Music Gear Discussion

[Shakey]

Fender overdrive is kind of stupid.

If by stupid you mean awful. Fender is best for clean, they do sound pretty sweet cranked though. I'm fine with an amp not overdriving too well, there's plenty of good pedals out there.

[Fe 26]

Where in the fuck is the transformer(s)? Am I high on tweak or is there no visible transformer. I see the speaker is the kind that could have a transformer bolted to the frame but where is the transformer? I sure would like to hear that amp. I bet it's awesome.

it doesn't have a power transformer. It runs right off the AC line (kind of dangerous, but whatever).

It should have a little output transformer mounted to the back. I'm guessing towards the bottom left.

[PaCrappa]

there's plenty of good pedals out there.

My uncle is working with the Soviets to develop an underdrive.

[Shakey]

I hear bbobb is working with the japanese to develop a fuzzmuff.

[Mykozo]

Distortion so hairy you'll be pickin' it out of your teeth when your through!

[arjue]

bbobbs mum is working on a big muff.

[icarusfall]

Bill The Amp Tech told me he can't say for sure until he gets the drawings and tests everything but he doesn't think it'll cost more than $100-$150 top (including tubes).



I'd send you the boards BC but what I save in parts I'd probably spend in postage. Good looking out though.

[Fe 26]

let me know if you have any trouble getting a schem or parts.

[Segata_Sanshiro]

I love Gibsons, but one thing I have found to be true about them is that they are a bit muddy/bottom heavy, which is badass for heavy rhythm guitar work. I've found them mostly to be a pain in the ass to record well though. They always seem to lack the bite of other guitars, and tweeking the amp out to try to make them a bit brighter results in more shreeking, ear fucking buzz than it does bite. I suppose it takes the right guitar/amp combo to really make SG's come alive. I can imagine a new set of pickups that are not as dark sounding as the stock ones being a nice change of tone. Post some audio/youtube or some shit like that.

I have that problem with the cheapie 490T or whatever pickups that come stock in the Flying V, SG, and LP Studios. It's either too muddy or ice picky. I'm gonna put DiMarzio Virtual PAF's in my SG when I have mo money.

Pa, the GI will be mine...someday. I haven't fixed the Sgun but you're right, that must be way less complicated than building an amp so that might not be showing up at your door after all...

I suggest trading your Standard for an SG Classic or one of the $700 type SG Juniors that just got discontinued. That way you get P90's without having to rout. Dunno how you feel about the standard Gibson type versus the P94's though.

Fender overdrive is good on their smaller amps, like the 5e3 Deluxe or the Champ. In fact that's about all those two are good for. I'm trying to get rid of my Bassman though. The cab is too big and distortion pedals aren't any match for my Marshall, unless it's like fuzz or something an amp can't do but in that case you just use the clean channel on the Marshall

[icarusfall]

I've fallen back in love with my baritone guitar.

I have this strange 5-string baritone tuned in fifths that Schecter made back in 99. They marketed it as a NU METAL guitar and it failed as one, but I bought it because it had a stock low-A and I hate 7 strings ( I play sludge stuff in a band setting usually). I've got it dropped down a few steps but kept in the fifths tuning and it's just bowel shaking. And the alternate tuning makes for new and interesting chords/voicings. It's also great for industrial sounding stuff and, surprisingly, black metal. It's one of those things I can't play in a band with a bassist though since transposing doesn't really work very easily and no one wants to work on 'new math' at band practice - so it usually falls by the wayside. However, I've got a project going with a friend doing drums and we're just not going to have a bass - I also play with a Meat Box so that takes care of the lows. Problem is he lives in Florida so we can't exactly practice in a normal sense. We're doing the file trading thing until he comes up to Asheville early next year for an ep recording session.

In other news: any of you ever try hooking a pedal up between the amp out and the speaker cab? Is there any reason this would not work well? I'm running 2 amps with an ABY and I'd like to hook a 2x15 extension cab up to one but only have the Meat Box coming through that cab...