Dannyalcatraz
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Time to put some METAL to your pedalboard!
A side note: too often, demos feature players using gear that is not going to be in the budget of the average audience member. But while this guy’s rig isn’t exactly white bread & butter, the pickups in that guitar are a SD 59 and a Jazz- relatively common stock pickups in guitars aimed at hard rock & metal guitarists.
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LL’s albums just seem…timeless. When I listen to them, they don’t seem to have lost anything. I still feel about “Kiko & the Lavender Moon” the way I felt about it when it came out.
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Thoughts:
1) Good to see you active again!
2) Thanks for posting that video!
3) I don’t know if I’ve ever heard Vai talk.
4) Having a guitar legend call someone else’s music & technique “constant and intense” is high, high praise.
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FWIW, pickup price is not directly correlated to performance. I have some relatively inexpensive pickups in some fairly pricey guitars, and have no interest in changing them in the near future.
That said, I have also paid for upgraded pickups in certain situations, and have no regrets whatsoever.
The trick, IMHO, is not doing a lateral swap. IOW, you don’t want to spend money to get roughly the same results you were getting before the change.
CEB asks good questions. I’ll ask what- if anything- is actually disappointing you about your current sound? Depending on what the issue is, it might not actually be the pickups.
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Sumos in Sunflowers
Ruined Cougar
Seppuku Speedrun
Atomic Johnny & The Xenophobes
Sleaze The Day
The Unrelenting Horny
Tommi Gunn & the 45s
GUNS GUNS SUSHI
60,000 Nude Hoosiers
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I was ever so slightly too young to watch that show in the original run, but TBH, I never watched the reruns either. 🤷🏾♂️
It was a good theme song, though.
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I liked some of that. My favorite was this one. To my ears, it sounds like something Josh Homme would do with Alarmist…perhaps Alarmist would do with some guest guitar by Homme.
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Thank you for the update. My prayers (whatever they’re worth) are with y’all.
May he have a great surgical team and an uneventful & rapid recovery.
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Thanks for the news, unfortunate though it is.
Get better, @Caevan O’Shite!
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53 minutes ago, CEB said:
Everyone must get one. B’s Music has a YouTube demo vid but the guy talks too much.
We’ll, NOW we as a community need to start a GoFundMe to get one* to send to Winston, because he already has a Korg Miku stomp.
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE MIND BOGGLING!(Also, that’s a…funky keyboard.)
* and maybe a signal splitter
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I’ll add a caveat: fuzz CAN be used for softer tones than the Fall of Western Civilization. A good fuzz with well-designed controls- when used in skilled moderation- can be tamed from grizzly bear to teddy bear.
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I finally pulled the trigger on a Catalinbread Soft Focus tonight. First gear purchase in quite some time- definitely since 2023 at least.
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I always find it amazing to look back at 80s synth & new wave music and see how many bands actually had guitarists as part of the standard lineup or as frequent studio musicians.
As for the Oxblood, I can’t say for sure. And one of the hazards of posting one of Andy’s demos is that he WILL make it sound good if not great. 😁
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Pretty much all of the ones foremost in my mind that could suit your purposes have already been mentioned. I’ll add these two, though:
The Peacekeeper is probably the most flexible low/medium gain OD I own, but it IS an UK import. So it may not be readily available where you are. But if you see one, try it out.-
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It sounds like you’re looking for enough OD/Distortion to do Motley Crue or Iron Maiden without necessarily getting into Meshuggah. Off the top of my head, if I were reaching into my Tub o’ Pedals to get those kinds of results, I’d probably opt for a:
ThorpyFX Gunshot
Empress Heavy
Emma PisdiYOUwat
VisualSound Jekyll & Hyde V2/TrueTone Jekyll & Hyde V3
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20 or so years ago, I saw a Hungarian movie called Kontroll. It centers on the daily grind of a group of ticket takers on the Hungarian commuter rails…and a possible serial killer. It had a really good soundtrack (that I’ve never been able to get) primarily done by electronica group Neo. I tried finding the music on YouTube, but all I could find were movie trailers and some behind the scenes stuff. I gave up looking.
Yesterday, on a whim ex nihilo, I decided to go looking again. Not only did I find the stuff I’d seen before, but also movie clips of my favorite scenes, the whole movie (surprise, surprise), and some of Neo’s videos from the soundtrack and live performances. Here’s Neo’s performance of “Kontroll” with the full vocals as opposed to the more instrumental movie version.
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Happy Birthday, Nemo, you sly old dog!
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Gang of Drones
Shamtana
Sturm und Drang
Underwater Magnets
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If I understand this correctly, this kid if does what Steve Stevens’ ray gun toys did back in the day. Which sounds cool to me!
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1 hour ago, hurricane hugo said:
ok, a sampler pedal...but it's Chase Bliss, so not quite the sampler pedal you'd be expecting:
Damn it!
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On 5/12/2024 at 4:54 PM, CEB said:My boards for quite a while have had 3 constants, even with how I change stuff based on gigs.
1) A Peterson tuner, 2) A Ross circuit Compressor with a clean blend, 3) TS type OD with clean blend. My favorite for a while has been the Reverend Drivetrain.
Basically Joe Naylor at Reverend want a TS with the ability to tame the mid hump so Bob Weil designed a TS with real EQ. Bob Weil is founder of TrueTone/ Visual Sound. Bob swapped out his standard 808 circuit with the DriveTrain plus clean blend on Version 3 of his Route 66 (a clean blend compressor plus a OD). On my monster modern Country board I have the Wampler Ego plus Sparkle Drive. I miss nothing by just using the Route 66 instead.
I like playing Rock gigs. I need a lot fewer pedals for Rock stuff.
I spewing nonsense again. Sorry.
I’ve never had the opportunity to play any of Reverend’s pedals or amps, just their guitars…
I also have a long history with the other side of that equation. Some of my first pedals were Visual Sound V2 era stompboxes, including a Jekyll & Hyde, which included their version of the TS circuit. I always wanted a Double Trouble (2xTS), but they became TrueTone before I could pull the trigger. Their VS-XO is the Double Trouble’s descendant, subbing a Nobels OD for one of the TS circuits. (Yes, it’s on my GAS list! 😁 )
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FWIW, one of the common pedal pairings with a TS pedal is some version of the venerable Boss Blues Driver 2. The original is one of those that Boss absolutely got right.* Typically, the BD-2 is used as an always on OD that shapes the core tone, with the TS set as the lead/solo OD of choice.
Of course, that’s ONE option out of a myriad. The key is having fun with it!
* That hasn’t stopped others from emulating it with their own design tweaks. For instance, I own a Keeley Katana Blues.
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My 2nd take on this was good, but not AS good. Learned a few lessons.
1) I cut my mushrooms 3 ways this time: thin slices, chunks (from large caps), and ground up in a food processor. While the ground ‘shrooms DID diffuse their flavor a bit better, their texture wasn’t the best. And the chunky bits were a tad chewy. Next time, sliced only.
2) I added a bunch of poblano and Anaheim pepper that I minced in the food processor. They were a nice addition, but I used too little for it to be more than a subtle note. Next time, a bit more…
3) I still haven’t found the sweet spot on the amount of dairy to use- it’s still a tad light. Experiments will continue.
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I’m going to be slightly contrarian here: you could probably replace this Legend Strat for less than it will cost you in time and parts.
BUT…
You’re going to acquire or sharpen skills in guitar repair & maintenance that will serve you the entire time you’re involved with guitars.*
So I’m going to toast your willingness to take on this project! 🍻
* skills, I should point out, not everyone has, myself included.
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It’s the paradox of complexity.
In a lot of different things in life, simple controls, processes, etc. can be devilishly difficult to get the results you want. There may only be one way to get something to do what you want.
More complex systems can (but don’t have to) offer more control, often resulting in several paths to the same destination.
Taking it back to guitar gear, I have a Reverend guitar that has a continuous blend knob instead of a pickup selector switch. Very simple. But if I spin the knob to get a different sound, it’s very difficult if not impossible to go back to the same sound I just had. I can get close, but I might never nail it.