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[ljs4]

Cheers pal. What do you currently play on?

[davej]

A Squire butterscotch blonde Tele

 

[HarrysMini]

I like my maple necks too, out of my five main guitars, only two of them are rosewood. 

 

My main workhorse is a Fender Strat in a nice green colour that I've never seen on any other, and also a USA Peavey Predator. 

I also have a Squire Bullet 1, which I believe is made in Japan. It was made in the 80s while Squire where still good and it's a sort of Tele shape.

 

I play them through a five watt Blackstar tube head and 4x8 cab.

 

Might get some pictures up later if anyone's interested.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Lovely buttscotch tele, I'd need to sand that lacquer off though, just doesnt look right to me. 

 

and I had a bullet at one point, it was a black one. Definitely a Japanese. They were squires before they were the Squires of today, a totally different company I believe. The quality is that of a mexican Fender these days

 

It was a good guitar but I never liked the pick ups on it, there was no shine at all.

[HarrysMini]

 

and I had a bullet at one point, it was a black one. Definitely a Japanese. They were squires before they were the Squires of today, a totally different company I believe. The quality is that of a mexican Fender these days

 

Yeah mine's a black one. It was Squire before they moved to China.

 

They even have Fender hardware, and it's just as nice to play as my MEX Strat.

[Teapot]

Well, this was my start in the world of plonking, with me little ukelele in me 'and at summer camp circa 1959

 

 

Also my little bro who actually ended up with a recording contract with Transatlantic in the 70s in a band called CMU

playing "art-rock, jazz-rock and folk with a nod to psychedelic rock." http://www.progarchi...ist.asp?id=5450

 

 

We started out with a pair of red & yellow plastic ukes with Elvis transfers on. Then our longsuffering parents, recognising

our immense talent (not), bought us real wooden ones.

It was on this very instrument that I discovered the magic of The Fourth Chord, i.e. A minor (if you're playing in C) to go

with F & G, as in Paul Anka's "Diana" and some of the tunes from Sandy Wilson's musical Salad Days.

 

Right, carry on.

 

[davej]

Lovely buttscotch tele, I'd need to sand that lacquer off though, just doesnt look right to me. 

 

I know what you mean but I don't think I could take sand paper to it, not yet anyway.

[surfblue63]

A quick up date on the old Ibanez I found

 

 

As it's winter I decided to just do a quick refit. I replace the tail piece and bridge. Replaced the busted jack socket and replaced the pick-ups with a pair of Seymour Duncan Fat Cats.

 

I delivered to my son James and he is now giving it a thorough work out.

 

 

 

[HarrysMini]

 

Lovely buttscotch tele, I'd need to sand that lacquer off though, just doesnt look right to me. 

 

I know what you mean but I don't think I could take sand paper to it, not yet anyway.

 

Bare wood does look very good, especially once it's been gigged a few times and the sweat has started to stain it a little. 

 

Although, on some woods, lacquered does look better.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Made a little demo of the Jam Man Looping pedal tonight  Lame ipad quality though 

 

[ljs4]

Loop pedals are great, I got one for christmas. Nice playing 

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Thanks mate, they are awesome. I'd like to get another Jam Man stereo to create some more complex sequences and switch back easier. The problem is after layering up so many sounds and getting to a point you're happy with, if you switch to a different loop track, it'll be blank, if you try to overdub or record, all sound will stop. With the one looper I find I have to play some kind of background rhythm that I can keep going on constantly throughout the piece, save that to a different track location, so that when I want to switch I can just loop up.

 

It's just quite a complicated process when you have guitar and bass all come in at once in a certain area of the song. Remembering to save the track, transport it to a different location for access later all whilst playing the guitar and remember what comes next

 

Once I get another looper I can overdub on the second looper, stop all sounds on the first one and then whatever I play on looper two can be a chorus, verse, flick back to one for the base track etc. It makes structuring the piece much easier. It's why I spend so much time on the floor, saving tracks, moving tracks, setting levels etc. 

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 23 January 2014 - 12:48 AM.

[ljs4]

I know what you mean. I want to get a multi-effects pedal so that I can change the sound of individual layers as my current setup doesn't allow me to. A selection pedal would also be useful.

Edited by ljs4, 23 January 2014 - 01:05 AM.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Fenders special run Black Paisley Telecaster which I definitely don't want or need

 

 

*drools*

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

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