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Off topic for Wishlists but on topic for Custom ordering

Custom ordering of Gear Photos would be nice. Or at the very least reverse picture ordering to have the most recently uploaded pic appear first at the top of the list instead of last at the bottom of the page. That way I could at least reupload my favourite gear photos to ensure they get seen first. It would mean the top line of other users' gear photos stays fresh, dynamic and interesting too.

I emptied my wishlist a while back and yet the counter still records there as being 20 items on it 🫤

This issue was flagged a good while ago so I'm guessing it's not an easy fix?

I gotta hear these playlists

Here's a few:

HiSTORY of DiSTORTION

HiSTORY of FUZZ

HiSTORY of TREMOLO

HiSTORY of DELAY/ECHO

HiSTORY of PHASER

HiSTORY OF FLANGE 〰️

HiSTORY of RiNG MODULATiON

HiSTORY of GATED REVERB

HiSTORY of The TELECASTER

All remain work in progress so I'm always happy to hear suggestions/corrections.

Perhaps I should start a thread on classic effect showcase tracks?

I picked up a cheap used Zoom MS-50G on eBay at a time when I knew nothing about effects pedals.

At that time I was into the Rocksmith guitar game/tutor and I quickly realised that a lot of the gear in the game's "Tone Designer" corresponded to many of the effects and gear emulated in the Zoom's virtual inventory. I became obsessed with figuring out what the actual real world gear was that was being emulated, so over the course of about a year I systematically researched each effect until I'd got an idea of the purpose, history and usage of a whole bunch of stuff I would have otherwise known nothing about.

Learning the history of pedals and effects has become a hobby within the hobby to the extent that I've even compiled playlists of historic songs that prominently feature or pioneer particular effects.

All thanks to the rabbit hole that humble old Zoom Multistomp led me down... Not only surprised, but inspired.

I compiled all my notes and references on a massive spreadsheet here if anyone's interested - It's still an ongoing project (so comments/corrections always welcome)

...and so now I have a notification alert that won't go away now too.

I've looked at them all... on every page... I think?

So I've clicked 🅇 Remove to clear the remaining 5 items from my wishlist. The list is empty now but the list counter says I still have 20 wished for items. I've checked my other lists and none of their contents correspond with the number displayed.

It appears that clicking 🅇 Remove causes the counter to count down fine but going to the ⌅ Saved dialogue and unticking them from the lists from there fail to cause the counters to subtract.

I've pared down my Wishlist down to just five items. However the orange counter figure still registers 23 items.

Some I items I had removed, whereas others I moved to a custom "Like" list (for the objects of desire I have no intention of owning)

I suspect it was those I shifted by unticking from the Wishlist and adding to "Like" that didn't de-register but subsequent removal from the "like" list doesn't un-count them either so now the disparity between the wishlist count and actual number of items visible appears to be permanent. 🤔

[Edit] - Just to clarify

It's when I go into an items' save dialogue, untick it from wishlist and then tick a different list before closing the window that this happens.

If I open the save dialogue, untick wishlist, close the window, open save again, tick a different list... all's well.

I haven't tried juggling items between other lists.

Yeah, He's been on/talked over by Joe Rogan too.

He's come a long way since open megaphone night at The Prancing Pony 🐎

...might explain why his voice sounds a little hoarse 🐴

🥁

He's still not listed under his full name on his artist page here though; a search for "Jesse Welles" brings up nothing - I nearly added him as a duplicate again.

https://equipboard.com/pros/welles

Love it! 🎸🎸 Nostalgia eh? "It ain't what it used to be"

Track one is giving me a Cold Sweat (vibe)

https://youtu.be/jIvBpe7q1Cg?si=PmMebMa9JCD5OXDd&t=19

How long have you been playing Emma; what's your playing environment, ambition and budget?

I'll share my personal approach but don't take this as advice as it doesn't come from broad or professional experience

After quitting long ago in the 90s I returned late to guitar (from harmonica) with few aspirations beyond playing with my buddies, folk clubs and open mic's.

I've taken a minimalist approach, starting out with a tidy little solid state Vox Pathfinder amp that doesn't take up too much space in my living room, doesn't annoy neighbours but which, at 15watts, is plenty loud enough for a pub or small stage. It's just a simple solid state amp but with well regarded clean tones, analog tremolo and spring reverb, it's a great platform to put my preferred effect pedals in front of.

For effects I started with a handful of pedals that I considered foundational - "Iconic" effects that have stood the test of time, often appearing on tracks that influenced me growing up... I've been happy with the results ever since and so there I stopped!

First I chose cheap 2nd hand Blues Driver and Rat clones for overdrive and distortion. Both have Looong pedigrees - they are familiar (we've heard them everywhere), some might even say "boring" but theres good reason they're so ubiquitous: It's hard to go wrong with them. Why I love this pair so much and why I've stuck with them is that they clean up so well. Even the Rat, wound back delivers a pleasing clean/edge of breakup tone and, like the Blues Driver, breaks up nicely depending on how hard we hit the strings. Both pedals offer a range that goes from clean to fuzz-like - such that I managed happily without a dedicated fuzz pedal for years.

When I did finally succumb to fuzz I indulged in the Boss FZ-1w. I consider this to be a modern day classic. It's "boring" inasmuch as it is so agreeable; it gets along with single coils and humbuckers and doesn't care where it sits in the chain. It gives me all the fuzz tones I need, from Muff-like Pumpkins or "Zombie" to vintage Spaghetti Western and Spy movie sonic landscapes. Best of all, it cleans up nicely with the guitar volume and responds dynamically just like the Rat and Blues driver. These days, playing at home I tend just to go through the Boss fuzz at edge of breakup and direct to the amp - There's not a bad sound in it! I like my clean tones too so having an overdrive, distortion and fuzz that each cover pretty much the whole dirt spectrum has given me more than enough options!

For a cheap alternative the orange Behringer Super Fuzz is the budget bestseller and a classic in its class. Every guitarist I know owns one! I imagine it rivals even the infamous DS-1 for ubiquity 🟧 Orange is the new orange!

So that's my dirt pretty much sorted. All that's missing is a dedicated graphic equaliser and compressor; I have a humble little Zoom MS-50g I drop in for these roles which gets me in the ballpark of any tones I've tried to emulate. It's decade old tech that's saved me from coveting dozens of modulation pedals I'd otherwise try once and forget. I'm sure there are plenty of more up-to-date multi-effect solutions available but I've yet to find one so cheaply (coat)-pocketable.

Life's too short for perfectionism - My late and much missed guitar buddy who played all his life, was REALLY happy with his Boss Katana 50 as an all-in-one solution for his flat, saying it made all the pedals he'd gathered over the years redundant - looking at the specs now, I see it has the capabilities of most pedals I've mentioned above built in!

So I think if I were starting out again I'd skip all the guitar and pedal buying and settle for just a Katana (mini or 50) and my Casino Coupé guitar* Why the Coupé - because, being hollow bodied it's the guitar I most often snatch up and strum on a whim acoustically, without the "inertia" of having to plug in and switch on. It was that inertia, combined with a nasty dry (effectless) Peavey amp that put me off from sticking at it in my youth 🙄 much to my regret.

*Incidentally, The Beatles chose Casino's for this very reason; perfect volume for quiet practice and songwriting in hotel rooms.

Speaking of reverse, or rather inverse...

Do headless guitars count as tragic?

I don't hate them all - Those Steinberger guitars have got their own thing going.

What grips my shit is all the headless travel guitars I've ever looked at and thought, "yes that'll do", only to discover they all have full 25.5" scales! What's that all about? Surely the whole point of designing a travel guitar is to make it compact and portable as possible? Who goes to all the effort of designing a great little portable axe, with all the compromises that takes and then, "sod it! let's now make it as long as can be" ?

Alongside that particular pet peeve, headless guitars in general... 🤢

Now that you mention it, there's a real hollywood western quality to g&l headstock that fits into Leo's aesthetic. It's still ugly though.

Edit: Leo lived near Paul bigsby and copied the tele headstock from this more ornate version on bigspy's 1 off solid bodies like the famous Merl Travis guitar. Those bigsby guitars combine hollywood western woodwork with bigsby's background in motorcycle repair.

Yeah, what I see under "ASAT CLASSIC" is literally the profile of wild west saloon doors!

Interesting to learn Leo's Bakersfield connection. Gotta say, Country music made me heave right up until I found my blackguard Tele. It's curious how having such an iconic/ubiquitous instrument can broadens one's tastes - not that I could ever see myself sporting cowboy boots and rhinestones. I blame the Red Dead Redemption soundtracks for leading me down into the dark valley of Southern Gothic Americana 🪦

I had tickets to see Dick Dale at a tiny nightclub in The Netherlands back in Pulp Fiction times.
Alas I got laid low with glandular fever and had to miss it - Gutted!

Cool that you got to know him.

G&L: Great guitars... from the nut down.

From the look of that I'm getting a Country & Western vibe 🤠

Ooer ! - I get what you mean... "bothered"

This Silvertone bass headstock is even more troubling.

that IS the dolphin headstock... at least that's what we called it in the 90s

Is it just me or is does all that black lacquer give it a BDSM vibe? 🥷

...it's just me isn't it! 😳

Ooer ! - I get what you mean... "bothered"

This Silvertone bass headstock is even more troubling.

I first noticed it in the hands of Alice Go of Dream Wife. Despite its gopping appearance I kinda like the tones she gets from it 🎸

Yeah, the Burns Scroll Headstocks are icky for me. In fact the whole Burns guitar aesthetic has a kind of Fairground and Teddy Boy vibe that leaves me just a little bit queasy.

Jim Boggia here sounds not a lot unlike Welles in a previous incarnation - He hasn't always been a Hobbit it seems! 17 seconds in, both tracks sound remarkably similar; speed or slow one or other to match tempo, it's uncanny!

https://youtube.com/shorts/9Ughjc2Txpg?si=T4Mz-XSGW5w7yJfV

That's some crazy fever dream imagery shit going on with the electron-industrial jazz! - I like it all though 👍

I am SO with you regarding clutter - Learned my lesson on Gear Acquisition as a photographer - these days I usually turn up to photo sessions with less gear than amateur enthusiasts, however there is something to be said for looking the part.

As a lifelong amateur musician I have no aspirations to earn money and the punky, folky, outsider music I love most has always had sketchy production values anyway! Billy Childish (No friend of Jack White) and Jack White rock my world in that respect. I'm very content with my supposedly tube-like Vox Pathfinder 15r. However, I have never played through a real tube amp and in a way I'm reluctant to even give it a try, for fear of ruining my contentment with my solid state Vox. Even if I did fall for tubes I still think I'd still make do with a IR/modeler alternative like a Boss IR-2 since I'd rather do without the hassle, clutter and expense of a "prestige" tube amp.

My sofa setup is pretty much the same as Norah's here - Mustang + Pathfinder and so if it's good enough for her...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcASSZ4mWx8

Ba-BUM 🥁 Tisch... 🫃🏻

I don't know about a hobbit - never heard him use ring modulation.

I'm liking this artist more and more - seems he belts out a new song every other day.

Todays delivery struck a chord; sound familiar?

https://youtu.be/jtfmMjulZfM?si=nQ4D9fQvb--3X0VC

That’s a fine comp'rehensive and comp'rehensible explainer. It clarifies a lot of what’s been for me not entirely grasped info in one place. Thanks for digging it out and sharing.

I remember long ago scratching my head over the COMP effect on my ZOOM 9000; it was utterly mystifying and there was no internet then to explain it either. I simply didn’t have the ears to hear what it did. Not like the Zoom’s legendary “metallic” effect - that was awesome!

That's a useful insight on the teacher's perspective. I've been self taught on this and that since leaving home. Guitar was the first instrument I tried but quickly floundered after it was fell on and crushed by a fat lass at Glastonbury Festival!

I switched to harmonica after that and learned by buying records of classic harmonica bluesmen and then playing along to the 33rpm LPs slowed to 16rpm. At the time I was also working on a book production line, standing all day by a machine folding dozens of book page batches every 30 seconds. It was noisy, boring work but I had my harmonica and could hear it through my head - three years of that and I got pretty good... just so long as I play at 120 bpm 😉

Got to agree playing along with the TV works for me.

I've mentioned this on other forums, only for music teachers to come back at me with " you HAVE to apply focussed deliberate practice " ...whatever.

So we can leave the name?

I think it should be spelled as his full stage name Jesse Welles. It's the name he's touring under and gaining airplay with as a singer songwriter over here. "Welles" seems to have been a previous rock (band?) or business incarnation and so I think that should be listed as a band and not the artist. Kind of like David Jones ≠ David Bowie ≠ Ziggy Stardust.

The issue is that when I search his name Jesse Welles here to check out the gear, nothing comes up. Likewise when I'm about to add "Jesse Welles" as an artist, "Welles" is not offered as an already existing artist alternative. So it seems to me inevitable that someone will add him as a duplicate artist if we don't resolve it.

He seems to have settled on Jesse Welles on his YouTube channel and most of his social media and is shortly appearing in London on tour under that name.

The fact that he's previously performed under the name Jeh Sea Welles suggests he might be bit sensitive about how his name is said. Whether the extra E inserted into his original Wells surname means we're supposed to speak his name as "Jessie Wellies"?... well, I'm not so sure 🙃

Don't do anything. We're on it.

[Freezes in place]

Cool, Thanks!

In the the mean time, why is it I'm unable to add a Reverb link to the Hofner Shorty Violin Bass I've just added. It keeps telling me I'm wrongly formatted! Is it an Atlantic Ocean thing?

[Edit - SOLVED - It's an Atlantic Ocean thing - I VPN'd to Miami to pick up a link that worked]

But also to mention this is Post your Item Request , not Artist.

I did consider that but here seemed the better place to request what I hoped would be a simple admin level correction edit.

The alternative was perhaps to post on the recent "Merging duplicate artists?" thread. However, creating a duplicate artist is exactly what I'm trying to avoid, Unfortunately if a mis-spelled artist name can't be edited to correct it then adding a corrected duplicate would seem to be the only solution.

This is the artist Jesse Welles I'd like to add - Clearly a fingerpickin' folk guitarist... wearing my hair from1976 - Currently performing this sort of stuff in 2024/25

Whereas Welles seems to be the rock band of "Jesse Wells" circa 2018. Looks almost like a different person under all the fur but the voice is the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX3tDzJCPs

Is it possible to correct this artist's name https://equipboard.com/pros/welles

The artists name is Jesse Wells; "Welles" is the name of his current Band/incarnation but he's fronted other bands too

He's a young artist to watch if you're into the likes of Dylan, Prine, Blaze Foley or Townes Van Zandt - A fine storytelling lyricist.

https://guitar.com/features/interviews/interview-jesse-wells-wishing-welles/

I read a lot but most of the fiction I read I now download to a Kindle for convenience. I still like to buy "nice" books every once in a while however and quite often seek out rare or unusual hardback editions of books I know I'll return to.

I have a similar sentiment towards gear. I love that so much stuff is available digitally simulated; it's great that there are so many resources to download and experiment with, often already integrated or as free plugins. "Warehouses" of gear can be owned cheaply and virtually without taking up an inch of physical space. As a purely recreational player I've enjoyed gathering together a handful of analog pedals; assembling a modest pedalboard, of boring old 'classics' unlikely to excite any pulses or raise any eyebrows ...pedals I consider to be the standards (or budget clones thereof) against which all others are judged. Analog vs Digital is an odd debate which i think can only be answered, Yes.

Oof!

This one hits hard.

Baked Tattie'caster is a thing

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/b2/63/20b2636e8935108de0ac7dcd0798c482.jpg

Well I like the white and especially how the gear stands out against it. It's pleasing to me when I submit a gear pic that conforms with the white background aesthetic. It's not hard to do and it feels like I've contributed a little extra when it all matches.

As it stands now I think the limited colour palette is what gives Equipboard its signature look and I think it's important not to break the brand. For me this all works really well as is so I'd hope you'll not stray too radically from this original and distinctive look.

Overall I like the colour selection in the example picture. it's just the purple that jars a bit so I'd offer the darker shade of egyptian blue as an alternative suggestion to complement the turquoise.

Doh! - now that I'm hovering the cursor over links, on my browser it looks like those colours are in the palette already! 🤦 What can I say? I'm a fan of it all as is.

It's great to see the site still developing and improving. I love the clean and spacious layout - everything from the colour pallet to the typeface is easy on the eye and it's always a pleasure to visit, unlike a lot of the other cramped and cluttered webspaces out there.

I'd love it if you could arrange it so that our own gear photos collection appears with our most recent uploads at the top of the list, or better still manually sortable like our gear lists. That way when we visit someones gear page we see their latest stuff or whichever photos they want to highlight first, without having to scroll through everything we've seen before.

I've wondered before whether the Forums might be promoted a bit more prominently on the front page as it does get a bit quiet in here sometimes. Maybe that's not a bad thing but it's the nice folks here in particular that keep me coming back.

I managed without a dedicated Fuzz for years before I got a Boss FZ-1w. It cleans up so nice on the guitar volume I use it as an overdrive and just dig in for distortion. It's got a raggedy sag to it that I enjoy just a bit more than the Rat and Blues Driver clones I was combining before. Theres not a disappointing sound in it!

My Zoom MultiStomp (MS-50g) would be the last pedal I'd sell. It fills in for just about any pedal I might need.

tiny guitar; tiny amp; tiny pedal board - compact & complete.

Jagstangs look too "smeared" to me and mess up my perception of perspective. I feel almost compelled to lie on the floor whenever I look at one! The Musuar at least can sit normally on a guitar stand.

Buddha USED to do HB sized JM style pickups but they've sadly been discontinued.

The closest thing I've seen recommended is the Bootstrap HB-90 Clean "Skookum-90". It's a low wound P90 with AlNiCo poles but it doesn't have same wide flat wind that I believe gives the Jazzmaster the distinctive woody bark that I like. At just £32 I was keen to try one out however the quoted £224.00 for UK P&P is just too absurd!