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I confess I’ve never played one but I thought the Mascis Squier had a decent rep.
I’ve serious GAS for a jag. Except I want one in olympic white or sunburst with a rosewood neck and a non matching headstock.
Struggling to find one I like for sub 1.5k... 🙈
Got a late (!) Christmas pressie from a mate:
Very nice and chunky ceramic from Star Singer slides in Glastonbury (you've got to love a company run by Dolfinn Ruby Star Singer):
Up half the night pissing around in open tunings on the Variax.
I have been playing a lot more due to lockdown and have not been spending money on my other hobbies, so 🙂
I picked up a Line 6 Helix floor and a Headrush FRFR speaker and I have been extremely impressed with it. I mainly got it for use with Logic pro as an interface, but find myself using it all the time.
I have also wanted a dual humbucker fixed bridge guitar for ages, finally bit the bullet and bought a Ibanez RG521 genesis in a lovely Jewel Blue colour. I wanted fixed bridge as other guitar has a floyd on it so is a pain to play with different tunings. This is just the ticket 🙂
I’ve not been a big compression fan but starting to get into it more as my consistency on picking is slipping. I use a multi FX now so can’t help. Check out the Andertons website though, they usually have lots of videos.
Ta!
Never thought about a compressor until I borrowed a couple from friends - a Landlord cheapie and an MXR.
Turns out I really like the effect on tone and really useful for late night practice.
Ordered the Orange Kongpressor after checking out a load of vids and reviews. 🙂
Wouldn't normally buy anything without trying it out but if it's good enough for Pete Thorne and Henning, it's good enough for me.....
I have also wanted a dual humbucker fixed bridge guitar for ages, finally bit the bullet and bought a Ibanez RG521 genesis in a lovely Jewel Blue colour.
How are you finding it?
I love my RG550, it seems it can do almost anything and I don't think I've ever seen an instrument so finely made.
It's just a beautiful thing to play, never ceases to make me smile.
Only tried one in the shop out of curiosity whilst Mrs S was playing with pianos, but I'm an Ibanez convert.
It's almost killed my GAS. Almost.....🙂
Classifieds seems a bit unreliable and there is no "Music" category so I have just listed a pristine 2 month old Line6 POD HD500X in the technology section if anyone is interested.
Apropos of nothing, I just remembered my first guitar I bought when I started work. Had to google a bit to find out what it was: an '87 Custom Shop Soloist as it turns out. I just thought it was a generic Rob Roskopp-ish airbrushing. I found out later it was from a prog rock album with 10 minute songs and was horrified - excruciatingly uncool. Chopped it in not long after, as a deposit for a Steve Jones style Les Paul.
Really wish I'd kept it now!
You sold a King Crimson artwork guitar?!!! Heathen. 🙂
I’ve serious GAS for a jag. Except I want one in olympic white or sunburst with a rosewood neck and a non matching headstock.
I had an Olympic white MIJ 66 reissue, rosewood neck. Nice guitar, some lovely sounds but I never jelled with it, just too complex. Swapped it for a very similar (maybe a year younger) Tele which is a better foil to the SGs
Madame was out this afternoon so I plugged in the Marshall. When my ears started protesting I pressed the V.P.R. button, turned it down and recorded this:
Guess at which point she returned.
I had an Olympic white MIJ 66 reissue, rosewood neck. Nice guitar, some lovely sounds but I never jelled with it, just too complex.
Ironically I probably had the exact same guitar (late 80’s) had a similar experience. Sold everything as a job lot early 90’s and walked away...
However, I didn’t have a Princeton back then (I had a shitty silver/black face trannie twin). I had my hotrod 52 tele for ten years before I gelled (I borrowed a vibro champ)...
Not sure which is the official guitar thread and apologies for the shameless plug but thought it may be of interest to somebody.
I've just bought the new Yamaha THR10ii Wireless, so I've listed my older version of this amp in the classifieds. Thought i'd try it on here before resorting to Ebay/Gumtree etc..
Brilliant amp, I have the non wireless version and it is my go to toy.
I love my multi effects and amps but 90% of the time I just plug into the THR10 and get on with playing. Maybe 30 seconds with the app to tweak a chorus or echo but thats all.
I've got one of those arriving in the post any day now, can't wait. GLWS dude (I'm into the whole brevity thing).
Cheers - I'd wanted the wireless one for a while but they'd been out of stock for ages, finally got one and it arrived the day before my birthday.
As did a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever T-Shirt 🙂
Been checking out some pedal review videos on youtube and I have to say that I really like Paul Gilbert's approach to life, music and shit. Seems a guy it would be fun to have a beer with.
Thanks for posting that, eddiebaby, kept me up to well past midnight watching it!
I've been a fan of PG since the Mr Big days - his solo stuff is quite eclectic.
Built another pedal - a ZVEX SHO clone.
But also realised my PSU is a noisy piece of crap, so have a Visual Sound OneSpot coming in the post.
Do you build from kits or design your own circuits? Always liked the idea of a homebuilt pedal.
Now I feel old. That young Stevie Vai kid turned 60 last Saturday. 🙁
AND he's been working on a new technique for him involving weird as frick bending within chords. Check it out from about 2:20 on.
YES I know folk like the awesome Danny Gatton have been doing similar for years but this is well bonkers.
All this pedal talk, eeek!
Just ordered me a Boss looper pedal... 🙄
This’ll bring my tally to a grand total of 2 (the other one is a vibro now redundant since I bought a Princeton...).
Oooh, which looper?
Pedals are an addiction I know.
Mainly with OD/ Distortions as they seem to have subtle differences I can't ignore in my head. I'm happy with 2 guitars and a versatile amp - a DT25, and with the Variax I could cut that to one guitar except I do like a trem now and then. I'm just waiting on a TC Electronics Ditto X4 looper and a MojoMojo and hopefully that will be it (until the next batch of Strymon Iridiums ship).
I'm selling most of my camera gear as I'm closing that side of the business so I'm trying VERY hard not to blow the money on music stuff.
I’m a bassist - am I allowed in here?!!
Hell yeah. 'tis a broad church.
There's a few of us who also play bass. Short scale in my case, mainly pop tunes with easy repetetive bass lines I can sing along to. I'll have to record some to post here. 😉 My last vid, Jailhouse Rock, is just a walking bass line on the guitar.
Cool! I do deal with guitar things too (and unsurprisingly have never been in a band without a guitarist). I’m also a bit prone to playing bass like a guitar at times!
So you're Alex. I'll take the opportunity to ask why bass cabs either use 10" or 15" drivers with a horn/tweeter but almost never 12"? I can't make my mind up between a 2x15 or a 4x10. At present I just use my guitar cabs which aren't "tight enough".
Wow! Didn't realise we'd got muso royalty on here!
In case folks are unaware, Barefaced make probably the best guitar and bass cabs on the market today!
I had an old compact for a few years when I played more bass. Had a loan of one of your 112 guitar cabinets for a tour in December and January....hands down the best on stage guitar sound I've ever had.
“So you’re Alex. I’ll take the opportunity to ask why bass cabs either use 10″ or 15″ drivers with a horn/tweeter but almost never 12″?”
That’s me! Loads of bass cabs nowadays use 12” speakers. But historically, bass cabs generally used 15” or 18” speakers whilst guitar cabs used 12” speakers. Then in 1969 Ampeg had the bright idea of the 8x10” which I’m pretty certain was to give them enough voice coil area to handle the power of the new SVT 300W amp and because that was SO good in loud bands, it became the standard.
And because 12” speakers were associated with guitar it became pretty much a tribal split, with no science behind the decision.
I think this can be my next video!
Ta, your Super Twin 2x12 bass cab is very tempting.
Very nice stuff guys!
I am learning bass as well. Have a P-Bass someone lent me and working my way through the Fender Play lessons.
Interestingly, I use a Marshall VBC4x12 bass cab for both bass and guitar. Also use my old Orange OR120 for amps on both as well:
Someone was asking about the pedals I built. They are from kits - https://www.jedspeds.co.uk/
pretty good kits, and the guys is helpful if you are rubbish at soldering like me
I got a 2nd hand Warwick rockbass streamer 5s fretless. I love the sound of fretless and it's a fun challenge (esp with no fret markers)
Oooh, which looper?
Boss RC-3.
@chiefgrooveguru: woah, ties to Watt, we’re not worthy...
It would take Norman Watt-Roy to make my knees go funny. When I pick up a bass the first thing I play is usually Wake up and Make Love with Me.
@edukator I played through one of those in 2011/2012 when I was playing some live dnb/dubstep on bass....they're monster cabs! I had a Genz Benz head and 2 112 Eden cabs for years as my bass rig....600w and hardly any weight at all!
I might get around to posting some pics of my gear on here at some point.
Now there's encouragement. How many cabs can a man buy before his wife announces she wants another horse?
The Barefaced 112 bass cab on its own would be more than enough for you I reckon
No singletrack theme tune ? 😕
“Didn’t realise we’d got muso royalty on here!”
I shall not complain about this level of hyperbole! 😉
But the below is true (in my totally biased opinion):
“In case folks are unaware, Barefaced make probably the best guitar and bass cabs on the market today!”
And yes, Watt is a legend! Re. horses, my wife and I still don’t have any at all, despite all the cabs - though my mother-in-law has a New Forest pony, which I’m not allowed to ride on account of being too big... The upside of cabs is you don’t have to feed them, muck them out or pay vet’s and farrier’s bills!
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Well my Ditto looper and MojoMojo overdrive arrived and running everything in 4 cable mode through the little amp it all sounds awesome.
Sadly my foot has now locked solid thanks to the horsefly bite so loop timing can be a bit weird. Using the looper really makes you focus on timing if you don't have a metronome running. A 12 bar is fine as is a 24 bar but much over that and without the influence of a drummer or bass player I find the tempo difference between the start of the loop and the end can be a bit jarring. Practice is the answer!
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Great. A week after my Looper arrives TC Electronic debut a new one, and very nice it is too. Seems to be priced at £99.
Anyone know what that pale blue guitar with Bigsby is?
I have a Korg Pandora PX4 that has gone haywire. Tried the default procedure to no avail.
Contacted Korg who quoted circa £70 for repair which I find fair but between £35 and £70 return postage!
I contacted UK repair helpline and assume repair is in UK.
Anybody know a reputable repair service that can repair Korg?