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Re: The Guitar Topic - B
NotAFanOfFenders:
You should try one out first.
Also, imeaapiratearg, your link is fucked*
*technobabble
imapiratearg:
It should be fixed now. This keyboard is so awesome. It's like: "Copy and Paste commands? Fuck that noise. I make you right click that shit, son."
Tehz:
I tried one once and I don't really remember how I felt about it. I wasn't really giving it my fullest attention. :|
greenMonkey:
--- Quote from: Tehz on 02 Aug 2009, 15:01 ---I think I want an Epiphone Casino. Either encourage me or do the opposite.
--- End quote ---
Try it before you buy it. I know people who are really satisfied with theirs, but when I tried one I was a little disappointed. But that may have been because I had a very specific guitar in mind that I wanted (my ASAT), and I was just trying guitars in the same price range for some comparison.
Today I fooled around with Garageband recording a new song idea that has been bouncing around in my head. While playing around with my new setup (Tribute ASAT Bluesboy Semi-Hollow -> Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive -> Fender Champ 600) I had one of those wonderful musical epiphany moments where I finally dialed in an absolutely gorgeous tone that was just addictive. I ended up ignoring the song I was recording and jamming over an 8 bar loop I had recorded for like an hour and a half. The Champ 600 sounds surprisingly good when it's really cranked. It's got two inputs, a high gain and a low gain, but I tend to ignore the high gain input and just use my SD-1 to push way past overdrive into chunky distortion zone. I wish it had just a tad bit more clean headroom though; even through the low gain input with my SD-1 off the ASAT will cause it to start breaking up if I play too hard. My Danelectro is a little less hot, so it sounds really really great clean through the Champ.
Edit: Also, those new Danelectros are so hot.
billiumbean:
--- Quote from: greenMonkey on 02 Aug 2009, 19:01 ---Edit: Also, those new Danelectros are so hot.
--- End quote ---
Indeed they are! I tried the Dead On 67' Baritone at the guitar shop a few days ago and that thing is SO fine. Weighs about as much as the guitar strap holding it up. I would consider that a plus.
--- Quote from: Tehz on 02 Aug 2009, 15:01 ---I think I want an Epiphone Casino. Either encourage me or do the opposite.
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Do it. I'd recommend getting a couple quality pickups installed, though. Epiphone tends to build really nice guitars, especially hollowbodies or semi-hollowbodies. The guitars are usually so good that they give them shitty pickups just so you can still dream of one day owning a "real" Gibson. Perceived obscellescence, as it were.
I bragged about my Epiphone Sheraton II a few pages ago. If my house were on fire, I'd run back in to save it. I'm sure the Casino is a close-enough cousin to the Sheraton to make you feel the same way about it. I'm setting aside some cash to buy a couple Gibson '57 Classic Humbuckers because I'll probably be playing it for the rest of my life, and Epiphone stock 'buckers just won't do. I'm sure the Casino's Alnico P-90s are of the same caliber, so just be financially open to the possibility of changing them.
Which reminds me:
--- Quote from: The Description For The "SG Zoot Suit" ---Headstock Logo
The classic Gibson logo is silk-screened onto the face of the headstock veneer. It is the most recognizable in all of music, representing more than a century of originality and excellence. There is simply no equal.
--- End quote ---
How sad is it that? That's like putting "Literate" on your resume.
Although this finish is one that I find most titillating:
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