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I think the Rhodes is the ultimate "I play for free and get paid to haul gear" piece out there. I used to play in a band with a guy who had a 73 with the matching powered speaker cab, and gently caress that thing. I'd still love to have one to stick in my basement, though.
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Noise Machine posted:Girlfriend saw we were doing errands right by a Guitar Center. She suggest I go in and try a few acoustic guitars since I've never had a real one. (I had an ovation for about 2-3 years, it wasn't a real acoustic...) about an hour later I walk out of the store with this: I love my LXM so much. Cheap, loud, decent low end, and since it's basically all plastic you don't need to worry about banging it around at the beach or whatever.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:54
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Radiapathy posted:Just arrived today: Four interfaces and a passive DI. You'll need the DI if you plan on plugging a guitar into the 2i2. The instrument setting on it is totally hosed.
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Aug 12, 2013 00:43
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Lead out in cuffs posted:It works OK for me ... with the gain turned right down. I've certainly read that for guitars with active pups it's basically impossible to plug in directly without attenuation, so yes. My Ibanez has pretty hot passive Dimarzios, and my basses are all active. All of them destroy the input in Instrument with it all the way down, and sound like poo poo in Line. I'm sending it back. (But getting a 6i6 to replace it.)
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Aug 21, 2013 19:07
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RetardedRobots posted:Six is probably the ideal number of basses. Seven is really heading into a disturbing place. poo poo. The junky ABG I leave at a bandmate's house for rehearsals doesn't count, does it?
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Hammer Floyd posted:What is it? That looks shiny and pretty... Baer Valkyrie. It's a little different take on a bass amp - a very flat, studio style preamp & EQ mated to a gigantic Class AB power amp with a tiny little 12AX7 tube power amp (output transformer and everything) in between the two. With the tube section out it's like listening to your bass plugged into a top dollar studio board, but with it in you can go from "great tube DI box" to "V4B with volume dimed." Best bass amp I've ever played by a pretty large margin.
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Jan 13, 2014 03:51
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Juaguocio posted:Just got off the phone with Roger Baer. A ML112 should be arriving next week. They're the best. They're the goddamn best.
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Jan 15, 2014 00:14
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signalnoise posted: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 Nice, looks very similar to the Comfort Strapp which is all I use nowadays.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:06
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Dr. Faustus posted:I have my grievances with Gibson and Fender, but I'd never turn to China. Well, that's why Squier exists.
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OhDearGodNo posted:I have the v7v8 but they've always seemed a little quiet to me. Then again they might need a little adjusting. I have a pair of these which I pulled out of my RGA121 that anyone can have for cost of shipping, FWIW. PM me. I thought they were okay for stock OEM pickups, but obviously the Crunch Lab / Liquifire I replaced them with are a substantial upgrade. Sockington posted:Sometimes it's worth less than the sum of it's parts. A simple used VM or CV Squier would be a way better platform, fwiw. Probably snag one for $200 and have WAY less to do. I went through three or four SX basses before trying a Squier ("I'm just getting a cheap beater, what difference does it make?") and the difference in quality is RIDICULOUS. It needed pickups and the tuners are pretty heavy, but otherwise it feels significantly closer to an MIM or MIJ Fender than an SX. The body routes look like they were done using a router and not a chisel. There's conductive paint, copper tape and nice clean wiring everywhere. The stock P pickup even had cloth wire! The bridge is a substantial, solid piece. The pots are good, the neck pocket is tight, and all the screws were screwed in at a right angle to the body instead of put in by hand by a drunk person. The thing tuned up and played nice right out of the box. Just a massive improvement.  iostream.h posted:AxeFx is the new Bitcoin for the TGP set. Every single guitar player I know that's purchased one - and we're talking real, gigging, in demand guys in a big city, not BluesDad's or forum dwellers - has sold off all their other gear shortly afterwards. It's a total game changer for some people.
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Jul 13, 2014 19:02
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Southern Heel posted:I swear, if I had to pick a guitar spec out of thing air I would choose: Yeah, that hardtail, dual HB superstrat thing is MY JAM. I have an RGA121 with Liquifire/Crunch Labs in it and I'll never part with it. It's my favorite guitar of all time. Sockington posted:Traded off a free-to-me Bullet Strat for an interface. Now sell it and buy a 6i6. The gain staging for instruments is all hosed up on the 2i2. umalt posted:Counterpoint, Sonic Blue Charvel San Dimas. My guitar player has one of these in white that's been attacked by a blowtorch with one Super Distortion and a Floyd. It rules.
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Jul 20, 2014 09:37
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Sockington posted:But what about just mic'ing a guitar cabinet (all I indented to do)? That should be okay, actually. The 1/4" inputs clip, even when down all the way, when you plug any instrument into them directly. Switch to line level and it's too quiet, thin, yet still clips somehow. It's really bad.
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Jul 20, 2014 19:09
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I really dig how my RGA121's switch is wired. Neck full, neck parallel, both full, inside coils, bridge full. It'd be nice to have soloed single coil tones, though. I don't know why, as I really don't need it, but I'm starting to think about getting one of the RG's with a pickguard, maybe with a maple board, and converting to three single-coils.
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Aug 3, 2014 18:03
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muike posted:I feel kinda iffy on buying import guitars new other than from South Korean places since their collective bargaining thing Same here (and I consider SK and Japan to be a substantially higher tier vs. China, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc,) although I have an easier time rationalizing purchasing cheaper stuff from China. The conditions for the worker on the $250 guitar and $1000 guitar are probably identical, but I can sympathize more with a company moving a product overseas and cutting costs substantially vs. moving it overseas, keeping the price the same and pocketing the difference. At least any guitar no matter where it was made or what it is can ostensibly be used to create art. Why the gently caress do people pay $500 for the exact same mass market, commodity Made In China Coach handbag everyone else has?
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Aug 11, 2014 08:08
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Smash it Smash hit posted:same, finally content with my gear and no more "itches". It feels good, doesn't it? I went all of 2014 only buying some pickups for my p-bass and a 12-Step midi controller. I don't know if 2015 is going to be the same. I still don't really need anything, but Baer is coming out with a sick looking tube DI box and I probably should buy it.
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Jan 17, 2015 04:02
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I have a strict "No Twins" policy in every band that I'm in.
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May 1, 2015 22:28
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gently caress that's a good deal.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:44
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I purchased that book a long time ago on good recs from people and I just...I don't know how to practice it. It seems really aligned towards piano players and I'm just not sure how to wrap my head around it in a way that translates into notes coming out of my bass. (I was a jazz perf major in school so it's not like I'm a total trainwreck either.)
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Jul 18, 2015 03:26
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Kilometers Davis posted:I'm a little I still wouldn't trade my old RGA121 for anything else out there. Ibanez hardtails are the poo poo.
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for Ibanez hardtails not gonna lie! I would riff the heck out on that.
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Got a cool new Ibanez Talman! I guess you can only get this color combo at Guitar Center, otherwise it's just Red and Seafoam Green. Sounds like a Tele, plays like a cross between an Ibanez and a Fender. It's small and very light. Needed some fret end attention like all factory instruments do, and I'll be getting a set of Nordstrand NVT A3 pickups put in ASAP, but it's so nice. Makes me play substantially differently than my RGA121 which was the point.
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May 12, 2016 07:17
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Allen Wren posted:What's bad about short scale? I've got small hands and not-great wingspan, so I generally figure a SS would be better. Scale length has a pretty drastic effect on tone. It's not better or worse, but it's pretty different. Dr. Faustus posted:Hi Talman TFB buddy! Since I got mine and put JBE Danny Gattons in it, it's the only guitar I've been playing. It's addictive! I just got some goodies for mine in the mail today!  I basically bought this guitar specifically to have something to put this set of pickups in. They're glorious.
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May 14, 2016 22:50
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If you buy a Peavey, but you didn't buy it out of the back of a VW van in a parking lot, do you truly own it? After trying as hard as I could to find a combo amp that does everything the 6505+ 112 does without actually being the 6505+ 112 I gave in to my destiny.
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May 27, 2016 19:44
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Warcabbit posted:Wait. How cheap? Cause if it's even close to $300, then the answer is Squier Classic Vibe. Or Talman. The Talman is so good.
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Jul 16, 2016 06:55
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Ibanez guitars Best guitars.
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Aug 10, 2016 00:38
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I wonder if the Helix will ever get integrated wireless like the new Spider V's did. Maybe when they eventually come out with a Helix amp? My buddy has an AxeFX II with MFC and an AX8, but just going Helix would be just as powerful as the AxeFX and more portable than the AX8 (as you need external expression pedals.) I'm actually going to get a new Spider V setup (with FBV3 and G10 wireless) to replace my 6505+ and pedalboard. Post-Yamaha Line6 is doing a lot of really nice stuff.
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massive spider posted:Just went and bankrupted myself hell fuckin yeah
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Jan 10, 2017 19:44
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Stop buying Gibsons.
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Jan 20, 2017 21:19
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The extra $100 for a set of top-shelf pickups makes more of a difference than paying $100 to improve literally any other part of a guitar.
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Literally Elvis posted:Today I got my dream rig My long-time guitarist friend & collaborator had this rig back in the day, with two 4x12's plus a twin reverb for cleans. It was loving stupid, but sounded rad.
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I love the Hipshot locking tuners, personally. I have a set on my RG and the combination of the staggered post height + angled headstock makes for a really sleek setup. I love Hipshot hardware overall, though.
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Mar 14, 2017 23:01
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Yeah, gently caress Gibson forever.
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The Science Goy posted:In terms of replacing bass pickups, you really can't go wrong with Nordstrand. Both of my other basses are loaded with Nords (Big Splits and a MM) and they're great. Agreed. Everything I own has them at this point. The Science Goy posted:It's called a single cut, instead of a more traditional double cut where the upper bout has more material removed by the fretboard. The neck joins with the body in the same manner as a double cut bass - there's just no gap between the neck and the upper bout. The trussrod is the same as any other bass. The single-cut thing first started on neck-through basses, and continuing to glue the body wing up the neck helps to keep it flat and stable.  On a bolt-on single cut, unless there's a screw going into the side of the neck from the upper bout it's mostly for looks and ergonomics, but there should also be a little change in how the strings and body interact due to the extra material in the neck pocket. The majority of singlecuts aim around the 12th fret for the connection point and can get the strap pin a little closer to the neck than a doublecut bass, which definitely helps balance. (My next build is going to be a singlecut 6. Ash neck, walnut body w/ alder tone block, sinker redwood top, richlite fingerboard, Nordstrand dual blades.)
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Antigua loving rules I don't want or need an "actual" jazz bass, but when I get one anyways it's gonna be Antigua
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Bazanga posted:Decided it was time to upgrade. Everything. HELL FUCKIN YEAH
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peter gabriel posted:gently caress yes that's awesome, offset tele owners need a gang tag! I love my Talman, too! I put Nordstrand NVT A3 pickups in it and it's great. My only regret is that they came out with a non-Prestige three-pickup Nashville model like two months after I bought it. I may just get a Prestige one down the road and move the pickups over.
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