Kiwi

Nice, set up a separate thread though, this one is Rockett themed :) 

lol

Thanks! All constructive suggestions...!

Would you like to add some content of your own?

How about setting up your own trawl?  How did you get to the Suhr Riot and then the US Dream?

Is it just me or have they done some seriously nice overdrives in the last few years?

I started out with the Animal OD which is supposed to emulate a 68 plexi and was impressed. 

https://youtu.be/c7wvcoZozhg

I was getting a load of ACDC and then other pedals started popping up in my feed.  Like this Dumble clone they made called 'The Dude' lol

https://youtu.be/2GTlcESBtxI

Then came their version of a Fender Tweed

https://youtu.be/1Rc3WmFoodo

Check out Start Me up at 0.24 in.  I thought this was full of Tweed flavour but I wasn't getting as much nuance as I was from the Marshall pedals.

Finally...the HRM, Hot Rubber Monkey - supposedly an emulation of a tone circuit that Dumble put inside Marshall amps.  There I was thinking he mainly worked on Fenders but anyway, I'm not sold on The Dumble Tone by any means.  But this pedal sounds gloriously thick and spongy with a nice bite in the midrange.  Sort of a Steely Dan thing going on there (edit: just found that Jay Greedon was a Dumble ODS user!)  Anyways, seriously gassing after one now.

https://youtu.be/CGAjBT__9BI

Have you guys tried any IRL?

OK s'hard to tell without knowing what it sounds like but I'm glad you worked something out.

Hey Ricky, welcome and congratulations on popping your GC cherry.  Last time I looked into it, the digitising and undigitising of the guitar signal introduced a slight lag.  However that was about 10 years ago so perhaps things have improved since then given Joyo offer the JW1 and there is the Boss Air Katana.  Boss seem to be doing great things generally around amps these day. 

Have you done a search on amazon for bluetooth wireless guitar or looked at retailer sites like PMT?

Closed forums can't be accessed by search engine bots so the content is never registered as searchable.  Searchable content is valuable for the purpose of attracting new members via search engines.  So it helps the site to have accessible content.

Try inversions.  Drop the 5th lower than the root so it effectively becomes a 4th. 
 

10 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

Count me in!

Any excuse for dirty writhing for money!



 

Hulk fists and wet celery...or a spot of mud wrestling as they did in the old days, with onlookers throwing guinea coins and making obscene or humiliating demands.

5 hours ago, ezbass said:

 (RC is bit a of a martial arts practitioner IIRC)

Yes but different styles of Kung Fu, which tend to be highly stylised. Anyone with a background in MMA or even Muay Thai would have made a meal of him.  BTW having a Dad who practices acupuncture is no substitute for living in China.  That's like saying 'my Dad has a PhD in Medical Ethics, so I know all about that science stuff'.

OK it's three months old but I've only just discovered it.  Some of you might have missed it too. 

TDLR:

Basically an attention seeking youtuber called KDH goes after a few online personalities on his channel, including Rob Chapman, like some vigilante undercover tabloid journalist.  In Chapman's case, KDH claims to have exposed various perceived issues with both Chapman and Chapman Guitars, some of which may have some basis in truth and others didn't (with the benefit of hindsight).  Some of the points covered include QC issues and speculation dressed up as sensationalist fact around Chapman moving from Riff City to Guitar Centre as US representatives.

Chapman's online following see red and go after KDH like a blood thirsty vigilante mob. Chapman does nothing which is seen by wider internet as an abuse of 'power' after KDH removes said video (but has since reposted it).

Chapman issues an apology video which give's Prince Andrew's Epstein interview a run for it's money. 

Riff City subsequently post their own version of events, after Chapman apparently deletes their response on his vid.

Cue every other guitarist-youtuber out there jumps on the band wagon posting reaction videos criticising Chapman for lacking in sincerity and being more than a little economical with the truth, if not bypassing it altogether, particularly around the Riff City thing.

KDH subsequently posts a pointed parody of Chapman's apology, checking off every point on a video by Pewdipie on how not to apologise. 

Chapman can do nothing apart from sucking up the burn and chalking it up to experience.

This is the internet ladies and gentlemen, how different things are from 20 years ago.  Toss shit about and everyone directly involved gets hit.  The rest of the world jumps in on it salaciously, revelling in the smell and texture like it was Chanel face cream.

 One day my grandkids (IF, and that's a big IF, I survive into my late 70's-80's) are going to wonder what the world was like without internet in the same way I wonder what it was like without TV.

Facebook isn't as good as it used to be.  The advertising isn't all that effective, it appeals to a Gen X and older demographic and it's not great for relationship building...but what social media is?  Twitter is all about proclamations and instagram is all about thirst, there is no depth in either.  Google is still king but it takes more work to get things up the search engine rankings these days due to competition and an algorithm which is harder to game than it used to be.

3 hours ago, BoppingT said:

Andertons are massive on YouTube mostly because they are a known shop at a location.

I know Andertons well, Lee and I occasionally exchange messages.  They are massive because;

1) They started posting in 2009 before Youtube exploded as a promotion tool.  They got carried along on the tide as it were and probably wouldn't be able to repeat the success now as the algorithm has changed and there is more competition.
2) Lee (and Rob Chapman) are charismatic on camera.  Rob put Lee onto the idea of Youtube as a promo vehicle at the same time he was thinking about Chapman Guitars over ten years ago.  Lee has a stake in Chapman as well.
3) Andertons have an established and trusted brand, customers expect Lee and the team to take care of them (and they do).

I've seen some videos just now which explain music theory so they're definitely available.  I actually took up guitar to help me understand more about chords to help my bass playing.  It didn't work, I started to find guitar more interesting than bass.

FWIW I'm self taught, I look for songs that interest me and I try to learn how to play them.  Steve Stevens, Steve Lukather, Alan Murphy, Boon Gould, Nile Rodgers...I follow their leads. I don't need them to teach me if I can work out what they are doing with the help of online chord charts.

On 28/03/2020 at 01:52, BoppingT said:

lol Kiwi I'm glad for you that you dig Steve Stine / if I got it wrong that you think he's an alright teacher.

I got the maths down of why the 1st 3rd and 5th notes work together, as it is to do with cos waves getting added. I can put the maths here if you want, I can't follow the maths that well, but can see what result it turns out.

I'm more or less numerically dylsexic. Basic arthimetic and stats are OK...they're grounded in the real world.  But calculus and quadratic equations...might as well be a foreign language.  But if you understand maths and can visualise it, I'm sure you will have few problems. Bach was of the same view.

2 hours ago, BoppingT said:

Kiwi, do you think my guitar advice is any good?

My opinion isn't important and in any case, it takes more than some text to be an effective teacher.  There is sensitivity/empathy and the ability to make complicated things really simple. Compartmentalising information into bite sized chunks is key. And the ability to make learning entertaining either through personality or through staying close to the students' own passions.

Whatever it is, it doesn't need to be so thick.  Sealing can be solved with a quick spray over.  I suspect it might be more of the plastikote primer originally used on Fenders since the early 60's.  Basically a dip that seals and levels in one go, ready for final coat.  It's chemical cured so impervious to any solvents.

10 hours ago, ezbass said:

Carlos doesn't do clean does he?  My McCarty was a great all rounder, but the brand does seem to be favoured by the cascading distortion brigade.

Yeah I've watched videos of the 519/509 which attracted my attention and even when Paul was demonstrating the 'single coil mode' I thought it was a bit raw sounding.  Once I have a bit more disposable income, my eye is on a Custom 22 and maybe a 503.  The guitarist in a band I was once in back in the late 80's had an early PRS Custom 22 and a Boogie Mark IIc.  You could see they were his holy grail and with good reason.  It was in a different league to everything else I had heard - Jems into 5150, Strats into Marshalls etc.  The overdrive was so tight.

I tried my first PRS this time last year in Hong Kong.  I was blown away by how playable the Santana SE model was.  Played like butter.  But they don't sound that nice clean, kinda harsh.  Fantastic overdriven though.

You like PRS then.. Why did you sell? 

I was actually looking at photos of my past low end purchases and wandering whether to post something similar.  I've only offloaded two guitars from the 6 I have though,  a sunbust Yammy MSG and I gave a Wolf 6 string away.  Pic of the Yammy later,  I don't have any of the Wolf. 

Steve Stine is a fantastic...gifted teacher.  The way he explains things just sinks into my head with no effort and he tells you why things are the way they are as well as what they are.

Phasing is normally due to polarity.  Can be checked with a magnet or can be checked by disconnecting and reconnecting speakers until the phase effect is created.  Could well be that each brand of speaker has a different polarity.

On 26/11/2019 at 19:50, Skinnyman said:

I'd try it first and see. I went from 10s to 9s but also changed makes and the tension must have stayed about the same as there was no need to alter the neck relief.

Yeah on my guitars by the time I'd finished faffing about with setting the trem, the original tension had returned regardless of the gauge.  Could be different for a hard tail though.

18 hours ago, Skinnyman said:

So I’ve just spent a happy morning shielding the control cavity with copper tape and - like magic - the hum has now gone!

I'm just wondering if some unconnected earth contacts might have been accidentally reconnected during the installation process? 

Any pics?