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    I quite like it. I mean it is not exactly a master piece or among the best Beatles songs ever, but very far from among their worst either. Better than the 2 other posthumous John Lennon Beatles songs from the mid 90's for sure, and all in all a really nice song. From the receptions it gets in this thread it very much sounds to me like some people are listening to this through a filter of preconceptions. Also funny George Harrison called it pure crap, cause to me it actually sounds more like a George Harrison song than a John Lennon song.
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    I agree with the above post. Don't pull the strings, stroke them with the outmost tip of your fingers/nails, in a slightly inwards slapping, but relaxed, non forceful, motion, rather than striking or pulling them. That, or if you insist using such aggressive plucking technique, which will give you a less complex but actually also less aggressive tone, you need to raise the action considerably, and possibly use thicker higher tension strings as well.
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    Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
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    More amazing folk :
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    I Lost Something In The Hills - Sibylle Baier
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    I would personally go for EHX : Bass Soul Food (Klon clone with clean blend) for low gain always on overdrive grid Hot Wax (Hot Tubes + Crayon dual overdrive with clean blend, the Crayon being an alternate take on the Xotic BB Preamp circuit) or Operation Overlord Nano (pretty amazing original circuit with a lot of control options, including a Treble, Mids, Bass EQ section and clean blend) for low to high gain overdrive Metal Muff Nano (metal type original distortion that sounds pretty awesome on bass, this is the only one of the mentioned that doesn't have clean blend) or Hell Melter (Boss HM-2 clone with clean blend) for high gain distortion Or MXR M85 Bass Distortion (RAT clone with clean blend and Turbo RAT mode) for pretty much everything
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    Tim Hecker :
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    That does look amazing! Also matte black is one of my absolute favorite finish options. Love it!
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    Don't know about the Ampeg, but I can warmly recommend the Valeton Aquaflow Vintage Chorus. It's out of production, but was a budget pedal, so might be able to find it cheap used. Sounds amazing. A Boss CE-1 clone, just with more controls, and in a mini pedal housing. Not too many of those around, and to my knowledge the only one in the budget price range.
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    Yeah, I apologize for trying to help, won't happen again I promise. I am just not sure his experience with filters is much worth when it comes to filter models he haven't actually any experience with, and even then regardless it would still just be an opinion. As both he and I agreed on: "I would think a lot of it is down to personal preferences" And as I said: "Up to you of course" Or as he said himself: "If you'd like to trust the opinions of others without trying it yourself, that's your call"
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    What I said was that I would be partial to believe the opinion of a majority who have experience over 1 mans opinion that do not. In the context of the quoted post that it was a reply to to be understood as if it was me I would be partial to rather base my decision on whether to get this unit on the opinions of a majority who have experience over 1 mans opinion that do not. I think there is a substantial difference.
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    Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playthings - Palace Brothers (Will Oldham)
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    Up to you of course, but everyone else seems to think the Ampero II effect models are great, some even amazing (and most people actually the previous generation of Ampero One effects, that Ped speaks about, as well) . People who actually tried the most recent generation of HoTone digital modeling effects, unlike Ped. Also I would think a lot of it is down to personal preferrences. Personally I haven't tried any of HoTone's digital effects, so can't confirm neither side of this discussion, but I would be partial to trust the opinion of the majority and people who actually tried the models in question. Try looking up the HoTone Ampero II Stomp, which would be the smaller version of this, threads, which features the exact same effect models on, utilizing HoTones most recent current modeling technique, and you'll see what I am talking about.
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    Am pretty sure I would pretty much be able to retire my huge bulgy pedal board with this. It even got a model of the EHX Small Stone phaser, my absolute favorite phaser of all times. And I am sure I would be able, through various combinations of what drives are available on this unit, to even find a high gain distortion tone I would be satisfied with as well, even if my current high gain distortion setup is relatively complex and rather specific.
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    Pretty amazing traditional folk (ikke lige 100% klar over fra hvor dog):
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    Where Are You? - Coil
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    It's a pretty amazing live album for sure.
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    Yes, and I do know for a fact that some manufactures will correct neck angle this way as well, even sometimes just using whatever is at hand, for example a piece of folded sandpaper. But I didn't want to change the neck angle, actually it is pretty minimal as it is, and I prefer it this way. Also if it does have any effect on the tone, for what it is worth the contact area between the neck and neck pocket will be greater with a full shim (you can actually buy slightly angled full shims as well, or even make your own if you know how to). All in all though it seems like the consensus is that it is unlikely to have any negative effect on tone or sustain, which was what I was looking for getting resolved. Thanks to everyone who came with their genuine input to this matter so far.
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    Well, I didn't use an actual credit card, but a traveling card for public transport, which though is the exact same material and has the exact same dimensions as a credit card, but without any recessed/risen letters or signs, so similar to a credit card in every other aspect except but for its surface being completely plane. And yes, very tight neck joint. Good point though. And thanks for you input, guess I should be good then.
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    Did You See Me? - Ween
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    Well, thing is that it seemingly works, but had I thought it through better and not just found an immediate haphazard solution like this, and I was doing it now, I would definitely had gone for a wood shim instead. I also don't think that my acoustic experiment really conclude anything with certainty, as a table pressed against the headstock doesn't exactly amplifies much. As said it seemingly seems, seemingly and seems being the keywords here, to work just fine, but do people who actually know something about this find it likely that the plastic might very well have a negative influence and that replacing it for something else likely would bring an improvement? Put it simpler, disregarding everything else, basically what I really want to know is, does a thin layer of hard plastic, like that of a credit card dampen vibrations?
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