What Have You Bought Guitar-Related In The Past 48 Hours?

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Originally Posted by OldStrummer

Does it count if it cost nothing?

My guitar teacher wants me to record myself playing backing tracks so I can accompany myself. I bought the Apogee ONE for iPad and Mac a couple of years ago but never got around to installing it. So this weekend I installed it by downloading Apogee's "Maestro" software on my Mac. I then downloaded the latest version of Garageband. ONE is the hardware interface and Garageband is the DAW. I keep thinking I have it all correctly wired, but when I hit the record button, nothing gets recorded.

Oh well, I'll keep pressing on...

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if you are using USB to connect ONE, go to Preferences in GarageBand, select Audio/midi, go to 'input' and click the down arrow. It should show "ONE" and "built-in", select ONE.

When you open/create new project, select which input if you have multiple channels (2 with the Apogee, right?). I usually use input 1 ( I have 4 with my Behringer UMC404HD).

Hope that helps, if you need more I don't mind helping. I've been mucking around with GarageBand for a few years now and can muddle my way around in a somewhat cognizant fashion.

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Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan

if you are using USB to connect ONE, go to Preferences in GarageBand, select Audio/midi, go to 'input' and click the down arrow. It should show "ONE" and "built-in", select ONE.

When you open/create new project, select which input if you have multiple channels (2 with the Apogee, right?). I usually use input 1 ( I have 4 with my Behringer UMC404HD).

Hope that helps, if you need more I don't mind helping. I've been mucking around with GarageBand for a few years now and can muddle my way around in a somewhat cognizant fashion.

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Thanks, Dan! As I read it, the ONE has two inputs. The first is a microphone - either the built-in or your own that gets plugged in via the break-out cable, and input 2 is always an instrument, the other side of the break-out cable. It is into this that I'm plugging my guitar. Is this not correct?

Do repair parts for someone else's amplifier? I have a tremolo roach, a few resistors and some tubes coming for a client's '66 Vibrolux Reverb. I like working on this amp because it's exactly the same as mine- when I compare them and find a weakness in one amp, I can sometimes detect and correct it based on the other.

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Originally Posted by OldStrummer

Thanks, Dan! As I read it, the ONE has two inputs. The first is a microphone - either the built-in or your own that gets plugged in via the break-out cable, and input 2 is always an instrument, the other side of the break-out cable. It is into this that I'm plugging my guitar. Is this not correct?

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yes. you just have to make sure that the "inputs" as being seen by GarageBand are all set to the same. The ONE plugs into the computer via USB, GarageBand will be looking for it. It won't select it automatically, you have to tell it to. Then when you open a new file, you have to arm the track and tell it which input from the ONE to accept signal from. Again, not automatic. Unless everything is all on the first input. I have 4 inputs on my UMC. I currently have 2 guitars plugged in. When I switch guitars, the track I'm recording to has to be told which input from the UMC I am using. In this case I have my Tele on input one and Strat on input two. I like using the strat for rhythm and the tele for lead. I open a new file, tell the track I'm using input two (strat), record. Then I select a new track and select input one (tele) and record my next part. Depending on what I'm doing, I sometimes go 3, 4, 6 tracks. The limit appears to be on how many plug-ins I can use and still keep all the tracks going. If I'm using a lot of plug-ins, I usually crap out around 4 tracks. If I'm going light on processing I can do more.

Mike where did you get the guitar dudes? What are they called? Where can i find them? They are great!

I think a new guitar is guitar-related enough... :hmm

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Work in progress:

What's old: OCD, Wah, TC Corona, GigRig "Humdinger" (underneath)

What's new: GigRig G2 switching system, Mad Professor Twimble, Vertex Dynamic Distortion, TC Polytune 3, MXR "script" Phase 90, Strymon Timeline.

The TC Corona will soon be replaced by a Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl, and, in a month or so, I'll add either a Chase Bliss Gravitas (trem) or Mini Vent 2 rotary pedal.

I've wanted to do the giant, switching-system pedalboard for awhile, so I figure it was time to dive in.

The whole thing goes via the Humdinger into a wet/dry rig with my '68 Custom DR and Vox AC-15.

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Two books of manuscript paper. Each page has staff, tab and charts. I can now put all my confusion on a single page!

(My guitar instructor told me to get some).

ordered it monday, got it today

Yamaha LS6 A.R.E. Concert in natural torrified spruce, just unpacked it 45 minutes ago. It's a cannon of a guitar. I need to get some pics of it if not tonight then tomorrow

overdosing on Smarties™ right now

I went to the guitar show in Marlboro, MA today and picked up an older THD Hot Plate and a Barber Half Gainer, both at decent prices.

I just tried the Hot Plate with my Twinmaster and it sounds great! I think it'll get the job done.

I tried the Half Gainer at the show through a Boogie Fillmore. I liked them both! The Half Gainer sounds good with a clean amp. That's something that I've been looking for.

I stripped a gear in my logic section of my brain last week and bought (on installment payments) a pair of Avantone Pro CK-1 small diameter mics before the promotional rate ended. I've been wanting a pair of SDC for a while and frankly won't be able to buy them anytime soon. It was pretty much buy them now or never get them. I've had an X-Y mic bar for a long time waiting to be used and now that I finally have an acoustic worth recording felt the time was right.

Yes I know, I owe pics. I'll get to them eventually.

I bought a Demeter Tremulator at a guitar show yesterday. It's to replace my Voodoo Lab Tremolo, which I love, but has hyper sensitive intensity and speed controls. We'll see how it compares.

I also received tubes and capacitors for a friend's 1994 Blues Deluxe. It's long overdue for maintenance.

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Originally Posted by mikesr1963

Last week Musician's Friend had the French Toast Octave Distortion pedal on sale for $25. I watched several samples on YouTube and it was much more fuzz than distortion and so I got one. It's what I was looking for to use with my P90 and single coil guitars. It's great with a dark sounding amp but you'll want to stay away if you're using bright amps.

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I really dig the retro design on those Danelectros, Mike! I own an old Daddy-O overdrive and it's one of the best dirt pedals I've ever had! I like it so much I still keep the original box and manual! Bought it back when I didn't even play live, and through the years I played many great sounding gigs with it. Works wonders with a tube amp.

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Originally Posted by KennyF

I picked up one these On-Stage RS7705 Pro Tiltback Amp Stands... GREAT stand!

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Kenny, I got one of those too, very good for those small venues where you don't really have a decent place to set up the amp near the power sources. I keep mine in the car trunk, just in case.

Picked this up at Goodwill cheap and it has a great light relic and I didn't have to anything in that area. Had a lot more mojo (dirt, dust, stickers) on it before I shoveled it off. Took it apart, cleaned, tightened, adjusted, polished, and put back together. Frets were actually blue/green with places that looked like rust but when I was done they really look brand new.

I started learning to play bass about 10 years ago with a 15 watt amp and it just wasn't loud enough to keep my interest. I sold all that for what I paid and moved on, but really liked it. Anyway moving forward I want to record some stuff and so want put bass on it as well so I placed a couple of low ball bids on Goodwill and actually won both bass guitars and I'll post the other later when I've cleaned it up.
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nice. what's the nut width?

UPS came. My flanger pedal developed a static issue a while back and I've been listening and comparing for a couple of months since my Ibanez pedal it's replacing isn't made anymore. I've also been watching and listening and reading about the Boss Waze Dimension DC-2W too and had it in the cart a couple of times ready to buy but chickened out. One video mentioned a clone and I checked it out and decided to get it, the TC electronic 3rd Dimension Chorus. Again, being a non-professional musician meant I would never spend for the traditional green box. After watching Morty's Music do a review of the TO808 beside the Tubescreamer, and a couple other videos with similar results, I said what the heck, I'm drop $19 on a Behringer. Anyway, the black Friday sales really helped too.

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^^^ I've got probably 4-5 Behringer pedals and they've all been good pedals considering the ridiculously low prices. I just make sure not to stomp on 'em too hard. On my board right now are the EQ700 7-band graphic equalizer and EM600 Echo Machine pedal. No doubt the TO800 is a decent clone.

]UPDATE Part 1:

I've had these pedals in my MF wish list for a good while now. The flanger because my beloved Ibanez CF7 developed a crackle even when not engaged. I damn near cried. The 3rd Dimension pedal I bought after watching many videos on the Boss WAZA DC2W and I mean it was in the shopping cart several times. I just couldn't pull the trigger on a single pedal over $200. Then watching one review someone mentioned a clone; I searched and found the 3rd Dimension and both were $20 off last week. Then after the review of the TO800 at Morty Music, I said what the hell for $19 it's worth a try.

UPDATE Part 2:

TO800: Worth every penny. A fantastic sounding pedal. I'm stunned it sounds so good. I love metal and it's not metal, but I also love Blackberry Smoke, SRV and ZZ Top and it's definitely all of that. The Flanger and the 800 came out of the box with the dials and noon and without touching the knobs it's a perfect Heart's Barracuda.

The 3rd Dimension is awesome and I'm thrilled with the way it sounds too. I got that because I found where SRV recorded Couldn't Stand the Weather, and while working with David Bowie was introduced the Boss unit and then went back and used it on CStW.

Funny thing on the TC pedals even though they have those buttons that look like they make that hard click sound; well then don't. It's a soft on and off. The 800 on the other hand I would think it would be a soft on and off like a Boss pedal; well it's not, it actually clicks.

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You can't hear a click at the foot switch on the TC pedals, but you can hear a tick from the amp when they are engaged. Funny enough I have a Mojomojo pedal that has the normal switch and makes no clicking sound through the amp when engaged.

On the 800, if I were going to use it on a gigging pedal board it would need another housing over it to protect it to include the cables going into and out of it. If you were to transfer the components to another housing you would want to swap the pots, input and output, and the on and off switch for more sturdy components. The other two are like tanks.

Today being Cyber Monday, Musician's Friend SDOTD became the Stupid Deal of the Hour, and I kept checking in to see what was being offered. When I saw the Dean Markley ProMag Plus XM Acoustic Guitar Pickup for only $19.99 (no tax, free shipping). My 1971 Framus 12-string is the only guitar I own that does not have any electronics. When I played it last at church, the sound guy had to mic it direct. So, adding this little single-coil pickup, housed in a maple enclosure ought to give it some sparkle - and the ability to run it through the soundboard.

Okay, so it may not be a Seymour Duncan. But since it installs without requiring any modification to the guitar, if I don't like it, it's just $20 and easy to remove.

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That's a good deal on the Promag! I have an old one that I bought many years ago. I put it on my guitar, plug it into any amp and play. It has it's own kind of sound. I did an acoustic gig with my 000-15, the Promag and a Princeton Reverb. It sounded great!

I took advantage of "Cyber Monday" and ordered a Mojotone British style lightweight 2x12" cab in wine Taurus with tan British basket weave and gold piping to match my Avatar 45 head. The cab that came with that head is HUGE! Not only can I not get it out of my house, it sounds very boomy. This one is 3" narrower, 1" shorter in height and 5" less deep and only weighs 22 pounds without speakers. It should save me almost 10 pounds.

I like those Dean Markley Woody pickups. A friend of mine has one from way back when it first came out, I think I bought it for him as a matter of fact. I preferred it to the onboard piezo that my (now gone) Martin HD28V came with.

Dan, my Martin is an HD28v, lefty version, made in 96 or 98.

This is the book my guitar teacher ordered for me. It's Volume 1, so it starts with the basics, but he claims it's the only book one needs to get up to full speed on the guitar fingerboard.

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Originally Posted by OldStrummer

This is the book my guitar teacher ordered for me. It's Volume 1, so it starts with the basics, but he claims it's the only book one needs to get up to full speed on the guitar fingerboard.

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That's the book that I learned from as a teen. I can still hear some of the exercises in my head. I still have that and volume 2.

Just picked up a 84 Les Paul studio standard should have it soon I will post up some pics when I get it..

Congrats, melody.

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Originally Posted by ch willie

Congrats, melody.

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+1

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Originally Posted by melody

Just picked up a 84 Les Paul studio standard should have it soon I will post up some pics when I get it..

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one of my local stores had one of those on the wall for a bunch of years. He closed his shop this year and I'm very bummed. I loved going there

sort of guitar related, i bought a workbench from homeless despot's black friday sale. I had originally planned on putting it in the garage where I figured the sounds of tools wouldn't bother my mom. I've been procrastinating on that for close to 2 years. Now that she's going into a facility it's no longer an issue and I'm putting it in the room next to my music room.

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Originally Posted by ch willie

Congrats, melody.

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Originally Posted by OldStrummer

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Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan

one of my local stores had one of those on the wall for a bunch of years. He closed his shop this year and I'm very bummed. I loved going there

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Thx guy's. It's gonna be at my house a week from today.. It's the first gibby I have bought in a long time.

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Originally Posted by melody

Thx guy's. It's gonna be at my house a week from today.. It's the first gibby I have bought in a long time.

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Wow, that's really cool. One hell of a good Gibson! Color?

Tobacco Burst, Thx.

Not a big purchase as last week, but a new trem bar is arriving today for the Floyd Rose on my new Jackson Dinky. Bought it last week, but it was missing the correct bar. So yes, a new bar for the Rose. That's all.:speechles

Not a purchase, but I traded a pedal for an Epi SG that had been stripped, I hope to turn it into a slide guitar!
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Originally Posted by Bill Moore

Not a purchase, but I traded a pedal for an Epi SG that had been stripped, I hope to turn it into a slide guitar!
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That's awesome! You might recall that I bought a stripped out 1964 Epi Olympic last year. That was a fun project!

I'm finding that the bridge inserts are threaded the same as Gibson. but not the stopbar/tailpiece. STRATosphere has a set of Gibson hardware, stopbar, bridge, and tuners for $80, but the threads are 5 x .8 mm and the inserts I have are 8 x 1.25, but I found this:
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I just bought a 1986 ProCo blackface Rat for $30 and an old DOD FX90 analog delay for $10!!!

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Originally Posted by Don

I just bought a 1986 ProCo blackface Rat for $30 and an old DOD FX90 analog delay for $10!!!

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1986 RAT?! That’s history there!!

Check out the patina on the Rat! It sounds great! A little better than the clone that I built several years ago and much better than my Deucetone Rat.

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Originally Posted by Don

Check out the patina on the Rat! It sounds great! A little better than the clone that I built several years ago and much better than my Deucetone Rat.

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Very very cool!

Just ordered a set of pickup mounting screws and a pair of Foam Pickup Rings for my 620 at Pickofthericks.com

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Maybe I'll get a custom prewired harness for it too, waiting for availability

Edit: Just ordered a truss rod adjustment tool for it too

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This Vox AC2 RhythmVOX is so small it doesn't deserve a NAD post! (And dang 1,00 limit restricts me posting specs).

Hee, hee. What a kick! It will never blow the windows out or annoy the neighbors, but that's not the way I roll, anyway.

Makes my Line6 AMPLIFi 30 look gargantuan by comparison. :)

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See my posts here and here about buying a bass and an amp. They ARE guitar-related, after all. I guess I'm taking 2018 out with a bang!

I'm starting to collect pedals for a new board, and I bought a Truetone Ispot power supply.

i ordered some binder post ring clips to put on the speaker wires for my stereo. Old school Advent speakers and I hate trying to wrap multi strand around binder posts. I'm crimping these suckers on and be done with it. I'm even contemplating spring pins for the back of the receiver wire clamps.

it's a stretch but sort of guitar related

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Nice, HPD

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Originally Posted by HighPlainsDrifter

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I'm guessing it's supposed to look that way? Is that "spalted" or something? A PRS, right?

Thanks, willie!

Yes... supposed to look that way.. natural burled poplar PRS SE Custom 24. Without the story it maybe doesn't appear so wonderful as it is to me but she's one of 25 that I never thought I'd ever discover existed. I have her sister in a trampas green quilt ( also limited run of 25 in 2015) but I never thought I'd find another one! My absolute favorites of my entire collection including my USA SG, AmStd, and even my S2. Ebony board, fully bound, amazing fret-work, smoothest satin neck I've ever felt, etc, etc... most wonderful feeling/ playing guitars I've ever had.

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The sisters together-

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Sweet! That last photo, with its sibling and friends really makes it.

Thank you! I honestly would've taken it in any top/ any color because spec-wise it's identical to the one ( no longer available) that I already have. The first run, PRS did for The Axe Palace in Walpole MA ( 25 trampas green quilts/ 25 blue matteo quilts). Always regretted only getting one considering the craftsmanship and price. Fast fwd 3 yrs to 2018 and doing the 3am scroll-n-droll on Reverb and out of nowhere... Bam! Literally my dream guitar's sister right in front of me! Never knew that PRS contracted an SE exclusive to another music store... this time, 25 in natural poplar burl/ 25 in emerald green poplar burl for Spotlight Music in Ft Collins CO. I don't typically even LIKE burl but I fell in love instantly. Kinda like with my wife but more enthusiastically. So that's the short version of the story. I feel so fortunate to have 2 visually different versions of the exact same guitar... the most comfortable and best playing guitars I've ever had.

I just received a set of EL34B power tubes and a 12AX7LPS for the phase inverter for my JCM 800. I hope to install them and set the bias tomorrow.

trying to resist looking at any sales

i went on a spree:

EH Preacher Bass Compressor--good, not great. Will eventually get a Cali 76. The EH will work for now.
Boss Bass Chorus--surprisingly good.
Vox Wah--on it's way, for my guitars
Pedaltrain pedal board for my guitar pedals, extra strong metal touring case
Small pedal board for my bass stuff.

I've had a compressor pedal in my head for a while. The other day I found a good deal on a Marshall Ed-1 comp. Had to grab it.
I have t on my board, now I have to figure out exactly how I want it and get it set for my rig.
Also received the other day a upgraded wiring kit for my MIM Tele. Stew Mac's premium set with 4-way switch. Have to figure out how it's going to work out with the Custom Shop Texas Special tele pickups I installed in it back when I got it.

I'm revamping my pedalboard and bought a couple more pedals: Fulltone OCD and Ampeg Opto Comp

Small purchase really, but helps me with my amp. Bought a footswitch for my Marshall so I can quit leaning over to switch channels on it. The button on the amp is small, and hard to reach. Besides, I always get a footswitch for my amps anyway eventually. I know its not much, but it helps an old man....

I just ordered a Rickenbacker original 5-control prewired harness (on Pickofthericks.com).

One of the previous owners messed with her wiring (good thing he didn’t route it or switch pups or anything) and I like my guitars all stock.

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