Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Sounds great!

....and that's definitely how I A. All the power, one finger. Get some.

Beautiful playing, and my favourite Nic Jones song, I've listened a few times now. I'm going to have to take a crack at that one, might get me out of my Nick Drake rut!

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In the course of my newfound drumming rabbit hole I've stumbled across these Zildjian Live videos and holy smokes they're great! Obviously the drumming is amazing but the band, Ghost Note, are so so good, there's a few Snarky Puppy members in there and MonoNeon on bass but massively inspiring stuff all round!

Haha! Love it.

Hang on, what's going on with the upsidedown bass?

Wow.

MonoNeon * shrugs *

Sounds lovely! Good technique be damned! What song is that?

I adore this... Sullen youth @rickster!! 😍

And @Fatberg, that was ace!!

i had the exact same haircut for most of the 90s

@rickster loving the University Challenge contestant aesthetic. Bold.

Fucking 1980. Can I claim I was inventing normcore? No?

Thanks @Regal I called Anderson’s this morning and they had more Sire’s available than listed on the site. A Sire R3 Grand Auditorium in natural on its way. If it isn’t suitable then I will have to wait until the store reopens and try a some before buying.
I was sold when they had a video with Mike Dawes and saw his unsolicited reaction...

Nice, congrats! Hope you have lots of fun with it.

Interesting. Waiting till payday before pre ordering a sire p7 that’s showing out of stock/3 month lead time.

Sonor Performer Shellpack

• Beech
  
• Late-80's but not 100% sure what year
  
• 22x16/ 16x16/ 13x9
  
• 6-ply 6mm toms and 9-ply 10mm kick
  
• 45deg bearing edges
  
  

Obviously need to go and buy a snare, cymbals and hardware now but I'm pretty bloody chuffed with these for a start! At the time they were Sonor's midrange drums, made in Germany rather than the entry level kits which were made in China. What's peculiar with these ones I've bought though is that the majority of these kits of this vintage (facelifted badge version from late-80's rather than early-80's basically) had poplar shells which were cheaper and also mostly had round bearing edges. After a chat with a knowledgable chap on a vintage Sonor group on FB he ascertained that they're actually probably Sonor Phonic shells and for whatever reason that day in the factory they found their way into the Performer production line.
Phonic were Sonor's upper midrange drums and are worth considerably more than Performer kits these days (like about twice as much). My drum sensei told me he's had about 40 Performer kits pass through his hands over the years and only once ever seen another kit with beech shells and 45deg bearing edges!

Not guitar related but interesting music nerdery nonetheless and a new vintage gear day for me (whenever I can sneak them out of the UK under the cover of darkness so as to avoid the customs man)!
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Interesting. I don't know Sire, but it looks like you get a decent bang-for-buck. Post more pics when you get it

Sounds lovely!

I've gone and bought some pedals...

The looper came first in January, and I'd never owned any before. Then I borrowed my brother's multi-FX thing and had to admit that yeah, I had fun, in spite of liking the simplicity of just plugging straight into an amp.

The Caverns is great (I just wanted a basic reverb, but this was cheap second hand and it's fun), the wah is a wah, and I'm still figuring out how to make the Tube Screamer work nicely with my amp.

Nice, I'd like a decent reverb... That and maybe a compressor, got everything else I want or need I think...

What amp you going through? Show and tell please...

Nice set-up!

Tubescreamers do their thing when pushing an amp that's already on the edge of breakup. Not an easy trick to replicate at home. I live in a Victorian terrace and I can hear the girl next door talking on her phone when i'm in the office/studio. I dread to think how annoying it is for next door when I decide i'm going to run even a small toob amp above 1.

Does anyone know why guitar pedal signal path is right to left btw? It's always bugged me.

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Thanks - after I got the Caverns I was actually looking at the Keeley Aria to have a compressor as well, but managed to be strict with myself and restrain the budget. It's going into a Vox MV50 'Boutique' and BC108 cab:

It's 'alright'. Allegedly meant to sound like a Dumble, as if I'd have any frame of reference for that, but I hoped it'd be more Fender-y than Vox-y. Originally bought because it was small, had a headphone jack and could be used without a cab, in the hope of it being nicer than an Amplug or something. Picked up the cab after moving, and that seems 'alright' as well, although I never turn it up. The head was on sale at £89, and I'm happy with it for that much.

@Fatberg Yeah - I think at the moment I'm just stuck thinking that the amp on its own being pushed by the guitar's volume knob sounded better, although I've had moments of it starting to work. More messing around required. I think my guitar is quite mid-heavy too, but I liked the Tube Screamer setting on the multi-FX more than anything else.

I thought the same about the signal path! It just doesn't seem intuitive to have it go 'backwards'.

I always assumed because (if you play RHanded) the cable comes out of the RH side of your guitar and goes to the start of your pedal chain without draping across where you’re standing on the stage. So, avoiding trip hazards? Who knows.

Actually that does make sense. Any lefties on here find themselves constantly tripping up?