Topic: Re: The Guitar Topic - B (Read 400670 times)

BlahBlah · « **Reply #1600 on:** 26 Jun 2010, 10:44 »

Pavement, I take it?

Yeah, his tone was amazing. I also want the overdrive he uses, the hot cake. I loved his strat sound as well, but I just can't get anything close to it. Maybe I need new pickups.

Ballard · « **Reply #1601 on:** 26 Jun 2010, 20:57 »

What's on the bridge on that bastard Mustang?

Patrick, good for you you're already halfway there.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #1602 on:** 26 Jun 2010, 23:39 »

I was curious about that Hot Cake thing, so I looked it up. You know, whenever I watch gear demos on the internet, all the guys do is noodle around with blues riffs. Would it kill them to just bash on an open E chord, just for a little bit?

Christophe · « **Reply #1603 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 07:38 »

Andy from ProGuitarShop.com usually does gear demos that aren't just blues lawyer licks over and over again. Check hiim out here!

Patrick · « **Reply #1604 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 11:18 »

Quote from: Ballard on 26 Jun 2010, 20:57

What's on the bridge on that bastard Mustang?

Those are called strings sir

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #1605 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 17:45 »

Quote from: Christophe on 27 Jun 2010, 07:38

Andy from ProGuitarShop.com usually does gear demos that aren't just blues lawyer licks over and over again. Check hiim out here!

Man, that Hummingbird tremolo is pretty rad.

Ballard · « **Reply #1606 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 18:53 »

Quote from: Patrick on 27 Jun 2010, 11:18

Quote from: Ballard on 26 Jun 2010, 20:57
What's on the bridge on that bastard Mustang?

Those are called strings sir

There's something between/underneath the B and G strings on the bridge. Or am I imagining things?

Patrick · « **Reply #1607 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 23:32 »

Looks to be a screw for adjusting intonation on those two strings, but I'm not actually sure. Shane?

Christophe · « **Reply #1608 on:** 27 Jun 2010, 23:45 »

It looks like one of these wraparound bridges from GFS. It says that it's a "compensatable G/B section" so Pat is right on the money.

Christophe · « **Reply #1609 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 08:49 »

http://www.rondomusic.com

Ballard · « **Reply #1610 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 12:09 »

Remember that semi-hollow guitars, particularly when played through distortion pedals, feedback like a motherfucker.

In the bad, humming anytime you're not making other sounds way. Not the awesome Big Black way.

The Duke · « **Reply #1611 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 15:35 »

rule number one of noise rock: there is no such thing as bad feedback

Ballard · « **Reply #1612 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 15:58 »

If you'd ever had a faulty pot you'd know how wrong you are.

Ballard · « **Reply #1613 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 18:14 »

Also, make sure that there are fret markers on the neck, or the lack of them on the fretboard will start pissing you off very quickly.

The Duke · « **Reply #1614 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 18:50 »

aaahh you caught me

I do not know the first thing about noise rock

(Seriously, I don't. It was sort of a joke.)

Chad K. · « **Reply #1615 on:** 28 Jun 2010, 22:29 »

Just bought a Joe Pass Emperor on Saturday one day before my band were due to spend all day in a studio. It was the only thing I used for the recording on sunday. I haven't told it yet, but I'm in love.

Bearer · « **Reply #1616 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 01:03 »

http://www.rondomusic.com/AL3000csbfl.html
One of these in a gloss black finish came into a pawn shop near my house, but it was gone within hours. So angry I couldn't pick it up.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1617 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 01:09 »

Every example of fretless electric guitar I have heard sounds like ass to me. Guitar Thread, bring me good examples of fretless guitar!

Ballard · « **Reply #1618 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 01:12 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PyOZhgQnvU

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1619 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 09:01 »

Wild, the body on that fretless looks exactly like my bass.

Patrick · « **Reply #1620 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 11:06 »

Or were you referring to the ridiculous metal fretboard one in the video?

Ballard · « **Reply #1621 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 12:38 »

In which case: wild, your bass looks like a Strat.

Patrick · « **Reply #1622 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 16:00 »

I was thinking "shitty Ibanez superstrat" but you know whatev

Nodaisho · « **Reply #1623 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 19:49 »

I don't know, it seems to give a nice shiny tone.

Patrick · « **Reply #1624 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 22:07 »

I wasn't saying it was a shitty Ibanez superstrat I was just saying it looked like one

You're totally right though that thing sounded fuckin' vicious, I bet Derek Trucks would cream himself

Nodaisho · « **Reply #1625 on:** 29 Jun 2010, 23:55 »

To be completely honest, that post was solely to make a reflective metal/shiny pun.

But come to think of it, that tone was pretty amazing. Anyone know anything about that company? I had never heard of them before.

The Duke · « **Reply #1626 on:** 30 Jun 2010, 09:06 »

Quote from: Patrick on 29 Jun 2010, 22:07

I wasn't saying it was a shitty Ibanez superstrat I was just saying it looked like one

You're totally right though that thing sounded fuckin' vicious, I bet Derek Trucks would cream himself

Somewhere, he did. And he has no idea why.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #1627 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 06:52 »

The metal fretboard is a pretty old idea in the East. Probably makes it super easy to bend. Check out this sarod:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzDx7vgluq0

BlahBlah · « **Reply #1628 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 08:35 »

no I don't think you can
y'all lying

The Duke · « **Reply #1629 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 11:12 »

but it would be so metal

(puns ftw)

(wait that is not a pun)

(guitar topic, please tell me if that is a pun or not)

Bearer · « **Reply #1630 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 16:48 »

http://www.jamestrussart.com/Newsite/Models.htm

see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJRH8ILm4VI

Patrick · « **Reply #1631 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 16:53 »

The nut on my Jag broke.

I swear there's no fucking God.

Ballard · « **Reply #1632 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 23:11 »

Dude it's a nut.

Get a new one, jeez. They're what, like 10 bucks for a really nice one?

Bearer · « **Reply #1633 on:** 04 Jul 2010, 23:14 »

Better yet, you could be a manly man and go to a pet store, buy a cow-bone and make one from scratch:

http://www.tdpri.com/2009/10/03/going-nuts-over-nuts/

Bonus points if you kill a bear for its femur instead.

Patrick · « **Reply #1634 on:** 05 Jul 2010, 11:06 »

Gene after having paid rent I now have exactly four U.S. dollars to my name. That guitar and my hollowbody are my only source of income right now.

Akima · « **Reply #1635 on:** 06 Jul 2010, 03:56 »

Quote from: Patrick on 04 Jul 2010, 16:53

I swear there's no fucking God.

Or God plays keyboards, or sax, or something...

Ballard · « **Reply #1636 on:** 06 Jul 2010, 10:28 »

Nope, definitely not sax.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1637 on:** 06 Jul 2010, 10:38 »

Quote from: Christophe on 27 Jun 2010, 23:45

It looks like one of these wraparound bridges from GFS. It says that it's a "compensatable G/B section" so Pat is right on the money.

*shrug* I'll let you guys know when I get it. Put a down payment on it last week.

The Duke · « **Reply #1638 on:** 06 Jul 2010, 11:08 »

Quote from: Ballard on 06 Jul 2010, 10:28

Nope, definitely not sax.

Counterpoint.

Bearer · « **Reply #1639 on:** 13 Jul 2010, 19:24 »

Finally finished putting together my stereo guitar prototype. It can send the neck and bridge pickups to either the right or left channel separately, or send both pickups to that standard tele 3-way and then output to a mono (left) channel. It has one stereo output jack, and that cigar box in the background separates it into two mono channels. Basically, I can distort the neck pickup and leave the bridge nice and shimmery, or vice versa. It's one ugly sob (basically a Frankenstein monster) but for being built out of home depot lumber and a pawn shop strat clone, it sounds hella good!

Ballard · « **Reply #1640 on:** 13 Jul 2010, 19:37 »

I don't know how the lumber impacts the tone but as far as looks it's pretty damn beautiful.

Just put some finish on it and you'll be set.

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #1641 on:** 14 Jul 2010, 03:33 »

No he's right. It' pretty hideous looking. No need to tell people with ugly babies that they have cute kids. They know they don't. Just kind of avoid the subject entirely and say things like "I hear Timmy gets straight As in Math. You must be proud."

The idea behind that is pretty neat though. If that's you're first effort ever, I'm ridiculously impressed. My first several guitars I built have been dismantled likely never to see the light of day again and I wasn't even trying to do anything wonky with the electronics. Nice.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1642 on:** 14 Jul 2010, 03:40 »

That guitar would be straight-up fuckin' delicious if it weren't for that suspect f-hole. (Is it even accurate to call that an f-hole?)

Ballard · « **Reply #1643 on:** 14 Jul 2010, 12:56 »

No dude I actually like the way it looks.

Although I didn't notice before that the F-hole is too close to the pickguard.

Bearer · « **Reply #1644 on:** 14 Jul 2010, 14:35 »

The neck and pickguard are from a $60 strat clone that I took a hack saw to. And the f-hole is just a major f-up in general, but yeah, my first real effort into guitar bodies. It's got a cedar back and a poplar front. Sounds real nice actually.

The Duke · « **Reply #1645 on:** 14 Jul 2010, 16:51 »

Then congratulations! Someday I hope I can have the money and/or skill and/or time to build myself a guitar.

I am living vicariously through you and your guitar

doombilly · « **Reply #1646 on:** 17 Jul 2010, 06:55 »

Hmm, watch the ground loop hum running two amps. If it is a problem I know a guy what can make you a break out box that has a ground lift built in. I have one for my parker nitefly.

Patrick · « **Reply #1647 on:** 17 Jul 2010, 15:21 »

Having stereo options for guitars just sounds like a moneysucker idea to me. While I will not disagree that it would be awesome to run each pickup to a different amp, the problem is having two good amps

Ballard · « **Reply #1648 on:** 18 Jul 2010, 01:59 »

If you'd ever heard a Ric 4003 played live you'd shut the hell up.

doombilly · « **Reply #1649 on:** 18 Jul 2010, 05:59 »

Honestly Patrick I blend mine at the guitar with a standard instrument cable. But when I was doing some recording, since my X3Live pedal has dual inputs/tones... I was able to run the acoustic sound through a separate signal chain than the DiMarzios and that was pretty useful. Dragging two amps to a show is a PITA.

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