Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Man, I could watch this dude all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5oCY-1dnso

If he was in the Prime Movers, he was Iggy's bandmate... Iggy played the drums back then...

Also posted in Music Producer thread:

Does anyone have a link to a really user (luddite) friendly tutorial on setting up and getting started on Logic Pro X with an Apogee One interface?

I've bought an Apogee One used from eBay so there's an off chance it's actually faulty but I have been getting sounds out of it albeit with horrendous him and noises.

Went and played a few guitars today. Red Tele Player Series. Really fun guitar.

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The problem with those is the holes in the bent Strat-type saddles don't always line up with the holes through the body, making restringing a pain.

And that strat saddles are wrong wrong wrong on a Tele in the first place

Nahguavkire in reply to @RecoveringFixed*Star
London I presume?
Genre/ examples of bands you're into and a bit more description would be good?

My project is like Hendrix/Kravitz psychadelic Rock/Jazz fusion.

Not exactly a new guitar day as I've had this for a few weeks. I'm not into carved top LPs and I've though Gibson style ergonomics wouldn't work for me, but I'm really really liking this. Seems to be Tokai's "premium" series even though the seller had listed it as a lower tier model. Arrived essentially unused in a factory box, one piece mahogany body, nitrocellulose lacquer... too bad it didn't come with the sweet pink fur hard case these are apparently sold with in Japan. Can't complain though.

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To offset buying I've also been making, I built this "Aiken" reactive load box. It actually sounds good with an IR speaker model to headphones. I haven't properly tried reamping with a guitar cab yet. I included a reactive/plain resistive switch, reactive sounds markedly better to me so it was worth adding the extra bits. I'm still debating whether using a 50 watter as a headphone preamp is wrong, but at least for now I'm enjoying apartment friendly tube amp.

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That's a lovely guitar, what are the pickups like? The P90 on my MIJ Tokai Junior was shit...

The only P90 comparison I can make is to Seymour Duncans, and those felt hotter with loads more midrange. Tokais are brighter/scooped(/thinner if you will). I'm pretty happy with the Tokai pups for now. I think they work well with the fairly dark amp, and clean tones are nice too.

That’s a fine looking guitar.

Mine was SUPER thin sounding, I went almost twenty years before I changed it... Sounds great now but I think the wood also makes a big difference to the sound, I put the same pickup into another solid mahogany body guitar and that sounds as good as my '58 Junior... The Tokai sounds much, much better now but still noticeably thinner...

Any idea what wood yours is made of?

I definitely wouldn't say super thin, I think there's healthy amount of bass. Premium series Tokai LSS specs say one piece honduran mahogany. Translucent finish shows the grain nicely, but I don't know one kind of mahogany from another. Nice full neck profile and should even have long tenon neck joint, though I haven't pulled the neck pickup to check (yet...). Maybe I'll try different pickups eventually, but not in a rush now.

Tried one of these earlier. It makes absolutely no sense to me as an instrument.
It's tuned ADG/EADG so the fretless part of the neck is the same as the 3 higher strings in standard tuning followed by a standard fretted 4 string.
The fretted part of the neck was one of the nicest sounding fretless basses I've played but the layout made the fretted part of the neck really awkward, especially the E and A strings. I can't see how it would ever be a practically usable instrument.

Also had a mess about on one of the new Ibanez AZ models:

It's like a much nicer Strat, beefier neck than the Ibanez Wizard neck but finished so much better than any Fender I've ever played. There's a 22 fret version with HSS pickups which is much more traditionally Strat-like also.

In other better than Fender news I had a quick play on one of these also:

Again, super beefy neck but a really nice profile, kind of 50s strat style, almost like a 60s Les Paul neck. Finish is incredible with the exception of the tuners which have the most appallingly cheap and shitty tuner buttons I've ever felt on a guitar. I was so surprised to see them on a PRS.

Anyway there you go.

soz but that bass is a joke with almost zero practical application beyond noodlewank. horrific.

Don't be sorry, I could agree more and I usually love weird stuff! It's absolutely nonsensical. I wouldn't doubt it's the culmination of some sort of running joke at Ibanez HQ.

ichika - he waits patiently

I had an OG Ibanez soundgear back in the day. Solid bit of kit, pretty much a happy shopper Warwick / Spector.

#peakedinthe90s

Any of the MIJ Ibanez stuff is incredible as far as I'm concerned. As good as anything else out there and reasonably priced for what they are. I've been eyeballing an RG2228 going for sale local to me at home and it's going for a little over a quarter of RRP with a few little dings!

https://youtu.be/EP9EbOrPi0Q

Most under appreciated guitarist in the world?

The cat had the right idea, 'stop fucking playing, dad, no one cares!'

I didn't enjoy that at all...

Not having a go, obvs... This isn't the football thread... 😍🙏

Which one? Nels’s pedals or tappy brown cardigan?