seth_proctor

I purchased mine used, a 90's Japanese domestic market model, and I have yet to play an American made Jaguar that functions better than mine. With a neck shim, raising the bridge a bit, and securing some things with teflon tape and bending the tremolo arm up, it works perfectly the way I want it to. I've found a guitar I will never part with. It stays in tune well with heavy tremolo use, it has those cool sound artifacts from the strings ringing behind the bridge, not a ton of sustain, just a perfect sound for me. A very comfortable short scale, and still an adequate amount of string tension with .12 gauge strings on it.

Straightforward guitar, build quality better than that of teisco and similar brands, thick u shaped steel reinforced neck. Bad stock tuning machines, plastic bridge, and poorly designed vibrato tailpiece, but it’s worth putting the work in to make it playable.

These amps are hidden jems, they sound nearly identical to the Roland JC-120 for half the price, and have even more headroom. A true stereo crystal clean solid state amp with a beautiful lush chorus, and a spring reverb tank, who doesn't think that's worth $200? It functions very well as a pedal platform, it's all about finding the right dirt pedal that isn't dependent on pushing tubes to sound good. I could upgrade to a Roland JC-120, but why would I? I could buy a Fender Twin one day, but honestly this is probably a more reliable and road worthy amp that I can toss around and crank up. It does what I want.

This pedal, it doesn't have tap tempo, it only has two settings, it feels a little flimsy, but in the echo mode with the repeats and the level up and the time down it will just sit on the edge of oscillating into chaos, but instead just sit behind your playing as an ambient wash, it's seriously the most beautiful sounding delay pedal ever made. For reference check out the live outro to Deerhunter's Desire Lines, that's definitely the sound Lockett is getting.

It works most of the time. Fairly accurate for 440hz tuning, keeps me in tune with the rest of my band. Can't really complain.

The possibilities with this effects unit are endless. The distortion settings are frankly terrible, it's equipped with flimsy plastic jacks, and there is a definite learning curve when programming it. It's also cumbersome to navigate even after you have programed presets without a midi footswitch, however this thing is worth it. They can be found for under $100 and offer some of the most lush modulation, reverb that dwells for 40 seconds, or crazy reverse sounds, and nice compression.

I found this thing at the Goodwill for $8 bucks and was just beginning to toy around with the idea of running cassette loops and sampling through my amp and effects along with my guitar via a mixer. Little did I know when I bought it that I came across the holy grail of cassette players for a noise artist, it's infinitely tweak-able as it has a speed/pitch slider, a tone slider, volume slider, and you can play the opposite side of the tape in reverse. It's very portable and is easy to take along to shows. Turns out Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth has one of these things and they sell for a decent amount, who knew? Though I didn't pay market value for it, if you're committed to cassette sampling and making some noise, and live manipulating samples for your music, it is well worth the price.

But it's actually perfect. It's functional in every possible way and fits the aesthetic and purpose of the original jazzmaster/ jaguar bridge.

I really enjoy exploring the possibilities of using a bow on an electric guitar, because there isn't really a set correct way to do it, it's all experimentation. You will get rosin everywhere though.