Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[John]

I dig the Pharaoh, LSTR and Black Forests from BAT. That Priestess looks sweet!

the LSTR reminds me of the good old days playing music with ryansummit. I remember his enthusiasm when BAT made him a Badascan which IIRC was a custom version of the LSTR.

[dubkitty]

my latest obscure object of desire is the Gibson ES-150 DC, an odd beast from the late 60s that's essentially a completely hollow guitar shaped like an ES-335 but as deep as an ES-175. it's way the heck out of my price range, but i bet it hollers. apparently it's wired with 2 pickup volumes, a master volume out on the horn a la Guilds and Gretsches of the time, and treble and bass knobs post-pickup volumes that acted on both pickups which was a thing from the low-impedance Les Pauls, the Recording and whatnot. always wish i'd been able to get one of those, too. it makes no sense to me that it's the ES-150 when it's twice a 330...shouldn't it be the ES-660? obviously i'd slap a Bigsby on that puppy ASAP. somewhere along the way i read that 335s are 16" across, which is as big as a lot of regular archtops e.g. some Gretsches An
and ES-175s. i'm extremely curious what they're like to play...it could be Wes Montgomery time or Ted Nugent time. they also came in blonde and (rarely) Cherry, but i think the walnut finish is quite fetching.

[dubkitty]

it sounds like God. totally different voice to a 335, even with the same pickups/bridge/tailpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDsREgZC2SY

[le lambin]

Very cool guitar

[dubkitty]

i’m currently in a unique position, watching the white Supro on eBay that ends in 10 minutes while waiting for Swervedriver to come out at the Black Cat in DC. this is a fairly new one on me…i may have bid from an event once before, or maybe it was a precognitive dream.

[dubkitty]

didn’t get it. i bid a few seconds too early and someone pipped me by $5. backup plan is the $389 Sahara on Reverb or a Black Holiday at Music Go Round for $434 or something like that. immediacy is now absent because neither of those appear to be going anywhere. i’m still not mad about the black color scheme of the Holiday, but i’m warming to the notion of a donor body with two pickup cavities already cut. for some reason the white Belmont is much more popular than the blue Sahara or black/white Holiday models. time for the Swervies.

[moozz]

During the 6 or so months that ILF was unattainable for me (got error 500 even with cache purges etc) I only got three pedals. Finally found Dwarfcraft's Ghost Fax (it is a wild one!), ordered CB's mystery box (and got Clean that I don't think I'll have much use for) and recently purchased Alexander's Marshmallow.

Also got Behringer's Wasp Deluxe which was already used for a live gig so I guess the super cheap price (around 150 EUR new) was already worth it.

Since day one I worked with daisy chains and every now and then had weird issues like cheap loop pedals resetting when connecting a new pedal to the chain, turning on one pedal turns on another pedal as well, in general things being just a bit unpredictable. A couple of months ago I decided I wanted a bit more stability and bought myself Walrus Canvas 15. 15 max 500mA outputs is enough for 90% of my setups and using a few extra power supplies if needed is not a big deal. I don't have a pedalboard so that power brick just sits on my desk (I work my pedals by hand). It makes the power cable management also easier compared to two daisy chains of 8 which was a pain in the ass when playing around with pedal order and swapping pedals constantly.

[le lambin]

During the 6 or so months that ILF was unattainable for me (got error 500 even with cache purges etc) I only got three pedals. Finally found Dwarfcraft's Ghost Fax (it is a wild one!), ordered CB's mystery box (and got Clean that I don't think I'll have much use for) and recently purchased Alexander's Marshmallow.

Also got Behringer's Wasp Deluxe which was already used for a live gig so I guess the super cheap price (around 150 EUR new) was already worth it.

Since day one I worked with daisy chains and every now and then had weird issues like cheap loop pedals resetting when connecting a new pedal to the chain, turning on one pedal turns on another pedal as well, in general things being just a bit unpredictable. A couple of months ago I decided I wanted a bit more stability and bought myself Walrus Canvas 15. 15 max 500mA outputs is enough for 90% of my setups and using a few extra power supplies if needed is not a big deal. I don't have a pedalboard so that power brick just sits on my desk (I work my pedals by hand). It makes the power cable management also easier compared to two daisy chains of 8 which was a pain in the ass when playing around with pedal order and swapping pedals constantly.

Congrats on the ghost fax- forever searching for one. I saw one pop up on GC’s site a few weeks ago but alas, I was not quick enough. I’d love to hear what you think!

[le lambin]

Soma Harvezi Hazze arrived today. Like all Soma stuff, it’s made of heavy duty sheet metal and feels very high quality. The switches on the side serve as dip switches but are larger, easier to flick and seem higher quality than regular ones.

It’s basically an overdrive/distortion and fuzz in parallel in practice- you dial in the gain and tone like any other pedal, and then blend in the wave folding gain circuit. The tone affects both circuits.

The vanilla overdrive sounds are actually great on guitar. The wave folding fuzz is interesting- it definitely has an old school octave a la green ringer sound for some of its range, then gets smooth and high gain, then splatty and Velcro-y. The gain control affects the intensity of the wave folding sound as you would expect.

I’m not entirely sure what the toggle switch does but fully right seems to introduce self oscillation, giving you classic oscillating fuzz sounds.

The tone control is interesting- the standard sweep is sort of muff-ish but more usable, especially the low cut sounds. You can flip a switch that scoops the mids and another that narrows the q. It doesn’t quite get into band pass filter territory but is pretty awesome once you dial in the wave folding and gain a bit. I’m actually surprised the tone doesn’t self oscillate given Soma’s proclivity for feedback of all stripes.

All in all, it appears to be a pedal that has a wide range of sounds but is actually fun to tweak and use. I probably wouldn’t use it live if I were doing the traditional guitarist role in a band- but for what I do it’s pretty great. I look forward to spending more time with it.

[Deltaphoenix]

First, I will share that I grabbed a Kinotone Ribbons. A buddy has one patched into the routing of his home studio and he has a midi mapped controller for it. I was blown away by it so I snagged one in the latest batch from this week.

I went a little nuts, I got a mint Rob O’Reilly Expressiv Midi bass for a really nice price. It was an ordeal getting it from FedEx but I rescued it yesterday. I can confirm that it sends midi and does it quickly but I need to dial it in to work better for me. That’s the challenge and it likely will take a bit but this will be rad once I dial it in and get my playing adjusted a bit.

[alexsga]

I went a little nuts, I got a mint Rob O’Reilly Expressiv Midi bass

wow, never seen these beforecool

any relation to the designers of Industrial Radio and Peavey Midibase? does it have midi wiring under the frets?

[Deltaphoenix]

Thanks, it’s pretty damn cool. Mine is white and black. The bass itself is nice, it has a really nice neck carve.

I would say it is an evolution of that same concept but it is not the same designers. The frets aren’t split like IR and the previous iterations from them. I think it’s less “mechanical” but string contact with the fret is sensed, playing dynamics picked up from piezo pickups. This doesn’t require proprietary cables to a rack/box - it’s USB or DIN MIDI cables directly to synth/ computer.
It’s also cool that with a stereo cable I can get the Mag pickups and piezo pickups. I am thinking about both outputs into my Quad Cortex and a synth into the Quad Cortex too for massive possibilities.

[alexsga]

i do something similar w a gk3b kit and one of these: