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NO!!!! just get good duncan firebird antiquities, the firvird is a unique bucker, its like 2 tiny dano lipstck coils epoxied into a minibucker case.... wire wound right onto bar magnets and taped up, so amazing and different!

wiltertrons are great but they are sotly different from other bucker due to the low wind... guild HB1s are close because of the smaller siameter and tallness of coils along ith low windings and a super udnerwound PAF is not far off.... the firebird id unique and magic in hum buckers

I've ahd a couple surf greens trats ove the years... looks cooler ins tore. greens suck ons tage due to lighting concerns.... metallic color look even ebtter better under colored lights than in your bedroom on the stand!

the ebst green under lghts in gretsch cadillac green which ahs no fender or gibson equivalent.... ahd a caddy green 58 duo jet reissue for eyars, sweet but noisey

I have the inca silver robert cray strat now, my 2 gibsons in solid silver are technically 'pewter' and its like a slightly less shiny verion of inca silver, all 3 guitars match very well in color

I have a gold firebird as well, awesome even though its an epi with a shitty finish material.... ullion gold I think? ery much shoreline gold to my eye.... guitar is just okay, might sell it, but tis ahrd to find a firebird 1 with the wrap tail

OH! try a firebird one with the wrap tail and single bridge firebird bucker! theya re unique, nasty and awesome.... gibson's esquire to my ear

yea my concern was neck diving when i let go, the sg when i was a little kid was my dream guitar

my standard doe snot enck dive but tis a special SG I spent eyars finding.... my silver SG special dives a bit but its silver and silver guitrs are cool as fuck

OH! also look at the american II by gibson, basically a LP secial DC hybrided with a melody maker 2 DC of the late 60s but with a strat vibrato bridge.... mie kills with a babicz bridge upgrade and a pickup mod. Stock pickups are hot ceramic melody maker pickps so they are like 1 coil of a humbucker with the bar centered under the polepieces, kinda weak and with ceramic weak and ahrsh. I got rif of my neck pickup and replace the bridge with a full size duncan bucker wired to the 3 way as a ront-buking-back setup... I put a les paul JR pickguard on to cover the hole where th neck pickup was... kidna a hybrid shredding/classic rock axe now... like if Leslie west played in Extreme

also my faux joan jett guitar sometimes... when my other guitars are too classy I play her

oh, SGs are a bit lighter, many tend to have ehadstock lean.... and they of course have more fret access but a slightly different position for the neck pickup that has a different hamonic

minibuckers sound good, properly made ones sound close to a t-top or alte PAF, low output, P90ish at time but have a very tight bass response compared to a classic gibson bucker or P90... the route for most LPs and SGs with minis is a P90 route but the screw holes are different, easy mod to go P90

the vintage SG special and recent SG classic are barely distinguishable from single or double cut specials in practice.... old ones have the wraparound bridge which ahs a sound and used stock won't always intonate unless you have a really fine example.... doern ones like the classic and junior/special have Nashville-TOM/stop-bars and sound a smidge different if you listen super hard A/Bng wraps and nashville bridges...

great guitars.... good format... if you want a weird hybrid look at the les paul studio DC f the alte 90s.... basically a capped les paul special DC with teh wrap abr but humbuckers... my hamer is inthat camp as is my old washburn but they have tele-ish hardatil bridges. Old hamers and washburns kill it at that thing if you want loud bucker and the shape and sonic qualities, they have a special shape with a flat maple top on the mahogany that addds a little spank back so you don't miss those noisey P90s.

oh, did I mention that rel P90s are a nosie prblem ons tage? P90s and Dearmonds are the worst for hum in this smart-phone laden modern world.

the SG1 is another option for SG specialish tones on teh cheap. basically like a bucker eqipped SG jr you can swap the stock crap bucker for a fralin p94 split coil hunbucker sized P90 and do pete townshend impressions all night

that amp a shoegazers dream it has such a crisp clean

first time I saw servedriver they had an all hiwatt backline... old dr103s or 504s, not sure which.... LOUD and clean when they were clean. Sounded best at the back of the Troc though

the following tour they ahd 90s ac30 reissues coupled with marshall 2204s through stock modern marhsall slant cabs

what hiwatt did you have?! I've enver owned one and I want one desperately!

thing with voxes is that they work best with minimal effects.... though the edge makes his work with the kitchen sink, most of us find we can't overdo it without compromising some of the sound.... the abriters are still adeal in vintage ac30s and ine is a beast. Loud, punchy and a bit amrshally. used it on some recordings you heard and you didn't say the riffs sounded bad ;-)

100% Best of all I've managed to have about 85% of what I've bought of the years has gone up in value.

I think all my stuff has appreciated pretty substantially, least in amps and effects.... to the point where I regularly used to liquidate my pedals for profit and get cheap shit to the point where I have 1 vintage effect left LOL! the vintage british amps you will ahve to pry from my cold dead hands though i said that about my superleads back in the day as well as all my early blackface fenders and tweed era gibsons, the supro? and they all went. But me and the '62 ac30 have nbeen together forever and I might just wanna be burried with it. Oddly, i play the fawn handwired reissue, 70s arbiter and 90s reissue a lot more altely though.... and of course th amtchless is like my favorite amp on teh planet, I never unplug that shit and put it away! With a minimal control set it is just so versatile with the master, half power, 2 totally different channels and the ability to change the rectifiers from a big GZ34 that's tight to dual 5V4s for medium comrpession before distortion all the way down to a pair of 5Y3s or a single on for some pretty heavy squish on clean tone and infinite sustain in poweramp overdrive. I was playing it yesterday with the 335 I just got and I felt like larry carlton or some shit.

Yep. Maybe because I'm a mostly a Fender amp guy (and a Jazz Chorus)

those are both tough amp voicings for a big muff, it seems to be a marshall/hiwatt/orange pedal to my ear. voxes are too middy and blackface fenders aren't middy enough for a muff and if you have an old tweed who would wanna put ANYTHING in line 'cept maybe some slapback!

OMG! I was looking through my aprts drawer and found a ziplock containing the unmoleted guts to my black russian muff, the first one I bought around '96! if anyone wants them? theya re for sale LOL -- ia ctually put an overdrive my friend built in the box and then gutted that and put in a treble n bass booster of my own devising based on the firsts tage of his overdrive circuit.....

cheers dude! I've ahd australian and british friends literally for decades and never bothered to ask about the 'bonnet' until now

I find the boutique stuff to sound substantially better than the best muffs... everything thats good about the best examples with a lwoer noise floor and very carefully refined voicing or lots of controls to refine it for yourself. i still don't like the muff much, but my skreddy and stomp underfoot stomped allover all the muffs I owned prior.

GREAT psot by the way, really informative.

nah... a tubescremer into a jazz chorus sounds like a tubescreamer into your dad's stereo receiver! but I want the mini quilter to make a convert of me! for 300 they do a 100 watt one with more tone shaping and an FX loop

but 95% of them sound like ass 75% of the timee (and 99% of them sound like ass for overdrive ALL OF THE TIME, 100%)

I just bought a quilter microblock 45 for 150 bucks to try it out... we'll find out next week. Givn the tone and wattage I think it wuld be msot fair to put it against my 50 watt EL34 heads. Maybe I'll write a review for the site.

workin' on it! its noon, its friday, TGIF mofos...

but seriously, I like tube amps, they sound good, even the bad ones.... solids tate amps? not su much and then only a few of them for limited applications.... though i wanna try the quilter pedalboard amp, the demo sounds amazing and it cranks a good 40 watts if you need it from n enclosure the size of an mxr pedal. And unlike a lot of their amps its affordable. I am not paying tube prices for a solid state amp, but the pedalboard amp is the price of a boutique pedal, i am so there. I might order ne today and report back.

what in tarhootin' is a 'car bonnet' in regular 'merican talk? (please imagine I said that in the voice of yosemite sam from loony toons) is it a hood? I know the 'boot' is what we call the 'trunk'....

There kinda is a tell-have you seen our retarded boards? Only an insane person would have collected all that nonsense. We've clearly lost our marbles.

if it wasn't for playing musicalchairs with musical instruments and gear I think I woulda lost my mind completely over the last few years, its like an anchor when the world comes more and more unraveled every day despite your best efforts to wind it up again into a neat little yarn ball of relative normality

but like, everybody but me, Terry and Xaq is pretty young in this thread so you ight not dig what I'm talking about until you dig what i'm talking about if you know what I mean, and you don't

I'm really thining not, Ter. The buffer's the easy part, I don't need to gut a pedal for that I just need a burr brown op amp and a handful of caps and resistors. I guess I could wire up a MIDI in and thru port? but the jack panel and lite but durable emtal frame? I would wind up with plywood. Been there. As ncie as your baord looks for a homebrew I will ebt it weighs a metric shit ton. I like his nice purpose-made baord, really like it. Its just very expensive.... but could I make soemthing that light and tidy? Doubt anyone coud unless they have a machine shop in their basement.... which coem to think of it my uncle does, but I can't picture him being itnerested in this project. Although it sure would be sweet to knock off friedman's design and make a ton of them to sell for cheaper than friedman, right?

Jim aside, what does everyone else think about the big muffs? I love opinions

that's obviously not true, Brandon

but to recap:

Terry - has a big muff, loves it but uses other dirtboxes too.... plays a GIANT 80s arena-rock marshall

Blake - doesn't hate the muff but likes other stuff better

Xaq - not a fan of the big muff

Evilbassist -a big muff neutral

Moogbadger - has a recent muff, has trouble getting the sound he wants from it

that seem right guys?

Brandon, you know I was totally drinking craft beer and cracking up as I busted your balls, right? I'm like half serious, no offense little dude. But for real, if you're not going to try a bunch of stuff in eprson go on fleabay and buy the cheapest 'little big muff' you can find that's not broken just to see if it works for you, that way if you find its not for you you're not out much money and you probably won't take a loss if you sell it or trade it later.

I would disagree, every voice major I've kown sucks at their other instrument even though their sight reading kills and they can backup even a bad singr like me...b ut they can't rite a chart woth a damn and can't command a band

I don't udnerstand why western music is so fucking confusing to everyone, its pretty simple, there are only 12 tones to ombine and move around after all.... maybe its being raised on it

all the church/highschool choir people I know (alot I might add) are clueless outside of even when it comes to voive unles you are handing the rudimentary blues or gospel bullhist with 1, 4, 5 shit or that plagal cadence that american church music loves... ask them for even a modified plagal cadence off a stack of 9ths or ths? bah

the littleone is close enough for non-vulcan music fans, cheap and small if you usea pedalboard, ya dangus... but if you wanna fight I will fight with you because, well why not?!

your dad shoulda terrified you into auditioning for jazz band, my dad scared thef ucking shit out of me until the 1st time someone shot at me

to this day my dad's musical opinion terrifies me, though I haven't had negative responses since like '00

I just admited I am almost 40 yeas old. but those were the days for me, we played some fucking music even if no onewas listening/... and I lerned to write some legitchats for even the Eb and Bb instruments

cool! we played extra slow-like 70bpmish but halftime shuffle purdee style so we could kick itnup to 140 plus

arund 97 we had this not-so-secret uncercover ska/rock-steady/funk/jazz/fusions group of a-listers and we would do pop music and shit all arranged out for 2 dif saxes, a trumpet, a bari, piano/rhodes, upright, electric and me and we would just jam out...in 98 we got recognized on our 3rd lineup ad got to play at schoool and no one wanted us to stop, even the back hiphop students...we did these jazzed up, fusion/regae versins of grungr songd LOL, it was so fun... me,theron (who died in 2005ish of sicle cell anemia RIP mmy jazz brothe, we worked together once more on the Blue Method's live LP right before he died). There was tony suzuki bass, mike sabolick bari (my best friend to this day), keith womck alto, mikey drobish alto and soprano, I forget the trumpeter... fuck him, trumpet asshole!

we were good playin' take the a train, fireshaker, whatever and being students of real music, it was a songwriting, arranging, soloing and leadership/conducting pressure cooker, Tony Geiro ate us alive, but he was the man and I learned to command a crew f hooligans ho can play and makethem play as a team... they fired him later for xorrpupting us all andh did buy beer and drugs for soloiusts who nailed it LOL

it was a tight and thick pressure cooker and if you fucked up you were out and unless your academic performance was A list you were fucked for college....

well Kurt,

I'm hungover too... FUCK, I was just google searhing all the recordings of Bensalem highschool jazz band (we were always state champs and often went regional when I played guitar but there's no coincidence dudes, though my best friend did play bari sax then and we ahd a killer upright player and the immortal theron shelton on drums) but it seems the ones posted start around 2001 and I played up til I grduated in 1998 and goimg 2nd chair for Temple U

because they can outplay me all day and not a lot of people can do that..

nit that music is a contest, butI know how slick I am afetr 25 years...even a beginner I was slick and played advanced chord and was beong the pnetatonic back in '91

yeah, all the trenton/north Philly, Richie Cole & Gamble/Huff/phillyInternational, downbeat set of guitarists rock quilters and sound killer.. and I have MAD fucking respect for those cats because they can outplay me all day and not a lot of people can do that.. especially in a leee ritenour sense or flatpick speedy slidey shit! and they are all clean tone hounds

nah if im wrong call me out or else i wouldnt know

i;m a psycho, I know everything about everything being an old skool recording engineer who services and builds shit and i seriously pooo poo all of it, its just info if I can't get THAT sound and have sme cool tools.... but I ahte people feeding misinformation when i know it all like a fuzz/amp/guitar svengali... I balance it all with being a bad ass player too, I can play and write my ass off... lay it down with yor hero and then throw him with an interesting mixylidian placement to tie together an odd transition

I have forgotten more theory than most of the members of EB will ever learn.

That's the tech Quilter stuffs uses. It's basically billed as kinda solid state 2.0

I haven't touched quilter yet, but the jazz guys I am buddies with love that shit

sorry, don't mean to be weiner, just I am all about circuit history f everything music and am an expert from arbiter to Neve and love to be challenged

I still just use whatever works for my won muic and hold nothig sacred, seriously... I hav eold stuff, boutique stuff, whatever I just wanna hear it get outta the way of my touch as a guitarist ona guitar level.

I am liking these boards though, Terry... having all pedals now, MIDI enabled though they are, it eems nutty to rsck them nd I mght get one of these to house thme so i can tweak off preet...

even though they mostly stay inactive otehr than a smidgen of ADT for big spaces and some slapback for some parts... LOL

I tried to drunkenly type "Lezzie" but yeah I love Izzard... arguably his best moment was mocking the main man in Velvet Goldmine. Great soundtrack too.

I am beig a dick. Sorry? nah

sure man, get an ac15 hw, its geat, then hang onto your butt

oh man, Larry fucked this up using anano muff, thia woulda been sobg great otherwise, WTF?!

https://youtu.be/vAaAbQx3JmU

fuck off crap PLAYERS

tab mme five voicings for a Fm6 cbord and tell me 3 modes you can play over it including the minor & relative major to make shit easy

notice how the big muff and solid state amp doesn't wreck this recording.... ????