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Dirt posted:The boutique pedal market is basically nothing but people cloning the like six same loving pedals, and reboxing it. Kirk isn't wrong. Yeah it's almost entirely the same famous pedals with slightly different resistor/capacitor values (or different materials because *~tonez~*) and no real innovation. Like don't get me wrong tweaking resistor and cap values can do a lot to change sound because that's how band filters work but it's not really designing something. disclaimer, I own a fancy boutique distortion pedal i got it used for way cheaper
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There are a couple ways of picking where you can hit the body, mostly with your fingernails though. It gets scratched up instead of the wood. Fender style guitars use the pickguard to cover things up because they do top-routs and attach the electronics to the plastic because that way you just do all the electronics assembly (ground wire excepted) on the pickguard then stick it on there. Making things easy to do factory-style was pretty much the Leo Fender Way.
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Feb 21, 2016 16:31
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Not a music thing but my all-time favorite signal processing snake oil thing was this PCIe card with some capacitors on it that claims to reduce noise (for video cards plugged into separate sockets) 
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Feb 25, 2016 03:40
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On the other hand, actually having a unified connector is like, the one really good thing about the guitar industry.
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Mar 1, 2016 04:59
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Or install a kill switch. Lots of things can help you with that issue, to be honest.
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Mar 1, 2016 14:50
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I think my main point is every guitar works with every amp and if people were to try a different standard you loving know Gibson would decide to be a special snowflake and have their own loving plug and contract with marshall to make the only amps that work and are so affordable starting at $3,000, but that lester sound you know!!!!!! TONEWOODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I can't tell if this would be better if he were playing surf or not.
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reallivedinosaur posted:Sounds like he's getting some great custom tones. I did that once  I got better at soldering though!
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Mar 2, 2016 20:47
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I can't remember which Steinberger you have but their website does have this thing so check that out.
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The last time I saw Vai in concert was in like the first year of Zappa Plays Zappa, when Dweezil had the group of a bunch of people who played with Frank back in the day. A bunch of cool people and the show was pretty neat, but I saw ZPZ again with the small group back in October and I think it's actually better this way 
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The 81/85s are all identical except for cases. Well actually the Kerry King one has another preamp pot IIRC. DiMarzios at least are different outputs and stuff?
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GreatGreen posted:Actually the 81 has a bit more treble and high-mids emphasis whereas the 85 is slightly hotter and has a more low-mids emphasis. They both come in identical housing but the EMG logo is slightly differently colored depending on the pickup. Basically the 81 sounds somewhere between a single coil and a humbucker while the 85 sounds more like a regular humbucker. Both pickups have a bit more clarity than passive pickups, but in a compressed, hi-fi, slightly clinical kind of way. If you know what you're doing you can kind of dial out the clinical nature of the sound and turn it into just simply a very clear, hear-all-the-notes-in-the-chord-even-with-super-high-gain kind of tone but it's easy to slip into sterile adult contemporary too if you're not careful. I meant the various signature sets which are all the same 81 and 85 you can get separately, just with different pot setups so the zakk wylde one has the stuff to wire a les paul pot setup, the kerry king one has the additional preamp on a push pull, etc. I did not mean to say that the 81 and 85 are the same pickup, they aren't. Different magnets, probably different windings, and EMG almost certainly sets the onboard preamp differently.
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Mar 10, 2016 00:55
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fyodor posted:Sorry I don't know how to put facebook videos on youtube. This guy has club foot, dwarfism and limited mobility in his wrists and still achieved the dream of every bluesdad. he made the correct choice of not shelling out $3k for a gibson
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Yeah it's all "this is pretty cool!!" and various *~tonez~* things I currently have one acoustic, a strat-type, a les paul-type, a jazzmaster, and a weird frankensteined hollow thing from roughly the 60s probably though the neck is less certain and I love them all I pretty much just play the les paul-type the hollow thing anymore, one does crunchy and the other is a clean machine e: Some part of me wants to blow cash on a set of bareknuckle single coils for the strat type and the rest wants to keep the G&L ones that are in it and this has paralyzed me into keeping it how it is
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muike posted:G&L pickups are pretty good so unless you think the Bareknuckles'll give you what the G&Ls aren't, t here's no reason to change. Yeah it's literally a matter of whether I want ludicrously overwound single coils or vintage wound ones more. G&L pickups are really good though and I'm not sure I wanna throw out that sort of responsiveness that they have. It's why it's so confusing  e: Honestly they respond to high gain pedals or whatever really well so I know this is just me thinking THAT WOULD BE COOL Shugojin fucked around with this message at 01:41 on May 16, 2016 |
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Allen Wren posted:If they just covered the whole thing with that finish, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Hell, if they'd just not drawn a line of where it should have gone to it might have been okay.
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May 19, 2016 14:07
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strangemusic posted:Sweet Christ on a bicycle: I bet that real shell that he fired has amazing tonal properties
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dick wizard posted:
I still think the Bigsby on SGs looks killer plus it helps counteract the neck dive
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crashdome posted:It's not reliced properly until you've sprayed on some Tone BacteriaTM ...how do I patent the idea of tonal probiotics
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Lord that screws with my eyes to look at
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Dirt posted:He does tours with just him and a drum machine a lot. But he also plays with tons of other "bands" where it is a full band setup. Just depends on the tour. frank zappa the best dweezil puts on an enjoyable concert too if you just wanna go hear a pretty good band play zappa songs
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Jul 13, 2016 20:20
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I'm the side-mounted knobs that will dig into your leg and change settings if you dare play it sitting down
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Dr. Faustus posted:Serious post: You can also park it in a position like Frank Zappa did for a quacky sort of noise. e: Also you can experience the feeling of involuntarily making "wah-wah-wah" shapes with your mouth as you use it
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Stolen from the BKP site (boutique pickups being another Stupid Music poo poo but yolofukkit I like the ones I have)quote:Quite often at Bare Knuckle we're asked to provide crazy, out-there things by you guys, the players. Some of these things just can't be done, much as we'd love to (pickups in the shape of a cat idea RIP)
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William F Cuckley posted:most of their stuff is way overpriced but sinners are legit You don't need to tell me that, I own a set 
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The Sphinxster posted:Today I read the phrase tonewood denier. Whenever I hear about TONEWOODS I just remember that Leo pretty much just used whatever was the right mix of durable and available for cheap and his poo poo turned out right
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Barnaby Barnacle posted:Good lord, I just stumbled across this: http://www.ehx.com/blog/big-muff-anime You can bet I linked this to my friend who owns a metal muff just so he can go uggghhhh strangemusic posted:You can, but she's covered in black goop. also loollllll
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Fair Hallion posted:Hey can anyone link or just remind me of the name of the hilariously bad floyd rose previously ITT that had some engrish type phrase on it like "King of music" or some poo poo? I didn't dream this did I. Google failing me. Overlord of Music
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Steve Vai is kind of a dork and therefore so is his signature guitar, HTH thread gettin' back to its roots don't get me wrong I still GAS for one occasionally, I just also think they're just dorky lookin'
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Steve Vai wanted to be a wizard when he was a boy but was forced to settle for being a guitarist This doesn't stop him from dressing up like a futurist fever dream wizard and nor should it
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let's all not forget that steve vai did the frank zappa groupie that brought them a lovingly hand-made sphere of her own poo poo (everyone should read frank zappa's autobiography)
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TheChaosPath posted:I thought it came out perfectly spherical She said it did but Frank recalled there being clearly visible handprints on it
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Kilometers Davis posted:So if VINTAGE NOS CLEAN BURNING TUBE COOKED GOLD PLATED 1950s tone dadding is the stupidest music poo poo then what is good and pure in the industry? Just playing whatever the gently caress you want because it sounds and or feels good to you and not because some heroin addled dork breathed on one in 1967
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How long until apple starts loading huge amounts of storage and creates iFLAC or something
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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
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The Muppets On PCP posted:or wood at all Let's get Elon Musk into guitars you know, just to see what he ends up making
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Dirt posted:All Strats/Teles should be Antigua or Surf Green with maple. That sure is a weird way to spell Daphne blue
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Does that mean I could make the guitar go yipyipyipyip E: ignoring that I could probably do that with any guitar as long as I chained weird tremolo/delay enough times Shugojin fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Dirt posted:Squeeze some P90's in there like a real man I mean TV jones makes this p90 sort of creature with filtertron type mounting so probably ???
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Someone misunderstood what a fender mustang is
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