About the Eventide H90 Harmonizer (from Sweetwater) Eventide’s H90 Harmonizer redefines the sonic possibilities of a multi-effects pedal, seamlessly merging the studio-level versatility of Eventide’s flagship H9000 rack unit with the streamlined form factor of the H9 Max pedal. The H90 Harmonizer starts with all of the 52 algorithms found in the H9 Max pedal derived from the...
I've been the biggest critic of caring about the weight of your Les Paul but today I received a 8.9lbs 50s Standard and I get it now. My nearly 12lbs 60s Les Paul feels like carrying a dead body in comparison, even though I've never had issues with its weight before. Sorry to everyone I called a weight weenie.
There's so much negativity on this forum that I'm honestly baffled if any of you actually like it.
I love guitars. I love playing guitars. I'm happy that I still feel that dumb joy nearly 30 years later that I did when I was a kid strumming a guitar I literally pulled out of the trash and strung up with weed whacker line.
I can understand that here, you're on your phone or computer, and maybe the act of actually holding and playing the guitar is a distant activity while you're here, or...
On a recent Instagram post, JD Simo claims that every pedal tuner he owns (and he owns them all) negatively affects guitar tone by dropping bass and low mid frequencies, adding compression, and limiting sustain. He claims in a blind test with XTS he was able to determine with almost perfect certainty when a pedal tuner was introduced into the chain. He says that he and Barry are "working on a solution."
Do you think he's nuts or onto something? He uses the Turbo Tuner when required but...
One if the takeaways is another source confirming that Leo used what was cheap and available and the idea of tonewood is crap. He evens mentions Leo measuring different types with a scope and finding no appreciable differences.
Hello all. I received the 70th anniversary 1954 strat this week. It is really good looking but incredibly hard to play. Bending notes is killing my fingers. For a quick review the guitar has a great paint job. Fret work is well done. Feels light but haven’t weighed it. It appears it was set up to factory specs so I’m not sure what to do.
I normally pay for a setup. I think it came with 9s which I play so this may not be an issue, although the B and G string do feel thicker than I am used...
Now that Epiphones are so damn good and well way better than before and hard to imagine how they could do better…..
Did Gibson make a mistake in getting rid of artificial tiers and price tiers essentially making such a great quality product at such an affordable price with their Epiphones.
I always wondered if yeah a lot of these price brackets and prices were just artificial as in extra specs or specs that come on some guitars vs another. Essentially both being pieces of wood with strings...
I know I am making a controversial claim but hear me out, hoping for an experienced builder to comment if my conclusion is right or wrong, here's how I came to this conclusion: We have heard, watched videos and read that quarter sawn is the best cut of the wood and the most stable. I believed that to be true for guitar necks until recently I watched a bow being made out of raw wood. The prized cut for that is flat sawn, not to be mixed with "plain sawn" which can contain flat and rift sawn...
I damaged a new guitar accidentally in a retail store how much should I have to pay? Thanks all. the devil is in the details, eh? OK. when putting up a prs on high level 7 feet or so having open yokes, I musta nudged The adjacent guitar I didn't see it getting nudged but you must have worked its way after that and I turned around and I heard a bang and it turned back aroundAdjacent guitar I didn't see it getting nudged but it must have worked its way after that and I turned around and I...
Thomann and another German retailer have listed the new IBGC epiphones and they look absolutely fantastic! I am so happy to see that they are bringing back the high end specs, and the prices appear to be reasonable (~ $1200). Great specs, rosewood fretboards and custombuckers on the 59, real MOP inlays, nice cases, single piece necks etc. Also, notice that the front binding on these is actually scraped! I think this is what I had always been hoping epiphone would do to bring back something...
I've been having a lot of tone issues as of late as I'm moving up to bigger gigs. Currently trying to work out something with my overdrive pedals. Every time I hear people saying **** like 'set the volume of the amp so it's breaking up, then control your drive with you volume knob."
Like 1: How are you guys not pissing off every sound guy in town with constant volume changes?
And 2: there is no chance I could run my amp past 4 at any bar in my city without blowing everyone out with stage...
Keeley's popping off lately. I like the new form factor and design.
Blues Disorder - Bluesbreaker/OCD
Super Rodent - SD-1/Rat
Angry Orange - Civil War Big Muff/DS-1W
Kind of an interesting concept to combine the elements of two mostly unrelated circuits that nonetheless have some overlap in application.
Interesting also how Robert Keeley mentions that the DS-1 in the Angry Orange is specifically modeled after the Waza DS-1 as opposed to the ordinary one...
I may be swimming against the tide here, but I want to air some thoughts regarding the whole Epiphone/Squier vs Gibson/Fender-debate. The amount of vitriol that the recent Epi Firebird release stirred here bears testimony to the fact that we have strong opinions - well, here's mine.
I recently thinned the herd. I sold three Gibsons and two custom-built instruments that weren't seeing much use. Why? My Epihones and Squires have taken their places in my gigging rotation. Why? I like 'em...