Yeah, that sounds pretty wicked. I wonder how the white one would look in it? I wanted to look into replacing the pick-ups, but I have no experience with soldering, but it looks like that site has solderless options, so that’s cool. And they’re cheaper than the goddamn locking tuners I had been looking at. Maybe I should’ve just gotten that FocusRite audio interface or whatever the fuck.
I was still debating on what practice amp to get and was seeing what others sounded like, but nothing sounded particularly good, so it looks like I’m going with the vanilla Orange Crush 20 (without the relay and tuner).
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I need to get one of the old Orange Crush 20LDXs, those sound way better! (Headphone stuff seems to be way better with the new ones, though)
On the Demon you have two knife-edge angles on the bridge alone. One not very good and another really bad one at the tiny grommit pass-thru. My guess is that it causes all sorts of tuning issues and string-breaks. Also, that grommit is probably just epoxied in there at best.
The Damien has a hard-tail bridge (terms are informal and interchangeable). Same as the Ibanez GIO from the previous posts. It is a much better, simpler, and cheaper design. The string goes through the guitar body but it is rolled over a machined bridge saddle.
Point #2 doesn’t seem substantially different from what you’d find on a through-body bridge tele or bass. there are some high end builders that use a similar string through body design, afaik it’s not in itself a cause of concern. maybe if those ferrules aren’t chamfered, but who knows.
I would prefer the 2 piece tune-o-matic one anyway, it gives you some control of the break angle over the bridge. that can be a problem if it’s too steep and the strings contact the back of the bridge behind the saddles.
I just see it as a potential point of QC failure. Bridge saddles would have bigger bend diameter than a ferrule (thanks for that word btw) I imagine. Bigger diameter → bigger machining tolerances? In the context of talking about mass produced guitars I would consider stuff like that.
I really want one of these Squier Pro Tones, but people online are trying to charge $500+ for these things and they’re not even in great condition. They look cool, though. Apparently, all of the “green” Pro Tones you see online are actually the Sapphire Blue that aged green, which I guess is great if you like green more than blue.
I love the matching headstock and how well the gold hardware goes with it. It’s too bad the red one didn’t have a matching headstock – a subtle gold logo on a red headstock would’ve looked wicked.
I believe it! I admit I am also interested in seeing how cheap it can be replicated for the exercise itself. Also looking into cloning the Zvex lo-fi junky but that’s more do-it-myself
I am generally interested in parallel signal chains after watching a bunch of videos about the EHX tri parallel mixer and multi-fx pedals like the Old Blood Excess
I’m interested in looking into parlaying microcontroller knowledge into DIY boxes e.g. the Glowfly Episodes has a Teensy in it and uses Arduino libraries. I like the idea of writing my own soft patches for a box
Of courseFPGA pedals are another recent cross-pollination of hardware nerds in infancy
We went to an extremely bourgie guitar store (PRS showroom) slash kitchy giftshop a few towns over and I found the Chase Bliss stuff straight-up frightening with sixteen dip switches, nine knobs, etc. but I find raging against software control charming
(the Jagstang is with a luthier getting frets leveled so I’m thinking more than playing)
I rage against software controls too. I’ve had too many things over the years where updating something that is part of a big interrealted system causes compatibility issues that makes the thing inoperative for me to trust something like an amp or a pedal that requires an app on some other device.
a PRS amp can become an heirloom piece. Nothing that depends on a smartphone to control is going to last beyond seven years or so
I got a Fender Mustang P90. I talked the price down to what I’d pay for it used, so that makes up for it being seafoam green and consequently looking like a dollop of toothpaste. It feels a lot better to play and hold vs Stratocasters and the Ibanez. It’s super comfortable, but I presume it needs some kind of set-up because it doesn’t stay in tune too well, though that might also be because I bend the strings a lot (it was easier to tune and keep in tune vs the Squiers, at least).
I really like the Jag-stang, but it’s kind of expensive for what it is, but I love the sound demos I’ve heard, it’s very twang-y. People seemed underwhelmed, but I thought it sounded good enough to where I’m having a hard time deciding if I should get a Vintera Jaguar HH or a Jag-stang before they get even more expensive.
I only got mine because it was marked down $300 for a blemish, yeah. The Duo Sonic HS is very close to it in practical terms—the neck is just slimmer and narrower on the Jagstang for baby hands.
Definitely twangy! Very bright pickups even relative to my other Fender experience.
bought a way huge atreides from that same rather too glossy guitar store and yeah, it’s very silly. i’ve yet to whip the back off and see what the hidden controls do to the signal
did nudge me into also buying a parallel mixing pedal (the electroharmonix one mentioned up there) to tame it a bit, now that’s a useful box alright. everyone into pedalling should have summat that will let you blend several fx chains
i’d like to try a short scale but they never have them in the local shops tbh.
saw some jazz guy using a sustain pedal and now i want one. took a look at some jazz pedalboards and they’re all rocking an ehx freeze which is relatively affordable. gamechanger audio plus… less so. but i kind of feel like the freeze sounds better? more like a harmonium/thambura/shruti box
That Freeze sounds kind of fun. I’m a big fan of that Melt Banana stutter effect they get by double tapping a digital delay pedal in loop mode quickly. I wonder if you could get something like that out of this?
