pictures of your gear here

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:29 pm

Bawbag wrote:
mage wrote:Looks familiar!

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20291

and nice Umezu rug, heh.
Niiiiiice! We could be brothers or something.

Mine has Scream'in 82 PUs in it. The neck one sounds beautiful both clean and distorted, but the treble one sounds way too bright clean. Distorted though, it's a real monster.

Does yours have fret edge binding? I've got it on mine, but I think that it's because the neck was a leftover from the factory switch in '82.

nah, it doesn't have the fret edge binding. I think they had quit doing that by 87. yea, and as you can see there is no kind of info on the pickups which is frustrating. the guy who sold it to me said they were Screamin or Double Trick. this is really the only info I could find on the '87:

after '85 the EGC68-50 is the only Custom model I've seen any evidence of (in the last couple years of Mint Collection I think they changed it to EGC68-60 but I think it's the same model they just bumped up the cost). it says Screamin pickups on it so I'm guessing that's mine.

yea, like you said the bridge pickup is way bright, you gotta roll the tone off a bit. but that's something I definitely consider a + as far as humbuckers go. better too bright than too muddy.

Bawbag · Post by **Bawbag** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:36 pm

euan wrote:I thought it was a 6.

Would love one.

Stewart wins a prize. It's great fun. Juno 6/60s are amazing synths as it's tough to make them sound shit. They're also good to learn the mechanics of subtractive synthesis on.

unlike this

Oh yeah Mike. This is my only other guitar:

As I seek validation by my peers, please at least give this one your blessing.

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:40 pm

Tele Plus needs maple neck, stop tail bridge to get your Greenwood on.

Tell us about the pedals.

The Juno 6 is unfortunately an expensive synth these days thanks to the Biz and such connections.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:40 pm

it looks like a fat strat in tele clothing. what's that yamaha pedal in the background?

Bawbag · Post by **Bawbag** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:42 pm

euan wrote:Fuck that. My Mustang brings the noise more than any guitar I have. Actually the Widerange humbucker in the Tele Custom might do it a bit more.

Yeah a Tele Custom has been a dream guitar of mine. I agree 100% that they would be able to level continents. Mustangs are too light for my liking. I like a guitar with heft.
A natural finish mahogany mustang would be a thing of beauty though. Hmm...

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:43 pm

The Mustang is the perfect guitar for me because I'm a small guy. I just wish I could get a left handed one with a maple neck.

Once I get some Bareknuckles in it there will be no stopping it.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:51 pm

Bawbag wrote:
euan wrote:I thought it was a 6.

Would love one.
Stewart wins a prize. It's great fun. Juno 6/60s are amazing synths as it's tough to make them sound shit. They're also good to learn the mechanics of subtractive synthesis on.

unlike this

my teenage/high school band featured one of those as well as a juno. they're mental, i could get it to make hissing or clicking noises and not much else.

Bawbag · Post by **Bawbag** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:54 pm

euan wrote:Tele Plus needs maple neck, stop tail bridge to get your Greenwood on.

Tell us about the pedals.

The Juno 6 is unfortunately an expensive synth these days thanks to the Biz and such connections.

It's a Tele Plus Deluxe. Or Tele Deluxe Plus. Not entirely sure. It was the flagship Tele back in 90/91, but they didn't sell any (it doesn't sound like a tele) so it got retired pretty sharpish.
The wiring in it is nuts. I had to replace the coil tap toggle after I dropped it off the stage and it is a total rat's nest inside. It sounds pretty damn good, though.

The only person I've ever seen using one is Gaz Coombes from Supergrass who has a blueburst one.

The pedals in shot are (clockwise from the blue clothes peg); Wooly Mammoth clone, Boss DM-2, 4ms Noise Swash, Machine clone, Boss RPS-10 (basically a Boss PS-3), Yamaha FL-01 flanger and a Mid-Fi Glitch Computer. The cab in the background is weird. It's a joint-venture Roland/Phillips 1x15 cab. You can see the utterly filthy grillcloth on the right. It looks like it came of the set of Jacob's Ladder.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:59 pm

the circuit on the floor is the woolly mammoth clone? cool, I've been thinking about building one.

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:59 pm

Now that is a sexy choice of pedals.

I do want a noiseswash and glitch computer.

The noiseswash and Joe Gagans Skyripper Fuzz were the two noise pedals I lusted after as a 16 year old boy just new to the guitar.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:03 pm

Bawbag wrote:
Mike wrote:Get the FUCK off this forum.

Les Paul? Seriously - I hope you catch a really bastard cold.
Whaaaat? They're short scale. Ish.
When I was a lad your age, I though Les Pauls were for guys who look a bit like Steven Seagal and love to solo. I was right; they are. Happily, they're also good for bringing huge, withering slabs of "the rock".
I wanted a guitar for downtuning and playing walls of feedback and sludge with. This fits the bill far better than any offset body/short scale guitar that I can think of.

Oh, it cost roughly eighty-five quid (17,800 yen).

So there.

I have actually caught a cold, you prescient bastard.

Good.

Bringing the rock doesn't mean you need a stupidly heavy slab of cockrock wank around your neck with scumbag humbuckers. The rock comes from within.

I can bring the rock on a TOOTHPICK.

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:06 pm

A Greco LP isn't actually as bad as a Gibson LP though Mikey Mike.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:07 pm

The Telecaster Plus is a guitar, that other one is just a THING

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:08 pm

I would rock a black LP. Hard. If it had a Fender shaped neck.

JamesSmann · Post by **JamesSmann** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:56 pm

i want to own an LP style one day for sure. why not?

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:01 pm

I will own a Gordon Smith GS2 at some point in my life, but I don't really consider that a LP.

JamesSmann · Post by **JamesSmann** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:05 pm

euan wrote:I will own a Gordon Smith GS2 at some point in my life, but I don't really consider that a LP.

me personally i just don't understand the "hate" of any kind of body style. i even think some PRS models are really sexy. satchild's second guitarist in the last year or two had a dead brilliant PRS that was pretty fucking great sounding. you can hear it all over our last record. so to me, it's less about the intrument and more about what it does in someone's hands...plus it's like pussy. saying you hate a certain body style is like saying you only like a certain kind of pussy. and we all know that pussy is great because of its variety.

pussy.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:15 pm

Some pedal pictures -

I'm intending on sorting out a bypass box fairly soon, with at least two switchable paths. This shows the likely setup. The green pedals will go into the box, then black will be one signal (clean) and red the other (dirt).

These pedals are powered by the moon.

For robroe

I completely nerded out and took lots more like those last couple. I got a digital camera for christmas and haven't had much chance to use to use it yet so I went a bit nuts. Now I just need to buy some more patch cables and set aside a few days to try and work out how to actually fit it all on once it's all connected. I'll try not to think about fitting on the bypass box for now.

And to think I once told myself "if you buy a gigman, you'll only be able to fit on 8 or so pedals and then you'll have to start selling before buying". How foolish.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:38 pm

Lovely pictures, James.

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:17 pm

PEDAL..
...LUST..
..INCREASING