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17 year old nitro finish with barely a mark on it? If it wasn't for knowing my brother in law (who probably looks after his guitars better than his children) I'd have a hard time believing that. Im not all that fussed about aesthetics as long as they play well and feel right (but aye, ok, I've got a firebird that I bought purely on looks and I'd probably draw the line at a neon finish superstrat with that Steve vai Handle).

Similar story with reliced guitars, really. And worn-look ripped jeans. Each to their own, I suppose. Whatever floats yer boat and all that. I don't mind beat up guitars as long they play. Sure as fuck wouldn't actively seek one out or pay a premium though.

Chrome is practically a trigger word for me. It's not what you think though, I don't have a problem with chrome at all I just can't hear or read that word without it starting Zappa's "who are the brain police?" on an endless loop in my head.

Bit far removed from the Sopranos and The Wire but the first few seasons of Northern Exposure are worth a watch if anyone needs some really chilled (borderline depressive) stuff to watch. Thats if you can find it. Apparently its never made amazon prime or Netflix on account of the soundtrack being too good, potential royalty fees making it unfeesible.

I'll need to look that up! That video is the Keeley Magnetic Echo with delay time on the wah, spent that whole day trying out all the different options trying to throw halfarsed demos together for the guy. Thought we'd settled on feedback/repeats but I realised on Friday you can can get a psuedo whammy effect if its set up like in that video and turn the delay mix up and the the feedback/repeats control down. You can hear the pitch shift going on a little in that video, wish I'd explored it more. Too many possibilities.

Those behringer Wah's actually look great man. I just can't multitask. Wah's fuck me up, probably because i use them on my left foot and end up getting tangled in guitar leads. As an aside I'm currently fighting with a ridiculous project I took on against all better judgement. Local fella wanted a delay in a wah shell and I stupidly said "aye, suppose its doable, I'll need a wah shell though" and forgot about it until some Hermes delivery guy appeared at the door with a broken crybaby:

I'm veering off topic but I remember hearing somewhere that dominant hand is only really an issue if your dominant eye doesn't match up. As in right handed folk with a dominant left eye and vice-versa tend to be clumsy and uncoordinated as fuck. Dunno if there's any truth to it but I'll take any excuses I can get.

I'm in a similar boat to be honest @Andrew I've got shelves and drawers full of pedals but my home pedal board is usually only about 8 and anytime I've been involved with bands it gets cut back to about 4 or 5. Two drives, one usually set as a boost, a delay and a tuner. Space for whatever vibe or phaser is flavour of the month. The whole left hand right hand thing (going off a tangent here), it's probably fair to say I just never knew left handed guitars existed until it was too late. I'd actually go as far as saying it made things easier when I first picked it up, stronger fretting hand, piss-weak picking hand. I used to wonder if the "conventional" way is just a holdover from classical styles, where the picking hand would be doing all the work, but aye like @Gemmill that didn't last long.

Can you work a wah properly or sweep pick? I can't.

Will there be a tremolo on there @Andrew? @Tom I know what you mean, I think the main reason I couldn't be arsed with them for so long was through associating volume modulation with that crap extreme stutter effect on those cheap amps with built in multi effects. Took a fella I know who really likes his psychedelics telling me to "have a fucking word with myself" for me to explore them properly and admit I was wrong. As for Wah, I love a good wah but I'm just not coordinated enough to work them properly. I blame it on being a lefty that plays as a righty, but probably just don't practice enough.

Hope I didn't kill this thread by acting like a bellend and slagging off every bit of gear mentioned. Any tremolo fans? I had no time for it until about a year ago. Finally saw the light and have been a bit obsessed since. Jam one between a phaser and a delay, brilliant fun.

Derailing this a bit but I'm surprised none of youse have covered this classic in tribute to Bruce, Weird-Al Style. "If you miss seventeenth place and think you're not a disgrace....... You're a cabbage. If no-one let's you employ your son and you weigh a metric ton..... You're a cabbage. If you're round, green and can't organise a team....You're a cabbage.

The box is likely for either packing your stuff to move out or hiding the body after the inevitable domestic when you find out how much the moisturiser cost.

Like some early Cardiacs then?

Regarding Starmer, I honestly just have a pretty hard time trusting anyone with a knighthood that claims to be a socialist. Not that I'm voting Tory. "Sir Kier" is the lesser of two evils but he's still quite clearly a duplicitous cunt.

"I asked for a table and they brought me a lampshade" was a great Rafa quote (from his time at Valencia I think?).

Aye. Lived on the Mexican border in a patch of land that used to be Mexico. Was "definitely not racist" but tweeted shit like #blacklifesdontmatter. I dont mean to sound cold or callous but I think I just felt the earth get lighter.

2 grand to spend every day picking up dog shit? Fuck that. I can source the parts locally for a fraction of that. Call it £80 and ill build you one from scratch.

If you go for it and it all goes tits up feel free to drop me a message. If you can solder even just a little the kits are probably no more difficult than lego, just with a slight chance of 1st or 2nd degree burns. Pedals circuits are also relatively safe to fuck about with, none of dangerous high currents associated with valve amps to worry about. That forum I mentioned earlier is also a great resource if you do get into it. Full of really friendly folk and the majority of the are much smarter than me. Back to those nutube's. They probably sound really good tbf (as far as low-voltage valve pre-amps go). I'm just a cynical prick and find all that "revolutionary new technology" marketing bollocks and the associated price tags massively disengenuous.

Go for it man, nothing to be intimidated by like. If you can solder these kits are childsplay. Pretty deep rabbit hole to fall into though. Ive never used kits but most of them look pretty legit. I only mentioned fuzzdog since a guy I know recently got started with one of their EQD clones and was really happy with it.

I honestly don't know where to start with this. There was a big discussion over on the diystompboxes forum a few years ago when Korg started trying to flog that NuTube thing as some game-changing new technology. If I memory serves it's essentially the same thing you'd find in flourecent displays back in the early 90s. £200 and they won't even assemble it for you? Sounds like a worse deal than a day trip to IKEA. If anyone wants to get into the pedal building thing and doesn't know where to start id recommend just getting a kit from somewhere like Fuzzdog. Spend the change on a decent soldering iron and a nice bottle of whisky. (Edit to add:) aye, this "new and revolutionary" technology was in your VCR and your car radio a few decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display

Aye it's the basic model (112j) and honestly plays great. Just not my thing, more at home with Tele's and Les Paul's. I've long fancied getting one of their SGs (you know the ones that aren't actually SG's but just double cut Les Pauls?). Honestly dont even know what it is about them, I just like the look of them.

Oh man that's some serious sentimental value. You could probably find a good tech will mod it with an effects loop but likely easier just getting a proper attenuator if this is only thing you'd use the loop for. I inherited a 12-string acoustic and a Yamaha Pacifica from my old man when he passed, neither get played very often but I couldnt ever part with them. Wall hangers, really. The pacifica actually plays really nice but strat types were never my thing. Cheapest guitar in the house but gets looked after better than my main.

Oh fuck no seriously don't do that! That's an expensive repair and why I'm surprised they can get away with marketing this thing as a "passive attenuator". Going back to my "try a volume pedal in the effects loop" that's all this is. Edit: yeah shit, sorry Tom from what I see the class 5 doesn't have an effects loop. My bad.

There's an electro-harmonic one aswell, can remember the name of it They're absolutely not attenuators, just volume pedals essentially. Really handy though. Obligatory "but given its just a volume pot and two jack sockets they've got a right fucking cheek charging so much for it". (actually £40 is probably fair enough to be honest).