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This may sound super corny, but it actually means a lot to me that you guys are buying a pick that I designed with Vinni just because I was involved with it, even if you're not really a thick pick fan and even though it's still early enough that the only existing pictures of it are here in this thread, not on the V-Picks store... Y'all rock!  HollisBrown posted:Agreed, can you talk Vinny into selling me a thumb pick for less than $20? I really want to try it but $20 is too much investment for something I might hate. Two things... First, probably not? I mean, not at all trying to be rude, but I think I might have exhausted my Vinni clout for a bit - just picturing in my head how does that conversation go, "hey man I appreciate the fact that you made my pick idea come to life but now I really need you to hook me up with some discounts on picks now!" - I would feel kind of like I was abusing his goodwill, abundant though it seems to be, he was just cool enough to make my pick idea into a reality  Second, does he still sell the thumb pick? I can't find it on the site... Maybe one he decided not to keep making. ricecult posted:Having this, I would recommend it. It definitely has more boost than you need, but that doesn't seem like too bad a problem to have, you just don't need to turn it too high. It can be a clean boost, but I think it's most useful as a way to add a little gain and tweak the tone. It has three different very distinct settings, which are all worth having. I'm sure there pedals that do each thing a little better, but this does them all really well. Worth the cost for a good swiss army knife kinda thing. Yeah, my favorite boosts are, by far, dirty boosts. Preferably ones with an emphasis on treble harmonics. For a while Wampler Pedals made my favorite boost, which just had a kind of goofy name and I figure that's what ended up causing it to be discontinued in the end... The Talent Booster. I really like how a simple JFET sounds when overdriven slightly, and the JFET used in the Talent Booster had a great character for that. It was not an overdrive plus a bunch of volume, even at max gain it didn't add much audible crunch to the signal. The three position frequency center switch was pretty dang useful, too, from full boost to treble/presence boost. My other two favorite boosts are the SHO, which is neat in its simplicity but not as neat as the 2-in-1 'cause that's got a volume knob and a better way to control gain, and Rangemaster style dirty treble boosts. Tim/Timmy can make a hell of a dirty boost pedal, in no small part because it's both a capable clean boost AND a nice overdrive - combine the functions and cut the heck out of the bass while leave in most of the treble and it's a nice treble boost without any mid hump. Careful how much treble you leave in, though, some mid hump is good for tight boosting. I would like to try the Spark booster, it seems to combine some features I value with a good control scheme that looks very promising for shaping your boost to a given use case. comes along bort posted:AMT's been making those for a while now too. Yeah, the idea's been around for a while. I don't know if their method is the same as this one, this reminds me very specifically of a similarly color coded demo that was shown at NAMM 2011 and confused the poo poo out of me at the time because it seemed like it was explicitly transistorizing tube amps and who would want to do that? But they aren't expensive, really, and hell I might give some a shot just because. It seems like part to part consistency is going to be higher than tubes, which, no big surprise there. Also sounds to my ears like the gain on each is probably going to be higher than tubes, even the ones intended to simulate 12AT7/12AU7s. The Red ones sound a lot hotter than any 12AX7. I think it's kinda funny how they're leaning hard on analog as the marketing phrase, but I probably would too if I were trying to sell people solid state devices that work like tubes. It is pretty cool that they can be used in any capacity where the same pinout would be used, so you can get solid state rectification in amps that normally wouldn't support it, or a solid state phase inverter, or effects loop or reverb tank... etc. I don't know in what applications it would offer appreciable benefits but... well, it sure is neat 
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I might get a Spark soon to compare with my OD808 as a boost. TC is making incredible pedals. I want to try nearly every pedal they have in their lineup right now, can't say that about any other similar company. Definitely grabbing one of these awesome picks as well
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I wish you could record the ensuing conversation regarding the bizarre ordering dynamics of your sig pick. Edit: Btw. Where's the trans-purple Special Edition? I needs color coordination!!!
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Agreed posted:This may sound super corny, but it actually means a lot to me that you guys are buying a pick that I designed with Vinni just because I was involved with it, even if you're not really a thick pick fan and even though it's still early enough that the only existing pictures of it are here in this thread, not on the V-Picks store... Y'all rock! Yeah it was mostly a joke, I'd love to try one because the only nylon picks I'm using these days are fingerpicks and they wear too fast and they could sound better too. He will make them to order, I emailed him about one a while ago, but he said he wasn't selling enough of them to make it worth mass producing them.
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Xabi posted:re: Soldano talk: How good is the Jet City JCA 20H? I've only listened to some youtube vids and they sounds pretty good, but I'd appreciate some more info if possible. On this topic, how good are the 5w Picovalves? I've been looking for a little tube amp to play in my house when I'm not out in the barn playing full blast, and something that would still sound good with my pedals attached to it. Or if not a jet city, does anyone have suggestions for a 5-10w tube amp? For reference, my full size stack is an Orange TH100, and I have definitely looked at the micro terror as well, I'm just trying to gauge my options.
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boxcarhobo posted:On this topic, how good are the 5w Picovalves? I've been looking for a little tube amp to play in my house when I'm not out in the barn playing full blast, and something that would still sound good with my pedals attached to it. Or if not a jet city, does anyone have suggestions for a 5-10w tube amp? For reference, my full size stack is an Orange TH100, and I have definitely looked at the micro terror as well, I'm just trying to gauge my options. Not good enough to keep Andy Marshall Designs/THD involved in the affairs of Jet City, but beyond that, can't speculate. I loving love my THD Univalve, and will never part with it. If the Picovalve is somehow ~almost as good as it is, but super cheap, in the same way that the Jet City 20W Soldano clone is ~almost as good as it is, but super cheap, then it's going to sound lovely. No promises, though, have heard mixed things and I don't know the story behind Andy Marshall's departure from Jet City Amplification at all.
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Just picked up this bad boy from Andertons in England. I really like the design philosophy of Chapman guitars. All the expensive to replace stuff: body, neck, fretboard, tuners etc is all top of the line stuff. Easily replaceable stuff like pickups are as cheap as can be (but do still sound good). Probably gonna swap out the stock pickups for SD Distortions or some flavour of Bare Knuckle pickups. Chapman ML-1 in trans black  And to go with it I think I have finally achieved my dream of ball-tingling metal distortion at bedroom volume levels. Blackstar ID30TVP 
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Nigel Tufnel posted:Just picked up this bad boy from Andertons in England. I really like the design philosophy of Chapman guitars. All the expensive to replace stuff: body, neck, fretboard, tuners etc is all top of the line stuff. Easily replaceable stuff like pickups are as cheap as can be (but do still sound good). Probably gonna swap out the stock pickups for SD Distortions or some flavour of Bare Knuckle pickups. I really like the video reviews they do with Rob Chapman. I've always wondered how his guitar line is. How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking?
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HollisBrown posted:Yeah it was mostly a joke, I'd love to try one because the only nylon picks I'm using these days are fingerpicks and they wear too fast and they could sound better too. Ahh, I didn't know the details of that. Hm... I don't know, I agree that nylon fingerpicks are a pain in the rear end when it comes to wear characteristics but I think it's partly a necessary evil because they flex so well, which is kinda important when fitting them and all that. I actually don't have a V-Picks fingerpick! There was a brief period where I experimented with them but I didn't gel and so that was that (I don't really do much fingerpicking anyway, so the killer feature of having your cake and eating it too wasn't really all that killer for me). It's cool that he'll make them to order, I do remember seeing some folks back at launch (summer 2011? iirc?) spreading positive word of mouth but I guess it didn't catch on. And yeah $20 is a lot for a pick, but if I've found anything to be true, it's that if you do business with Vinni (or a lot of the boutique pick guys) it comes back to you in terms of how well you get to know 'em and the relationship you form over time. It's one of the nicer aspects of boutique as opposed to mass produced - they can't afford to do the kind of production practices that make picks really cheap, or they're using materials that most people wouldn't think of using for a pick, but you really get to know them and vice versa. Sorry I didn't catch the joke, I was INCREDIBLY tired last night. Like, falling asleep at the keyboard tired. My bad, man, that's on me! iostream.h posted:I wish you could record the ensuing conversation regarding the bizarre ordering dynamics of your sig pick. Haha, I don't know what is bizarre about it, you'll have to unpack that for me. As far as colors, I personally would love to see it in the Emerald Green color he uses for the Venom However, the only other color I've seen him do the thickness in is the Onyx, which is a black dye doped acrylic that feels a bit different from his standard stuff (all the colored versions do, and of course the pearloid varieties he uses are a totally different thing and feel and sound way different from his standard clear cast acrylic). The Onyx comes in all of the same thicknesses as he proto'd the Infinity in, buuuut I don't think he'd want to do this one in that material since it's pretty different, and might be hard to work with in terms of getting the buffed/unbuffed thing just right. This is me speculating, though.Weird little note about the Onyx, too - I find the extremely sharp (almost stylus pointed) bevel on the Psycho Shredder to be difficult to play with compared to the Onyx 5.85mm, even though they have identical pointed bevels (well, the Onyx has two Nexus style and one Psycho Shredder style). It's something to do with the plastic on the Onyx being different there.
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iostream.h posted:That's the one that some random hippy showed up with at our practice one day (he was a friend of a friend sort of thing) and proceeded to melt faces with. The manufacturer that makes the Jet City amps does a hell of a job; my company sources some amps from them as well. I'm intending on meeting with them next week at NAMM to discuss some amp ideas that I have. I want them to make me a combo that is pentode/triode 40w/20w, with the preamp inspired by a few old Marshalls (multi-channel so that you can get clean, dirty, and full blown cascading gain melt your face goodness). My biggest sticking point is that the transformers have to be top notch, the pots cannot be mounted directly to the PCB board, and the wood for the cabinet has to be some nice pine. I've been putting off making a thread, but I think I'll write it up during my flight on Saturday.
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The Grapist posted:The manufacturer that makes the Jet City amps does a hell of a job; my company sources some amps from them as well. I'm intending on meeting with them next week at NAMM to discuss some amp ideas that I have. I want them to make me a combo that is pentode/triode 40w/20w, with the preamp inspired by a few old Marshalls (multi-channel so that you can get clean, dirty, and full blown cascading gain melt your face goodness). My biggest sticking point is that the transformers have to be top notch, the pots cannot be mounted directly to the PCB board, and the wood for the cabinet has to be some nice pine.
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iostream.h posted:If you're not beholden to that corporate connection, give Curt over at Granger Amps a call. I'd be surprised if he couldn't get you squared away. Good dude, lots of fun to talk to and hang out with and makes some ridiculously awesome stuff. It's not for me, it's for line of musical instruments that I run. I launch the brass and winds lines next week, string instruments in a few months. I'm looking to add a new line of amps to the fold. And guitars, and eventually pedals .... Ever hear of Jean Baptiste and Carlo Robelli? 
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The Grapist posted:It's not for me, it's for line of musical instruments that I run. I launch the brass and winds lines next week, string instruments in a few months. I'm looking to add a new line of amps to the fold. And guitars, and eventually pedals ....
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I am tempted to try to persuade you to make the Ultimate Awful Guitar. All the best (if not expensive) design ideas, body shapes, and concepts. It'd be a fun exercise - I can imagine us trying to convince each other on color schemes.
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I don't think I've ever really disliked a guitar paintjob except for like pink paisley
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iostream.h posted:Oh, holy crap man, awesome and congratulations! Thanks, it's a pretty exciting (and nerve-racking) project. The parent company started out the brands 82 years ago as a house brand for a single store in Brooklyn and has now decided to enter the big leagues. I've spent the last few months tinkering around with woodwinds (since I'm a sax and guitar player, woodwinds were the easiest one for me to tweak). I've traveled to China, Vietnam and Taiwan trying out new horns from the same factories that make Sonares, Cannonballs, P. Mauriats, etc. I've tweaked the necks and head joints on the saxophones and flutes, respectively, and I'm introducing some upper level saxes and trumpets. Modernized Mark VI saxes and Martin Committee trumpets. This will be my third year going to NAMM, but my first year with a booth. I've never worked one before, and now I'm running one!  Warcabbit posted:I am tempted to try to persuade you to make the Ultimate Awful Guitar. All the best (if not expensive) design ideas, body shapes, and concepts. I think I may be a step ahead of you on that. I sent some specifications out that were incredibly detailed. Down to the measurements of the size of the AlNiCo magnet bars and the number of winds per bobbin.
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Goon Guitars dot com, awfulest guitars guaranteed, or you get a free fedora!
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Warcabbit posted:I am tempted to try to persuade you to make the Ultimate Awful Guitar. All the best (if not expensive) design ideas, body shapes, and concepts. There's a guy in the Ugly Guitars thread over in gbs who's been dared to make the ultimate terrible instrument. Dunno what the status is.
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I got a really funny/cool phone call from my Dad today. He's in his 70's, plays mostly through his MESA/Boogie MkIII, has a tc electronics chorus, and a room full of Jazz Hhollowbodies and a few choice solid-body electrics (one of which is a jazz Tele he built himself from ordered parts.) I took my swamp ash Ibanez with the Eric Johnson DiMarzios up to Christmas and plugged my PODHD into on of Dad's "reference" stereos. Talking about an ancient set of JBL Studio Monitors, here. Big ones. I ran through my multi amp setups (blues/Marshall/Dual Rectos) and he was impressed, but then while futzing around with the built-in presets I landed on the Hammond B3 Organ and he flipped out. He called today to tell me he found a PODHD on Sweetwater for $199 (he's very cheap) and wanted to know how to hook it up. I'm trying to picture my 74 y.o. Dad getting into amp modeling gear, for the organ no less, and it's just cracking me up. He wants me to come back home and show him how to use it. He's a hardcore RTFM guy, so I figure he'll be alright. My Dad has only ever had vintage or vintage reissue Teles, Strats, and Les Pauls, with a Fender Twin, a Sundown, and now the MkIII. The he went all Jazz Box. Adding a Line6 PODHD to the mix is just... surprising to say the least. He found some old Gibson amp in it and is having a blast. I'm happy for him. When I told him he could connect it to his PC and download user patches he was just stunned. I gotta go watch him play with this thing. He's a Chet Atkins/dark Jazz Dad. I like the Pink Paisley teles and the Blue Paisley ones, too. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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I went over to my dad's house for guitar talk the other week and when I was showing off a new bag of mine, he commented that the shoulder strap would make a really good guitar strap. It's this one: http://www.tombihn.com/accessories/TB0505.html Curved, fabric-backed neoprene designed for the weight of luggage. I managed to make this:  It works very very well, he was totally right.
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 I picked up this late 60's McMartin Six channel mic preamp on ebay for $30. It's an early solid state unit with transformer coupled input on each channel and completely discrete transistor circuits in the audio path. It needed all new capacitors, and I had to replace the XLR input jacks on the back since they were all male, with new Amphenol female XLR jacks. Back in the 60's, there still wasn't any real standardization in terms of XLR gender, or even the pinouts of the jacks themselves. McMartin made a lot of equipment for the broadcast industry, and most of their designs were either outright clones, or heavily influenced by well known RCA and Altec circuits. It has a warm, almost tubey sound, that can border on wooly and lo-fi if you get crazy with the tone controls, along with a ton of gain, which is adjustable. Sounds really good with ribbon or vintage dynamic mics. I also added a little 48V DC power supply that throws phantom power on the inputs with a flick of a toggle switch on the back. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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Koth posted:I really like the video reviews they do with Rob Chapman. I've always wondered how his guitar line is. How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking? I thought the original ones they did were kinda godawful to play, but the newer ones look really nice. I was thinking about getting one for a while. Rob's a great dude - I went to a clinic of his, fantastic teacher.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:Just picked up this bad boy from Andertons in England. I really like the design philosophy of Chapman guitars. All the expensive to replace stuff: body, neck, fretboard, tuners etc is all top of the line stuff. Easily replaceable stuff like pickups are as cheap as can be (but do still sound good). Probably gonna swap out the stock pickups for SD Distortions or some flavour of Bare Knuckle pickups. Just wanted to let you know that I saw your post of picking up the ID30TVP, and thought "huh, I had no clue Blackstar was doing the whole solid-state modeling thing". I really am not a guy who constantly shops gear though, so there's that. I started looking into them and was impressed at their take on modeling. I'm quite happy with my Mustang I, but it does have its limitations at times tonally, and I'm not terribly bolted to the idea of a vintage sound, which the Mustang does excel at. Anywhoo... Christmas money + an hour at the local shop playing this thing and there's now one sitting in the back of my car destined for my living room. The thing is pretty drat amazing. First time I've played my Strat's bridge pickup through any amp and actually...liked it.
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Agreed posted:Not good enough to keep Andy Marshall Designs/THD involved in the affairs of Jet City, but beyond that, can't speculate. After doing a little research, I found that the picovalve actually is a THD/Andy Marshall joint. This thing sounds perfect for what I want, and Hellomusic has it for $179... I can't really justify it this month, but if I could find one near me, I'd pull the trigger in a heartbeat. I may take a look around at the GuitarCenter / Sam Ash in Raleigh if I go today, but I doubt they'll have it. e: oh I get what you mean, they severed ties after this was made 
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I ordered the V-Pick starter pack and one of Agreed's Signature Picks But not just here for pick chat. I also got some new guitar stuff (but it's not really worth taking pics of). I got a Tremel-No for my Mockingbird, so I could put the D-Tuna I also got for it. They both work pretty great, for the 2 or 3 songs I need to play in Drop D. I also bought some DR Neon strings for my Les Paul, because it makes Rocksmith easier, but now my guitar looks loving ridiculous.
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OH NO THEY SENT ME AN INSANITY AND NOT AN INFINITY guess I'll call them on Monday? I mean it's sorta neat I guess but I don't want a pick that thick (I think?). edit: wait holy poo poo the insanity is $35?! what
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Managed to sell a bunch of gear I hadn't been using for the longest time, now I can finally afford all of those little stupid purchases that are hard to justify when you've got billz to pay: Just placed an order with GFS: • GFS ceramic mini humbuckers (Mini Crunchy 8.6K for bridge, which I'll put in neck, and a 12k Hot Mini Crunchy for bridge, which I'll put in bridge) to play around with in my SG Special 60s Tribute, which effectively turns it into a 70s Tribute, except white, and with ceramic humbuckers for better response to attack as opposed to the stock alnico P90s that get all flubby at lower tunings.  • 4xPush/Push 500ohm DPDT pots just to have around for experimentation.  • 4x1megohm alpha pots just to have them around. <img src=use_your_imagination.jpg> • Also bought a handful of mini 12mm 3PDT footswitches because my AMT WH-1 crapped out, the switch stopped clicking entirely, so I took it apart and found out it's got the weirdest small size of of 3PDT that apparently only one company on eBay is selling. Next up: • Conductive shielding paint. • Gotoh GE103B-T-GG bridge with screwdriver adjustable posts for my Reverse V, because gently caress regular ABR/Nashville bridges and their stupid motherfucking thumbwheels. My digital calipre ran out of juice so I've gotta go buy a battery to see if all the important measurements match up to the Nashville first. • Steinberger gearless tuners?? Maybe maybe not. • Another Zebra Classic 57. XYZAB fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Personal opinion here but I feel like copper foil is easier/quicker to put on for shielding than the paint. It takes forever to dry and stinks, and you need to do multiple coats. With the copper foil you can be done in 30 mins. Plus it looks like a space ship when you open it up and see all the shiny inside.
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My v-picks shipped! I didn't know anyone still used Juno for email, though.
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Got my picks in   This one is made out of green plastic so I can only figure that it has some NASA materials going into its production. Its made by fender I believe but it must be apart of their roadworn series as it has been made to look vintage and the writing is all faded.  This Dunlop wunderkind is truly amazing. Made with the highest grade materials sourced from deep within the Amazonian jungle nothing stops this guy. Notice how there is not even a hint of point anywhere on the pick allowing you to hold it however you like! Dunlop must know that I am a huge Big Black era Albini fan because these picks are built to split in two after a couple of uses so that you can have two points of attack! Truly forward thinking design.  If you really want to turn heads get this pick. Made with a mixture of nickel and copper it will lead to a truly unique sound as you slam this pick up and down those strings. Also good for helping decide which band member has to transport the drums, opening beers and paying a toll. I hope to have some more to show off soon to you guys. Stravinsky fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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Nice haul! What kind of tonal response do you get from the green Fender?
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comes along bort posted:Nice haul! What kind of tonal response do you get from the green Fender? It has some sick nasty distortion with tons of low end that I can feel rocking my molars.
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Stravinsky posted:It has some sick nasty distortion with tons of low end that I can feel rocking my molars. Awesome. I've been looking for something to dirty up my tone when I'm looking to bring the RAWK, and after going through the usual Fulltone/Barber/Timmy/Wampler/Klone/Zendrive/etc. I still haven't found that sound. I'll have to keep a lookout for those picks.
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The nickel/copper pick is from 1990. If you actually knew how to shred you would realize that was one of the worst years. 1982-1985, specifically ones made in the months of january and august, are the best for having a solid vintage beef tone. Also when you want to get real you'll post a sideview to show off how many ridges there are around it. Or maybe you won't because you're not in tune enough with your gear to smell the added harmonics. TGP out.
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