Tremulous Forum
Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Timbo on August 27, 2006, 10:14:12 pm
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So, for some bizarre reason, we've been getting a fair few links from a guitar forum. I like guitars :D. I mostly play Jazz and Prog metal type stuff. I keep meaning to start playing in a band again, but I never seem to find the time.
Anyway, here is my main guitar. I made it myself when I was about 16:
(http://tremulous.net/junk/guitar/guitar.jpg)
Obviously it's styled after a PRS kind of shape. It's got some special bits though :). The two pickups are Seymour Duncan Jazz at the neck and JB on the bridge. The guitar has switches to change from series humbucker to parallel humbucker or single coil configurations for each pickup. Additionally it's got a split pickup on the bridge that can drive Roland MIDI stuff. I have a GI-10 for this. I don't use it nearly as much as I thought I would, but it's a pretty neat thing to have.
(http://tremulous.net/junk/guitar/controls.jpg)
I recently bought one of these digital modelling amps. It's a Line6 Flextone III. These things get a lot of flak from various quarters for not having that tube tone etc or for being too dumb for a digital amp. I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it though. I can get Mike Stern style tones from it and plain Montgomery style Jazz/Blues noises AND still make it sound like a big Marshall stack when I just want to make a lot of noise :)
(http://tremulous.net/junk/guitar/amp.jpg)
So, I know how much guitar people like to talk about their gear, consider this the official Tremulous guitar thread :D.
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Wow.. made your own guitar :D! Nice!
I actually need a better guitar, I like the ESP.. might get one.. I currently have a les paul wanna-be that buzzes pretty bad when you knock the amp cord..
I also need a better small amp since my very old one died on me recently.. I've heard a lot of good about line6.. and I know marshall is nice :)
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Pretty damn fine woodwork there Timbo. I'm a plastics man myself, wood is so goddamn heavy.
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Nice guitar, Timbo. I wish I had those pick ups.:( I have 2 Fenders currently, that little squier everyone started on, and a nice acoustic. I'm looking at an ESP, like PIE.
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Ah yeah... no time for a band.. I know your pain! It's been 9 years since I played a bit in some garagepunk- and grunge-bands... ;)
(http://blackheartware.com/cstrike/EPENL1PBBH.jpg)
That's my babe, an Epiphone Gothic Les Paul Studio, Pitch Black. Used to play a Fender Strat Mexico before, but the Les Paul is much smoother with a heavier sound... :D
Danny
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timbo, nice pic of tux on the wall :)
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Yeah, you knitted that yourself?
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wow nice work with the guitar..i used to play guitar myself, but i plainly sucked and dropped it after some years :oops:
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Although I mainly play bass I pretty much inherited (or rather stoled from the basement) a not so old Fender Strat. My current bass is a Schecter Stiletto Elite-5, pretty awesome after starting out by playing crappy basses of generic brands.
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/2/6/9/414269.jpg)
I also have an old/cheap Yamaha 30W Bass Amp and Digitech BP50... should probably buy something better sooner or later :oops:
ps omgnotrlyguitar
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Timbo, that is an awesome guitar.
I'll edit this when I get home and post a picture, but I've got a Peavey Predator Strat-a-like. Two years ago, I discovered the wonderful world of guitar modding (it has much the same appeal as overclocking, case modding and the like).
EDIT: Here's the promised pic:
(http://www.sasquatch-infotech.com/pics/guitar1.jpeg)
Anyway, I made the stainless steel pick gaurd, shielded the internals and redid the wiring. Also, instead of the tone knobs and strat style pickup selector, you can see there is now a ton of switches. I can turn on any pickup individually, switch between series and parallel wiring, and throw the neck pickup out of phase. It sounds way better than it used to--it's amazing what a little shielding will do for your tone, particularly on a single coil guitar.
Unfortunately (fortunately? ;) ), the bridge pickup is going microphonic, so I need to replace them. I'm contemplating building a winding machine and making my own.
Whether I buy or make the pickups, I'm going to change the switch wiring so that only one switch flips between serial and parellel wiring and put a second switch so that I can throw both the neck and the bridge pickups out of phase (after doing the original wiring job, I discovered I really like phase change effects better than serial/parallel, although that's great too--a little more subtle of a tone change though).
Enough geeking about my guitar wiring. I run this bad boy through a Wah-Wah and into a Peavy Bandit 112.
I recently bought one of these digital modelling amps. It's a Line6 Flextone III. These things get a lot of flak from various quarters for not having that tube tone etc or for being too dumb for a digital amp. I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it though. I can get Mike Stern style tones from it and plain Montgomery style Jazz/Blues noises AND still make it sound like a big Marshall stack when I just want to make a lot of noise :)
Those in the "j00 must have rael Tube Sound(tm)" are a bunch of wankers. The only reason transistor amps have such a bad rep is that there are a lot of cheap, shitty transistor amps. Peavy makes some really good transistor amps--particularly the Bandits, and their Transtube brethren. This is without being a digital modelling amp--although, those are sweet too.
And even the venerable Marshall is coming around to transistors with their Advanced Valvestate amps (tube pre-amp with a transistor power amp). I haven't played on one, but I really want to.
I'll probably end up designing and building my next amp anyway...
EDIT: Oh, and I'm in a band (which is why I'm not on the servers all the time...). We're called 'Violence Mars' and our frontman maintains a myspace page for us: http://www.myspace.com/violencemars. As far as how we sound goes, I'll quote the myspace page, "a robot getting beat up by a post-punk band".
Jeff
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I somewhat play the bass guitar, as well as the banjo.
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Are all those boxen plugged into that switch yours?
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i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
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i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
Okay, let's wast a 8 giga dvd when you need to back up a 5 ko .Txt file.
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i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
Okay, let's wast a 8 giga dvd when you need to back up a 5 ko .Txt file.
USB pen drive? and external hard drives are great for backups.
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you might be getting links to guitar forums, as trem was " advertised" on ultimate guitar
alot of people from that site started playing trem, and put {UG} in thier names
yea , guitar pwns
ive been playing for a few months now, used to play when i was younger but gave up
t if i had kept playing i would have been going for 8 years, so thats a bit annoying lol
i wud be teH shredOrz
at the moment im playing blues and stuff, but would like to play death metal if i get pretty good lol
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b204/brand_new_rock/P1110838.jpg)
YES I AM WELL AWARE THAT IS A BLINK 182 POSTER! IT IS THERE TO COVER THE SCRATCHES IN THE PAINT!
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:eek:
guitars, guitars, guitars...
I want an electric guitar!
Must buy myself one, have only acoustic :( ...
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i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
Okay, let's wast a 8 giga dvd when you need to back up a 5 ko .Txt file.
Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called USB-Stick? ;)
Danny
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mine is a epiphone gibson les paul jr color black*my favorit color * so just look a picture up on googel and u will see what i am talking about... 8) :x
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Megabite"]i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
Okay, let's wast a 8 giga dvd when you need to back up a 5 ko .Txt file.
Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called USB-Stick? ;)
Danny
i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
Okay, let's wast a 8 giga dvd when you need to back up a 5 ko .Txt file.
USB pen drive? and external hard drives are great for backups.
You couldn't be any more retarded.
Let's see, if you had something else than tremulous in your life, you would(maybe) have some important document, that need to be kept permantly, there come this nice little floppy disk. USB are just in case you want to move some file from a comp to another one.
About external HD;
"Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called" ..Virus ?
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Let's see, if you had something else than tremulous in your life, you would(maybe) have some important document, that need to be kept permantly, there come this nice little floppy disk. USB are just in case you want to move some file from a comp to another one.
Well... about 8 hours a day I have something different than tremulous in my life. It is called "work". Incidentally my "work" is something about network security, fixing computers, coding stuff, retrieving lost (or seemingly lost) data.
Trust me, floppy disks are the unsafest medium to back up your data. No medium is more vulnerable to defects and decay, apart from the fact that floppy drives are not standard equipment on a modern computer anymore. I recommend streamer tapes and backup hard disks. In case this is too expensive a USB drive is 100% okay, even better suited than rewritable CDs/DVDs (With the possible exception of DVD-RAMs). Oh well, yeah, better use more than one backup medium and don't store it at the same building your computer is at.
Danny
P.S.: It is a sign of general retardedness to talk about things you don't have a clue about.
P.P.S.: Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called virus protection? And if a virus can invade an external hdd drive it can invade floppy disks and usb media as well... oh, did I talk about cluelessness, yet?
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"Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called" ..Virus ?
Hell yeah...ever heared about linux? 100% Virus-free by now...but well, i bet your father wouldn't let you install linux on his computer...
About this guitar-thing: pretty cool stuff. I didn't even know one can built his own guitar...anyways, i'm more into motorbikes and every other combustion-engine-powered stuff ;)
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"Ever heard of that sci-fi stuff called" ..Virus ?
Hell yeah...ever heared about linux? 100% Virus-free by now.
that's just not true. there may not be any viruses that you get for going to questionable websites, but if you have anything listening to the internet, there are lots of viruses going around for stuff like apache, sendmail,etc.
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I can turn on any pickup individually, switch between series and parallel wiring, and throw the neck pickup out of phase.
I've actually got a phase switch on my guitar too; one of the volume pots has a switch in it (pull the knob out the way) for that. It's pretty good for funk tones -- AWB, that sort of thing.
Are all those boxen plugged into that switch yours?
Not all, no. At least three have nothing on the end of them (they go to rooms in the house) and one is my PS2. I do have too many computers though :oops:.
i also noticed the stack of floppy disks. this is the 21 century you know...
They're mostly boot floppies and diagnostic util type things. I haven't touched them in ages. I'm not really sure what to say about the silly argument that this started... you're all off topic within a topic on the off topic forum :-? :P.
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I'm not really sure what to say about the silly argument that this started... you're all off topic within a topic on the off topic forum
ACK && sry ;)
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you're all off topic within a topic on the off topic forum :-? :P.
I thought that was the idea? :D
Danny
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I play bass mainly, but geetar as well. I have a 7-string acoustic which is my favourite :D And pretty much all of my guitars are modded... Cheap Les Paul (eBay... Too many impulse buys off there) with a Bareknuckle pickup that cost more than the actual guitar, my main bass with an EMG pickup, fretless Jazz bass with a chrome ashtray cover over the bridge. I really need a new bass amp though. I guess that's what 16th birthdays are for...
And about the building your own guitar thing, my friend's building a doubleneck 'from scratch'; he has a thread on it (from ultimate-guitar, suprisingly enough...) here (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192705&highlight=double+neck+project).
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I suppose I could join this thread. These are my guitars.
From L to R- Ibanez - Washburn - Epiphone
(http://www.nieting.org/music/g3.jpg)
Some of what I have recorded with them -
Acoustic/Electric mix-
http://www.nieting.org/music/day2.mp3
Movie Music-
http://www.nieting.org/music/island.mp3
Rock with a few vocals-
http://www.nieting.org/music/commercial.mp3
A Trip-Hop kind of thing--
http://www.nieting.org/music/shakin.mp3
They are all written, performed and recorded by me. They may not be very good, but I have a good time.
I see guitars, anyone going to post their music?
Diggs
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Nice guitars in this thread, especially yours threadstarter 8)
I own a couple of guitars, not the greatest of stuff though
My Guitar:
(http://www.ibanez.co.jp/img/eg/m/GRG170DX_BKN_1P_01.jpg)
My Bass:
(http://www.ibanez.co.jp/img/eb/m/GSR200_BK_1P_03.jpg)
There are some recordings here (http://www.myspace.com/liquidia)
Nux on this forum plays the keyboards 8)
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Very pretty Zakky. Ibanez makes some beautiful axes. Is the 6-string an RG350? It looks a little different in the neck and trem bar though. At any rate, I never though about matching guitar and bass.
Diggs
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Ibanez GRG170DXL
The cheapest RG avilable :P
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i have:
-61 gibson acoustic
-black fender strat with white pickguard and rosewood neck... american =)
-all white fender strat (think hendrix)... also american
-and i recently got an epiphone bass thats red with rosewood neck.. it looks like the gibson SG
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I have a few guitars :)
I play in a blues band and a cover rock band.
My guitars are :
1) Ibanez RG-470 (purple). Shoddy wiring since it was korean made, but I fixed it up and it has a distinct thrash/dirty sound I like for playing metal. Got to love that wizard neck.
2) Gibson ES137 classic (blue burst). Good blues/jazz guitar, nice sustain and clean tone.
3) Fender stratocastor standard (blue). All the single coil goodness you could ever want.
4) Dean performer acoustic/electric (black) archtop.
5) Washburn fender strat clone (wood/orange burst). It was my first guitar, I hardly play it.
-Beerbitch
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Pictures please (if you have them). That is part of the fun.
Diggs
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I dont have pictures of mine yet, but I can show you pics I found on the web of the exact same models I have......
here they are :
(http://oppressed.net/guitars/ibanez.jpg) (http://oppressed.net/guitars/es137c.jpg)
(http://oppressed.net/guitars/dean.jpg) (http://oppressed.net/guitars/fender.jpg)
The washburn I couldn't find a pic of since its so old and its a crap guitar anyway.
You can see I like the rosewood frets and blue colors. Maple sucks.
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Oh the ES137 in blue is beautiful. Very nice. That has been on my wish list for awhile, but just can't justify it for the amount of playing I do.
I'm sorry to hear your Washburn is crap as I have played some really nice Washburns (which mine is NOT).
Diggs
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The Washburn is one of those starter lyon series guitars, I paid probably less then $100 for it. You get what you pay for :)
The 137c I got at a discount since the person who bought it returned it after a month to get the 335 instead, so it was "slightly" used. It was $500 off normal price.
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I came from UG! I have a Line 6 Variax at the moment, but I'm hoping to find a seven string with a locking trem, and hopefully put some EMGs in it.
Anyone played a chapman stick? I really wanna try one. Here's a link: Chapman Stick (http://www.stick.com/)
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I came from UG!
amen brother
pit monkeys ftw!
lol, i thought that a Uger started the porn thread. it wouldnt have surprised me lawl
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I play Hardrock/metal/True Norwegian Black Metal :P
ofc i can play blues. you should let the blues in too your hands.
thats the whole thing. if you can play blues, u can play almost all type of music, :wink:
this is my guitar.
Epiphone les paul standard
(http://www.elton.com.ua/images/epiphone_lp_std.JPG)
i love the sound of it, and even bether, this pedal
WoooooW, that was a big pedal.
No, its not that big XD
Metal Zone MT-2 realy nice pedal, awsome sound
(http://media.zzounds.com/media/brand,zzounds/MT2-12d6c432ac175c3dfbf146d005285201.jpg)
this is my amp
(http://www.rockcenter.com.ar/JR/Fotos/7914.jpg)
Marshall MG50DFX
it got some effects witch i use all the time when im soloing..
note: sry for bad writhing, as you can see, im not so good at my english writhing :P
Destroy Nu-Metal, enjoy true metal 8)
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I do like the Epiphone Pauls and yours is a beauty.
And I play the Marshall MG30DFX (the little brother to the 50.).
Instead of a pedal, many times I like to use the V-Amp, especially for recording or studio stuff.
(http://www.nieting.org/images/vamp.jpg)
Diggs
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I came from UG!
pit monkeys ftw!
lol, i thought that a Uger started the porn thread. it wouldnt have surprised me lawl
So true :D
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I'll join up:
(http://www.dasprids.de/images/uploads/guitar.jpg)
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If I do good in my exams, i geta guitar like this!!!
(http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM04/Content/BC_Rich/PR/SOB-pack-lg.jpg)
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Dang MC - You could hurt yourself jumping around with that thing. I do hope you do well with your exams though.
And if anyone has recorded samples, post them!
Diggs
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I don't play guitars but i like to listen rock very laud (maybe too laud :wink: )
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OH DEAR GOD, THE THREAD IS RISEN!
I am really sorry for the Necro of this thread, but what with all the music threads poping up, I figured people wouldn't complain too much.
Current Guitar:Yamaha RGX 1980-somthing model. The one in the case is it. I gave the Samic to a friend who is just starting out, so I no longer have it. (http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w75/MC-Artman/IMG_0005.jpg)
Pedal: Zoom G2 Multi Effects Pedal (http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1848&brandID=4). No regrets.
Amplifier: Laney Linebacker 50 watt Reverb amp. I can't find any pics or info on it, unfortunatly. It's a reall good amp.
Guitar Wish List: The guitar listed in bold is my most realistic goal at the moment.
- Jeff Hanneman signature ESP Urban Camo scheme[/urll] (http://ttp://www.espguitars.com/guitars_jeff.html)
- Jackson KingV (http://www.allansmusic.com.au/Product.aspx?p=100103)
- B.C. Rich Warlock (http://bcrich.com/warlock.asp)
- Dave Mustain signature Dean V (preferably the Angel Of Deth) (http://deanguitars.com/home.php)
That's all for now. Please consider to reply to this thread seeings as I went to all the trouble of necro'ing it.
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omg necro. BTW ur pics are borked.
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Dang... Fix'd.
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I'm getting a new Gibson Les Paul Classic, hopefully fairly soon, to replace my crappy Vintage Les Paul Traditonal. I've got a replica Rodriguez Concert Classical, and play bass, ukulele and mandolin, too.
Edit: Oh, and Stratocasters aren't worth the time, effort or money.
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Edit: Oh, and Stratocasters aren't worth the time, effort or money.
Superstrats on the other hand...