Guitar Thread

[Unkle Fleak]

Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

I want something with a large toenail variation for my two piece band. Also I’m pulling the neck for a sustain-inc. Also, it’ll be sick to have the leftover mini hum bucker. For another project. Maybe the hello kitty would like a pg13 on a slant
Did I show y’all this yet?

This is a homie guitar. The pickup is junk. Has a dope neck profile.

[krookedjuice]

anyone ever mess with making pedals?

i'm going to grab one of those cheaper kits just to try it out before i invest a lot of money in it.

hoping i can eventually get to the point i can put up some mto stuff somewhere. a hobby i'm interested in and can make money seems pretty cool to me.

[Unkle Fleak]

anyone ever mess with making pedals?

i'm going to grab one of those cheaper kits just to try it out before i invest a lot of money in it.

hoping i can eventually get to the point i can put up some mto stuff somewhere. a hobby i'm interested in and can make money seems pretty cool to me.

JHS has a fuzz face video. I’d start there. JHS makes my current favorite 100 doll hair fuzz the series 3 fuzz

I repainted it to match my side project People Sniffer but I went back to this with an octave pedal behind.


Can you make me a high gain version of one of these? Plz
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This is the best distortion in my opinion and I’ve been using them since 1994

[Sila]

Just getting back into playing. I played a Framus with jumbo frets that felt amazing at the local swap shop recently. It's cheap too. Just not totally sold on the body. It's fun to be dipping in again though as I have enough money for half decent gear this time

[Unkle Fleak]

Just getting back into playing. I played a Framus with jumbo frets that felt amazing at the local swap shop recently. It's cheap too. Just not totally sold on the body. It's fun to be dipping in again though as I have enough money for half decent gear this time

Hell yeah. Rumor has it we’re going into a used gear apocalypse rn. So it’s def a good time to get back into it. I I’m not 100 stoked on my pre amp. I might try a brick version of the 5150. Or I might just go get the Keasel floor version of my xb100. The quilter 202 might be the best purchase I’ve made. That things perfect. I just need the right pre amp. I with I had the sansamp still.

[collie]

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Just getting back into playing. I played a Framus with jumbo frets that felt amazing at the local swap shop recently. It's cheap too. Just not totally sold on the body. It's fun to be dipping in again though as I have enough money for half decent gear this time

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Hell yeah. Rumor has it we’re going into a used gear apocalypse rn. So it’s def a good time to get back into it. I I’m not 100 stoked on my pre amp. I might try a brick version of the 5150. Or I might just go get the Keasel floor version of my xb100. The quilter 202 might be the best purchase I’ve made. That things perfect. I just need the right pre amp. I with I had the sansamp still.

What do you mean used gear apocalypse?

[Painted Baby]

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Just getting back into playing. I played a Framus with jumbo frets that felt amazing at the local swap shop recently. It's cheap too. Just not totally sold on the body. It's fun to be dipping in again though as I have enough money for half decent gear this time

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Hell yeah. Rumor has it we’re going into a used gear apocalypse rn. So it’s def a good time to get back into it. I I’m not 100 stoked on my pre amp. I might try a brick version of the 5150. Or I might just go get the Keasel floor version of my xb100. The quilter 202 might be the best purchase I’ve made. That things perfect. I just need the right pre amp. I with I had the sansamp still.

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What do you mean used gear apocalypse?

All the Covid bump instruments are starting to come back into the market as people realize they don't have the interest in playing or see money just sitting there. When they bought them, gear was hard to come by due to the same supply chain issues everybody else experienced. The story goes that you could put just about any guitar you had laying around up for sale at a healthy price and it would sell. Now people try to flip them for what they paid for them and they just sit there, priced too high. Also retail prices inflated anywhere from 15-25% percent so new gear is now more expensive. New and used instruments are flooding the market as all the retail stores close down with just online sales left.

Basically gear has depreciated in value but costs more than ever and this results in more guitars than players so prices are screwy and going to stay that way.

[neonbrown]

Add to that the fact that cheap guitars have never been better. You could buy a Squier Classic Vibes and have that an entire playing life.

[Unkle Fleak]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BanditPed--peavey-bandit-supreme-teal-stripe-preamp-pedal
Did yall see this? The peavey bandit backstage and others are what I got my start on. I’m def checking one of these pre amps out.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

Does anyone have any pedal recommendations to put together a compact and budget friendly “shoegaze/dreampop” pedal board? I’m not a snob and not that great of a player, I’m ok with off brand and clone recommendations. Thanks.

Just get a guitar with humbuckers, a big muff, and maybe a chorus or delay. Just get MXR Chorus and Delay, those are awesome. Any delay or chorus will do really. Play through amp made for clean/cleaner tones, like a Fender of Vox.

[Mongo Lloyd]

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Does anyone have any pedal recommendations to put together a compact and budget friendly “shoegaze/dreampop” pedal board? I’m not a snob and not that great of a player, I’m ok with off brand and clone recommendations. Thanks.

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Just get a guitar with humbuckers, a big muff, and maybe a chorus or delay. Just get MXR Chorus and Delay, those are awesome. Any delay or chorus will do really. Play through amp made for clean/cleaner tones, like a Fender of Vox.

Reverb. Lots of reverb.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

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Does anyone have any pedal recommendations to put together a compact and budget friendly “shoegaze/dreampop” pedal board? I’m not a snob and not that great of a player, I’m ok with off brand and clone recommendations. Thanks.

[close]

Just get a guitar with humbuckers, a big muff, and maybe a chorus or delay. Just get MXR Chorus and Delay, those are awesome. Any delay or chorus will do really. Play through amp made for clean/cleaner tones, like a Fender of Vox.

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Reverb. Lots of reverb.

That too. The type of amp you'd want to be playing out of should have a built in reverb.

[Painted Baby]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BanditPed--peavey-bandit-supreme-teal-stripe-preamp-pedal
Did yall see this? The peavey bandit backstage and others are what I got my start on. I’m def checking one of these pre amps out.

I feel like somebody must've made an OEM board that made these proliferate or something. Also new at NAMM were the Marshall pedals that don't exactly say pre-amp but seem to function as such. Pretty tempted to get a JCM 800 pedal just to have laying around.

I think the Peavy pedals were necessitated by the Decade practice amp. Word got out that Josh Homme at least used it to record (maybe also has it mic'd but hidden on stage) and it spiked the used price to absurd levels. So much so that a 200ish pedal sounds like a deal. Heads up though, Bandits are still pretty universally looked down on (you fools) and you can score a full working amp in good shape for the same price as the pedal if you live anywhere near where there's lots of used gear. Bonus reverb tank too but you prolly wanna put a nicer speaker in there eventually. Emminence has a few good options.

[rukes]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

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I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

[close]

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

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I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

I want a Jazzmaster kind of but half of the reason people get them is for using all those ugly ass tone switches, which I would never use, I wish they didn't have them. The Troy Van Leeuwen Oxblood Jazzmaster is an absolutely beautiful instrument, and those switches are kind of hidden in the color scheme, but they're there. If I ever get a Jazzmaster, I'd get one of those. So cool looking.

My Ibanez baritone has 2 active pickups, a killswitch, and a volume knob it and its all I need for metal style stuff.

[pizzafliptofakie]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

[close]

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

[close]

I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

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I want a Jazzmaster kind of but half of the reason people get them is for using all those ugly ass tone switches, which I would never use, I wish they didn't have them. The Troy Van Leeuwen Oxblood Jazzmaster is an absolutely beautiful instrument, and those switches are kind of hidden in the color scheme, but they're there. If I ever get a Jazzmaster, I'd get one of those. So cool looking.

My Ibanez baritone has 2 active pickups, a killswitch, and a volume knob it and its all I need for metal style stuff.

the Player IIs don't have em







I'm probably gonna buy one after a I pay off a few things

[neonbrown]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

[close]

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

[close]

I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

I've played a Tele so long that even a Strat is confusing to me. The different positions always sound nearly identical, anyway.

[Scab Picker]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

[close]

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

[close]

I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

[close]

I want a Jazzmaster kind of but half of the reason people get them is for using all those ugly ass tone switches, which I would never use, I wish they didn't have them. The Troy Van Leeuwen Oxblood Jazzmaster is an absolutely beautiful instrument, and those switches are kind of hidden in the color scheme, but they're there. If I ever get a Jazzmaster, I'd get one of those. So cool looking.

My Ibanez baritone has 2 active pickups, a killswitch, and a volume knob it and its all I need for metal style stuff.

[close]

the Player IIs don't have em







I'm probably gonna buy one after a I pay off a few things

There's one in British Racing Green for $699 plus taxes:
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-player-ii-jazzmaster-rosewood-fingerboard-limited-edition-electric-guitar/m17354000001000?rNtt=green%20jazzmaster&index=3

I was thinking about getting one but I opted for a Gibson ES-335 that was $700 off, since I always wanted an ES-345. It ended up being a disappointment due to tarnished pickup covers and bad neck relief to the point where the high E string touches the neck pickup if it's not played as an open string. What good is a setup if it happened in November '22? My guitar was sitting in a box in Nashville for over two years. The quality and weight of the wood is great but the build quality is not as good as my Korean and Japanese guitars. Even the Vox Bobcat V90 shits on my ES-335. I still like the Gibson because of how it feels, and I know that it will be fine after a complete setup, but $2800 ($3500 MSRP) is ridiculous for what I got compared to the Vox Bobcat for $550 ($1700 MSRP).

TLDR: Japan and South Korea use woods that are not as good as ones used on American guitars, but they have better build quality and QC.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

TLDR: Japan and South Korea use woods that are not as good as ones used on American guitars, but they have better build quality and QC.

I have an SG that sits in my closet. Its the most annoying guitar ever. It says Gibson on it but everything about it feels cheap.

[neonbrown]

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TLDR: Japan and South Korea use woods that are not as good as ones used on American guitars, but they have better build quality and QC.

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I have an SG that sits in my closet. Its the most annoying guitar ever. It says Gibson on it but everything about it feels cheap.

The truth about the SG is that it was kind of a disaster from a design standpoint, but the pickups screamed and eventually they found their way into the hands of some seriously inventive players who learned to work around its many flaws.

Gibson could fix all the flaws tomorrow, but then it’s not an SG anymore and no one would buy one.

[Willie]

I got to play a $3000 vintage Gibson es-339 and it definitely felt more expensive and less plastic-y than my $300 Epiphone es-339 but it played unequivocally worse.

[Unkle Fleak]

Who cares about guitar center. Now I know that’s all.



Got rid of the v550. It wasn’t it. That pedal I would have kept if I was the only guitar player in the band still. It sounded bad up against the jcm2000. Everything became too high gain.

I got this at a local club. They had it advertised for sale on fb mp. I made an appointment and went down there. Took only a minute. It did the Marshall sound immediately. I don’t like the cabs. Neither does my drummer. We like that part bypassed.

This is what it sounded like at band volume through the quitler return with a dummy plug. I have the phone on top of my amp, not in front of the cab cuz the pedal ain’t dialed quite yet anyway. Close to it tho.
 

One more incredible score. I got a Ep booster by xotic omg! Best 50 I ever spent! https://youtube.com/shorts/Wh4KwvFs3Fs?si=aRZ7Rwbc5O1ATyNS

I can picture Monk singing over this tone. Or maybe the MM elvins. This song I was hearing and was able to hold it there till I got home. I like it. Unfortunately it’ll never get used probably

[radcunt]

I want an affordable, good playing Strat.  Thinking of just fixing up my old 70s Samick Strat copy with some good pickups vs a Japanese Strat vs a new classic vibes.  Will fix the Samick up anyway for fun, but for an actual fender, can't decide which way to go.

[neonbrown]

I want an affordable, good playing Strat.  Thinking of just fixing up my old 70s Samick Strat copy with some good pickups vs a Japanese Strat vs a new classic vibes.  Will fix the Samick up anyway for fun, but for an actual fender, can't decide which way to go.

Where I am, I can find a Mexican Fender pre-owned for $400-600 all day long. I’m not sure that they are improvements over the Classic Vibes (which I’ve never owned but which people really enjoy), but I’d defiantly say the used market is where to start.

[Unkle Fleak]

I’d try these if I did eBay

[rukes]

I want an affordable, good playing Strat.  Thinking of just fixing up my old 70s Samick Strat copy with some good pickups vs a Japanese Strat vs a new classic vibes.  Will fix the Samick up anyway for fun, but for an actual fender, can't decide which way to go.

Find one that has a neck you really enjoy and feels easy to play. Everything else can be modded and changed, but get that sweet neck.

[krookedjuice]

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Why you want three pickups? It just seems so much to me. Two seems to be the God pickup config, but maybe I am missing something.

[close]

I hate the pick up configs on Gibsons. Its too fucking much. Nobody knows or can discern tonal differences at a certain point, and all the knobs have always been confusing and counterintuitive for me, and I've been playing guitar for 25 years. Just give me a good bridge and neck pick ups with a volume and tone. That's all anyone needs IMO.

[close]

I love my JazzMaster, it sounds so good,  but the amount of switching options is way too much. When I got a telecaster, it was the best guitar I had ever played. Volume and tone, simple. But maybe it's just because the neck feels so good, the perfect shape for me.

[close]

I want a Jazzmaster kind of but half of the reason people get them is for using all those ugly ass tone switches, which I would never use, I wish they didn't have them. The Troy Van Leeuwen Oxblood Jazzmaster is an absolutely beautiful instrument, and those switches are kind of hidden in the color scheme, but they're there. If I ever get a Jazzmaster, I'd get one of those. So cool looking.

My Ibanez baritone has 2 active pickups, a killswitch, and a volume knob it and its all I need for metal style stuff.

[close]

the Player IIs don't have em







I'm probably gonna buy one after a I pay off a few things

[close]

There's one in British Racing Green for $699 plus taxes:
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-player-ii-jazzmaster-rosewood-fingerboard-limited-edition-electric-guitar/m17354000001000?rNtt=green%20jazzmaster&index=3

I was thinking about getting one but I opted for a Gibson ES-335 that was $700 off, since I always wanted an ES-345. It ended up being a disappointment due to tarnished pickup covers and bad neck relief to the point where the high E string touches the neck pickup if it's not played as an open string. What good is a setup if it happened in November '22? My guitar was sitting in a box in Nashville for over two years. The quality and weight of the wood is great but the build quality is not as good as my Korean and Japanese guitars. Even the Vox Bobcat V90 shits on my ES-335. I still like the Gibson because of how it feels, and I know that it will be fine after a complete setup, but $2800 ($3500 MSRP) is ridiculous for what I got compared to the Vox Bobcat for $550 ($1700 MSRP).

TLDR: Japan and South Korea use woods that are not as good as ones used on American guitars, but they have better build quality and QC.

damn that green color is nice.

i picked up a player 2 jazzmaster a little while back. and after a proper set up i really like it. definiteely a solid price for a good guitar.

[Coastal Fever]

I want an affordable, good playing Strat.  Thinking of just fixing up my old 70s Samick Strat copy with some good pickups vs a Japanese Strat vs a new classic vibes.  Will fix the Samick up anyway for fun, but for an actual fender, can't decide which way to go.

Awhile back I went to the music shop and picked up nearly every Fender they had.  The Squier CV 60’s felt as good if not better than all of them.

[Unkle Fleak]

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I want an affordable, good playing Strat.  Thinking of just fixing up my old 70s Samick Strat copy with some good pickups vs a Japanese Strat vs a new classic vibes.  Will fix the Samick up anyway for fun, but for an actual fender, can't decide which way to go.

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Awhile back I went to the music shop and picked up nearly every Fender they had.  The Squier CV 60’s felt as good if not better than all of them.

The Homies hello Kitty Guitar has the ill neck carve. It’s Fat on the Bayside skinny on the treble side. Pink dot inlays. He hates the carve but loves the dots. I should get a cheap ass squire neck with the 70s headstock and drill out the dots trade- him. Cause he likes skinny skinny skinny neck