tel_nobody's forum posts 734

As ncie as your baord looks for a homebrew I will ebt it weighs a metric shit ton.

Closer to an Imperial fuck tonne to be honest. Two layers of melemine with sides and back, two power supplies and thru jacks with 14 pedals on it....

Next prototype I am considering window Security grille or picker styled repurposed car bonnets. Having trouble still with lode bearing capabilities of materials.

It would probably wipe you from Friedman's christmas card mailing list...

It is true. I have a green Russian Big Muff and I use it in most songs. I play Jazzmasters Strats and Teles, copies and vintage clunkers too, even an acoustic electric epiphone through a Marshall JCM800... the OLD 2203... a 100w stadium head and a 300w custom Cab of 3 Fender Speakers and an EV. Love the sound I get. My soundscape ranges from Goth to Grunge, Hard rock to industrial and back again to ballads and musical salads.

Here's what that statement IS NOT saying.

Through my big old valve amp that is built to scream, the big muff sounds great RUNNING WITH OTHER PEDALS. With a tube screamer it is mighty. With TWO tubescreamers... pick a better word and double it. With a compressor it is a beautiful thrummed note that does not know the meaning of "decay" or "Stop Sustaining". With a flanger and some delay it is a sad listful sound, with a phaser it screels through the swooping overtones of the phase....ignoring the notes you are trying to play like they no longer matter... surrendering to the waveform. Slapped alongside a marshall emulating pedal it tries to crumble in a comforting way and with a soul food (Klon Clone by people who didn't really try) It can bring you close to tonebender and rangemaster-esque tones. With a wah it wails or hums, depending on position in the signal chain. and slap an eq pedal before it and you can emulate chugging palm mute Djent work.

By itself it is a good pedal. but it is how it works with others that makes it unique and where it's versitility comes into play.

Through my solid state amp... Roland Jazz Chorus.... it misses the mark, drives everything a bit too aggressively and unpleasantly and has me tapping other pedals instead. Even through fender amps the tone is a bit thin and brash. And don't put it anywhere near a vox.... It is a workhorse and the vox is a show dog... you know what happens when you try and plug a horse into a dog... not recommended.

And with a bass this thing thuds like a champion.

It even adds some real guts to drum machine tracks and sets up perfectly for industrial voicings otherwise unattainable.

The Green russian is a bassier version, with more bottom end and a more stable midrange presence. Closest comparable for the best price is the EHX Bass Big Muff Nano.... not the normal Big Muff Nano. Or even grab an ENO BMF fuzz from ebay in china. That will give you a feel for a great sound match for minimal dollars.

There are plenty of boutiques about... all charging heaps for their approximation of a pretty simple circuit. It is still in production which says something for it... don't pay the big bucks when you can work magic with a basic version.

Hope this helps...

Jim's OK Brandon honestly... just when you approach him, hold out a biscuit... just to make sure you get the right end... one is an ass!

p.s. I don't eat biscuits.

Surely they could be made a la radio shack? pull the guts from a DIY buffer and port it up. Get yer tools on!

To speed up bump ins, I used to have all my pedals (5 back then was a lot!) gaffed to a piece of wood. Later I decided I could build a small platform at the back to add a few more pedals... because any wider would be silly! I gaffed a Boss PSA240 under the platform and ran a daisy chain to everything. It was spraypainted black, covered in gaff and spilled beer and blood and lacked any finesse or craftsmanship and everyone started calling it the TWO STOREY GLORY. Hated the Boss one.. only really fit Boss pedals. I was away from music for years and didn't realise stomps were making a comeback... I always used them. I remember getting partially judged just when I started playing again when I rocked up to a jam with the grotty old dust and fluids covered board. People started coming over to see what it was all about. Then I flicked off standby and they stopped wondering.

Then how do you explain Billy Corgan's use of the Big Muff

Corgan infamously was quoted as stating that Siamese Dream layered up to 29 guitar tracks.

I doubt even Corgan could explain Corgan's use of the Big Muff.

I use a Big Muff, and have made it work live. I have also used it on several recordings and found that each engineer gives it a new sound, new slant or new feel based on what he runs it through. A useful pedal, with plenty of options for those who take the time to love it.

Welcome. Bring the crazy... climb on in.. don't wipe your feet, drag it all in. Liking your Soundcloud stuff...

As a guitarist or bassist, what do you take when you are performing live? Do you take a backup instrument or several? What is in your gear bag when you travel? Do you have a list of what you take? Are they easily idenifiable in a busy backstage environment? Do you have a live kit that is seperate to your rehearsal gear?

How portable are you?

I thought they just knew how I ticked...

Robert Smith, J Mascis, Katy Perry.

Responding to OP.

Open a magazine or newspaper. Do not read anything, but look at the first image you see. Write a song about it or too it.

This is a simple technique used to activate your brain. Do this twice the first day, three times on the second day and five times on the third.

This should have you reset and energised to write.

Did widgets die?

I now identify as two mics and a tuner.

You SOLD the Talman???

• Australia for some reason. Pretty much sums us up... You can pretty much use that statement on the end of everything. we are like our own hashtag

And my Teisco NB-4 bass prob clocks in about '65

My Teisco ET2000 (St. George MJ-3 or Coltone) rings in as a '63 hitting catalogs in '64. (second guitar from left on my 2nd gear porn pic).

Hi Alan,

I do this all the time. The interface is just a way to record what you want into your computer... into your DAW the digital audio workstation that is used to record your music.

While it shows in several videos and diagrams that you just plug your guitar straight in, treat the interface as the amp in your signal chain, with everything that normally occurs between your guitar and your amp still in place.

One thing to remember is that without an amp, your signal (the audio you are recording) will sound a little less interesting because it does not have an amp colouring your tone to give you YOUR sound. You can however download a program on the Native Instruments website called Guitar Rig Player. It is a free smaller version of their software that has several amps copied as emulations. They will be enough to get your sound back to how you like hearing it.

Good luck!

I know I am not staff, but in thinking on a solution for this, I would probably suggest a group shot of as much of the gear as possible listed in the gear porn section and in the description a left to right system identifying each piece as we look at them

I have Guitar Rig 5 Pro and use it daily. I need to match it to a foot controller for more versatility.

Thanks Boom, but I actually meant for Jim to post an image. Even that one you've posted doesn't show the headstock the guitar which makes me think that it could still be the 12 string.

Hi.

The boards forums currently have page numbers , next, prev and last at the bottom of the page. Can this happen at top as well?

In particular, the first page of IDENTIFYING THE GEAR is painful on a mobile scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll.

This little addition would be so much easier for navigating the forums.

First thing I tried was simply taking off the 12, but google image searches still only show the 12 string in all attempts. This is standard gib practice but gretsch didn't seem to follow this.

Got any images to match it? I am frustrated I could not find that exact matching that BOOM requested by trying exactly this.

Not being facetious, I just did not find this.

Yay. 800!

Try a telecaster or jaguar or jazzmaster while you are at it. Fender also

The DR is a pedal platform. get some great responses out of them. PGS video demoes are almost exclusively on DR, based on how they respond to boxes. I am a stomp guy.. this is my choice.

tele guy - lead guitar is a ts9 tubescreamer. Vocalist is a rat through the musicman. no DS1 there.

If I were to replicate that sound, I hear no tremolo... and I am a trem guy. That just sounds like percussive playing, double stroking and punching through on accents. Pretty minimal overdrive at play just to get the treble brightness... all bridge p'ups. But no, no tremolo in that song.

There is a baritone in there more than a bass, and going through guitar amps because of how bright the bass notes are registering. The discordancy is a tad offputting and the detuned guitars sound like the strings are barely hanging on.

I doubt we could ever guess where mics are with this, I think there could be a mic on the guitar itself, picking up the string rattles and warbles the way it is.

Sweet! Thanks Michael, that is working fine and they added straight up. I am on Internet explorer also, and in Australia. Have not experienced any problems at all. (Sorry James)

Hi,

Microphones don't have a home yet, and it seems a Roland Jazz Chorus is a Power Amplifier, not an Amplifier.

Other than that, It looks awesome! Thank you!

Okay I am being serious here. I know professional bass players who work in various cover bands and tribute shows and work five nights a week. They have all the top gear as you would expect and they boil their strings every so often in some solution I don't know what it is, and that boils out all of the dirt and finger crap that they have collected and makes them bright and usable again. To repeat, this is not some slap around guy, but professional musicians who work playing bass for a living. This being said, on my two basses one has not had strings changed in 17 years and I did it recently, the other one had been about 10 years. They don't get a lot of live use but they still sounded good although not quite as bright.

I don't get it. How does this help the site, or the music community?

The h20 is beautiful. It says it is an analog delay but it holds up to the boss digital. The chorus is really nice. Very similar to my jazz chorus or a boss CE2. I don't use the "lush" setting that much... a bit too rich for chorus applications. I have the version 2, the v3 adds a vibrato. Seriously great pedal though. I only wish the signal chain went chorus then delay instead of delay chorus. But still brilliant.

Pretty sure my last entry was confusing being generic.

If I run guitar to pedalboard to ABY with channel A going to Marshall high input and Channel B going to Roland high input, and have the stereo out from the H2O going to the Marshall low input and the stereo out from the DD2 to the Roland low input, is that still daisy chaining?

So will running (for example) DD2 dedicated output to marshall and stereo output to roland achieve well enough without me trying to bounce the H2O back the other way... ?

I am considering a dedicated two amp set up. Both are one channel amps with high and low input jacks. The plan is to run my signal path to the hi input jacks of both amps direct from the pedalboard, with the dry signals from two stereo delay pedals going to the low input jacks of one amp each (delay 1 dry to amp B delay 2 dry to amp A)

I also want to be able to toggle between amps or run both together at times... hence the ABY question.

Will this cause undesirable shifts in volume when I switch from a dual amp mode to a single amp mode, and if I am running amp A only, will its delay pedal stereo signal still bleed across to amp B?

Will my volumes from A and B be decreased when they are both on, coming up louder when using amps individually, and if the volume drops when using both through an ABY, will the dry delay signals be at the original volume, overpowering the overall signal???

waving middle fingers and penis

Unsure which is bigger. Just be careful after eating KFC which one you lick.

I climbed to the top of this mountain for you to tell me that???

Yep realise this post is over a year old, but all the talk of snack food got me intrigued.

I read it that not so much which is the best apple, but which is the best apple to make orange juice with.

OP wanted a Floyd, which would have seriously gimped the sustain thing the LP has going, so was offered a bigsby or alternative.

Was OP's first guitar and they had passable woodworking skills... maybe they have successfully gouged out a hole big enough to cram a Floyd on, then fucke* (self -censored) with the nut to get that happening with a Floyd clamp etc...

...or they went with a bigsby. which for a beginner on his first guitar wanting a Floyd for all the bomb diving and stuff would be like wanting an Orange juice and ending up sucking the crushed peel of your apple instead.

They either got an apple and glued orange peel over it or they made an apple juice and tried to pretend it tasted like an orange.

OP needed to try a few other guitars, (fender types, Ibanez types, all types), and find a working whammy bar, to realise that his ideal citrus hit probably grows on a different tree. then learn how to use it.

You will be very happy with this purchase. A great upgrade for you.