Reposting from the goings on thread:
Anyone shipped a guitar overseas? I just bought this thing and sold all my other guitars. Not allowed to take it as carry-on luggage as it’s too long. I could put it in the cargo hold but it’ll need to be tossed around. Is a hard shell case with lots of additional padding enough? Anything I should look for in a hard shell case?
I started with a student model yamaha flamenco guitar.
For upgrade I lucked into my music shop needing to sell a custom G&L to keep their status as a preferred dealer, and I got an ASAT special in metallic red bursting to black, with a rosewood fingerboard for $400, which kind of ruined my expectations of what guitars were going to cost in my future.
Currently I’m playing a yamaha p-bass clone that I need to upgrade the electronics in.
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I got someone I know one of those when I found it on clearance. I was surprised how well it plays.
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Having played a super cheap comically child sized electric before it, it’s light years ahead of that.
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i’ve had guitars shipped to me overseas, and basically you just pad the shit out of everything, inside and outside the case
the box you put the case in should have absolutely no play when you’re done stuffing
there are bound to be youtubes about how do this methodically
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of course the case you have can make this more or less of a pain in the arse
i like skb flight cases for my expensive geets, the big rectangular bastards like this:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/3i421456--skb-3i-4214-56-single-cutaway
i bought a fake rickenbacker from china once and it just came in a like chunk of styrofoam that was 100% mummy-wrapped in packing tape
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A decent hard shell case should be fine if you want to risk the cargo hold. I always have to check my guitar at a special counter separate from the other hold bags so assume they are kept somewhat separate on the actual plane.
My acoustic has survived multiple trips across the atlantic this way. I wouldn’t even worry about a strat or something.
Shipping is riskier because it takes longer and temperature fluctuations are involved. As others have said, the guitar should ideally be in a case, in a box, padded to hell and back.
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I bought a cheapo mixer and then spent a couple hours making feedback loops and all is right with the world.
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i just bought some patch cables and an amp gig bag on sweetwater. trying to figure out my signal chain.
do yall do drive before distortion or vice versa? and do you do EQ into your gain stack, or after?
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I’ve been sitting on a home made matrix mixer that I bought at a “noise garage sale” and I’ve barely used it because I’m terrified of blowing out an amp. Any pointers?
After 20 years of plugging garbage into garbage, it’s still my amps that are my most cherished and probably expensive piece of gear.
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I didn’t plug it into an amp yet, because I wanted to be sure I wouldn’t fuck it up too bad, so I was just using headphones hooked into it, so maybe start with that? Or buy a super shitty amp to test on if you can?
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I got a hammer action controller and I’m having A Moment it’s so good. The key sensitivity and weighing lets you be so expressive!
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I hadn’t explored music technology seriously since 2009 so the ubiquity of near-perfect software clones is incredible. I’m reconsidering a lot of the shifts in music production in light of the experience.
Then on the guitar side an amp let alone effects pedals are optional these days unless you’re in a band.
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Effects pedals are still fun but even in a band situation, so many places have a PA system that will take a DI that amps are not really a thing anymore, aside from really small ones that are close mic’ed. The big stack, and stage sound and floor sound being the same is mostly over outside of house parties.
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update: watched some tom morello rig videos and convinced myself all i need for gain stages is marshall amp distortion lol. it’s a shame the donner is a good pedal but i don’t need it rn. i might use the tube screamer on super low gain just for that chunky sound, but idk
i still want to try messing with the octave into fuzz, see what happens. maybe i can get some dfa1979 tones out of it
on the flip side i jammed at a friends house plugged into a fendex deluxe reverb, even on volume 2.5 that thing sounded so good. really made me think about getting the Tube Amp Experience someday
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tube screamer with the gain all the way down is such a good sound. I’ve been seeing demos on yourtub for effects bakery pedals and they sound neat are super cheap. I’m kind of suspicious that one of the big effects oem providers is making them and Lep’s Japanese office is just rebranding them.
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Is there a DIY scene for making custom PCBs and effects? I could see it either way. I remember messing with the traces on an HM-2 but never got into it properly.
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hells yes hit the diystompboxes.com forums and the will help you out with schematics and soldering tips and other bits of info. I’ve only ever made two boxes and they weren’t great, but the folks there were super helpful even though I was just lurking. I’d say go for it but be prepared to waste a lot of parts if you’re not good at soldering yet. I fried a lot making my first pedal.
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