Bricksnbeatles
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First off…
Two great films; been deciding between the two to do my final paper/project on for my Science Fiction class, and neither is on steaming, so… gonna be watching both this weekend and seconding which one I want to spend dozens of hours exploring the themes of— Mothersbaugh and Elfman’s muse; exploring waft defines mankind and morality, or the post-Python political pastiche; exploring its sinister satire of Orwellian occupation of a dadaist dystopia?
Secondly…
It’s been an absolutely brutal semester, so when I saw that Korg was blowing these out for a bill and a third, I decided to treat myself.
Ever since these were first announced at Namm quite a while back, I’ve been wanting one to go with my Vox mini superbeetle. They’ve been impossible to find for pretty much forever though; info was scarce, and for the past year and a half the only place you could find them was Japan. There are a few German and Japanese demo videos, but no info otherwise. Ordered it over the weekend, shipped yesterday, and since Korg’s US hq is only an hour away from me, it arrived the next day. Everything seems good to me; the frets could definitely stand to be polished (otherwise shockingly good fretwork though) and there are a few screws with awfully stripped heads, but the fit and finish is good, and the screws will all be replaced with stainless anyway. It comes stock with 12s and is meant to be tuned like a standard tuned guitar, but the strings are on the comfortable end of slinky down that low, and I was able to get it up to A at what feels like standard tension; my plan for this has been to set it up as a soprano guitar for chimey chordal doubling, jangly upper extension arpeggios, and peppy piccolo lead lines— it’s an 18.75” scale length, so I’ll probably string it up with 9s and set it up in C, but I think I could realistically get it comfortably tuned as a true E3 soprano with 8s, in which case I could really live out a 6-string version of my sick Barney Kessel-flavored fantasies to satiate my Brian Wilson emulations. I’m depressed and I’m my 20s, only missing the egomaniacal cousin and the angel-voiced pinstripe posse. And to think, we were *so* close to Pet Sounds 2!
Two great films; been deciding between the two to do my final paper/project on for my Science Fiction class, and neither is on steaming, so… gonna be watching both this weekend and seconding which one I want to spend dozens of hours exploring the themes of— Mothersbaugh and Elfman’s muse; exploring waft defines mankind and morality, or the post-Python political pastiche; exploring its sinister satire of Orwellian occupation of a dadaist dystopia?
Secondly…
It’s been an absolutely brutal semester, so when I saw that Korg was blowing these out for a bill and a third, I decided to treat myself.
Ever since these were first announced at Namm quite a while back, I’ve been wanting one to go with my Vox mini superbeetle. They’ve been impossible to find for pretty much forever though; info was scarce, and for the past year and a half the only place you could find them was Japan. There are a few German and Japanese demo videos, but no info otherwise. Ordered it over the weekend, shipped yesterday, and since Korg’s US hq is only an hour away from me, it arrived the next day. Everything seems good to me; the frets could definitely stand to be polished (otherwise shockingly good fretwork though) and there are a few screws with awfully stripped heads, but the fit and finish is good, and the screws will all be replaced with stainless anyway. It comes stock with 12s and is meant to be tuned like a standard tuned guitar, but the strings are on the comfortable end of slinky down that low, and I was able to get it up to A at what feels like standard tension; my plan for this has been to set it up as a soprano guitar for chimey chordal doubling, jangly upper extension arpeggios, and peppy piccolo lead lines— it’s an 18.75” scale length, so I’ll probably string it up with 9s and set it up in C, but I think I could realistically get it comfortably tuned as a true E3 soprano with 8s, in which case I could really live out a 6-string version of my sick Barney Kessel-flavored fantasies to satiate my Brian Wilson emulations. I’m depressed and I’m my 20s, only missing the egomaniacal cousin and the angel-voiced pinstripe posse. And to think, we were *so* close to Pet Sounds 2!
