today i discovered we’re doing a supreme branded mpc which is something i’ve definitely joked about with product managers in the past so this is all my fault and i’m sorry
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yes! they reannounced it a few weeks back, and i guess they fixed the firmware issues the 808 had. i think they said 1-2 months so march/april time.
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new modeling amp… yamaha thr-10ii feat my 08 squier strat
can get some wicked tones out of this thing for such a little guy. really effectively mimicks a marshall turned up to 11 or whatever. i’m enjoying a bit of sound design and it’s making me play guitar a lot more which is dope
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i have shopped at andertons more than i care to recall
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they seem like nice lads to buy a guitar from. my retailer of choice is sweetwater
danish pete is a wicked guitar player
i don’t really need a new guitar but i’ve just been window shopping and some of these look wicked
and can’t forget the fender offsets. torn between this duo-sonic and the mustang 90, which i like better
Whammy bars are only good for the feedback solo from Sleep Now in the Fire, save your tuning!
I tried playing my guitar and realized I can’t anymore so wish bon voyage to my mexi tele
Does anyone have a 48+ key light action midi controller they like?
Alternatively considering learning to play music on a 5x12 ortholinear keyboard
you’ve never been more wrong bucko
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Get a guitar that’s 2” thick with no cutouts and a stiff bridge and never tune or know joy again ok
I have a Tribute Comanche I got for $200 that is a real G&L but made somewhere else. It is a pretty killer guitar and great for weird twangy tones. The tremolo lo is cool. I don’t use it much but tuning is pretty stable. It’s a bit bigger than a normal strat too, which is nice for me on stage as I am huge
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are there any velocity-sensitive keyswitches out there? this could be something
My Mustang’s neck pickup stopped working about a month or two after I bought it. “Hmm,” I said to myself. So I cracked it open again and poked and prodded and re-soldered and covered some sloppy splice points where the wiring had been cut at some point. Everything is original (maybe not the switches? they seem old but should theoretically be a different color but also plenty of examples of mix and match parts bin stuff in this era) as far as I can tell but I guess the pickups had been taken out and then later put back in at some point in the last 60 years. That didn’t do it. So I poked and prodded some more and eventually decided to re-melt the solder at the point where the winding meets the bobbin, and that fixed it. Whew. Praise Leo’s ghost.
So anyways I decided to refret it myself, bored some months into covid. Got all the stuff and tools, sanded and banged and filed and snipped and did it. It came out…workable I guess.
A couple months later I plug it in and the neck pickup has gone out again. “Hmm”. So I cracked it open and did what I did before and it doesn’t fix it. Come back to it a couple days later and just kinda start moving the tiny single strand of wire near the bobbin solder point around and listening and clearing some of the caked on accumulated vintage crud dust away and it starts working again. I give thanks to the holy city of Fullerton.
A while later it goes out again. So right before Xmas I drop it off with the local guitar hermit, who traps me in Trump is crazy amirite u get it conversation in his tiny unventilated shop shack. I ask him to refret the guitar for realsies, make me a bone nut, and also explain the pickup situation while he basically ignores me, etc. Couple weeks go by and it is done and the refret is nice. Says the pickup is fully dead as a doornail and can’t be fixed and it would be no problem for him to replace it it would be the same.
I take it back and poke around at it some more and it starts working again. And then goes out again a few weeks later, and then comes back again randomly after just letting it sit.
Today I sat down to play it and neither of the pickups work now.
Anyways it’s getting late, thanks for joining me in my diary.
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oh dang I don’t know the first thing, hadn’t thought about velocity.
There are but they’re not electrically compatible with standard boards.
I should get a big ol grid of pads or the single chromatone that’s listed used online.
nice guitar diary
today i used a fancy musicnomad guitar setup kit + tools to lower my action and fix intonation for maybe the first time ever
didn’t know guitars were supposed to feel and sound like this!?
i was just saying i wish i had a midi controller with sanwa buttons, lo and behold. shame it’s so expensive though??
i’m sure theres’ cheaper alternatives
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i may be able to send you the 16 button version of this
maybe i can knock out @boojiboy7 ’s stuff while i’m at it it’s only been like a year and a half
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i have one of these now:
https://www.legacypixels.com/mister/midi.html
so now i can use the atari st / amiga / 486 cores on my mister fpga to send and receive midi to and from my hardware
works great, been fucking with cubase on ST and octamed on amiga
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Very interested!!
hey, it’s also been the weirdest year and a half of a lot of our lives, so like, no worries.
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