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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 14:28:35 GMT -5
To get that Big Country guitar sound - let's face it, one of the greatest guitar sounds of all time - I'd need a pitchshifter/harmoniser pedal and an ebow. And they don't come cheap. I got an Ebow for cheap at a local pawnshop. they retail for stupid money -- like $100 CDN plus... and I got it for like... $35? it's fun to use, although I suck at it. this reminded me that I bought one on a whim, fucked around with it for a few hours, then promptly forgot about it. I hope it wasn't in the gig bag of that guitar I left at my buddy's place when he got robbed. apparently there's a new TC Electronic variant called the Aeon. it's less expensive and does a similar thing to the eBow... same idea? maybe check that out. I've heard mixed things about TC Electronic. some people love their stuff, but kinda like (some) EHX pedals, the QC can be a bit naff.
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 14:31:31 GMT -5
They certainly don't, especially not the pitch shifter pedals. Even a used EHX Pitch Fork is still like $120 American, which seems insane to me. I got a DigiTech Whammy Pedal some years ago which has pitch shifting capabilities among a number of other effects (wah, harmoics, etc). It was pretty affordable at the time though I know not what the prices would be in today's money, and if you're one of those ANALOG EFFECTS ONLY people it certainly would not be a thing you'd be into. I thought about getting a DigiTech Whammy for fun pitch shifting wankery, but it's possibly even more expensive than when it debuted? they seem to cost hundreds of dollars now. I don't know if that's adjusted for inflation or if I only saw fancier new models with additional features. I picked up a DigiTech FreqOut used recently. it's pretty darn cool. didn't realize I needed a very specific amperage to power the damn thing though, and now I have to hunt down an OEM power adapter, as my inexpensive power brick only does ~100 mA (or whatever the standard is) or 250 / 300 mA, not the ~200 mA the thing wants. and I paid more than enough to not want to cook it by mistake.
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 14:33:07 GMT -5
Today in fuck-ugly guitars from Fender: the Jimmy Page TelecasterSo now I guess Jimmy Page can add "proud owner of world's ugliest signature model guitar" to his resume, right next to "sexually deviant child kidnapper" and "bastard plagiarist." did you see the list price for the "limited custom shop run" of those things? I think it was something absurd like $25K USD. like... fuck off. could literally take a parts Tele, commission a local artist, buy massively expensive custom spec pickups, and DIY the rest of it (or even buy an official neck with the Fender premium gouging) for pretty much a tenth of the price. who are the assholes that buy these things? they should give me money.
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Post by patbat on Feb 22, 2019 14:40:51 GMT -5
fab You're absolutely right, I hate to see Fender moving into Gibson's territory of making guitars for retired doctors and lawyers exclusively. Nobody can tell me that anything about this is worth more than a fucking car.
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 14:43:09 GMT -5
I've been pretty hard on Fender's NAMM 2019 offering so far, but there's also a lot of stuff that I'm excited about. --Expansion of Squier's top tier, Chinese-made line, the Classic Vibe series to include a Jaguar, a Jazzmaster, and a Bass VI. Squier Classic Vibes are hands-down the best value for money in the guitar world IMHO --It looks like they're keeping the Meteora around for a while longer! --Some funky cool new offsets, including the Sixty-Six which is a guitar with a Jazz Bass body --THEY'RE BRINGING BACK THE ELECTRIC XII OMG I really, REALLY hope they don't dilute the Classic Vibe brand. it's no longer made in China at specific factories, but has been spread out to Indonesian factories as well. tons of excellent guitars are made in Indonesia (I own a few!), but I honestly haven't picked up a series of guitars that are as damn good and consistent as the MIC Classic Vibe line. in case you were wondering, the price has suddenly spiked on the old MIC Classic Vibe stuff. case in point, I got an alert from my Reverb ticker, as I'd like to get a Classic Vibe bass if the price is right, and some asshole is trying to sell a 50's style P-bass in Lake Placid Blue for over a grand. like, bruh, I know they're great, but fuck off with that price gouging. I'd probably have bought that CV 60's Jazz bass that's currently listed if the shipping wasn't overpriced and I didn't think I'd get fucked with yet another arbitrary and steep import tax, which seems to be all too inconsistent. some smart moves. I think the Telecoustic or w/e they're calling that thing is interesting, but they did the typical marketing thing -- overprice the product and milk the rubes who are willing to pay what, $2000 USD for it? at least Boss had the right idea with doing a "fuck it, money no object" level of product with the Waza line. Fender in no way is putting as much diligence and QC into those products as a company like Boss would, in both spec and overall fit and finish. Fender does this shit all the time. inevitably, they'll do a MIM run next year as they've already cleared preorders on the thing. same as they did with the Meteora having a proper MIM / affordable-ish run now. unless you're a gigging musician who can truly justify having / needing one "do it all... kinda" guitar that isn't one of the other guitars that sort of do something similar, whelp. there's a new shiny! go nuts. Sixty-Six looked really neat, didn't realize it was a Jazz body. and... fucking FINALLY. it took them long enough to bring back the Electric XII. don't know why they dragged their heels on that one. Gibson even looked like they were handling things semi-competently, now that they finally canned the idiot that ran the company into the ground (again). there's still no way in hell I'm paying Gibson prices for a mid tier model like a Les Paul Standard. I'd buy a Tokai, Burny, Greco, Fujigen, or if I really had the money (and lessons, practice, and skill to burn), possibly a Collings. so many more options that are light years better than what Gibson has sadly deemed acceptable to sell since I started playing.
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 15:02:12 GMT -5
All hail the hang, an instrument that looks and sounds like it comes from the Middle East or South Asia but was actually invented in Switzerland and is exclusively played by wealthy European hippies... I do like it though...
I know someone who bought one (or more?) of these expensive rain drum things. it sounds pretty cool. I knew the guy in high school as a nice but massively lazy dude who came from a well off family. never struck me as someone who would do much, as he had zero ambition. naturally, he somehow failed upwards into an extremely cushy job working for the transit authority in the city and gets paid stupid money to do graphic design work...? he is a pretty nice guy and I'm more than a bit envious, but it's always been a bit maddening that he managed to slack and schmooze his way up the pay scale. I know a half dozen other artistic types with more raw skill and hard work that have struggled mightily only to scrape by. what gives? a misplaced confidence? knowing the right people? he certainly fit the definition of hipster wankery at times, but that seems to have been an asset somehow. it's probably that he's not cynical and inflammatory, isn't it? maybe a happy go lucky cluelessness ia good thing? frig. *I'm* the asshole, aren't I.
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Post by patbat on Feb 22, 2019 15:02:48 GMT -5
I've been pretty hard on Fender's NAMM 2019 offering so far, but there's also a lot of stuff that I'm excited about. --Expansion of Squier's top tier, Chinese-made line, the Classic Vibe series to include a Jaguar, a Jazzmaster, and a Bass VI. Squier Classic Vibes are hands-down the best value for money in the guitar world IMHO --It looks like they're keeping the Meteora around for a while longer! --Some funky cool new offsets, including the Sixty-Six which is a guitar with a Jazz Bass body --THEY'RE BRINGING BACK THE ELECTRIC XII OMG I really, REALLY hope they don't dilute the Classic Vibe brand. it's no longer made in China at specific factories, but has been spread out to Indonesian factories as well. tons of excellent guitars are made in Indonesia (I own a few!), but I honestly haven't picked up a series of guitars that are as damn good and consistent as the MIC Classic Vibe line. in case you were wondering, the price has suddenly spiked on the old MIC Classic Vibe stuff. case in point, I got an alert from my Reverb ticker, as I'd like to get a Classic Vibe bass if the price is right, and some asshole is trying to sell a 50's style P-bass in Lake Placid Blue for over a grand. like, bruh, I know they're great, but fuck off with that price gouging. I'd probably have bought that CV 60's Jazz bass that's currently listed if the shipping wasn't overpriced and I didn't think I'd get fucked with yet another arbitrary and steep import tax, which seems to be all too inconsistent. I've been semi-idly tracking Classic Vibe Duo-Sonics on Reverb and the gouging on those has gotten completely insane since the start of the new year. Is Reverb like a car dealer and you're supposed to haggle? Or do these jokers really think their (admittedly cool-looking) MIC student model guitar is worth as much as a used American Fender? It's nuts!
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 22, 2019 15:21:20 GMT -5
To get that Big Country guitar sound - let's face it, one of the greatest guitar sounds of all time - I'd need a pitchshifter/harmoniser pedal and an ebow. And they don't come cheap. I got an Ebow for cheap at a local pawnshop. they retail for stupid money -- like $100 CDN plus... and I got it for like... $35? it's fun to use, although I suck at it. this reminded me that I bought one on a whim, fucked around with it for a few hours, then promptly forgot about it. I hope it wasn't in the gig bag of that guitar I left at my buddy's place when he got robbed. apparently there's a new TC Electronic variant called the Aeon. it's less expensive and does a similar thing to the eBow... same idea? maybe check that out. I've heard mixed things about TC Electronic. some people love their stuff, but kinda like (some) EHX pedals, the QC can be a bit naff. I watched a youtube demonstration of the Aeon, and it did not go well. Think I saw some appalled reviews elsewhere, too.
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 15:54:20 GMT -5
I got an Ebow for cheap at a local pawnshop. they retail for stupid money -- like $100 CDN plus... and I got it for like... $35? it's fun to use, although I suck at it. this reminded me that I bought one on a whim, fucked around with it for a few hours, then promptly forgot about it. I hope it wasn't in the gig bag of that guitar I left at my buddy's place when he got robbed. apparently there's a new TC Electronic variant called the Aeon. it's less expensive and does a similar thing to the eBow... same idea? maybe check that out. I've heard mixed things about TC Electronic. some people love their stuff, but kinda like (some) EHX pedals, the QC can be a bit naff. I watched a youtube demonstration of the Aeon, and it did not go well. Think I saw some appalled reviews elsewhere, too. ah... that would explain why I never heard anything about it after the initial announcement then!
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Post by fab on Feb 22, 2019 15:58:11 GMT -5
I really, REALLY hope they don't dilute the Classic Vibe brand. it's no longer made in China at specific factories, but has been spread out to Indonesian factories as well. tons of excellent guitars are made in Indonesia (I own a few!), but I honestly haven't picked up a series of guitars that are as damn good and consistent as the MIC Classic Vibe line. in case you were wondering, the price has suddenly spiked on the old MIC Classic Vibe stuff. case in point, I got an alert from my Reverb ticker, as I'd like to get a Classic Vibe bass if the price is right, and some asshole is trying to sell a 50's style P-bass in Lake Placid Blue for over a grand. like, bruh, I know they're great, but fuck off with that price gouging. I'd probably have bought that CV 60's Jazz bass that's currently listed if the shipping wasn't overpriced and I didn't think I'd get fucked with yet another arbitrary and steep import tax, which seems to be all too inconsistent. I've been semi-idly tracking Classic Vibe Duo-Sonics on Reverb and the gouging on those has gotten completely insane since the start of the new year. Is Reverb like a car dealer and you're supposed to haggle? Or do these jokers really think their (admittedly cool-looking) MIC student model guitar is worth as much as a used American Fender? It's nuts! you're supposed to haggle, I guess. some people are just greedy / stupid, and they like to pretend that they suddenly have a "rare" model. (the factory probably did a run of 3000, but some colours are annoyingly region specific.) there's a Canadian retailer you can look up that is particularly notorious for this called Tundra Music. I'm astonished Reverb hasn't banned them since even skimming the reviews it's clear that they're accepting orders and payment based on stock they don't have. it's technically against terms of service to sell anything without pictures the seller has taken of the actual instrument, but Reverb's parent company (Chicago Instrument Exchange) is apparently a bit scummy like that and doesn't care.
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Post by fab on Mar 21, 2019 10:08:27 GMT -5
patbat I'm super tempted to buy this just because the price is utterly ridiculous. never owned a tube amp and I've seen a couple good deals floating around lately. Kijiji is basically Canadian Craigslist. we have Craigslist, but its star has fallen substantially over the last decade. there's a refresh of that particular model (Blackstar 5H series) that has DI / USB out and some other fancy business that would be nice if I ever want to record, but I think my small Yamaha THR5 practice amp has that and I've never faffed about with it. (partly b/c I didn't get the free copy of Cubase Lite or w/e it was, since it was used.) I don't think I can even buy a head and cab used for that price, let alone with an extension cab! odds are I could sell it off for about the same price as well. now if only I had my car insurance sorted... I'll have to get my buddy to help me go pick it up if I bite. it'll be pretty conspicuous in my bedroom, as you can't exactly hide a stack. I expect my parents will be annoyed if I pull the trigger on it, but that's half the fun, right? I really need to clear out some gear, possibly donating it. I don't mind eating the cost on some of that stuff, as cutting back on intermittent binge drinking saves a pile of money anyhow.
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Post by patbat on Mar 21, 2019 10:18:09 GMT -5
fab that's gorgeous, and Blackstar certainly has an impeccable reputation for quality small amps--definitely better than Marshall's.
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Post by fab on Mar 21, 2019 11:22:38 GMT -5
fab that's gorgeous, and Blackstar certainly has an impeccable reputation for quality small amps--definitely better than Marshall's. probably hard to find where you are, but the only tube amps that have been reasonably sized and in my price range have been Blackstar's 5H / 1H range and Traynor's smaller combos. ( Traynor is a mildly famous Canadian company that never really tried very hard to expand its distribution beyond our borders. Ampeg notably ripped off its flagship bass amp design from Traynor. and yes, you can really drop / bash their stuff and it still works. I've seen some seriously trashed equipment by them that holds up. it's harder for me to buy an amp without trying it in person than a guitar, but I feel self conscious / rusty enough about my chops and playing in front of others that I never want to turn it up, especially in stores. plus I'm just playing by myself, hence looking at smaller stuff to use. anyway, the Blackstar 5 / 1W ranges of combos and heads and Traynor stuff have been consistently available for me to try and I've always gravitated for them. I find with a lot of standard clean sounds, even the cheap modeling stuff (like the Fender Mustang v1 I had stolen from my buddy's place) can pretty much nail all the classic glassy Fender cleans to my ears (only caveat therein being if you set a Tweed or Deluxe Reverb set on the verge of breakup based on pick attack), so I'm looking more for the overtones and crunch / distortion sound. I got what is now a semi-rare Marshall Lead (in orange tolex!) recently, and it sounds pretty darn amazing for solid state, but the wimpy 10" speaker needs to be replaced at minimum, and idk if I can really get it to approximate the JCM800 that lives in my head anyhow. the Traynor is a bit overpriced at retail imho, and the company is owned by our largest Canadian music retailer (Long and McQuade), and they don't really do discounts. you can trade in gear towards purchases and they sort of half-assedly deal in used gear, but it's more of a means of propping up their retail side. it's not like a good small shop whose bread and butter is lessons or setups. I think they're silly for trying to price that model at $900 + tax, as I would've probably bought one for $600 and change retail, but it is very competitive in its retail price range, giving a lot more bang for your buck than say a comparable Fender at that bracket. they come up often enough used locally that I can snag one for $400 - 450 CDN if I wait, which is pretty darn reasonable. the lack of the power reduction circuits is making me pause though, and that's why I keep hesitating, as I understand that you have to push the power amp / preamp of specific circuits for it to really sound good. in particular, the Traynor YCV20WR is a sweet one I've almost bought several times. combo with a Celestion Greenback, has an awesome sound between a Fender / vintage Marshall thing, red tolex, DI out, speaker defeat for silent practice (to be used with DI or emulated headphone output which doesn't sound bad), simple controls. tubes apparently self bias (because learning how to do that or paying a tech when you change them is otherwise A Thing). the only feature it doesn't have that I'd like is power attenuation, stepping down from 20W to 5W / 1W. I don't think this Blackstar 5W stack has that option either, while all the combos do, so that's a consideration. I don't want to buy a power attenuator since that's a whole other realm of confusion and expense that doesn't make sense given how I mostly just dick around by myself and often just use a modeling amp on my desk when I practice since it happens to be convenient. it's combo with a Celestion Greenback and has an awesome sound between a Fender / vintage Marshall or Vox characteristic, to my ears. sample here (older version of same model? or the near counterpart YCV20 with a less expensive speaker and maybe one or two less outputs) and here (YCV40, an incredible amp that I cannot in any way justify owning because even 15W rated is way too fucking loud for me at home, although it often goes for damn near the same price on the used market). Traynor makes awesome stuff. it's a matter of jumping on the deals when they arise, I guess. in the past few weeks, I've seen the older model (just refreshed) of the Blackstar 5W combo and the Traynor 20W combo go for $400 apiece. I don't like haggling too much since I don't want to insult the person, but I have been burned a few times on stuff by local people by not doing enough research or being to eager to buy without asking too many questions, when I should've knocked like 25% of the price off it. the local guy who sold me that Ibanez S series for $400 and apparently builds his own basses clearly doesn't know enough about setup or is an ass, because that nut needs to be entirely recut. should've noticed that the G saddle was jacked way up on the bridge to compensate. oh well. live and learn.
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Post by fab on Mar 21, 2019 11:46:12 GMT -5
at least I was sensible and didn't spend like 2/3 of the used car payment that it would've cost to get one of my dream guitar amps when they came up on Reverb recently... I was pretty damn tempted though. thought about it for a week or two. they cost horrific amounts new (like... let's just estimate $4500 CDN plus by the time import fees and shipping are sorted), so half price ain't a bad deal by any stretch! one of these heads was available (and sounds pretty cool on YouTube, and kinda does what I would really want -- a Fender clean, and a Marshall type lead channel). I think the seller had it as a head or head and cab combo, and I actually emailed the boutique builder to ask questions about the amp transformer. super nice guy. but I can't possibly justify dropping like a month's wages pre-tax on something like that. and this one that I have been drooling over for years since an errant google search led me there... yeah, one of those ALSO came up on Reverb used about a month ago. just listen to those sound clips! sure, they've probably been EQ'd and treated in a DAW, but fuck me sideways, that's like... that's THE sound. I guess that's why Marshall can release stuff like this bad boy that actually does what I would want in a JCM800 at a sensible volume, but unfortunately is at least twice as much as I'm willing to spend on a head. I love playing but I'm rusty as fuck and like, idk... I'm fine with aspirational spending in this regard, to some degree, even if it is a bit foolish, but dammit Marshall... I don't even have a separate cab to match with it! who is buying this stuff at retail prices? seriously. and again, that list price is very much bumpin up against the "why not buy an amp I'll keep for the rest of my life, but used" price range, in which case... ugh. if I sit down and practice regularly and seriously for the next three to five years, these really steep amps are somewhat justifiable. but now? sadly, nah. I could afford it I suppose, albeit with a big dent in my savings that sanity dictates I shouldn't do, but I really gotta be reasonable about how I'm going to actually be using these tools, and for now, that's in my bedroom, by myself, as a hobby, and I'm not exactly gonna break even on investing in almost any of this stuff, even the more interesting and rarer bits I've come across.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Mar 25, 2019 16:55:41 GMT -5
I'm kind of amazed by the possibilities of the bodhran. It looks like a regular drum but you can make amazingly textured stuff with it...
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Post by patbat on Jul 22, 2019 8:36:52 GMT -5
This weekend I finally got to try out one of those Vintage Modified Baritone Jazzmasters Squier made a few years back and I really liked it. I was worried the 30" scale length would make it feel like a bass, but it didn't, and I was able to tune it all the way down to low E (it comes standard tuned to A) with minimal adjustments. If it had been $50 cheaper, I would have taken it home with me, just to have something to fake basslines with.
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Post by fab on Jul 23, 2019 12:34:36 GMT -5
I strongly considered buying a Schecter Custom Shop Strat when I was in Zwolle, as the price was right (about a 1000 euros, so ~$1550 CDN)... and I wouldn't have been screwed on taxes coming back, b/c I had stayed long enough to have a certain threshold for declarations? I've never even SEEN Schecter custom shops, and this shop had... five of them? and a bunch of Duesenbergs (JFC those are like $5K and up iirc, I didn't even bother touching them). would've compelled me to sell every single other "Strat-like" guitar I had, with the possible exception of the Japanese Squier I want to fix up / retrofit, since it was just so bloody impressive. however, my parents being on vacation with me, I was explicitly forbidden from buying more guitars, and even my Opa was making cracks about "did you buy another guitar?" during the daily video chat with my aunt, when I mentioned I found some shops. so... I took a business card. if I manage to offload five guitars (half of all I own!), then I can consider it. I did get to play a Japanese masterbuilt archtop at another shop, where the owner was very pleasant and kept making coffee for me while I hung out with him and his dog. pretty chill people, but again... I don't just casually have $3K burning a hole in my pocket. that's my used car money, dammit! naturally I forgot to take pictures of it, as I was so enthralled with it. it was basically a very light scuff / sand down on the neck away from being on par with the 2850 euro (!!!) other custom shop they also had, which had arguably better playability and a crazy good neck... but idk anyone who is casually dropping $4200 CDN, personally. the whole nitrocellulose finish thing usually struck me as marketing bullshit, but they had given it the nitro with a nice light aging / relic job where I think they heated it so it kinda crackled up a bit, and you couldn't really see it unless you looked close. heck, it had better pickups (matter of taste, I don't care for overly bright Strat pickups) on the less expensive one, so it was kind of a no brainer... I might regret that, haha. dude offered free shipping though I'm sure now that I'm back on soil I'll be hammered on taxes if I were to bite. also played one of the red signature Mark Knopfler Schecter Strats and holy FUCK that is a basically perfect guitar. for ~3000 euro, it had better fucking be... individual pickup switches for each pickup, on a three way toggle, where the centre position is off, and opposite ends are phase switching. very slick! and my god, that birdseye maple neck and fretboard were something else. that shop did a damn good job setting up their guitars... I only touched a couple that were kinda dodgy, some brand I didn't know that maybe just had shit QC, idk. it's cool to see all the (cough, often better) brands that we don't have, where the manufacturing is done in Asia, as is common, and the QC / basic setup done at the headquarters elsewhere. as expected, Tokai makes a fucking KILLER Strat and very solid Les Pauls. best Les Paul style copy I played was a Hagstrom Ultra Swede, which I think was ~900 euros? very reasonable price for a damn comfy guitar. in all honesty, I can't tell the difference between a very good Les Paul and a great one. I think it would be down to the pickups, tbh, and that's again... a matter of taste and can be swapped / tweaked to taste with the right wiring and amp setup. I forgot to at least buy some picks / strap / capo or two as courtesy at the shops for hanging out with me, explaining stuff, and just being really genial. it really helped relax me when I was feeling a bit anxious and unspooled from erm... not speaking Dutch, even though everyone pretty much speaks English? /shrug also, Blade Guitars? very nice for the money. they sit in the price bracket between a Mexican Fender and American Standard, with some well thought out changes. hadn't seen those in person before, but they're very slick! so many companies that never hit North America, either due to lack of distribution / sales volume, or just the additional expense in shipping, presumably. I guess this is where I suddenly learn that no matter where I go, I just kinda want to hang out in guitar shops and fondle the merchandise.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 30, 2019 3:49:47 GMT -5
I mean, holy shit is that Antigua Burst ugly, and not like "haha so quirky," legitimately unpleasant to look at. It's even uglier in person. I think if the pickguard wasn't the same color it might be okay, but then again I'm a guy who intentionally bought a seafoam green Danelectro at one point in my life and owned some monstrous B.C. Rich guitar (got it on the cheap at a yardsale in the pre-ebay era when you could get stuff on the cheap because ebay didn't exist and moms did know how much stuff was worth) because I thought it looked funny, so I'm probably not the best judge of whether or not something looks good when it comes to guitars.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Mar 15, 2020 15:14:10 GMT -5
So the last time my shitty old strat made an appearance in this thread it was still liberally festooned with dumb-as-hell stickers. Here’s how it looked once they were all stripped off: As you can see, the yellowed knobs and pickup covers looked like ass against the white pickguard, so I finally got around to replacing it
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Post by patbat on Jan 14, 2021 16:30:46 GMT -5
I just made a big order on Reverb--I'm going to swap out all the chrome parts on my Classic Vibe '50s Stratocaster with gold parts, so it looks like David Gilmour's #0001 Strat:
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Post by moimoi on Jan 28, 2021 19:38:58 GMT -5
A beloved local institution, Midwest Pro Sound & Lighting is unfortunately going out of business, so I stopped by their showroom to see what was left - particularly in their Nerd Audio synth shop. Long story short, I ended up buying myself a Roland 303 clone from Behringer (not a good company, I'm told, but it cost less than an Xbox!) to play around with and make acid house.
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Post by patbat on Feb 18, 2021 14:49:32 GMT -5
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Feb 18, 2021 16:21:59 GMT -5
I got this bad boy a few years back just to have something to mess around with if the mood struck or if I wanted to go play band alumni events and not hassle my old roommate to borrow a horn from one of his students. It's mostly ended up collecting dust, but Owl Jr. has been interested in it lately so I'm trying to show him some basics without giving him a bunch of bad habits a band teacher will have to undo some day.
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Post by moimoi on Feb 18, 2021 17:07:20 GMT -5
I got this bad boy a few years back just to have something to mess around with if the mood struck or if I wanted to go play band alumni events and not hassle my old roommate to borrow a horn from one of his students. It's mostly ended up collecting dust, but Owl Jr. has been interested in it lately so I'm trying to show him some basics without giving him a bunch of bad habits a band teacher will have to undo some day. Just as long as you're making him call it a "tromba-ma-bone".
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Feb 19, 2021 14:13:21 GMT -5
That seems more like a baritone guitar than a standard 6-string bass? Weird.
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Post by patbat on Feb 19, 2021 15:06:40 GMT -5
That seems more like a baritone guitar than a standard 6-string bass? Weird. It's tuned E-e like a regular guitar, instead of B-C in fourths like a regular 6-string bass. It's a weird instrument family for sure. Related--I just took the plunge on a Squier Vintage Modified Bass VI--very similar to the Hooky Bass, but half the price! I can't wait until it gets here. Here's a picture of my bass heroine Debbie Googe playing the exact model I got:
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Post by patbat on Feb 24, 2021 12:33:25 GMT -5
Aaand the seller's house got robbed, so I'm not getting my Bass VI after all. Shit. At least he refunded me immediately.
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Post by moimoi on Mar 30, 2021 22:49:25 GMT -5
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