MarathonAg12 said:

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Some Junkie Cosmonaut said:

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Yeah no way I'm giving strangers access to my guitars.

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What's the worst that could happen?

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maroon barchetta said:

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Remember the kid I told you about whose mom complained that all of their disposable income was going to GC for new guitars for this teen son of hers? And she said he was up to five Player Strats if I remember correctly.

I stopped by GC today to look at stands and see if they had any sales on anything I wanted. The kid and the dad were in there. He was trying out an Epiphone Les Paul. Had an amp cranked pretty good and was going through Symphony of Destruction and some other stuff (Ozzy, Metallica).

I wasn't there long enough to see if he went home with a new guitar. Dad looked more bored than last time.

The other guys that came in to try out guitars were drowned out pretty well and they didn't want to crank up and compete for sound space.

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If that teen isn't working, sounds like a spoiled little *****

This is more of a new guitar hangar post, but I figured I'd organize my office / music room by hanging most of my electrics on the wall. The rosewood Tele from my prior post will stay in its case, but I figured I'd get these out of the closet to clear up space (and make it easier to get to the acoustics and Tele). From let to right, '96 Carvin TL60, ~'87 Strat Plus, '98 Danelectro U-2, and a '16 Epiphone ES-175 Premium. Nothing super special, but they're all unique in their own way and they make decent wall art.

When my cab arrives and I get rid of my amp, the only thing I'll lose is reverb.

So right after Christmas, before my wife implemented an f'ing "budget" for 2023, I bought a TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 reverb pedal.

This is the single most fun pedal I've bought since maybe, and possibly moreso, than when I first bought a Crybaby when I was 16 so I could play the new smash Metallica single Enter Sandman.

My Boss CE-2 when I was also 16? Cool.
My first delay? Ok, I can use this, but it really just got me closer to the sound in my head and on the radio.
Digitech Whammy-D - ok that is pretty damn fun but I'm too lazy to learn to do more than a few things with it, and most of the time I use it an octave doubler so I could get the same with 1/5 of the footprint using a stand alone octave pedal.

The Hall of Fame 2 -

Mother. Of. God.

I plugged it in, sat on the floor in front of my pedal board w/its "normal" settings, i.e. a slight delay and Keeley comp engaged. Set the knobs on the HF2 at noon, and cycled through the reverb settings on clean tone.

I'd hit a chord or note, hear it ring, mash the "mash" switch to see what it did, and move on. Cool. THey all sound good and I could spend years tweaking to nail a tone, having fun the entire time.

I haven't even tried the short/long pre-delay yet.

I've barely scratched the surface but I'm all in on the "shoegaze" rock movement after finding Shimmer. I could be a star. Except it feeds into my "zone out and be lazy" tendencies. If I smoked pot I might not leave my room other than to piss...for weeks on end. I know, shimmer is on its way out, but it is knew to me. no idea how I'd use it other than for myself, but that's pretty much all I play for these days. My wife said it sounded really cool from across the house.

Wow. This thing is damn f'ing fun!

Edit to add: I thought the foot switch not having a "click" for on/off versus putting pressure on it to activate the expression would be difficult. Not at all. Like a hand to glove, I love not having the physical click of the typical spring loaded switch. Quickly it w/your foot and it is on/off, press and hold (then push more if you want) and it activates the expression.

New amp day! Did a lot of research on the best 20w option to get plexi and Lead tones and the Little Sister kept coming up. I put a tracker on Reverb because there were no used ones up there for a couple of weeks. One finally popped up and I paid fair market value for it. Just arrived today, and my neighbor is going to have to deal with it for a while.

One thing I read and can definitely confirm is how fantastic this master volume is. This thing sounds great at low volumes, though obviously not exactly the same as higher volumes because you aren't pushing the speaker and moving any air.

I'm gonna have some fun dialing in some tones, this weekend!