Mentaltossflycoon
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This was my response when a friend sent me a link to a crazy good deal on a guild starfire bass on fbook marketplace earlier.
What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦
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MichaelW
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I dig it! I'm having to re-think my amp setup. It's super convenient having them so close so I can tweak them easily but it's also not so good with single coils which I favor. The Strats and Tele's seem manageable but P90's are really noisy unless I angle away.New shelf for my amps. I'm probably most excited about the fact that my vacuum fits under the bottom shelf
I'm wondering if moving everything one shelf up would help. Unfortunately I think I may need to swap the amp shelf with the bookcase under the Les Pauls.
MichaelW
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These came in the mail today.
This is what I get for reading @RetiredUnit1 's posts heh. I had never heard of "GuitarMadness" on eBay but they're pretty close to me here in Florida.
I decided to try a set of their PAF's on one of my project guitars. Double Cream coils to thumb my nose at both DiMarzio and Gibson...
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I also grabbed a set of inexpensive Filtertrons and P90's. We'll see how they work out.
These measure out to pretty standard PAF specs, which is encouraging. Usually these cheap pickups are wound pretty hot.
Allegedly Alnico 5 magnets. And $38 for the set it's a low risk proposition.
This is what I get for reading @RetiredUnit1 's posts heh. I had never heard of "GuitarMadness" on eBay but they're pretty close to me here in Florida.
I decided to try a set of their PAF's on one of my project guitars. Double Cream coils to thumb my nose at both DiMarzio and Gibson...
.I also grabbed a set of inexpensive Filtertrons and P90's. We'll see how they work out.
These measure out to pretty standard PAF specs, which is encouraging. Usually these cheap pickups are wound pretty hot.
Allegedly Alnico 5 magnets. And $38 for the set it's a low risk proposition.
My setup is not too different. When I'm recording I'm sitting maybe 1-1.5 m further from my amps compared to your setup. I still have to be somewhat mindful of where I'm pointing my guitar. I prefer recording DIs and then reamping for that reason. If I'm just jamming by myself I'll just stand in front of the amps and try to ignore the buzzing
I kind of accepted it as part of the deal with tube amps.vigilante398
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Apparently BLMS is giving out candy and stickers for halloween, found these with my order today.
bean
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Words cannot describe how badly I want one of these. An octave generator with stereo output is like a dream come true.
Mentaltossflycoon
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jessenator
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MichaelW
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Another pickup day in the mailbox woohooo!
I got a couple of sets of these ToneHatch Strat pickups last year to try but never got around to installing since I had dialed my Strats in pretty well (or so I thought). Those sets wound up in the BBOP and I know @Guardians of the analog wound up with one set of them in his Strat and he likes them.
I decided to re-do my 50's Strat pickups and ordered a neck and middle from Adam. This is his "Vintage Class" pickups and I paired it with a Lollar 64 Bridge pickup. Man, I am really impressed with how good these sound. Out of all my pickup taste testing I've done over the years I always keep coming back to my Lollars. But I think these might be the first that are going to stay in the guitar. I may get a Tonehatch bridge pickup to have the whole set. The fact that they're so extremely affordable is almost secondary to how good they sound. I'll pull a demo together of these soon.
Really high quality builds and he uses all the good stuff (Formvar wire on this set, fiber bobbins, sand cast alnico 5 magnets, etc).
I don't know how he sells them for what he charges. Highly recommended Strat pickups!
I got a couple of sets of these ToneHatch Strat pickups last year to try but never got around to installing since I had dialed my Strats in pretty well (or so I thought). Those sets wound up in the BBOP and I know @Guardians of the analog wound up with one set of them in his Strat and he likes them.
I decided to re-do my 50's Strat pickups and ordered a neck and middle from Adam. This is his "Vintage Class" pickups and I paired it with a Lollar 64 Bridge pickup. Man, I am really impressed with how good these sound. Out of all my pickup taste testing I've done over the years I always keep coming back to my Lollars. But I think these might be the first that are going to stay in the guitar. I may get a Tonehatch bridge pickup to have the whole set. The fact that they're so extremely affordable is almost secondary to how good they sound. I'll pull a demo together of these soon.
Really high quality builds and he uses all the good stuff (Formvar wire on this set, fiber bobbins, sand cast alnico 5 magnets, etc).
I don't know how he sells them for what he charges. Highly recommended Strat pickups!
Harry Klippton
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Hey knock it off Mike. I don't need to be looking at new pickups
MichaelW
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I'm only here to enable.......Hey knock it off Mike. I don't need to be looking at new pickups
giovanni
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Ah now I know why your post was reported
Harry Klippton
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I'm not even sure the last time I played guitar was. I don't need new pickups
21x Westinghouse 1302s and 19x Signetics 1308s
Spot testing them and the 1302s have no leakage and the 1308s are low leakage, <25uA. Not a bad haul!
Also, some LM108s, but didn't pay attention that they're AJ designated, which is the 14 pin package.
And some A401 NPN Si that were cheap. 25-30 hfe.
Also a couple choruses, chori?
Peavey cmc-1 commander chorus(I already have the pink dual clock chorus, which sounds awesome!) and an Ibanez PC10 Dual Chorus
Spot testing them and the 1302s have no leakage and the 1308s are low leakage, <25uA. Not a bad haul!
Also, some LM108s, but didn't pay attention that they're AJ designated, which is the 14 pin package.
And some A401 NPN Si that were cheap. 25-30 hfe.
Also a couple choruses, chori?
Peavey cmc-1 commander chorus(I already have the pink dual clock chorus, which sounds awesome!) and an Ibanez PC10 Dual Chorus
Feral Feline
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Plural of chorus is simply "choruses", but I think it should be chori — especially when referring to pedals and not parts of songs.
peccary
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I picked up some more tapes off eBay. These are used 100's but the price was good so I figured why not?
The real bummer is that while these are used they are not labeled, so I don't know if I've got another Greensleeves hiding in here somewhere
Still no bulk eraser yet, though
The real bummer is that while these are used they are not labeled, so I don't know if I've got another Greensleeves hiding in here somewhere
Still no bulk eraser yet, though
Googlefu says chorus comes from the Greek word "khoros" which would have plurality "khoroi", but we have hardly any examples of the Greek plural "-oi" in English.
KH-2 anyone?
