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  On 3/10/2025 at 10:11 PM, Celery Man said:

Oh man, I had to log back in but yeah you got me. Nevermind the r/furry stuff 

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Dude I seriously was googling the Dunlop Flow picks, not that I'm ever going to change the same purple Tortex I've been playing for 25 years, and the first hit I got was a Reddit post about a yellow Tortex cake. I'm like there's no way this happened to two people....

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After using the same Dunlop model pick for thirty five years, I’ve started using a different Dunlop some.

I feel dirty but the new one doesn’t lose its edge after one set.

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I pick on electric. Finger-pick acoustic. Bass is fingered.

I'll switch it up sometimes.

Don't really care much for what pick I use, but I prefer stiffer, thicker picks in general. Got a pair of Dunlop 2mm's that are pretty great. But what I really like are textured picks -- not for the fingers, but for the strings. Excellent with distortion.

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  On 3/11/2025 at 9:43 PM, Celery Man said:

Have A Drink On Me is an example of what I used to just pick but now I hybrid.

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I hybrid pick like half of the Rolling Stones catalog these days. Beast of Burden is so much easier.

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  On 3/15/2025 at 3:10 AM, Handcruser said:

NBD.

Traded in the Guild. Long story.

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It’s the internet, we got all the time in the world for a long story. 
 

But not knowing the story, it was probably a good call. There’s a reason the p bass is the most popular and most recorded bass by far, lack of finickiness being a big one. 

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It's been a few years since I bought a guitar (I know, I know), but I just broke that streak with a 12-string that will get here next week.  

I've always thought 12-strings were amazing.  When I was 12 or 13, one of the old kids at church ("old" = 16 or 17) brought one, and when I heard him play it, I remember thinking, "Why would anyone play a 6-string when you could play this?"  My very first guitar - a few months later - was a cheap 12-string Alvarez... which in hindsight was an extremely hard-to-play guitar, and a terrible choice for a first guitar.   

I still feel like - in a way that's not at all true for 6-strings - there's a spectrum between "plays well" (the Taylor 655 that I owned for a decade and sold) and "sounds glorious" (the Martin DM 12 that I still own and keep strung as a Nashville high-string guitar).

Anyway, Taylor started making a 12-fret 12-string.  Allegedly the shorter scale addresses a couple of those problems.  Smaller body and shorter scale = not so gigantic and unwieldy.  Also, shorter scale = slightly less string tension, so (theoretically) a lot easier to play barre chords.  

We'll see. 

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  On 3/19/2025 at 12:29 AM, Gil Bang said:

I’ll take two?

I saw a stripped down to the beautiful wood ‘54 reissue and it got away from me while I was prevaricating. Dammit.
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  On 3/19/2025 at 6:35 PM, Chad Fuck said:

And it probably still wouldn't be enough.  

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I'm honestly curious what they would go for. My WAG maybe 500k? Rory Gallaghers Strat just went for 900, I don't think it would hit that number, but definitely not cheap.

 

Alas, I still have baby doll.

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All I know is I'd much rather have one of Ness' gold tops than Isbell's Custom, and that has nothing to do with either player.

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Can someone give me the primer on Taylors? How do the model numbers work? My sister is looking at acoustics for my niece and might do a Taylor, maybe a 214ce. I think that’s a good choice but I’m not sure exactly what the classic Taylor is and what the numbers denote.

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  On 3/21/2025 at 12:48 AM, Celery Man said:

Can someone give me the primer on Taylors? How do the model numbers work? My sister is looking at acoustics for my niece and might do a Taylor, maybe a 214ce. I think that’s a good choice but I’m not sure exactly what the classic Taylor is and what the numbers denote.

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No expert, but I've owned a few.  As long as you're comparing the same body size, you're basically paying for more expensive wood and decoration as the numbers go up.  Price doesn't necessarily correspond to quality of build or sound quality.  I played every guitar in the store in the early aughts, was willing to drop up to $3K or so, and walked away with a $1K Taylor 310.  Still have it.  Plays like a dream, records well, nice balanced sound.

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The first digit is the tone woods amd appointments and the next two digits are the body shap.

 

So 310, 410, and 810 would all be the same dreadnought shap with different wood and appointments. Generally the higher the number the more expensive the guitar. I think 310 is where you would want to start for a pro level instrument and 210 is very entry level.

 

I may be mistaken. I did the tour there years ago when I worked nearby. 

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  On 3/21/2025 at 12:48 AM, Celery Man said:

Can someone give me the primer on Taylors? How do the model numbers work? My sister is looking at acoustics for my niece and might do a Taylor, maybe a 214ce. I think that’s a good choice but I’m not sure exactly what the classic Taylor is and what the numbers denote.

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That's probably a great choice for a beginner guitar.    

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The guy mixing our record is incredible. He's making us sound way better than we deserve. So far we have rough mixes of 5 or the 15 we recorded. By rough mixes, these are for us to listen to before we go back and fix what needs fixed, then do a final mix. There's plenty that needs fixed, but I really like where this is heading. This is only my second time making a record and Im really appreciating what I learned making the last. 

Here's 2 selections for you guys that I probably shouldnt be sharing outside the band and my close circle, but hell, Ive been here so long most of you feel like friends and some of you actually have became friends in real life over the years.

Sally needs no back story. Typical scene that plays out every night somewhere.

Bear Song though, that was written before my time in the band and is funny. One of the songs that made me decide to join when invited. The idea is that your out in the woods with your baby when all of the sudden there's a bear attack. You can either fight the bear until it eats you and then eats the baby or, as in this case, just hand over the baby and give yourself time to run away. At least there's a survivor in that scenario. What they call dark humor. 

This is a good peak into what we got going on. Oh, and officially I quite the band due to "artistic differences". If thats not resolved my bass lines will be deleted and re-recorded by somebody else, but I've been told it it will be worked out and they are still acting like I never quit. Who knows. I doubt they'l ever get this out without me, amd they know that. We're called The Koffs for a reason.

 

 

 

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  On 3/21/2025 at 6:39 AM, AnotherUTFan said:

The guy mixing our record is incredible. He's making us sound way better than we deserve. So far we have rough mixes of 5 or the 15 we recorded. By rough mixes, these are for us to listen to before we go back and fix what needs fixed, then do a final mix. There's plenty that needs fixed, but I really like where this is heading. This is only my second time making a record and Im really appreciating what I learned making the last. 

Here's 2 selections for you guys that I probably shouldnt be sharing outside the band and my close circle, but hell, Ive been here so long most of you feel like friends and some of you actually have became friends in real life over the years.

Sally needs no back story. Typical scene that plays out every night somewhere.

Bear Song though, that was written before my time in the band and is funny. One of the songs that made me decide to join when invited. The idea is that your out in the woods with your baby when all of the sudden there's a bear attack. You can either fight the bear until it eats you and then eats the baby or, as in this case, just hand over the baby and give yourself time to run away. At least there's a survivor in that scenario. What they call dark humor. 

This is a good peak into what we got going on. Oh, and officially I quite the band due to "artistic differences". If thats not resolved my bass lines will be deleted and re-recorded by somebody else, but I've been told it it will be worked out and they are still acting like I never quit. Who knows. I doubt they'l ever get this out without me, amd they know that. We're called The Koffs for a reason.

 

 

 

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I love Bear Song.  

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Today I learned that if your son leaves his clip-on tuner clipped onto the headstock of a les paul, it will fuck up the finish.

Option 1 - send back to Gibson for repair.

Option 2 - hire some Austin person for repair.

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This guitar has been with him since 12/25 and has likely had the tuner clipped on the entire time.  Two rings/indentations and we will never make that mistake again.  This guitar is really pretty and this isn't a "play it and don't worry about the dings" situation.

So, I'm off to the pedal thread to discuss in line tuners.

In other news, I'm taking him to see Bob Dylan play, which is nice.

 

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  On 3/21/2025 at 7:02 PM, CoTex said:

 

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This guitar has been with him since 12/25 and has likely had the tuner clipped on the entire time.  Two rings/indentations and we will never make that mistake again.  This guitar is really pretty and this isn't a "play it and don't worry about the dings" situation.

So, I'm off to the pedal thread to discuss in line tuners.

In other news, I'm taking him to see Bob Dylan play, which is nice.

 

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Pedal tuners are definitely nice.

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