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Accidentally ended up on the thread of the first page:

Originally posted by germcevoy:why the feck can't he (supposedly) work out the sound to Ultraviolet again?

We can finally declare that particular issue resolved!

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In other news, I've decided it's time to start on another project, so I'm going to bagsy an HSS Bullet Strat and soup it up.

In a breakaway move from my current stylings, I'm going to plump for this blighter:

And soup it up. Breakaway in the sense of I generally don't go for light colours, but that said, my first proper guitar was my alpine white Epi LP, so perhaps not that much of a breakaway.

Similarly, it's a Strat, so it's hardly a left-field move for me, but I've basically come to terms with the fact that I like Strats the most - I guess I'm a classicist in terms of guitar shape.

However, I've been revisiting my hard-rock / metal roots (particularly Def Leppard), and there's something about an HSS-fitted Strat shape which nicely straddles the divide between heavy stuff and the rest of the stuff I play: it feels right aesthetically and sticking a fat humbucker in the bridge will give it the punch I currently lack with my black Strat.

So main things on the to-do list once I've got it:

- Decide whether to keep the white look on the hardware, e.g. scratch plate, p/ups, knobs etc.
- Get a coil-tap for the humbucker
- Get upgraded p/ups
- Possibly upgrade the tuners / trem bar etc. depending on how knackered or not it is when I get it through from the dealer.

So nothing too drastic but I think it'll be a cunning way to split the difference across my collection in terms of look, sound etc.

Carry on!

WojBhoy

8 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy:Accidentally ended up on the thread of the first page:

[..]

We can finally declare that particular issue resolved!

***

In other news, I've decided it's time to start on another project, so I'm going to bagsy an HSS Bullet Strat and soup it up.

In a breakaway move from my current stylings, I'm going to plump for this blighter:

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And soup it up. Breakaway in the sense of I generally don't go for light colours, but that said, my first proper guitar was my alpine white Epi LP, so perhaps not that much of a breakaway.

Similarly, it's a Strat, so it's hardly a left-field move for me, but I've basically come to terms with the fact that I like Strats the most - I guess I'm a classicist in terms of guitar shape.

However, I've been revisiting my hard-rock / metal roots (particularly Def Leppard), and there's something about an HSS-fitted Strat shape which nicely straddles the divide between heavy stuff and the rest of the stuff I play: it feels right aesthetically and sticking a fat humbucker in the bridge will give it the punch I currently lack with my black Strat.

So main things on the to-do list once I've got it:

- Decide whether to keep the white look on the hardware, e.g. scratch plate, p/ups, knobs etc.
- Get a coil-tap for the humbucker
- Get upgraded p/ups
- Possibly upgrade the tuners / trem bar etc. depending on how knackered or not it is when I get it through from the dealer.

So nothing too drastic but I think it'll be a cunning way to split the difference across my collection in terms of look, sound etc.

Carry on!

So I got the above last week and I was blown away. Quite frankly, it felt like far more than a £95 guitar!

Turns out it's an Indonesian-made Squier, and from what I read, it certainly shows. Felt like it was made with a lot of love and attention to detail - great action, smooth neck, lovely p/ups. At this moment I don't feel the need to change anything whatsoever - just going to stick the trem bar on when I get the chance and make sure I don't cock up the action etc.! It's at least on a par with my best axes at the moment, and also probably better suited to my style than all of the rest of my axes bar my Explorer (and I don't have any particular issues with my other guitars, it's just that this Strat was better suited).

Also finally realised that whilst I have big palms, my fingers aren't particularly long, so playing a thin neck with standard 9-gauge strings, everything suddenly felt so much easier than the slightly bigger radiuses and 10/11-gauge strings I've persisted with for so long. Very much a BB King moment for me.

We'll see how it goes but for now, I'm a happy man.

eladanelf

7 years

Does anyone have experience with the Behringer rv600 reverb pedal? I'm thinking about buying it as a cheap option for a shimmer effect. I already own a boss gt-8, so I'm quite covered on the other reverb effects. What are your experiences with it?

And perhaps a dumb question, but where does such a pedal go with the boss gt-8 in the signal chain? is it: guitar -> behringer -> boss, or guitar->boss->behringer?

LikeASong

7 years

Originally posted by eladanelf:Does anyone has experience with the Behringer rv600 reverb pedal? I'm thinking about buying it as a cheap option for a shimmer effect. I already own a boss gt-8, so I'm quite covered on the other reverb effects. What are you're experiences with it?

And perhaps a dumb question, but where does such a pedal go with the boss gt-8 in the signal chain? is it: guitar -> behringer -> boss, or guitar->boss->behringer?

Multi FX are a pain to place in the signal chain and there's not a proper rule or super defined place for them. After all, they're not supposed to be used with other pedals

I like to keep mine at the end of the chain with only the looper behind it.

I was also looking for shimmer pedals a couple of months back and decided not to pull the trigger on any of the cheap ones since they just didn't cut it for me (and the good ones are over 200 quid, that's quite a lot for a standalone pedal with just one purpose).

@Harry I'm not a fan at all of that Bullet Strat (sorry for being so sincere

) but I can vouch for what you say about its surprising craft. We are too used to despise everything with an unusally low price tag, and there are true bargains out there that can be equal (or even superior in some regards) to guitars with a much bigger tag. I can't get over how INCREDIBLE my Telecaster Vintage Modified SSH is, and to think it costed me less than 150€ when people pay 300 or more for Rochester, Sonora, Greg Bennet, etc crap in the supermarkets... Oh well

Enjoy your Indonesian axe and keep us updated!

DutchU2Fan

7 years

Do you guys think it's possible to connect a reverb, a + b switch and fuzz factory to my POD HD500X?

eladanelf

7 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Multi FX are a pain to place in the signal chain and there's not a proper rule or super defined place for them. After all, they're not supposed to be used with other pedals I like to keep mine at the end of the chain with only the looper behind it.

I was also looking for shimmer pedals a couple of months back and decided not to pull the trigger on any of the cheap ones since they just didn't cut it for me (and the good ones are over 200 quid, that's quite a lot for a standalone pedal with just one purpose).

@Harry I'm not a fan at all of that Bullet Strat (sorry for being so sincere ) but I can vouch for what you say about its surprising craft. We are too used to despise everything with an unusally low price tag, and there are true bargains out there that can be equal (or even superior in some regards) to guitars with a much bigger tag. I can't get over how INCREDIBLE my Telecaster Vintage Modified SSH is, and to think it costed me less than 150€ when people pay 300 or more for Rochester, Sonora, Greg Bennet, etc crap in the supermarkets... Oh well Enjoy your Indonesian axe and keep us updated!

Yea, I'm on the same page as you with the money for a single purpose pedal.. Thanks for the signal chain tip, I think I will just try what sounds better. I still gonna buy the behringer I think, I'll let you know if it satisfies

LikeASong

7 years

Originally posted by eladanelf:[..]
Yea, I'm on the same page as you with the money for a single purpose pedal.. Thanks for the signal chain tip, I think I will just try what sounds better. I still gonna buy the behringer I think, I'll let you know if it satisfies

Please do! I'd love to have a shimmer pedal for less than what most of my guitars costed me

LikeASong

7 years

Some very very interesting stuff here:

http://fohonline.com/ci/50-production-profile/16902-u2-2017-joshua-tree-tour.html

Not only guitar related, it's more gear & tech as a whole.

thefly108

7 years

I got a new Fulltone OCD, which I am using as a clean boost. Today, that extra volume boost revealed that, when my wah is on, it picks up FM radio signals...I've heard of amps doing that, but never a pedal.

bushido529

7 years