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Kwaping:

--- Quote from: tuathal on 21 Sep 2012, 08:43 ---Helluva third post.
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Holy crap yeah. He pretty much won this thread right out of the gate.

Warcabbit, dare I ask about your amps and pedals?

warcabbit:
Trouble got a name on his own. "That guitar's going to be trouble." "I told you it's trouble." "Where'd you put Trouble?" It evolves.  Blondie got a name because of Trouble.
There's actually another JT90 around with a name. The Creamsicle. I think I have a picture somewhere. It's not mine, guy at the shop played Trouble, wanted one, it was on sale, and boom.

That one just had the name from the moment it was opened... it was supposed to have a black guard like in the video below. Didn't. Not that it's bad, but 'Holy hell, it looks like a Creamsicle!'

Actually, I'm fairly light on pedals. I got the complete line of Danelectro Cool Cats because I got two different sets of what must have been demo units that were never used for $15/pedal.  Totally worth it. Then I picked up the Metal-2 later to finish it off. I've also got a Big Muff, a Boss Compression Sustain CS-3, and when Best Buy was selling 'em for four bucks a pop, a Chicken Salad vibrato, a Bacon and Eggs miniamp/distortion (not really bad, actually) and a Chili Dog Octave Down pedal (not great for chords, but I can fake a slow bass groove, so hey.)
http://www.coolcattone.com/product_to.html
I mostly use the Transparent Overdrive (Tim clone, I think), Metal, Vibe, and Trem. Sometimes the Chorus.

The reason I don't use pedals so much is the practice amp I use is a Vox DA-5.
http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2012/Aug/GALLERY_Inside_Steve_Vais_Harmony_Hut_Studio.aspx?Page=12&#gallery
If it's good enough for Steve Vai, it's good enough for me. (Not that I like Vai much, but seeing that amp in the middle of thousands of dollars of guitars... that's funny.)

Main amp right now is an Vox AC30C2. (Got it used and terminally beered, put SovTek tubes in it, it lives again. But a bargain.) Because it matters what you play through, as much as what you play with.
Also, I have a ZT Lunchbox somewhere for when I want to hurt people. So small. So much power. But it's not full of tubes and it shows.

I wouldn't call this winning the thread. I didn't pay over $250 for any of those guitars. (Even the Subhuman - Mr. Malden was running a sale at the time. So worth it.)

One of these days, I should rig up to record. Till then, have some video of other people.
A crazy Russian playing a JT90 through a Crate. Shows good guitar face when the wah comes out. (I keep meaning to get a wah, never do.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Buis3HmFc
Guitar World showing what a Subhuman sounds like. The mike was off in this, I'm told, which explains why it's a bit distant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udz-fuUDnj4 (Blues show up about halfway in.) (Hey! Chuck! It's your cousin Marvin! Marvin Berry!)

Sadly, there's no demo of the LPoid around.

Oh, the reason I called it the Infinite Guitars Cheat?
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xaviere-Electric-Guitars_c_116.html
You guys do know of this place, right?

Not so very much money, quite a lot of axe.

Oh, actually, I do have a source for really cheap-ass pedals. I don't use 'em myself, but Joyo makes cheap but good clones. Been meaning to get the EQ, I could use one.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LZ1V1Q/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_4?ie=UTF8&smid=A12IPMVN62L4AI

But the most important thing I own is a Snark SN-2. Red, tiny, twelve bucks, and makes life so much easier.
http://www.amazon.com/Snark-Instrument-Clip-On-Chromatic-Tuner/dp/B003VWKPHC
To heck with pedal tuners. Clip the Snark on and you don't need to plug in, and you can read it in the dark. And it's so fast. And precise.

warcabbit:
By the way, I'm currently, if slowly, going through this thread from page 1 on. It is currently Jan 2008, and I am very much enjoying the guitar porn. Half the pictures are missing, which makes it a fun challenge, too, to guess from context. Ooh. And now we're at the slowly dawning realization that some Epis sound better than Gibsons, as Gibson slowly goes to hell... 2008, check. Also someone asking for a good starter guitar under $500. Really is a whole new age now.

I see much discussion of Sonic Youth Jazzblasters and J Mascis (which you can get for sub250 on the same bodyplan as Trouble - P90s, Jazzmaster, or humbucker pickups. (The P90s are _really_ good)) and Seymour Duncan, which amuses me.

Also, for some odd reason, a hatred for Stratocasters. Which is odd, because I really dig the harmonics a metal toneblock adds. It's so different from everything else. Even a Bigsby is basically bolted to the frame directly.

Also, mocking of people who play light strings. Meh. I'm strung with .10s and I'm happy. If I decide to rebuild Blondie to drop C, which I might, I'll put .12s on it. For standard tuning, .10s are fine.

Patrick:
But dude. Only douchebags or n00bs play Strats.

warcabbit:
And god, don't even get me started about how horrible people who play faded SGs are. Am I right?

So I didn't. Instead, I wandered off into the strange and wonderful land of china, where I got this for $80.

I did say it was in the mail in an earlier post. Showed up yesterday. Handmade, feels comfortable, a little heavy. Company apparently went out of business for being too expensive for the parent company (not Samick, the other one) to maintain. Natural binding, flamed red finish. Two point trem is actually pretty good, though it's condensed: the trem handle goes inside the block, not outside like on most replacements I know. Tuners are horrid.

Pickups are decent.
Thinking of replacing them with...
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Brighton-Rock-Vintage-Spec-Alnico-Pickups-Classic-Queen-sound_p_1514.html
this in the neck and mid and....
http://store.guitarfetish.com/Bigmouth-Bridge-Pickup-POWER-with-vintage-Tone-Bridge-Position_p_102.html
this in the bridge.

Videos tell me I'm going to have to wire the mid out of phase to get the right sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER7av60tGoA (Brian Mays)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDk7Fl8pq4 (Bigmouth)
But I think I have a good idea here.
Any thoughts?

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