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Kilometers Davis posted:Vague question incoming, is there anything I can do with say, a boss mt-2 or wah mod wise without anything other than an iron? I want to mess around with pedals today but I don't have any components or anything around. With some risk to the circuit, you could try some circuit bends by way of soldering in some jumpers to short across and bypass circuit stages, or in the case of the MT-2, you could edit out say, some clipping resistors or some feedback filtering components to change the character of the distortion. Looking at the MT-2 schematic [Will post it at the end], I'd be tempted to screw around with removing one or both of D003 or D004 first to see how it sounds assymetric or with that entire clipping stage removed. In lieu of having actual components on hand, you could also look into swapping caps around so long as the type, polarities and voltage ranges are observed, but that could get a little whacky or horribad depending on how you do it. It'll take a little thought and experimentation, but it can be done. Good luck! http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/boss-mt2-metal-zone.php
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Agrinja posted:With some risk to the circuit, you could try some circuit bends by way of soldering in some jumpers to short across and bypass circuit stages, or in the case of the MT-2, you could edit out say, some clipping resistors or some feedback filtering components to change the character of the distortion. Looking at the MT-2 schematic [Will post it at the end], I'd be tempted to screw around with removing one or both of D003 or D004 first to see how it sounds assymetric or with that entire clipping stage removed. In lieu of having actual components on hand, you could also look into swapping caps around so long as the type, polarities and voltage ranges are observed, but that could get a little whacky or horribad depending on how you do it. It'll take a little thought and experimentation, but it can be done. Good luck! Works for me, I think I'll gently caress around with that pedal a bit. I hate it so if I ruin the entire thing I don't really care. Just wanna tinker and keep getting better at solder work. Thanks for the link 
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I've been watching this thread forever and want to thank everyone that recommended the NYXLs. I finally picked some up and holy crap! I like them so much, I actually gave a set to a buddy to try. Honestly, I only did it because I ordered 3 sets off Amazon and they sent me 2 sets and a pack of 5. As someone who *constantly* breaks strings, I actually tried on these and couldn't. I went up to a 2mm pick and wailed like I was trying to get Townshend's attention for an hour and not only are they still intact, they stayed (mostly) in tune. Will be buying again.
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String stringy string string. So did the pot swaps on the Strat this weekend and while I had it tore apart I decided to test drive some GHS boomers. I mean, hey.. Gilmour is a bit of a hero, and I do have a Strat, so why not? I hate 'em. It's this weird mutey mid-forward bizzaro thing. They are suuuuper creamy in the upper register and if you sit and noodle Dorian up there it sounds period-correct Gilmour, but it just sounds craptastic. Maybe if I had his rather legendary processing. I dunno. Back to D'Addario tonight! Upside: 500k pots and a .022 uf orange drop on the Dimarzio Area's and Tone Zone S is a winner. Neck and Middle have crazy sheen once again and the bucker found its upper-mid groove. Night and day difference on that bridge bucker. I'm almost tempted to go back in and un-wire the coil tap now. It's just smooth as hell with the bigger pot.
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I got a dumb, niche as gently caress science question: should I trust this data sheet from JJ Electronics that their 6V6S will work in an amp that had 6V6GTA tubes? http://www.jj-electronic.com/pdf/6V6.pdf The amp is self biasing and even has the words "plug and play" all over the place in the manual and spec sheets. I just hope it doesn't put out too much power and cause some annoying damage down the signal path.
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Probably?? What amp is it?
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muike posted:Probably?? What amp is it? Egnater tweaker 112 (15w combo).
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wunderdog posted:I've been watching this thread forever and want to thank everyone that recommended the NYXLs. I finally picked some up and holy crap! I like them so much, I actually gave a set to a buddy to try. Honestly, I only did it because I ordered 3 sets off Amazon and they sent me 2 sets and a pack of 5. As someone who *constantly* breaks strings, I actually tried on these and couldn't. I went up to a 2mm pick and wailed like I was trying to get Townshend's attention for an hour and not only are they still intact, they stayed (mostly) in tune. Will be buying again. You're welcome. People complain about the price tag before realizing these strings not only sound bright until they're caked with your disgusting finger sweat-juice, but they won't snap even if you bend almost across the board. They are the best strings I've ever used.
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OhDearGodNo posted:You're welcome.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I got a dumb, niche as gently caress science question: should I trust this data sheet from JJ Electronics that their 6V6S will work in an amp that had 6V6GTA tubes? I just looked around and it seems cool to me. It seems like you can throw pretty much anything in it right away. Is that the amp's gimmick or something?
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Coolest thing about the nyxls is the voice of the plain g. It's very balanced sounding and doesn't have that awful weirdness that most non wound gs have. I have no idea how they achieve that but it's definitely a thing. Sounds better with chords than most as well.
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muike posted:I just looked around and it seems cool to me. It seems like you can throw pretty much anything in it right away. Is that the amp's gimmick or something? That's what I thought. According to a cursory search that amp uses 6v6GTAs which apparently are just a slightly higher power 6v6GT and the 6v6s seems to just be yet another higher power GTA. Thanks old rear end electronic companies for having all your datasheets online, this is exactly as annoying as buying any other discrete electronic components. The gimmick of the amp seems to be a 3 way toggle that switches tone circuits from marshal/vox/fender (I believe) and some other toggle switches that just don't work at high gain (but they have some cool sound choices when clean). It's not the greatest amp but I really like it and have beat the gently caress out of it over the past two years. Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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that sounds pretty cool for loving around with. i wish i could have a better clean channel on my amp at the flick of a switch
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It's confusing because it just says "BRIT/AC/USA" on the switch so that's just me guessing from what they sound like and there's drastic differences between them. For the price I'd suggest a super champ or something instead but I really just wanted to get something different.
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oh yeah at that price range, and from what i've got right now i'd just buy a fender combo, but it still sounds cool and fun.
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Something happened at the guitar store yesterday that I didn't expect. I took time to finally play an Epiphone Sheraton II, and I was blown away. I had heard they were nice, but semi-hollows weren't on my radar as something I cared about until I played it. It isn't prohibitively expensive at $600, but it also isn't something that I would use that often. Is their a hive consensus on 335/Sheraton clones? A few quick google searches tells me that Sheratons, Artcores, Washburns, and Dots all run in pretty similar price brackets on the used market ($400, give or take, from what I'm seeing). Then there are some clones that come new in the same price range (the Agile offering at $400) and some that are cheaper (the Xaviere at Guitarfetish at just under $300), but the used market is small enough as to be nonexistent. Should I just be patient for a deep discount used Sheraton? I would only be interested in anything that had the same neck profile as the Sheraton, so if anyone can jump start my research by scratching some of these options off my list from that regard, it would be appreciated. I already have a baseball bat neck on my Tele.
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China is just really on the ball lately making good guitars. Or you could have played an older Korean/Peerless made one, which would still be around that price used. Those Sheratons are really solid guitars. The only latest Epiphone I really had a bad taste for was the Riviera P93. The bridge pups on the few I tried had a nasty shim under them them bring them up closer to the strings. Really screwed with the aesthetics. But this was first run and I hear they've fixed it. I prefer the older Rivieras as well since they had the mini hums and trapeze on em but a blinged out Sheraton is cool too. Speaking of Chinese made guitars. Squier is up to something cool again. http://www.fender.com/squier/guitars/telecaster/squier-vintage-modified-72-tele-thinline-maple-fingerboard-natural/ 
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Thinking about grabbing one of those vm jaguars in surf green, anyone tried 'em? I loving love these chinese squiers and it would be a nice addition to my collection.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Thinking about grabbing one of those vm jaguars in surf green, anyone tried 'em? I loving love these chinese squiers and it would be a nice addition to my collection. You'll probably want to get a new bridge and electronics.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Thinking about grabbing one of those vm jaguars in surf green, anyone tried 'em? I loving love these chinese squiers and it would be a nice addition to my collection. Indonesia, actually  But I have the equivalent series Jazzmaster and apart from the flimsy bridge and somewhat glossy neck, VM series seems pretty drat good for the money.
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For gently caress's sake, the Fender reissue of that thinline was what I went into the store for some years ago, when I instead came out with my current weirdass Squier tele. I may have to consider obtaining it when I am re-employed.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Thinking about grabbing one of those vm jaguars in surf green, anyone tried 'em? I loving love these chinese squiers and it would be a nice addition to my collection. own it, love it. Replace the bridge with this: http://www.warmoth.com/Modified-Mustang-Bridge-Chrome-P616C716.aspx and put in whatever pups you want. go hog wild.
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You don't have to change the bridge. A shim, 12's, and loctite on the screws (and turning the bridge around so your strings don't hit the screws and all is fine. Might need a slight file to the low e if you're a more aggresive player (like me).
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I'd rather just go for a bridge honestly. Sounds rad though, I'll probably order one once I get money and Sweetwater gets some in. Are they by any chance comparable to the Mascis Jazzmaster stock in terms of quality? That guitar is incredible, the more I play it the harder it is to feel at home on most of my other guitars. I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I honestly, genuinely feel like the modern cheap squiers are my favorite guitars ever. I'm not even someone who cares about getting the best deals, there's just something about them. I can't praise Fender enough for putting this kind of instrument out there instead of the poo poo that used to be around 10 years ago.
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I've owned both a VM Jag and a JMJM, so I'd say "The one I had was great". In fact, after I finished all the tweaky setup stuff it played terrifically, better than the not-tweaked AVRI '62 Jag I had briefly than flipped. Just not into shortscale currently. JMJM is a terrific guitar as well, came with a nice setup and high build quality , but isn't as acoustically lively as I'd like and I'm starting to be not really into the pickups, so I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep it.
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Jeez dude why are replacement speakers so expensive? I just want to modify an old combo amp by removing the amp part, putting in a power conditioner in that space, replace the old speakers and wire in speaker jacks on the back so I can plug heads into it. So really just making it a cab with a single slot rack. But it's way cheaper to just buy a beat up cab and any lovely rack.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Jeez dude why are replacement speakers so expensive? I just want to modify an old combo amp by removing the amp part, putting in a power conditioner in that space, replace the old speakers and wire in speaker jacks on the back so I can plug heads into it. So really just making it a cab with a single slot rack. But it's way cheaper to just buy a beat up cab and any lovely rack. have you checked out warehouse guitar speakers? cheapish and very nice speakers
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My AMS debts are paid off and I'm trying not to get that TVL Jazzmaster. The tiny rear end old school neck radius is helping me so far.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:My AMS debts are paid off and I'm trying not to get that TVL Jazzmaster. But hellya lovely guitar. Note there's a similar Surf Green MIM jazzy coming out for 2015.
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Smash it Smash hit posted:have you checked out warehouse guitar speakers? cheapish and very nice speakers They're still $75 a piece. Oh well, I'll replace them later in the project then.
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I just bought a Peterson strobo tuner from Amazon - this one http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?category=168 I can't get the hang of it - the note detection seems off, so it will cycle very fast between bunch of different pitches when I'm trying to tune (I'm using it on a classical guitar). Does anyone use this kind of tuner and have any advice? I have it on the basic acoustic guitar setting.
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Well general tuner advice is to mute every string but the one you're playing, pluck the string with the pad of your thumb, and maybe do it over the 12th fret. The idea is to dampen all the harmonics and make the fundamental note stronger, so the tuner can latch onto that. Just in case... when you say it cycles fast, you're not talking about the actual strobing, right? They're meant to constantly move at different speeds until you're in tune, which is when they line up (like when a car wheel seems to stop moving)
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Whenever I'm tuning I usually play the string open, with the same type of pick I normally use, and with about the same strength as I would normally use while playing because I'm incredibly autistic and want poo poo calibrated to how I normally play.
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Spanish Manlove posted:They're still $75 a piece. Oh well, I'll replace them later in the project then. The Jensen MOD series are pretty good and a little bit cheaper than WGS.
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baka kaba posted:Well general tuner advice is to mute every string but the one you're playing, pluck the string with the pad of your thumb, and maybe do it over the 12th fret. The idea is to dampen all the harmonics and make the fundamental note stronger, so the tuner can latch onto that. Yeah, it's not the strobing itself - it's cycling between target pitches, like very quickly between E, A, F etc when I'm trying to tune the E string, for instance. Muting the other strings doesn't help. I'll try changing the battery. I ordered this tuner because it's supposed to be way more accurate than other clip-ons but the fact that it's impossible to use makes that point kind of moot. I guess I will just have to cover up my slight tuning imperfections with breathtakingly virtuosic playing.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Whenever I'm tuning I usually play the string open, with the same type of pick I normally use, and with about the same strength as I would normally use while playing because I'm incredibly autistic and want poo poo calibrated to how I normally play. Sometimes autism is practical, like in this case.
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Well the 6v6S sounds like total poo poo and is terrible so I ordered some of the exact same tubes that were in the amp before. Learned my lesson this time. Kids, replace things with the exact same component. Edit: while I was doing this I bought a power conditioner as well since I really wanted one.
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I find myself using the polytune app on my iPhone a lot. If you strum all the strings you see which are out of tune right away. It doesn't have a lot of options for alternate tunings though, with just drop tuning option and reference frequency setting.
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Gilgameshback posted:Yeah, it's not the strobing itself - it's cycling between target pitches, like very quickly between E, A, F etc when I'm trying to tune the E string, for instance. Muting the other strings doesn't help. I'll try changing the battery. Did you try the thumb pad / middle of the string trick? It's like rolling off the tone knob on an electric guitar - when you pluck a string you get the fundamental note (which you want the tuner to measure) and then a collection of other harmonic notes on top of that, which is what gives the instrument its tone. If your tuner is hearing all kinds of stuff, it might be getting confused by those harmonics, which is why damping them can help Also I didn't see if it reads from a mic or vibrations, but you might want to adjust the clamping position too
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Gilgameshback posted:I just bought a Peterson strobo tuner from Amazon - this one I have one of these, picked it up for intonation and similar. Mine tends to like to wig out sometimes like that, especially if I try to pick too near the bridge. Generally it helps to mute the strings and wait a second, then pick closer to the 12th fret, but the waiting a second with the strings damped seems to help the most for me.
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