The Muso Equipment Nerdery Thread 🎸

[heinous seamus]

I won a mooer macro power on eBay last night. I got it pretty cheap, looking at the previous second hand ones that sold.

This has never appeared and there's been no response to my messages. Dickhead!

 

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[xenon]

I went to the Bristol guitar expo last weekend. Was larger than last year. Didn't buy anything but saw some strange axes amongst all the usuals. Was tempted by a couple. A kinda hidious ESP Explorer, Gibson Les Paul for 500 quid. It had Steinway / Steinberg tuners, something like that. Machine heads were on the face of the headstock.

There was a headless bass with one massive oblong pickup, not sure what that was. Gibson Black Beauty for a mere 40k, some other rare ish I guess, vintage stuff...

 

[editor]

I went to the Bristol guitar expo last weekend. Was larger than last year. Didn't buy anything but saw some strange axes amongst all the usuals. Was tempted by a couple. A kinda hidious ESP Explorer, Gibson Les Paul for 500 quid. It had Steinway / Steinberg tuners, something like that. Machine heads were on the face of the headstock.

There was a headless bass with one massive oblong pickup, not sure what that was. Gibson Black Beauty for a mere 40k, some other rare ish I guess, vintage stuff...

A friend of mine had a stall there but looking at guitars isn't my idea of fun.

 

[xenon]

A friend of mine had a stall there but looking at guitars isn't my idea of fun.

Ah which stall? It's more fun if you let yourself buy one TBF. But couldn't this year. I mainly like seeing the unusual or pondering why that Les Paul is 40k etc My mate was after an SG. I had to try an Epiphone one out for him but he wasn't convinced in the end.

 

[heinous seamus]

Here's my Tele. The 'wtf?' sticker is hiding a massive ding

 

[danski]

 

[danny la rouge]

[groan emoji]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Just got my Blackstar amp out for the first time in many years. Fuck me it's loud. Clue is in the name, it's a Blackstar Club 40, not a Blackstar Bedroom (lower number). Footswitch seems borked but I'm guessing I'll be able to find one easily enough and for bedroom use it's not needed.
Saving up for a holiday though so as Mrs SI rightly points out a mini practice amp would be frivolous. But still.
Been banging out some droning, fuzzy chords in D A E A C# E tuning. Lovely stuff

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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It's pronounced 'noy' trik.

 

[danski]

It's pronounced 'noy' trik.

It was Lloyd Grossman doing the teaching.

 

[danski]

Look, I know I keep doing this but it’s too niche for bandwidthz thread and I don’t know where else to post it.

 

[danski]

Same^^^

 

[danski]

Pretty nerdy, very interesting. I'm sure most of you know all this anyway but it's a nice clear, easy to understand video.

 

[danny la rouge]

I thought I’d ordered an 8 inch celestion.



Still going to mic it up through the PA, though.

 

[danny la rouge]

Why did nobody think of this before?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Because it is not a good idea and it looks ugly?

 

[SpookyFrank]

You'd still have to fuck about with cables if you wanted to change the order of your signal chain, because your in and out cables would be in the wrong place.

Also 'boutique' pedals usually just means overpriced but not as good as stuff that's widely available and been tried and tested by everyone and his mum for 30 years.

 

[moody]

got myself a space echo thanks to recommendations here.

just waiting for some cables, can't wait to fire it up!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Here is my current 'one man band' set up.
Loop station does the drum machine, left pedal board is guitar. The octave pedal takes a single root note and becomes tge bass (via the fuzz war). Also organ and synth on the synth pedal. I've cheated it into thinking it's in an effects loop, so it essentially goes to a separate amp (no guitar), as does the bass (split at the tuner).

 

[moody]

First try-out of my new Space Echo unit.... hours of fun lol

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[Happy Tree]

Teachers' Day at school. So today was just dossing about playing concerts and hanging around backstage like a real rock 'n' roller.

 

[Happy Tree]

New addition to the studio. It's a "glitch looper" which basically mangles whatever goes into it
and makes it weird and ambienty. Best used with an arpeggiator, I've found, to give it a constant input while you noodle over the top of it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Let's hear some.
I love arpeggiators. Be nice to hear one messed up.

 

[Happy Tree]

It's hard to predict what the knobs will actually do, so messing about is the method

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

How much of that is the glitch looper and how much is the original arpeggio?

 

[danski]

Got one of these going if anyone wants it. Free, like. Just cover the postage.

 

[maomao]

I have a small tax refund and have become possessed by the desire to buy a baritone guitar, despite not being very good at normal guitars. If I were to do so, is a normal amp going to cut it or do I need something fancier? I'd potentially be going as low as G# though probably A or B as I like thinking in round numbers.

 

[danny la rouge]

I have a small tax refund and have become possessed by the desire to buy a baritone guitar, despite not being very good at normal guitars. If I were to do so, is a normal amp going to cut it or do I need something fancier? I'd potentially be going as low as G# though probably A or B as I like thinking in round numbers.

Your standard amp will be fine. If you think about it, you can use an octave pedal on a normal amp, so a low A isn’t going to trouble it.