KVR Audio

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue May 28, 2013 7:14 pm

xtp wrote:
hibidy wrote: I bought it.
Cool dude, congrats, wow every time I read this thread you have a new one.

I know, it's pretty bad and I lose a good chunk on guitars I don't keep but I have fun.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue May 28, 2013 9:32 pm

hibidy wrote:
Hink wrote:okay so I have a neighbor coming over for me to check out his new guitar, it's got some string buzzing going on...it's a brand new Gibson Les Paul

I had to chuckle. You'll probably end up liking it so much you'll get one

I forgot to take a pic of me playing it, it's a studio...had no buzz and was the lightest Les Paul I ever picked up. He just got it and the intonation was perfect, the action was very low and it played very well tbh. He said he paid 1299 for it

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Fri May 31, 2013 1:16 pm

Bumpity......

Is it here yet?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri May 31, 2013 6:40 pm

Is what here yet?

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri May 31, 2013 6:58 pm

where?

xtp · Post by **xtp** » Fri May 31, 2013 7:47 pm

hibidy wrote: ...but I have fun.

What better reason.

I was reading a thread the other day that said the person did not get why someone would spend a large amount of money on what he/she termed as a 'analogue fetish.'

I thought to myself maybe the answer was the self same reason - for the fun, or enjoyment it brings.

I think it is nice to get a good feeling when you; own/or work with gear you really like.

I know I always get immense pleasure when I play the gear I own.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri May 31, 2013 8:50 pm

xtp wrote:
hibidy wrote: ...but I have fun.
What better reason.

I was reading a thread the other day that said the person did not get why someone would spend a large amount of money on what he/she termed as a 'analogue fetish.'

I thought to myself maybe the answer was the self same reason - for the fun, or enjoyment it brings.

I think it is nice to get a good feeling when you; own/or work with gear you really like.

I know I always get immense pleasure when I play the gear I own.

as I see it my entire DAW (hardware and software) exists so I can write my own music to jam to on my guitar...I dont need no stinkin band

schnapsglas · Post by **schnapsglas** » Fri May 31, 2013 9:18 pm

This might not fit here, but finally got that 30" SX Fretless jazz bass. I wish Fender VI would come fretless! It plays wonderfully, but intonation after 15th fret is ... well, I'm not sure if it's me or the setup. The scale is too short I suppose to sort of "guess" the places.

As for guitar, I think I have too many already. I would rather add to other instruments I can play... I am looking for a mandolin. My very, very old Epi sounds better than most Gibson LPs out there (at least during that huge Gibson QC fail period,) and that Squire thinline tele is seriously good. The electronics however ... uh, it's almost like playing through piezo.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri May 31, 2013 9:28 pm

schnapsglas wrote:This might not fit here, but finally got that 30" SX Fretless jazz bass.

trust me, KvR would fair well with more fretless posts

I hear you on "other" instruments, I want to build a kantele, a psaltery and a bowed psaltery...I too would like a mandolin, but I have found some cool kits so once again that's on "to build" list. You see the truth is, like with my hammered dulcimer I built it's likely I wont play exotic instruments all the time, they spend more time as decorations with cool stories if I build them myself

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri May 31, 2013 9:33 pm

schnapsglas wrote:This might not fit here, but finally got that 30" SX Fretless jazz bass. I wish Fender VI would come fretless! It plays wonderfully, but intonation after 15th fret is ... well, I'm not sure if it's me or the setup. The scale is too short I suppose to sort of "guess" the places.

As for guitar, I think I have too many already. I would rather add to other instruments I can play... I am looking for a mandolin. My very, very old Epi sounds better than most Gibson LPs out there (at least during that huge Gibson QC fail period,) and that Squire thinline tele is seriously good. The electronics however ... uh, it's almost like playing through piezo.

Of course it fits, and congrats!

psychoxkps · Post by **psychoxkps** » Fri May 31, 2013 9:59 pm

some original electric gibson w/ 3 pickups(optional) but tremolo:))) in white.. that is cool but too optional.... gibson have one sg of mine satisfaction.. some vanilla color if u know about which iam talking:)

and still don't know if I just buy one electro-acoustic or electric bass or with that two electro-acoustic bass too:DD

xtp · Post by **xtp** » Fri May 31, 2013 10:16 pm

Hink wrote: as I see it my entire DAW (hardware and software) exists so I can write my own music to jam to on my guitar...I dont need no stinkin band

I think we are very lucky Hink, living in the time we do -

We get to combine any amount of Vacuum Tube, Solid State and Digital technology as we so choose, and can output a finished product to a commercial level all from within our own homes.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:15 am

xtp wrote:
Hink wrote: as I see it my entire DAW (hardware and software) exists so I can write my own music to jam to on my guitar...I dont need no stinkin band
I think we are very lucky Hink, living in the time we do -

We get to combine any amount of Vacuum Tube, Solid State and Digital technology as we so choose, and can output a finished product to a commercial level all from within our own homes.

I'm blessed with some nice tube amps (6 and counting), I got some nice sims...I say it all the time, what a time to be a guitarist. In fact I just got something that once it's set up I'll post a pic in the next amp thread, my Egnater Rebel 20 is no longer a part of my studio and is now in my living room as part of my living room/jam/noodling amp. Today a 1x12 cab (closed back) with a 50 watt celestion rocket in it arrived, six months ago I got a newer better weber attenuator so my old mini-mass is with that amp and I got a new lexicon fx processor for my studio so my alesis midiverb 4 is with that amp too. I also have my pod xt with it because I never use it, one od pedal (digitech for now, I have to put together a marshall blues breaker pedal kit I have) and an ns-2 for noise reduction....and that's just for messing around, trying out new ideas and exercising.

Luck just isn't the word for it, it's beyond that now

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:27 am

hibidy wrote:I bought it. 15% off, 18 mo financing no interest, 30 day return policy. It's a beaut. The MM is going back. There are some issues with it. It's really sad, it's a wonderful instrument.

Back to the strat, it's HUGE sounding! I mean, I can't believe a stock fender sounds this huge! Cuts like a knife, in a good way. That atomic humbucker is REALLY high gain And that "strat" sound with all positions except the bucker, which is fine because not having a grinder gets boring imho. Has the S1 stuff too, but I don't get too into switching. It has an "all in" switch which just puts the bucker in. So you can set up all the tone/volume for let's say the neck pup and then with a switch go hyper.

Plays like a dream, off the shelf setup is good, and that trem! It's insane, it totally stays in tune and flutters like mad. The new fenders have a pop-in arm and it stays back which is where I like it.

One negative. It's like all other fenders I've owned in that the sheilding sucks ass. 60 bucks will fix that, but I'm kinda pissed.

It's hard to be fickle, but this may solve some of my issues.

I've yet to like a strat-o-like with a humbucker in the bridge. The only fender (strat) that I've ever had was a squire strat that looked something like the one you bought, even pearl white, but it was used when I got it. My bandmates loved the tone, I didn't. That said, the other guitarist in the band played a crappy marshal combo with the bass always turned down, it was always piercing.

I didn't keep it for long but since then I've had a godin and a super cheap crate guitar with humbuckers in the bridge and they always seem to be a pain to manage the singles with the humbuckers.

Then again, I'm really a tele guy. I sure liked that 5 way switching with the series parallel. I think that I'm going to buy a cheap tele clone and wire it that way.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:32 am

ghettosynth wrote:I sure liked that 5 way switching with the series parallel. I think that I'm going to buy a cheap tele clone and wire it that way.

I've been wiring tele's like that exclusively these days. I can get the 4-way switches pretty cheap (around $5) if you need one.

btw, I'm sorry for having been away from this thread. I keep getting unsubscribed from it somehow and then you guys all go chatting for 40 pages without me. :-/

Your next guitar?