It’s three things:
- “rasta” model hohner melodica
- kazobo by kazoobie, the “world’s loudest kazoo”
- my birthday
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Happy extremely loud birthday!!!
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Happy birthday! That sounds like a rad haul
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oh my god i need the worlds loudest kazoo thank you for helping me further ruin my neighborhoods day and happy birthday~
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You (Doolittle) may remember I got a kazoo thru tickets at that arcade in Austin in… 2017? Multiple kazoo purchases qualifies me as a real head I guess, although I haven’t gone electric yet. The kazobo has two reeds but it’s strange cause the air presumably comes out the horn? I was thinking you could go stereo with 2 of those mics. I don’t know how this shit works. You get a much nicer distortion blowing through the fatter hole on most kazoos. You want air to want to escape through the paper so it rattles, not let it out through the big end (like a horn, which is what I thought and I imagine everybody thinks). The kazobo is horn for volume but also has 2 reeds for volume/noise? (that then shoot their sound out the reed holes AND horn simultaneously?) I gotta get someone to kazoo me at point blank so I can tell if the reed and horn sounds are different, as I suspect the horn output may be less distorted.
Wah-ing your mic-ed kazoo and hand-muting the bell like electric Miles is what? Destiny?
The arcade kazoo ruled (past tense cause the paper reed ripped) cause it was like a tenor kazoo or something. I remember doing the main riff and bass solo from boris’ “1970” on it which is about as low as I can go. Kazobo is loud but has a familiar kazoo tone.
The melodica is also a kazoo, basically.
Edit: this post had 6000 grammatical errors and still probably does but I’m on my phone and my kid threw up everywhere what the hell
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“ We use the same waterproof resonator and caps as used in our famous Kazoobie Kazoos. This means you can add Wazoo Horns and even the Hummbucker Electric Kazoo pick-up to your Kazoobie KaZobo.”
Man this site, I’m gonna have to mod it. I read some guys’ thesis about extended techniques and prepared melodicas and he had included notation for playing it submerged in water (a slanted line on the staff for how deep and what angle it’s gotta be). Didn’t think about doing with kazoos. I wonder if even the reeds can go under?
Also there’s a $140 all metal one
Also this njoy wand collab:
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these words are murdering me right now
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i had an electric kazoo called the “kazooka”, once
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Percussion run through this sounds wicked.
I gave up trying to get my Cyclone to tune and looked into seeing if I could find anything on whether or not a Jaguar or Mustang neck would intonate properly on a Cyclone since I prefer the 24" scale anyway, and I managed to finally find a post that seems to confirm that a Mustang (and Jaguar, I would presume) neck should intonate fine on a Cyclone, possibly better than its default-scale neck. I ordered a neck that’s for a Squier Contemporary Jaguar HH body (it had a black headstock so I thought it’d look wicked with the Cyclone’s Big Bad Beetleborg Red body) but only realized after I ordered it that 1. it has a 12" fretboard radius (I guess more of a preference issue), and 2. the Jaguar has this goofy curve at its neck sleeve area or whatever, so I’m not sure if it’ll fit or if the bolts are even aligned properly. So, I guess I’ll find out tomorrow and may be on the look-out for a vanilla Mustang or Jaguar neck.
I want to convert the Cyclone to an HS (or HSS), I’m not sure how much room is in there but I recall the Cyclone just having just a large rectangular box cavity as opposed to anything specific like some of the Mustangs and Jaguars that seem to be cut specifically for whatever configuration they’re sold in. I think it’d look rad with a gold anodized pickguard like on those J. Mascis Jazzmasters, but nobody that does custom pickguards for the Cyclone has anything similar to that, so I’ll probably just go with tortoise shell or like, whatever I can get closest to a cream color, anything other than white or black. I want to replace the control plates with black or gold ones (that red Trash Sultana or whatever (never heard of them) Stratocaster with the gold hardware would look wicked if it weren’t a Stratocaster).
Also, if anybody else has a Cyclone and wants to fuck with it but aren’t entirely sure of what parts might be swappable into it, I found this PDF for the Cyclone II, which is what the Paranormal Cyclone is based on and it seems to be 1:1 for the most part with a few exceptions, but it has all of the part numbers for what was used on the Cyclone II, so you can use that as a reference. There’s also PDFs for the HH Cyclone, as well. Apparently, it came in orange! I want orange. Or yellow, I’ve seen some yellow Cyclones from Japanese sellers on eBay, but they’re outrageously priced.
The Cyclone seems like the best option if you want to mod a Mustang without spending a lot of money on the guitar itself without dropping down to the Bullet. I got the Cyclone barely used for like, $306 from CME. It was on there for $346, and I just waited a few days until it dropped down to $316, and then I let the CME page ask me to put in an offer, and got it for $306. You can usually get like, ~$10 to $20 off of the used price of whatever is listed on CME if you wait for the page to ask you, which isn’t great most of the time, but in this case, I got the Cyclone for only slightly more than what I would’ve paid for just the loaded body.
Also, if you check Guitar Center in the morning, you can occasionally find Player Mustangs and Jaguars for like, $450. I’ve never wanted to bite the bullet on that because half the time they don’t even have a fucking picture or color or anything listed. MusicGoRound is also a decent place to check occasionally because sometimes a store won’t know what the fuck something is, and will just put it up as “Fender Mustang”, and it’ll be a Vintera model and they’ll only be asking like, $500 for it. Shipping fees from MusicGoRound, though, are about as bad as most sellers on Reverb, it seems like, since they usually have shipping listed at around $60. Also, new listings on MGR are only available for purchase in-store the first like, 30 or something days, so that’s also pretty shitty.
Anyway, I want to turn my Cyclone into an ersatz Competition Mustang since the color is appropriate. A Muttstang, as it were.
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Did you try going up a gauge or two on the strings? That might sort out the intonation and tuning stability cheaply
Yeah, but I’m also doing this because I don’t like the 24.75" scale as much as 24". I could probably just drill a hole into the neck where I need it to be, but I’d have to take it to Walnut Creek in order to have access to the tools for that.
Bad mock-up of what it would’ve looked like if the neck could be screwed into the body:
More mock-ups of the Beetleborg Red Cyclone with different colored headstocks
Bad mock-up of the Cyclone with a teal Vintera Jaguar neck, which is the only other 24" scale neck you can get with a colored headstock that isn’t going to cost $600+ (there’s like, an American Professional Jaguar neck with a black headstock on Stratosphere, but it’s $600 and I refuse to even entertain the thought of a $600 neck, at that point, you can just get Warmoth or China to make you a custom neck with a painted headstock, though, it’ll take like, 6 months):
And a maple Duo Sonic neck, because I think maple/maple looks way nicer especially with red guitars (would look even cooler with black block inlays instead of dots):
Mock-up with the Mystic Dakota Red 60th Anniversary Jaguar neck that I color-corrected a bit to match the Candy Apple Red of the Cyclone (they’re pretty close already)
And Mystic Lake Placid Blue, because I’m already here:
I forgot about CME’s Shell Pink Squier Jaguar, which comes with a matching headstock:
Black looks the best, but if the fretboard were maple then a matching headstock would also be up there.
Mock-up Cyclone with red headstock, maple fretboard, gold anodized pickguard, mostly gold hardware, and competition stripes.
never really been sold on the volca’s, but the fm2 might be the one.
i miss my tg33.
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noodled around at chuck levins for an hour today on a fender twin. thoughts:
- played an epiphone sheraton-ii pro that resonated like a bell but the pickups sounded tinny
- played a tele deluxe thinline, body felt good but the u-neck feels like an oar and the sound wasn’t to write home about
- played an eastman t186mx that felt real good, sounded decent but didn’t really seem to have the resonance i wanted
- still hate how gretsches sound
- played an entry level ibanez artcore thinline singlecut that sounded really weak
- actually i probably screwed up the tone of everything by having the volume at 2
anyways my next guitar will - definitely - be less than 25" scale length. that eastman was on sale for <$1000 actually so i may have to go back and try it again
that’s an insane deal, I have a t185mx that was my main guitar for years and paid quite a bit more. extremely nice guitar with a little bit of work, I swapped the pickups for filtertrons and it sounds great.
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aw man there’s an fm2? i’ve barely used my fm1
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Yeah the FM1 is really fun to mess with, and the new features of the 2 look like a good time.
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Fender Japan making a 24" scale Jazzmaster among other things.
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