ChudFusk wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 1:28 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 11:57 pmThis Stereo Fulltone Tremelo that I had for years but never found a use for with guitar is wonderful with keys. The tap tempo is kind of useless since it doesn’t subdivide, but the pedal is great for warm stereo movement and I think I like what the pedal does to the sound with the volume turned up. It also sounds real pretty gently moving a bunch of reverb, but a bunch of reverb sounds pretty hacky to me generally, so will have to keep that up my sleeve until I find a place that it will fit.

I used to have one of these and I miss it.

I think I actually got mine after seeing you mention it somewhere. The circle completes!

1976 Mustang Bass Micro review? I love it. And I have to sell some shit.

matttkkkk wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 11:08 pm 1976 Mustang Bass

Micro review? I love it. And I have to sell some shit.

Love these. Been wanting a short scale bass for awhile, but don't play much bass these days. I wonder how the reissue sound. Did it cost a pretty penny?

My bassist has a Squier CV Mustang Bass that he plays with the band from time to time. I think he’s swapped the pickups and tuners out on ‘em and favors LaBella Low Tension Flats. The couple times I’ve played it it’s always played and sounded great.

I wanted a Mustang Bass type thing for years, tried a Squier Vista Musicmaster, Squier MB, even swapped out the Squier neck for a MIM neck, nothing felt right or inspired me. I was watching the MIJ Fender reissues climb and climb in price and then this came up locally - more than the MIJs but not crazy more, and all-original including case. Tried it out and it just went "click". Strung with some pretty old flats but somehow covers the range from nasal twang to deep thump with its one pickup.

Most expensive thing I've bought so I have to get off my ass and clear out the racks. But the search is over.

I saw a vintage mustang next to a reissue. The price difference wasn't much. It's crazy.

I had a squire mustang bass for a minute. It was awesome. I think it was another forum member's for a short bit, too. I bought it because I knew one of my best friends would love it and absolutely kill playing it. He ended up buying it from me and did the thing.

These I’ve had forever but I had a chance to compare them while I was chasing down an issue with rack gear. I thought I had blown a goddamn ribbon elsewhere but nope it was something else.

Beyer M201 vs M88 on voice

M88 better for speaking and just all around

M201 reads as more “vintage” and sounded better when I sang better. Sounded worse when I sang worse. Nasal sounds corrected with the barest eq from mixer. i’ve read about these being cool for overheads and want to try that one day because I bet it sounds like shit

Both had pretty strong plosives but the M201 was worse in that regard. Fine mics! Can’t wait until something else breaks so I can try another one.

Who can fix a Urie LA-22 with one channel that compresses like hell over not much signal?

Kniferide wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 4:27 pm

penningtron wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 3:45 pm

Kniferide wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 3:25 pm
This is one of the best compressors there is and it's free. If I only had one compressor plugin to use it might be Kotelnikov.

Thanks for the tip! I just tried it out for 2 minutes and instantly liked it on the 2-buss in a "preserve the mix, just make it louder" way. I'll try out some of the drum smashing settings later..

TDR's free EQ and the other little compressor they have are also very good. The Kotelnikov is kinda the go to I want an FMR Really nice compressor style plugin that you can make really invisible.

I'll review these here instead of the Mastering thread (I'm using them for mixing anyway):

TDR Kotelnikov: Remarkable. I love every setting I've tried so far, that does the thing it says it does and well. The FMR RNC is a good comparison, in that they're both way better than they have any right to be.

TDR Molotok (the 'other compressor', stripped down free version): A little darker and maybe more 'vintage' sounding than the Kotelnikov? I'm sure I'll find some applications where that makes sense but by initial impression is the Kotelnikov probably does the thing better.

TDR VOS SlickEQ: Intended as a mastering EQ I think. I'm not gonna use it that way, so I think for now I'll use it as a subtle sweetener on some instruments or sub-mix busses (a little more 'air' here and there type thing). Kinda like the AIRWINDOWS stuff in that respect. I don't understand a lot of the settings yet (the 'German' setting seems to have the most personality but I haven't listened that critically yet).

Can't complain for free plugins. Everyone should get the Kotelnikov at least.

I have the paid versions of all of those and agree with all of that. I never really use the Molot compressor for mastering but for mixing it can def do some stuff.

You have to work really hard to make Kotelnikov sound bad, it's really a remarkable piece of work. Only thing it doesn't really do is Distressor Nuke/1176 all buttons in total crush, but there's a million other things for that.

Slick EQ I also don't use that often but this is a good reminder that I should. The German high shelf is pretty unique, it's like a 2-stage shelf, super broad, really nice on the right source.

The paid versions all add some useful features and they're still super cheap.

I built up this (relatively) cheap JM parts guitar recently and it turned out really nicely. There's not much of note aside from the pickup which was probably the most expensive single part on the guitar (~250CAD); it's a humbucker styled after teisco gold foils (kind of a cosplay, what if?-type thing) with two rubber magnets, low output and low inductance. I've mostly been a single coil person, but I wanted to try something different with this and I really like the sound of a low-output humbucker. It's quiet, kind of mellow sounding, but it still retains some of the particularity of the goldfoil sound. Also way cheaper than the mojo uk option.

The rest of the parts are pretty normal:
70s tele deluxe neck (I paid $75 for the nexk 20yrs ago and it's been on 2 other guitars already)
body of unknown origin (cheap reverb pickup)
AVRI tailpiece
AM Pro 7.25" bridge
Herad gold ano pickguard

I need to order some new tuners for it but it's otherwise a fun single pickup ripper.