100w out of that setup as is. This amp would basically be for home use and recording, I'm by no means anything beyond an amateur bassist. I'd heard great things about the sound quality of it on Talkbass, though, and it's definitely within my price range, so I thought it'd be a great starter/recording bass amp. Unfortunately the local music shop is worthless and I refuse to shop there, and the Guitar Center in San Antonio doesn't have one that works, but I won't have the money for a while anyway, so I'll probably just wait. EDIT: L1quid posted:New amp next to my bass.
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 I just bought this, but I need to wait for five more days for the police hold to lift, since it's used and there is a mandatory 30 day waiting period to make sure nobody reports it stolen or anything. Anyone ever used one?
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h_double posted:Any chance you could post some sound clips of that thing? Here's a quick and dirty recording of a C scale:  I've never played an upright before so I'm still getting used to the whole thing. Please excuse the shoddy playing. I have the bass hooked up to a Roland Bass Cube 100. The EQ is flat and I've added just a touch of reverb and compression. EDIT: Woah, did not realize how out of tune it was. These weedwacker strings take forever to stretch. This should be slightly better:  Also included a lame little 1-5 thing. The clicking is the strings hitting the fretboard. I don't know if that's technique or just these strings. They do seem much noisier than the strings on my P-Bass, although I don't hear them clicking when the amp volume is up. PoorPeteBest fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jun 7, 2009 |
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Gorilla Salsa posted:which one is that? It looks like it might be an Ampeg BA115(HP?) How do you like it, if so? That is indeed the Ampeg BA115. So far I love it. Using my bass pod along with it really gives me what I was looking for, tone-wise. Which is something similar to Jeff Ament's sound, mostly.
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Purchased a DIY job based on my specifications and over the weekend I had made a tremolo arm for my weird but wonderful tele. All at the cost of a can of beer. (The plug is stupid and angled and the pots are going to be relocated in better positions, frets&board will be cleant up, etc, I've got it all in check  )
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Ok so not really new or even that recent... but I took the majority of the pickguard off my '78 Ibby P-bass (whoever owned it before me cut it into two pieces). I really like the way it looks like this For comparison: 
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MrLonghair posted:Purchased a DIY job based on my specifications and over the weekend I had made a tremolo arm for my weird but wonderful tele. That is loving awesome. Make sure you put in some coil taps when you do the re-wiring.
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 PARTS. Two big bags of test leads, piezo discs, photoresistors, breadboard, ICs, 1/4" female connectors, etc. It's time to get down and dirty.
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HangRoose posted:Man, I love the look of that neck and the design on the body. That's a real nice ensemble you got there. Do you have a project blog or anything? For my next bass I was thinking a '51 pbass, but after seeing the prices I thought it'd be a lot more fun to build one. Do you have any resources that you could link me to? No blog, it has taken me forever to get things moving. The end game is supposed to be where that guitar has a graphtech ghost system in it which can do midi out, which I will use a midi controller for my ableton live setup. I think some other dude on here has the same idea. I bought all my parts from warmoth.com, which is where I get all my guitars. You can get an incredible instrument for $<1500, and certainly less thank $1k if you shop around. You can also sometimes find people's warmoth builds on craigslist or ebay for cheap (they don't have a great resale value)
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 I got the keeley modded one, which apparently gives me more gain and fixes some of the low end loss. Looking to try it out today, should be arriving on my doorstep soon... I hope this fixes my low-gain sound
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Jun 8, 2009 20:26
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My zzounds purchase of the aforementioned HRDV 410 and Big Muff Pi have been approved, but they didn't ship
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   Just a cruddy lil Squier strat that I picked up for $35. Mix in a new black pickguard, black hardtail bridge, black jack/jackplate and then some passive diode distortion, an esquire mod with some coil tap, killswitch and a GFS Dream 180 (in gold, was going to get black, but got a deal) and we've got a rock machine. Will post pics when finished. I love making cheap guitars into frankencasters.
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Got an ESP LTD F-50 and Peavey Vypyr 15 modeling amp recently. Loving them both! Also ordered the EMG 81/85 Zakk Wylde pickups set. Can't wait for this to come in. 
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Ettiave posted:Got an ESP LTD F-50 and Peavey Vypyr 15 modeling amp recently. Loving them both! Did you get the tube or solid state version? I'm assuming solid state, just from the size, but congrats either way!
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  Click here for the full 821x1095 image. Godin Detour: Short scale, 2 godin designed humbuckers, maple body and neck with poplar wings, and a hardtail with a brass plate in the back. This is my second guitar and its like the total opposite of my stratocaster. The neck is finished really well, and this thing has fantastic sustain. The pickups are well suited for jazz and blues, but not really for harder stuff than that. I picked it up with a case and some extra goodies for $175 Canadian which is an absolute steal. Just gotta re-string it, which will give me a chance to clean up the fretboard a bit.
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Stabbing Spork posted:
That's really awesome! I just hate the fact that every Godin I've seen has really weird/tacky/silly colours. This is actually one of the more conservative ones I've seen :\ Amazing deal though, $175 CDN (jesus christ thats amazing)!
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Just bought this, just waiting for it to arrive now. Edit: Metal Foundry looks like the poo poo. I must have it.
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Just Chompin' posted:Edit: Metal Foundry looks like the poo poo. I must have it. For real that is on my hitlist. TomasHaakeTomasHaakeTomasHaakeTomasHaakeTomasHaakeTomasHaakeTomasHaakeTom
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Gorilla Salsa posted:As soon as I'm done paying of that drat HRDV 410 (August Could I reccomend this as a $500 alternative? http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Kustom-Groove-310C-Bass-Combo-Amp?sku=480765 Yes, it weighs a gently caress ton and is not pretty, but it seems to be a drat good deal! I just bought this...I'll post pics when it gets here in July.
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I'm a whore. I just bought a matched quad of Tung Sol 6550s and 5 JJ 12ax7s to see how it changes my amp
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I just got this in, and picked up a used amp today: It's a Blue Star Mandoblaster, a 5 string solid body electric mandolin. I'm in love with it, as is everyone else who's seen it. Sounds amazing. I'll take some of my own pictures later.
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Gorilla Salsa posted:Did you get the tube or solid state version? I'm assuming solid state, just from the size, but congrats either way! Only the 60W and 120W Vypyrs are the 6L6 tube versions. I have a 30W Vypyr, and it's loads of fun.
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