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Name: Dunlop Classic Flambe Blue Strap
Image: https://www.jimdunlop.com/dunlop-classic-flambe-blue-strap/
One of the most commonly seen straps by Dunlop. This one have blue flammes
Use the generalized entry for Dunlop D38 series
You can specify in any artist submissions that they're using the D3811BL Flambe Blue model, if applicable.
4yover 4 years ago
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https://foundsound.com.au/products/20839
That link gives me a 404 error, stazuuu. Can you tell us the manufacturer name, product name, etc?
Update: never mind. got it working:
https://equipboard.com/items/suiko-st-100
This thing is awesome. I want one.
4yover 4 years ago
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https://www.thomann.de/at/millenium_hp_4.htm
Please add this Heaphone Amp
4yover 4 years ago
The Hello-Thread: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself 👋
Welcome, Tower. :)
I'm sorry to hear you've been served so many challenges in your first 23, but I admire your positive outlook re: the road ahead.
I hope you'll find this site and this community to be a supportive one, and one of the places you can turn to to keep your musical momentum rolling along.
Best of luck in securing that DAW-ready computer. You've got some solid foundational gear; sounds like you'll be ready to roll once you get that computer up and running.
4yover 4 years ago
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Mods can you please add the F Bass VF5-PJ bass
The only Reverb link I could find for this bass so far: https://reverb.com/item/17725311-f-bass-vf5-pj-lake-placid-blue There are also some available on F Bass' website: https://fbass.com/vf-series/
I want it listed to update an artist profile I'm working on
4yover 4 years ago
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Hungry Robots: Wardenclyffe Deluxe
It’s a lo-fi modulator/reverb
https://equipboard.com/items/hungry-robot-pedals-hungry-robots-wardenclyffe-deluxe
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [Martin OM Negative]
https://equipboard.com/items/martin-om-negative
beautiful!
4yover 4 years ago
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Hello! How do I add a laptop to my collection? It's still also a musical instrument and a workstation.
Great question. Anyone have any thoughts on this one?
I'm assuming that computers aren't a major category of gear here for a reason... but maybe Admins have some thoughts?
4yover 4 years ago
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Please consider a manual addition of this important substitute to Fender’s new line of Classical Guitars narrowed into a steel body shape and measurements.
This link is valid on reverb. And I don’t mean to be anything other than helpful when I mention….for an information gathering site dependent on customer/user interface, EquipBoard is neither user friendly nor welcoming of legit info missing from its database. More of the burden must fall on your admin to come up with reasonable fact checking & smell tests.
https://equipboard.com/items/orangewood-mason-nylon-cedar-live
4yover 4 years ago
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Mods Please add Gretsch G2657T Streamliner Center Block jr Double-Cut-with-Bigsby
There are a ton of G2657Ts in the database here already. What is different about this G2657T?
Update: I see now that they're all slightly different model numbers the search was serving me here. Apologies.
Clearly, Gretsch guitars are not my area of expertise.
OK, here it is, the G265*7*T:
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Crate BXH-220
Bass head manufactured in the '90s
4yover 4 years ago
The Hello-Thread: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself 👋
Hello, I'm an mediocre guitarist who cant play and has 23 guitars, I like grinspoon, nirvana, regurgiator and the foo fighters and stp and rhcp.
Welcome!
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Merging Technologies HAPI MK2
Merging Technologies AD/DA Converter & Audio Interface
https://equipboard.com/items/merging-technologies-hapi-mkii
I bet this thing sounds incredible :)
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [Gallien-Krueger 410 RBX]
Thanks a lot!
https://equipboard.com/items/gallien-krueger-410rbx-400watt-4x10-8ohm-bass-cabinet
4yover 4 years ago
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https://equipboard.com/items/fender-hama-okamoto-katana-bass
Note: I am listing these newer basses under "Fender" instead of "Fender Japan" because (as of 2015) Fender Japan is no longer the name of Fender's operations in Japan... if anyone feels differently, I'm open to changing this approach.
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [Fender Japan Hama Okamoto Katana Bass]
Image: [https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/ZoomJpg/10001/5600900305feninsfrt1_rr.jpg]
Totenkopfcsgo, I am unable to view the image link you posted, I get "access denied" error.
Is this the bass you want added?
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/fender-japan-hama-okamoto-katana-bass
UPDATE: Also, everyone reading this should check out Totenkopfcsgo's Equipboard, they have an incredible collection of guitars and basses. :)
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [Fender Japan Hama Okamoto Precision Bass "#4"]
Image: [https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/ZoomJpg/10001/5250670300_gtr_frt_001_rr.jpg]
https://equipboard.com/items/fender-hama-okamoto-precision-bass-4
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Methods of Mayhem: Industrial Toolkit, by Sounds Good/Sony (now sold by Magix) Image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91BoE2EDZSL._SL1500_.jpg
It's a sample pack from the 90s
https://equipboard.com/items/sony-methods-of-mayhem-industrial-toolkit#revisions-form
Good catch. Please, nobody use the one I just made, it needs to be purged. Use the older Sonic Foundry item.
@eyesee, was it the lack of "Sonic Foundry" in the title that prevented the matching algorithm from presenting me this entry while I was adding it? I guess I've become over-reliant on that feature.
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [Kodamo EssenceFM Mk.II]
synth
reverb link: https://reverb.com/brand/kodamo?product_type=keyboards-and-synths&category=synths
Cain, the only difference between the original EssenceFM and MKII EssenceFM is that the MKII has a louder output and removable rack ears, correct? Both machines have the same internals and run the same firmware, right?
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Methods of Mayhem: Industrial Toolkit, by Sounds Good/Sony (now sold by Magix) Image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91BoE2EDZSL._SL1500_.jpg
It's a sample pack from the 90s
https://equipboard.com/items/sony-methods-of-mayhem-industrial-toolkit#revisions-form
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Lyon by Washburn - Lyon LI-15 Electric Guitar
Image: https://reverb.com/item/2192629-lyon-li15-2000-2016-black
https://equipboard.com/items/washburn-lyon-li-15-electric-guitar
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: WL4DX-ASH HOLLOW-FL
Image: https://bacchus-guitar.com/BacchusGuitars/Basses/Woodline/wl4dx-ash-hollow-fl
That's one handsome j-bass!
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Best Choice Products Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar
It's a Semi-Hollow ES-335
https://equipboard.com/items/best-choice-products-semi-hollow-electric-guitar
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Germ Warfare, by Electrofoods Ultd.
It's a germanium boost pedal
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Exar DS-1 Distortion
Name: KOD NG-07 Octaver
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: [MP Custom FX Gainiac Plus]
Image: [https://reverb.com/item/17819556-gainiac-plus-by-mp-custom-fx]
This is a great OD/distortion pedal, used by a couple of local/regional professional artists and highly recommend by Henning Pauly. The images vary because he lets buyers choose custom graphics.
4yover 4 years ago
Why Can't I add items without a link?
The best thing would be if Equipboard had 'groupings' for items - as has been suggested in this post and several other times - where we could consolidate things on one main item page but still give variants a chance to exist.
Amen.
Until that happens, I am ok with variants if they are deemed "musically meaningful" by the community. We will hopefully introduce better ways to consolidate/group items soon, and we can deal with hiding items from search engines that have no value in the form of reviews, artist usage, etc.
There is no incentive for users over 500 IQ to stop and get community consent re: musical meaningfulness before adding something they want to add, so they won't. I'm fine with this.
I'm fine with punting on the whole thing until we have the ability to hierarchically group items. You know my long-simmering lust for the ability to structure item families on this site more or less the way Sweetwater and Reverb do.
4yover 4 years ago
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one more thing: Since I've been specifically asked in this thread not to add the Ken Multi MOD-SS, I won't. However will the contributing guidleines be updated so they tell people not to add niche products like this?
Good idea, yeah. How would you propose summing up pkennethk's point here? Is the gist of it that if an item only has cosmetic variations from an existing item, and the cosmetic variation is not "special" or notable enough to merit its own reviews, artist usage, etc, that it should not be added?
My point was that you didn't add the item when knuschberkeks originally asked, so I was trying to infer from that outcome, along with your previous statements, as to why you didn't want it added. If having 3 different versions of the same pedal from the same factory (Aria AOD-1, Ken Multi MOD-7 and Ken Multi MOD-SS) doesn't impact this new push for improved site quality, then I have no reservations in having all 3 get their own entry in the database.
So, your call. Tell us what is best for the site.
4yover 4 years ago
Volt Series: Affordable new interfaces from Universal Audio
You really want to compress into your Dconverters? Superb dynamic range of modern converters?
fair point.
Update: Latency is still one of my top priorities, so M4 is probably still top of my list.
4yover 4 years ago
Bernard Edwards is off the damn list!
I'm thinking Sadowsky NYC. This video is from 1992, NYC was on the market then... there were a lot of configs available, but that quilted flame finish w/ no pick guard was one of them.
https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/358624-sadowsky-nyc-vintage-1992-quilted-maple-£2550-new-pics/
4yover 4 years ago
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Concerning to my actual DIY Pedals: Is there a way to add pedals like this?
This isn't a pedal, it's a $12 PCB and a PDF :) ... but I trust you're liking Aion FX's offerings, so let's help them sell some stuff by adding this.
Question: If someone else, besides you, had added this PCB awhile ago, what item image would you hope to find in the database? A picture of the PCB? A generalized AionFX logo graphic? A picture of the pedal wiring diagram from the instruction PDF? A picture of that person's finished pedal?...even tough that pedal may have no outward visual indication that its an Aion Astra Silicon Fuzz... and may be painted in some crazy color you're not fond of?
For the Aion FX products that have full kits available, we can use the black kit body picture, but this one doesn't have a corresponding kit body yet.
Update:
4yover 4 years ago
Why Can't I add items without a link?
None of the above. I noticed that the feature was disabled when I wanted to add the new EHX Memory Man Nano. It's not yet in Sweetwater or Guitar Center nor Reverb.
I already did. I love EHX!
Great! You can be the one to remember to link it to the Sweetwater page once it's shipping, lol :)
Now why would I do that? So you'd get a small comission?
I was addressing eyeseeofficial, who, like me, is an unpaid, non-employee volunteer.
If someone viewing an item on the site clicks the Sweetwater link for that item, then decides to buy the item @ Sweetwater in the same session, Equipboard gets a tiny fraction of the sale. As per this site's public affiliate disclosure.
Now we are getting to the real reason why we can only add gear with links to big commercial sites...!
No. As per earlier in this thread, affiliate links are NOT the reason that Add > Music Gear has been restricted to specific types of links. These new restrictions are due to the fact that Equipboard has recently discovered that it is being penalized in search engine results for having too many pages that are algorithmically deemed to be "low quality". A low-quality page, in the eyes of a search algorithm, is one that doesn't have a lot of user activity and doesn't link to other directly-relevant internal or external content. This is a gross oversimplification, because I'm no SEO expert, but bear with me.
When any of us add an item to the database that has a relatively low chance of being connected to more Artists in the future, garnering more user reviews in the future, and more directly-trackable Reverb auction activity in the future, we're contributing a page that search algorithms currently view as a liability to the website's ranking.
The current Add > Music Gear restrictions are not the final state and final word on how items will be added to the site forever; I'm confident things will evolve and improve over time. That said, I'm sure you can appreciate Team EB's current need to focus on improving the site's search rankings as an ultra-high priority, even if it means some of the changes they must attempt are not that immediately popular. Pleasing search algorithms, even if the makers of those algorithms were advising you directly, is not an exact science, obviously. I think it's fair to say that sometimes you just have to make some explicit changes, then wait to see whether those changes help or hurt your ranking.
To the best of my limited outsider knowledge (again, I don't work for Equipboard and don't profit in any way from this site), Equipboard's only revenue streams are hosted ads and affiliate links. Getting good rankings within the major search engines is critical to that model's success. To state the very obvious: Equipboard is a business and must be profitable enough to be worth the time, effort, and expense to run it. Anyone talented enough to create, guide, and maintain a site like this, could easily focus their efforts on way more profitable industries. I, for one, am grateful they're focusing these efforts on musical instruments.
As a temporary solution, Gchiaren has encouraged anyone who can't add the gear they want to post the details here, so moderators can review and potentially add it. Until I am explicitly directed otherwise, I'm likely going to add the gear if its currently in production, currently for sale anywhere, not redundant to other entries already in the database, and relevant-enough to music gear in general. Boutique gear and gear only sold direct by the manufacturer is AOK by me. I'm sure I speak for all mods when I say I am more than happy to help those companies by giving them exposure here, I think this is of critical importance. That said, if the gear is rare, long out of production, and has little to no chance of garnering user reviews and artist attributions in the future, that's where we have to think about it a bit, and likely hold off for now.
4yover 4 years ago
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None of the above. I noticed that the feature was disabled when I wanted to add the new EHX Memory Man Nano. It's not yet in Sweetwater or Guitar Center nor Reverb.
I already did. I love EHX!
Great! You can be the one to remember to link it to the Sweetwater page once it's shipping, lol :)
4yover 4 years ago
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@ro5, what bothers you most re: the new system?
Is your #1 concern that it will complicate your ability to add rare/obscure/boutique gear to artists?
...or are your concerns more about restrictions to what you can add to your own Equipboard and wishlist?
None of the above. I noticed that the feature was disabled when I wanted to add the new EHX Memory Man Nano. It's not yet in Sweetwater or Guitar Center nor Reverb.
OK... well... you'll be able to add this item as soon as Sweetwater has a page, which is typically well before the item is even shipping. Were you looking to add this item to your wishlist, or just in the mood to update the database?
4yover 4 years ago
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I think so, yes.
But is this honestly a reason not to add it?
My reason not to add it is that you kicked off this thread by asking to add it, and a founder, site architect, and person responsible for paying the bills at EB responded by asking some questions instead of adding it right away. Then they further explained why things need to be done differently going forward. I'm inferring from this outcome, from the fact that it didn't get added, that perhaps a pedal that is this rare, and this long out of production, that hasn't garnered any documented pro usage in 30+ years***, may be the kind of thing we need to hold off on adding right now. I'm not thrilled with that conclusion... but the point of these restrictions is to reduce the number of gear entries that have little to no chance of garnering multiple artist attributions and reviews, and steer users to more generalized existing items where it makes sense. These changes are necessary because major search engines are apparently penalizing Equipboard in their search rankings for having lots of discrete pages deemed to be low-activity dead-ends, and therefore low quality, by their algorithmically-derived standards.
I hear you that different brand names applied to the same item from the same factory should still get an entry per brand name... and in the case of items that have some pro-usage documented, and/or are still in production, I agree that separate entries feels like the way to go (until there's a better option at our disposal).
In this particular case, you're a user that's made 189 submissions to Equipboard, which is awesome, and this add is something you want, and you want it badly enough to ask twice and argue your case in-detail without being a jerk about it.
If we add the item as the less-rare MOD-7, and include the clear SS edition as a secondary picture, could you live with that?
Would you be willing to write a kick-ass review of the MOD-7/SS if we added it?
I promise every request to add won't be this drawn out; you're just one of the very first to ask and we're still working out the policy/approach. I appreciate that you're being patient with us.
*** it's still a hand-wired pedal from a golden age of high-quality MIJ gear. I'm sure it sounds great and is worth owning, despite the historical obscurity.
4yover 4 years ago
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Name: Ken Multi MOD-SS Overdrive
The only difference between the MOD-SS and the less-rare (but still very rare) MOD-7 is the transparent plastic case, correct?
UPDATE: is it true that these are one-and-the-same with the Aria AOD-1? One of the videos linked with the AOD-1 IS the MOD-7.
I think you can guess where I'm goin' with this...
4yover 4 years ago
Why Can't I add items without a link?
@ro5, what bothers you most re: the new system?
Is your #1 concern that it will complicate your ability to add rare/obscure/boutique gear to artists?
...or are your concerns more about restrictions to what you can add to your own Equipboard and wishlist?
4yover 4 years ago
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First the SSL2/2+, then Motu M2/M4, now these:
Built-in analog compression?!?
Decisions decisions...
4yover 4 years ago