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RetardedRobots posted:Maple fretboard needs a black pickguard. Not if you're in Iron Maiden. http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0118802806
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cheap sunglasses posted:Not if you're in Iron Maiden.  ). And...  Wine with a black pickguard. Tasty! Dave Murray has played a ton of different strats with various colour combinations. The main strats he played most recently have been black with a pearloid guard and cream with a pearloid guard. You have to be a monster player to pull off the cream/pearloid combo. Once you've become a legend, your guitar won't matter. Until then, deciding on a pick guard will be the most important decision you will ever make in your life. Unless, one day, you decide to join San Antonio's premier Smashmouth cover band as your main vehicle to success in life, in which case that will be the most important decision of your life (and not in a good way).
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Schlieren posted:What do you think? It's a gigantic improvement over the combo I was playing before. Takes dirt and fuzz and delays WAY better. Too soon to tell if I'd recommend it to other people (since 2x12s are kind of the odd cab out in the bass world, it seems) but I'm really enjoying it so far. Not too heavy, either, and sounds way thicker than the 4x10s I've played out of. I'm looking forward to not buying any hardware for a good long while.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, after looking at some examples, think I'm going with white pearloid. It's going to be nice to have a guitar that I don't hate(I also hate my bass  ).
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The Mystery Date posted:Funny, I came here to advise away from tort. I've never understood people's attraction to it, as it looks like somebody took a poo poo all over the guitar, complete with chunks and all. I think black on black looks cool if the pickguard has a white outline, but if you want to be a little more original, pearl can look really good on black. White is a little too uninteresting in my opinion, as every starter guitar ever comes in black and white. Glad I'm not the only one...
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 loving hell. Best music purchase i've ever made. Now I really need to get my 8-string purchased and run it through this beast.
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Kilometers Davis posted:
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Shredder posted:Sup What is that? It's got the headstock of a Jackson SLSMG but never seen it with that neck before. Hmm.
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Just bought this used off of ebay and will hopefully get it tomorrow: Haven't played a lot with chorus, but I've heard some demos of this pedal and love what it does. Also, Carl Newman says he uses it and I love his & New Pornographers sound, so...
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Mar 4, 2011 18:46
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I just got a bunch of stuff over the past few months so here's a studio shot New stuff: Blofeld Keyboard, DSI Tetr4, Double Keyboard stand
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JohnnyWarbucks posted:Just bought this used off of ebay and will hopefully get it tomorrow: I've got one and it's a great chorus pedal. The fact that it runs at 18v means that you don't have to worry about clipping like you do with so many other chorus pedals.
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Do you have any good settings recommendations? I am looking to have a subtle effect that will go with a medium type distortion.
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meatcookie posted:Does it use Pod Farm? I don't think so. But it can make your guitar sound like a screaming robot on  .
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JohnnyWarbucks posted:Do you have any good settings recommendations? I am looking to have a subtle effect that will go with a medium type distortion. I'd start out with the intensity fairly high, but the width and rate around noon. That'll give you a fairly strong chorus sound. Then you can use the EQ knobs to shape the sound to work with the distortion you're using. Try setting the bass around 10 o'clock and the treble at 2, and try it with the bass cut knob in as well as out. The bass and treble knobs only affect the chorus sound, not the original signal, so having the treble knobs higher than the bass knob will make the top end shimmer while leaving the bass notes alone a bit more. The manual actually has a couple of good presets to try out when you get it as well.
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Nigel Tufnel posted:What is that? It's got the headstock of a Jackson SLSMG but never seen it with that neck before. Hmm. It's a DXMGT. Scored it off Craigslist for $150 
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Kilometers Davis posted:
I need to try one of these out and compared it to the X3. I love my X3.
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Hooray, my extra batches of patch cables and daisy chain extenders came in! Check out this picture of my patch cables and power supply extenders: Note: I work for Wampler, so... that's why there's pretty much every Wampler pedal right there. Timmy still representing, though. Sorry for the floor pic, but I can't put a board together, I have to be able to swap stuff in and out and around all the time so on the floor they stay, though I do try to organize the signal flow somewhat. There are about 40 or so pedals sitting in a box three feet away that would feel dejected if they were sentient. Tough luck, friends. Edit: Signal flow explained because it's freaking weird: 
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That's really awesome and all that, but drat, why do so many manufactures have to hop on the blue LED bandwagon?
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Doomy posted:That's really awesome and all that, but drat, why do so many manufactures have to hop on the blue LED bandwagon? You posted what I was going to. Blue LEDs are the shabby chic horrors of the music equipment world.
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Extremely visible regardless of lighting conditions. On dark stages it can be detrimental because it can make adjusting the settings somewhat more difficult until you're familiar with them and don't need to read the knobs to know what they do, but that is counterbalanced by the fact that playing outdoors and in well-lit conditions there is no difficulty immediately ascertaining that an effect is on or off. Edit: You can see the difference even in the relatively low lighting of that photo, taken at night with just my room lighting. The blue LEDs are bright enough that they show the flaws in the cameraphone's mediocre lens, but the red LEDs, despite being quality LEDs that put off a lot of direct light, are substantially darker. Red LED on the right side of the Triple Wreck (bottom left), and on the left side of the Hot Wired (orange pedal with metal knobs). Again, the red LEDs we're using are quite bright for red LEDs, but the visibility of the blue ones is just a lot higher in all conditions, so that's what get used. Agreed fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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Blue light actually really hurts night vision which is why i've never understood it's use and popularity. Red/Green/Yellow is always going to be better. Blue looks cool though  Lord Commissar posted:I need to try one of these out and compared it to the X3. I love my X3. It's widely considered to be a lot better than the X3, so don't try it out. For your wallet's sake.
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It also happens to be pretty easy to source big batches of bright blue LEDs these days thanks to general industry trends. Remember that a lot of what everyone gets to use has a lot to do with what everyone else is using - demand determines a great deal of the parts market. The biggest issue with blue LEDs right now is that from suppliers they're getting really, really bright. They need to be a certain brightness level in order to be 100% visible in direct sunlight, but these days they are becoming very, very bright. Brighter than they need to be for daylight conditions. People are having to make allowances for that in designing the circuits to starve the LED to reign in the blasting glow.
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Agreed posted:It also happens to be pretty easy to source big batches of bright blue LEDs these days thanks to general industry trends. Remember that a lot of what everyone gets to use has a lot to do with what everyone else is using - demand determines a great deal of the parts market. I put masking tape over all my blue LEDs and that only makes them appear slightly brighter than the red LEDs on my pedal baord.
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My Aguilar AG500 has a pair of blue LED's for power / mute status and they're probably visible from space. I've been really tempted to put some black nail polish on them or something.
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I wonder how much more power simply adding a bigger LED would draw, because blue is a really dumb color to use when that is a potential option.
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Agreed posted:It also happens to be pretty easy to source big batches of bright blue LEDs these days thanks to general industry trends. Remember that a lot of what everyone gets to use has a lot to do with what everyone else is using - demand determines a great deal of the parts market. LEDs are probably cheaper and easier to source than ever. I bought a few hundred in different colours recently and I think they were less than a penny each. Blue LEDs are just the newest and techy-est. Like every pedal is a Playstation 2 tribute!
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I've said pretty much everything I've got to say on the topic of LEDs, not at all interested in getting into a debate about them. By all means, buy what you prefer for your needs. I like bright amber ones for DIY projects. Nobody busts anyone's balls for the guitar pot knobs on guitar picture posts 
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Too late, you already got into a debate about them. Owned b*tch 
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Schlieren posted:Too late, you already got into a debate about them. Owned b*tch Clearly not so. QED
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New guitar (yester)day!   I needed a new acoustic because my older one had a mainly dark sound and I wanted something a little brighter. I've loved Hummingbirds since I first encountered one, but Gibson Hummingbirds are a tad bit outside my price point. Thank god for Epiphone. 
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Paramemetic posted:Hey man, where were you to defend tortoiseshell pickguards on black Strats last page?
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plester1 posted:Hey man, where were you to defend tortoiseshell pickguards on black Strats last page? I wanted to so badly but was away from home and could only see it all go down on my phone. Needless to say, tortoise shell is excellent on black strats, especially with white furniture and a maple neck.
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How's the action? Uniform? Playability, fit & finish? I've heard good things about modern Epiphones and I need an acoustic electric to replace an aging Samick that was only ever really "okay" and is difficult to play in the upper frets. And which is exhibiting some alarming bowing on the top which suggests that the bracing is less than stellar.
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Agreed posted:How's the action? Uniform? Playability, fit & finish? I've heard good things about modern Epiphones and I need an acoustic electric to replace an aging Samick that was only ever really "okay" and is difficult to play in the upper frets. And which is exhibiting some alarming bowing on the top which suggests that the bracing is less than stellar. The action is low and uniform, with a controlled bowing as should be there. The action couldn't feasibly be lower without creating buzzing problems, and I'm amazed at how low it is. I find it very playable, with a neck that fits excellently in my hand. It's a slim neck relative to a lot of guitars, but that doesn't get in the way of my relatively large hands, so that's good. The fretboard goes to 20, but only goes to 14 before it hits the body, and with no cutaway it's difficult (for me) to play higher than the 16th fret. The finish is well done with solid binding and good wood, I think it's an excellently built instrument. Epiphone is quickly establishing itself as a cost-minded alternative to Gibsons, and I think they make rock solid instruments both acoustic and electric. My understanding and experience is that it's not like the Squier-to-Fender comparison that people want to make it; Epiphone guitars are solid in their own right. I can't speak to their acoustic electrics as this is strictly acoustic, but I know that both their electrics and their acoustics have a good reputation, so I can only assume their hybrids play well as well.
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I mean the top of my samick is bowing, not the neck. Perhaps due to improper storage when my dad had it for awhile, who knows. Is your Epiphone made in China, Indonesia or Korea?
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Indonesia.
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Thanks for the details, this one might require a trip to guitar center to actually check out the instrument I plan on getting - it's either an Ibanez artcore-style hanging up at a shop in Conway that can't move 'em (MIC, mostly) or an Epiphone true acoustic-electric from GC somewhere (who knows, MII is fine).
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Bareknuckle aftermath pickups for my seven string. Haven't installed them yet. 
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Gaza posted:Bareknuckle aftermath pickups for my seven string. Haven't installed them yet. Oh poo poo, I've been looking at buying these exact ones myself. Gonna need a demo once you get them installed.
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