Obulus wrote:PDPIHFEPIQDSJHMIJF THIS IS AWESOME! I turn guitars into neck pickup only all the time, totally ripping this idea off (sorry)
Not at all, go for it! I've got a piezo element stuffed into the wall of the vibrato cavity as well, with a jackplate beside the strap button. Guitars as percussion instruments.
Good to have your blessing! Now I just have to track down an old phone. How does it sound when you're just playing guitar through the phone mic? Sounds like you can get a great variety of sounds with your guitar with all the mods you did, do you have any samples or link to your music?
Obulus wrote:PDPIHFEPIQDSJHMIJF THIS IS AWESOME! I turn guitars into neck pickup only all the time, totally ripping this idea off (sorry)
Not at all, go for it! I've got a piezo element stuffed into the wall of the vibrato cavity as well, with a jackplate beside the strap button. Guitars as percussion instruments.
Good to have your blessing! Now I just have to track down an old phone. How does it sound when you're just playing guitar through the phone mic? Sounds like you can get a great variety of sounds with your guitar with all the mods you did, do you have any samples or link to your music?
well, that's the one let down - due to the construction/placement it doesn't really pick up the guitar strings. You can throw tons of gain on it, but you'll need a volume pedal for quick swells to avoid feedback. I'll pm you a little clip of the speaker being used when I find it.
Mystery brand 70s lawsuit mijanese, seems to have been an Australian import model. This one is an Asoa or Anson, the logo is unclear, but I've seen bang-on identical guitars badged as Sakai, Rose-Morris and Gibsun. And, er, tech specs? Bolt-on, sounds rad.
louderthangod wrote:I was watching a video on youtube earlier and a guy had a huge college of vintage Fender guitars and amps and he was talking about how he grew up with these sounds in the early days of rock and roll. It got me thinking, the baby boomers are getting up there in age. I was born in '74 and I have a definite appreciation for vintage gear but a lot of the times I'm most stoked on the oddball gear of the 70's and 80's like Travis Beans and even pointy BC Rich's that I could never afford (I still have dreams about that damn "R" logo) and fuzz pedals and tape delays of the early 70's have always been more of an interest than Fender amps and guitars of the 50's and 60's. I do own a '57 Fender Harvard and I love it and I'd love to add some 50's Tele's and 60's Jazzmasters if I could afford it but do you think gear form the 50's and 60's will start dropping in price over the next 10 or so years since when the boomers start dying off or at least stop collecting so much gear as they move into retirement? I think when we hit our 40's and 50's and most of us reach our peak incomes, we start getting nostalgic for things of our childhood that we missed out on the first time around or things we had and lost over the years. Wouldn't it figure that has my generation heads into their 40's we'll start collecting gear of our childhoods and not that gear of our parents generation? I'm sure there will always be a strong market for the 50's Fender gear since it's the defining origin of rock and roll but $500,000 for a '59 Les Paul might not last too much longer.
i wish this were the case, but young rockstars aspire to own these things too. even bedroom players. hell im only 28 and ive already had 7 60's fenders pass through my hands. i fucking love them. so much mojo. and as time goes on its only gonna increase in price imo. i keep telling people when i die, sell off my guitar collection and buy some houses and vacations haha. if done right investing in guitars is almost impossible to lose money on. even pedals. just buy used and in a manner that you know has growth. vintage fenders and gibsons will always retain crazy prices. you might be on to something with gretsch and guild and other collectible 60's guitars. not to many kids looking to get their hands on them. i have 2 vintage guild starfires that i constantly question why i hold onto them.
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