The Bitch Box - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: Hey. Did you just grab my ass?
Yes... 30 34.48%
From where I'm standing that is a physical impossibility 26 29.89%
Sh...Should I? 31 35.63%
Voters: 87. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-02-2014, 01:14 PM   #13861 (permalink)
Cardboard Box Realtor
 
LoathsomePete's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hobb's End
Posts: 7,648
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rezdaddy Longlegs View Post
Not sounded good to you?? Or listterly falling apart and needs tlc to sound better?

Because I think Tele followed closely by a strat is the best sounding guitar on the planet, while they are often made and setup poorely they typically always sound pretty good to my ears with a decent amp.
I mostly play using my neck pickup, which is a Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker. I was trying to get a sticker off the pickguard and I don't think I put the pickup back in properly. I'm actually looking at getting a set of vintage pickups and maybe a new bridge because the neck on my tele is still the nicest I've ever played on. As for my amp... well I sold my VOX Valvetronix to help pay for my Gretsch banjo and now am just using a Line 6 tone port. I do want to get something new but I have always had a hard time coughing up the money for nicer amps. Most of my instruments are folk instruments and I'm moving more towards considering myself a banjo and mandolin player so it's even harder to find a reason to buy a nice expensive amp. I definitely think my tele will sound better when I get new pickups put it.
LoathsomePete is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 03:23 PM   #13862 (permalink)
Registered Jimmy Rustler
 
Dr_Rez's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 5,360
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by LoathsomePete View Post
I mostly play using my neck pickup, which is a Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker. I was trying to get a sticker off the pickguard and I don't think I put the pickup back in properly. I'm actually looking at getting a set of vintage pickups and maybe a new bridge because the neck on my tele is still the nicest I've ever played on. As for my amp... well I sold my VOX Valvetronix to help pay for my Gretsch banjo and now am just using a Line 6 tone port. I do want to get something new but I have always had a hard time coughing up the money for nicer amps. Most of my instruments are folk instruments and I'm moving more towards considering myself a banjo and mandolin player so it's even harder to find a reason to buy a nice expensive amp. I definitely think my tele will sound better when I get new pickups put it.
If you change your mind consider a blues jr. You can get them used for 250 and they sound incredible. Hook it into a cab if you really need more headroom, if not it is a light easy to work tube amp that kicks serious ass.
__________________
*Best chance of losing virginity is in prison crew*
*Always Checks Credentials Crew*
*nba > nfl crew*
*Shave one of my legs to pretend its a girl in my bed crew*
Dr_Rez is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 03:42 PM   #13863 (permalink)
Cardboard Box Realtor
 
LoathsomePete's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hobb's End
Posts: 7,648
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rezdaddy Longlegs View Post
If you change your mind consider a blues jr. You can get them used for 250 and they sound incredible. Hook it into a cab if you really need more headroom, if not it is a light easy to work tube amp that kicks serious ass.
I was actually playing around with a Fender Mustang II at GuitarCenter on my lunch break and I quite liked it. It's a little more electronic for my tastes and in some ways feels a lot like my Vox Valtronix with all the effects and things on board, but for the cost of $200 I think there's some major value there. I don't really expect on playing guitar in a band any time soon so I don't really need to worry about volume, and even at 40W I had to be told to turn it down twice.
LoathsomePete is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 04:49 PM   #13864 (permalink)
Shadow on the wall
 
Cheese's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 823
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Burning Down View Post
Did not mean that in a bad way. But my parents, for example, don't use centimetres when they are measuring something. It's always inches, etc.

I use feet and inches and calculate trips in miles and miles per gallon when driving yet............and this is the truly f*cked up part, all those measurements had long been phased out and we'd gone metric before I was even born
Cheese is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 06:51 PM   #13865 (permalink)
Registered Jimmy Rustler
 
Dr_Rez's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 5,360
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by LoathsomePete View Post
I was actually playing around with a Fender Mustang II at GuitarCenter on my lunch break and I quite liked it. It's a little more electronic for my tastes and in some ways feels a lot like my Vox Valtronix with all the effects and things on board, but for the cost of $200 I think there's some major value there. I don't really expect on playing guitar in a band any time soon so I don't really need to worry about volume, and even at 40W I had to be told to turn it down twice.
I used to own the valvtronix ad30, I hated it. Only decent sound it got was the clean and effects. Anything with overdrive or distortion and especially pedals made it sound like ****.
__________________
*Best chance of losing virginity is in prison crew*
*Always Checks Credentials Crew*
*nba > nfl crew*
*Shave one of my legs to pretend its a girl in my bed crew*
Dr_Rez is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 09:43 PM   #13866 (permalink)
Cardboard Box Realtor
 
LoathsomePete's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hobb's End
Posts: 7,648
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rezdaddy Longlegs View Post
I used to own the valvtronix ad30, I hated it. Only decent sound it got was the clean and effects. Anything with overdrive or distortion and especially pedals made it sound like ****.
Yeah that was the same one and I had and yeah it sounded pretty horrible. I imagine the Tweed settings would sound pretty good for country, but I was pretty unimpressed. I think if I were to go VOX I'd get an AC15, but really I've never been lucky with practice combo amps, however I have a good feeling about this Fender Mustang.
LoathsomePete is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2014, 11:39 PM   #13867 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Grogsy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Between the ocean and the mountains.
Posts: 19
Default

Today I read in the paper that 30 people died when a bus overturned in India. This was a small paragraph on page 6. If it had happened in the UK, anywhere in Europe or the US it would be on the front page and first item on TV news. It's the same when ferries loaded with people sink off the Philippines and most of them drown. Is it because for some reason, people's lives or deaths in third world countries aren't worth as much as people in 1st world countries. It would seem to be so.
Grogsy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2014, 02:45 AM   #13868 (permalink)
Make it so
 
Scarlett O'Hara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 6,181
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Grogsy View Post
Today I read in the paper that 30 people died when a bus overturned in India. This was a small paragraph on page 6. If it had happened in the UK, anywhere in Europe or the US it would be on the front page and first item on TV news. It's the same when ferries loaded with people sink off the Philippines and most of them drown. Is it because for some reason, people's lives or deaths in third world countries aren't worth as much as people in 1st world countries. It would seem to be so.
I totally agree that it's only publicly mentioned if it's in a well known western country. Although Syria is mentioned on the news every night.
__________________
"Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots
Scarlett O'Hara is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2014, 03:37 AM   #13869 (permalink)
Shadow on the wall
 
Cheese's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 823
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vanilla View Post
I totally agree that it's only publicly mentioned if it's in a well known western country. Although Syria is mentioned on the news every night.
Same thing happens in our own country.............take the "Wellington earthquake". lol
Cheese is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2014, 04:05 AM   #13870 (permalink)
watching the wheels
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Finland
Posts: 470
Default

It is easier to live if you close your eyes and pretend you don't know about the third world countries at all. That's why.

It is easier to believe everything is all right and continue to living in a bubble...
__________________
...
Taxman is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.