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#1
Build Reports / Re: Oomph! Overdrive
January 18, 2025, 03:19:09 AM
Ha!!!! I think not, but I need to go back over mine and make sure I pass the test.  I think I'm so blown out on girls in underwear and babble chronicles that contain little to no value that demos like this are mind bending in simplicity.
#2
Build Reports / Re: Oomph! Overdrive
January 16, 2025, 11:25:08 PM
Two things that make for a great demo is being in tune and playing clear deliberate stuff.  Your playing is both and sounds great.
#3
Build Reports / Re: Oomph! Overdrive
January 14, 2025, 11:48:22 PM
Very nice! Excellent demo as always.  I enjoy the fact the pedal speaks for itself, and tastey guitar work is a bonus.
#4
Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware?
January 12, 2025, 04:40:11 PM
Pine tends to disperse vibrations slightly (I think of it as being warm...in a good way) but nothing about your combo of parts that would suggest a dark sounding platform.  One interesting experiment if the steel saddles doesn't help is to capo the neck at the first or second fret and see if that makes a difference acoustically.  Not sure if you're using string trees or not so that span between the nut and tuners may be sapping a bit of brightness.

Damn fine looking guitar in the meantime!  That body is gorgeous.
#5
Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware?
January 12, 2025, 01:10:05 AM
I worked on 5 strats today.  Squire thru vintage and all sounded different, but all sounded not too far off how they sounded acoustically.
#6
Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware?
January 11, 2025, 12:14:08 AM
Pics please and what's the details?  Body wood, neck wood, string-thru vs top-load, neck joint, etc... can all play a factor.  What's sucking all the top end out of the guitar as a whole is what you're looking to find.
#7
Open Discussion / Re: Colorsound wah Transistors
December 30, 2024, 03:10:53 AM
Interesting.  Till now I always thought Coloursound were always inductorless.  Now I know they did both.
#8
What a great story and what an amazing looking guitar.  Enjoy that beast every day and Merry Christmas.
#9
I read 1975 ES-355 and everything got kinda fuzzy.  Good score and good to see you posting!
#10
Excellent news Jimi
#11
Done
#12
Build Reports / Re: Ekano DIY Midi Controller
November 09, 2024, 01:08:27 PM
Wow, good to see you back!  Thanks for this.
#13
Build Reports / Re: Aleph Null Peacock Parallel Fuzz
October 20, 2024, 02:33:07 AM
LMS order placed and will straighten out the footswitch and LED wires before I close this bad boy up.  Standby for mediocre but meaningful demos...
#14
Build Reports / Re: Aleph Null Peacock Parallel Fuzz
October 20, 2024, 02:16:07 AM
Nothing too dramatic here but it's together and working.  Aleph, the brown would really have been a cool idea now that you mention it but alas, it was a trick of the light.  It's straight up black.  The clear coats got shot and the jack holes drilled.  So it's done and I'm going to totally rip off your knob idea of using greens and gold.  I've been so busy at the shop now that I'm back that I get some time on this when I can spare it.

All good though with some time spent working on recent Supro product (holy crap do those folks know how to wire a tour quality chassis...but makes it a bitch to service), as well a Divided-by-13, and Evil Robot chassis.  Fun stuff.  Next weekend I'm getting in a Magnatone and a cool Brownface Fender Princeton Chris Stapleton signature.  Good to be back in action.

I HATE the connector wiring look so the next version will be normal wiring.  Still if it needed to be serviced...  Also worth noting that the dented electro's at the top really aren't.  Weirdness of lighting I guess.




#15
Open Discussion / Re: ToneX
October 11, 2024, 11:14:08 PM
The weird part is that modulation effects and delay are out so it kinda gets limited to distortion.  I have the original Tonex capture box and got some cool caps of my Traynor TS25.  It's a cool tech and I enjoy playing stuff that people upload but haven't had a chance to record anything so it doesn't get used outside of the fun of auditioning other peeps gear.

I like the idea but haven't leaned into using it enough.

Still if you could do generic pedal captures, that would be pretty cool.  Not sure how that would work but a great idea.