Cool Jazzmaster, man!

I'll post some pictures of my Fender setup sometime. Still love my old Mustang, but wish I had a cooler long neck guitar other than a Squire someone gave me for free.

If you'll allow me this suggestion:

You are really into EDM, and we are really into the band Beaver...so why don't you take that Beaver song that was posted here a while back and use the software and equipment you guys have to mix it into an EDM song?

Cool. Just got me a new set of studio headphones and put the finishing touches on the mixer setup. Anytime is fine.

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OK, now of course I am taking a trip out of town. I'll bump this when I get back and try to use the Music program I bought in that Humble Bundle to lay down a beat. I'm thinking the song should have the following characteristics:

1) Be three minutes or less in length.
2) Have drums and a bass line and a keyboard part that we can take out if we don't need the keyboard part.
3) Probably no real vocals, as it violates Ben Parrish's #1 Rule for Text Game Music: the vocals interfere with reading the text.

And I'll keep the chord progressions simple - not for you, but for me. :/

Most definitely!

NICE!!

If I laid down a beat, bass line and a melody, should we make a song for Cyberganked?

I wrote three years ago.....

I'm thinking about buying amp knobs that DO go 11. Just because of that movie!

But these go to eleven.......

Just saw a Chevelle SS with an 8 track player in it. Very nice. I wonder how they kept the records from skipping when going over bumps.


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AArdvark wrote:I like vinyl records because you have to go to where the music is being played rather than taking the music with you. It makes for a much more immersive experience. Psycoacoustics, man.

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You may find this hard to believe, but before they had 8-track players in cars, back in the 1960s some had record players in them. I kid you not.

I looked it up; they had them as far back as the 1950s. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news ... /index.htm

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I preferred the line, "If it don't fit, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway."

This is fascinating to read a thread where I do not know any of the jargon!

I feel the same way anytime someone posts an IT related thread...


On the Jazzmaster guitars the strings go over the bridge and down to the..oh, here...



The buzz stop pulls the stings down more toward the body, increasing the sustain and reducing string buzz.
This guy built a custom one that bolts on to the body



I think it looks like a toilet paper holder. I was thinking of making a one piece unit out of stainless round stock and putting that on my Jazzmaster. Once I saw how much work I'd have to do, and remembering that I already own something that works just fine, I gave up on it.


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What is a custom buzz stop?

This is fascinating to read a thread where I do not know any of the jargon! I enjoy it, though!

Rewired the Jazzmaster tonight. Eliminated the tone control and made both pots volume controls. With both pickups on the tone is fantastic. Best it's sounded since I bought it. The neck volume control acts like a tone control and rolls off the blaring treble from the bridge pickup. Real mellow, man. I was gonna build a custom buzz stop like Robert Smith's but...eh. I already have a Whizzo so I put that back on. That's about as much as I want to mess with it.

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Jizaboz wrote:I dunno, Vark. I still like the sound of my '69 Fender Mustang way over the newish Stratocaster I have. It's more "full" or "warm". Hard to describe. Though the Strat is a bit easier to play certain things due to the longer neck.

Could the Stratocaster be a digital instrument? Your exact comment is why a lot of people, even now, still like, and why audiophiles still buy, recordings on vinyl (which is why companies still press vinyl records). The effect of analog sound often has certain aspects which are lost when converted to digital. A lot of people say there is a certain shall we say, "feel" to analog over digital.

Also, seeing the Fender was made back during the height of the hand-made equipment days (1969 was very primitive as far as developing automation), maybe the Fender is a hand-built wood and the Strato is a machine constructed plastic and/or composite (either condition could be a factor which changes the characteristics of the sound)? Or could one of the two be a partial or full steel guitar?

Yes. His Stratocaster guitar is a digital steel guitar.

I like vinyl records because you have to go to where the music is being played rather than taking the music with you. It makes for a much more immersive experience. Psycoacoustics, man.

I wont go into the history of Fender guitars. I do like the fact that you didn't research this topic before posting. It's so much more organic this way. Sometimes it's nice to just post off the top of one's head and let it all out.
I think most guitars are analog instruments (there are exceptions!) but running them through various processors can change the signal to digital. The feel is still totally analog.


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I just threw up in my mouth and a little bit of my soul just died.

Jizaboz wrote:I dunno, Vark. I still like the sound of my '69 Fender Mustang way over the newish Stratocaster I have. It's more "full" or "warm". Hard to describe. Though the Strat is a bit easier to play certain things due to the longer neck.

Could the Stratocaster be a digital instrument? Your exact comment is why a lot of people, even now, still like, and why audiophiles still buy, recordings on vinyl (which is why companies still press vinyl records). The effect of analog sound often has certain aspects which are lost when converted to digital. A lot of people say there is a certain shall we say, "feel" to analog over digital.

Also, seeing the Fender was made back during the height of the hand-made equipment days (1969 was very primitive as far as developing automation), maybe the Fender is a hand-built wood and the Strato is a machine constructed plastic and/or composite (either condition could be a factor which changes the characteristics of the sound)? Or could one of the two be a partial or full steel guitar?

Those effects pedals with all of those settings pissed me off in the 90s. They look better these days.

The MetalZone 2 by Boss is still my favorite pedal followed by crybaby wah. Only 2 I use other than the reverb/vibrato switch for my amp. I would like a nice flanger pedal one day though..

I dunno, Vark. I still like the sound of my '69 Fender Mustang way over the newish Stratocaster I have. It's more "full" or "warm". Hard to describe. Though the Strat is a bit easier to play certain things due to the longer neck.

Oh and again on the subject of amps.. I'll probably never, EVER own another Marshall. Yeah they have a cool, nasty sound and all but holy shit you are fuct if you need repairs. I had a Marshall combo tube amp that ended up with a screwed up transformer. Shop had to order the part from Britain. Took months to get right.

Turned around and traded it in a couple months later for the 50's re-issue Fender Twin Reverb I'm still playing about 16 years later. The only problem I had with it was the footpedal gave out after a year so I couldn't toggle reverb or vibrato. Ironically, it was the only part of the amp labelled "made in Mexico".

AArdvark wrote:Man , that's got all the stuff you'll ever need plus enough watts to break windows.
When I felt the need to move away from multiple stompboxes and get an all-in-one I considered a Line 6. Digitech was cheaper though so they won.
Can you control the effects through a footswitch? Or multiple switches on a footboard?

You can.



My old foot switchbox was a Digitech RP3 (I think) and I loved it. I just happened to run across this one around my birthday and decided it would make a good "all in one" solution. It also has a good line out for going right into the computer for recording.

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I'm thinking about buying amp knobs that DO go 11. Just because of that movie!



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