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Goredho

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  1. Did you appreciate not having the government interfere with your decision making?
  2. I like the Eastman's a lot at half the price of the equivalent Gibson. I've liked every Yamaha guitar I've ever laid my hands on, so I doubt you could go wrong with any of their models.
  3. Bought a couple Eastman’s for this year’s gigging as part of a jazz quartet. Essentially ES-335 and an ES-330/Casino knockoffs from China. They have a nice, fat 1.72” nut width for extra string spacing for jazz chords. Eastman’s are a pretty killer value relative to Gibson (at least before tariffs). Resale sucks.
  4. Trump’s a figurehead for a movement. He’s just signing executive orders that others have authored and playing golf.
  5. Do you leave the Tonex on all of the time? How are you liking the EQ? I'm looking for something like that on my pedal steel board. So for question 1, I am using the tonex one in dual mode, with basically a green and red setting that I toggle between. They are the same amp model (60s Vox AC30), but the green is clean and the red is sorta crunchy. The vast majority of the time I'm on green and using combinations of the blues mood and ratsbane to drive it, but if I want higher gain than I can get from that, I go to the red and use both pedals to push it. The little parametric eq works great for what I want. It's super quiet, does not color the tone with everything set at unity, and gives you control over a single band from 50hz to 5Khz. You can make that band as wide as you want, and boost or cut, and it's got an overall volume knob, too, so it could even be used as a boost pedal. If you just want to cut a single problem area, or boost an area for certain passages (like hitting a TS for its mid hump in a solo), it's great. If you want something to more comprehensively sculpt the signal, you'd want something like an Empress Para EQ MK II (which I also have and is great, but not for this little gigging board).
  6. Needs a turret or two.
  7. Oh, it's coming, alright.
  8. Seemed the most appropriate place to put this.
  9. He's got at least as much influence with the people giving Trump his power as democrats do.
  10. At least he’s got a criteria.
  11. Amongst other things, lol.
  12. They should be arrested, tried and punished accordingly if/when found guilty by a jury of their peers.
  13. Have fun!
  14. For anyone wondering what all this sounds like, this is just the gear in the previous post: The guitar is a Casino type fully hollow with P-90s. Its plugged straight into that little pedal board I've posted pics of recently and the only things active are the Tonex One pedal using an amalgam captures Vox AC-30 model, pushed slightly with a blues driver clone (in front), with a little reverb (behind). From there its out to a looper and then to the Laney AH150. The looper is used to record the first pass of chords/harmony/accompaniment and then I'm improvising over that. This is all just recorded with the mic on my iphone, so no processing or tricks on the recording end to improve sound quality or anything. I get lots of compliments about tone from guitarists who can't believe what I tell them when asked about my rig.
  15. It would be hard for me to not do it this way now. As often as not, this is what I’m taking to practice and gigs and just plugging straight from pedalboard to PA. If a PA with monitoring is not available at the destination, I add my Laney AH150 that’s basically a mono 5 channel PA with power amp in a 1x12 combo footprint. Can have a mic or two for vocals plugged in, guitar, etc… and it’s never been not loud enough for places that didn’t have a PA on premises. We are talking coffee shops, small clubs/restaurants, patio gigs.
  16. Yeah, I think modeling/emulation is great, but if you have a great amp you like and don’t mind lugging it around for gigs, I would just get an attenuator and use that. I think the modeling shines when you: - want to record and dont have the mics or acoustic space for it - want to play a variety of styles, need a variety of amp tones but don’t want to pay $1k+ per amp - are short on space and can’t afford the footprint of more physical amps - you are old or otherwise decrepit and don’t want to haul an amp around to gigs anymore All four of those are a yes for me, personally.
  17. This sucks.
  18. Lest we forget the last bastion of hope
  19. I got some nice Amalgam captures that cost a few bucks to buy. Want em? https://www.amalgamcaptures.com/tonex
  20. Got a teeny tiny parametric EQ in for that mini board. Gonna have this on to do minor tweaking between guitars. Scoop the mids, or clean the mud, or dial out the 2k-5k ice pick. No idea how well it works yet, but I love its size.
  21. I think it would, but its just theory and not backed up by real-world experience.
  22. Wouldn't tension be affected with the lower pitch strings being relatively longer from tuning peg to bridge?
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