01010111 wrote:
The basic point is if I have to read the manual before I can use it, then it’s not something I want to use. It likely requires too much thinking, tinkering, and remembering for me to enjoy using it on a long term basis. If I can’t easily figure it out by looking at only the front panel, then I’d argue the interface is poorly designed.
Basically anything digital with an LED screen, menus or secondary functions, not very 01010111 of you
But now I'm curious, what kind of music and instruments do you play?
John wrote:"guys play quiet, listen to my small costly device."
PumpkinPieces wrote:Fer shoogaze
tuffteef wrote:all you need is a big muff and feelings
There had been a pedal that I was eyeing for a couple weeks. It was used and at the lowest price I'd seen. Bought it, fucked around with it for a week and decided it wasn't for me. Went back on Reverb with the idea of reselling it, maybe even mark it up ten bucks from the low low price I'd bought it and actually come out ahead for once. Now there are three listings for the same pedal at least $15 less than I bought it for. The vicissitudes, man...
This is a very impressive collection of Roto Toms. That's 21 Roto Toms in all. That is only $33.00 a Roto Tom.
lost in music wrote:There had been a pedal that I was eyeing for a couple weeks. It was used and at the lowest price I'd seen. Bought it, fucked around with it for a week and decided it wasn't for me. Went back on Reverb with the idea of reselling it, maybe even mark it up ten bucks from the low low price I'd bought it and actually come out ahead for once. Now there are three listings for the same pedal at least $15 less than I bought it for. The vicissitudes, man...
MechaGodzilla wrote:I have no need for any more guitars right now, but if an Epi casino or wildkat just happened to fall into my lap... I wouldn't say no.
Found a used wildkat locally years ago, and still regret not buying it
I was afraid I wouldn't use my other semi hollow anymore though
I suspect there's something wrong with them coz there's always a few on ebay over here. They look really great though, and I've got no hollowbody at the minute.
there's nothing wrong with the Wildkat. i had one for several years that i had to sell in the post-2010 purge, and it was a well-made, very playable. it does have a couple of problems, though. the import B7 Bigsby doesn't work well because of the steep string angle from the B7's tension-bar to the bridge. i'm told that using a softer spring in the B7 helps. the Tunomatic bridge is also problematic; it's the older style with the spring that holds the saddle screws in place, and the spring is too weak so the bridge saddles wobble alarmingly back and forth when you hit the bar.
the other thing about the Wildkat is that the P90s are insanely hot, something like 12kΩ, and the metal PU covers purportedly make the pickups even honkier.
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FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
dubkitty wrote:there's nothing wrong with the Wildkat. i had one for several years that i had to sell in the post-2010 purge, and it was a well-made, very playable. it does have a couple of problems, though. the import B7 Bigsby doesn't work well because of the steep string angle from the B7's tension-bar to the bridge. i'm told that using a softer spring in the B7 helps. the Tunomatic bridge is also problematic; it's the older style with the spring that holds the saddle screws in place, and the spring is too weak so the bridge saddles wobble alarmingly back and forth when you hit the bar.
the other thing about the Wildkat is that the P90s are insanely hot, something like 12kΩ, and the metal PU covers purportedly make the pickups even honkier.
If I were to get either a casino or wildkat I would be fully prepared to change the stock pickups for something better, get a roller bridge for a bigsby, and e m b r a c e _ t h e _ f e e d b a c k
they're not that feedback-prone. i suspect one reason they are so common in the used market is that they don't actually sound like people expect from their appearance...at first glance they look like baby-sized Gretsch archtops, but are really a chambered (solid) Les Paul-esque mahogany body and a thick maple slab top with f-holes, so they don't resonate like a hollow body. i think people expect a twangin' rockabilly sound and attack, and it's not like that at all. with the uber-hot pickups it's monolithically dense. i'll bet it'd slay with effects, which i didn't use much with my Wildkat.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
