Thanks! Well soundwise she's still under scrutiny, since the previous owner changed the original pickups for a set that's exceptionally dark and it isn't really a sound that I'm looking for (hence the treble bleed mod I installed). It got better than it was but I still have to test it a little bit.
Luckily the guy kept the original pickups, so I still have the option to swap them back in.
Edit: In any case the coil split manages to make a great difference tone wise which I didn't expect because these pickups are still from a cheaper brand
As I said in the last post I made, I had the intention to upgrade the guts of my newly bought guitar. I switched out potentiometers and pickup selector for something that wouldn't feel as cheap, added a coil split mode through push/push pot and added a treble bleed to brighten up the tone. Everything I needed I found on Thomann.
Here's the schematics I made with DIY Layout Creator, which is a really cool piece of free software that I can only recommend if you're into this sort of stuff. You can find it on FlatHub as well.
there's one with an awesome introduction only to appear for approximately 10 minutes in total and get brushed off easily in the end.
It's funny because there are multiple ones that fit under that description
I think you got it backwards, I mean the new one doesn't have cohesion: the parallel stories don't really match with each other
Nope, as I generally want to be entertained when I spend money and time for a movie.
I'd lie if I said I expected this to be as good as the first one, but boy was that an understatement...
In one or two simlpe sentences, summarize the story of the original Beetlejuice film.
Ghost couple tries to shoo away the family who bought their house after they died. The thing gets out of hand when they hire Beetlejuice.
Why this question, tho?
This article is written by someone who likes to fart in a jar so they can keep smelling it during the day
I really hope that you're not gonna end up disappointed as I was yesterday coming out of the theater: I could't find one single aspect I enjoyed and still cannot
Story cohesion, justifiable plot, relatable characters, believable dialogues, good montage (there are more frame changes than a fast and furious chase sequence) and in general there is nothing that make this one look like a Tim Burton movie.
But hey we now have *checks notes* Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen...
They quoted the word "pureed" which means there was butter and potato starch involved
When you burn away that much money, you coping mechanism has to be better than this
... but I had such a good deal with this guitar that I couldn't miss the opportunity.
I started being interested in this kind of design since Squier reissued the Toronado in its Paranormal series, based on an old Fender model discontinued in '06. And I found out that Ibanez gave such a design a chance in 2012 with the Roadcore Series and in particular with this mid-tier model: the RC320.
While searching some information about it, I found a listing of a guy selling one not far from where I live. It was a really, really good bargain so I ended up buying it.
The guitar is a distillate of features from all the most iconic guitars manufactured in the last century: it has a mahogany body and humbuckers like a Les Paul or a PRS, an offset shape like a Jazzmaster/Jaguar, a 648mm scale and a bolt on maple neck with rosewood board like a Stratocaster, but with a flat radius and the crazy low action only Ibanez can make. And as an upgrade, the previous owner installed a couple of Blues Engines pickups, that have a very apt name given the warm tones they produce.
I have in mind over the next months to upgrade the electronics and since the humbuckers are splittable, add a push/push potentiometer to experiment with an alternative configuration. I'll try to post some pictures of the job.
When we get too involved in online matters, disconnecting from the internet and getting a hold of the real world is an analogy to the Greek Philosoper's work
Following the post of this week, I'm really happy of how it turned out. Now I can retire my old Beringer TO800
For my birthday I gifted myself a DIY Pedal Kit: it's a clone of a quite famous effect, can you guess what it is?
So, I had this amp lying around in my father's basement for a while now. 13 years to be precise: It was my first practice amp back when I bought my first electric guitar. The circuit wasn't half bad, had a cool gritty marshally sound with an analogical spring reverb, but unfortunately the speaker was trash. 30 watts RMS are hard to handle for an 8 inches cheap speaker, so one morning, after an intense early '00s punk rock rehersal it simply went BZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz..... and it was gone. And finding a new speaker that wouldn't blow up again, expecially one with such required specifications, was something I couldn't achieve 13 years ago. So eventually I gave up searching for spares and I bought a new amp.
Fast forward to a couple months ago, I need a small practice amp to carry around, now that I have a new band after a log time. I remembered the existence of this relic from the past, went to my dad's house and I was surprised he didn't throw it away after all of this time. I started to look for spares immediately and thanks to the power of today's internet, I was able to find that the Celestion TF0818, even tho it's not a speaker intended for guitar amps in the first place, had all the specifications I needed: 8 inches, 8 ohms, able to withstand up to 100 watts of power. The delivery took a while to get to my house (I ordered it via a local website) but once it arrived I put it straight in.
With new guts, my old friend is back in action: the 0818 has a good response to mid-low frequencies which gives a lovely round and dark tone to the gain channel, while still being able to work with high frequencies due the small sizes. I'm always happy to bring new life to old music equipment, it reminds us that we don't need the latest gizmos (and create unnecessary waste) if we take care of our stuff. Also, the swap was super easy, no joke I just needed a scewdriver and 10 minutes, so if you have and old amp lying around you could totally give it a shot, the results might surprise you.
This friend was gifted to me by my next door neighbour in 2009, when I was 17 and it has been love ever since.
Today it was it's cleaning day: I cleaned it all up, scraped the gunk from the fretboard and polished the frets with car scratch remover and at the end it came out so fine that made me want to share a picture with the community.
Take care of your instruments and they will last for a long time.
Hi everyone who's reading: I'm looking for an overdrive pedal that can go into distortion as well when pushed to high gain (or vice versa). I'm using a TS9 clone now and while I love the sound it provides, it cannot go into full distortion. Is there something that woulf help my needs? Plus point if it's a "budget" one
Last year I bought an Harley Benton Telecaster and I loved it right away. Today I'm going to make it even better by upgrading its weak spots like the tuners, the electronics and the plastic nut. I'm also going to mod the wiring with a 4-way switch and adding a "pickup in series" mode. Wish me luck.
Maybe they keep typing "Erth" and this brings them to the goddamn Triangulum Galaxy or some sht
Last month a friend of mine gifted me his 1997 Epiphone Les Paul 100. He bought it at a pawn shop 15 years ago, played twice and left it at his parents' house since. It was all beat up and dusty, the wood was so dry and brittle that when I poured olive oil in the truss rod shaft, it made the sound of someone taking the last sip of soda with a straw. The stock electronics were really cheap to begin with and all this time made them disgustingly crunchy. !
And one of the previous owners swapped the stock knobs with four Strat style tone knobs, which should be enough to be condemned for war crimes and be waterboarded for years. !
So I spent the last month rummaging second hand websites and shops for spare parts. The best deal I got was finding these wonderful Tesla Opus-2, humbucker sized P90 pickups that sound wonderful. Even at full price they are crazy value for the money, and I paid a little more than half of it.
I also gave it a new guts transplant with full sized potentiometers, shielding with copper tape and alluminum foil and a different knobs configuration: both volume knobs on top, both tone knobs on bottom. Gibson purists are gonna hate me, but I feel it more natural for me this way. !
Unfortunately I got ripped off by the guy who sold me the tuning machine heads, as one was broken (I should have checked better). So for now I kept one of the old ones for the low E string. I wasn't really happy at first but it's slowly growing on me. I might end up keeping it this way. !
As for now I'm really pleased with the result: this is the first Les Paul I ever owned and also the first guitar I fully renovated from the ground up. Giving a second life to this beautiful instrument has been super fun and taught me a lot, so if you have any questions feel free to ask
Something different for a change: my homemade Big Muff Pi - "Green Russian" clone. Sounds like the original but has the best Big Green Boi on it, so it's a huge improvement.
