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Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

wassail yall posted:

Lowdown no-Meatball blues

That sucks - I hate getting beat out at the last minute.

What I just got:

Ampeg Super Jet - 1x12, 50 watts and only 40lbs. The thing is drat loud - I like to think of it as the "Half-Twin."

I sold the AC30 for it (

), but the thing was so heavy I was never playing it anyway. Three flights of stairs + 80lbs of Vox = :corsair:

And something else to ENSURE I WILL DIE ALONE:

# ¿ Dec 7, 2006 14:34

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:34

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Here's hopin'.

Also - This:

for this:

The speaker itself weighs 30 pounds. So much for not destroying my back...

# ¿ Dec 7, 2006 15:29

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Uncle Caveman posted:

Nick Freedom posted:

Sup ridiculously loud 50watt 1x12 amp buddy!

# ¿ Dec 8, 2006 04:12

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Duke Chin posted:

...how much do they commonly run? I might want one now.

$450 for mine, used. A new SJ-12T will be about $600 from the big stores.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2006 15:36

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

New basses aplenty!

Coming soon - Eastwood Club:

And $75 in strings from JustStrings...

# ¿ Dec 8, 2006 22:34

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Trouser Mouse Bear posted:

...my next purchase.

Nice! I'm sure you know this, but... please don't use bronze strings on that - silk-and-steels (like John Pearse "Manouche" or Martin Folk) sound so much better on a Selmer-style acoustic.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2006 16:45

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Trouser Mouse Bear posted:

Of course not!
I have a Wegen pick and plenty of Argentines already, waiting for the guitar

Sure, that'll get you close, but for the full effect you need to severely burn your right hand. And grow a moustache. And time-tavel back to the thirties. Don't half-rear end it, man.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2006 17:52

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Nedsmaster posted:

SEX:

Goddamn. The Lennonized Ric, now these... You must learn the dark arts of necromancy so we can have a zombie Beatles reunion.

"All you need is BBBRRRAAIIIINNSSS!" (doot doo doodleoodooo)

# ¿ Dec 29, 2006 04:04

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Alman posted:

Being an owner of a Vox modeling amp, are there any little tips you have for finding cool tones, etc?

Turn off the built-in noise reduction - it sounds terrible. The manual tells you how in the effects section.

Leave the master volume knob wide open and control the level with the wattage knob on the back. It sounds a bit brighter & more open this way. Use the volume & gain knobs to control distortion (more gain & less volume for dirty, opposite for clean).

Spend some time with each of the models, not just the ones that are based on your favorite amps. All I cared about at first were the AC30 & Fender models, but the UK '80s and Boutique Dirty have really grown on me.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2007 20:26

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

They don't come right out an say what the models are based on (except the AC30 & AC15, of course), but my guess is:

Boutique Clean - Dumble Overdrive Special (clean channel)
Black 2x12 - Fender Twin
Tweed 4x10 - Fender Bassman
UK '70s - Marshall 1987 or Hiwatt
UK '80s - Marshall JCM
UK Modern - Another Marshall?
Numetal - Mesa?
US Higain - Soldano? Matchless?
Boutique OD - Dumble Overdrive Special (OD channel)

When you switch amp models (either from manual mode or a patch stored in CH1/CH2), the other controls should behave accordingly. Say you have CH1 set to Black 2x12 with the volume & gain cranked (a Twin doesn't really distort, it just gets louder) and bass/mid/treb set to 12 o'clock - switching the amp model to UK '80s or Numetal will create an explosion of crunch, since the amp sees both vol & gain set way up. The only controls that don't get stored in a preset are the master volume and wattage knob.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2007 02:53

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

anarmyofnone posted:

Hello Kitty Strat

I posted this a while ago, but you could get creative with some paint markers:

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 21:05

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Craiglen posted:

I get a headache when I look at a left handed guitar.

Imagine a lefty guitarist playing a right-handed reverse Firebird on the same stage as a righty guitarist playing a left-handed non-reverse 'bird. :psypop:

# ¿ Jan 26, 2007 21:10

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Mugendai posted:

I've been considering getting some kind of firewire interface so I'd be interested in seeing your impressions on this after you spend some time with it.

I bought the 16-channel version last year. It's a very nice mixer, feels solidly built, nowhere near as noisy as my old Behringer, and the effects are pretty good. The firewire connection really needs its own card, though - I experienced a lot of dropouts & latency with the motherboard's FW port. This was probably due to my older MB than a fault with the mixer itself.

I was also looking at a Mackie FW mixer in the same price range, but I'd heard less-than-glowing reviews of their current stuff, and was happy with my old Alesis MultiMix8 USB.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2007 14:36

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

In a depressing twist of fate - some ebayer's latest gear purchase:

# ¿ Mar 8, 2007 15:32

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Engine Fortegue posted:

The fact that you loved your gear made them very happy, I'm sure they understand why.

It's okay, I got this in return:

I did make a tracing of the body & headstock before packing it up, and I do have a neck-through blank; so someday... the ghetto fabulous DIY homebrew Firebird.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2007 12:56

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Wait, they made a limited edition for the Fender Discussion Page? Does it come with a ponytail and denim shorts?

I'm on the FDP

Nice Strat

You son of a bitch

# ¿ Mar 16, 2007 12:35

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Crustashio posted:

If I could have gotten that silver hardware on my epiphone explorer I would have easily gone for the black over the natural finish. Gold hardware on black guitars look like poo poo.

For everyone complaining about gold hardware:

Go to the store, buy some metal cleaner like Brasso or Nevr-Dull. Rub this stuff on your hardware. The gold plating is applied over a nickel base. Congrats, you now have nickel hardware.

:science:

# ¿ Apr 3, 2007 14:59

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Lobster Johnson posted:

Gear Orgy

Speaking of noise, how's the HOG? I love my POG, but the thing hisses like some kind of... hiss... factory.

Electro-Harmonix

# ¿ Apr 10, 2007 14:06

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Lobster Johnson posted:

FUUUUUUUCK

Why do you do this to us?

Why do you have such great taste in gear and the means to buy it all? Why can't you blow ten grand on lovely gear to make us all can feel better about ourselves instead of posting a collection that rivals God's own orgasm?

:unsmith:

# ¿ Apr 13, 2007 14:44

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

HumanSpeedBump posted:

A measly Boss SD-1 + an awesome friend =

Oh, now, you can't post something like that and not tell us what the hell it does! :f5:

# ¿ Apr 15, 2007 23:00

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

ScreaminKing posted:

On the Japanese Jazzmaster's you just get some single coils fitted into the JM pickup housing, you don't get real Jazzmaster pickups.

Right you are; MIJ/CIJ Jazzmaster pickups are a narrow tall coil (Strat-style) under a big cover. Duncans (and presumably, Novak/Lollar/Fralin/etc) are true to the originals, a wide flat coil. Comparison of CIJ to Duncan Antiquity:

Japanese Offsets are great in their own right, but they are pretty different under-the-hood from a vintage or US reissue. On mine, I did the following:

Replaced the bridge w/ a Mustang: Purely subjective, I just like solid saddles.
Taped the bridge posts so they don't rock: Again, matter of taste. I use the vibrato, but rocking bridges are IMO a solution in search of a problem. The thing went out of tune more often before being blocked than after.
Replaced the tuners w/ Gotoh vintage locking: They look like the regular Kluson-types, but help keep it in tune better and make restringing a lot quicker.
Replaced the vibrato tailpiece collet (thing that the handle plugs into) and spring with parts from a US reissue: This made a big difference; the AVRI parts are less squeaky and more solid than the CIJ.
Replaced the pickups w/ Duncan Antiquities: HUGE difference. Big surprise, pickups built one way sound different than those built another way.
Replaced the pickguard with an anodized aluminum one: No difference in sound or supposed electrical shielding, it just looks cooler. You can sometimes find these on ebay; I got mine from a guy on the Fender Forum.

Porn:

# ¿ Apr 19, 2007 16:59

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Thanks! I really love the Antiquities - really fat and plunky sounding, like a cross between a P-90 and a Rickenbacker. However, the cover is what holds the pickup in place - otherwise, it's just sitting on a piece of foam. There might be enough room at the edges to drill small holes for small mounting screws, but remember that the bobbin on vintage-style JM pickups is often just really stiff cardboard covered in wax.

For what you're describing, I'd rather paint the covers themselves: wipe down with naptha or paint thinner to remove any oil, spray w/ Krylon designed for plastics, repeat a dozen or two coats, then clearcoat.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2007 12:52

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I thought about those when I was working on mine, since the earliest JM picture I've seen (in some Fender book showing an old catalog) was of a sunburst w/ aluminum guard and black pickup covers. I decided to keep the white CIJ ones and tint them with amber clearcoat instead.

Though, SK was looking at a black guard w/ silvery covers...

edit - the old catalog with the then-new Jazzmaster:

Uncle Caveman fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Apr 22, 2007

# ¿ Apr 20, 2007 21:46

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I'd keep the noise gate right after whichever is the noisiest part of your chain - putting it at the very end will clip off your reverb and delay trails if it's set too high.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2007 01:59

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

The Girlfriend's upcoming birthday present. I'm going to make an acrylic pickguard & trussrod cover with her name and some sappy message painted on it. :3:

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# ¿ May 11, 2007 00:21

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Pff, if I really loved her, I'd have bought her a Gretsch. :pleaseno:

I thank God that she likes guitars more than jewelry.

# ¿ May 11, 2007 00:53

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Handen posted:

If there's one guitar I'd use as cover in a gunfight, it's a Tele. :clint:

# ¿ May 12, 2007 02:26

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Handen posted:

No they went straight through.

Well then never mind. < :mad:

# ¿ May 12, 2007 12:22

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I'm just mad for obsolete electronics; I simply adore them. :whip:

Coming soon:

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# ¿ May 15, 2007 16:41

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Looks like humbucking versions of their MFD singlecoils.

# ¿ May 31, 2007 13:50

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

21-fret Tele neck on a 22-fret G&L body.

# ¿ May 31, 2007 14:18

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

kamapuaa posted:

You chose... wisely. :hist101:

# ¿ Jun 8, 2007 02:02

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Mr JinX posted:

John 5 Tele

C'mon, show us the headstock. :dong:

# ¿ Jun 12, 2007 19:56

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Boner Slam posted:

What do bassists or guitar players ever need such a huge cabinet for?
I just don't understand how such a thing could be feasonable. If you play on a big stage you will not need it because you are playing DI into PA and monitors and on a small stage it is too loud?

Clarify please.

In the old days when "PA system" meant "guy with a megaphone telling people not to eat the brown acid," yeah, you needed a huge cab to play a big room or stadium. Nowadays, you can certainly get by just going direct, but playing through a real live actual amp just always feels better. And a bigass cab just always feels even more... better.

I'd take a 1x15 & 4x10 over an 8x10 monolith, though. :butt:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2007 12:23

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I like it too, but 2 halves are easier to manage than one whole. Plus I have a boner for 15" cooones.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2007 12:50

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

ToiletDuk posted:

Saturday I rode my bike down the street to Gelb Music and impulse-bought this for $230:

I've never owned a drum kit before, and now I do. Hooray.

EsaFadus posted:

ehehehe it's so dinky!

Duke Chin posted:

So what does it want to be when it grows up?

Hey, I heard Asian girls like guys with small kits. :unsmith:

Also, EsaFadus your bass may have more decibel volume, but I just bought one with more cubic volume.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2007 12:18

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Engine Fortegue posted:

How exactly does this work?

An attenuator acts as a floodgate, blocking some of the power output from your amp while allowing the rest to flow to the speaker. By attenuating a 30watt amp down to 15 or even 5 watts, you can crank up the amp to get natural tube distortion at normal volume levels.

magnificent7 posted:

Not to be Debbie Downer - but isn't this the thing that can seriously mess up your amp, if you dial in the wrong numbers?

Possibly, if you have the wrong impedance levels set. Weber makes great attenuators and impedance matchers, and gives some good info on how they work.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2007 14:01

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

The Dean Stylist arrived yesterday! :dance:

God drat is this thing huge. The body is 17" wide by 3" deep, neck is 32" scale. Here it is being dry-humped by its little cousin, the Eastwood Club. For reference, the Club is larger than a Les Paul:

# ¿ Jun 26, 2007 12:31

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Lobster Johnson posted:

Requesting pic of you strapped to this behemoth. Or are you waiting on the harness to be delivered? Seriously though, it looks gorgeous.

I got it from ZerglingMinor, who was using it as a ukelele. :monocle:

More pics to follow, though right now it's at the salon just having a few things done in time for swimsuit season:

# ¿ Jun 27, 2007 14:17

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:34

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Fox Cunning posted:

My neighbour gave me this as a late graduation gift.

You have an awesome neighbor! That's a Hagstrom Goya hollowbody, which is made of wood but covered in plastic mother-of-pearl material (like you'd find on drum shells).

# ¿ Jun 28, 2007 12:52

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