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susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:40 pm

Check out this site !
http://mjtagedfinishes.com/index.htm
Finishes look really fantastic, all nitro, and reasonably priced.

Coupled with Warmoth parts for example, or for a refin ...
Can't speak for the quality of their own wood parts yet.
Ymmv,
susiwong

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:01 pm

For me, this is absolutely as good as it gets (the playing, though the guitar is nice, too:

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:05 pm

Uncle E wrote:For me, this is absolutely as good as it gets (the playing, though the guitar is nice, too:

yeah, that guy playing the tambourine was amazing

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:09 am

Will route out a few of my personal 'as good as it gets' vids. I like the idea of sharing what makes everyone tick differntly and i always end up finding something i enjoy/dig that i might not of come across otherwise

J.Beck is one of few people whom could sound like J.Beck no matter what guitar, amp or variable that could be handed to him/put in front of him. That is special

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:15 am

I would have too many 'as good as it gets' videos from Roy Clark to Gary Moore and then some

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:33 am

i'm starting to get the same here..too many videos to watch....

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:53 pm

I want this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar

..then this..

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/esp ... 7000011000

..that should do the job for a while.

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:44 pm

woolyloach wrote:I want this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar
..that should do the job for a while.

any recordings of the type of sound you want to use it for ?
I'm familiar with electric 12 string in a jangly context, but this is obviously aimed at harder rock

Wouldn't it be a bi(t)ch

to keep in tune exact enough for high gain ?
Just wondering,
susiwong

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:34 pm

susiwong wrote:
woolyloach wrote:I want this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar
..that should do the job for a while.
any recordings of the type of sound you want to use it for ?
I'm familiar with electric 12 string in a jangly context, but this is obviously aimed at harder rock
Wouldn't it be a bi(t)ch to keep in tune exact enough for high gain ?
Just wondering,
susiwong

I'd use it for "ambient guitar" - or what I hear in my head as that, anyway. Same for the 8-string bass, I'm looking at soundscapes done with non-keyboard instruments! Wait until I learn to play my mandolin and dulcimer.. heh heh heh..

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:55 pm

woolyloach wrote:I'd use it for "ambient guitar" - or what I hear in my head as that, anyway. Same for the 8-string bass, I'm looking at soundscapes done with non-keyboard instruments! Wait until I learn to play my mandolin and dulcimer.. heh heh heh..

Ok, makes perfect sense then !

May I suggest one of these in addition ?

A Jet Baritone G5265, they are around $500 new, mine's as flawless as a guitar can get despite its far east origins ...

A baritone that's closer to a bass than the popular metal baritone guitars, tuned an octave lower than a guitar.
They called it a tic toc bass in the past.
Sounds absolutely massive and fits great in an ambient context, you can pile on FX like there's no tomorrow and it still holds its own, classic example :

Ymmv,
susiwong

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:08 pm

woolyloach wrote:
susiwong wrote:
woolyloach wrote:I want this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... ric-guitar
..that should do the job for a while.
any recordings of the type of sound you want to use it for ?
I'm familiar with electric 12 string in a jangly context, but this is obviously aimed at harder rock
Wouldn't it be a bi(t)ch to keep in tune exact enough for high gain ?
Just wondering,
susiwong
I'd use it for "ambient guitar" - or what I hear in my head as that, anyway. Same for the 8-string bass, I'm looking at soundscapes done with non-keyboard instruments! Wait until I learn to play my mandolin and dulcimer.. heh heh heh..

back in the day I always wanted a 10 string bich, then I was in a band with bass player who had a mockingbird with all out eletronics like the bich (I'm not sure if it's the same as today) and was underwhelmed by the electronics and overall tone (though a frind of mine had a killer mockingbird that was stripped down and I loved that guitar).

Back then a bich was a lot of money and I could never justify that much for a guitar that would be a speciality guitar and not a utility guitar. They did have a double neck version that was a standard six string with the 10 string with all the electronics for both...the thing had more knobs and switches than the cockpit of a 747 (which of course is just the kind of thing I would be all over and like to do to my guitars

) but it would have needed a Floyd Rose on the six string and the price of that was out of the realm of reality for me than and now

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:18 pm

btw woolyloach, if you want to create sounscapes imo you would be better off with a hammered dulcimer.

http://rthum.com/index.php?page=shop.br ... t&Itemid=5

here's mine that I built and it's a 12/11

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:56 pm

Hink wrote:btw woolyloach, if you want to create sounscapes imo you would be better off with a hammered dulcimer.

http://rthum.com/index.php?page=shop.br ... t&Itemid=5

here's mine that I built and it's a 12/11

I would sell my unused genitalia for a hammer dulcimer IF I HAD ROOM and could MOVE IT EASILY. My circumstances are.. unusual.. in that I'm a contract software engineer and I move to where the work is, which means once a year or more I have to pack up and jump to someplace else. I end up with a room in a shared house 9 out of 10 times, which leaves me not a lot of space for large physical instruments (not to mention annoying the hell out of whomever is around me). I fell in love with hammer dulcimer when I lived in Virginia, the sound is so lovely. But oh well!

As to the BC Rich Bich - my (now) ex-wife owns a Bich doubleneck - American-made - and a Mockingbird Supreme (also American made). She bought both years and years ago, when she was also a contract software engineer and we split expenses. The damn things were EXPENSIVE AS HELL, but it was her money. The Mockingbird.. eh. Decent tone, fiddly electronics. The doubleneck? OMG! Amazing sound, insanely playable, tone for miles, and weighed a freaking TON. She got all the guitars in the divorce.. sigh. No telling if she even plays any more, she dropped out of sight right after the support payments ended (lol).

The mandolin is turning into a project instrument, 2 machines are so slippery they won't hold a tune and the intonation is crap, so it's shelved until I learn how to fix those issues. I canceled the dulcimer because I don't want to move a ton of stuff and I purchased a Washburn travel guitar and case instead. I'm vacillating on anything else large, I'm going to wire the Washburn up with 2 piezo mics (one near bridge, one near neck) and record that into my Zoom R8 (amazing piece of kit) for processing later.

I should probably just chuck it all and either get a decent acoustic/electric or a pure electric and call it a day.

*edir* Holy carp, new F-style mandolin tuners are $50+!!!

I got the damn mandolin on sale for $50!

Maybe I'll just give this one up to Goodwill and try something else..

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:16 am

susiwong, would you mind posting your tone control high pass diagram in the DIY section?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324336

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:07 am

Uncle E wrote:susiwong, would you mind posting your tone control high pass diagram in the DIY section?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324336

Hi Eric,
are you talking about this one ?
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 29#4597829
This is a highpass for the split, not for the signal.
I added a quick drawing here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 90#4640290
I don't think a similar passive concept would work well in a tone control high pass scenario, though Gibson tried with the Varitone rotary switch

Ymmv,
susiwong

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