Guitar and Bass Discussion - Sperg about players that inspire you, gear, share your experiences, etc.

[Orange Rhymer]

Its goofy but too much to warrant on getting like the Pussy Melter or that Klon. Surprised Korg didn't remake the thing though.

The Korg fuckers promised to dump more into the market, never did. Prices on Reverb have actually come DOWN a bit, believe it or not. The Anderton's review in 2015 drove the prices mad, then other reviewers didn't help. I think there is a VERY select group of people that actually treasure this POS. The rest are just flipping the same 8 on Reverb, trying to make 20%.
Also, I heard it actually is p shitty. Can't play chords (nobody can sing a chord), tracks poorly, and has a little lag (I heard a firmware update kinda corrected that).

It's a toy. However, I would LOVE to have a English-speaking version, just so I can pitch shift it, add reverb and make a singing Monster-Troon.

 

[Xx_Retard Faggot 1488_xX]

It's a toy. However, I would LOVE to have a English-speaking version, just so I can pitch shift it, add reverb and make a singing Monster-Troon.

Sounds like your next digital pedal project.

 

[Hesa]

Behringer BDI 21.
Bass DI based on the Sansamp is pretty good for the price. I'm not a plank spanker but even I can get a decent sound out of it.

 

[A Gay Retard]

My 5-string frankenbass is backbowed and I'm furious about it. I was having a lot of fun messing with an Electro-Harmonix Eddy pedal I got before this fret buzz life I'm living now. Must fix.

 

[Bad Gateway]

DEAR PENTHOUSE I NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN TO ME

I just found the Epiphone of my dreams in an antique shop for $150 dollars. The nut is missing, the bridge has a stripped out mounting screw, it's missing a saddle, and I don't know what the fuck the previous asshole did to ram the old string ends into the ferrules so hard that they actually rusted into them a bit, but

it's a gold flake .

It's got Grovers, a mahogany body, a rosewood fretboard, a slimtaper bolt-on neck and a single single coil pickup wait a minute

Spoiler: <3

I mean, it says Epiphone on the headstock, what more do you want?

IT'S A MANDOBIRD IV!

Pic related, but not mine. Same model same color. Should be a fun little toy. I didn't even bother checking online to see if the asking price was too high, it just seemed so fun. Everything works. The neck is straight. With a little bit of work and maybe a part or two, it should be right back to normal. I even got the gig bag and inside was the missing nut!

Not a bad find if I do say so myself.

 

[Xx_Retard Faggot 1488_xX]

My 5-string frankenbass is backbowed and I'm furious about it. I was having a lot of fun messing with an Electro-Harmonix Eddy pedal I got before this fret buzz life I'm living now. Must fix.

Pull out that truss rod allen key and turn all the way to the right. If it starts fighting back it means your a bitch, push harder.

 

[Bad Gateway]

I really wanted to be a cooler kind of guy, but since I finished the Tele build with this glossy Squier neck , I haven't played any other guitar. FUCK this thing feels so fucking good.

 

[GhostButt]

Tele build

I want to do a tele build bad. pics?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I want to do a tele build like this … maybe an SG shape

 

[Orange Rhymer]

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I want to do a tele build like this … maybe an SG shape

edit: I was listing parts for a weird tele, but ended up shitting on Rick Beato. God I hate that grandpa. This is now a Rick Beato rant.
What. A. Boomer. Faggot.
You would think an industry professional would fucking understand IP laws. Rick was there from the beginning, and still manages to get the rando copyright claim from one of his former employers. Worse still, he makes 1-3 videos kvetching about it each time. You can't play covers of songs w/o permission. Yes, it isn't fair. Either hire a lawyer or take the 'L'.
Pewd has lost literal millions to claim fraud, Rick has lost hundreds. But who do we hear shrieking about it?
And,
Your 'perfect tone experiement' also was horseshit. You didn't have a control. You used different players ('influencers') on different guitars playing different techniques to somehow 'prove' that thin-gauge strings have a 'richer tone'.
I'm not switching to special strings the diameter of a blond cunt-hair, cuz you say it has more 'tone'.
I'm playing on 10s or 9s. Sometimes with a fatter low E.
Also:
Congrats on doing what every human being with working gonads has been able to do since time immemorial.
You made a fucking kid. Unfortunately, (for everyone), you made him 3 decades later than you should have.
Nobody gives a shit about his 'perfect pitch' you hebe. Subjecting professional musicians to half a dozen videos of a fucking child identifying notes and key is one of the most miserable, grandmotherly boomer-esque things on youtube.
I'll pay attention to your kid when he can do three 8-balls off a hooker's ass and perform on stage for 2 hours while dodging beer bottles.
Until then, keep your 'proud papa' horseshit to your weekly shabbas.

 

[Rodney Morash]

Any ideas on the pedal setup/guitar used in this song?

The pedal chain might be a Big Muff, with two fuzz + reverb units mixed through an analog tape chamber.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

'Influencer' Roundup:

60 cycle hum digs into the politics of Eurovision. Gets crazy. Apparently no 'enemy of Israel' can compete in Eurovision if Israel enters. I'm staring to enjoy these self-promoting bandwidth salesmen. Remember though: they NEVER play the shit guitars that they plug,

Casino Guitars had a few entertaining videos. By entertaining, I mean: "Embracing everything that is wrong with the industry". Best guitars to hang on your wall, best gimmick swag, best man-cave guitar crap. I aged 25 years watching their videos. Also the hosts binge-watch every CY netflix/disney/prime/hbo/etc show, and take pride in it.
Still I can't dislike them. They have nuggets of wisdom and they potentially lose sales b/c of it.
One great item: Never buy a Gibson 'sight unseen'. That's just smart. However, many customers assume that Gibsons come from the factory 'ready to play'.
They don't.
Only buy a Gibson from a trusted party that inspects and sets up. Sweetwater is probably good. But I've heard issues with them as well. Still, I would trust Sweetwater, as well as a seasoned guitarist. Don't trust GC.

Investment channels are FINALLY looking into Custom Gibsons and Fenders as investment vehicles. Customs are fetching 10%-15% annual. Provided they are properly cared for and maintained. There are MANY biz ideas that are ripe...
Personally, I am split on this opinion. I believe that fine woods and lutherie deserves celebration and treasuring. However, these items are first and foremost, INSTRUMENTS. A tool unused, is no tool at all. To collect and seal-up these guitars in cases, just to earn 15% seems haram to me.
And sad.

Question for you guys. Trogly once let it slip, that he gets a SIGNIFICANT discount from Sweetwater, due to a preferred relationship (and promoting) his sales-rep.
How can we do the same? How can we get, say 10% off a Sweetwater order?
Trogly isn't anyone special... He just takes the odd order, passes it on to Sweetwater and takes the spread.

 

[Xx_Retard Faggot 1488_xX]

Question for you guys. Trogly once let it slip, that he gets a SIGNIFICANT discount from Sweetwater, due to a preferred relationship (and promoting) his sales-rep.
How can we do the same? How can we get, say 10% off a Sweetwater order?
Trogly isn't anyone special... He just takes the odd order, passes it on to Sweetwater and takes the spread.

If you buy something like a mexican made fender or higher in price they will give you 10%. At least I do but I'm pretty sure my sales rep is Jewish, so thats prob the least they'll take off.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Investment channels are FINALLY looking into Custom Gibsons and Fenders as investment vehicles. Customs are fetching 10%-15% annual. Provided they are properly cared for and maintained. There are MANY biz ideas that are ripe...
Personally, I am split on this opinion. I believe that fine woods and lutherie deserves celebration and treasuring. However, these items are first and foremost, INSTRUMENTS. A tool unused, is no tool at all. To collect and seal-up these guitars in cases, just to earn 15% seems haram to me.
And sad.

This triggers me. First because this kind of retardation won't ever allow Gibson to feel any impact of actual players not choosing their shit with uncountable brands doing their exact thing better than they do. OR maybe that's all wishful thinking and dentists can keep them afloat on their own.

Second because you nailed it: An instrument unplayed is no instrument at all. I have one wallhanger, but that's because I fucked up making it so it plays like shit but it still looks cool. I find the concept of "investment" tier guitars the same as "inventment" tier cars. It's a false and hollow market set by, like, 13 assholes who literally sit around inventing the price of the year and swapping the exact same serial numbers back and forth, there's nothing to it.

Question for you guys. Trogly once let it slip, that he gets a SIGNIFICANT discount from Sweetwater, due to a preferred relationship (and promoting) his sales-rep.
How can we do the same? How can we get, say 10% off a Sweetwater order?
Trogly isn't anyone special... He just takes the odd order, passes it on to Sweetwater and takes the spread.

Kiwifarms music/youtube channel. Say we're a bunch of anonymous, homeless, neurodivergent, minority, non-binary autistics who met online and started making music together. Then leverage that to get in with the SJWs (might have to make some half decent music which COULD be an issue), then use that to get the pitybux.

 

[Xx_Retard Faggot 1488_xX]

Then leverage that to get in with the SJWs (might have to make some half decent music which COULD be an issue)

If we say we're black AND trans, any criticism to our "improv shoegaze" is like a death sentence in internet hate crimes according to twitter law.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Anybody ever use flatwounds? I kinda want to try some on my Tele

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I bought a pair of superstrat EMGs , floyd, sharkfin inlays the full whack in an appropriately gaudy 80s tiger stripe paint job.

Anybody ever use flatwounds? I kinda want to try some on my Tele

On my gretsch. I didn’t see the appeal really

 

[Bad Gateway]

On my gretsch. I didn’t see the appeal really

Excuse you sir:

XL Chromes are noted for their smooth feel and warm, mellow tone, essential to the sound and style of many jazz, blues, and rock players.

smOoooth and woarm

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Anybody ever use flatwounds? I kinda want to try some on my Tele

I'm a heavy pick/hard fret kinda guy. I've heard that flatwounds will reduce/eliminate 'finger drag' sound on the strings. Apparently ground-flat are the best for getting rid of 'finger drag'.
C/D ?

 

[GhostButt]

60 cycle hum digs into the politics of Eurovision. Gets crazy. Apparently no 'enemy of Israel' can compete in Eurovision if Israel enters. I'm staring to enjoy these self-promoting bandwidth salesmen. Remember though: they NEVER play the shit guitars that they plug,

this guy has been having bad takes non stop, smug californian worship player, worst of the "gear influencer" sphere in terms of knowledge (and that is truely saying a lot, since even the smart ones barely do any research before making a vid or insta post, and the ones that do get stuff wrong anyway)