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Name: Oneal OCM-260

Image: https://photos.enjoei.com.br/caixa-multiuso-oneal-ocm-260-usb-sd-fm-search-6-40w-rms/1200xN/czM6Ly9waG90b3MuZW5qb2VpLmNvbS5ici9wcm9kdWN0cy85MjMwMzA3L2E5YmExYTM3MGU5OTU0ODFiOTI4NjU5Y2M2NWYxYzUxLmpwZw

Amp/Speaker

https://equipboard.com/items/oneal-ocm-260

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Name: Fender DG-17EM

Image: https://reverb.com/item/31917530-fender-dg-17em-1996-natural-50th-anniversary

Acoustic Guitar

https://equipboard.com/items/fender-dg-17em

I don't do traditional forum/BBS moderation here. Life's too short.

There also just isn't much of a need for it here.

Mods please add Gibson Les Paul Junior Tribute DC Bass

Hahaha.. ha ha... meh

What am I missing here?

I've never even owned a 6-string with humbuckers, so I have no product advice, but I do have 2 points to add:

1. Are you able to solder-in new pickups yourself, or would you have to pay someone? If you're gonna pay someone, THAT will get expensive. You may want to consider finding a friend with a soldering station or investing in your own soldering setup before you start swapping.

2. Assume that whatever you choose for this guitar, you'll probably decide to swap them again in the future, as it's going to take a while for you to eventually find the pickups that you, personally, love, that get along well with your amp, fx, string choices, and playing style. As such, make sure you buy your pickups at a price that is close to what they go for used, that way, you'll get most (or all) of your money back the next time you decide to swap them.

The odds that the next set of pickups you put in are the ones you want to keep for the next 10 years is low... continually swapping and re-swapping parts is just a part of the guitar ownership experience for a lot of folks.

Maybe this isn't music related but it is to me...

We are going to pump you up!

It IS curious that this bit (and maybe Toonces ) never got a movie, when pretty much any other sketch that lasted more than 2 seasons had at least one theatrical run.

Also unrelated: I remember moderating forums in the '00s... a constant battle of reminding people to stay on-topic, trying to not sound like a cop or a heel when reminding people to play by the guidelines, splitting OT conversations into new threads, banning committed trolls (then re-banning them when they created new accounts)... now here I am, your co-conspirator in taking every thread on an ADHD joyride through uncharted country roads. There is nothing "Moderate" about our approach, lol. Our moderation style is some kind of absurdist performance art.

I actually went for a really close miked sound on this one and built a blanket fort around the amp closet to get a really dry signal. Just driving a speaker so hard that you have to put a pad on a condenser that close up really adds a lot of flavor that just doesn't cone from modeling. There's just something magic that usually happens when you turn alternating current into sound pressure and then turn it back to current and record it.

A quarter-century of brilliant DSP Engineers, people who could be making much better money at big tech companies, toiling away in a heroic effort to make the above statement untrue... yet here you are, spitting in their beer. ;)

Personally, I don't have enough experience with real or virtual cab-mic'ing to have an opinion either way, but I'll take your word for it.

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Name: Jackson Custom Shop Baritone Monarkh

Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0rMo7wNp_t/?hl=en

This is IV of Sleep Token's other custom guitar from Jackson!

I saw that one when I was searching for a picture of a CS Monarkh.

Is this the only baritone-scale monarkh on the planet? I think it might be.

Mods please add Gibson Les Paul Junior Tribute DC Bass

https://equipboard.com/items/gibson-les-paul-junior-tribute-dc-bass

Hey I can absolutely do this! Apologies, it's my first time submitting equipment. Would you like me to resubmit it as Jackson Custom Shop Monarkh?

No worries at all, you're good to go:

https://equipboard.com/items/jackson-custom-shop-monarkh

I couldn't find a white-background picture of a monarkh (any monarkh) from Jackson Custom Shop, so I used an image of the Marty Friedman model for the time being. Down the road, someone can swap out the item-entry image for something more appropriate if they want. Either way, you're free and clear to log IV's new 8-string beauty using this entry. Cheers!

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Name: IV Custom Shop Jackson 8 String

Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0eVaKzttuZ/?hl=en

This is IV of Sleep Token's new Custom 8 String Jackson guitar.

This is a 1-of-1 custom guitar, but we need the gear entries we add to the database to be broad enough to apply to multiple artists and community members.

If this was added as "Jackson Custom Shop Monarkh", would that be ok? The submission you'd make for IV would be where the great pictures, string count and full specs would go -- the item attributed from the database just needs to be as generalized as we can make it.

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Name: Apprehension Engine

Image: http://apprehensionengine.com

It's a multipurpose nightmare instrument. Usually people diy-build their own from youtube-guides and drawings found in internet. What is common with these are two necks, guitar and cello, a hurry-gurdy wheel, reverb tank, rulers, springs and rods. There are usually piezo mics and electric guitar mics inside. Usually it is played with fingers, rubber mallets, violin bow and e-bow. Looper and reverb pedals are usual companions.

Trent Reznor has had one according to internet resources: https://www.revolvermag.com/music/revolutionary-vision-nine-inch-nails-studio-visit-trent-reznor

Done:

https://equipboard.com/items/diy-apprehension-engine

This thing is cool as #$%^.

This is exactly the kind of thing the EB database is not designed for: no clear brand/manufacturer name, no glamor-pic with a white background, multiple version #s, no clear price for the kit... but if Trent Reznor uses one and it makes cool sounds, eh, let's add it anyway.

If your account privileges allow it, please add some description text and further details to this entry when you have the time. Cheers!

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Name: Kenton PRO-DCB Mk3

Image: https://rvb-img.reverb.com/image/upload/s--hl4qy19L--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1594081967/ib1rj4ahs1wfzm3yf6b6.jpg

Done!

https://equipboard.com/items/kenton-pro-dcb-mk3-midi-to-dcb-converter

MK3? I guess this means my MK1 is all but worthless now, lol.

What would it take to get you to write a review of your UDO Super 6? I suspect I'll own a few UDOs one of these days. I love what they're doing.

Edit: I probably should be making a youtube video of this one so bedroom guys can see every pitfalls that come up and the moving parts of pre-mixing, because almost nothing recorded at hone is good to go when it gets to me. This instance I'm like an extra producer too, flying in drums, committing new sounds to tape from existing DI parts, putting stuff into tibe amps... replacing vanilla plugins with toys that probably haven't even been emulated as plugins yet... trying to get sone excitement going so it sounds less like a dude in an apartment with a laptop and the same focusrite scarlett everyone uses these days lol

I think you doing rough, old-school life-stream style videos would be a great idea. I'd watch 'em.

We've probably reached that point where everyone making YT productions that rival Netflix-quality isn't the thing that moves the needle anymore, at least in terms of time it takes to make such videos, vs the payoff you're likely to get. I suspect some scattershot cinema verite of you wrestling with typical scenarios would resonate more than a scripted, sparkly, well-lit video with a cringe YT-face thumbnail.

Right now my rule is that everything has to have moved some air before I try to mix in earnest. On a song like this l, just getting everything into open mics immediately makes it sound authentic.

I'm all for recording real ambience over emulating ambience, but I haven't listened to a rock record with my analytical production-focused ears in so many years that I can't even open my mouth on this topic. I can go hard on pop/r&b/electronic/hip hop production, but with rock, I have returned to a state of quasi-naïveté... I just listen like I'm 14 and ignorant. It's kinda nice.

I first heard them on the Crow OST and got really into them. They didn't put out that much music.

EDIT: I'm going to date myself but I was really stoked about the crow when it came out because I loved the comic which I first encountered when it was collected by Tundra which was Keven Eastman of TMNT fame's extremely mismanaged publisher... they did From Hell around that time. I look back and I really feel like that was a magic time... it's not just nostalgia. I swear it's not. The crow comic may gave turned me on to joy division...

I had no idea The Crow was published by the TMNT people, makes perfect sense though. I have a buddy who was one of those rare I-loved-TMNT-when-they-were-just-a-violent-indie-comic ppl (I have zero emotional connection to TMNT of any kind, but I'll admit the cartoon theme song rips) . He was also into all things The Crow the way some people are really into all things Jesus and Biblical. I swear he was The Crow for halloween like 6 times, lol. But yeah, that was THE soundtrack CD, back at the height of the soundtrack CD boom. STP waaaay over-delivered on that one; their track should have been saved for one of their own albums, IMHO. I hope some Record and/or Film Exec got an insane Xmas bonus for getting all those bands onto one movie-promo disc.

EDIT: Looks like the song did end up on their second album... I must have been sick of hearing that one by the time that album dropped or something, lol.

Man, I'm drinking beer and deep diving Trash Theory on YouTube because... why not? This guy is reminding me of music I forgot like Lush.

Sick. Any of his vids you can recommend? I've only seen like 3 so far.

I'm kinda stalled on mixing, I had an out of tune bass track that derailed things when every tuning plugin failed to deliver... quel surprise! My ears are exhausted anyway. I had Cramer's DI guitars blaring through old amps all week. I wanted to keep room sound out so I went with the amp closet with a tent of blankets but my neighbors could hear it and I think it bruised my kidneys. Thom Cramer likes low end.

...gauche of me to propose this, I'm sure, but why not just re-record that one part in-tune? Wouldn't that be faster than Melodyne-ing every load-bearing note that is too many cents north or south? Cramer seems like a pragmatic/big-picture sort of artist. I don't think he's gonna hate you too hard if you needed to swap out the bass.

Like halfway through this documentary I went "damn! I forgot aout medicine, those guys were cool!"

Listening to "The Buried Life" right now... I don't know if they were ever on my radar. They sound familiar, but no memories are rushing back. Good band though :)

A very non-shiny, non-commercial channel I've loved for more than a decade:

https://www.youtube.com/@vinyljunkie07

For anyone into 90s house & techno, Martin's random lofi jams on his room full of old gear are hard to beat. Martin is just one of those people that can mess about on anything and make a track I'd listen to all day, sans-video. The talent always comes through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSX1RvaidUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vrQdiOLPQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWqvYI7VIY

As a business? Yes. Conceptually it's been gone since the major labels tried to charge them for music videos that had up until Napster been provided free. Its kinda interesting ironic the CD boom days came art a time of ridiculous production budgets for videos. Those 90s videos launched the careers of more directors than David Fincher... but despite trying to make mtv for the bill, the majors still bankroll music videos in spite of the lack of an outlet that serves as a taste maker for millions of teenies... and a lot of twenty somethings.

I had no idea labels were trying to charge MTV for their videos. It's not exactly the same as Pepsi trying to charge NBC for a soda commercial, but it's not completely the opposite, either.

I listen to vevo a lot.

I appreciate that Vevo exists. They fill the void left by MTV's switch from music to reality TV... or whatever MTV does these days, I have no idea. Does MTV even exist anymore?

I feel like Luna is probably like a slicker version of studio1; to really get ty he most out of either you need to go all in on UA or presonus hardware. Deep integration is the big feature on these type of platforms. They might be great, but it's a way to force you into only shopping one company's products instead of trusting your ears and the specs. That's a commitment I can't make.

I'm well aware of UA's historical business model of plugins locked to their own hardware... but they've been making recent strides in transitioning to native DSP like everyone else. This classic hardware-locked UA approach didn't work for my needs, but it always seemed a straightforward proposition that I never felt was executed in any kind of bad faith.

That said, now that Luna can run natively without any UA hardware, and UA has been porting some of it's previously hardware-locked plugins to native VST/AU/AAX, I am ignorant as to what remaining aspects of Luna still favor the UA ecosystem over any third-party offerings.

Ditto for Studio One, how does that one favor Persons hardware?

I mean, less Avid/Digidesign hardware is required to run full-fat ProTools in this day and age, as far as I understand, but do they still offer a zero latency mode that only works if their own DSP cards/modules are present? Heck, even Logic (pre-Apple, when it was cross-platform) used to have that extra-accurate MIDI timing protocol that only worked with eMagic interfaces.

I have always been turned off by the marketing hyperbole the modern managers of UA throw out there.

I'm not that familiar with much of their marketing message, as I'm outside of their radar, but marketing in the MI space, in general, is a challenging needle to thread. We are a VERY tough crowd to please. Even the positive and open-minded among us are career haters by the rest of the world's standards.

Is there anyone in MI, in your opinion, that does Marketing right?

YMMV.... Luna does have an enticing gui lol. That matters to a lot of folks.

Luke had to turn off his targeting computer and trust his feelings to blow up the Death Star... seemingly the only lesson from those movies the western world refuse to embrace and internalize.

EDIT: I don't really care aboutlooks. I need sample accurate editing and sample accurate latency handling.

Getting to work at the per-sample level was one of the things that really appealed to me about using computers for music back in the 90s. The first time I opened up a .wav file in Sound Forge and zoomed allllll the way in, I was hooked. 1/48,000 of a second is an eternity to a modern CPU... whole worlds can be built and destroyed and built again inside the space of 1/48,000 of a second. It's a lifetime. It's multiple digital grand canyons. I mean, isn't that what the OG Tron was trying to tell us?... that the whole "tron world" portion of the movie takes place within a blink of a human eye? The idea that I have to sacrifice hundreds of samples and several milliseconds to get what I want (outside of any look-ahead type function) is painful, and the idea that we all have to wrap our heads around so many different iterations of this concept, across so my different contexts to make a track that is truly in-sync with itself in the way we want is equally rough.

... All summing points MUST be in phase no matter how long some of the delays. It's the host's responsibility to handle all this well.

No disagreement on my end. Thankfully there are some good DAWs out there that do handle this well.

Yet another tangent: have you been able to try out UA Luna? I haven't given it a spin yet, mostly because I'm not who they are aiming for right now, but the virtual tape deck/idea pad approach is intriguing.

Yamaha DX7. I like the feel of the keys

A modern 61+ key midi controller with the click-y feel of the OG DX7 keybed would be a very nice thing. :)

Yup. I can get my roundtrip under 10ms in protools and cubase even with a pile of plugins. Not so in Live... and all the latency compensation occurs in the master section rather than on a track per track basis.

I appreciate you taking the time to cite detailed examples, Jim. Thank you.

I have been pushing myself to develop a better, more granular understanding of all the ways each of the major DAWs handle PDC. I'm up in it with a magnifying glass as of late and your system-level, studio-honed perspective is much appreciated. You're pulling me back to reality.

As an example, I've been going through popular plugin synths that add additional latency, like U-He Diva, and researching why the devs chose to give themselves an additional buffer. In the case of Urs Heckman's stuff, he states (via KVR ):

"I process everything in blocks of 16 samples. This allows me to do optimisations that otherwise would easily yield 2-3 times the cpu usage for the same algorithm.

Why do I need latency for this? - Because some hosts are so "smart" to outsmart badly designed plugins and process them at irregular buffer sizes. If every host would just use geek-friendly 16-float aligned buffersizes such as 32, 64, 256, 512, 2048 then there would not be a need for any latency."

(Urs and his team are top-shelf DSP Engineers, IMPO, so I knew the reason would be interesting)

For something like a compressor with a look-ahead feature, yeah, it's inherent in the design -- I don't need to scratch my head over why those add an additional buffer, but instruments and effects that don't need to analyze/look-ahead, but still have a supplemental buffer are a current curiosity.

Anyway, re: DAW differences, yeah... DAWs differ. lol. I am always curious to hear other people's grievances and observations re: DAW vs. DAW, as I always learn something good from them, but as far as my own opinions go, I'm enjoying my current state of neutrality -- judge me as needed.

And still continuing to improve!

It never ends. If you're committed to always improving, you always will.

@jimmarchi1: where do you stand on hearing protection during live gigs, club outings, etc? Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure on this front?

Lololol, as long as print receipts and adding machines are used in retail, this keyboard is a real winner, why didn'tit catch on?!!!!!

Ha! I don't know what one is supposed to do with a 4-bar slip of paper containing a Portasound-composed phrase, but I am seriously impressed with the layout and print quality of that thing. It's not easy to make staff notation beautiful at that resolution. The end product is disposable, but they're pretty little pieces of litter, at least.

I'm doing this mix for ThCraymer and he's in ableton.

You're a real mensch, Jim. I love that you're doing a mix for him.

And [Ableton Live's] latency handling is the worst.

Are you saying the total roundtrip latency achievable in Live is inferior to what other DAWs can do on the same system with the same audio interface, or are you referring to the way Live handles per-track delay compensation for live-input recording? It's been years since I've used another DAW to record live audio, help me understand how Live is less-than on this front. I'm curious to know you findings.

If you're not doing a lot if loop stretching it's just crap. A toy.

Ha! It really seems that nobody cares much about the loop stretching in Live in 2023, every DAW can do it well now, or so I gather, so decent loop stretching has become basic table stakes. There's a whole generation of more-recently-minted producers that use Live everyday, but barely touch Session view. I can't even remember the last time I saw a YT video in which someone used Session View.

I, like you, remember when using Live as your primary DAW was pretty much a non-starter, and Live was mostly seen as a tool for live DJ/electronic performance and perhaps as a "sketch pad" for song ideas that you'd then export to PT, Logic, or DP to arrange and mix... which, was what it was originally designed for, if memory serves.

Until Ableton Live supports staff notation, there's always this stopgap:

https://youtu.be/6b4jUqNpUzA?t=814

+1 to everything Jim recommended, FWIW.

What our little ear holes take in is not what we actually "hear", in my experience. It's the select little bits of all that input that our brain has learned to focus on or filter out that comprise what we actually think we're hearing moment to moment . Barring any severe physical damage to your ears, you can train yourself to start hearing all kinds of things that your brain learned to filter out earlier in life.

It's pretty exciting once you start seeing/hearing some improvement. Some of the professionally-recorded stuff you thought was amazing will start to sound ragged, and you'll probably develop a new appreciation for certain recordings you dismissed earlier in life.

Making sure your monitoring setup isn't filtering out and/or over-hyping too much of anything will make things go that much faster. You can't learn to hear what your speakers and headphones aren't accurately reproducing in the first place.

I have personally visited some of those channels and I can say that they are pretty useful.

I'm glad to hear that, Bridget :)

If you come across any music-related YT videos or channels that resonate with you, personally, don't be shy about mentioning them in this thread, even if it's weeks or months from now... I have a feeling you could help us broaden our perspectives a bit, and that would be a very good thing.

Very interesting :)

Do you have a landing site or kickstarter page where I could get more information?

Regardless, thank you for reaching out to this community. While we may be small in terms of conversation volume, this means that the topics that do come up get A LOT of attention before they get pushed to the bottom of the stack.

Any interesting updates or questions you have are likely to get eyeballs and answers here.

Great find :)

The documentation of each piece is exceptional... the lack of categorization is baffling, but whatever.

Fascinating than an MTV Music Award statue is estimated to fetch more than this beautifully-aged 1965 Precision Bass

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Name: Behringer UP300

Image: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOT7nDZtbYsAzW5nY0HrKk5DaO3J4z5tnEP1IJSg7FnkWxSNFf9UzxZTj4H2_kXd94rG0&usqp=CAU

It's a phaser effect pedal, sort of a continuation of the Behringer UP100.

With your gear score, I'm surprised you don't have the "Add an item without a product link manually here." option at the bottom of the Add Gear page. Do you not see this option when you go to add gear?

Hey, glad to see you, pkennethk! I was trying to add Jeff Davies (formerly of (and best known as a lead guitarist for) the BJM). The man isn’t even listed there though he had been playing with the band all the way through the 90s and early 00s. I want to fix that.

Good to see you too, kowalski! It's been a minute.

I agree that this musician meets the notability standards of EB. I find it odd that they're not in the musicbrainz database already.

I've started an internal thread with the Admins to see if anything can be done. It's a weekend leading into a US holiday week, so it may be awhile. No promises, regardless, as I personally couldn't add this artist myself if I wanted to. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention, though. Fingers crossed :)

I’m going to go off topic. I haven’t found thread of the same kind for artists so I’m going to ask mods or whoever has rights to approve/deny requests. For how long should a request for adding artist be reviewed?

In theory, moderators have the ability to approve these requests, but there's been a bug, at least for my account, where my approvals don't go through. Who is the artist you are trying to add?

... Third, I don't know what kind of skate videos feature music as depressive and as slow as Duster.

https://youtu.be/gxDdbVogb68?t=639

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Y5FHI4JXc

https://youtu.be/6dD8727I-wE?t=132

Dude, that's a sweet fretless Beatle bass. I'm impressed Harley Benton makes a fretless Hofner-style bass, and I'm impressed you chose to acquire one and gig with it. I owned a fretless jazz bass way back in the day, I loved that thing.

Jim mentioned a sort of Polish vibe in his comments, and if he's referring to Seaton Park Blues, specifically, then yeah, that one jumped out right away for me too. The 2/4 (2/2?) time feel on that one is great. It's ear-catching. What was the crowd reaction for that one?

Do you feel like being a British expat living in Hungary has influenced you musically?

I dig the mid/late 60s classic psychedelic sound on the first album. The track on that first-linked album that caught my ear the fastest was Dead to You; if I heard that out in public, I'd whip out the Shazam app: "who ARE these folks with the monster guitar & horn riff?".

If I had to guess, I'd say the second album you linked was recorded after the first album, only because I feel like the tracks on the second album were all recorded in roughly the same time period, are maybe a bit tighter, they feel more like they're all "of the same cloth" than the first. I dig the dark, thick guitar tone, especially on the first few songs. I recall an interview with Billy Corgan back when Siamese Dream came out, and he talked about only playing Japanese 50s-reissue Strats (at the time) because they brought the "stormy glory" he was after -- I know that's not the sound you're going for on this album, exactly, but "stormy glory" still feels like an apt description for the overall dark, crunchy, 'verb-heavy vibe.

...total mood-killer...

I didn't know the OP was trying to set up a romantic evening lol

Ha. I just meant that it would be awkward to then have to ask that artist, who was cool enough to respond, if you could screenshot their private/DM conversation so that you could then post it here on EB. I mean, the OP has no obligation to post any answers to EB as an official submission on that person's profile, but you know I'm gonna be like "screenshots or it's hearsay" when it comes time to rate said submission.

Life is mostly gray areas, and Equipboard is no different, and the amateur philosopher in me lives for the thought and finesse these gray areas require... but y'all know, when it comes to reviewing submissions, I can also get a little too Batman-ish (Commissioner Gordon-ish if we're being specific) in my standards-enforcement.

I could also do up a "what would Reznor do?" shirt... his classic hits have lyrics that raise a lot if funny answers. I wish I remembered where my silk screen was stored!

Dust off that ol' frame, the dream of the 90s can be alive in Philly too.

I haven't had many opportunities to play those kind of venues! I guess the largest was an outdoor one in front of 500-800 people, we opened for another band and used their amps... I was on fretless bass that time, it went pretty well!

That's great to hear! Congrats on making it to this stage.

Though it was not easy to hear what we were playing, also the sound guy kind of messed up, the guitars were too harsh sounding and our vocals were far too low in the mix (especially mine, I guess as bassist he wasn't expecting me to do any lead vocals)

Sorry to hear it. I'm sure you all learned plenty from that, though... you'll be that much better at advocating for what you need at the next gig.

And yeah, I mostly play psychedelic rock and shoegaze :D in fact I recently released a compilation album of some of my older stuff, and am working on a new album!

Excellent. The renewed interest in shoegaze that I've seen popping up here and there online has been heartening. I'll second Jim's request for some links :)

What kind of music do you make then?

Oh I'm a miserable musician, despite a lifetime of trying to improve that situation, lol.

Rather than despair about my lack of talent, I focus on helping others make music with the things that I am less-miserable at: mostly "how do I get a synth/drum/fx sound like on this record?" type questions or "can you script me a software thing that does x, y, and z in my DAW?" ... or the most popular request "can I borrow your 808/909 for this thing I'm doing?"

I'm actually taking the acoustic mahogany Cort to my tech today, got some new ebony bridge pins (to replace the plastic ones) but they're too big and I don't really have the time to sand them down or anything, and I guess an overall setup wouldn't hurt either!

Good luck with the new pegs! The 1-piece maple neck on my bass moves around waaaay too much, which is common for young MIM Fenders, unfortunately, especially with the wild humidity fluctuations my corner of the world now experiences... so I've had to become my own tech: feeler-gauges, radius gauges, etc. I love it. PITA to get reasonably efficient at it popping the neck halfway off and all that, but it's better than having a play an instrument that's wandered out of it's own sweet spots.

Edit: this is from equipboard, "Duster replied to a comment on instagram, stating what tape recorders they used." So they do answer questions.

I agree that this should always be the first move, for bands and artists that are current on social media. Even influencer-types who have social-media-only careers don't always answer questions in replies or DMs, but it's always worth trying.

... if they do reply, then you get to hit them with that creepy second question: "do you mind if I screenshot our private conversation so I can post it on this gear-tracking site you've never heard of?"

...total mood-killer...

If Trent Reznor can be nice to us mortals then everyone ought to be.

This should be on a t-shirt.

... Generic late 90s band. ...

Opinions aside, Duster's #s look pretty great on Spotify.

I don't think the OP is the only person who is feeling them right now.

I've never even heard of Duster...

Then you don't watch enough skate videos.