Gotcha. You better do something about the butt end of that SM7!

elisha wiesner wrote:Harmony BobkatSome of 'em are in rough shape. The fretboard is too short for me (though the thickness of the neck is awesome). But man, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the single-pickup Bobkat may be the best-sounding single-pickup guitar ever made. That or an old Firebird I. It's the combination of the killer old DeArmond and the perfect placement of the pickup in between the bridge and neck. I'm not surprised that amp sounds great with that guitar.

I think that on TV it is not that they have a endorsement deal that requires them to cover the logo but rather they think it is free advertising and want to be paid by the manufacturer to show the logo. In general any boss pedal with the same number of knobs as another you can switch housings. In a lot of cases you can fit your own circuit boards into the housing and change the buffered switching (with some of the Guitar Center sales on their basic Boss distortion and overdrives it may be as cheep as a Hammond box). What fun to have a Super Fuzz circuit in a DS-1 housing, "I have one of those how do you get it to sound like that!"In MXR housings you can drill out a blank box with no markings or write "Random Confuckulator" and some flying pink cocks on the box that contains a big muff or fuzz face. Shoot some random spray paint over the box, in the case of boss pedals a lot of people do this. When people ask "where do you get a Random Confuckulator" I tell them I bought it from a homeless guy who sleeps near the peter pan buses at the port authority who makes a lot of awesome boxes from random garbage found in garbage cans.The easiest just change the 0 position of the knobs. I love to make all of them look like they are on 0 that way the person observing your settings is going sounds like it is boosting and fuzzing but it is set to 0.

I think it's less about the effectiveness of hiding the name brand than about giving the finger to the "legendary" status of whatever gear.I don't do it. I don't really care one way or another. But I think that's what it's about - like Kurt Cobain taping over the logo when he had to use rented Marshalls. They're still iconic and recognizable, and you have this one black mark that's covering the manufacturer's name, just to say "this isn't what's important here."Also I think some TV shows have an endorsement deal and are required to block out another brand's logo if a performer insists on using their own amp. I doubt anyone here is doing that, but I think I've seen it on late late shows and such.

That's probably a thing if you're super famous, but whatever. Changing the knobs like that is actually a useful way of remembering your preferred settings. If you tun the pots to where ya like em, then rotate knobs so that the indicator is always facing up, then you can easily remember your settings. You can also do the same with some tape and a marker on top of the knob to make a new indicator line.

Big John wrote:I think that on TV it is not that they have a endorsement deal that requires them to cover the logo but rather they think it is free advertising and want to be paid by the manufacturer to show the logo. In general any boss pedal with the same number of knobs as another you can switch housings. In a lot of cases you can fit your own circuit boards into the housing and change the buffered switching (with some of the Guitar Center sales on their basic Boss distortion and overdrives it may be as cheep as a Hammond box). What fun to have a Super Fuzz circuit in a DS-1 housing, "I have one of those how do you get it to sound like that!"In MXR housings you can drill out a blank box with no markings or write "Random Confuckulator" and some flying pink cocks on the box that contains a big muff or fuzz face. Shoot some random spray paint over the box, in the case of boss pedals a lot of people do this. When people ask "where do you get a Random Confuckulator" I tell them I bought it from a homeless guy who sleeps near the peter pan buses at the port authority who makes a lot of awesome boxes from random garbage found in garbage cans.The easiest just change the 0 position of the knobs. I love to make all of them look like they are on 0 that way the person observing your settings is going sounds like it is boosting and fuzzing but it is set to 0. Why would you bother to do any of this? Do people seriously come up to you after shows to see how you set your fucking pedals??? Is that a thing? I've barely ever noticed what pedals people use let alone how they set them.

Dr Tony Balls wrote:That's probably a thing if you're super famous, but whatever. Changing the knobs like that is actually a useful way of remembering your preferred settings. If you tun the pots to where ya like em, then rotate knobs so that the indicator is always facing up, then you can easily remember your settings. You can also do the same with some tape and a marker on top of the knob to make a new indicator line. OK, that does actually make some sense. I'm not a huge pedal user but if I want to remember a setting, I just draw it on with a Sharpie as you mentioned above.

Big John wrote:I think that on TV it is not that they have a endorsement deal that requires them to cover the logo but rather they think it is free advertising and want to be paid by the manufacturer to show the logo. It's called Greeking something, when you cover up the brand name for t.v. or movies. It's more that the production company doesn't want any hassle from the manufacturer about how their product is being used or that it is poorly represented or whatever their beef might be. I occasionally work in the art department on t.v. commercials, and have to put fake labels on things and cover up brand names with colored tape.

I always saw bands do that with taped settings but I always end up adjusting my amp and pedals to whatever I feel like the room sounds like at that gig. It gives me something to do while the drummer frigs around. (to a point) Maybe that's bad because I let my perspective color what I 'think' I'm sounding like and maybe I'm not as consistent in sound to what I think I am.

Not mine.But god damn:https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-re ... mp.854013/