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  1. mcnach
    Nice! I don't own one but here at Pirate Studios they have a few and I always liked them, but in dim light with the mirror panel... yeah, not great. Last thing I want when trying to read which knob does what is seeing a guy that looks a lot like me staring right back.
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    Barefaced Machinist

    mcnach replied to Kev's topic in Effects

    oh, oh, oh! Is that the bicycle???
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    Ok, I get that not everybody is a fan of symbols over words, but what do we have here? Level, gain and some kind of EQ, as in a miriad of dirt pedals out there... Even I can manage that, and I'm having a doofus maximus week I'm pretty sure you will not damage anything by mistake by turning the wrong one, unless I missed the nuclear launch button Personally I had more trouble with the controls on a Mesa D800+, to be honest: dark knobs on a dark plate with a tiny white marker and small lettering labels above them. I replaced the knobs to aid visualisation, and as for the labels... I just learnt what they do. Much like in a lot of other amps and pedals: Ashdown RM series with their mirror-like face panels and black letters, great when I need to retouch my make up, terrible otherwise... and ultrabright leds on pedals that mean I can't make out where the controls are pointing at. I suspect we'd manage just fine
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    I'll be very disappointed when the amp comes out. I wanted a bicycle.
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    Meanwhile back in 1986, my first electric guitar cost new something around £100 and was a pretty poor instrument. Amazing.
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    very nice!
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    Barefaced Machinist

    mcnach replied to Kev's topic in Effects

    Not sure... a pedal would indent my financial reserves a lot less than an amp. Fewer temptations are a winner for me 😛
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    Barefaced Machinist

    mcnach replied to Kev's topic in Effects

    You're probably right, but reading the 'history' about this pedal was quite interesting and it makes sense to me how it came about. Barefaced + COG doing something together, made in the UK etc especially in these difficult times... is something to applaud, I feel. The product won't be for everyone (is anything ever?) but would it be better if they hadn't bothered at all? I don't think so.
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    Just recently discovered these guys from France, Dub Silence. Nice original stuff, and some relly interesting covers, like this one!
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    Well, I check an email I had from Andertons last week and find out that the estimated delivery is... summer 2021!!! 😲 Then I see that this is for a second batch, as the first one was sold out already, phew, mine is still expected in early December 😎
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    Interesting! I had him build me a pedal for my RATM tribute band (I called it "Raging Bull", logo on the bottom using the Red Bull font) that contained distortion, clean blend, dual LPF on the distortion, and order-configurable foot-switchable series/parallel loop so that I could add another source of dirt (or anything). Not much like the Machinist, but looking for the same kind of thing... to play the same kind of music (the Machinist being linked to Tim C)... I can't find pictures of the final product (sold it a while ago ) but here's one Tom sent me of the box in-progress:
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    That looks fantastic (I'm imagining a black pickguard for 'maximum stealth' look)... and... oh no... they make a 5-string too for £125. I'm running out of reasons not to buy one.
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    I'm fighting the urge to do something like that. I don't need another Precision but... and I don't need another Stingray... BUT uufff... that looks amazing and it would be nice to have my Stingray with rounds as it is and another with flats... no, no, no, stay away!
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    The thing is that unlike those appliances, in a guitar usually all of those things can be adjusted relatively easily in most cases... but you need some experience. Or help from someone with experience. I would expect a better setup than what you describe from the box, but the truth is I always end up setting instruments to my taste, so a setup is always factored in. It's very rare I find an instrument plays right for me from the start. Basic setups are something worth learning to do early on. It'll save you a lot of hassle down the line, plus you may find some bargains along the way too as sometimes people sell instruments they don't get along with simply because the setup is terrible (once I had a guy giving me £20 back after I had decided to buy his bass, because the action was too high - but everything worked, it was an OLP Stingray clone with the wheel at the body end, and easy to check on the spot, which I did when I noticed the crazy amount of relief...)
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    ooooh, I like this... A LOT!!!
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    Personally, if the sound and feel is really good, I can tolerate cosmetic issues. Especially if ordering online so you don't have a chance to try a few and choose the best... the next one might not be as nice to play, because instruments can vary a lot between them. However... it's you, not me, and what matters is if these things bug you enough. If the fact that it sounds and plays great is not enough for you to enjoy it without being annoyed at the look... then it should probably go.
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    Some instrumental mariachi music or similar, quiet at first and creating a build up especially over the last minute or two, to make it clear that... it's coming. Then lights on, pyro, band comes in at once on a fast paced tune... (ska) I don't know, ask me tomorrow again for a different answer
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    Oh, that Nigel, gotcha (shame he's not on BC anymore, he was one of the good ones). Yeah, I got confused... multitasking is not my forte I just had another look at the posts above and it was pretty obvious who you were talking about, doh. Sorry about spreading my confusion around!
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    Guitar? I know he's been with Dare (on bass) for the past few years, but I have no idea whate else he's doing. (I'm not following him, I just happen to know the guitarist in Dare and I check them out from time to time).
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    Maruszczyk used angled back headstocks, that's why they don't need string trees
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    Sometimes you really crack me up 😄
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    If you had a genuine Fender, would you sell it for less than a Squier? Hard pass.
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    That is really cool!
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    No, the watts rating of the cab mean nothing in this respect. A 400W cab just means it can *take* that much power before things go wrong (simplifying a bit). The wattage in a cab just states its limit (mechanical or thermal), that's why we tend to prefer cabs rated higher than the amplifier, but even that is not a hard and fast rule (even a 1000W amplifier has a level control ) What's the impedance of the cabs? That will change things a bit, but not the wattage rating of the cab. edit: doh, I read that as a 400W *cab*... so what I said was not what you asked. 🙈🙉🙊
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