Gear Purchases

I live next to the USA Ibanez checking/distrbution facility... do not buy their acoustics

I live next to the USA Ibanez checking/distrbution facility... do not buy their acoustics

Context?

Context and... does that hold true for the Ibanez Artcore AM73? ~m

http://www.ibanez.com/products/images/hb2016/AM73_BK_12_02.png

Good taste, Raucus. I'd love to get a semi-hollow one day. Probably for some fun jazz stuff.

Thanks Narcist. I was interested in the Epiphone Wildkat for a while, but having played a few and looking around, I found the build quality was pretty shaggy. The AM73 has a bit higher price point, but is still approachable. Of course, the ultimate for me is built from Unobtanium. At least for the near term... I've been dreaming of a Gretsch Chet Atkins for 20+ years now. Some day! ~m

Unobtanium

Here's a close alternative :D

its just the flattop acoustics I would stay away from.... they crank them out really quickly and the bridges often peel up during shipping because of the humidity at sea and Hoshino just has the checkers glue the bridges back down with epoxy and send them out to stores anyway

EDIT: living close to the Ibanez QC facility (literally up the street in my suburb of philly) I personally know a lot of the employees so I can speak with authority about the shenanigans that go on there

you can get a used Chet model for well under 2 grand if you shop around, much cheaper than even a run of the mill 335 these days.... the current production ones are pretty good guitars and very consistent so its safe to buy offa flEaBay

there are some Guild models that do a good Gretsch impression and they're really great guitars that fly under the radar.... even vintage Guild hollow bodies are affordable... pretty much any pre-fender guild is a great guitar though there's a lot of changes to the models over the years between the 50s and the early 2000s... the 90s and 2000s westerly RI guitars are great, probably even better than the earlier Newark NJ ones

jimmarchi1, you're knowledge never ceases to amaze. it's like a super power or something! shopping I can do. it's the searching/dreaming that's half the fun. thanks for the perspective. ~m

I have a nearly photographic memory... often more of a curse than an asset. But it serves me well as a musician....

I also REALLY love to play music and a great day off from work/parenting for me entails driving around to every music store I can find playing gobs of guitars, synths, pianos in the stores and occasionally buying myself a present at the end of the day

I could literally purge all my possessions apart from my bed, cooking equipment and music equipment.... and my tools like the soldering iron, meter, etc

there was a time when I lived in a HUGE apartment full of instruments with a restaurant grade kitchen setup and virtually no furniture but a futon and dinette... I just don't care about anything else! If I hadn't been married I don't think I would own a stick of normal furniture

https://reverb.com/item/3436857-line-6-echo-park

You know, I've always held in the back of my mind the idea of perusing Reverb's broken pedals and finding a gem I can repair. I'm kind of curious if I should.

most name brand and boutique pedals are an easy fix, DO IT

though the echo park could be trickier being a digital device.... there's enough going on around the chip that's way outside of basic electronics that I would hesitate to try that one unless I was sure it was in the analog sections

Wait, look what I found

https://reverb.com/item/3436857-line-6-echo-park

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Line-6-Echo-Park-Echo-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-/262735753024?hash=item3d2c456f40:g:v1kAAOSw4GVYLJeP

"Broken Line 6 echo park. It won't turn on. I'm not sure if the issue is on the base plate or the module."

OOOH, here's a cool thing to check out! Same seller. Reverb item has two offers, but the eBay listing isn't seen yet. I'll bid on it tomorrow.

sounds like a power supply issue.... probably in the base section

Got myself a Pro Co Deucetone Rat. Holy shit...

I'm actually surprised I found a dirt pedal I like. Clean Rat really gives the cleans some muscle without distorting, punches the Dirty Rat hard, and I gaven't done much pairing with the BB Preamp. I'm so booked for the next week on so i won't have too many chances to try it out.

Still, thing may be built like a tank, but it's also pretty massive. Like, three Boss pedals next ro eachother. That and a low hiss emenates from the pedal. Also, what's with the power output? Why a headphobe jack thing? Can I just replace it with the standard Boss power output?

the rat is so much fun, 2 in 1 box? twice as fun

As its species and genus decrees, the black rat (rattus rattus) is named twice for twice as much fun. So yes, even the Latins (the folk of Latium) knew this...

well, there's also volpus volpus....

well, there's also volpus volpus....

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/12965010_1570202033291024_1853247512_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTIyMjc0NzYxOTk2OTU1MTEyOA%3D%3D.2

Not as fearsome as rattus rattus

but he sometimes wears a bandit mask

https://dougernst.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/mr-fox.jpg