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aufheben

#Norris4Fox
Jan 31, 2013
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I searched but did not find an existing incarnation of this; didn't seem like too bad of an idea given the time of the year, and I know guitar especially is a popular instrument.

So...yeah, Idk, I guess post your gear, favorite songs, recordings, skill-level, whateva.

I have a 2003 Fender Standard Telecaster, black, that I'm actually interested in bringing back to life aesthetically, and have a few questions about.
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We had a, "What are you listening to?" thread eons ago IIRC.

Anyway my favorite artist is DJ Mika. What a PIMP!

Edit: Seriously I used to produce EDM as a hobby. I used a strictly DAW with the exception of Technics MKII 1200s and a Micro Korg.
 
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i write various types of music for money for a career

Favorite gear I have at the moment.
Manley Vari Mu
Manely Massive Passive
Chandler Limited Zenith and Curvebender

I own three guitars but have no idea how to play them
 
Gear I currently have:
Schecter Stiletto Elite 5 string with EMG X soapbar P/J copy pickups (that's my avatar). Had that bass 15 years
GK MB115 practice amp
Jackson GC37 Soloist/Dinky hybrid with Duncan SH1N/SH4 pickups
1950 King Moretone upright bass
Yamaha APX500 thinbody acoustic guitar
KRK V6II Studio Monitors
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
Cubase
Native Instruments Komplete
East/West Symphonic Orchestra
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones

I've been slimming down my gear for a few years due to funds, but I should be starting to build back up soon. Other gear I've owned:

G&L L-2500 5 string
Warwick Corvette Standard 5 string
Ibanez ATK1205 5 string
Martin DX1AE Acoustic
Markbass SD1200 Bass head
Ampeg SVT410 Cab
Ampeg SVT15EN Cab
Peavey TMax 115 Combo
Korg G5 bass synth pedal
Source Audio Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter
Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distorion
Electroharmonix B9 Organ Machine
Oktava MK319 Condenser Mic
AKG D112
Yamaha Subkick
Audix Drum Mic Pack
Presonus Firestudio
Sennheiser E935
Shure SM57
Probably a bunch of other stuff I don't remember.
 
Tawnos said:
Gear I currently have:
Schecter Stiletto Elite 5 string with EMG X soapbar P/J copy pickups (that's my avatar). Had that bass 15 years
GK MB115 practice amp
Jackson GC37 Soloist/Dinky hybrid with Duncan SH1N/SH4 pickups
1950 King Moretone upright bass
Yamaha APX500 thinbody acoustic guitar
KRK V6II Studio Monitors
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
Cubase
Native Instruments Komplete
East/West Symphonic Orchestra
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones

I've been slimming down my gear for a few years due to funds, but I should be starting to build back up soon. Other gear I've owned:

G&L L-2500 5 string
Warwick Corvette Standard 5 string
Ibanez ATK1205 5 string
Martin DX1AE Acoustic
Markbass SD1200 Bass head
Ampeg SVT410 Cab
Ampeg SVT15EN Cab
Peavey TMax 115 Combo
Korg G5 bass synth pedal
Source Audio Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter
Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distorion
Electroharmonix B9 Organ Machine
Oktava MK319 Condenser Mic
AKG D112
Yamaha Subkick
Audix Drum Mic Pack
Presonus Firestudio
Sennheiser E935
Shure SM57
Probably a bunch of other stuff I don't remember.
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Nice! What kind of music do you play?
Ex musician myself, still have most my guitars but haven't touched them since I can remember.
My band released a few albums back in the day, miss those days of driving around Europe in a cramped bus and getting drunk every night. Oh and the ladies, hehe
 
Currently I have a red hollow body Ibanez artcore ....
Fender Alkaline Trio Malibu Acoustic guitar...
I have a 77 key Casio keyboard on a permanent stand in my living room...
I have a bass guitar that I've been fiddling with recently also a bunch of amps and peddles etc
 
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Fender MIM standard jazz bass and Fender American Standard Stratocaster (2011) are my main guitars

Also have:
Martin 000-15M acoustic
Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer (pedal)

I mostly play blues guitar
 
I am a vocalist and took vocal lessons weekly in NYC for about 1.5 years. Not in any sort of band (yet) but its fun to just practice and sing on your own.

I am into metal / rock vocals, the clean operatic style is definitely my preference; I also like the distorted high notes as well.

I've worked on songs like The Needle Lies, Take Hold of the Flame (Queensryche), Aces High, The Clairvoyant (Iron Maiden), Carry On (Angra). I had to stop vocal lessons for the time being but have made a ton of progress.
 
I play two Fender Strats, PRS custom 24 with Dragon II pick ups, a PRS semi-hollow with Piezo pickups , and a Taylor 800 series. I can posts some pics. Anybody looking for an original music project in the NY area? Lol
 
Anyway I'm fixing the jack on my Telecaster, and I've kind of become interested in re painting it. It's black with a few small spots of paint chipped off, has a couple dumb stickers I put on years ago, and specks of oil paint from college. I'm assuming this is very likely not worth the effort, and possibly not even feasible, but just a thought I had for sort of a summer project. The finish is polyurethane.

Besides that, there's a ~'57 Gretsch and that bizarre Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi, both handed down from my grandfather. I think the Ampeg was related to him designing their logo.
 
Tawnos said:
Gear I currently have:
Schecter Stiletto Elite 5 string with EMG X soapbar P/J copy pickups (that's my avatar). Had that bass 15 years
GK MB115 practice amp
Jackson GC37 Soloist/Dinky hybrid with Duncan SH1N/SH4 pickups
1950 King Moretone upright bass
Yamaha APX500 thinbody acoustic guitar
KRK V6II Studio Monitors
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
Cubase
Native Instruments Komplete
East/West Symphonic Orchestra
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones

I've been slimming down my gear for a few years due to funds, but I should be starting to build back up soon. Other gear I've owned:

G&L L-2500 5 string
Warwick Corvette Standard 5 string
Ibanez ATK1205 5 string
Martin DX1AE Acoustic
Markbass SD1200 Bass head
Ampeg SVT410 Cab
Ampeg SVT15EN Cab
Peavey TMax 115 Combo
Korg G5 bass synth pedal
Source Audio Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter
Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distorion
Electroharmonix B9 Organ Machine
Oktava MK319 Condenser Mic
AKG D112
Yamaha Subkick
Audix Drum Mic Pack
Presonus Firestudio
Sennheiser E935
Shure SM57
Probably a bunch of other stuff I don't remember.
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Damn Komplete is a sick package, always wished I could afford to buy their products. I used a few over the years, but I pirated most of them. What led you to choose Cubase over some of the other DAW packages out there? I usually ask because it is interesting to hear why people settle on one DAW or another.
 
Thirty One said:
I'm more of a percussionist. I play the triangle and the spoons.
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Triangle is such a versatile instrument. You should check out the Xylophone sometime. I think you'd really like it. I can't believe you don't already play the tambourine as well.
 
Primarily a bass player, but I also do drums and guitar.

My main bass is a 2002 Agave Blue MIM P-bass with a Dimarzio model P in there.

Also have a MIM Squier series from '94 I'm fixing up with all new hardware and electronics.

My main guitar is a 2005 MIM strat I heavily modified. There's a Tusq nut, string rollers, all new pots and an orange drop cap. In terms of pickups, there's a SD JB in the bridge, a Dimarzio Chopper in the middle (my favorite), and a custom blues-wound single-cool in the neck. The tonal versatility is huge, and it can do anything. Also gave it a black guard, so it's all black. The bridge was upgraded to a steel block. Only thing stock is the tuners.

Also play a cheap Epiphone AJ-1 acoustic. $80 acoustic, but I haven't found anything I like more.

In terms of amps, I have an Ashdown MAG300 I picked up used and an Ashdown 4x10 I got from their artist program at a good discount. Guitar goes through a small Fender Super Champ XD. Nice loud tube amp despite its small size. I've had both for several years and they work and sound great. Really reliable.

Drum-wise it's a DW kit with Remo heads, Paiste hi hats and crash, and a sabian ride. Picked up a pearl kick pedal as well.

That all gets recorded through a Scarlett 2i2 into Logic...or ProTools at a studio.

Pedal-wise for bass there's a Small Clone, an MXR DI+, a tuner, and a volume pedal.

For guitar there's a wah, the aforementioned small clone and volume pedal, a polychorus, and a ProCo Rat.

That's about everything.
 
lucky13 said:
Currently I have a red hollow body Ibanez artcore ....
Fender Alkaline Trio Malibu Acoustic guitar...
I have a 77 key Casio keyboard on a permanent stand in my living room...
I have a bass guitar that I've been fiddling with recently also a bunch of amps and peddles etc
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Is the Ibanez an AS73?--because that's what I have. That's a great guitar for $400 anyway.

Also have 1980's Fender strat that has only one pickup (a humbucker) and only one tone/volume knob. Don't think there's many of them but I'm not in love with it.

I also have a Gretsch that needs some repair, a Hagstrom condor and a couple others of this and that some of which aren't playable.

Two amps--a vox modeling amp and a really old Crate amp that actually looks like it was made out of a wooden crate. I had a 1960's Fender tremolux amp but I traded that for the Gretsch and the Hagstrom. I have various pedals. All that can get really confusing though. My buddy who jams with me now and again has a Telecaster, a Carvin bass amp and a 1960ish Rickenbacker bass--one of his pickups is dead though.

Vox also makes the amplug which is about $40. It's a miniature battery operated amp about the size of a cell phone that has a plug in on the one end for headphones and on the other end has a guitar jack. That's a nifty device that also includes distortion and certain other effects like a delay, a chorus, a reverb. Basically you get a really nice sounding amp and you're not bothering the wife or the neighbors.
 
Former pro bassist.

Currently down to

Rick 4003
Music Man Sting Ray 5
Hamer 12 sting bass
Mexican Fender Jazz bass 5

Few practice amps
 
Ail said:
Damn Komplete is a sick package, always wished I could afford to buy their products. I used a few over the years, but I pirated most of them. What led you to choose Cubase over some of the other DAW packages out there? I usually ask because it is interesting to hear why people settle on one DAW or another.
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I talk to people about this for a living, so I will tell you that I don't believe that there's any difference between any of the major DAWs anymore as far as capability for home studio type of work. Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton... they're all equal. So it's really just a matter of what you learn on and whether or not your going to be working with professional studios as well.

For me, at the time I started I needed 8 channels over FireWire and was working on PC. So, that meant no Pro Tools... at the time it was married to hardware I didn't want. No Logic... Mac only. I simply liked the visual layout of Cubase better than Cakewalk. The others weren't out yet.
 
aufheben said:
Anyway I'm fixing the jack on my Telecaster, and I've kind of become interested in re painting it. It's black with a few small spots of paint chipped off, has a couple dumb stickers I put on years ago, and specks of oil paint from college. I'm assuming this is very likely not worth the effort, and possibly not even feasible, but just a thought I had for sort of a summer project. The finish is polyurethane.

Besides that, there's a ~'57 Gretsch and that bizarre Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi, both handed down from my grandfather. I think the Ampeg was related to him designing their logo.
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If the bolded is a 60's model then that is the coolest piece of gear listed. Those are super nice. I had the bass and wish I never sold it.

I used to be piano refinisher. Since you live in Jersey getting the good lacquer is easy.
Is the Tele a USA made? If not, I would not put my time into refinishing it.
Find a finishers supply near you. Paint stores will be of no help. Wood finishers supply is what you need for everything involved. Plus they know what they are talking about unlike a paint store or Rockler.

If it is or you want to do it to do it, you will need to completely take the guitar apart. Pull the pups and all electronics and any hardware like the bridge off the body and remove the neck. Mask any numbers uncovered. Get a good paint stripper, Jasco one is ok and easy to find. The more toxic the better. Do this outside with plenty of ventilation and nothing around like a car/dog that the stripper can get on. Long sleeve shirt, good chemical resistant gloves and protective eyewear(water hose near by just in case you get some on you). It sounds like a pain and it kinda is but much better then sanding it down. Sanding the finish off is never a pro way of refinishing anything. Read the directions for the striper and after the finish is off(if you followed the directions and nothing comes off you will need a stripper that is more caustic), clean with lacquer thinner with those blue shop towels until the rags do not pick up anymore junk, you will see the rags get dirty. Next clean with mineral spirits, same as the lacquer thinner.
Also look for someone with a strip tank and take it to them if you can find one. Worth it.
If you have spray equipment then buy some Star black lacquer, Star if they are still around makes the best black. The only lacquer I have found that matches Steinway ebony.
If you want to rattle can it you can. If you decide to go a natural wood color then you will need different directions. Finishing steps: Wait until the next day to sand. Use a block when hand sanding flat areas.
Sand with 100 grit until it looks pretty clean, no need to go crazy.
Fill any chips or scratches not taken out with sanding, use bondo.
Sand those areas smooth with 100.
Sand with 120 then 150.
You should not need to use a grain filler but if the grain looks open like an oak or mahogany(I know it is not either of those)then you will, most guitars are very tight grain so you should not need to.
Dust then use a shop towel with some denatured alcohol on it, just damp not wet.
Sealer goes on next, get whatever the finishers supply recommends.
Scuff with 320 grit
Gray primer sand with 320 and then repeat sand until the finish looks nice and flat with no grain showing.
Finish with black and do the same as the primer but wet sand, get it nice and flat. The water should have a couple of drops of dove dish soap in it, use a spray bottle.
Be careful on all of these not to sand through the layer you just put on. Keep an eye and eye out for chunks of finish clogging the sand paper, it will scratch.
If you want a high gloss sheen, you will need to sand wet 500,800,1000,1500,2000, go in different directions with each grit so you know when you have sanded enough. You will need at least 5 coats of black to do this.
Then get 3M auto buffing compounds(they are the best, ones made for guitar,piano, furniture suck). You will need medium, fine and hand glaze. Tell them you wet sand to 2000 and they will set you up with the proper grits of compound.
Put guitar back together.
I hope you see it is a pain to do it right and maybe just buy a new painted body from http://www.warmoth.com/
 
I have been playing forever, but never got past intermediate. It's fine though I just play for myself. I mostly listen to prog metal and my best gear:

EBMM Petrucci JP15 7 string
Gibson Les Paul Studio Platinum Edition
Sterling JP100D
Taylor GS Mini (great acoustic, just picked it up recently)

Mesa Mark V
Pretty much ever TC Electronic pedal they make

I have a Two Notes Torpedo Live and a Rivera Rock Crusher recording. An attenuator is a must in an apartment lol

I also have a Korg Triton and a cheap bass. I played piano for years before I picked up a guitar.
 
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