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I have that Behringer octave pedal! It’s a lot of fun. Did a bunch of doomy guitar for a friend’s movie by running a plastic toy guitar with a contact mic through it.
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Ignore that I need to vacuum out my pedal board case. That Mario pedal is amazing garbage—it just buzzes regardless of the input. Perfect if you’re like me and just want to sound awful.
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You know, as a teenager I didn’t think anything of the name “big muff π”
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It’s at the point where it’s been said with a straight face so many times that I’m not even sure if it’s supposed to be dirty.
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i literally only just got the π bit now, thnku
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my partner’s husband has a dx21 and a juno-106 that have been collecting dust
the yamaha is in great condition and plays well
the roland has a dozen+ keys that don’t work and some gnarly clicking, as well as none of the presets working at all (‘manual’ works fine)
thinking about getting the juno fixed at a synth repair shop here in atlanta. will be probably extremely expensive but also it’s a dang juno and what i’ve heard of it demands me to play it more lol
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oof yeah if you can get that juno repaired the music you would make from it @meauxdal my god
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yeah damn that juno is a treasure, good luck on the repairs!
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so far so good… the bypass circuits in these behringer pedals suck treble like mad so I’m leaving them out of the loop until necessary. this might mean I never use them, idk…
need to think about how I can use that eq to max effect
that tube screamer clone sounds tube screamer-y… cheap way to find out that sound doesn’t do much for me i guess… i haven’t figured out how to go full SRV with it though.
my most wanted pedal was the super fuzz and it’s on backorder so this is it for now
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i keep looking at the mpc one/live ii. i do not have the money or need for most of it, but i keep looking.
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there was once a guitar thread on my old forum, like 15 years ago, and everybody was buying ehx holy grails and sx/rondomusic guitars and vox ac15s and peavey classic 30s. now it’s cheapo behringer pedals and everyone’s learning guitar again. pretty cool.
how long is it backordered? if its months and months, if you want, you can borrow mine. i can meet you somewheres or mail it or something. if you want. i got one but don’t play too much.
speaking of not playing too much, i emailed some guy on craigslist about an amp ive had an alert on for 5 years now, a vht special 6 ultra (i actually wanted the vht special 12/20 rt, which has reverb and tremolo but w/e). guy switched the speaker for a $150 marshall-like one and was getting rid of it for $400 or so, and the price has been constantly dropping, so when it got to $275 i emailed him and said “hey if you can wait a little bit i’ll buy it at $300, this is so extremely cheap i dunno why nobody is buying it” and he was in no hurry to sell and was similarly irritated by lowering the price and so he agreed to wait till november
well today’s the day, guess i’ll have an amp at noon but my instruments are in terrible shape so who knows when ill even be playing it. i’m filled with dread about it but just yesterday i confirmed i DIDN’T lose $500 due to a paperwork/deadline mistake (instead i lost $0!!!) so it feels simultaneously like free money even though it absolutely is not.
this amp (vht special 6 ultra) has some weird HPF and a “texture switch” and a tone knob instead of traditional eq, plus variable watts knob (0.5w to 6w) so i think i’ll be able to play with it forever and find cool sounds. i’ve never had any real tube gear so that’s actually my biggest motivator. really just playing around with machines vs getting some ideal amplifier (no such thing if again, you don’t play guitar). probably sounds more marshally than i’m interested it but w/e. i’ll become a doom guy again, fine by me. i think marshalls are sorta boring sounding especially when doing the “70s hard rock” thing but maybe the best live guitar sound i’ve ever heard was dylan carlson of earth with a big marshall stack and some kind of OD pedal, a boss blues driver or something. so it can’t be too bad. i also still have my ampeg 810 cab (solid state head is in real bad shape tho) so it could be fun to run out to that and see what kind of volume i can get, or biamp them (ampeg clean, vht overdriven?) when i get my bass fixed up.
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back ordered till November I think, I can wait, but down to hang out and jam! thx!
as far as tone, I’m learning I just don’t like drive that much, just not that interesting to me unless you’re going for the boomy hollow srv sound. really just obsessed with fuzz i think, tone bender style but also octave stuff, just makes the notes ring so much and adds those beautiful harmonics, making the simplest riffs bangers
love some of the tones Philip Sayce gets here (I have a THR)
not quite digging it until the echoplex but then so so so good. and the wah too.
so i am back from my purchase and i love this amp, it has like 5 ways to change the volume/wattage/drive/gain/whatever, it’s so fucking awesome for someone with my exact dumb interests. this will tide me over forever hopefully. i’ll buy a wah, a delay, a looper, and enough fuzzes to cover the gamut and then i revoke stringed instrument dollars for all time.
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question to all: what was your first guitar, and what was your first “upgrade” guitar? I’m still compulsively window shopping and wondering how folks think about this.
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right now I’m thinking, I’ve got a crappy strat out of a starter pack, I like it OK, maybe my next one should be “strat but better”. either a proper fender or a charvel, ibanez etc. something proper workhorse and giggable
another school of thought is to try something completely new - sg, semi hollow, etc. acoustic?
sorry I know I log on here and say the same things every day for years, it’s a problem in my brain circuitry.
My first guitar was a Mexican Telecaster in Lake Placid Blue. My upgrade guitar was gutting the electronics of said Telecaster to Seymour Duncan pickups. Highly recommend doing so, it’s not difficult at all and you can get more mileage out of the same wood.
Once you’re comfortable with the guts you can experiment with pickup configurations, etc. much less expensively.
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first guitar was my les paul custom from '78, which i switch the pickups out of
the other guitars i got are less upgrades than alternatives
i’ve said this before to you, saying again: go custom made before shelling for a Big Famous Brand, you might well even be able to get your current instrument tweaked if you know what spec you actually want/need. if you don’t, paying more money on an entirely new instrument is kind of a waste of your shit
window shopping isn’t quite the same as research
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