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Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

I've been waiting to get my hands on a camera so I've been saving these up.

Just before Christmas I won a Yamaha DX7 on Ebay.

Around the same time I got my hands on a Visual Sound Overdrive/Distortion

Just yesterday I finally decided on a guitar to replace my old Squier Bullet. A Mexican Strat.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2007 07:19

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# ¿ May 19, 2013 12:56

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Engine Fortegue posted:

you lucky son of a BITCH that's awesome

I first saw the DX7 some ten years ago and fell in love with it. I've wanted one ever since.

I paid slightly less than $200 for it so it was a good price too. The guy was moving to another state and didn't want to cart it with him as he already had a newer Roland.

It came with a very beaten up case but no power cable. I've had to make my own and solder it onto the terminals on the transformer. Works great though.

I tried a similar (Ebay) tactic with a Korg M1 but people seem to snap those up quickly.

Cynicide fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2007 around 08:42

# ¿ Mar 8, 2007 07:57

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

I found this purple Double Fat Squier Strat at a used guitar store last weekend.

In relation to the recent discussion I plan to replace the scratchplate and fittings with gold ones.

Mmmm... purple on gold... tacky.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2007 04:42

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

PenguinBob posted:

That's like the official color scheme of old-school pimps.

I'll try to get volume and tone knobs that are skulls with rubies in the eyes.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2007 05:43

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Drazzy posted:

These new saddles came in today, along with 2 new trem springs. Now I have 5 trem springs on the keep the bridge locked down until i can replace it with a non-trem unit. The saddles are replacing the stock stamped MiM Fender ones which rattle like no other.

Also, new set of GFS Texas Stagger Alnico's. They're righty stagger on a lefty for "LOL JIMI" factor. Actually, it's just because I'm a dumbass and forgot about stagger :P

The saddles look relly high because, well, they are! I have no neck on the body, so can't adjust to the proper height.

Just a suspicion but you and I may have the same guitar. MiM Strat Brown Sunburst?

I will agree with you about the saddles, it's a little annoying. Is this the one you broke the truss rod on? If it was me I'd be inconsolable.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2007 05:48

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Syrus posted:

Cynicide, would you midn telling me about that Jekyll and Hyde? Does it really sound like a tubescreamer?

I can't find the picture I took of the marshall JCM 900 head I was looking at on my computer, so no picture here, but that's what I've been looking at, or a Peavey Classic 30.

I'd find a store and play one. A lot of people swear by them and a lot of people call them boutique pedal crap. It really depends on what you're after.

I've never played with an original tube screamer so I can't tell you if it sounds exactly like the old Ibanez, it does sounds quite nice though, even through my old acoustic control corp solid state amp. It apparently uses the same JRC4558 op amp that the Ibanez pedal uses.

I made the choice because I like the idea of distortion and overdrive in the same pedal and the thing sounded good to me. This was my first distortion/overdrive pedal and overall I'm pretty happy with it, I can get a wide variety of sounds from it.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2007 03:28

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

bisticles posted:

If buying wood, velcro, adhesive spray and stain counts, then I bought a pedalboard

That looks cool!

# ¿ Apr 25, 2007 00:14

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Yoozer posted:

That's right.

Is that two dx7's?

# ¿ May 12, 2007 13:04

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

First off, I am not rich, I bought all of this over the last six months. I just don't have a camera of my own.

I've wanted one of these for ages. One came up on Ebay, one quick battery replacement and a factory default later and I had the best piano synth money could buy in the late 80's!

Next up, I can't afford a pile of classic amps but this is pretty close.

Both of them output here. This is the KC-150, a word of warning if you're looking at these amps, the KC-60 is a lot cheaper but it breaks up at low volumes.

I'm hooked on Reason at the moment, it makes everything so easy.

So I got a portable midi controller so I can drag my laptop around with Reason on it.

Cynicide fucked around with this message at Nov 26, 2007 around 11:33

# ¿ Nov 26, 2007 09:43

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

wing posted:

pretty proud of this one. maybe not so proud of my jenky-rear end room but whatever

Good score to get one with the E! card.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2007 23:07

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

I went from thinking about buying a wah wah pedal to buying a Vox AC15CC1

I'd been thinking about getting my first tube amp for a while but I couldn't decide on an amp. When I heard this clean I fell in love with it.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2008 03:43

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Let's hear it for keyboards that can play themselves.

I am the proud owner of a Korg Karma after a lucky win on Ebay.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2008 09:51

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

SteelWav posted:

I will be getting the famous DX7 very soon. Right now it's in the mail somewhere.

The Karma sounds very weird and interesting. I'm not sure I understand what it does. Does it generates notes by itself or what? Congrats on your purchase though.

Pretty much it. In Karma mode it generates midi data which it then pipes back into itself, kind of a very flexible arpeggiator. It can use this to do auto accompanyment, even on different interuments (In the case of a combi); or it can be used to make complex sounds.

I can post some examples if you want.

Cynicide fucked around with this message at Sep 5, 2008 around 23:08

# ¿ Sep 5, 2008 23:05

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

SteelWav posted:

I bought several keyboards since a month

Looks like a nice haul. Good luck programming the DX7, it can be a bit of a bear to get your head around.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2008 23:53

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

SteelWav posted:

The DX7. I'm just beginning to understand why this keyboard was a hit. Right now it seems like it can offer endless possibilities, but always with that typically FM sound. It's much harder to figure out than standard synthesis, and the lovely interface for programming doesn't help at all. I still don't get some of the parameters, but I'll be patient because it's very apparent that it's got a lot to offer.

Try and grab a software programmer from somewhere, either DX manager for Windows or DX Librarian for the Mac.

The membrane buttons on the DX7 aren't the most durable things in the world and the less you use the, the better. I've seen quite a few that have had holes worn in the buttons.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2008 21:30

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

SteelWav posted:

I can't get DX Manager to work. I follow the detection procedure but it doesn't detect my DX7. I can send SysEx files using MidiOX so I don't think the cabling is the problem. Any ideas?

Nothing other than making sure that Memory Protect is turned off.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2008 04:18

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# ¿ May 19, 2013 12:56

Cynicide: Jun 13, 2002; Born from a wish

Two monosynths, a drum machine, a sequencer, an effects unit and a mixer. Fits right in my pocket.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2009 09:59

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