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Post by ux4484 on Dec 25, 2021 22:58:23 GMT -5
Merry Christmas ALL!
God bless us, every one!
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 6, 2019 6:37:15 GMT -5
Original Woodstock was a happy accident... at least for the fans. John Fogerty tells the tale of how CCR was bumped due to delays (mainly from a painfully long and dreary set by the Grateful Dead), from their early evening spot, to one at 1am... he was so p d, for years he refused to allow the CCR footage in any documentary. I was surprised to see he was on base to play this failed 50th. In the age of multi-day super concerts, like Coachella, Desert Trip, and even Lalapalooza, that are either hyper-promoted, or priced beyond the means of many... how do you even do something that catches the spirit of something like Woodstock?... you can’t (IMO). Do something NEW.
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Post by ux4484 on Mar 13, 2018 7:21:08 GMT -5
True, but sometimes the journey is worth more than the destination. Or as our very own Zen master might have put it;
Lessons Are.
It’s the first time I found a S/P switch NOT worth it (any of the three)... well not so much worth it, but useful. Then again, I recently threw a Epi LP Jr together for my brother, I put a Dimarzio Humbucker from He-double hokeysticks in it, and the split was way more useful than S/P, so that’s what it got. Though.... my hearing is starting to decline these days.
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Post by ux4484 on Mar 10, 2018 2:39:07 GMT -5
As this is the only guitar I still have when I posted this originally, I thought I should finish it up.
I eventually opted for two mini-toggles to S/P each pup, and a 4way Tele switch to S/P the pups. I also installed Graphtech saddles (the ones made entirely of Teflon).
I made a mistake doing it all at once, because it changed the guitar so much in one swoop. The biggest mistake was the Graphtech’s. They darkened the tone of the guitar, the bridge pup lost most of its sparkle. Graphtech claims they only tone down the icepick frequencies... but that was not my experiance. I thought it was just me, so I left them on for a year and a half hoping I’d “get used” to them, I never did, I played it less, and less.
Since the Guitar lost its sparkle, I couldn’t appreciate the additional switching... but I had already repurposed the machined block saddles I’d originally installed. So I replaced the graphtech’s with a set of sandblasted block saddles from a Squier Standard Tele Bridge... this gave me my guitar back, and allowed me to properly access the new switching... which while unique, just wasn’t necessary (or incredibly useful). So the original control plate went back on... and I’m back in 2014 (loving it just as it is).
Sometimes... If it ain’t broke...
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 17, 2018 1:37:00 GMT -5
Wow, had no Idea, he was still quite active when I drifted off. Super Intellegent, and helpful.. but also protective, and combative if rubbed the wrong way (aren’t we all). He had drifted off about a year after I joined, and when he returned a while later... we bumped heads on a few items. I had never read the sustainer thread here, or at PG (as I wasn’t interested in them), and didn’t know the back story. Another member pm’d me the heads up, and I made an effort to make sure he knew I wasn’t one of his trolls.
I loved his outdoor workshop pictures, it was like frontier days compared to the work he was doing. Much too young to go at 52. I’m hoping as he floated through the gates, St Peter gave him a wink and said: “Good Job on that sustainer”.
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 12, 2018 20:09:19 GMT -5
I stop to see the projects from time to time, but don’t usuallly log in.
I do share the excellent info though, and I think a few guys here I sent.
The reason I stopped by today was: I had direct quotes from both uncleMikey, and Chris K pop in the my head this week in meatspace conversations... that required a visit, and some perusal to complete the flashback.
You guys are all still one very helpful group.
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 12, 2018 8:52:11 GMT -5
Just wanted to say ‘Hi’ to all you swell Gai’s... it’s been a while. I’m only on one other Guitar forum now, but I do often point folks in this direction when they are stymied. I see you finally added a like button. Much has happened in the last few years, most of which is not suitable for an open forum, but things are about to be all good for me.
Yes, I’ve still got guitars (even another ‘51 (2014), and basses, but except for one, not the same ones I had when I was here.
Glad to see the recent updates, and revamps!
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Post by ux4484 on Oct 27, 2015 3:44:27 GMT -5
*edit-too much information*
I know from experience and experimentation that star grounding and sheilding has benefits, as well as the possibly of having drawbacks (darkening tone), for me, the benefits outway the drawbacks.
Sheilding is not a hoax, it's not intended to eliminate 60 cycle hum, it's to stop your guitar from being an unbalanced antenna (like an old beer-can TV antenna). Things will overcome it, especially switching power supplies, and high efficiency/frequency ballasts. That you would suggest testing, and averaging it in three dimensions is overkill... It's not that precise a system. If you are cold in a room, do you stand by the heat vent, or the air return? If your guitar hums when you point it at the ceiling... Don't point it at the ceiling.
After WWII, with the explosion of phone service, AT&T (Ma Bell, as we used to say) had tons of problems with hum from neighboring infrastructure equipment near its cable runs. Do you know what stopped much of that? Fiber optic cable. While the connected equipment was still succeptable, the transmission medium was not. Rather than beat their heads against old tech, Bell labs changed the concept to render it almost irrelevant (BTW, US phone companies are phasing out legacy copper phone services over the next five years).
There have been (AIR) some optical pickups tried in the past, which I IMAGINE, are probably immune to EMI of the household kind, perhaps your desire to eliminate 50 cycle hum would be better spent doing that? (http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Piezo_and_Optical_Bass_Pickups)
As far as wanting to see if you can eliminate 50/60 Hz hum with a 20 pound über-armored guitar... Knock yourself out. IMO, It's more trouble that it's worth. If you have a breakthrough... Just try not making the thread name clickbait about something that basically STARTED this site.
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Post by ux4484 on Feb 11, 2015 8:45:04 GMT -5
AND it's just a smidge over half the price of a Beat buddy (which I got for xmas). Pre-orders are $179 USD. FIGURES. mybeatbuddy.com
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 26, 2015 11:41:09 GMT -5
Amazed no one asked for your VG rig yet . My Dad used a modified version of JM's quip: "Ain't none of gettin' out of this alive", along with: "I'm glad I'm in the checkout lane", these were his standard responses when any one got weepy about his ailing health. My Mom went first, so he was just waiting to be with her. I'm better for knowing you Gai, that is the highest praise I can give in this world. Can't (and won't) speak for the next. BTW, Almost a decade ago, you suggested "Effortless Mastery", I think that's why I'm still playing guitar today. Thanks for that. It's REALLY hard to reign in a bunch of guys who know so much, you've done an amazing thing. I carry things from people who have changed my perspective. This site (and the original) have added to my life. I can't look at a tube amp schematic without thinking of Unc, my mind reads the word tremolo, as Chris' TremLeo, and when someone tells me they want to chuck playing an instrument, I lend them (or suggest them to get) Effortless Mastery. I carry you with me.
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Post by ux4484 on Dec 24, 2014 12:51:58 GMT -5
newey, hope the polar bears aren't out this year, as you go for the next iteration of "Where on this frozen planet is newey playing guitar?"! That was my first thought is well. Have a dandy day newey!
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Post by ux4484 on Dec 11, 2014 3:09:25 GMT -5
From the title, I was going to ask if you needed a trimmer or a Helipot...
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Post by ux4484 on Nov 24, 2014 15:42:56 GMT -5
ux- Welcome back! It is a "sort-of" yodel, and a fine song as well. Hard to believe that was released over 20 years ago! I popped up in the Gibson innovation thread about a month back, but it was already a dead horse. I also seem to remember Chuck Berry having a live recording of "my ding-a-ling" in which he yodeled before the bridge, can't find it for the life of me. McCartney's last note (You-Hoo) on "Please Please Me" is also very yodel-like. For some cringe inducing entertainment: And:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%27n_Yodel
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Post by ux4484 on Nov 22, 2014 4:40:41 GMT -5
Well... "Dreams" by The Cranberries kind of uses a yodel instead of a chorus.
Delores O'Riordan had the exact same hairstyle my Mrs had back then (they even look alike).
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Post by ux4484 on Oct 20, 2014 5:05:43 GMT -5
Gibson taking que's from Fender... They've already done this with Epiphone twice, first with the Classic: epiphonewiki.com/index.php/File:Lp7.jpgand last year with the Matt Heafy: www.epiphone.com/News/Features/Features/2013/Ltd-Ed-Matthew-K-Heafy-Epiphone-Les-Paul-Custom.aspxI'm having '51 flashbacks... Though it looks to have failed for Fender, as the Squier version is back with a string-through body (the best improved feature of the Fender version). I first learned about the 2000-02 run when I found one (Black) last year at a local pawn shop. It's a nice player for a Gibson... And that's saying something because it's an Epi. The one by me has been there for over a year (he's had multiple Epi LP standards come and go in that time), it's got a " shaped dig on the side like it smashed into a drum kit (about 1/4 deep), other than that it is decent. It's down to $319, but last time in, he said he'd take $250 for it. It IS more of a jazz box IMO, through he has nothing but practice amps to try it with. My problem with LP's Is they are just so uncomfortable to play on the lap (more than half my playing time), that I've never kept one for more than a year or two, but for $250 and a good player, you couldn't have a much nicer first seven string.
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Yep!....
Aug 6, 2014 17:57:25 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by ux4484 on Aug 6, 2014 17:57:25 GMT -5
Maybe it's because everyone finally got the mods/tones they wanted and are now making sweet sweet music, in which we can expect a flood in the "sound samples" threads, right? I've done some work, and some minor mods for others, but nothing worth posting here. No sense in pulling out the big guns when the 9mm will do. It does seem to have gone mostly technical though from how it used to be... :^/
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 25, 2014 0:34:45 GMT -5
Not to mention the Buck Owens special being so similar to the John 5 special. $480 seems to be the magic price.
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 23, 2014 16:27:39 GMT -5
Except "Slick" products.
My "invitation only" email:
10% off EVERYTHING* on the site... just enter the code "1010" during checkout. This applies to everything* including sale items, clearance items, blowout items and the like.
For contractual reasons the sale coupon cannot be applied to any Slick Brand products.
If yer lookin'
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 16, 2014 9:50:21 GMT -5
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 6, 2014 16:28:23 GMT -5
Heh...
He's never washing that case again!
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 4, 2014 17:29:56 GMT -5
Earl Slick Guitars: www.guitarfetish.com/Slick-Guitars_c_496.htmlWhile I don't care for relic-ing at all, these are more "barely finished", ready to mod thingies. Three piece ash body, Kind of unique hardware (recessed wraparound intonate-able bridge), rear Tele sized control route, graphite nut, and something new (and stupid) from GFS; physically, electrically, and magnetically pre-aged pickups (from the Slick line). All this would seem pretty much a joke, until you see the price... $189~$219 USD. Just about everyone who offers relic'd anything is charging a ridiculous premium for said aging. While the typical GFS spin copy fills the descriptions, they might actually have something here... Mainly, proving most every other guitar builder that is pre-aging their crap is ripping consumers off. If these are halfway decent, and sell at all, I would imagine a "new" version would eventually follow with a simple non-distressed finish.
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Post by ux4484 on May 26, 2014 0:10:06 GMT -5
IDK, sounds like a pattern to me.
:^D ;^)
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Post by ux4484 on May 25, 2014 10:37:05 GMT -5
I don't know GD, looks to me you could take the block off and extract it pretty easy. Of all the parts of that bridge, I would suspect the one "off the shelf" part would be the arm. I don't think it says anything about the bridge itself, just that SV bought some cheap Trem arms. It's not like any Fender arms have ever broken . I've seen quite a few over the years... Never seen anyone blame the bridge before . I personally would blame myself, because the user interface is most often what fails in any mechanical, electro-mechanical, or electronic device.
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Post by ux4484 on May 9, 2014 2:03:01 GMT -5
I'm with newey... Amp problem.
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Post by ux4484 on May 8, 2014 3:50:23 GMT -5
He had a contest on Facebook during NAMM to win one (when they finally come out). The concept is good, though I'm always suspect of products that are marketed as your "buddy". This one sounds like a masturbation aid...
The real issue is... I think this could easily be a smartphone app.
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Post by ux4484 on May 1, 2014 2:44:55 GMT -5
That little Peavey? Heh... Nice it's the "classic" wolverine.
The full-scale Rockmaster with the built-in headphone amp and tuner isn't bad either.
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Post by ux4484 on May 1, 2014 1:52:10 GMT -5
Parts are finally all in. I've found Amazon is getting quite into the gitparts biz, CTS pots and fender branded super switch (4 pole 24 lug) were a real deal there: $33 total for the pots, switch, plate, and mini-toggles. I'm still out on switching though. The Dimarzio is a "meh" split by itself, but the pearly gates is definitely worth it (as is it mixed with the Dimarzio split). So now I'm thinking one mini to split them both, and s/p the pups on the super switch. Still leaves me with one open switch position.
Decisions....
Suggestions gladly taken.
With the size of this stuff on the control plate, looks like I won't be able to avoid routing the control cavity. It'll just make everything easier I suppose.
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Post by ux4484 on Apr 27, 2014 11:56:58 GMT -5
Much better.
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Post by ux4484 on Apr 24, 2014 3:19:37 GMT -5
I make a lot more money off of these.
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Post by ux4484 on Apr 21, 2014 17:23:34 GMT -5
You're making me glad I didn't bite on one now Ash. I don't like having to hand them off to someone else to tweak if I don't have to... Well... That, and I played a couple of Squier Bass VI's and realized I probably couldn't get more bang for the buck than one of those... and no mods required. Strangely, both were already "sold" with a month or months long back order date for more. I'm sure a few bucks over would have freed them up Close to my goal of last fall, I am trying to keep to my guitar count down (the only true addition is the Bullet Tele HS as a travel guitar), but I still can't pass on a rescue that's worth a flip (currently a blue Kramer Striker 5 bass, and an Olympic white MIM Strat, picked up for $100 & $150 respectively, all done and about to sell). Though the Kramer is quite the player... I'm probably losing money on my time alone, but it keeps me busy and occupied.
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