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I'll post it on the web somewhere when I get a chance. No offense taken, I knew you were joking. No one would risk the ire of an angry dad on purpose. We all love our kids... dads that is.

those cream T double teles sound interesting...

I have gobs of DIs man. They're packed in boxes right now due to space issues. I could find one. But I can't demo PAFs thru an amp sim though.... but you are making the Kember sound good!!!!

My mixer is HUGE.... currently in storage.... the power supply takes up 4 rack spaces! I was just trying to do something fast and dirty. But it got TOOO DIRTY!

What I lack is a basic 1 or 2 channel USB or firewire interface like a focusrite scarlet.... all my stuff is PCI based and fancy...

I frickin' hate prosumer gear. Its such a pain not to overload my phone or even a usb mic into a laptop even with 4 or 5 cruddy watts. Shit is metering fine and sounds pretty great until I dig in. Its only an AC4 for fuck's sake. I didn't try to unleash one of the ac30s on this stupid podcast piece of crap. I am going to go drink a beer and swear a bunch about modern technology. This is why I do guitar stuff in studios now that I no longer have a big space to do my whole setup in. To record serious guitar rigs ya just need serious shit at your disposal and a nice big space to get loud in. Or I do anyway. My ears aren't even ringing, its just not that loud to be pushing a microphone diaphagm to its limits.

Anyway, I may have to ditch convenience in favor of a more serious recording method that will involve pulling shit out of storage. Demo videos of all my buckers are coming, honest.

I am jack's raging bile duct right now, so no good demoing will get done even if I can stop overloading this weak-ass budget condenser. I am super annoyed that I have to dig out some real microphones, pres and a compressor just to make a little video for each of my favorite humbuckers... I guess I could use the master volume on my ac4, but its so lame and it just saps away a lot of the mojo. PAF-stye humbuckers should be demoed blazing away through an amp that's wide open.

getting set-up to demo all my buckers thru my ac4.... get ready for embedded videos! might take all day though... I have a lot of guitars

The first instrument that was given specifically to me and not rented through school was the http://equipboard.com/items/casio-sk-1 that my folks got me for x-mas in 2nd or 3rd grade. I learned basic chord theory dickering with this little toy while I was studying viola and violin in school. I loved it dearly until someone gave me a bigger Yamaha kids keyboard.

My 1st gear purchase that I selected myself was a used MIJ Squier strat, black with a white pickguard and rosewood fingerboard. I purchased it from the little brother of the best sax player in Jr High jazzband around 1992 with some of my own paltry funds and some money my dad gave me on the grounds that I join the jazzband (since I had just quit orchestra). Dad also bought me a chord encyclopedia at the time, explained the modes to me (he had taught me a major and minor scale by then, so it was a short step to getting all those scale variations) and told me I could figure it out or quit, but that any time I wanted to take lessons he would split the cost with me if I could find a reputable teacher with a classical or jazz guitar background (good luck with that in the 'burbs, I coulda found a guy in Philly proper, but if I was going to Philly it was about punk rock -which we called grunge then- and getting into trouble, not jazz lessons).

Well, I really bonded with that great beginner strat and kept it until the early 2000s (even though I got plenty of other guitars, I still played her). It was the best student guitar I've ever played. Those Japanese squiers were just fabulous. After I got mine a bunch of other kids saw me playing it at school events and got their parents to buy them squire strats, but theirs were new Korean models and really sucked. Most of them got discouraged and quit. I would like to pretend my musical family, diligence and talent is what kept me at it, but I suspect the fact that my 1st guitar was built to a very high standard o quality had a lot to do with it too.

Anyway, I kept that strat until 'one foggy christmas eve' I heard that a good friend's 12 year-old son, Clifton, was learning guitar and needed an electric that wasn't a struggle. His mom was perpetually short of cash like we all are and around that time I had bought 2 more strats... so I slapped a bow on her and gave my squier to Cliff for x-mas and he's still playing it down in Memphis as far as I know. I sort of wish I had kept it for my little boy, Lucian, but I was over a decade from fatherhood then. Who knew? Anyway, I have plenty of great electrics, when he's ready he can pick one or I will trade one of mine for anything his heart desires :-) No entry-level guitars for Lu!

Anyway, that's my story.

I'm a dad, so I got distracted being a dad and forgot to tell you I generated it really fast in sytrus earlier in the week. Harmor is too much synth for it. Even sytrus had a lot more features than I needed to make it.

In readily available, current production buckers I am digging the Duncan 59 custom hybrid as a bridge pickup. A5 magnet, with a '59 coil and a Custom coil. This video does it no justice. Maybe I'll make my own demo video that doesn't sound all 80s hair metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9IVy43dqY

There are so many variables that give a humbucker its voice. Post your favorites, their construction, manufacturer, what type of guitar you use them in and if you wanna make a demo video on youtube please embed it. I'll start if no one posts by tomorrow.

http://images.equipboard.com/uploads/gear_photo/image/2588/xl_20150707_103808.jpg

the 2 bursty doublecuts are MIJ and the red 335 is also MIJ, all OLD

yes to this!

nah, its on my want list... I am in a guitar acquisition phase right now... a high-tech modeling device is off the table until next year...

great idea.... gchiaren?????

This is entirely accurate. Also, Boss kindly print TU-2 on the TU-2 and TU-3 on the TU-3, but in small board photos of famous dude's gear the size and number of the LEDs is a good reference. I am surprised anyone who likes pedal tuners still uses the Boss TU series. THey have a mediocre buffer and the LED display is really mediocre compared to more modern offerings like Korg's true bypass Pitch Black series, the mighty Peterson StroboStomp and the outstanding TC Polytune.

this awesome article just popped up in my phone this morning!

https://reverb.com/blog/8-under-the-radar-synths

number 1 pick is my beloved ESQ1, so Reverb.com is pretty on point.

uber pro is a bunch of bunk! stock photos, no years specified for guitars and amps... AND NO USER REVIEWS!

Don't get me started on GearSlutz! I like that this site is way more pinterest-like. The limited forum prevents flame wars and such and its so easy to find a piece of gear you are thinking of purchasing and see what everyone's saying about it. This could turn into the coolest music equipment site on the web. It is close already, that's why I keep coming back and keep reviewing every guitar, synth, amp etc that I have ever used.

these oddball, single pickup Epi branded hollow bodies are still relatively affordable for a vintage Kalamazoo MI guitar... a vintage Gibson by any other name is, well, a Gibson

That said, if you don't like slim-taper necks and smaller-than-modern nut width, then you may not dig the mid 60s Epiphone models

I totally second all of that!

see, I would rather just be able to do the forum and review gear on the mobile site... I really don't like being limitited to a bunch of famous dude's equipboards... that's not why I sign in every day or so. Just overall more interactivity and less emphasis on big name musicians would be cool. I am not a hero-worshipper and there are a bunch of guys like me lurking around this site reviewing gear out the whazoo. Let us be heard even when we're on the subway!

Cheers!

DRUMMER DRUMMER DRUMMER.... rock!

Works just fine on my shitty droid-based phone. But the mobile site is crap, I have to load the real site.

man, I've driven allover to pick up cool stuff when folks won't ship heavy stuff

sounds like a shame about texas... philly's gear market is so-so... I really enjoyed the music shops and pawn stores in southern Maryland when I used to work in DC, especially Atomic Music in Beltsville MD

look them up, they have a thriving interweb biz and are friendly, knowledgeable and keen to trade

well thanks... thumbs up, dude... keep writing and creating

Logic will work fine for your purposes.... Cubase or nuendo are good too

if you want everything to feel and look a bit old skool, I like fruity loops these days.... great VSTi host, great midi sequencer, solid stereo recorder for pumping your outboard gear back into the box... others will be anti-FL, I used to just use it for beats and use Logic for midi in its pre-apple days and then went to Cubase sx for many years...but FL does it all now and I love the beat-box GUI

sweet, is it a JV?

cool collection! Those takamine electrics are rare...

Got a Japanese guitar from pre 1990? Post about it here.

Right now I have a mid 70s Yamaha SA1000 in heritage cherry, a '77 Greco MR1000 in classic LP sunburst cosmetics (awesome doublecut that rivals most gibsons since the mid 60s) and an '83 Washburn Falcon on the way tomorrow that's like a Hamer sunburst but a bit cheaper.

I recommend getting some cheap rackmount 80s synths to integrate with your mac book and maybe a powerful lofi old sampler like the previously mentioned Akai or maybe an ensoniq ASR10 (this can also take over as your primary keyboard controller)... these kind of gadgets are antiquated but powerful and have a sound that you would be hard pressed to simulate in your mac... from there you can really integrate hardware and software (as I prefer to)... it can't hurt to get a phat man midi knob box and a good 1 or 2 channel interface with great sounding DI or if you never plan to use multiple microphones you could just get a BLUE or AudioTechnica USB mic and a Radial stereo USB DI box to integrate your hardware.

Some affordable synths are: Novation Bass Station rack 1 or 2 (analog subtractive) Roland MKS-50 (analog subtractive/PWM) Yamaha TX81Z (FM) Oberheim Matrix 1000 (analog, matrix) Red Sound Darkstar (analog, unique voice, cheap!)

My early 80s 50 watt 800 was a great amp for hard rock. What a great design!

I've played a dumble in Manhattan, it was not my thing.

No kiddin', I'll take a look for you when I have some free time. I've never looked at the presets on a single piece of hardware or software I own other than to laugh at the names.

dude, I want a kemper so badly... I wish this thing had existed when I had a dozen vintage amps to profile :-( but will it live up to the hype and allow me to abandon my actual voxes? The user base seems to be way more from the high-gain world...

As it stands I got rid of 2 amps in January and now just have the 3 voxes and the muchle$$... if the Kemper didn't cost an arm and a leg I coulda modeled each amp as I sold it....

oh! IL's sytrus will do it no problem, it has all the tools you need... love that one

I actually managed to dial up a pretty good version of this sound referencing the song on youtube a few minutes ago, but I got carried away with volume and woke my 1 year-old son up from his nap and had to quit refining it and shut down. It was time for him to wake up anyway.

if you want to go all subtractive with it here's a good free oberheim VSTi plugin:

http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/tech/obxd-free-vst-plugin-synth-inspired-by-oberheim-ob-x-594880

if you want to get the hardness in the upper mids thru FM synthesis here's the best free FM vst synth:

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=2026

http://www.themusicproducerblog.com/2014/12/yamaha-dx7-dexed-plugin-3000-soundbanks.html

and TAL has great freeware at the bottom of their product list... the SH-101 or Juno clone might work for you, and like a real 106, their Juno plugin has a classic roland chorus built in and I hear some chorus on the sound you are seeking... their Elektro synth could actually be used to make the sound you're imagining only fuller and better... here's the link:

http://tal-software.com/Products

Sure, no problem.

http://synthesizeracademy.com/

try 2 detuned saws with a square sub oscillator

an oberheim is a vintage brand of synthesizer

great advice... I forget to bring up multiple isntruments to adult musicians because I have always played quite a few proficiently and I forget that's not the case for many people

and thanks for sharing your music! best of luck, keep up the good work