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Decided to treat my little Squier Strat to something nice. Out with the old...  And in with the new  Guess maybe I should have polished that up a bit before I snapped the picture. I've always hated that tortoiseshell, so that was the first thing to go. Recycled the switch and pots into the new pick guard, then installed a set of GFS Gold Foil Alnico 5 pups. I think they might just be under/scatter wound versions of their Texas flat pole pickups with a gold foil-esque (fauxl?) sticker on the front of them, but whatever they are, they sure are a hell of a lot better than the junk that was in there before. Topped off with new black switch tip and knobs, then strung with some DR Black Beauties strings...mostly because that's what I had left laying around, not really because I wanted black strings on it. I've always loved the way this guitar feels, and now I don't have to run it through 5 pedals to make it sound good.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Nice to see you CaseFace. Miss you lots.  Looks so much better than the tortoiseshell
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Good choice, AR. Death to tort.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Nice Telecaster, Peavey Classic buddy! very well. the Classic 50 definitely pairs super well with twangy single-coil guitars. i don't often get to open the thing up too much in my apartment, but i'm sure the tele would really scream through it at high volumes. i'm still getting used to the narrow fingerboard but overall i love it. my only problem is i was originally going to sell my Melody Maker to make back some of my money but on further reflection i uhhh don't want to.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i don't often get to open the thing up too much in my apartment Great news about the tone, though. Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy your Tele and what the hell, hang onto that Melody-Maker. I can't bear to part with anything unless I decide I don't like it.
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I live in the woods which is cool for turning up my 6505. That being said I just got a focusrite scarlettt and i want to gently caress with it as a di box and some kind of amp software.
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Okay, so this might not be so new, but I haven't talked about it due to being very busy. As most of the people who frequent the Amp, Effects, and New Gear threads have probably read, I'm leaving on tour as a hired gun in about 10 days. The tour is going to be 3 months long, so I've spent a gently caress-ton of time making sure that everything is as in order can be.
For around 200 bucks, she sold me these two ladies:  Going off from the serial numbers:
Here's the thing: I kinda want to try my hand at playing with floating bridges, but I also want to make sure tuning and intonation remain stable so I can set it and forget it. Are there any components you would recommend? Locking tuners? A specific brand for replacement floating bridges? Any extensive modification the Jackson would need? (It does currently have a right-handed bridge, so maybe I'd need to put a chunk of wood to compensate for something) As you can probably surmise from reading, I have zero experience with Floyd-rose-equipped guitars.
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The Jackson probably has a better bridge on it than any you can buy new today if it's an original floyd rose and not a licensed copy. As long as the knife edge pivot points look good everything else if worn is easily replaceable/cleaned/lubed. The floyd rose website has a bunch of articles related to set up and maintaining the bridges. http://www.floydrose.com/support/tech-support
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Licensed copy.  I'm still going to take it with the guy that checks up on stuff that I can't fix on my other guitars (I do like 90 percent of my guitar setup/maintenance) before seeing if I need to buy a new bridge. The Ibanez has a LO-TRS II and I've heard from other musicians that those are garbage, so the Ibanez IS getting a Floyd Rose. Another question: Would putting locking tuners on one of these guitars improve tuning stability even if I start using the bridge as intended?
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THe Lo-TRS is a direct replacement for Original Floyd Roses, but you will probably have to shim the saddles to match the radius. not very difficult at all. Locking tuners won't help with your tuning stability but they'll make string changes a little quicker.
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I want amps done in billiard table baize now.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Huge fan of heavy bass strings (bass and guitar) because they're not hard to play well but the intonation is important (especially on shorter scale lengths.) Very happy for you and your purchase. Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm not normally a fan of squiers but that looks like it would be very fun to shred death metal on. Kilometers Davis posted:That's a very cool looking bass. Reminds me a lot of the Aerodynes which I always thought would be great to own.
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I just finished building myself a new delay pedal  http://youtu.be/hkESwxuCNEA
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Hello I will take one (1) of those
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First new guitar in 6 years arrived today! Ibanez S520-WK   It weighs nothing yet sustains for days edit: not posting off my phone so now pictures work! NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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NonzeroCircle posted:First new guitar in 6 years arrived today! Ibanez S520-WK I honestly don't know how can they do it, but goddamn are the Ibanez S Series some seriously good poo poo. I wonder if once I get the Floyd Rose on it the tone will suffer a downgrade or get even better. Allen Wren posted:I want amps done in billiard table baize now. A call center near my house was selling a bunch of furniture, chairs and such. My fiancιe thought it was a good idea. 
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the lo-trs is garbage. it'll be a big upgrade
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JohnnySmitch posted:I just finished building myself a new delay pedal gently caress you. Not fair! I try to get out, but you people keep reeling me in!  In all seriousness, though: I really liked it and, if you plan to build more, I'll be more than glad to buy one off you.  No bullshit.
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^ I am planning to built a few more for sale actually - shoot me a PM if you'd like to grab a spot in line. I'm still pricing out exactly what it costs me to make, but I'm estimating around a $150 shipped sell price.
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The Edge trem is pretty twitchy but I'm digging it, only had super-lovely licensed Floyds before that I've always ended up blocking. Disclaimer: I like the standard Jaguar trem system so my opinions on trems are not to be taken seriously
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Wark Say posted:A call center near my house was selling a bunch of furniture, chairs and such. My fiancιe thought it was a good idea. I'm not saying this like it's a bad thing. I legit thought those were amps at first, hence my comment.
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Fabbed up a cute little pedal board that gets done what I need. Two channel pimpin' with the AB pedal (may switch to ABY later  )  
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I like what you did with the cables. What are those little plastic loops holding the cables?
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yeah that looks nice. I looked it up for myself, looks like they're called p-clamps or loop clamps. http://www.mcmaster.com/#pipe-routing-clamps/=10yscts
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Yep, you can find those clamps at pretty much any hardware store, usually multiple diameters for holding whatever. If needed to trunk a bunch of stuff you can also get rubber-shrouded metal ones and all that too.
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Bought a Fender 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb, just came in today. It was a factory resealed model, and was 300 bucks off the normal price. It looks dead mint to me, like I can't find a nick or scratch anywhere on it. I am thinking I got a great deal. After having an Orange OR-15 for my only amp for the last ~2 years, I forgot how amazing Fender cleans are . I haven't owned a Fender amp in many years, I used to have a 4x10 Super Reverb, I forgot how much I enjoy that Fender sound. These newer "68 custom" amps have a bassman tone stack on the custom channel, but I can't decide if it's any good or not. Maybe it sounds different when cranked way up, but at low levels it just sounds like a shittier version of the vintage channel. Overall though I like it. I'd give it a 9/10. If they would make a version of this amp with an effects loop I'd give it a 10. Dirt fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Dirt posted:Bought a Fender 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb, just came in today. Very jealous, I've always wanted one of these. I have an old hot rod deluxe that I bought used about 10 years ago that has since been modified (new tubes, Jensen speaker etc), and I agree there's nothing better than that clean fender sound. Also it's worth noting that imo the hot rod deluxe sucks now imo. I think the older versions are actually great budget buys so long as you never use either of the drive channels. What exactly do the custom channels/inputs do on a twin reverb? I have friends that own them and I've never really understood that.
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Depends which one it is, but largely it has to do with what tubes are being used and what effects are used. Basically the tremolo and reverb are only available on the vibrato (loving leo fender) channel. There's also a slightly different gain stage between the channels. If it's a 68 custom, then the effects work on both channels but the custom channel used the tone stack from the bassman amp.
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Vox Mini-5 has deceased. Need a new practice amp. Anyone have any good thoughts on a modeling practice amp? I've been leaning towards the Yamaha THR-5/10.
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I have the THR5 and like it a lot. The models sound pretty good and just moving the tone knob is enough to tweak them that I haven't used the THR editor yet.
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Awesome. Does it take pedals? Cause now I see the 10C and 10X, and I'm thinking... 'no, I want something normal, but I wouldn't mind having _one_ metal setting.' I think I'm pretty much gonna be playing dadrock and dadblues on it.
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Unless I'm mistaken the Yamaha THR series only works with powered cabs, and not a regular speaker cab - is that right? That put me off personally.
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My little one doesn't have a proper line out to drive a speaker, no. However since I only bought it to play quietly or through headphones that wasn't really a turn off. For metal I find the modern and brit hi amp models to be plenty enough for quiet/headphone practice. As for pedals I can try putting my pedalboard in front of it later tonight. The onboard chorus/flanger/phaser and reverb/delay are pretty decent.
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Yeah, I was just wondering what happens when you try to drive it - if it would actually act properly or just go off track. I'm leaning towards the 10C. Deluxe Fender 65 Deluxe reverb Class A Matchless DC30 US Blues Fender Blues Junior Brit Blues Marshall Bluesbreaker Mini Dr Z Mini Z Really, that should be enough for anything, right? I figure if I can stuff a Dano metal pedal through it without things breaking, it'd cover everything else. Warcabbit fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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I actually just got the THR10 today and have had tons of fun messing around with it. The THR editor comes with an additional 30 presets too, which is nice even if some are just minor variations of each other. I've only tried a handful of them so far but everything sounds good with little tweaking, even at low volume. I also installed the Cubase software that's bundled with it, but I took one look at it and shut it down since I had no idea where to start with that. Figuring it out will be a project for another time.
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I only recently switched to Cubase (Ableton user for years before) and after the initial hump of option paralysis its pretty straightforward to get going. Will take years to get anywhere remotely close to mastering it but it's actually not too bad, especially if you don't have ingrained DAW hotkeys to unlearn.
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Warcabbit posted:Yeah, I was just wondering what happens when you try to drive it - if it would actually act properly or just go off track. I'm leaning towards the 10C. Okay I tried it out on my 5 v.2. On its clean and lower-gain ("crunch" and "lead") channels it responds very nicely to my TS9, Distortion+, and Uberschall. The brit hi and modern ones get weird. I still got decent sounds out but I had to turn the amp's gain way down to not be totally overpowering on the low end with either the Dist+ or Uberschall. Given that you can actually tweak the onboard EQs with the THR editor and that none of the 10C models are super high gain you should be fine!
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Thank you very much. Looks like I'm going to be watching ebay a little.
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So, tour begins tomorrow. I'm kinda nervous about going back on tour after so many years. At the same time, I feel pretty excited about that nervous feeling, because I think that will force me to try and do my best. If I see any weird gizmos worth buying, I'll be definitely posting here. Take care, in the meantime! JohnnySmitch, while I cannot PM you, I'm still interested in that delightfully hosed up delay pedal of yours. If you plan on making more and can send it to either my Mexican address or to an Aunt's PO Box in Mission, TX, I can be contacted at manji.architect@gmail.com
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Wark Say posted:So, tour begins tomorrow. I'm kinda nervous about going back on tour after so many years. At the same time, I feel pretty excited about that nervous feeling, because I think that will force me to try and do my best. If I see any weird gizmos worth buying, I'll be definitely posting here. Take care, in the meantime! For sure! I'm almost finished with #2 (which already has tentative dibs by a friend of mine), and parts are on the way for a couple more. I'll shoot you an email as soon as I have one all ready to go for you.
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