‘TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is NO FRIEND OF MINE’ is a line from that sketch I think about a lot
I’ve been thinking of getting a tape player but I only ever had patience for the ones that fast forward to the end of a track so I can skip shit without guessing
when i’m not using the drum machine on my looper i try to lay down a sparse/slow rhythm track accurately with a metronome so i can pretend i’m following someone without a clear four-on-floor
i use the drum machine most of the time though
i wish i was using gear other than the m8 so i could contribute to the thread i started 
i found a local builder of eq pedals so i don’t have to pay empress money, hooray
well it turns out my velcro is so powerful i bent the backplate of the wah pulling it off the board, and now it’s got a loud middle C-pitched hum every time I turn it on. what do…
yeah, i feel like i pretty much have a completed setup at this point. i look at other gear, but the er-301 and a couple of modulation sources is basically all i ever wanted.
maybe one day i’ll pick up some sort of polysynth so i can play an actual keyboard, but i doubt it would actually get used that much in my workflow.
Learn to solo over E-Major and C-Major. It’s a good time
found this new “classic vibe 60s” jag marked down 25% at CME for seemingly no reason? really impressed and love doing warbly shoegaze strumming, playing behind the bridge, etc. can’t get a mustang vibrato to make these noises but they’re effortless with this style of hardware
That’s perfect!
I had one of these but sold it a few months back for rent. I loved the color – it looks even better in-person. I miss it, especially now that like, 90% of my guitars are candy apple red (including the VM Jaguar I got to fill the Jaguar gap that I had after selling the shell pink Jaguar).
I’ve been playing the Fujigen JMG6 a lot. It’s super light and literally never goes out of tune. Ugly headstock and I’m sick to death of looking at candy apple red, but it’s probably my favorite guitar to play.
Don’t remember if I posted about this already but I got this sonic blue Modern Player 90 Mustang (which unlike the uh, modern Player 90 Mustang, has the classic slide switch configuration and a rosewood fretboard) with the intention of sending it in to be re-finished in competition blue but after seeing it in person, you can sort of the see the grain through the finish so it’s kind of a transparent sonic blue which is kind of cool so I might not bother, at least, not for the time being.
i think that jag was the floor model because it didn’t come with a hex key for the truss rod but it’s not 3/16” either?
got it 90% set up with 11s and a 1 degree shim. took the gloss off the neck with scotch pads. the only rough edges were literal rough edges in the routing and pickguard but they were easy to clean up with flush cutters and a deburring tool
the vibrato/bridge arrangement is by far easier to work with and more stable than the cigar wrap mustang bridge. i’m hard-tailing my jagstang now for sure
the kevin shields vibrato technique is wild, like i can’t believe it’s not a chorus pedal
I’m the last person to care about staying in tune but how well does it stay in tune?
I’ve wanted a jazzmaster or a jag for years and years and years for exactly all the reasons you mentioned.
much better than the mustang vibrato!
if i’m just doing the gentle wiggle for shoegaze sounds it doesn’t go out of tune, but i can knock the wound strings off by a few cents by pressing the vibrato all the way down to the guard. it doesn’t really do dive bomb compatible sounds, though, so i can’t see myself doing that often
caveat: i did disassemble the whole thing as is my customary compulsion. lubricated the vibrato with dielectric grease at the pivot point and krytox machine oil rubbed on the spring. 11s and raising the bridge after shimming the neck also help the rocking bridge keep tension and get back into place. per puisheen’s setup advice on the 70s version i put blue threadlocker on the bridge post screws as well
another note: this has a mustang bridge, not the threaded barrel original jag/jazzmaster bridge, and the mustang bridge is generally considered the easier of the stock fender options. the squier j mascis jazzmaster comes with a tune-o-matic copy that’s the wrong radius and often a suggested replacement
it’s still moving parts and therefore more work than a hard tail strat or tele bridge (love my duo sonic for this) but it’s the second best fender hardware type and less trouble than the mustang bridge. a year into jagstang ownership i still hate restringing it because of the wrap back and under bridge to get a strong break angle — some folks flip them around when they hard tail them with washers in lieu of the stock springs.
If it still turns on you probably didn’t damage the effect circuit. The bent plate might be touching something on one of the jacks or something.
If you can hear the wah effect on the noise signal then it is on the input and if you can’t it’ll be on the output. You could also remove the base plate to see if the issue goes away.
I was browsing Ishibashi and discovered the Takashi Kato Stratocaster which comes in a really nice color called Paradise Blue (described as (paraphrased), “reproducing the color of Lake Placid Blue after it’s darkened with age but with a stronger metallic finish”). Fender Japan has also had a color called “Old Lake Placid Blue” that they’ve used on Mustangs that’s similar to this, but I presume it doesn’t have the “stronger metallic finish” and this looks a bit greener. I want this finish with competition stripes and matching headstock on a Mustang.
There’s this guy on eBay selling these really cool-looking black-out and black+gold partscasters that I’ve been eyeing for months. I’ll probably never bite the bullet but they’re cool. Black and gold always reminded me of when the red ranger from OG Power Rangers showed up on like, Zeo or one of those awful post-Mighty Morphin’ seasons as the Gold Ranger and he was decked out in black and gold which was pretty sleek. A white and gold would be wicked, too.
Just got an e-mail for the Blue Marlin H.E.R. which looks pretty cool. I really liked the Chrome Glow finish on the older H.E.R. Stratocaster, as well.
Cool Competition Pink Mustang:
Really want a Mustang in Flamingo Pink (or Arctic White):
Apparently, they were selling Competition Orange Mustangs in Japan back in 2021. Hoping I can find one one of these days.
Also saw this on Ishibashi or something, real nice-looking:
CME has this exclusive colorway for Jazzmasters that’s the 3 tone sunburst with black headstock that looks really cool. The 2/3 tone sunburst finish has really grown on me, especially on Jaguar/Jazzmaster and Stratocaster shaped bodies.
A Jazzmaster would probably be way too heavy for my tastes, but it looks rad as hell.
[…]outfitted with dual Pure Vintage ‘65 Jazzmaster pickups, series/parallel four-way switching, color-coordinated headcaps, and a pre-routed cavity for the rhythm circuit.
Probably wouldn’t be too hard to put together a Jaguar version of this, though.
I got a Beatstep Pro for my birthday the other week. I had previously been using a Korg SQ-1 to sequence my Neutron and my Volca Modular. The SQ-1 is aggressively simple but super limited so I’ve got a bunch of learning to do with the Beatstep (and I’ve got to deal with stuff like notes now, yuck). I am excited to finally have a couple banks of patterns I can switch between because previously I had to get creative with turning on and off steps or just playing it live with the step retrigger to make it feel like I was working with more than I had.
My big break through today was realizing the Beatstep’s drum section plays nicely out of the box with an ancient Yamaha QY8 I impulsively bought off a friend years ago then barely touched. It beats trying to remap all the MIDI channels on each pad to get it to talk to a Volca Sample which was my fallback option.
i also got a beatstep pro this month.
a very nice step up from sequencing purely via creative use of clock sources and lfos.
Got a good deal on a Pawn Shop Mustang Special. It’s an MIM, not an MIJ, but all of the MIJ Pawn Shop Mustangs I’ve seen require you to remove the neck from the body to adjust the truss rod.
The body shape is slightly different than the standard Mustang – it’s a bit shorter? – but I can’t find any reasoning for it other than the Mustang body looks long without the big chrome vibrato plate.
ooh. i’d like to try something with a pair of “wide range” pickups and that’s basically my perfect mustang — vastly prefer the hard tail. is the redundant switching doing something different like coil taps?
had been looking at tele deluxes, toronados, starcasters, and making a heretical lee ronaldo jazzblaster using one of the 22.75” mini jazzmasters and a pair of the cunife reissues
my duo sonic does look a little long with a hard tail string-through strat bridge and standard mustang shape tbh
