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I love my squier tele, though I'll have a jazzmaster when I can afford one and play it right.
I use a digitech delay(the best!) and a boss sd-1 overdrive for crunch.
I like to tune my guitar unorthodoxically, drop d, d#, whatever I fell like doing to tune within a scale(thank you thurston...)
I need a better amp, but I think I've saved myself some noise complaints...
 
for delay I like the Line 6 DL-4 or the Boss DD-20, but currently I have a Digitech RP- 20 (crappy and old multi-effects unit) and my Visual Sound H20 for delay. I try to never use my Digitech multieffect unit ever in public due to tone, but I'd want to get something with a tap setting, the H20 only has a knob for setting the delay speed, but it still has great tone.
 
^Technically speaking, Kurt doesn't have a grave. Part of his ashes were scattered under a tree next to the house where he killed himself, some in the Wishkah river around ten year after his death, and I believe Courtney has what's remaining.

Coincidentally, I was so close to bidding on a red Jag-Stang yesterday. Funnily enough, I would have got it for like £400 cuz nobody else bid on it and it went unsold. I'm not too bothered cuz I was never 100% keen on the shape of the thing. It's just I've always been a big Nirvana fan so kinda wanted it.

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Also, my Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive pedal arrived the other day. I've been havin' muchos fun toying around with it. It's a really nice, crisp sounding overdrive. I'm more than happy with it, and recommend it to anyone else looking for a quality overdrive effects box. :)
 
oh man...

bites tongue and spits - i guess
now i doubly so have to go:-)

yeah, thats a most representable guitar; something for another day.


did anyone ever have a RAT distortion BOX-hehe.???
those were the shit - Obituary would use them.
thick distortion very warm.


hmm, do any of you regularly put a, or some stickers on your guitars?
or do you just leave "it" alone.

i usually put 1 sticker, hehe, and i love watching the fret boards ware over time,,, can be telling. the standard chord configurations always show, but so do your most comfortable ranges.
 
I stopped putting stickers on my guitars years ago. I dunno, I just can't bring myself to do it any more.

Sometimes I don't change my strings for like a year. I clean them after use, but once they start buzzing and feeling crappy I whip them off. But yeah, over that length of time, you can usually see exactly where you've been playing on the fretboard the most. :)

I just won this delay pedal on ebay (I better calm down a bit now!). So I guess I'd better forget about the Aqua Puss. This one's pretty damn awesome though.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIjrEd4qvk
 
shoegazer?!?lol

i guess anything for the kicks


i like to use slinky d'adorra electric strings on my acoustic,,, have changed them once in,,, 5 years?!?
:-\

thats just sloppy - heheh

anyone use their thumb to grab the low-E string to help configure chords?
i ususally mute the A though doing this with Bar chords or G for instance
 
Anyone here make their own pedal board? I have enough effects that I need to put them on a pedal board to save time when I go to practice(and hopefully at some point shows). It`s time consuming to unpack all of my stomp boxes then connect `em all,get my amp set up,tune up my bass AND then start to play around.
I`ve been looking at some of the popular pedal boards(like Pedal Train and Gator) along with a power supply and while some are pretty affordable,more than a few are kind of pricey. Then when you add the cost of a power brick to that the price can be a bit much.
So my friend(also a guitar player) and I plan on making home made boards. It`ll save us money and be a fun thing to do together. Wood,hardware,Velcro and some paint should be cheap enough. Plus we found some DIY sites out there to start us off.
I have a work bench in my basement and got a power drill and a bit set for Christmas last year. I dont think we`ll need much more than a saw and some beers to have fun and make something. So fellow BL guitarists? Any words of wisdom to share?
 
^awesome man

ive helped make a reverb pedal once.

its great, gathering different sized springs and materials of varying conductivity.

you could --
make a battery bank, with four 'golf-cart' batteries, if you are handy with the electros, or confident; as in safe rather; able to write the schematic of -w/o a DIY. keep some distilled water around and youll be good with that for a looong time to power several pedal boards, and a few more 'low amp rated' pieces of hardware.
 
You helped make a fucking reverb pedal? That`s pretty cool. You also just blew me away with your battery bank idea. It`s also totally over my head! I`m just looking to make wooden or possibly Plexiglas pedal board.
After looking around ebay I found some pretty cheap boards. But for me and my buddy making our own boards is really just an excuse to hang out and goof around.
 
hehe

the re-verb pedal thing is alarmingly simple, you can mess around with different width of thin-wiry-copper or w/e, different materials will carry different electrical currents passing through as different sound frequencies.

like your guirar pick-ups , magnetic resonance.

also the shape or using multiple smaller coiled springs ganged together will add if you can imagine, a more spacious wide echo effect. much the same as if you flicked it with your finger, boig-yoing-yoing hehe.,


the trickiest part is a soldering iron.


<3
=D
 
tribal girl said:
I stopped putting stickers on my guitars years ago. I dunno, I just can't bring myself to do it any more.

Sometimes I don't change my strings for like a year. I clean them after use, but once they start buzzing and feeling crappy I whip them off. But yeah, over that length of time, you can usually see exactly where you've been playing on the fretboard the most. :)

I just won this delay pedal on ebay (I better calm down a bit now!). So I guess I'd better forget about the Aqua Puss. This one's pretty damn awesome though.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIjrEd4qvk
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these are really nice...you'll have loads of fun messing with sound and depth.

My friend has a f-hole tele, with a rat and one of these...it sounds so good!
 
panic in paradise said:
anyone use their thumb to grab the low-E string to help configure chords?
i ususally mute the A though doing this with Bar chords or G for instance
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yea, I'm not really good with it (my thumbs are kinda short in comparison to my fingers)
though I'll use it to put a different base note on some open chords--or just mess around to see what sounds good.

If i'm in a dropped tuning, sometimes i'll use the thumb for bottom-ended bar chords too
 
tribal girl said:
Coincidentally, I was so close to bidding on a red Jag-Stang yesterday. Funnily enough, I would have got it for like £400 cuz nobody else bid on it and it went unsold. I'm not too bothered cuz I was never 100% keen on the shape of the thing. It's just I've always been a big Nirvana fan so kinda wanted it.

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this band, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, opened for the smith westerns last friday.
Their guitarist used the same red Jag-stang, While I'm not to keen on looks the man could fucking play, and the jag-stang seemed pretty good for feedback/trick playing.

I've never seen any guitarist do some of the things this guy could do-and he wasn't much for pedal use either. Much respect for the man and his machine!
 
Fixed5217 said:
these are really nice...you'll have loads of fun messing with sound and depth.

My friend has a f-hole tele, with a rat and one of these...it sounds so good!
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Thanks., I'm sure I will. Still waiting on it to arrive cuz it was only posted yesterday.

I've impulsively bought three pedals in the last month cuz I got a close up of my favourite guitarists pedal board. :D

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If anyone can identify the pedals besides the Boss chromatic tuner, Sparkle Drive, Boss RV-3, and Ibanez flanger I'd appreciate it. :)
 
tribal girl said:
Thanks., I'm sure I will. Still waiting on it to arrive cuz it was only posted yesterday.

I've impulsively bought three pedals in the last month cuz I got a close up of my favourite guitarists pedal board. :D

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If anyone can identify the pedals besides the Boss chromatic tuner, Sparkle Drive, Boss RV-3, and Ibanez flanger I'd appreciate it. :)
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What guitarist??

purple--magnetic repeater?? Idk, that's what I read when I flipped around
Boss Digital reverb(pretty sure the one you have

Person looks like they use an orange amp(love those!) and that white pedal would be an amp specific channel switcher

i can't read any of the others or recognize any feature except for the foot pedal on that yellow one (though complete blank on brand...)
 
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