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TheChaosPath
Jul 22, 2005

Action is setup.

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Fair Hallion
Jul 25, 2007

:toot: :toot: :toot: :toot:

GreatGreen posted:

Not every day you see people as delusional as Romeo Rose.

Dude might as well be $50,000 for that thing.

Do you think this is HIM ?? It's another level of funny if it's him.

I wonder if he got many responses to his $10/Hour babysitting service

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

nah, that posting's from nashville

and also, there is no such thing as a romeo rose posting that doesn't include a photo of himself showing off those massive horseteeth

sout
Apr 24, 2014

http://www.nme.com/news/research-finds-mp3s-make-music-sound-depressing-1895907

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Good thing I only ever listen to "angry" music.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...



How long until apple starts loading huge amounts of storage and creates iFLAC or something

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

Shugojin posted:

How long until apple starts loading huge amounts of storage and creates iFLAC or something

Apple Lossless is already a thing, they just don't sell music in the format.

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Shugojin posted:

How long until apple starts loading huge amounts of storage and creates iFLAC or something

flac is also a compressed format

Schpyder
Jun 13, 2002

Attackle Grackle

The Muppets On PCP posted:

flac is also a compressed format

It's not compression that's the problem, it's really lossy compression.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
these loss edits are getting super abstract now

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.namm.org/issues-and-advocacy/regulatory-compliance/cites-update-commercial-rosewood-and-bubinga

meh rosewood fretboards suck anyway

TheChaosPath
Jul 22, 2005

...because they hold the frets wrong?

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
it's the dane cook of fretboard woods

Schpyder
Jun 13, 2002

Attackle Grackle

just give me ebony or one of those dope composite materials

unlawfulsoup
May 12, 2001

Welcome home boys!
Rosewood is a good fingerboard wood, hth.

TheChaosPath
Jul 22, 2005

unlawfulsoup posted:

Rosewood is a good fingerboard wood, hth.

Yeah, cause you can put frets in it. Seemed pretty straightforward to me, too.

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

I like rosewood a lot. Feels and sounds great. Sometimes the grain can be absolutely gorgeous but honestly more companies need to look towards the future and work on newer fretboard ideas. We don't have to stick to the same wood we've been using forever.

unlawfulsoup
May 12, 2001

Welcome home boys!

TheChaosPath posted:

Yeah, cause you can put frets in it. Seemed pretty straightforward to me, too.

Visually it looks nice and it feels nice; I don't buy into tone mumbo jumbo. Honestly, I am fine with it being limited to save the trees.

Kilometers Davis posted:

We don't have to stick to the same wood we've been using forever.

Agreed. That said, not the biggest fan of richlite.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Literally every guitar I own has a rosewood fretboard and I'm not even sure why or how this happened

I lust after a maple fretboarded tele it just never seems to happen

Verizian
Dec 18, 2004
The spiky one.
I need to get back in contact with that guy who 3D printed fingerboards out of a composite resin mixed with powdered metals and ”tonewood pulp” even though he agreed tone wood was bullshit.

It made pretty patterns to swirl through blasts of ebony, mahogany, and brass dust then tint different layers of the resin to build up a depth effect.

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Shugojin posted:

Literally every guitar I own has a rosewood fretboard and I'm not even sure why or how this happened

because there were few regulations on harvesting endangered tree species

Dr. Faustus
Feb 18, 2001

Grimey Drawer
Visually I've always preferred Rosewood (or, if I could get it, ebony) yet here I am with a large-ish guitar collection and the majority of the fretboards are maple.

And in the end I'm totally cool with that because I love the way the fretboard ages.

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010

I'm personally pretty uncaring about the fretboard for most guitars. I think ebony is cooler than rosewood but not enough to worry about.

Except Strats and Teles should all be maple. That's a rule.

Thumposaurus
Jul 24, 2007

I just got given a bunch of free corian I'm thinking about making a fretless bass neck using it for the fretboard.

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Kilometers Davis posted:

We don't have to stick to the same wood we've been using forever.

or wood at all

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...



Let's get Elon Musk into guitars

you know, just to see what he ends up making

TheChaosPath
Jul 22, 2005

Shugojin posted:

Let's get Elon Musk into guitars

you know, just to see what he ends up making

Well, we already have the Gittler guitar so there's a pretty high bar set

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
maybe something that doesn't cost as much as a five year old honda accord

Barnaby Rudge
Jan 15, 2011

so your telling me you wasn't drunk or fucked up in anyway.when you had sex with me and that monkey
Soiled Meat

Thumposaurus posted:

I just got given a bunch of free corian I'm thinking about making a fretless bass neck using it for the fretboard.

Reinforce the poo poo out of the neck, corian doesn't like to flex too much!



I'm cool with this as those woods have been over-harvested to poo poo, the only reason Rosewood was originally used for electrics was because it was cheap. Lots of other options out there! It's not like man-made fretboard materials are a new thing, it's been around for ages

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again


The less wood in a guitar the worse it sounds in my experience. I'm all for seeing that balance shifted and would play the heck out of a great sounding synthetic material guitar but so far I haven't been impressed.

GreatGreen
Jul 3, 2007
That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.
As long as I can still get dark brown or black fretboards that look good and feel good to play I don't care what they use.

Besides, rosewood has a ton of variance. For each great looking rosewood boards I've seen, I've also seen a dozen weird looking, washed-out colored rosewood boards with distractingly ugly and attention-demanding grain patterns.

Concatenation
Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.
Bluesdads + IoSM + MILLENNNIIAALLLLLSSSSSS :argh:

As a bonus the guy replying in grey owns the largest ESP dealership in the country.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

I don't even understand what's happening there.

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
Person A: can someone help me identify this ESP serial number
Person B: helpful, if incorrect info
Person C: knowledgeable correction
Person B: meltdown, whining about millennials, and only liking USA made guitars and everything else is a waste of time

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

Oh boy he sure did slam 0-60 fast enough there

unlawfulsoup
May 12, 2001

Welcome home boys!

syntaxfunction posted:

Except Strats and Teles should all be maple. That's a rule.

Nope.

Allen Wren posted:

I don't even understand what's happening there.

Internet guitar enthusiasts.

sigher
Apr 22, 2008

My guiding Moonlight...



Concatenation posted:

Bluesdads + IoSM + MILLENNNIIAALLLLLSSSSSS :argh:

As a bonus the guy replying in grey owns the largest ESP dealership in the country.



Oh man, please tell me there was more. Hahaha

Concatenation
Jul 23, 2005

Your human mentality cries out for vengeance and thrives on the violence you say you can hardly endure.

s.i.r.e. posted:

Oh man, please tell me there was more. Hahaha

sadly that was it, he was banned from the group shortly after his unprovoked baby boomer rant. Everyone else in the discussion was civil as gently caress

Dirt
May 26, 2003

Rosewood is overrated.

I briefly owned a Gibson that had a "baked maple" fretboard(it's literally a maple fretboard that has been charred to dark brown/black). I seriously didn't even know it was "maple" until I randomly read the info card that came with it a few months after owning it.
It's a 100% cosmetic thing. It makes zero difference in tone(obviously). Anyone who says it makes a difference is dumb.

It's 2016. How do we not have cool carbon fiber or titanium fretboards that never break/chip/dry out?

Edit: and Stainless Steel frets should be loving standard. Refret jobs should be a thing that doesn't exist anymore


syntaxfunction posted:


Except Strats and Teles should all be maple. That's a rule.

All Strats/Teles should be Antigua or Surf Green with maple.

Dirt fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Dec 8, 2016

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Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
Wow Paul McCartney is a prick.

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