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991Awesome. Gives me a little bit of Harmony Bobkat vibes. Super cool.
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992Yeah that looks cool af, especially the pickup/pickguard combo. Jealous!
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993Can I ask where you got the pickup? My buddy Matt makes some off the wall guitars, https://www.instagram.com/maranger.instruments/ - if he didn't make that one he probably wouldn't mind buying them on occasionmdc wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 10:02 amI 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.
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994The Modes seem to affect the Q of the curves a little, subtle and not a gigantic change. I use German and Russian the most for no real reason. The calibrate is the amount of Saturation in dB added to the signal, and the other modes change the eq curve of the saturation. 90% of the time if I'm eqing something I just grab The Reaper EQ or Fabfilter, but I use Slick EQ on Guitar and Synths and stuff when I don't want to get in too deep fucking with EQ, A 3 band is good enough. It's a good EQ for free. I actually like that the free version doesnt SHOW you your EQ curve. Forces you to just listen.penningtron wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 9:19 am
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).
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995Of course, yeah! It came from https://mjscustompickups.com/ - he makes the pickups for millimetric and a few other small builders. He was very easy to work with, I'm stoked on the results.TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 2:26 pm
Can I ask where you got the pickup? My buddy Matt makes some off the wall guitars, https://www.instagram.com/maranger.instruments/ - if he didn't make that one he probably wouldn't mind buying them on occasion
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996Also - those Maranger guitars are very very cool! I played a show with a band (strange attractor) who had one of his basses a few months back and it was really striking.
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997ah! the glorious small world that is Canadian independent music. I am from Sudbury - longtime friends with Jeff & Mitch, national treasures. If you play with Imploders at all that's our friend Joey. Sudbury infects everythingmdc wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 3:09 pm Also - those Maranger guitars are very very cool! I played a show with a band (strange attractor) who had one of his basses a few months back and it was really striking.
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998I’m sure you know my pal and occasional bandmate Jesse then!
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999haha! I do but it's been a lonnnng time - we would go and try to watch anything Jesse was doing because he was always into good stuff.
He might not remember me, but he would know Andrew Jeffkins, I'm his friend Tyler.
You might know Davey from Ottawa too, been in a million things, another guy Nick Wol