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  1. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    My housemate has a Casino, and to be honest, I'm really not that enamoured by it? Which is a surprise to me, considering their rep. etc. It just felt like there was more to come from it soundwise, but it never brought it out, regardless of what pedals, amps. you run it through and whatever you do with the control knobs. In fairness, I haven't the foggiest as to whether he's got it set up properly or not - thinking about it, probably not, which doesn't help matters...


    Haha yeh it's probably not the best sounding guitar, although I did like it, it was just the feel I got from playing it, it just felt much better than my LP Probably a bit silly though lol
  2. The model I played (and was planning on saving up for) is the Elitist model, which is a better quality guitar than the standard casino. Better parts, better wood, better pickups/tuners, pots etc. THAT one sounded awesome.
  3. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:The model I played (and was planning on saving up for) is the Elitist model, which is a better quality guitar than the standard casino. Better parts, better wood, better pickups/tuners, pots etc. THAT one sounded awesome.


    A friend of mine has the John Lennon Casino. Lovely sounding guitar.
  4. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Alex...this may be a bit of a dumb question, but...I would wanna gig with that amp, it sounds so classic...but it's just too small for a stage

    What would you even do to use it at a gig? Set it on top of something and mic it? It's just SO small!


    Once I get the RP500, I want to buy a PA speaker, to totally avoid the amp and use all models. However, that obviously leaves a sort of empty, "unrocky" look to the stage. So, what I'll do is buy a big cabinet (or whatever the huge, usually four speaker thing is) that does not work, take out everything (speakers, w/e else, to make it easy to transport) and place the speaker inside there. It will probably fool some music folk into thinking that I have amazing, authentic, vintage tone. Just putting some non-functioning speakers that you found on the street on stage can solve your (future) predicament.
  5. Originally posted by jofice:Haha yeh it's probably not the best sounding guitar, although I did like it, it was just the feel I got from playing it, it just felt much better than my LP Probably a bit silly though lol

    M'man, if you thought it sounded good and felt good, then it did it's worth remembering that every guitar is a bit different for god knows how many reasons (to greater or lesser extents), and chances are you played a Casino that was in much better nick that my housemate's lol (which isn't hard - he doesn't murder it but like I said, I sincerely doubt he's ever properly set it up since he bought it last year). I'd say I've yet to play a guitar better than my Explorer, but that's because it's suits me to a tee. I love the sound I get out of it with my set-up and think it feels better than anything else I've played, which, granted, isn't an incredible amount of guitars but enough to give me a sense of what I'm dealing with, I figure.
    Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:The model I played (and was planning on saving up for) is the Elitist model, which is a better quality guitar than the standard casino. Better parts, better wood, better pickups/tuners, pots etc. THAT one sounded awesome.

    Indeed, I wouldn't mind trying that out myself along with a shitload of other guitars doing the rounds...
  7. As if the processor is more than the guitar! Looks cool. The lead guitarist of my band uses a digitech RP-something, and he gets pretty amazing tones. Not really tones that I myself would use, but for his style of playing, he sure makes the tones sing. Good choice!
  8. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:As if the processor is more than the guitar! Looks cool. The lead guitarist of my band uses a digitech RP-something, and he gets pretty amazing tones. Not really tones that I myself would use, but for his style of playing, he sure makes the tones sing. Good choice!


    Yes, the Digitechs are reliably amazing. I'm using an RP250 right now, and it sounds... just fantastic.

    This VERY ROUGH demo of a song of mine is done with the RP250. No amps, just the RP into the computer. I really like the tones that I captured.

    The video can be found on this page, even though it is a page that is telling you that you have failed to download it.

    http://www.downfacebook.com/video/video.php?v=144626442230660
  9. Originally posted by U2Nick:Yes, the Digitechs are reliably amazing. I'm using an RP250 right now, and it sounds... just fantastic.

    This VERY ROUGH demo of a song of mine is done with the RP250. No amps, just the RP into the computer. I really like the tones that I captured.

    The video can be found on this page, even though it is a page that is telling you that you have failed to download it.

    http://www.downfacebook.com/video/video.php?v=144626442230660

    You've definitely broken the internet I have no luck trying to watch anything on that link I'm afraid.
  10. Nick-

    I use a VERY similar Digitech model at home/at gigs...the amp mods really aren't too bad, if you know how to mix the EQ. The most fun stuff is making ultra-specific settings for specific songs (For example, one of my settings has the wah position and delay set perfectly to match "Sirius", by The Alan Parsons Project, which brings the Chicago Bulls into the United Center during their home games- its what we opened shows with )

    The distortion effects can get really treble-y...I've played shows in which they sounded okay from the stage, but upon watching video of the show later, I realized the high end was just clipping WAY too much...so make sure you watch for that. It's somewhat harder to gauge with the crass sound that the stack amp-mod gives you. I usually try to go with a fuzz amp with low gain and push the high end of the EQ, or a tweed amp with mid-to-high gain, with a nice touch of reverb to get the more "big" rock tone.

    Have fun with it- hopefully Santa sends it your way


  11. Ah, I was afraid of that. I was being lazy with that link, I guess I'll hook-up my external and re-upload the audio.

    Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Nick-

    I use a VERY similar Digitech model at home/at gigs...the amp mods really aren't too bad, if you know how to mix the EQ. The most fun stuff is making ultra-specific settings for specific songs (For example, one of my settings has the wah position and delay set perfectly to match "Sirius", by The Alan Parsons Project, which brings the Chicago Bulls into the United Center during their home games- its what we opened shows with )

    The distortion effects can get really treble-y...I've played shows in which they sounded okay from the stage, but upon watching video of the show later, I realized the high end was just clipping WAY too much...so make sure you watch for that. It's somewhat harder to gauge with the crass sound that the stack amp-mod gives you. I usually try to go with a fuzz amp with low gain and push the high end of the EQ, or a tweed amp with mid-to-high gain, with a nice touch of reverb to get the more "big" rock tone.

    Have fun with it- hopefully Santa sends it your way


    I know what you mean, when I first re-modeled a sound for one of my songs, I wanted to go for a more "classic" amp sound, but with heavy gain and distortion. When I was doing it through headphones, it sounded fantastic. However, once I put it through my amp (on the clean, "no-nothing" setting), there was just way too much treble, and it sounded like there was a fiat "screetch" in the background, like nails going down a chalk board. I ended up remodeling again, but I spent the majority of the time on the EQ and the amp. I'm very pleased with that tone now.

    I know exactly what you mean. Luckily, I watched videos from rehearsal before we played our first show in June. I re-modeled and re-taped everything to make sure that wouldn't happen on stage. Yes, I've recently been getting into the the fuzz amp settings. I made a setting that is basically a low-gain Marshal --> mid-gain "fuzz" distortion --> chorus --> long delay. My usual is something like mid-gain AC15 --> "scream" distortion --> delay --> reverb. I can't wait for the RP500 and the AC30 mod.




  12. I compared it to the Swingster and the Gretsch 5120 / 5122. Ended up with the 5122.

    Alex
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