The Guitar Thread

[Blastronaut 1475]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Yep! Its a Matt Heafy signature, so there’s a lot going on. 
 

 

Tbh my stage/studio setup has simplified itself to P90 > Fuzz > Amp so I really want to make sure I explore more out there stuff whilst at home so my playing/creativity don’t stagnate too much. 
 

I saw a lad playing one of these in Liverpool on saturday and thought it sounded/looked class. He let me have a look and I really liked it. 
 

Very much the opposite of my LPJ  

 

 

Sorry to be "that guy" again but I'll need to be more specific than that. What's the fuzz? You still rocking the fuzz factory or moved onto some other fuzz face variant?

 

 

[Tom 15508]

13 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:

 

Sorry to be "that guy" again but I'll need to be more specific than that. What's the fuzz? You still rocking the fuzz factory or moved onto some other fuzz face variant?

 

 

Its a standard Big Muff, no frills  

[Monkeys Fist 50627]

3 hours ago, Tom said:

For fucks sake

Niiiiice.  
 

Is it white, aye? 

[Blastronaut 1475]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Its a standard Big Muff, no frills  

 

I think you're baiting me here. Fuck it, I'll bite.

 

Thats a long standing point of contention and a huge can of worms. I lean a little in favour of the people who will tell you "that's not a fuzz" despite loving most incarnations of that said pedal.

 

 

 

 

[Tom 15508]

Ah fair enough. As mentioned - tempted for a superfuzz

I’m honestly not baiting though   

 

[Blastronaut 1475]

Try the JHS Supreme if you get a chance, it's probably the most versatile of the Superfuzz options out there that I'm aware of. Nothing wrong with the other options but they're pretty much just one trick ponies. 

[Tom 15508]

Yeh a supreme is on the list! 
 

On 7 String Les Paul news this thing is an absolute beast. I’ve played some high quality Epiphone’s in my time and have a lot of respect for the brand but this is by far the best I’ve played. A couple of cosmetic differences aside it responds & feels like the Gibson equivalent. 
 

The pickups are strange but wonderful, im just trying to learn what the buttons do  

 

Pleased to report its very versatile and not just a shreddy/metal guitar. The tones/playability are both off the scale, everything comes easily once you get used to it.
 

Over the moon!

[Andrew 7454]

Got a new amp, one thats been on the want list for quite a lot of years by now.

 

 

Figured I should get a family photo before I sell the kids to get some money back!

 

 

[AgentAxeman 584]

9 hours ago, Andrew said:

Got a new amp, one thats been on the want list for quite a lot of years by now.

 

 

Figured I should get a family photo before I sell the kids to get some money back!

 

 

The Victory amps/pedals are great. Nice one. 🤘🎸

[Gemmill 62969]

 

 

This thing is mint. She's demoing it here using a sample quote from a film with a drum loop added, but you can piss about sampling guitar bits in and then mangle the fuck out of them in the same way as she is here (plus LOADS of other stuff). Or just load other samples and drum loops etc. 

 

It comes with four different synth engines and a fully functioning sampler and it's basically a Game Boy but for music. It's based on the old tracker format that original computer music was done on, so it looks like a spreadsheet which is always good. 

 

It's eight tracks but you can resample inside the machine so you can keep freeing up new tracks. 

 

I used to practice and learn new stuff on guitar, but I never intended to play it anywhere so it all felt a bit pointless. Now I just load nonsense into this thing, mangle it, chop it up and fanny about with it, earphones in. Hours of fun. 

 

Here's some tuneful nonsense someone's come up with on it. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andrew 7454]

On 24/04/2025 at 15:29, Andrew said:

Got a new amp, one thats been on the want list for quite a lot of years by now.

 

 

Figured I should get a family photo before I sell the kids to get some money back!

 

 

Ok this thing is phenomenal.

 

It can get down to 2 watt RMS using low power and single ended mode which is plenty for my office and cranked its very loud in that room.

 

Shit it sounds good though, and it so far plays really nicely with my pedalboard which hasn't been the case with my Katana for a while.

Gain 1 reacts really well to rolling back the volume on my guitar and splitting pickups gives a surprisingly sparkly clean, that then becomes a really smooth overdrive if I put on the Nux Steel Singer. adding in the Keeley Caverns and/or Astral Destiny gets into really nice sustaining ambient territory.

Gain 2 is full metal, sounds amazing just on its own and then gets super tight modern metal with the precision drive in front of it.

 

Victory do indeed make some right good amps, definitely more my thing than my Sheriff was (which was also brilliant tbf) 
 

[AgentAxeman 584]

12 hours ago, Andrew said:

Ok this thing is phenomenal.

 

It can get down to 2 watt RMS using low power and single ended mode which is plenty for my office and cranked its very loud in that room.

 

Shit it sounds good though, and it so far plays really nicely with my pedalboard which hasn't been the case with my Katana for a while.

Gain 1 reacts really well to rolling back the volume on my guitar and splitting pickups gives a surprisingly sparkly clean, that then becomes a really smooth overdrive if I put on the Nux Steel Singer. adding in the Keeley Caverns and/or Astral Destiny gets into really nice sustaining ambient territory.

Gain 2 is full metal, sounds amazing just on its own and then gets super tight modern metal with the precision drive in front of it.

 

Victory do indeed make some right good amps, definitely more my thing than my Sheriff was (which was also brilliant tbf) 
 

Love my Katana's, gig em every weekend. £ for £ the best amps I've ever had. But you are correct, the Victory stuff is pretty fuckin awesome.

[Andrew 7454]

Just now, AgentAxeman said:

Love my Katana's, gig em every weekend. £ for £ the best amps I've ever had. But you are correct, the Victory stuff is pretty fuckin awesome.

 

Oh the Katana is not going anywhere, its been a great buy and agree that $ for $ dollar there isn't anything Id pick over it.

It really struggled with my pedals for some reason though, with the exact same setup as the victory it just didn't work, reverbs and delays in particular were really noisy and weird, I never fully understood why.

[Gemmill 62969]

 

 

Good video about why the cool guitar kids have a sampler. Endless entertainment. 

 

 

[Gemmill 62969]

This Boss Plugout thing.

 

10 dollars a pop to own the licence for different Boss pedal models. 

 

Fuck that. I hope it gets rejected by the community. 

 

Boss are fucking TERRIBLE at supporting any new tech as well. The WAZA air headphones were basically abandoned despite being quite popular. I wouldn't trust them with this thing. 

[Gemmill 62969]

Bonehead and Gem Archer now have signature epiphone guitars ffs.

 

[AgentAxeman 584]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Bonehead and Gem Archer now have signature epiphone guitars ffs.

 

That'll be a big fat no from me. 😵‍💫🎸

[Gemmill 62969]

Unreal man. Obviously it's just an attempted cash in on Oasis being temporarily back, but I'd be amazed if there's much interest at all in these guitars. 

[The Fish 12521]

Thinking about getting the lad a small guitar to start learning on. I know the square root of fuck all about guitars, so any advice would be welcome. I don't want to ask AI because; it gets stuff wrong all the time, it burns down the Amazon to make one of Renton's images and, I'm not CT

[Andrew 7454]

how old is he?

 

[Gemmill 62969]

And are we talking electric or acoustic? 

[The Fish 12521]

He's 6 (turns 7 in June) and honestly I'd imagine acoustic would be a better idea. Less need to have shit plugged in, so less likely to break wires, plugs or bones.

[Tom 15508]

At that age he‘ll need lessons regardless of the guitar he’s bought. So that’s the investment I’d look at first.

[Gemmill 62969]

26 minutes ago, The Fish said:

He's 6 (turns 7 in June) and honestly I'd imagine acoustic would be a better idea. Less need to have shit plugged in, so less likely to break wires, plugs or bones.

 

Less stuff to buy as well. No amps and shit. 

 

This'll be decent enough. It's a proper brand rather than something you'd get from Argos, and it's a 3/4 size guitar so it'll be more comfortable for starting out on. 

 

Yamaha JR1 3/4 Acoustic at Gear4music https://share.google/M9RhVrdDloDoljIHO

 

The Taylor Baby BT1 are nice smaller guitars too but they're double the price of the Yamaha. 

 

Tom's right though, he'll need lessons to get the basics under his fingers. You can learn a lot online for free from places like justinguitar, but at 6 I assume he's not gonna be up for that. 

 

[The Fish 12521]

5 minutes ago, Tom said:

At that age he‘ll need lessons regardless of the guitar he’s bought. So that’s the investment I’d look at first.

Yeah there's an afterschool club with a proper tutor (not just a music teacher) that's not much more expensive than the current club he's in. A club where he basically dicks about playing the modern equivalent of Ms. Pacman or some shit..