Black Friday / Cyber Week 2025 deals - anything cool coming?

Wierd but I just looked at Samplitude this evening. Looks too complicated.

Also I just did a Stompboxparts restock so I’m surprised a sale didn’t kick in as soon as I paid
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bean said:
I could be the only one here that uses Samplitude as a DAW but they have a full upgrade to the 2025 version for $200. Too rich for me, haha.

There are a couple of East/West sample bundles on sale that look fun.
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I've never even heard of samplitude
 
Wayfair had a sale on pure white down pillows..... Normally $699, today only $75.99 :oops:

Got four king size, $303.96+tax, normally $2796..... odd that the king size was a dollar less than queen ?!? Queen shown because the list price doesn't appear with the king size selected.

To be fair, I think the list price is kinda inflated, lol....

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Oh and spent $850 at CE Dist for misc parts as well as everything I didn't already have on hand to make a BFDR AB763 Deluxe Reverb.......
 
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giovanni said:
Not pedal related, but Eastwood / Airline / Rivolta are doing 25% off. I’m very tempted to get a baritone guitar or a tenor or even tenor baritone guitar from them… gotta expand my sonic palette.
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The Warren Ellis tenor baritone is my main player these days. I have it in basically drop C. Some caveats: it has a very low output, and it needs blade/firebird pickups due to the string spacing. And the string spacing--it's 16mm compared to ~10mm. I've started mostly fingerpicking, in order to maintain some facility with using a pick on ordinary guitar string spacing. Did I mention the low output? I love the guitar, love playing it, but it's a controlling, jealous lover.
 
derevaun said:
The Warren Ellis tenor baritone is my main player these days. I have it in basically drop C. Some caveats: it has a very low output, and it needs blade/firebird pickups due to the string spacing. And the string spacing--it's 16mm compared to ~10mm. I've started mostly fingerpicking, in order to maintain some facility with using a pick on ordinary guitar string spacing. Did I mention the low output? I love the guitar, love playing it, but it's a controlling, jealous lover.
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That’s good to know, thanks for the tips! So you didn’t tune it by 5ths?
 
derevaun said:
The Warren Ellis tenor baritone is my main player these days. I have it in basically drop C. Some caveats: it has a very low output, and it needs blade/firebird pickups due to the string spacing. And the string spacing--it's 16mm compared to ~10mm. I've started mostly fingerpicking, in order to maintain some facility with using a pick on ordinary guitar string spacing. Did I mention the low output? I love the guitar, love playing it, but it's a controlling, jealous lover.
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I have the Mandocello. I think the scale is an inch less than yours.

Agreed about the pickups. It’s noisy AF and low output. I’m not sure what I want to do with it. Do bladed mini-humbuckers even exist? I’m tempted to cut a new pick guard with just a bridge pickup.

As it exists, I hardly touch mine :(
 
giovanni said:
That’s good to know, thanks for the tips! So you didn’t tune it by 5ths?
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I tune it C2-G2-C3-F3, so it matches drop tuning. I put thicker strings on the top two, but I plan to go a little lighter all around for the next set.

Hal Harvey said:
I have the Mandocello. I think the scale is an inch less than yours.

Agreed about the pickups. It’s noisy AF and low output. I’m not sure what I want to do with it. Do bladed mini-humbuckers even exist? I’m tempted to cut a new pick guard with just a bridge pickup.

As it exists, I hardly touch mine :(
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The stock bridge pickup is apparently a firebird type, which is the same size as a mini-humbucker. Mine measures 5.8K bridge and 7.1K neck, at the output jack. I have an Epiphone "mini probucker" that's firebird construction and 7.9K, waiting to swap it out. But I want to change the pickguard entirely so it's waiting for that, and might as well wait for the strings to need changing, etc.

I was gassing for the Mandocello for a while, having committed some effort to the 4 string arrangement, but now there's the fretless 4-string....
 
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derevaun said:
I tune it C2-G2-C3-F3, so it matches drop tuning. I put thicker strings on the top two, but I plan to go a little lighter all around for the next set.



The stock bridge pickup is apparently a firebird type, which is the same size as a mini-humbucker. Mine measures 5.8K bridge and 7.1K neck, at the output jack. I have an Epiphone "mini humbucker" that's firebird construction and 7.9K, waiting to swap it out. But I want to change the pickguard entirely so it's waiting for that, and might as well wait for the strings to need changing, etc.

I was gassing for the Mandocello for a while, having committed some effort to the 4 string arrangement, but now there's the fretless 4-string....
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I did a little searching and I found this:
jbepickups.com

Mini-Humbuckers - JBE Pickups

The HB Mini is a reduced-sized humbucker designed for players who are looking for humbucker tone, sensitivity and output, that is brighter than a full sized PAF type pickup. The HB Mini's dual-blade design offers superb low-end clarity and sustain that makes it suitable for virtually any...
jbepickups.com

I’ll likely try my hand at cutting a new pickguard too, with just a bridge. I’ve actually never looked under the pickguard to see the rout.

No timeline though. I already have a guitar project going and I do not enjoy working on guitars at all haha.
 
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