The Guitar Thread • Page 21

lol a guy on there shit on me bc i said i liked pedals with good designs that have a decent level of experimentation/functionality. he literally hit me with "I only use ugly pedals"

 

The subs got a bunch of good pictures and reposts of pedal videos. It's great for that. But it's like every single person there is completely hostile.

 

Yeah, pedal/amp discussion pages, whether it's facebook groups or reddit - almost exclusively consist of smug, condescending fucknards. Especially if it's stoner/doom metal related, which is unfortunate because I love that shit and the gear those bands use.

 

The DIY pedals subreddit is pretty alright by comparison, and very helpful if you're trying to start building.

 

I don't know if it's still so lively, but the BYOC forums used to be really nice as well. Was a lot friendlier than other places. Although, it did sometimes get a bit southern.

 

What is that supposed to mean?

 

The conversations would often descend into stuff I just don't relate to. Military, guns, Christianity. Bit of a stereotype I admit, but that's how it could quite often go in some of the open chat threads.

Apologies if I've caused some offence there. That's not what I was going for.

 

On a semi related note the BYOC Chorus (Boss CE-2 clone) is my favorite pedal that I've played through in a long time. Less than half the price of the real thing and true bypass on top of that, it does the shimmery thing perfect.

 

Kinda glad I just stumbled upon this thread.


I have a J. mascis jazzmaster with a 90's american strat neck on it, the neck has been worse for wear lately: so I (crossed my fingers and) pulled the trigger on an XGP maple-on-maple replacement neck. The thing is gorgeous, the grain pops a ton. In the process of giving it a satin lacquer before I throw it on the jmjm. It's my first time doing any real finish work! (Unless "relic-ing" my squier strat counts)

 

When I built my acoustic I can't recall how many hours I spent staining it. Ultimately, there was probably a better way to do it, but my woodshop teacher had just started this class and I was just going with the flow. Love the way it looks though regardless.

 

You built an acoustic? Badass

 

There was actually a class for it at my high school haha. I was part of the second semester intake - which was far better given that the first semester students were essentially the guinea pigs and the process improved by the time I started. Basically, we started out with wood ordered from Martin's custom shop that was slightly defective or off in some way, hence why we were able to get it for cheap (all parts were roughly $300 for mahogany, $380 for rosewood). Aside from the top and back pieces already being shaped, everything else was built/constructed from scratch by us (and some supplementary parts were there as well, the unaltered neck & headstock for example). Really gives you a profound appreciation for all of the clamping, gluing, sanding, cutting, etc., that goes in to making one. There are so many blocks and parts and what not that you don't even see, but are integral to the construction.

I love how it sounds and looks and play it all the time, but it's not without issues. The main one being that when my teacher set the neck (none of the students were allowed to) something got messed up - so from roughly the 9th/10th fret up there's noticeable buzz, and from roughly the 12/13th through 16th-18th it's basically all dead notes. Which, being an acoustic, I can get around, but still gets in the way sometimes. I also shaped my neck width too for my liking and wanted to bring the action down lower as well, but the latter I was skeptical of in potentially making the buzz worse.

All in all it was a highly rewarding experience and I think the imperfections are constitutive of what makes the guitar special.

 

For the people that make pedal clones how hard is it and how much money do you save usually?

 

We need pictures!

 

Really depends on the pedal. Stuff like the BYOC tube screamer and DS1 clones are significant savings from the pedals they ape and aren't actually that hard to build at all.

For something like a big muff though, you'd probably it be better just buying a current EHX model.

 

Sorry this took a bit:

 

Damn. That's gorgeous.

 

Yeah that really looks amazing

and nice Micron back there

 

I've forgotten the context of this. Did you make that acoustic? If so, holy crap.

 

Sorry to double post, but I'm suffering from some serious mod based GAS. I'm really tempted to buy a Deusenberg Les Trem, a roller bridge and a nice slippery TUSQ nut and either put it all on my very badly beaten SG or my much nicer looking LP Special.

I'm also pondering new a scratch plate for the SG and replacing the orange knobs with chrome ones on the LP (if it gets the trem). Thinking is potentially so expensive.

 

Just got a Tusq nut to put on my Jazzmaster (recently replaced the neck) so excited for that and the updated tremolo I've ordered.


Anyone got any recommendations string-wise? I'm thinking of trying a pack of the ernie ball power slinky cobalts.

 

I did! Tl;dr version from the first post is that I built this in a high school class. Martin custom shop wood, everything except the top and back pieces, soundhole border inlay, and neck/headstock was shaped, constructed, glued, sanded, and stained by me in coordination with my teacher.

 

My god, for some reason I just remembered that I never responded to your question asking purchasing the Micron when I was theorizing about downsizing so i really apologize. Currently not making any moves of any sort but I can surely let you know if that changes.

 

Finally upgrading to the Pedaltrain Novo 32, excited to reintegrate some pedals I had to lose from my chain for space purposes. Also got the WA Phoenix power supply so we're gonna be rollin.

 

I've got a Tusq nut and saddles on an old Mexican strat and they really make the world of difference.

I've never been all that bothered about strings. I tend to stick with Rotosound yellows, because they're good for the price. I wonder how much difference things like cobalt strings actually make.

I was looking at those new Ernie Ball Paradigm strings, but found it hard to believe that they'd be better than 3-4 sets of normal ones.