#5225

Depends which one drops. If it’s my Tele I’d be more concerned about the floor tbh.

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#5226

bit confused with my mini-jazzmaster because it has a lot of fret buzz on higher notes, but the action is pretty high, and if anything the neck is slightly bowed as it is, would have though a low action back-bowed neck would cause buzz not the opposite

feel bad how neglected my actual jazzmaster has been since I got this mini one, haven’t even put the Johnny Marr bridge I bought for it on yet. the mini is just so playable

#5227

Love when you find a new use for old gear. I never really got on with my Caroline fuzz pedal, probably because it’s more in the style of a superfuzz or tone bender then the big beefy fuzzes I usually like, so it always feels a bit weedy. But I’ve kept it because I don’t have a gated fuzz or an octave fuzz and it can do both of those.

HOWEVER: if you lean into that spittiness a bit and slam it into a cranked Blues Driver… well. WELL. That does it. You get that aggressive buzzy edge of the fuzz/octave fuzz and as it decays the woof of the Blues Driver comes through.

I need to form a stoner garage punk band.

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#5228

Have you tried putting a spring reverb in front of it

#5229

It’s always on at the end of my chain. Kick in the second tank for more springiness as needed.

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#5230

Might… might face bought another fuzz.

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It’s the Jimi Hendrix signature (silicon) fuzz face in a smaller enclosure, and with an optionally buffered fuzz circuit so it plays nicer with wahs. I’ve already got a Mooer fuzz face clone but it’s germanium and is a total, total diva about signal chains and doesn’t really clean up like a fuzz face should in response to the guitar volume.

Also this one’s sparkly.

#5231

Used to have that in my pre-Boss days. Really liked it. I did have it turned up to the last constantly though.

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#5232

Fuzz faces should always be set to full anyway, then use guitar volume control to tame them as needed. Pointless otherwise.

#5233

AHAHAHAHA A VERY FUNNY JOKE

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#5234

some tips for buying a 2nd hand guitar, £200 budget? Have not played in about 10 years, need to know what to avoid (good brands that can’t be bought cheap, made in China etc)

#5235

You can get Squier Vintage Modified guitars for just about that, second hand. Typically they’re a bit more than that but if you get lucky or haggle it’s doable, e.g.

I used to be really snooty about Squiers but that was based on what they were shitting out in the early 2000s. Modern ones are much, much better.

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#5236

Fuck, that’s a good price for that.

@daggers, as Epimer says, the Squier Vintage Modified series are great, the Classic Vibe series too. Get something from either line and you’ll be sorted.

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#5237

No strings on it though. Literally unplayable.

#5238

Into the skip with it!

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#5239

Before I left NZ 3 years ago, we had a guitar left at our flat (often let out of town musicians crash at our flat) so after realising nobody knew who owned it, I cleaned it up, strung it (broke 2/6 strings in the process) and learned some Black Sabbath s/t songs, but then a friend put out a message saying he lost a guitar a year before and only just remembered (smokes too much weed)
Not much of a story, but that was the last time I briefly played guitar and looking forward to getting back into it.

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#5240

I just bought another neck pickup in the end, it arrived today and typically the spacing is still wrong

#5241

first essential purchase, tuner? should you work towards doing it by ear?

#5242

Tough gig, stoner rock. Such a fine line between, “I could play this riff forever” and, “hang on…didn’t I used to own a guitar?”

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#5243

You can get free phone apps that do it well enough.

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#5244

A Volca Drum arrived in the post for me today. On the one hand I only really want to make simple hi hat and snare dreamscapey beats, on the other hand, i spent a good hour tweaking boiongy sounds and wurps wurps. It’s the first step device I’ve used, so wiwll take me a while, but i’m looking forward to learning how to use it.

Seems a lot of people sell Volca FMs on ebay…

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