A 100w Mother - best amp I’ve ever played
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Awesome! One of my great regrets is not getting a Shiv combo when were available.
Here’s the whole rig (from up further in the thread): Show us your guitar setup - #410 by Rectangular_Eye
Such cool stylish guitars!
I feel like I’m spying on Bill Nelson 
What are they?
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ok, from right to left: mid-2000s MIJ Jazzmaster which I swapped the neck to a Robot Graves aluminum baritone neck, Millimetric MGBS3, Uma Jetson 2, Frank Brothers Signature
I love them so… 
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I thought I knew guitars! I thought I was a guitar player!
But I have NEVER HEARD of any of these. I have apparently been buried under the proverbial rock…
Thanks for illuminating!!!
Honestly, these are all essentially individual luthiers or pairs of luthiers making beautiful instruments out of their small shops. Just before the pandemic I had made the decision to try and support only small builders in the guitar community and went forth and had some of my dream guitars come to reality. I really never need any other instruments ever again. I feel so lucky.
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That is a fantastic approach! There are a few quite interesting local luthiers in my area (Boston), including a good friend who is a guitar technician who builds his own instruments.
If I ever decide to get another guitar, I should take that route. Other than the Guild Starfire 12 string I’ve already got my heart set on, of course. My primary guitars are Guild Starfires, but I’m an old Deadhead (among other things) and I just love those Starfires!!!..
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I’ve never actually played any Guilds, but I’ve always admired this weird shape:
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They made a fretless bass in this body shape, which at one point I was trying to find, but I eventually decided that I only really need one fretless bass, and I have an early 70s Fender Music Master that has been pretty nicely customized to my weird low-end lurking proclivities…
JES
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Big +1 on supporting independent luthiers. I’ve mostly had great service (there was one exception but I don’t want to cast blame on others). There’s a place around the corner from me that’s built a couple instruments for me, and I’ve also worked with people who were up for unique ideas I had. I’ve also used prefab parts and had local people add little touches or put them together.
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Starfires are gems! Here is my only guitar at the moment (´64 Starfire IV). It spent a couple of decades in plastic bags in the attic of an old music dealer in southern Norway before someone helped him clean out his place and it ended up with me.
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nkozi
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The Millimetric is a beauty. I’ve wanted to play one of those for a while, same with the Ground FX Kodex, but I think I’m becoming a Reverend player.
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edison
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picked up a reverend bob balch signature this year.
i was really interested in their guitars but i could never find one to play.
local shop had one hanging on the wall one day…
played it for like 45 minutes, and it was the first time in all my years of playing i was like “i have to go home with this guitar, right now”
it’s just such an incredible solid instrument… pickups, tone knob and bass roll offs are just so nicely tuned for all kinds of sounds… and it plays like a damn dream….
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Quick pic of the current little mess I call the pedalboard. Simple, but very effective.
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lumena
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Not new, but was new to me - use your tablet or computer with your pedalboard
I was shopping for a new tuner for my pedalboard and I came upon this. Not a tuner but maybe better, I have a tuner on my iPad. (Also on Amazon so simple catch and release)
-usb c interface
-on/off switch to turn off sound from usb
-1/4 in and stereo outs
-xlr in
-small pedalboard size
-headphone out
- Low retail price 60 -100$
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Looks interesting, can you say more?
This looks like a great way to grab a quick recording when jamming out, does anyone have one? I’m curious how it sounds.
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I ordered one. I will let you know.
My best case use will be to play loops - foot control of on/ is something I have struggled with.
Update
Jogg works great. It can easily replace a normal interface, I have run it continuosly for 8 hour stretches, seems durable. Hard to see from photo but it is small. Pedalboard shot will follow.
Jogg has no midi but I have switched to bluetooth midi using this
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Redid my pedal board… took way longer to do than I anticipated. Added 4 new pedals including a ‘sidecar’ board at the front.
All in anticipation for Tuesday’s gig at Café OTO:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/atonal-kat-presents-ear-walkers/
The new setup really opens things up and feels pretty good (although I’m less happy with the little ART stereo mixer on the right - it’s good but I miss the faders from my soundcraft which is just that little bit too big with this set up).
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