Guitar Nerds Anonymous

All those locking bits are giving me a headache? Will you post to Malaysia?

Anyone got a compensated Mojaxe wrapover bridge they wanna sell me?

I'm an idiot, the 'bridge' I have is actually just a stop tailpiece... #iamadickhead

Friday is band practice day, we've gone in a more Kosmiche direction for 2016... The clients love it...

I've been working here since May, unfortunately going back to meejahordom in the not too distant...>

Ha. Amazing. I didn't know you'd cashed out of the ratrace completely. That looks fantastic. Hope you can keep it up with a bit of minorwhoredom to top up.

I didn't know you'd cashed out of the ratrace completely.

I wish... It's a day service so getting more than 30 hours a week is a struggle, which means the money is shite... Although the bank will give me a home loan on those hours (?!?) I'm not as confident as they are so looking for something that pays a bit more... No more band practice Fridays tho'... 😭

It's a pretty good life here, let me know if you want a job with Queensland Rail... Lori's mum works for them... 😬

Thanks man. That might be a bit of a leap tho. I think our immediate future is the coast of Kentforshire which i'm pretty happy with. I've made sure the town we're looking at has a decent guitar shop. Keep on rocking the colonies bro.

Hastings, you'll love it... I'll introduce you to my old jam partner, Billy...

Played a support as a duo in a proper hall last night with about a 15k rig and INCREDIBLY LOUD CRISPY MONITORS. Got the nerves and played like crap. Have grown too accustomed to struggling to make a knackered Peavey mixer amp work while fending off some fuck who wants to sing the Wild Rover. Le sigh.

I grew up in Hastings, apparently it's now the place to be... Still looks like a shithole whenever I visit but the houses are cheap and nice.

We're looking in Faversham. ^^^^>>>>><<<<< Owning your own DIY thread <<<>>>>^^^^>>>>>>

@rickster could be worse. Could be some twat in a bandstand in the pissing rain wanting to sing Elvis and Cash to soggy toddlers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh0pJsyS9mQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9oKx5km0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HldQ6-RZr5g

@apone Damp toddlers off the shoulder of Orion. Good times…

Show and tell Monday… this is my Croppercaster. It's a parts guitar put together in the UK, I got it from a mate. No clue what the body and neck actually are...

I pretty much hate relics but the colour's nice. The cool thing is, it's hollow swamp ash, just 6.5lbs, so very twangy and acousticky. Neck is a bit thicker than a Fender '60s RI, it's got clay dots, I had a hefty fret dress done, swapped the pickups for Lollar Vintage T's, changed the guard for snot green, buggered with the saddles (now has two straight threaded steels plus a compensated brass in the middle) and added the all-important white switch tip.

It's not a '63 but it's alright.

Beautiful... It's still on my list of must have someday guitars, '62 Tele Custom... It'll never happen unless I do what you've done...

Lots of guitar related awesomeness today... Met with the guy who's building my Les Mosrite Junior, lovely chap... This is gonna be a beauty, he's an engineer by trade so has already got a 3D model in AutoCAD set up...

The Solton amp is fixed! All the caps blew! Got a new switch put in my CryBaby and the amp repair for $210... Pretty happy with that, think I'll try it with a Big Muff at next rehearsal cuz the Guv'nor wasn't really sounding that good with the amp running hot... Any suggestions on what I can do? I need a lead channel but stuck with a single channel amp...

And then I went out for afternoon drinks with an old workmate from London... Great day!

Do you need a clean channel and a distorted one?
TS-808 Clone maybe?

I would go for a clean(ish) boost with a bit of mild toneshaping - I used to run a MK1 bluesbreaker on full blast to achieve this... Other pedals are available. Depends on your amp obviously but I wouldn't have thought the muff will give you a smooth lead.

I just need more volume really, amp is already maxed out so got no headroom left...

Pre/power or both (non-master vol amp)? Something to cut through could help if you've really go nowhere to go. I suppose squarewaves are technically 'louder' :D

Just gonna stick this up again: Anyone interested in my 1966 Fender Mustang? Not all original, but a true vintage. Drop me a pm.

I used to do clean boost (from a Bluesbreaker pedal) into a TS9 into a just about clean amp (or amps) for as my default clean/dirty/dirtier setup. Ran the amp just clean enough that a clean boost into that gave you a big vol boost and raggedy breakup as opposed to just bringing on saturation. That was handy for clean countryish solo lines. Straight TS9 into the amp gave you straight TS9 stuff and clean boost AND TS9 together gave you a bit more volume over just the TS9 alone but loads more squash, sustain and singing feedback. Not fizzy at all.

But if your default is the amp flat out and overdriving, i'm thinking adding clean boost will probably add compression/sustain but unlikely to give much of volume boost.

You need MOAR AMPS

I may just try running things in reverse, run the Guv'nor in the on position with the volume down a bit and no extra gain as my rhythm sound and then have the amp on its own as my lead sound...

Or like you say... AC15 as rhythm amp and Solton as lead amp... Then I just need an A/B box... 😬

I used to use a Boss pedal tuner with two outputs as ghetto multi-amp A/A+B box. With tuner on, clean signal as bypass was always on but other output is muted. Then all you have to do is hit tuner (off) and dirty amp kicks in. Worth trying in rehearsal?

TS are you using a 2x12? You might not need moar amps, just more speakers.

I think it's an insoluble problem, the amp's already running at full tilt so I'm not gonna be able to push more dBs out of it, just make it more squelchy... Maybe if I run it a bit quieter then use the Guv'nor and Micro Amp it might work...

How did the old school guys get around this?

Anyway, first world problems...

Here's Brendon's first CAD model of the Les Mosrite Jr... Wrong bridge and pickup on this version, the volume knob position is slightly out too... Also thinking about making a custom hybrid Ventures Mk1/Mk2 scratchplate for it, bit more reminiscent of the Junior and may look really nice... Still undecided tho'...

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