further to this
lyle caldwell makes pretty much the best amp shit content on youtube, pay heed to this seasoned professional
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That looks a lot nicer than the actual Cobain Jag0Stang, but does it have enough botom to it? I’m afeared of it having SG level neck dive, otherwise looks great.
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nice i will subscribe
came to my senses anyway and realized i am not in a living situation to play at much above 75db anyway, and that too in a small room. if i bought a tube amp i’d have to play it from the next room over or something
so i guess gearlust shifts over to guitars for now
sidenote have i talked about the joyo american sound yet? best little fender-sound pedal for $40, i been using it straight into the DI, or sometimes as a preamp into my Roland KC100 (actually a keyboard amp) to give it a little more fendery-crunch to it. nice voice control on it
(ignore these pedal settings on the joyo, i have the EQ like 12-1-11, drive like 11)
any other pedals i want would be like, volume, filters, ehx superego, etc. not really into ‘traditional’ fx pedals like a reverb delay tremolo whatever, those seem for someone who… likes rock more than i do? idk. a leslie pedal would be cool.
i’ve been sort of a disbeliever in ‘tone’ but maybe that will change, i’m really thinking about that old school wes montgomery sound. clean, thick, hint of breakup. which is why i’m thinking fenders and semi/hollowbody
No clue, I just found out about it and it doesn’t look like anybody is selling it anywhere. That purple is wicked, though, it looks like a Ditto pretending to be a guitar.
I was looking into some of these, as well as Bassman clones. The Catalinbread 5F6 (Bassman clone) wound up being the one that sounded the best in demos, but like most Catalinbread stuff it’s all pushing the $150-ish range and I’ll probably wind up getting the Giygas first if I ever decide to bite the bullet on a Catalinbread. The Behringer TM300 (SansAmp GT2 clone) goes for real cheap and seems to be pretty well-received, so I might check one of those out.
The Hi-Flier arrived after I got off work. It was a lot lighter than I had anticipated. The glossy finish on the neck can make it kind of hard to slide around, but other than that, it’s cool. It also came in Drop D so I could finally do that part of the Silent Hill 3 intro I like so much.
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great video here, i’m sold on this guy
I guess there’s an FFXIV Stratocaster now.
For $3,500, I could get like, two Competition Mustangs. Guitars that actually look cool.
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why they didn’t just do a purple/blue flipflop pearl job over black for that idk
the actual looks like a printing error
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will say, of the jagstang, that the extended butt makes it balance better than my duo sonic (essentially mustang-shaped). no neck dive when standing and when seated it kind of wraps around my thigh
a used duo sonic HS is definitely the better value but i’m fond of the body shape
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photos don’t do the Final fantasy strat justice.It’s got big pieces cut out of it and filled with lucite that’s got chunks of quartz in it. Whole thing is hit with transparent blue so under spotlights it has a sort of geode look to it. I seen one imported from Japan a few months ago on the yourtub. Is till wouldn’t pay that kind of cash though. You could get a nice mod shop strat for that money.
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I think the Contemporary Active Starcaster should’ve been the base instead of a basic Stratocaster – the body and the headstock w/ color flourish I think just fits Final Fantasy as a whole more. Or, it should’ve been some weird Parallel Universe thing.
Have it come in Black, White, and Red Mage colors, with the White Mage one having a red flourish on the headstock. (ETA: and Chocobo Yellow).
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oh, yeah, @stylo have you tried a squier starcaster?
i have not no. not really keen on buying another squier tbh
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tried two craigslist guitars out today. looking for my first jazzy semi-hollow.
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gtr 1: 2017 d’angelico deluxe DC (discontinued, korea) thru a Crate Palomino. Duncan DA-59 pickups. $1000
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gtr 2 – 2008 epiphone sheraton II (korea, unsung factory) thru a Fender Silverface DRRI (see above). $625
#1 — I see a lot of current players playing D’Angelicos, I assume their marketing budget must be pretty good, they retail at $2000 despite being made in korea. The DC sounded bright and a little mid-scooped no matter what I did. I’m not sure if it’s the amp or the pickups, I think the latter. It sounded like it wanted to do blues and not jazz, even on a clean tone. Satinized neck which was nice.
#2 — I’ve had my eye on the Sheraton for a while, since Jens Larsen and Sandra Sherman have both lauded them for jazz. It sounded crisp and clean to my ears, I felt like I could play it for days. A lot of that I assume is the amp making it sound nice and full, but even the stock pickups don’t sound terrible, I usually hate bridge position but here it sounded tele-like without being shrill. The neck is not satin but it’s kind of a not-so-sticky gloss. And obviously it’s cheaper, altho resale value will of course be worse.
I listened to some comparisons between the DA-59 pickups and Seth Lovers (a more 1950s style PAF). I like the latter a lot more, it’s a lot mellower and jazzy. Whereas the Epiphone, it’s got mystery pickups (“Gibson USA”? Jens says swap them out). I feel like, if I’m going to swap pickups down the road anyway, why not just go for the cheaper guitar? The Epiphone stock pickups may even fit with my taste better than the '59s that come with the DC.
I dunno, I’m procrastinating on just pulling the trigger on the Sheraton. thoughts appreciated.
on a guitar with a fixed neck joint I’d get the nicer build every time because there’s only so much a luthier can do down the line. that looks like a nice deal on the d’angelico
that sheraton is selling right around its msrp adjusted for inflation and budget lines have improved a lot since the aughts with CNC. if you’re set on a sheraton I’d look at new ones on sweetwater where their techs can answer questions for you before sale - they’re only a bit more and known quantities
if you have an idea of what particular e.g. pickups you want I think you should wait until you either find a guitar that meets your spec, make a plan with a tech to buy and mod, or commission something to your spec. skip gradations of greener grass while you already have a guitar
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bolt-ons only
i even plan to make a 335 clone one of these days and it’ll still be bolt-on
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the d’angelico is a deal yeah, but only if I like it and for whatever reason I really dislike the pickup voicing, having crosschecked with some other videos online.
d’angelico was never really my goal tbh, i have been looking at an eastman t386 or t484 for quite a while ($1100-1400 range), and the sheraton has been recommended by a ton of sources as punching way above its price range, which is what I was finding as well. so my tentative plan is to keep inquiring about the sheraton but also make a plan to try out some eastmans in-store this weekend. If i like the T386 I will try to haggle the store down.
there’s a few sheratons on reverb around the price of the one i tried, so not a ton of pressure to buy right away.
obviously it’s added cost & complication to swap them, but if you plan on keeping the guitar for a good long while I wouldn’t treat pickups as a make or break thing.
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i’ve swapped pickups in guitars that cost me thousands so yes
neck dimensions, weight, tuning stability and action range are considerably more important at any price
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some guy on the Jazz Guitar forum looked into Korean production… it seems likely that the D’Angelico was made in a slightly worse-regarded factory than the Sheraton, go figure.
my $200 craigslist-find 2001 epiphone g-400 is made in indonesia (which has a supposedly worse factory than korea???) and cannot go out of tune unless i accidentally bang the headstock into things, which happens. decent pickups I think but I realize i should actually fully set it up one day soon.
Also that lil “dual cascading gain” squier amp I bought is sorta sick (the gain knobs actually behave like real smooth/mild od pedals not “practice amp gain channels”) and like I predicted way way way better than my 200Xfrontman cause they don’t make em like they used to of course… but u know I ran them in stereo anyway for a garbage rig
Also inspired by @stylo I played the first 1-3-7 chords of my life on my lil vht amp. All tube, simple, and if repairability is important to you (I just skimmed that video) well, it’s handwired/pcbless and for $300 on cl (but I saw like $600 something on reverb of course). Someone’s doing jazz on it on yt also, you should check it out. Gotta get a reverb pedal tho if you want it to be fully fendery.
Edit: Nvm this guys’s version (non ultra) with less overdrive/preamp tubes is $300 shipped, $625 was new ultra price.
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