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8.19pm
25 February 2020
Offline The Hole Got Fixed said
I can’t get that image to load. What did you get?
yeah, not exactly sure how uploading an image works here, seems kinda wonky
anyways, it’s an Epiphone Crestwood Custom! the white one they just came out with
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The Hole Got Fixed, ewe2, Beatlebug7.21pm
8 January 2015
Offline That sounds fab @Vera Chuck and Dave I hope you can upload an image from somewhere not dropbox of you banging out a chord on it!
I'm like Necko only I'm a bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin and also everyone. Or is everyone me? Now I'm a confused bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin everyone who is definitely not @Joe. This has been true for 2016 & 2017 
but I may have to get more specific in the future.
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15 February 2015
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@Vera Chuck and Dave instructions on how to attach images here https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..s/#p117557
googled “Epiphone Crestwood Custom white” and it looks absolutely gorgeous 
I’m a sucker for white guitars hehe
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12.45am
25 February 2020
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cheers! was looking for an FAQ or something and couldn’t find it
of course it’s really simple to do 
hahahahaha
here it is!
haven’t owned a guitar with a good tremolo in a while, nice to have that again
really love the pickups too! the bridge pickup is super biting and has like 0 low end, and the neck one is basically what I want a guitar to sound like
also, that bit of wood on the tailpiece is the rug that ties the room together
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8 January 2015
Offline You might want to play with the pickup heights and see how that balances the sound for individual pickups and how they blend and you’ll be amazed at the range of options that gives you. Don’t forget that applies to each side of the pickup too! This is equally important for basses. It’s a complex blend of pickups, strings and your fingers that makes a style unique!
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10.42am
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15 February 2015
Offline today is our four-year anniversary 
I need to get the frets re-crowned so I can Gilmour lovingly upon her strings again but I am broke
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5.15pm
25 February 2020
Offline just got this yesterday! highly recommend it if anyone’s looking for a good overdrive
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8 January 2015
Offline I bought these last week, they should get here next week:
The first is the Spiral Electric FX Brute Fuzz, a very swish fuzz pedal that does lots of groovy noises. I’m going to replace the silver knobs with chickenhead knobs that glow in the dark to make it easier to see where they indicate, I’ll post a pic when that’s done. Most expensive pedal yet, they’re only recently been carried by a retailer in Australia (pedal empire in Brisbane), I’ve always wanted a Spiral Electric pedal, Tom Cram is a wizard who made the Carcosa pedal.It uses silicon AND germanium diodes AND weird Nanolog N2 diodes which use carbon quantum tunneling to sound like a tube and almost like the original sine wave.
The next pedal is a great envelope filter by Keeley Electronics. I wanted something that would work for bass and this works for bass, guitar, and keyboards and does all the envelope filter jobs with a minimum of excess. This is the real beginning of my bass board, I need to get the actual board now! 
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Vera Chuck and Dave, The Hole Got Fixed, BeatlebugI'm like Necko only I'm a bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin and also everyone. Or is everyone me? Now I'm a confused bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin everyone who is definitely not @Joe. This has been true for 2016 & 2017 but I may have to get more specific in the future.
11.51pm
8 January 2015
Offline Pedals came today. They are both amazing (really!) but the packaging of the Brute is very special:
The fuzz in its box. There are goodies in the side like knob stoppers stickers and a howto and ….(see below). The box smells nice.
There’s a map in the bottom of the box showing where it comes from. The box is numbered (not shown).
One of the goodies is wrapped with a spiral badge, special woodchips that may (or may not) be an offering to the gods of tone. I haven’t a clue what to do with it yet. I have tested the pedal with my two main basses, Perky the SB-2 loves it a bit more than Boris possibly because he is more bassy and thumpy than Boris who is more midrangey and thwacky, it works in different ways for them which is great, I’m very happy, it is the Right Sound. The Germanium setting is quieter because it’s a narrower range but with a higher bias its got its own fun, I have to explore its other options yet. The Silicon setting is the “standard” fuzz and goes all the way from boost to overdrive to fuzz to distortion to velcro-ripping incoherence, just great. The “detail” knob controls treble which means I get to keep it nice and dark if I want to. But the revelation of the pedal is of course the N2, the Nanolog and it does what it says on the box, the full range, its the loudest, most open fuzz range, it sounds amazing. If compared to my Carcosa pedal, that sounds as if its shouting through a letterbox from 20 feet away.
The Keeley pedal is great btw, I figured it out in 5 minutes, its a straightforward envelope pedal which is just what I wanted, something that would work for bass because I’ve had a previous pedal that was fine for guitar but couldn’t do bass very well at all, this is great, covers the range. I can finally do funky things properly. Now I just need a good octaver to go with it.
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4.02am
8 January 2015
Offline Finally the bass is here. It didn’t even get made until late January, in Taiwan according to the serial (although the sticker claims made in Indonesia, maybe the parts came from there). It is very pretty as you can see, and plays very well, sounds much better than I hoped. The passive tone is really really good, so the active eq is icing on the cake for particular styles I might want. It has roundwound strings on it but I will put flats eventually on because it will sound even better with those. Haven’t a name yet.
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8.53am
26 January 2017
Offline I’m now the proud owner of a Fender Jazzmaster 
Time for some shoegazin’.
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sir walter raleigh, Beatlebug, The Hole Got Fixed, Vera Chuck and Dave, ewe2I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
1.34pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Congratulations @QuarryMan! Please post pics? 
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4.44am
26 January 2017
Offline Beatlebug said
Congratulations @QuarryMan! Please post pics?
I’ll try and get some up soon
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BeatlebugI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
9.33am
8 January 2015
Offline I’ve got a name for the Yamaha now, he’s Robbie, after Robbie Shakespeare the reggae bassplayer, because he’s dark and smooth (like a coffee bass). Really is the best-sounding bass I’ve ever owned (although I love my other basses, they’re all differently awesome).
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4.45pm
25 February 2020
Offline got an old Portastudio recently, recording backwards guitar on that thing is so fun
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26 January 2017
Offline I’m really close to buying plugins for my DAW, the Abbey Road 60s studio drums. With my guitar being recorded through the amp mic’d up, and my organ and keyboard having phenomenal sounds, my midi keyboard could use a boost with its drum sounds, especially now that I’m getting good at using the session function to record live loops and sessions. If I could get that psychedelic drum sound I would be golden. For double the price, I could snag the entire collection, which features iconic Abbey Road drum sounds from the 40s-00s recorded with great detail inside of the studio.
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Beatlebug, Vera Chuck and Dave"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles!"
-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
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5.49am
25 February 2020
Offline if you want a good, fat psychedelic drum sound, I got three words for ya:
compression, compression, compression
7.05am
24 March 2014
Offline Vera Chuck and Dave said
got an old Portastudio recently, recording backwards guitar on that thing is so fun
I’d love to get a 4 track cassette recorder but i find them too expensive.
sir walter raleigh said
I’m really close to buying plugins for my DAW, the Abbey Road 60s studio drums. With my guitar being recorded through the amp mic’d up, and my organ and keyboard having phenomenal sounds, my midi keyboard could use a boost with its drum sounds, especially now that I’m getting good at using the session function to record live loops and sessions. If I could get that psychedelic drum sound I would be golden. For double the price, I could snag the entire collection, which features iconic Abbey Road drum sounds from the 40s-00s recorded with great detail inside of the studio.
Are u using Ableton Live as your DAW? if so you could check the Beat Academy tutorial on youtube on how to recreate a Tame Impala track and sound with Ableton.
If not just check it anyway, you could find it pretty inspiring.
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11.43am
26 January 2017
Offline I’m using ableton, but no offense I’m not talking about the super compressed sound that Vulfpeck or Tame Impala use. I don’t hate Tame Impala but honestly his bass and drum mixes annoy me. I’m more referring to the crisp snare used by Ringo or the pounding toms used by Nick Mason. Right now i’ve got a few plugins for ableton including a fantastic rhodes ep. But the built in midi sounds for Ableton kind of suck with very little depth to the drum dynamics. I’m trying to practice my ghost notes and Ringo’s sound is what I want.
"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles!"
-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"
-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl
