Musical Instruments

[eldorado]

Nah, 30w valve amp. Thinking about just upgrading.

Sorry, I was being overly groovy, and confused things...

"Tube" is valve, so, yeah, it's a tube amp you have.

Is is all valve (i.e. valve pre-amp, and valve poweramp) or a Valvestate-style hybrid (i.e. valve preamp, but solid-state power amp)?

If it's all valve, I'd take it to Soundworks, if not, it's not so important...you want someone who can bias the power-amp tubes correctly

 

[Rioli magic]

Picked up one of these bad boys a few weeks back at the Allens/Billy Hydes closing down sale.

Very happy with it at this stage, quite versatile with the push/pull pick-up splitters, but ultimately it's metal. EMG's, original floyd rose, neck through, 24 frets and mahogany body.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Very nice. Looks sleek.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I was just having a late night perusal of Gumtree a few nights ago, and stumbled upon a Epiphone Buzzsaw with an Orange 15w amp and Boss GT-6 pedal..... I couldn't resist.

So now I have a pair.

 

[Noneedforaname]

I was just having a late night perusal of Gumtree a few nights ago, and stumbled upon a Epiphone Buzzsaw with an Orange 15w amp and Boss GT-6 pedal..... I couldn't resist.

So now I have a pair.

Double Damn! There is like divine intervention, or serious Karma being invoked here. There is two much win!

I noticed myself spending a 'little' more on things lately, 'treating' myself you might say, and I realise its probably just retail therapy due to a certain disappointing moment late in September. I thought I was on the road to recovery, but then seeing those two beauties does not inspire restraint.

Awesome stuff there.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Double Damn! There is like divine intervention, or serious Karma being invoked here. There is two much win!

I noticed myself spending a 'little' more on things lately, 'treating' myself you might say, and I realise its probably just retail therapy due to a certain disappointing moment late in September. I thought I was on the road to recovery, but then seeing those two beauties does not inspire restraint.

Awesome stuff there.

Yeah. I hear ya on the retail therapy. Couple the guitars with numerous artworks that I've purchased lately and I am in great need of restraint.

 

[eldorado]

Bump...

My latest goodie...I've gone a little retro with this one...

Schecter Solo Vintage

 

[hawker92]

Bump...

My latest goodie...I've gone a little retro with this one...

Schecter Solo Vintage

Forgive my ignorance but how would you re-string that? I've only owned string-through-body guitars and have always wondered how other types are stringed.

 

[eldorado]

The strings go through the Bigsby roller bar. You string them through the bar facing away from the headstock, and them wrap them back over, then it's like normal.

If you look carefully at the pic, you can just see the string ends protruding on the roller...

 

[hawker92]

The strings go through the Bigsby roller bar. You string them through the bar facing away from the headstock, and them wrap them back over, then it's like normal.

If you look carefully at the pic, you can just see the string ends protruding on the roller...

Ahhh yep. I can see that now, cheers!

 

[TARGETMAN]

self taught muso from the early eighties
i play acoustic, nylon, electric, bass and currently doing a fair bit of mandolin. did drums and didj for a bit but they both are a hard introrment to lug to parties and have sunday jams.

my guitars consist of a
takamine cut away acoustic with stereo pick ups
1956 framus twin f holes electric hollow body
fender nylon
maton nylon
cassarosso acoustic bass
ibanez electric bass (the boy uses it for school lessons)
tennessee mandolin
yamaha electric guitar. typical fender copy
juno 12 string
ibanez acoustic 1980s
5ft didj.

had till stolen. les paul. fender malibu acoustic. kyairi acoustic. fender jazz bass. and a gibson flying V bass ,roland bass cube and my favourite roland jazz chorus amp.

 

[Gibbke]

I'm a teacher of music in FNQ, after a decade in Brisbane full time, about five years before that pursuing a playing career, and then under a decade before that getting through uni and HSC as a beginner...

Guitarist mainly, and I consider myself a bassist on the same level, but I have been paid to drum, hit keyboards and sing in gigs. I was first trumpeter in uni concert band (where we had to pick an orchestral instrument to play as well if we specialised in non-orch instrument), played percussion too, and can show kids the playing positions of any other orch instrument, which comes with my job. On top of this, my big mission is mastering the banjo - not cheating by tuning it to guitar, but the real deal methodology...

Played in mostly covers bands, and did build one up to be a $60k pa enterprise, but that was about the time I realised that bank loans, superannuation, getting a house and financial relaxation would be better served with a government job, so it was back to teaching. Wish I'd gone harder, to be honest, but otherwise no regrets...had a great time! Moved to the GC instead of Melbourne way back, but any lack of career movement in pro music is due to not grasping opportunities fully, not geography. Played some big crowds, and supported a few names, like Bob Geldof, Yothu Yindi and the Mentals. The last gigs I've done were mostly musicals, and I was the solo guitar player for Les Miserables in a fairly big production in Brisbane a few years back...the toughest and scariest gig I've ever done!

Love all styles pretty much, but don't like new stuff...! The school rugby league programme gym is right next to the music room, and I can hear the hip hop shit they play on their stereo most days...! My ambition is to put out an instrumental guitar release or twenty - get onto Gibbke2 on Youtube, and there's a couple of samples of what I want to do (the Star Wars covers)...

Would love to get a new guitar, simply because the HM Strat I've got is 26 years old going on 150...beer, bourbon and blood stains everywhere, plus deep gouges where the pick has hit the body a billion times...rusted in a few places, two fret jobs, and the maple neck is dark brown due to grit and wear from a sweaty thumb...either an elite student model or a bottom entry pro level guitar, but either way it's served me well...it's lived a full life...

Marshall and Fender. I love the look of a Marshall when stage lights are shining on it, the sexiest look in the entire musical universe. I like the distortion better too - I've entertained the thought of switching to Vox, but unless you want to sound like Queen (a real ah-hah! moment for me when I went to see the Foo Fighters way back!), and like that dark woofy distortion, they don't have enough versatility. Strats for me - I don't like the rounded Gibson neck, or the sound of the pickups as much as Strat single coils and humbuckers. And while mine has run its race through years of abuse to the point where it can't hold its tuning, I'm a big fan of the Floyd Rose tremolo. I also have several cheap guitars and basses, plus a banjo, a decent classical acoustic, and a Tanglewood steel string, which is by far the most expensive and highest quality instrument I own. I have a seven string and a double neck too, although they aren't the best quality. I've always used Fender Extra Heavy picks, nothing else, and I have to order them, because these days they're very rare...