Bacchus JRP Surf Breaker! Jazzmaster shaped body made from a fallen Japanese red pine tree, flat top with a German carve on the edge, telecaster bridge/bridge pickup, gold foil neck pickup. 25.5” scale. First brand new guitar I’ve bought since high school. It fucking rips, big tele sounds but not icepicky, plays very easy even with 12s, super snappy. Has me playing funk chords and Andy Gill riffs all day. Turned up loud with my old drummer the other day and I guess I gotta write some fucking songs now.

Kniferide wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:22 pm PMC's finally in place

Pretty absurd. the folding table is going to have to go and I'm building a new desk. They sound great at low to moderate volume (where I like to work anyway) but quickly overwhelm the space if pushed a little. Its a lot for what is basically a control room built into a large walk-in closet.

Goodtimes

That’s such a great story J ! Congrats!

that room's clearly too small for 'em. You should sell 'em to me. I'll give you what you paid for 'em so you don't lose any money.

Aw heck, you know what, I'll even just go head and cover shipping too.

Garth wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:18 pm that room's clearly too small for 'em. You should sell 'em to me. I'll give you what you paid for 'em so you don't lose any money.

Aw heck, you know what, I'll even just go head and cover shipping too.

If I decide to get rid of them, we can talk.

I just picked up one of those 15 watt Monoprice amps that’s based on the Laney Cub amp. It was “broken” and dirt cheap. I swapped some tubes and got it working. It sounded okay. The reverb is total dog shit. Then I plugged it into one of my 1-12 cabs and holy crap! It was not live changing, but for a super budget amp it sounded quite good. It seems like the two biggest weak spots are the speaker and the cabinet materials.

matttkkkk wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:56 pm Dirt cheap Dolamo D-8 overdrive from eBay turned out to be absolutely fucking awesome. $A31 delivered so probably $US 20? Beautifully cranked on my Tele, wide range of tones, no background noise, goes from a bit burred to snarly in very good ways. Apparently it’s a Timmy clone. Nice quality for no money, and I can dial in the sounds I want to hear very easily.

I got one, and I'm very happy I did. Having been through a bunch of OD's looking for something that works well with SS and modelling amps, I thought based on your description it was worth a £28 punt. Its tone controls are weird, requiring significant tweaking between guitars to do something similar. With some guitars, it has an enormous amount of bottom end - I have never ever had to run an OD with the bass all the way down before. It is great both for v low gain sparkle, which "tubes up" a SS clean channel nicely, and for spiky crunch - I keep on playing "September Gurls" with it. WIth my Tele, it sounds like a blendable drive, almost as if there are two separate signals. At low gain settings, it does what I've tried to use a compressor for in the past - clean guitar that sounds like it's being played loud.

I just sang into an old white 421 for the first time and after listening the next day, it had a character so that it sounded like a cool finished recording w/ only a little bit of reverb, even if the take itself wasn’t all that. I wonder why they’re not more known for vocals. Normally I am on here complaining about the mics I’ve sang into.

I’ve had this mic for forever and I got it because it was cheaper than the good condition used new models. Sometimes on instruments I’ve missed the brasher sounds the recent ones are supposed to be capable of, but I suppose if I had one of those I’d be complaining about that too.

Mine has a conversion cable and it seems like I always have to remember to flip the phase when its next to a newer mic. Oh yeah and I had 12 db from a Royer mic booster on it into the preamp.

Kniferide wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:22 pm PMC's finally in place

Got around to doing a quick mix of something I had started on the old speakers. It's the only thing I've mixed on the new guys so far but they are really fun to work on.

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finally testing out my (previously owned) hypex amps. swapped out an adcom for one. These were wired with a 3kHz HP/LP filter for biamping. I just bypassed the filter and am running one of them stereo.

Sounds nice. definitely noticing more support in the low end. Not that it feels bassy or boomy, but it's just more present. These are the UcD 400's, not the fancier newer designs. Will spend some more time with them, but as of now, I'm happy.

Nabbed a coupla things thanks to PRF recs:

- FM Nate Dort posted some time ago about the Ampeg SVT-212AV. Found one used for ~40% of current retail (cabs & speakers are super expensive now apparently?). Aside from some tolex sloughing (also bought a $70 cover from Reverb for protection), an extremely dope cab. Form factor is excellent, weight is manageable, sounds great at reasonable (YBA-1) & unreasonable (800RB) volumes. As a bonus, it's almost exactly the same height as my guitar cabs, which are also diagonal 212s. Very soothing to look at three rigs of identical height if I set up all 3 cabs & all 3 YBA-1s (one is a 1A and one is a modern reissue, I'm not a complete maniac). Not playing bass in a band right now but I have no doubt it'd keep up with anything. A bit annoyed that it's 4 ohms, if only because I could see myself with two (obsessive/big symmetry guy), but it works with what I have so it's fine.

- Several FMs were discussing the Dolamo D8 overdrive pedal recently. $30.99 CAD shipped on *mazon, so why not (and given that it actually shipped Canada Post expedited parcel from within Canada, I actually paid ~$15 for the pedal itself). Sounds great - very much in the Bluesbreaker/Timmy space for sure, very usable gain and EQ ranges. Probably not a sound I'll reach for all the time, but very much worth the $31 & I'll be keeping it around.

So, thanks, folks.