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gently caress. Any excuse to post King's X on John Stewart's show. There is only one King's X album like this, produced by Brendan O'Brien. Ty Tabor plays a Zion with Joe Barden single-sized humbuckers into MESA/Boogie Dual Rectifiers with like no reverb and no chorus, a huge departure from his Lab Series + chorus-y sounds that came before this. It was supposedly very difficult to get the pickup height into a sweet spot that didn't drive Ty crazy. But my God it is so loving heavy. Sorry, but this poo poo just wins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uofdAxjkCQk I remember when this happened on MTV, I was up late at night getting stoned and this happened and I felt like it made me hold my breath until it was over. The Headbanger's Ball! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH82mMJdTN4 Hell YES best loving snipe
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Yeah, its basically a power amp with a built in load box. I have one because I have a bunch of dumb rack preamps but you can connect it to small combos to boost volume or use it as an attenuater for bigger amps. It sounds great with my Mesa Studio Pre I heard you like tube amps so we got a tube amp for your tube amp
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He was a Knitting Factory regular back in the day from what I read. e: Vernon Reid
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:He was a Knitting Factory regular back in the day from what I read. I think Spectrum Road was the project he did with Jack Bruce. They do Sunshine of My Love and Vernon makes that riff Vernon Reid-y.
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ethanol posted:the mesa mark v 35 needs an attenuator imo. the whacky rear end EQ settings seem to make it somewhat possible to play at a reasonable level but i can dial it in much faster if its master volume is up. but then its very loud. I run mine into a CabClone IR+ for that reason. Attenuation, both Mesa and custom IRs as needed, and it means I can dime the thing to get the most gnarly sound I can out of it. Plus the IR+ is good for like, 150W input at 8 ohms, so if someone ever gave me a full fat Triple Rectifier I can use the same IR/attenuator/load box for it. 
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Kazinsal posted:I run mine into a CabClone IR+ for that reason. Attenuation, both Mesa and custom IRs as needed, and it means I can dime the thing to get the most gnarly sound I can out of it. Oh.. for some reason I thought the mesa ccir+ didn’t do normal attenuation. But fryette ps100 guy on Craigslist actually replied so may pick it up tomorrow.
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David Letterman definitely had the greatest band. Paul Shaffer is a legend in his own right and those bands were bomb.
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Kazinsal posted:I run mine into a CabClone IR+ for that reason. Attenuation, both Mesa and custom IRs as needed, and it means I can dime the thing to get the most gnarly sound I can out of it. do you use a mesa mark v 90 watt or what is it? I hear that's quite a bit different from the scrub 35 or 25 watts which is still expensive as hell. I notice the amp can do some pretty bad microphonic stuff if you mess up that eq. if you turn the master up on this amp and gain in clean channel, it seems to peak the signal before the line out, which isn't peaking on my interface... that's too loud for me to test without doing a line out to my monitors so im just curious if that's how mesas work in their power section. it sounds great when I turn the gain back down. the manual seems to indicate that's how its designed to work.. edit: btw the PS100 is good up to 150 watts @ 8 ohms on input. 200 watts on 2/4/16 ohm. the 100 watt is output. that's far more than i'll ever need from it ethanol fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Finally hosed around the with the Rickebacker a bit. It needs some work - the pickup switch won't stay in the up position, one of the tuners seems stuck or something, and it was way the heck out of tune and didn't seem to want to stay in the little bit I messed around with it since who knows when it was last played. The neck feels really thick just based on holding a handful of guitars, so I see why people don't love them. Not sure I want to keep playing on that one so I don't know if it's worth putting the money for a setup into it at the moment since we're going to be moving in the near future. Wife did say she has a spreadsheet of all of her dad's gear and there's a couple strats on it so I'm going to try to get one of those next time we make it back to her mom's house, but who knows when that will be.
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Got to wait a day or two for new switches for my Mustang mod. I was hoping to crib more from the existing Harley Benton wiring but there's going to be some differences. The HB switches are two position with six pins, the new ones are 3 positions and eight pins. Dunno if I can do the in/out of phase thing with trons but these switches were all I could find if the right size anyway. Also the HB single coils each have two wires coming out of them, I think the black one is earth? Each of those just goes into the top of a pot. The trons each have a single wire with a sleeved and unsleeved bit at the end. I think that's just meant to just put output and earth straight into a pot, will I have to run extra wire for earth? Or can I do it via the switch or something more tidy? I think that's what this diagram is showing? Feeding earth to the other set of pins on the switch. 
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in case any classical/fingerstyle players are considering the Guitarlift support on a guitar with a matte or porous finish: if you position the little circular suction cup stickers wrongly, ignore the instructions. you don't need to use acetone or whatever to get them off. even if they've been in place for weeks. if you carefully lift the edge of the sticker with a sharp blade you can actually peel them off, move them and stick them back on no problem. this helps because it's pretty tough to get em in position perfectly first time when the suction cups won't stick. it's a pretty good guitar support all round. doesn't slip much at all on your left leg even if you're wearing smooth-textured trousers, allows a lot of different guitar heights and angles, and it's fairly secure for a support that attaches to the back of the instrument. you can also set it up so that the guitar itself doesn't touch your abdomen which might help resonance a little bit (but this might be limited if you don't like having a perspex sheet digging into your left nipple). one downside is that the position is fairly rigid once it's in place, so it reduces your ability to shift the guitar a little for tremolo sections or whatever compared to the Ergoplay.
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I’m going to pick up that fryette hope I don’t get knifed
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ethanol posted:I’m going to pick up that fryette hope I don’t get knifed Goon speed
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I hope no one gets knifed
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the tone slams today https://voca.ro/19Fnk1y4WIQ3
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landgrabber posted:the tone slams today https://voca.ro/19Fnk1y4WIQ3 lfgooo
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I really like the Future Islands appearance on Letterman but I can’t post it here because there’s no guitar playing.
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Thufir posted:I really like the Future Islands appearance on Letterman but I can’t post it here because there’s no guitar playing. Yeah that’s a good one. Saw them again last year, still awesome.
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The powerstation is great and I’ll use it every time I’m plugged into a cab. That said getting a used one I think it has a version 1.0 volume taper that doesn’t go down as far as the new ones. Amp all the way up on gain and master is still loud even on lowest setting. It’s not wall shaking loud and with the power station bypassed it would explode my head. But I couldn’t call the highest volume level whisper quiet. Some forums posts indicate this might be the case. Possibly fryette might be able to tell me how to lower the output with the mod they’re using now but who knows All of the settings on my amp are very usable now just how it would go with a higher wattage amplifier. I suppose if I needed even less I could try to get a newer version ps-2 and sell this or probably about the same cost. Certainly bringing it down to “whisper quiet” does make the speaker pretty pointless anyways but just something to note when buying used power stations maybe On iPhone I was measuring 75 dB peak from a meter away on highest amp volume with most powerstation attenuation (volume knob all the way at zero still allows sound through). So that’s not super loud. I dunno how reliable iPhones are. But my television measured like 45-60 db in that room at the same time ethanol fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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My coworker inherited a Gibson LP (black with gold hardware, it's gorgeous) and he was trying to look stuff up about it and was like "hey you're the guitar guy, why do some of them have rectangle inlays and some use the trapezoid. Is it just cosmetic or does it mean something?" and I realized I had no clue. Someone educate me so I can educate him. I know nothing about Gibsons/Epiphones other than they look cool.
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Blocks typically mean it is the more expensive Custom model with nicer appointments and ebony fingerboard. They are cooler.
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The blocks on a custom are also mother of pearl, trapezoids are almost always acrylic.
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Gold hardware generally means Custom - block inlays including first fret is definitely Custom. The binding will be thicker 5 ply rather than the Standard cream too. Dot inlays used to mean Special, but there's been a lot of changes to that range so it's not as easy. If it's a Gibson LPC it's probably worth twice as much as a Standard on average anyway. Rare that you see one for under 3K GBP, from any era, at the moment.
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Word thanks! I mistakenly always assumed the traps would mean higher end for some reason, I think because it’s sort of their unique signature. I had an LP special with p90s once and it had dots. It was like $100 and wouldn’t stay in tune and I hated the neck but it sounded so incredibly awesome. fullroundaction fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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if it's an lp custom it should also have the unmistakable fancy split diamond on the headstock
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Gotta love guitarelectronics and the "3-5 business days" turnaround time. I forged ahead using what I hope is the right diagram from somewhere and spent about 8 hours of my life trying to solder to pots only to stress explode, and thereafter I bought a different brand of solder. Went on about instantly without error. How the gently caress is this so vastly different At least that got me motivated to finish up the pickguard. Had to reprint the pickup rings to make them a bit larger and repaint the pickup rings and dials. Blunt tip syringe + enamel paint mixed to the right color + turpenoid lighter fluid + Q-tips soaked in the fluid after a few minutes dry time to clean = success where acrylics failed.  Might do a matte topcoat on these parts; they look way out of place glossy. Now I gotta come to terms with the fact that my hand's been in a brace for the last week and a half and I was having a rough time getting into practicing before that and maybe I'll actually make progress soon - it's been easier to solder without a left thumb than it is to play guitar, go figure
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 It's finished! No it isn't.. I actually got the wiring right first time, the first two positions on both switches work correctly, just it all goes off if either is in third position. And the body needs a smidge more routing to accommodate the switches, which stop the pickguard sitting quite right, and under the controls so the volume pot fits in it's new home. Pups aren't quite positioned right either, but I traced the pickguard after cutting the new holes so might correct that template and send it to get a new one cut nice and tidy. Or maybe I'll be able to adjust them when the current one is sat right.
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BizarroAzrael posted:It's finished! No it isn't.. This looks so cool, it's like it came out of monochrome into the real world. It's the actual Take On Me guitar.
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a guy offered me an irrefusable deal on a jackson kelly in the midst of me selling off gear, minimising my collection
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Actually just taking the pickguard off and remembering to reconnect the earth into the body seems to have helped a bunch, controls fit again and can sit the pups better. Both switches in third position now works but still turns it off if only one is down, probably still an earthing issue. I'm liking how it plays right now, except for having the switches just rattling around. It's probably just a couple of little chunks of wood need to come out for it to fit.
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muike posted:minimising my collection 
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My riff committee finally put together my riffs for 2004 and I'm pretty worried about this one lol. Few songs I'm not sure I can pull off but I'm going to give it the ol' college try. End of Heartache (easy) American Idiot (easy) Back in the Day (haven't tried yet but can't imagine it's hard) Laid to Rest (medium) Metalingus (shouldn't be too bad but Tremonti trips me up sometimes for some reason) Zombie Autopilot (one of my wife's favorite songs so I've got to just suck it up and do it) Iron by Ensiferum (easy) Panasonic Youth (I'm loving terrified) The Light that Blinds (doesn't look too bad, just fast) This year may put me out of business. Pray to the guitar gods for me. 
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if i'm not playin' it, get it in the hands of someone who will
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Got a TC Electronics Cinders, this feels like it should have cost more than $30
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muike posted:if i'm not playin' it, get it in the hands of someone who will
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  Got the 69 Bassman back. We took it back to ab165 specs and added a master volume.
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my mother got an ovation celebrity after she looked at them for like two decades. got to play it today, thoughts: - as a mostly electric player this is the most comfortable acoustic in terms of neck profile, nut width, etc i've ever tried. there's usually a little mental adjustment and there's less of that with the ovation. - setup is okay, action's a little high up the neck but i've played acoustics with worse factory setups from gibson lol - the sound is very buzzy in the top end. sounds a lot like a zebrawood taylor i had tbh it's not to my taste, don't like the tone or the high action, but it's not bad for 600 bucks
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Any recommendations for a cheapish wireless system? This is just for home/studio use, from within a single room, rather than for gigging. Lots of options out there: Behringer AG10, Xvive U2, Boss WL-20 / WL-50.
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