Topic: Re: The Guitar Topic - B (Read 387911 times)

IDMG · « **Reply #3300 on:** 19 Aug 2011, 19:23 »

Currently bidding on an impossibly cheap Line 6 Pocket Pod, but I'm wondering if it would be worth the the extra money to get a Pod XT or something second hand?

Bestow upon me your wisdom, guitar thread!

Patrick · « **Reply #3301 on:** 19 Aug 2011, 20:24 »

Quote from: Melodic on 19 Aug 2011, 16:44

I would feel kind of silly using a hand truck for a 40lb amp, though. I mean, I'm weak but I don't want people to know it.

40lbs is plenty heavy, especially when taking into account how awkward that 40lbs really is. My 100w Marshall is 52lbs, and that is about 1 stone shy of being half my weight.

Melodic · « **Reply #3302 on:** 20 Aug 2011, 01:19 »

Casters feel like they'll do the trick for a Deluxe, though. Keeping in mind that I don't have a vehicle and play solo, so this would be me on public transit with a 1x12 and two guitar cases.

Akima · « **Reply #3303 on:** 20 Aug 2011, 02:55 »

Quote from: Melodic on 19 Aug 2011, 16:44

I would feel kind of silly using a hand truck for a 40lb amp, though. I mean, I'm weak but I don't want people to know it.

That kind of macho bullshit is how guys so often screw up their backs at work. 40lbs is plenty to pop your back if you lift it awkwardly.

Quote from: doombilly on 19 Aug 2011, 12:47

Yeah, I have a hand truck. But I still have to lift an SVT head in road case on/off tail gate. Oh and the 8x10 is 175lbs. It has wheels but still has to be hoisted in/out of the truck.

175lbs... Ow! Have you considered:

I know this sort of thing costs money that you'd rather spend on guitars, amps etc. but so does back surgery.

Patrick · « **Reply #3304 on:** 20 Aug 2011, 03:43 »

Absolutely agree with all concerns on watching out for your back. I've tweaked mine and had to report it to OSHA when I incorrectly lifted a potted plant that only weighed 20. I was in the back of somebody's van making sure all their potted plants fit in there, and I was on my knees holding my torso up with one hand while trying to lift using the other. I was out of commission on loading customers' orders for 2 weeks.

Don't fuck with your back, you only get one of them. They'll serve you well your whole life if you're good to them. That lifting hand truck? Soon as I can afford something like that, I'm doing it.

doombilly · « **Reply #3305 on:** 20 Aug 2011, 11:50 »

Quote from: Akima on 20 Aug 2011, 02:55

Have you considered:

I know this sort of thing costs money that you'd rather spend on guitars, amps etc. but so does back surgery.

I has a birthday next month. But I'd rather save everyone's ears (getting singing lessons). LOL
That think looks awesome. But then I'd need to take it w/ me and that would take space up in truck/need to be lifted also.

That econoline...no.no.no. Must be WHITE, no windows, maybe a personalize license plate that sez, "FREE CANDY." heh
srsly, I'd LOVE a van. You go on tour with the truck you have. I have literally bankrupted myself to play shows. Vans, or much of anything are out of the question. Maybe I should buy more lottery tix? There's nothing like the feeling of having an 8x10 fall on you in the yard and being pinned in the mud.

Melodic · « **Reply #3306 on:** 20 Aug 2011, 21:18 »

you are so stoned right now

doombilly · « **Reply #3307 on:** 21 Aug 2011, 07:39 »

No, sorry I come by this naturally. I don't do drugs, only drink and was sober when I typed that.

IDMG · « **Reply #3308 on:** 25 Aug 2011, 10:18 »

What's your guys opinion on this:

Mesa Mini-Rectifier

Akima · « **Reply #3309 on:** 25 Aug 2011, 16:30 »

Quote from: IDMG on 25 Aug 2011, 10:18

What's your guys opinion on this: Mesa Mini-Rectifier

"this little gas-in-glass-powered jewel"? Isn't the whole point of vacuum tubes that they don't contain gas? I am confused.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3310 on:** 25 Aug 2011, 22:45 »

Hence vacuum tube. Probably some confusion with the fact that incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs do contain gas, and have uses in electronics (e.g. in compression and voltage regulation circuits, also see thyristor), but amplification tubes are hard vacuum.

Radical AC · « **Reply #3311 on:** 26 Aug 2011, 03:19 »

Well, it is $150 more than the Orange Dual Terror. If it is anything like the Dual Rectifier it will hate guitar pedals. Mesa can make some cool amps, but by the time I get to their price range I am always going to look at something else.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #3312 on:** 26 Aug 2011, 09:06 »

Just get a dual/tiny terror, really. If you're going to use it for metal at all (I mean, it IS a Rec after all) you're going to want to look into getting a Maxon OD-808 or Ibanez TS-808 to boost it.

Akima · « **Reply #3313 on:** 26 Aug 2011, 19:02 »

I notice the finish is mostly black. Do you really want to buy a Black Mesa? It probably comes with a free Headcrab.

IDMG · « **Reply #3314 on:** 26 Aug 2011, 23:28 »

Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 26 Aug 2011, 09:06

Just get a dual/tiny terror, really. If you're going to use it for metal at all (I mean, it IS a Rec after all) you're going to want to look into getting a Maxon OD-808 or Ibanez TS-808 to boost it.

I'm not really in the market for a new amp at the moment, just curious because every other musically inclined forum I go on is talking about it.

If I was springing for a metal amp, the Orange Dark Terror is what would catch my eye. Not much good for anything but hi-gain metal as far as I could make out, but it does the one thing it can really well.

Kwaping · « **Reply #3315 on:** 29 Aug 2011, 11:52 »

Quote from: IDMG on 26 Aug 2011, 23:28

Not much good for anything but XXXXXXX as far as I could make out, but it does the one thing it can really well.

That seems to describe every Orange product, if you ask me. I hate Orange cleans, but their gain tone is to die for.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3316 on:** 29 Aug 2011, 12:26 »

Incoming later this week, inspired by a shitton of GAS and listening to different samples all Friday afternoon:

A clone of the original-style "triangle" Big Muff.

Lummer · « **Reply #3317 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 00:36 »

Okaaay... So it seems I'm never gonna buy a Factory-New Gibson ever again. At least not until they get a new CEO.

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/08/26/gibson-guitar-ceo-on-obama-doj-raids-were-being-persecuted/

One thing is to brazenly break laws regarding endangered timbers, another thing is to be such a dick about it and pull the victim card. Seriously, fuck this guy.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3318 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 05:28 »

Quote from: Lummer on 30 Aug 2011, 00:36

One thing is to brazenly break laws regarding endangered timbers, another thing is to be such a dick about it and pull the victim card.

Do we really know that? From this article:

Quote

Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. "The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said

Note also in the linked article the $17,500 fine plus probation for a company that imported some antique Bösendorfer pianos with ivory keys, and didn't get all the paperwork right. Is this a transparent and effective way to save the environment? What about the Kyoto protocol, for instance?

Fortunately I have no plans to take my Brazilian Rosewood veneered Broadwood pianos to the USA.

Lummer · « **Reply #3319 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 06:21 »

In reality I'm just angry at that massive twat for making my favorite guitar company the laughing stock of the entire industry. Yes, I am bitter.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3320 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 07:14 »

Yeah, legal woody practices aside Paul, Henry J has systematically ruined Gibson.

Case in point:

pwhodges · « **Reply #3321 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 07:19 »

I see what you mean - even though I am not a guitarist!

Lummer · « **Reply #3322 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 08:00 »

That's not even the most ridiculous that has come out in the time since that blithering idiot took the helm. They've released at least 10 new models in just 3 years that no one in their right mind could ever want or need. Case in point: The Firebird X.

5600 dollars worth of so-called "innovations" that can be made completely obsolete by a 100 dollar Multi-FX pedal.

Also, their QC (no pun intended) really has gone down the toilet.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3323 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 09:19 »

Quote from: Lummer on 30 Aug 2011, 08:00

That's not even the most ridiculous that has come out in the time since that blithering idiot took the helm. They've released at least 10 new models in just 3 years that no one in their right mind could ever want or need. Case in point: The Firebird X.

Let's seeeeeeeeeeee.

-Les Paul Robot "Junior Special" (which was just a goddamned Special)
-The Eye
-Any number of CS Les Pauls that cost about $15,000 because they were aged by Tom Murphy
-the "Gothic Morte" series
-That Hendrix Strat which never came to fruition, praise allah
-Having two Joan Jett Melody Makers with two completely different price points when the only difference was finish
-Zoot Suit SG (I'm sorry, they are RIDICULOUS looking)
-Les Paul BFG
-Dusk Tiger

And Firebird X. That's 10!

What I really liked, and would work for me if it weren't all in stupid pastel finishes, was the LP Vixen. Two HBs, master volume and tone, back of the body contoured like a Strat.

Lupercal · « **Reply #3324 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 10:36 »

I will suggest that Gibson are a 50/50 company. Still keep knocking out the stuff they know sells and not tampering with it too much. Then the other 50% of it seems like ruining said sellers by making them have loads of fancy self tuning crap or having it reversed, or endorsed by a dead artist, or having holes in it, or attributed to a very much alive artist and charging through the roof for it. Anybody who saw the Sammy Hagar Les Paul (and now Explorer) will see my point.

Oh and of course ridiculous stuff like trying to sue PRS for making a singlecut guitar.

Radical AC · « **Reply #3325 on:** 30 Aug 2011, 13:51 »

Gibson keeps appearing on "Worst places to work in he US" lists. They treat their employees like absolute crap. And, their heels still suck.
They don't care about the environment, they don't care about people, and they clearly don't care about taste.

I hope they get that guy out of there (or in jail), and start to turn the company around because I want to like Gibson.

Patrick · « **Reply #3326 on:** 01 Sep 2011, 17:45 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 30 Aug 2011, 09:19

Quote from: Lummer on 30 Aug 2011, 08:00
That's not even the most ridiculous that has come out in the time since that blithering idiot took the helm. They've released at least 10 new models in just 3 years that no one in their right mind could ever want or need. Case in point: The Firebird X.

Let's seeeeeeeeeeee.

*snipped*
-Les Paul BFG

Don't hate it til you try it. One of those suckers through a Blues Junior is enough to tear your face off.

Akima · « **Reply #3327 on:** 01 Sep 2011, 18:40 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Aug 2011, 07:19

I see what you mean - even though I am not a guitarist!

It is very ugly. I'm not a guitarist either, but I enjoy listening to people who are passionate about something talk about their passion. I've learned new things, and this forum has completely destroyed an ignorant snobbery toward electric guitars, of which I am now thoroughly ashamed.

Patrick · « **Reply #3328 on:** 01 Sep 2011, 20:36 »

Yeah, instead of our snobs being ignorant, we're pretty well-informed here at least.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3329 on:** 01 Sep 2011, 22:54 »

Lummer · « **Reply #3330 on:** 02 Sep 2011, 00:15 »

Quote from: Patrick on 01 Sep 2011, 17:45

Quote from: valley_parade on 30 Aug 2011, 09:19
Quote from: Lummer on 30 Aug 2011, 08:00
That's not even the most ridiculous that has come out in the time since that blithering idiot took the helm. They've released at least 10 new models in just 3 years that no one in their right mind could ever want or need. Case in point: The Firebird X.

Let's seeeeeeeeeeee.

*snipped*
-Les Paul BFG

Don't hate it til you try it. One of those suckers through a Blues Junior is enough to tear your face off.

Aesthetically speaking it is still a horrible, horrible thing though..

That said, I do like that Gibson brought back the Les Paul Jr.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3331 on:** 02 Sep 2011, 07:23 »

Quote from: Patrick on 01 Sep 2011, 17:45

Quote from: valley_parade on 30 Aug 2011, 09:19
Quote from: Lummer on 30 Aug 2011, 08:00
That's not even the most ridiculous that has come out in the time since that blithering idiot took the helm. They've released at least 10 new models in just 3 years that no one in their right mind could ever want or need. Case in point: The Firebird X.

Let's seeeeeeeeeeee.

*snipped*
-Les Paul BFG

Don't hate it til you try it. One of those suckers through a Blues Junior is enough to tear your face off.

In all honesty I'd rather get the cheap-ass Guitar Fetish clone because at least they don't look like complete shit.

Patrick · « **Reply #3332 on:** 04 Sep 2011, 10:41 »

That's fair. They do look pretty awful. But holy fuck, it's worth it. It is totally worth it.

Guys, my Jag's on consignment. Pour out your 40s for her. I'll miss you, Prudence.

sean · « **Reply #3333 on:** 04 Sep 2011, 17:17 »

hey guys, who just bought a fender mustang?

me, i just bought a fender mustang. i finally fucking own my own guitar.

this is aweosome.

Radical AC · « **Reply #3334 on:** 05 Sep 2011, 12:13 »

Needs pics, lots of them. I want a mustang at some point. They are tops. I might order one from Fender Japan when I do, just for all the extra options they have.

Patrick · « **Reply #3335 on:** 05 Sep 2011, 17:20 »

Quote from: tuathal on 04 Sep 2011, 11:08

Also, I'd pour out my 40, but I'm not sure what a 40 is and even if I was, I'm sure you can't get them here.

It is a 40oz bottle of beer, usually something like Mickey's or Olde English or something like that. PO' OUT DAT FO'TY

doombilly · « **Reply #3336 on:** 05 Sep 2011, 18:01 »

Quote from: sean on 04 Sep 2011, 17:17

hey guys, who just bought a fender mustang?

me, i just bought a fender mustang. i finally fucking own my own guitar.

this is aweosome.

= my1st electric.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3337 on:** 06 Sep 2011, 07:20 »

Quote from: sean on 04 Sep 2011, 17:17

hey guys, who just bought a fender mustang?

me, i just bought a fender mustang. i finally fucking own my own guitar.

this is aweosome.

SEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN YES.

doombilly · « **Reply #3338 on:** 06 Sep 2011, 07:58 »

They have a negative effect on your hairline.

Or maybe that's just getting old, not sure.

Patrick · « **Reply #3339 on:** 08 Sep 2011, 03:01 »

Hey man it works for Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor and I approve

Alan Jackson too but he has that big cowboy hat on all the time

doombilly · « **Reply #3340 on:** 09 Sep 2011, 04:12 »

<----Explains the fedora, no?

Patrick · « **Reply #3341 on:** 09 Sep 2011, 14:34 »

There's a reason people have used microphones to record for the better part of a century. Shit works.

Patrick · « **Reply #3342 on:** 09 Sep 2011, 17:18 »

You could always use what you have now to just get a scratch recording down if the sound isn't satisfying you. Create your masterpiece later when you can get a better arrangement going. I just have a spectacular talent for putting things rudely.

doombilly · « **Reply #3343 on:** 10 Sep 2011, 10:13 »

FUG.ly

But i don't know it has twin vag sound holes.

Lupercal · « **Reply #3344 on:** 10 Sep 2011, 14:30 »

Its like Paul Reed Smith vomited into an open wound.

doombilly · « **Reply #3345 on:** 10 Sep 2011, 15:23 »

kind of. Also I think Gold Hardware was proven to be a Geneva Convention violation. Maybe it's just a trick of the light?

Akima · « **Reply #3346 on:** 11 Sep 2011, 06:48 »

Quote from: doombilly on 10 Sep 2011, 10:13

FUG.ly <image removed in the interests of good taste>But i don't know it has twin vag sound holes.

The finish looks like the sort of toxic waste that would turn you into a mutant warthog if you touched it.

Lummer · « **Reply #3347 on:** 12 Sep 2011, 02:29 »

Quote from: tuathal on 09 Sep 2011, 09:43

Oh god, the M-audio fast track is absolutely terrible. I got it for free and wanted to try it out today to put some post-rock tracks I'd been writing together.

Low low input level, no matter the setting.

If you then use a preamp, you brickwall it.
Any use of a tremolo effect or god forbid a Big Muff at any gain level is VERBOTEN. Brickwalling again.

Even when you play it clean and just up the gain in an audio programme it still sounds shit.
Suppose I'll just have to wait a week or two and mic up my amp.

Piece of tone-murdering shit.

Well... It's not made for that kind of thing, so it's hardly surprising it doesn't work that way. You should try getting some software like Amplitube or Guitar Rig. Maybe POD farm.

jeph · « **Reply #3348 on:** 12 Sep 2011, 18:39 »

Just picked up one of those newfangled Ibanez RGDs. Really diggin' the sound, Ibanez has finally made a set of pickups that aren't absolute ass. And it's a Prestige MIJ model so it's built/set up as well as any of my Much Fancier Guitars.

Cristi also got one of those multiple guitar racks for my office.

It's kind of embarassing. This isn't even my entire collection.

Patrick · « **Reply #3349 on:** 12 Sep 2011, 18:50 »

Idunno man, you ever tried their ArtCore hollowbodies? Those things sound pretty ace.

Edit to clarify: I'm referring to their pickups. Decent PAF knockoffs, but combined with that big ol archtop box it's got... fapfapfapfap

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