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Ha! Good spot.
Am 'WFH" today. Been pissing about with my set-up all morning. Main issue is still the lack of tone control on the Fuzz Factory (my Tele has one of those tone-control bypass pots and into a fender amp the treble can take your head off when you step on it).
Am on the lookout for something fuzzy and warm. Are the mini fuzz-faces any good?
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I like the spank of Tele treble in clean and driven sounds but when I kick in the fuzz I like the tome rolled all the way off. I want to be able to hit the fuzz and have that rolled off treble sound ready to go.
Here's the other thing I did this afternoon. New tune called Down at the Beehive. https://elvers.bandcamp.com/track/down-at-the-beehive
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The Dunlop mini-FF's do have an okay rep as far as I know, but £120... ?? Mmm. You could add £20 and go handmade from Jimmy B at Super Electric. Whole 'nother level IMO. The general FF family is basically a good idea for thick tubularity but the problem as you know can be cutting through live, or so some say. Still, good ones clean up very marvellously and actually very usefully from the guitar volume, much better than Tone Benders.
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Trying to close the deal on buying this custom Siggery. I never hear a bad word said about Siggery guitars, but what do you guys think?
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Arrived yesterday, I don't have a tape loop to test it properly yet but I got the reverb working after a mild panic (hidden adjustment in the power lead compartment).
It appears to be quite an early model with a different case (RE-150 style) to most 201s I've seen. Cleaning it all up today and found this:
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That is true, I more meant to ask what people thought of the Siggery guitars. I'm likely going to buy it anyway, since its only £600
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I'll get some more gut shots later, it looks perfect - not a single swollen cap, great considering it's ~40 years old.
Edit: Serial number indicates Feb 1975
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Reminds me of the Ibanez RGT220A I wish I'd never sold.
Here's one for about the same money as the Siggery...
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Aha that Ibanez looks really nice, but I don’t feel like owning a 3rd haha
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Yeah I think whoever ordered this guitar wanted it to look like a Black Machine B6. Though I think the reason it looks like a Black Machine is because of the headstock, which they also use on Ormsby guitars.
There are a few people, though, who have remarked that Black Machines, and the Siggery guitars which are supposedly modelled after them play very similarly, the only difference being that Black Machines usually use Oil City pickups, whereas Siggery custom wind and calibrate their pickups for the intended use case. Since I believe this guitar to have been built to be an all out shred machine, I think I’ll be happy with it.
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Will check it out.
^^^space echo looks rad.
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Same - I just hope it lives up to the hype once restored, otherwise I'll have to flip it to keep Mrs Hammer happy!
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I restrung my Strat and the tremolo seems to be under more tension than before and is lifted quite high. So now the action is quite high on the higher frets. Does anyone know how you adjust this down? It’s not been set up since 2006 so that’s probably something I should either get done or learn to do.
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No man, he's a sweetheart! I know he's clearly on the spectrum and goes too slowly for badassfixieshredders like us - but his taste in the stuff he teaches is right up my street and I like his dorkiness and total lack of rockism. He's a great teacher and player.