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Post by rayden44 on Nov 18, 2010 17:06:03 GMT -5
Oi, is that my Dean Resonator CE? The more expensive ones are all metal and don't have the cutaway so I'm going to say yes Though I've never gotten the "Look at all my strings all over the place. Yeah I'm a real non conformist cos I don't tidy my strings." bit. Unless he broke them while playing of course Thanks for the great story. Sounds like a fun time, tho I do wonder what an 'eventful night' is by HJ's standards! Do body-bags have to be involved? That Strat does look very nice - glad you chose the one I didn't recommend tho in part that was cos you couldn't go visit it. I'm in the US every few years, and usually end up in Texas somewhere, so you never know Roadking Find an open mic venue and us all do a big (bad) gig!
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 16, 2010 4:45:00 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 15, 2010 15:53:08 GMT -5
We're trying to fit in Time is Tight...
Trick is we have no keys player....
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 14, 2010 20:47:00 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 12, 2010 17:14:35 GMT -5
Great looking and sounding cool
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 23:01:06 GMT -5
Finally remembered this morning to actually get Cracked Rear View out of my CD shelf and into my car after several days of "Ahh crap forgot to get it". One of the few albums (along with brothers in arms, unplugged, etched in blue, and few others) I have that I don't skip tracks to get to something else I want to hear - everything is pretty nice. Simple chords and lyrics, tho some tricky rhythms. I also pulled out 5 Live Yardbirds I bought at a long gone record store. I was surprised at how horrible the timing was in places. It's almost like the drummer was trying to mix things up - everybody takes a few bars to adapt then drummer reverts to what he was doing originally and same story. 'Tight' would not be the word to use Wonder what Mojo put in for the 00's - and that's the 2000's, not the 1900's
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 22:11:48 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 22:04:58 GMT -5
I'm guessing you're a big blues guy. I'm more of a thin neck player. Not Wizard II thin, but more like Wizard I, or Jackson Dinky thin. Well this thread originated out of me wanting to try thick necked gats like Mojo keeps talking about. The squier vintage modified tele custom II (I think that's the full name!) was the fattest I could find on shelves here, but not the right sound. The ASAT isn't super fat, but I find it very comfortable. Great sound and sustain, so now I want one lol. I've played Ibanez Wizard II neck. They're still a pretty comfortable neck - the RG370dx wasn't a bad guitar overall, but yeah just couldn't handle that semi locking - semi floating crap. Needs a proper Floyd Rose, or at least one similar to the Washburn BT-10 I used to have.
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 21:51:42 GMT -5
just had a look and for $100NZ more than the price here, I can get an ASAT Special Deluxe, instead of an ASAT Tribute Special.... bah... maybe I'll wait till my next state-side trip....
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 4:37:43 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 0:50:45 GMT -5
No idea what you want for recording Happy Jack, but I'll tell you about this There might be some better options, I've had this guy a while so bound to be something new. I have a Boss BR900 CD as a recording box. Does COSM Boss modeling which you can turn off and run 2 mic's for vocals / gat to use your amp. It has 8 tracks to play with, but only 2 input channels which is fine if I want to do some layered recording of me against the built in drum tracks, or if I want to record some tracks of me now and some of another guy later - but it's barf if you want to get more people involved all at once. Niggles? Well first a sound engineer made this thing - if you can't use Line 6 / Behringer V Amp type stuff, forget this thing - it's a nightmare. I use like 5% of what it can do and if I don't use it for a while I forget how to do anything! Also, if I don't "hit stop" and just power it off (like I have a habit of doing lately) IT DOESN'T SAVE THE RECORDING. BAH! There goes several hours of practice recording. CD versions you can burn straight to CD if you want, but that's really a gimmick - I have it, used it once to test and never again. Instead I use the line out into my PC so I can fiddle You can buy a higher up model if you want to have more simultaneous inputs. but they start getting pricey.
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 11, 2010 0:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 7, 2010 16:26:58 GMT -5
might look at pickups again. Have been pretty happy with the Kinman broadcaster's I have, but then pickups are a bit of a case of "I thought I was happy then somebody showed me sliced bread". I've always wanted to make a rig you can change pickups in and out of without the whole "guitar take apart" process. One day maybe
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 7, 2010 5:48:05 GMT -5
Here the Jet City / Blackstar stuff is about the same price. Solid state amps always lack that little something tube amps have - but the wee Pathfinder is pretty good considering the price. I would LOVE a Superchamp, or even an older Champ they're a sweet little amp, but we can't get them here. I tried and unfortunately shipping them to me, then changing the voltage to 230V makes them expensive which is why I did a home build. Epiphone valve junior? Doesn't sound like the sound you're after, but just throwing it out there
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 6, 2010 18:18:08 GMT -5
I've got one of their speaker cabs, pretty solid. I'll have a listen later to some of these. We can also get Jet City amps that are a good cheap tube amp. Also heard good things about the Blackheart amps from Crate. I might look at a Vox Pathfinder 15r for a small light amp tho. Cheap little buggers. Depends what you're looking for tho www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJiGmnLb0g
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