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8 hours ago, Gemmill said:
Is he bong eyed, do you know? 😜
You never seen a Mosrite before Scotty?
I dig that guitar and that's even before knowing that Johnny (the right wing nut job) Ramone loved them.
28 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:Lately I've been using that Chats song "the price of smokes has gone up again" as a rough guage of Aus Dollars to pounds. If it's was $48.50 for JPS a few years ago (and assuming Australia is taxing tobacco higher than we are) I'm assuming closer to £800-£1000.
Insanely cheap for something like that that's handmade, even before thinking about the body being chambered. I quite like the Mosrite shape, It's all wrong at first glance but after a while something about it just works. Bit like that song Anthem by the Wildhearts.
Our peso is worth about 50-52p, so like Tom says it's about £200
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Seems a strange one. He's obviously not part of the leadership team and he's not good enough in Eddie's mind to replace any of our defence, when they are out dead on their legs, and yet we are happy to offer another year?
Lascelle, in the games he's played this season, has proven himself more than capable as 3rd or 4th choice, is the club captain and yet we are happy for him to fuck off for nothing in the summer.
Is there something weird going on or is he just on buttons?
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4 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
Ah don't get me wrong, I'd love it if it weighed 2kg and looked like a tele.
There's a guy here in Brisbane called Tym Guitars, who builds the occasional guitar - you have to be really lucky to get one, either perfect timing for when it goes on his site or for him to offer to make you one.
Most of his guitars are a Mosrite shape but since covid he's started making them chambered bodies and out of pine laminate.
He's got the weight for them down to about 3-3.5kg, which is impressive.
https://tymguitars.com.au/products/tmi-custom-sbv-2022
https://tymguitars.com.au/products/tmi-custom-jrs-sb75-2022
https://tymguitars.com.au/products/tmi-custom-jrh-sb79 - Les Paul Jnr @3kg!
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1 hour ago, RobinRobin said:
As long as that's all.
If he gets CT and Gemmill around he can sing two little boys.
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1 hour ago, Gemmill said:
It's class man. It never goes out of tune. And I can't tell you the difference of having a guitar that's actually properly balanced.
It's not an aesthetic thing either, it's cos of the amount of wood removed from the body in their design, the only way to make it balance is by lopping off the headstock.
Funny you mention that, I've just finished building a jazzcaster/telemaster depending who you ask and have spent the last hour adjust the bridge to lose the buzz and get the intonation right, well as close as you can with a three saddle bridge.
And still there is a slight buzz in the fucking B string! So over the weekend it will be clean the frets up and if that doesn't work and check the truss.
I can imagine it's nice and light but the aesthetics just does not appeal, I'm not judging, to each their own.
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Is it just me, it probably is, but the no headstock thing of both Steinberger and Strandberg (surely they must be related) freaks me out.
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15 hours ago, wykikitoon said:
Some guy on Australian MasterChef made a meringue and everyone gave him a round of applause.
Which is odd as they usually boo meringue.
You'll be getting your wobble board out next, won't you Rolf?
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3 hours ago, RobinRobin said:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/offbeat/viagra-reduces-risk-of-men-developing-alzheimers-c-13523361
If only I could remember to take it
Rob, also try to remember, it isn't a suppository.
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6 hours ago, Tdansmith said:
That's a long way to go for Willy.
A wonky willy at that!
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13 minutes ago, Tom said:
Manchester isn’t the north
Wembley of the upper midlands, doesn't quite have the same GOT ring about it.
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2 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:
They’ve got Man Utd at weekend as well. I’m not sure I fancy Villa in that at the mo.
Ten Fraud will send his lot out to keep it tight, Villa will either nick it with an Onana own goal from Ollie Watkin's arse or it will be the bore draw it deserves to be.
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27 minutes ago, Tom said:
I think Eddie has broken Villa
Martin Tyler is doing the comms on the feed we are getting here - fuck me, he needs to retire. Talking about how good Villa have been at home and how Chelsea are doing something special, hey you silly auld cunt, Eddie's ragtag band of merry men broke a hole in that dam two weeks ago. But no the new Chelsea are here - fuck off.
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7 hours ago, Blastronaut said:
I think Boss are still making them, they're just not as cheap used anymore. Im sure there was a time you'd have struggled to even give them away.
Actually maybe it was the original Heavy Metal.
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6 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:
Tag @sammynb next timeOr don't..
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49 minutes ago, Renton said:
Dunno where to put this but this thread has good traffic so...
Was watching Martin Lewis last night. Anyone who has purchased a car on PCP or HP since 2007 may be due thousands back for being misold.
Missold, shirley?
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48 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:
You should all also try this out with a Metalzone if you ever get the chance. Ola knows.
I was reading somewhere those thing are worth a bomb these days!
Fuck knows why the DF-02 were a much better pedal.
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58 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:
Not quite, it's instrument level which is somewhere between line level and mic level.
I, this is where my knowledge let's me down, the actual measurements, what is the actual difference between instrument and line level?
it's not much is it?
As a kid before I could afford an amp I remember using the mic input on a boom box!
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3 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:
You'll be fine. Shouldn't need to change anything, effects loops are essentially designed with bog standard delay and reverb pedals in mind.
Probably best example is Blastronaut's overdrive that we all know - compare the volume with that on and off, off you are at line level, on (obviously depending on how you have it set but with everything at 100%) it is pushing the signal level to above line, hence why you get a rise in volume without changing anything on the amp. So in effect it is working as a preamp, albeit lower powered version.
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Just now, Gemmill said:
Or am I talking shite and that would blow the amp.
No, line level is what a passive pickup guitar provides already, it's the preamp that boosts it, hence why running the Helix into the input, you are getting a preamp going into another preamp, which has more chance of blowing the physical preamp stage.
But it's also pretty difficult to fuck solid state amp those things are like Russian spaceflight shite, unless you pour water on it.
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3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
My home setup is Helix into a FRFR speaker, so I have both amp and cabinet model in my Helix signal chain.
You can have dual cabinets with different mic and mic placements etc. It gets to be a bit much for me cos I'm not an expert in any of that shit, so I try not to overcomplicate what I'm doing.
Yeah so that's just a solid state powered speaker that would run off line level input.
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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
Is that effectively just a modelled power amp?
No, you are right, it's purely the speaker box sound, as stated above. So if you are picking say an AC30, then that is the pre and power and amp (this would be the head in a physical amp), then if you match it to say to 2 x 12" Celestion speaker box, you would be creating a digital version of an AC30 combo amp.
But none of these have the physical output to drive an actual speaker box.
Probably the most basic way to explain it all.
A turntable > phono stage = line level
A passive pickup guitar/mic/cd player = line level
Active pickups = above line level, not pre amp level
Guitar passive pickups <provides power for/signal back > Preamp level > power amp = driving speakers
Does that make sense?
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I forgot to mention, those cabinet models are also for live performers who no long use individual amps but all plug in to the PA.
I remember reading about Low totally ditching amps and through a gig, they would use different cabinet model plugins for different songs, allowing them not to be locked into a single amp sound.
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13 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
I think I'm right in saying that the only difference to what you're currently doing is:
- Put a Helix amp model at the end of your current signal chain*
- Instead of plugging from HX output into the Amp Input, plug from HX output into the Amp FX Return
That way you've bypassed the shitty preamp of the physical amp, and are just using the preamp of whichever Helix amp model you've chosen and using the physical amp as just a speaker cabinet.
*question for Blastronaut and Andrew: does he need a helix cabinet model too? Or just the preamp and the physical amp is providing the cabinet?
Not Blastronaut or Andrew but I can answer this, you still need a power amp to power the speaker cabinet, so by going in the effects loop, it bypasses the preamp.The head or a combo amp are actually what is called an intergrated amp, so signal>preamp>power amp>speaker.
At one stage in the 80s bass players started just buying preamps to tour with because as you can imagine a bass rig is huge and pain in the balls to lug around but their sound was formed with the preamp.
edit: After a quick look at the Helix site, the helix cabinet model is just a speaker soundalike plug in for recording direct, so no it wouldn't have any bearing upon playing live with a speaker cabinet.
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More likely we lose our best players who want to play in Europe and we struggle to get in players with aspirations to play at that level.
So we end up with Phillip Billings and the like and those that keep harping on about upgrading Miggy will get even more chance.
Footballers careers are short and the good players don't have a lot of patience.
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The Guitar Thread
in General Chat
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I remember reading Johnny coming from a US military family and that had a lot to do with the way he was, to him the way they dressed was his uniform and if you weren't ina leather jacket, jeans and connies, you weren't a punk.
They played here a lot in the 80s/early 90s and were idolised by all the local punk bands but Johnny was an arsehole wanker that, I think it was Frenzal Rhomb had some merchandise shirts and stickers made up with, Johnny Ramone was ina fucken good band but he was a cunt.
Edit: turns out it was one of their songs.