that looks pretty normal to me
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extremely good taste
how much gear did u go thru to arrive at this setup? also what’s the top right pedal
oh hell yeah, this has been on my mind for a while (specifically the duosonic HS)
how’s it play?
Needs a setup but it’s EZ. And I got it for tension/scale relieving arthritis (no more Telecaster)
I’ve gotten most tones I want out of it. It has two Sonics, after all
Had a delightful time playing beabadoobee and singing along with my partner earlier
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well i just looked her up and now i feel like shit about my musical ability lol
sick guitar tho, i have yet to play any short scale, they never have them on floor displays at chuck levins. i’ll have to ask next time im at a shop
top right is a jam ripply falls, v solid chorus and phaser in one box. I don’t buy that much gear, so it was slowly built up over like, 7ish years. I think went through two delay pedals (catalinbread belle epoch, dod rubberneck), a phaser (walrus lillian) and a chorus (chase bliss warped vinyl), a fuzz (earthquaker terminal) and an overdrive (jhs morning glory ), most of which I have and still use sometimes, before arriving on these ones. my first electric was a fender strat that I sold to get the music man, and these are the only two amps I’ve had. I played bass in bands for years before switching to guitar so I kinda knew what I wanted going in from listening & talking to guitarists, it was just a matter of finding pedals that played well with each other etc
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how are black friday sales looking?
i’m thinking about picking up some budget vocal plugins. i just hooked up my mic yesterday and tried recording some stuff for laughs (voice hasn’t been used in… ten years? very raspy 
)
the stock reaper ones are good for most stuff, like ReaEQ is great. but i don’t see a good de-esser, and idk how i feel about ReaPitch for pitch correction either. like my ear is so untrained I could barely tell any difference between corrected and not corrected.
I see Nectar 3 is on sale for <100, so…?
also it’s funny how much better i understand mixing with plugins now that I play guitar. like compression is just what a compressor pedal does, reduces dynamic range, 
. saturation is like a light overdrive… EQ is an EQ pedal… etc.
I haven’t mixed anything since february, so sort of brushing off the cobwebs in my brain. need to reread this thread. Why do your recordings sound like ass? - Cockos Incorporated Forums
No experience but I wouldn’t buy a plug-in without trying it first. Information wants to be free, yeah?
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hello
two new instruments:
i’ve been playing the same strat since i was 13 and the truss rod and nut are fucked up which isn’t really fixable without replacing the neck so i bit the bullet and got a steinberger because it’s light and durable and affordable for its quality and easy to adjust and stays in tune and looks cool
i also got a fretless bass which i ordered over the summer and finally arrived. it’s like a jaco pastorius jazz bass clone made by “vintage” who i’d never heard of, it was the only affordable option because i play left handed and there are like two models of left handed fretless on the market but it sounds pretty nice. the action was fucked up but it’s fixed.
i got one of those micro cube practice amps for the guitar because i’ve been using this awful half broken old marshall practice amp that was lying around mostly to record parts for my husband’s tracks and since it’s all getting processed in the daw anyway i don’t really care much about pristine tone/volume. also i can run the bass through it with chorus on and play melody stuff up high with a pick
and the bass amp is a fender rumble, pretty standard
i’m not a gear person but it will be nice to have fully functional equipment for the first time in forever
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We went to an actual Guitar Center yesterday. It was sad and strange. Mostly folks getting 15% off a combo amp and mini Les Paul. One kid wanted a 5 string bass “starter pack” and the employee had to explain the improbability of such a thing.
I played a $350 Squier faux-vintage Jazzmaster with all of its Homercar charm, then felt guilty after a kid saw me and began convincing their mom to get it as their first guitar.
Got my partner a SBMM (skill-based matchmaking) Stingray short scale bass on a good sale. The only rough edges were literally rough but not protrusive fret edges I fixed with a foam nail polishing block.
I love push/pull pots. They’re like a panic button under a desk or a book-lever that opens a secret passage.
It’s been pleasant and gratifying using skills and tools from other hobbies (or manicures) on guitar setup - polishing frets with a rotary tool, using the mysterious 3.5mm hex bit from my iFixit kit on string saddles, lubricating points of contact with machine oil from key switch modification. I read in a Fender manual that guitars are “tempered instruments” and I loved it. Towards something like a handy person.
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Polished up frets, set up, and restrung partner’s Stingray today. Very impressed with Sterling’s hardware and build. Intonation was easy, got around 2mm action without buzz.
Recalled how to play various Ben Folds Five fuzz bass solos in the process. The feeling is very evocative of 3D Zelda spells like I’m an amnesiac from 2006.
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Went rummaging through some second hand stores here in Berlin and found an beautiful Klira parlor laying in a corner with busted strings.
A quick peek inside and the stamp reads 1970. Body looks like solid Maple, with a few dings. Straight neck, smooth frets.
Picked it up for 50 EUR and took it home. Cut a new lefty nut from hardwood and spun the bridge around. Cleaned it up a bit and it plays beautifully.
Because it’s a floating bridge I could get the intonation pretty much perfect all the way up the neck! Well chuffed.
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I want this now
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jinx
as I’m leaving my mother’s house she says “wait my friend G___ (professional bassist in India) left a guitar in the garage, it’s really old, do you want it?” I take one look inside the gig bag and say yes. and here it is~
Höfner archtop, likely a 4550, big guitar with a 17" lower bout. truss rod and headstock design seems to pinpoint it to 1959-60. (thanks to this website for ID assistance)
it may have had two owners before it came to G___. There’s one partial name “___oni” with a Mumbai address on a sticker on the headstock and another name “J. Pereira” written inside the truss rod pocket.
flamed maple laminate body, not sure of the top wood (either maple or spruce i think, also laminate). beautiful crackle on the nitro finish.
cleaned up the fretboard and oiled it, gave the frets a good polish as they had a decent amount of wear, it probably still needs fretwork but plays okay now. it was stored with strings on and the action is actually pretty good tho it could use more neck relief. I don’t have a hex key for the old-style truss rod. intonation seems really good, I just put the floating bridge where it already was.
will post playing videos
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that’s a very nice to have
into the pearloid headstock veneer there
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merry xmas! i went to reverb and bought a mint used fuzz face for 40% below retail. and also a 535q wah (the one with the variable Q control to adjust how much wah is wah’d)
the fuzz face sounds great, i played it for @digs (who is usually guitar indifferent) and she seemed to evince a surprised “that’s sounding really good”. it’s surprisingly quiet? i have the volume knob at 2:30 and it’s actually quieter on than off.
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Well, one of them started and then continued working again, later, and one of them didn’t.
But, a few weeks ago my new 60w usb-powered Pinecil soldering iron arrived. So, I re-heated the wind solder points on the neck pickup, again, extra good this time, and blammo it is back in business.
Attached is a photo of the guitar now again in full working order:
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