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Saturday:
--- Quote from: Awkward Silence ---Sorry, I had to bring this back. I might be getting this RickenBacker 4001 bass. I want to know, does someone on this board have experiene with Rics? I've heard about the famous treble, but does it have good mids?
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Ricks are weird instruments. they are very punchy, they lack a bit of low end. they are like the exact oposite of a Precision Bass.
The best examples of a Rickenbackerīs Sound is anything by Joy Division and Franz Ferdinand. Both are rickenbacker players. Bright, and punchy, with sustain. and they have the best look ever.
A friend of mine plays a Precision and hates them with all his heart. They arenīt for everyone...
Just go to a store and play one or several and judge by yourself.
Mr Blue Sky:
Yet again:
-Jackson SC04 with SD designed lipstick pickups.
-Targa (Cort) double-cutaway guitar, replacing the pickups with SD 59's verry soon.
-Seagull Mosaïc (Cedar/Mahogany) acoustic.
-LaPatrie Concert (Cedar/Mahogany) classic.
-Epiphone A-10 cheap acoustic (great for roadtrips).
-Casio small keyboard.
-Yamaha flute.
-Yamaha (cheap) harmonica.
-Roland Cube 60 guitar amp.
-Peavey Rage158 practice amp.
-DOD IceChorus pedal.
One of my friends' dad has an awesome thirty years old Norman 12 strings cutaway acoustic with a solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides, I'm curently in the process of pestering him to convince his dad to sell me the guitar. It's kindof sad that I have no recording gear whatsoever though. Anyone knows if there's a good sound card for recording out there under 200 american bucks?
KharBevNor:
I'd spend more money on a decent cardiod microphone and a gold plated wire-in than I would on a sound-card. I know of exceptionally good albums recorded on naff cards (Ewigkeit's 'Radio Ixtlan' was recorded on a Sound Blaster 16. Jim Fogarty subsequently sold it on his website). As long as you have any Soundblaster above that you're pretty home and dry. But a good microphone really does make all the difference. I recommend Pro-Sound.
yourspaceholiday:
some dean mandolin that i'm gonna sell to get a nice vintage gibson a-4
a homemade banjo that needs a new neck
a cheapo guitar that has holes in the body
(hopefully sometime soon, maybe, when i have the money) a nice american telecaster
thermodynamics:
I have a shitload of stuff, but i am only going to list the things i use... it's odd that some of the low-end things i use more than the expensive things....
GUITARS
- Fender mim Strat, black w/ black p/g... i played 15 at the local music store and this was the best one out of the lot... it is almost MIJ quality (if it weren't for that haze in the finish on the neck... i refinished the neck with amber nitro anyway, so it plays and looks 3 times as good!)
- Custom Squier Strat Sunburst... my first guitar. i stripped the neck and refinished it (as well as did serious fretwork; squier frets suck balls) and put in seymour duncans. plays just as good, if not better than the MIM. wears the faux-70's 'ebay special' fender decal
- Decca 60's sunburst... Sounds just like frans ferdinand / the futureheads / any jangly guitar... only one pickup - the original toaster-top one.
- Washburn D100 Acoustic... played 21 of the same guitars when they got them in at the local guitar center. this one sounds AMAZING... such resonance and bass response! the finish where the neck is glued in is sorta shitty, but who cares with tone like that!
- Applause AA-21... fiberglass back and a metal neck. my dad bought it in 1984 and gave it to me a while back. light as a feather. martin thinline pickup.
- Ventura 70's 335 copy, black... sadly, the wood is there, but i have removed all the electronics to use in a coming project... the mini-humbuckers are classic and sound similar to the decca.
BASSES
- Fender USA Jazz Bass - body repair and refinish in metallic midnight blue with black pickguard. hottt. the neck is starting to bow a little, since it has had string tension on it constantly since 1989. and it was thrown around stage by a punk/grunge band for 6 years.
- Custom Parts P-Bass... It is almost done and the active J pickup in the bridge with the passive P pickup sound phenominal. headroom galore. Neck stripped and redone with gunstock finish and 70's fender decal.
- Washburn XB-100 tobacco sunburst... like the one the bassist from explosions in the sky started out on. i put in a seymour duncan spb-3 quarterpounder, and it sounds as good as any american fender p-bass. i play this one the most (i leave it in my band's practice space) because it is so damn light. the body weighs half (almost) of a stock fender one.
AMPS
- just sold my fender stage 160 and my peavy special 112 black widow... i am in the process of buying a Fender Hot Rod Deville 4x10... i love the simplicity of a combo! I have nothing against heads and cabs, but, unless the size of the venues you play dramatically varies, to constitute needing a smaller cab or an extra one (the deville can have an extention, so i need not worry), you don't need anything more...
- 1977 Acoustic 126 bass combo (1 x 15)
- Crate 15 watt
- Epiphone 15 watt
- Shure Pro-Audio late 70's 1100 watt 6-channel PA w/ reverb. Pushes 200 watts @ 4 ohms out of 4 DIFFERENT OUTPUTS AT THE SAME TIME... this thing has powered 3- 100 watt 4 x 12 carvin cabs at a friend's gig (orange 15 watt into the mixer) when his power amp broke. HUGE.
OTHER
Arrow a-style mandolin
Kay 1930's Banjo (5-string)
Thomas Organ Company chord organ (late 1950's)
Casio Keyboard (it's technically my ex's, but who's keeping track?)
RECORDING
- Ross 4x4 cassette recorder (i use it to do demos, or to process levels before going into my computer.
- EV bk-1632 16 track mixer (for big live things)
- Protools for big projects
- Steinberg Wavelab for demos.
random microphones. all of them are shure or realistic.
that;s all i can recall right now... i need to clean house!
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