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Not for sells Rickster, but I can heartily recommend the Barber Tone Press. It has a blend control so you can set the amount of unaffected signal coming through. I'm sure plenty of other pedals do the same tho. Love mine.
It took me years to realise that the reason I didn't like compressor pedals was because without that bypass blend they tend to completely cut the front of the note off which feels like taking a bath in socks. WIth the blend thing, you get the attack and then the squashed thing happening. Mine's on nearly all of the time these days.
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I had one! I sold it! On here!
Yeah, a mix knob would a be a good feature to have I reckon. Both the Cali76 and the Becos Stella I'm currently vibing upon have one. Regal's Keeley is blend-free but it's supposed to be rather fab nevertheless. Dunno. Also looking for a separate ratio knob and a threshold control, which the Tone Press doesn't have, both settings are fixed - though it does a good job all the same.
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It took me years to realise that the reason I didn't like compressor pedals was because without that bypass blend they tend to completely cut the front of the note off which feels like taking a bath in socks.
It depends on a few things. One is the attack and ratio settings of the compressor and the type of compressor it is (VCA/opto/etc). On any good compressor you should be able to dial the attack back to allow the transient through before the compressor starts to act. You don’t necessarily need to use parallel (wet/dry blend) compression to achieve that but it very much depends on the comp type, settings, and source material.
A blend control mostly just gives you a lot more options for different effects/sounds. Having a very smashed compressed sound mixed with the dry signal is a particular thing and you definitely can’t get those certain effects without it.
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My green sparkle Trent coming along nicely...
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Sparkly. Likey. I’m guessing this isn’t just a rattle can job?
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It's a "nitro sparkle top coat over the fir green".
Having a torrid time deciding on the colour of the rest - I think I specced it as cream P90s and creamy/parchment scratchplate/controls etc, but I keep thinking maybe it should be tortoiseshell instead for the scratchplate.
I can tell what is actually going to happen is I'm going to buy a few different colour scratchplates!
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Would anybody have any use for this Chinese ebay neck?
Needs some work doing to it but I know there are plenty of budding luthiers amongst us whi might be able to do something with it.
It's meant to fit a Jackson neck pocket but I suspect its actually closer to a fender pocket shape and width, certainly doesn't fit the Jackson body it was intended for.
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I have absolutely no use for it so it’s all yours
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Also on the flogging train - anyone interested in a Strymon iridium?
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Having been a Chic fan since the 70’s I love this video from Fender and Niles Rogers. I know it’s a promo for the new Hitmaker Srat that has been released but it’s still a nice insight…
https://youtu.be/-MR2E56ipOU
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putting in average 5 / 6 hours of guitar practice each week is adding strain on my fretting hand. i suppose if i was younger, tendons, joints etc would be more supple. After reading about a forum member suffering with sore hands after a couple of days manual labour in the DIY thread, methinks that i should invest time each day strengthening and stretching all fingers and thumbs, to avoid injury and develop a stronger reach. in fact some of the chords and barre chords i need to practice have four finger positions.
currently my practice involves alot of pentatonic patterns up and down the fret board, recently jacked up from 54bpm to 65bpm on the metronome as well as rapid finger picking routines, chromatic scales with fret width diminishing from nut to bridge
any advice on warming up, stretches, hand yoga.. greatly appreciated
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are you putting too much pressure on the frets? also hand positioning can make a difference. if you adopted an awkward position for holding a chord it can cause pain, i used to do barre chords in a weird way due to being self taught at the beginning, it was a while until I was corrected but it felt better straight away.
it is largely down to strength which comes in time along with your practice.
I would try to do big wide chords to strengthen up your fingers, it should make the simpler stuff feel easier and help you progress. just do silly things like elongate a chord as far across the fret board as possible or do barre chords with only your index and middle finger etc.
another thing to consider is the set up of your guitar, that can put pressure on your hands and cause aches if the action is all over the place or strings are too heavy
another thing I found helpful early on for finger positioning practice was using a multi effects pedal, as daft as it sounds.
I used to have trouble going cleanly to a C chord for instance. found by chance after getting a multi effects pedal for Christmas, I cycled through the usual d, c, e, g, chords on each setting, of which there were many, and by the time I got through them all i was moving to all chords quite happily, I think largely as I was distracted by the pedal and doing it repetitively for however long. it just didn't feel like practice. subsequently I got to grips with a few other wacky chords just cycling through like that, not paying too much attention and just doing it
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Does anybody have anything nice in the compressor department for sells?
In an ideal world... Cali, Becos, Keeley, Empress, Diamond, that kind of thing. But open to ideas. Oh, and it's for bass.