COOLEST LOOKING GEAR

[dubkitty]

i saw one of those Electrix rack units in my Reverb feed. it was like $600.

[BitchPudding]

Yea you'd probably fuck with this. Its a really beautiful instrument. At the same time its so weird to look at. Its like a love letter to Leo Fender's more classic design choices. I'll have to try those antiquities out in it. That would be a worthy upgrade I think.

i saw one of those Electrix rack units in my Reverb feed. it was like $600.

Sounds about right. This one is a Roland Seq-315. Seems like most of them were used for filtering break beats. It was in a junk pile at my practice space, so I snagged it to see if it works or not. Turns out you can jump Channel A into Channel B and then you have a lofi preamp with insane EQ control. Makes the bullet sound way meaner than it does normally. Diming both channels gets really blown out and loud too. The only problem is the channels sort of give up and die occasionally. I've sprayed deoxit, but it keeps happening. Trying to think of where to take it to get it fixed in my area.

[dubkitty]

the Duncans are really great pickups. i don’t have a lot of experience with aftermarket pickups, but they’re so good that i’d look at Duncans before anything else. the odd pickups i’m interested in from small builders aren’t in Duncan’s repertoire. his version of Dynasonics kills TV Jones’s, and TV makes good pickups.

[Gone Fission]

Flashing to one of the first electric guitar encounters I had as an 80s kid was with a Bullet plugged into a Crate amp. I hadn’t thought about that in years.

The earliest Bullets were crazy with the bridge built into the pickguard. Never seen one of those in meatspace.

[Phosphene Audio]

Flashing to one of the first electric guitar encounters I had as an 80s kid was with a Bullet plugged into a Crate amp. I hadn’t thought about that in years.

The earliest Bullets were crazy with the bridge built into the pickguard. Never seen one of those in meatspace.

I had one of those old Crates, looked like this:




I also had a Bullet, kind of a shrunken Strat with a Tele headstock. It had 3 single coils, but the covers had no holes.

[Gone Fission]

Oh, the Crate wasn’t of the wood era. I can’t recall if it was rat fur or nubby tolex-ish stuff, though. Had the crazy fizzy distortion available on a push button on the front.

[dubkitty]

i was plonking around looking at National guitars on Reverb when what to my wondering eyes doth appear than this. i’ve seen a lot of sunbursts in my life and times, but not like this. it’s practically a Wandré finish. and did i mention the batshit fingerboard inlays? only three thousand six hundred smackeroos and it can be in your living room shortly.

https://reverb.com/item/80884261-nation ... t=80884261

[echorec]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/manufacturer/Red_Witch

[dubkitty]

noice!

[Phosphene Audio]

i was plonking around looking at National guitars on Reverb when what to my wondering eyes doth appear than this. i’ve seen a lot of sunbursts in my life and times, but not like this. it’s practically a Wandré finish. and did i mention the batshit fingerboard inlays? only three thousand six hundred smackeroos and it can be in your living room shortly.


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https://reverb.com/item/80884261-nation ... t=80884261

That looks great, although above strings controls on anything, National, Fender, whatever, always make my eye twitch.

[dubkitty]

yeah. i decided not to do individual pickup switches on the Galaxiemaster because they’d logically go on the bass side and i don’t need new things to avoid. the Jazzmaster rhythm circuit location doesn’t bother me as much because it’s well out of the way of my rhythm chop. but after all, it’s “Coolest Looking,” not “Practical In Any Way.”