2020 Happenings! (BOSS Strikes Back)

[friendship]

phew, that saves me a lot of hassle. they're good boys.

[$harkToootth]

Cheap guitars are the best.
I came to realize that once I move in the new home and get the music room sorted, i'd like to have more cheap guitars and just 1 or 2 "totally decent" ones.

You can owe 10 of those cheapos, each one doing its specific thing, and you don't have to worry if you ruin them.

BINGO BINGO BINGO
I'll add, it you're into DIY project and you screwed one up... no big deal.

[Olin]

Backing that up. My $150 squier duocaster is the best guitar I've ever played in every single way. I've gone through like $9000 of bullshit aluminium guitars over the last few years and that Squier is still my main b. Just as replaceable as it is cherishable. Stay cheap, stay happy, no one has ever been disappointed in a <$200 guitar.

[jirodreamsofdank]

I have a fantasy of a Sonic Youth-worthy lineup of Squiers all with different tunings and shit.

[MrNovember]

I have a fantasy of a Sonic Youth-worthy lineup of Squiers all with different tunings and shit.

Don't we all?

[ibarakishi]

trash guitars are by far the best investment you can make. $harkToootth and Olin already know my thoughts about this though. my 70 USD peavey raptor was my first guitar and by far the best which i still have today. second best is my current squire bullet strat i got for about 100 USD. the peavey guitar for me is one of my few 'either someone is going to have to steal this out of my dead cold hands or the government is going to have to forcefully remove it from my possession while im thrown in jail before this leaves my life' items in my life. So long as it feels good, you can throw in whatever pickups you want to get it to sound good too and do what you want it to do. doesn't matter if you tour, record, play at home, etc. Your life is so much easier at the end of the day if you just embrace #trashlife and throw away all hope of embracing social standards while your body slowly absorbs the juice and smells of the bottom of the garbage can that is your life.

#trashlife
#trashbrothers
#trashislife
#trashtag
#streetrats

[friendship]

Well-said. Trash is for life; trash is forever. My only real problem with them is that the necks aren't ideal but it's not like I don't have fun playing them, so who gives a shit really? Plus I wouldn't get much for them, so the utility outweighs the benefit of selling them.

Time to displace this consumer impulse into needlessly researching replacement pickups!

[$harkToootth]

Guys... 4 pages in and the NAMM thread is ruined. This is why Echorec needs to run these things...
Guess it's time to... take out the trash?
Ugh...

[Inconuucl]

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Here, back on track.

[manymanyhaha]

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Here, back on track.

Loved the vintage and vibrato bits, some unique sounds in there.

[Inconuucl]

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Audio Damage is probably my favorite VST company out right now, this synth of theirs looks absolutely bonkers. Can't for the app store to finish the approval process so I can sit down with it

[$harkToootth]

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Audio Damage is probably my favorite VST company out right now, this synth of theirs looks absolutely bonkers. Can't for the app store to finish the approval process so I can sit down with it

Nice! My earlier comment was in jest btw and not a dig at you . In fact, if I've learned anything over the years here it's... if Inconuucl reqs an app... just get it. Don't ask why. Get it, figure it out.

Dumb question... you think you can use the effects stand alone from the synth? If you happen to like their reverb or chorus?

[jirodreamsofdank]

Valhalla and Audio Damage should teach classes to every other plugin maker about designing a usable GUI.

[Inconuucl]

Nice! My earlier comment was in jest btw and not a dig at you . In fact, if I've learned anything over the years here it's... if Inconuucl reqs an app... just get it. Don't ask why. Get it, figure it out.

Dumb question... you think you can use the effects stand alone from the synth? If you happen to like their reverb or chorus?

I'm pretty sure those effects are stripped down versions of their Reverb and Chorus tho. There are better alternatives to choruses on iOS, but their reverb, Eos 2, is unrivalled in the platform for the price. Sure Eventide and Fabfilter have since released their stuff on the app store, but they are 5-10 times the price.

Also I agree, Echo where you at?!

Valhalla and Audio Damage should teach classes to every other plugin maker about designing a usable GUI.

They are making app interfaces, I have no idea why everyone else is so so hellbent on looking like hardware.

[Gone Fission]

[Getting back on track with the digression because this is ILF:]

Well-said. Trash is for life; trash is forever. My only real problem with them is that the necks aren't ideal but it's not like I don't have fun playing them, so who gives a shit really? Plus I wouldn't get much for them, so the utility outweighs the benefit of selling them.

Time to displace this consumer impulse into needlessly researching replacement pickups!

I like the neck on my Godin a ton more than the one on my Fernandes LE-X. The Fernandes gets more play time because I paid $80 for it and don’t care if it gets dinged. It took a fall last year and got gouged, and I shrugged it off.

Never mind pickups. What about strings? I kind of want enough of a gaggle to string all differently for different sounds and feels, much less tunings. Flats, rounds, nickel, steel, slinky, fat, and at least one Nashville strung electric.