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  1. Good stuff Nick, keep it up!
  2. Well, as a person who mostly develops his own stuff I have to face the drawback that I never actually learned to reproduce someone else's sound authentically. Especially since Edge relies on effects so heavily. But you do seem to have a gifted ear for that.

    These days I use my GFS- equipped chinese Gretsch copy with shimmer and delay on sundays at our home church worship team - but I only play with a drummer and two female singers there, so I really need something to fill up the sound. In our network band where we have bass and keyboard player I use effects mostly to just spice up my sound when improvising. I don't use a lot of effects on my studio recordings - besides compression, tube saturation and eq of course which I hardly count as "effects". On my new CD-R I only used some unobtrusive reverb for mellow parts, some not- too- much delay to polish the solos a bit and some slapback echo in two short parts. I used my ebow / slide combo with delay in one song for a "highland" feel. What I did use a fair amount of was multi- tracking for guitar doubling and for twin guitar sounds.

    Alex


  3. Thanks Harry!!

    Originally posted by Alex:Well, as a person who mostly develops his own stuff I have to face the drawback that I never actually learned to reproduce someone else's sound authentically. Especially since Edge relies on effects so heavily. But you do seem to have a gifted ear for that.

    These days I use my GFS- equipped chinese Gretsch copy with shimmer and delay on sundays at our home church worship team - but I only play with a drummer and two female singers there, so I really need something to fill up the sound. In our network band where we have bass and keyboard player I use effects mostly to just spice up my sound when improvising. I don't use a lot of effects on my studio recordings - besides compression, tube saturation and eq of course which I hardly count as "effects". On my new CD-R I only used some unobtrusive reverb for mellow parts, some not- too- much delay to polish the solos a bit and some slapback echo in two short parts. I used my ebow / slide combo with delay in one song for a "highland" feel. What I did use a fair amount of was multi- tracking for guitar doubling and for twin guitar sounds.

    Alex


    Oh my... Me? Gifted ear? *blushes*:P Thanks man!
    That sounds awesome! You sound a lot like my Uncle Frank (who gave me the processor) lol. It's great to hear that you write your own stuff! do you have a website or anything along those lines, where I could hear you? I can't wait!
  6. Update on Harry's search for an Explorer - SORTED! Got one off eBay for £280 inc. p&p, so it actually fetched £255 which is a damn sight cheaper than what I would have originally paid for a new Epi. I think it's one of the Korean-made vintage rather than the newer Chinese ones (with the slightly dubious reputation) so I think that's all the better. Should be here by Monday, if not before, so with any luck I'll be getting pictures up in a week or so - the wait is almost over!!!
  7. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Update on Harry's search for an Explorer - SORTED! Got one off eBay for £280 inc. p&p, so it actually fetched £255 which is a damn sight cheaper than what I would have originally paid for a new Epi. I think it's one of the Korean-made vintage rather than the newer Chinese ones (with the slightly dubious reputation) so I think that's all the better. Should be here by Monday, if not before, so with any luck I'll be getting pictures up in a week or so - the wait is almost over!!!


    Ive been out of this topic for a while now....i thought you already ordered it from an online store there?


    ps - good sounds Nick, I like the Discotheque portion!
  8. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Update on Harry's search for an Explorer - SORTED! Got one off eBay for £280 inc. p&p, so it actually fetched £255 which is a damn sight cheaper than what I would have originally paid for a new Epi. I think it's one of the Korean-made vintage rather than the newer Chinese ones (with the slightly dubious reputation) so I think that's all the better. Should be here by Monday, if not before, so with any luck I'll be getting pictures up in a week or so - the wait is almost over!!!


    That sounds amazing Harry! I'm happy for you man!



    Thanks!
  9. Originally posted by haytrain:Ive been out of this topic for a while now....i thought you already ordered it from an online store there?

    ps - good sounds Nick, I like the Discotheque portion!

    Heh, yeah, you're right but unfortunately it turns out that Epiphone have recently moved all their European operations to one sodding warehouse for the entire continent, and have been having trouble keeping up with demand, so basically the one I ordered was yet to come into existence and I had at least another 3 months to wait or something ridiculous, so I went to eBay to look for a bargain and found one. It's been a right old drag seeing as I actually got round to the hunt for one in December and the estimated arrival date has been pushed back over and over again, so I kinda got a bit fed up. I'm not impatient by nature, but constantly thinking "it might be here soon!" and finding out you were premature with your hopes gets a bit irritating lol. I was never bothered as to whether it was brand new or 2nd hand, I just wanted to get my hands on an Explorer, not to mention I'm a sucker for a bargain lol so when the dust settled I was over the moon. It's a lot easier to wait when you know there is actually a guitar wending its way towards you as opposed to simply a concept waiting to be created

    And I also agree about Nick's Discotheque tone, that sounded pretty good!
  10. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Update on Harry's search for an Explorer - SORTED! Got one off eBay for £280 inc. p&p, so it actually fetched £255 which is a damn sight cheaper than what I would have originally paid for a new Epi. I think it's one of the Korean-made vintage rather than the newer Chinese ones (with the slightly dubious reputation) so I think that's all the better. Should be here by Monday, if not before, so with any luck I'll be getting pictures up in a week or so - the wait is almost over!!!


    Explorers are one of the more consistent and better made items in the Epiphone catalog.

    Congrats
  11. What do you guys think a reasonable would be to sell my strat for? It's a sunburst mexican strat with GFS 70's Texas Greybottoms in it. It's in the shop getting checked out right now (there was something wrong with the output of the middle pickup). I don't know how much the repairs will cost, usually close to 100$. I was thinking of trying to sell it for around 400$, would that be too much?
  12. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:What do you guys think a reasonable would be to sell my strat for? It's a sunburst mexican strat with GFS 70's Texas Greybottoms in it. It's in the shop getting checked out right now (there was something wrong with the output of the middle pickup). I don't know how much the repairs will cost, usually close to 100$. I was thinking of trying to sell it for around 400$, would that be too much?
    How is it? Is it any kind of damaged or aged or so, or does it look fine? Aspect is pretty much part of the price, I wouldn't buy an amazing guitar with the best pickups if it's not pretty and doesn't look right That price sounds reasonable anyway, 350-450 $ for a second-hand Mex Strat is reasonable
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