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On the volume note I often get poo poo from some friends because I flat out refuse to not wear earplugs. Even the cheap musician ones are worth it to me. I'm sorry, but the first loud (aka rock) band I ever saw had my ears ringing for the entire next day. If "not feeling it maaaan" is what ear plugs do then gently caress it. I'd rather feel less and protect my hearing. I am hard of hearing in my left ear as it is, from childhood, I don't want to sacrifice any more if I can help it. Wear plugs people. Especially people who play music. Gonna be pretty hard to hear yourself or your bandmates if you're loving deaf.
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I've seen a few shows that were quiet enough to not have earplugs at all (Think Neutral Milk Hotel and other reasonable volume folk bands) but I've always taken them with me. I feel like they also help get you up close to a lot of bands. Provided there's no mosh pit (it's fifty/fifty for bands I see) with earplugs that actually do their job you can get way the gently caress close and stay there with the band while everyone else goes deaf and bails because they're right next to the amps or PA speakers or whatever. I'm harping on about this because I care about people's hearing  Protect yourselves, it'll be depressing to read posts from people talking about not being able to play any more in the future.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:47
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Are expensive as gently caress pickups stupid guitar poo poo? Every now and again I think "hey I should replace my guitar's pickups" and then start listening to samples of Seymour Duncan and bareknuckle and stuff. Apart from really bad pickups though I can never hear anything that justifies upgrading the already good pickups. I'm beginning to think there's a lot of smoke and mirrors with pickups. "These ones sound clearer and more full maaaan." I am suspect.
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Feb 27, 2018 23:54
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Yeah that solar eclipse Strat looks amazing. No shame in owning one. The singlecut is like a good idea, terrible execution.
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Mar 18, 2018 02:53
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Heh yeah it is. Dude plays good music and has good taste but I do not abide that lack of hearing protection.
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May 15, 2019 09:55
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Stupid music poo poo: friends who have been playing for more than a decade who don't know how to change strings or think it's magic they'll never understand. Every time they need a restring they go to a shop. I've tried showing them many times, they just throw their hands up and go "I don't get it!" even after doing one themselves.
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Dec 22, 2020 02:48
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They both have/had Floyd Rose guitars but no, were talking regular Strats or Les Pauls or whatever. They just think restringing is super hard and they don't want to learn because ??? Also they think I'm weird because I use restringing to zone out and have me time.
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Dec 22, 2020 08:09
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I mean you'd think so but one of them likes to think he's an idiot as an excuse, the other is perpetually scared of loving things up. I link her a YouTube guide and she'll just freeze. I shudder at how much they must've spent.
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Dec 22, 2020 10:46
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My thought is tube amps might start disappearing on the new market for big brands, but the boutique market will still survive. People are always gonna want the old tech even if it's on a smaller and more expensive scale. Mesa isn't boutique tho, and hasn't been for decades. Tubes themselves are apparently cheap to make so they'll keep being made by someone (probably Mike Matthews) and we'll likely see waves of new tube amps. Personally I'll just keep buying used amps, maybe a new one occasionally. Tube market is shrinking, I 100% doubt it will disappear. I mean gently caress, Ham radios are still a thing.
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Jan 9, 2021 05:41
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The Filmore and Badlander are the new ones. Badlander is a Dual Rec style amp, two identical channels that have clean/crunch/lead modes. Filmore is also two identical channels, but it very much a clean and pedal platform amp. They sound cool. But yeah, look at their site and it's like 5 models, with a few being similar anyway. They seem to prefer revising models than introducing new ones. Could be worse, they could be like Vox: twenty billion models and only a few that matter 
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Jan 9, 2021 06:35
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I went to The Gear Page and started reading the thread on the Mesa dealy. It's loving amazing. Apparently Gibson buying Mesa is so bad it outdoes everything from last year. Rona, Trump, cops, all negligible because my tones are in danger. It tracks with TGP perfectly but goddamn they're so... stereotypical guitarists.
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Jan 9, 2021 12:33
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Gearslutz is a sometimes decent site (if you sift through the crap) with a horrible name. Not only does it sound like a edgy teen named it, but it also makes them sound more concerned with buying poo poo than learning how to use it. Oh wait.
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Jan 16, 2021 04:31
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GearConsumerz. Get to keep the Z and all! Edit: I particularly love looking for threads on technical or theoretical stuff. Like how a 1176 interacts with a thing, or what makes Pultecs so popular. Or broader, neat tricks to learn with a comp or whatever (I learned a badass ReaComp trick with that). After a while someone always comes in and goes "what, with THAT gear?! It's trash, you should get <XYZ> instead!" and then everyone argues about the ideal gear to get (sometimes with made up budget's for OP? Like they just go "well if OP has $200 then...") and misses that OP wanted help getting good results from gear THEY ALREADY HAD, which is v v doable. Also prosumer people who obsess about their converters or whatever and never seem to post examples of what they actually make is pretty funny. syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jan 16, 2021 |
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I would normally say use of “slut” is sex positive but we know they are NOT that place. I'm a gear slut but I back that up by being a regular slut  I'd love to talk to knowledgeable folks about tips and advice on how to best use my gear but I absolutely know I would get destroyed for having "poo poo" gear haha. It's almost like I go out of my way to buy weird 80s/90s crap units, possibly for a sound??? Obviously I need an Antelope Orion. It's just sensible. Somehow.
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Late to Kaiser chat but I mainly know the guy as a meme. He rules, sorry y'all. I love that some dude can own very nice gear, plays well when he plays "properly" but his bread and butter is esoteric noodling that pisses a lot of guitarists off. The whole fryon crystal lattice or whatever is hilarious. I hope the dude keeps making bank doing his avant garde improv until his audience decide they aren't into it. Honestly even if you hate the music you have to admire the guy being successful at not only playing guitar, but playing the type of music he loves, regardless of how weird it is. It's me, I'm the stupid music poo poo. syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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Feb 13, 2021 18:59
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Oh yeah, I'm fully aware, but the whole thing is hilarious to me. Dumble spouting crystal lattice stuff is cool, because it always strikes me as a guy that knows "tubes sound better because we just like that sound" won't sell him as a genius. So instead he spouts that poo poo. And then you see nerds argue about how he was technically right because he *actually* meant this and that means he wasn't just spouting poo poo. If you can design a great amp then I have a lot of respect for that. But it doesn't make you a genius and give you credibility of someone with multiple PhDs.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Lmaooo Har. You know what I meant. I think Dumble knows how to build and design a very good amp. I don't think I'd trust him to hold a lecture about crystal lattice tubes to other professionals.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:06
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Friend of mine with a PhD in in an esoteric field of EE explained that he is technically correct but is being cheeky on purpose. There are a lot of charlatans but Alex Dumble is not one of them. You know what? YOU KNOW FUCKEN WHAT BHABI?? I trust your opinion wholeheartedly and I am aware you are far more educated in these matters than I. So I'm sorry Dumble, for doubting you. In penance I will take an amp. I mean, I only have your word to take though, cause boy howdy does a lot of what I've seen of the dude shout "puffed ego". But I will concede this point. I retain that Kaiser is awesome though.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:16
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Didn't Gibson send out replacement tuners and nuts for people that complained enough? I swear that was a thing. Which is very Gibson. "This is the way we do things! (Unless you're a customer we don't want to lose)"
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That whole thing reminds me how I saw a really early stand up special from Bill Hicks a few days ago. I don't mind Bill Hicks (or I thought I liked him more but a lot of the stuff is yikes) but a whole lot of posturing about George Michaels selling out and poo poo and how real rockstars never sold out. I've never understood that. Like yeah, you get the ones who don't "sell out" but that's a rarity. Selling out and the music industry go hand in hand and always has. The Beatles promised they'd use Vox amps if they got some for free when they started out.
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Fugazi market themselves as not selling out. Think about that. Big claims about not selling out, pure art, and y'all buy it, see their shows and but their records. You got played chumps 
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Is Ian Mackaye still a racist? Pretty rude to call out my dead name, to be honest. On a serious note, there's a thread on TGP with people lamenting that now that they're done buying ridiculous boutique amps that no one is A) buying more to keep the builders in business B) buying their used amps C) it wasn't a bubble! It's classic TGP and it's beautiful. Also they like to throw around that guitar is dying and therefore good music is. Despite Fender posting records. The sheer cognitive dissonance is astounding.
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I pointed out they sold out, not that they did it well. Don't shoot the messenger. Fugazi is cool please no probate.
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The Gear Page is loving moronic at the best of times. Bunch of boring players who spend all their time chasing their tones rather than playing. And the ones that do play just want to be some older player but slightly different. They love to fetishise gear to the point of creepy obsession. As exampled by all the "Best Thing Under $2000" threads. Or the million "I put a tube into my amp and now it's a Dumble" sort of poo poo. Also a lot of "aw we just always did it this way" poo poo. You know the kind. It is one of my favourite forums to read depending on my mood because it can be as equally hilarious at times as it is infuriating. Same as audio engineering forums. Lot of gear fetishism as well as a lot of "if I don't abuse my apprentice how will they know I am the king and ruler and one god? That's how my master did it, so they gotta go through it too, it's only fair!"
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Henning rules. Half the time his humour grates on me, half the time it resonates well. But I appreciate his enthusiasm and more than anything his transparency about his role as a product demonstrator and advertiser. I do miss when he did cheaper and weirder stuff rather than either the latest released stuff or whatever boutique stuff he's given. But he's definitely good value.
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I once played with a Fender Blender reissue. It sounded great but also loved to keep the vintage L->R setup. Stumped me at first why I had no signal.
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Wouldn't the boomer thing be to buy the heaviest guitar (cause more weight means it holds more tones) and then never play it because your back is hosed and the boat anchor makes it worse? Altho I guess they need an alternative to actually play. But that's a maybe if they actually play.
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Well of course! You don't won't to mess with the investments! If you play it you might scratch it and then you're losing out on your return!
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Hiwatt is one of my favourite manufacturers ever. I've yet to be disappointed in any of their models, even the "not real Hiwatt" ones. A Custom is on my bucket list. Some days I'm tempted to sell a bunch of other amps for one, but I don't think I can do it.
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Custom built, hand crafted, one of a kind, etc. What price have they got on that? Guessing US#$500-1000. Also lol at melty stanley.
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I know my 2018 Classic is not weight relieved. You can really feel the
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I had a HM-2 and a Walrus Red. Gonna go against tradition and say all dimed is not great. But there's a lot of awesome sounds in it. I'm just a boring rock person tho.
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I don't enjoy Kaiser's music really, but I think the dude rules and definitely has a thumbs up from me!
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That's so annoying, can't we just pick one or the other? Like amps or volts, do we really need both? Also I bet that amp smells like coming home to home cooking after a long day at work. But your house is on fire and it's your partner that is cooking. Poor amp Frying an amp is one of my biggest fears.
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Uncle Doug has, at worst to my knowledge, made a couple light boomer jokes about MY WIFE and besides that he's lovely and focusing his videos on the amp being repaired. Sometimes I put him on to go to sleep to.
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I love Gibson at NAMM right now. What's your line up change like Gibson? "Well, we got some new custom shop guitars based on people no one really gives a poo poo about!" Oh neat, what else? "Well those kids love that Slash fella so we got more Epiphone copies of his stuff!" Oh wow, that's impressive! "Yeah and to top it off we have a bass, but it's green!" loving sold! Edit: https://www.musicradar.com/news/gibson-2021-guitar-releases quote:No word on prices yet but think high. Historically accurate brown cases don't come cheap either! quote:The Collector’s Edition is limited to 19 Explorers and 81 Flying V’s [just like in 1958] syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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duodenum posted:We know it’s cool to hate Gibson, but this cool poster means Toni Iommi and Jerry Cantrell are famous people nobody cares about. As a big fan of Sabbath and AiC, yes, I stand by that
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Yeah no poo poo, prices are hosed. I know used prices on guitars are ridiculous right now but Gibsons especially. This is the Pelham Blue version of my guitar. Mine is in mint condition. Mine is also Ebony which is more valued for that model. I bought mine for AU$2500. When it pops up it's almost AU$4k. That's loving ridiculous. I love my LP but holy gently caress I would never pay that much for the dang thing.
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massive spider posted:I remember decades ago when these forums were largely about posting horrible stuff found on other websites seeing a really poorly drawn diaper/inflation porn comic where in the background the artist had lovingly rendered a Diezel VH4 and that panel has stuck in my brain now forever. Post it coward.
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High gain is my world. Cleans are amazing, but as much as I like pedals I usually just want an amp that gets dirty and heavy by itself. Exception being the classic TS and noise gate combo. For a lot of high gain (metal style) people will hang in the American world, which almost always means a 5150 or derivative. And yes, I know the topology is heavily modified and all that but Dual Recs, 5150s, etc all hang there. There's a reason that most heavy players of Blackstars suggest the 6L6 model. I adore my British style high gain tho. My JCM2000 clone (which has been gorgeous and reliable for AU$150 lol) does the thick and almost wooly but aggressive sound I adore. Adding a TS in front helps a lot with tightness. But it's a different world to the American gain sound. Honestly I usually live more in the UK area. Marshall, Vox Night Train (gain channel is a tighter and more aggressive Marshall), Blackstar. My Jet City is a fine amp tho. If I could only have one amp for high gain it'd be that one. I got to play a Soldano and those are amazing, but it's not even a case of "if I could swap". My Jet City is just so drat good at what it does.
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