hello all, been a long time since i last posted but i got reminded of this forum somewhere else and decided i missed it.recently i sold off my fender CIJ mustang and used it to fund a squier VM jazzmaster, since ive wanted a jazzmaster forever and the mustang just wasn't that good. i think i got it for an absolute steal as it was $600 brand new from a shop. anyways, i enjoyed it until i ran into the typical bridge issues, but it's been better since i shimmed the neck. still buzzes a bit, i really need to properly set it up but i'm just playing my les paul now more because it's better for extreme metal and that's what i've been listening to lately. it sounds great, perfect for the sound i wanted out of it. nice cleans, treble out of the ass, wham bam thank you ma'am. the vibrato is pretty alright too, doesn't seem to throw it out of tune too much.overall not crap. i wont give it waffles because the only thing wrong with it is it's drunken bogan owner being unable to set up a guitar properly.

Roland VT-4 fucking awesome

Does the choking have to do with touching the ground, or is it the tightness of the rubber around the rods? From that pic it appears that the leg is loosely resting in the foot.RIMS mounts definitely sound good but I'm not a fan of the wobbling, and without some crazy stand angle & mounting mechanism I worry the toms will fall over.

yard barf wrote:Gibraltar Floating Floor Tom Feet 10.5mm 3pkHoly Mary! These things are incredible. I have a few drum kits and a couple of the floor toms always sound choked. I tried different tunings, heads, re-seated the heads but nothing helped. Then I asked the internet if it had any suggestions and many internets said, it's the feet. I thought no way, but it was totally the feet. The test to do is this: Hit your floor tom and listen. Then lift your floor tom off the floor and hit it again. If it is significantly improved when lifted off the ground, then these $5 nubs will give you that sound.Cool, I wondered about these, and it doesn't surprise me; the RIMS suspension mounts (and similar) always sounded good and definitely weren't yet another tone snake-oil deal, which I'm always suspicious of.

Gibraltar Floating Floor Tom Feet 10.5mm 3pkHoly Mary! These things are incredible. I have a few drum kits and a couple of the floor toms always sound choked. I tried different tunings, heads, re-seated the heads but nothing helped. Then I asked the internet if it had any suggestions and many internets said, it's the feet. I thought no way, but it was totally the feet. The test to do is this: Hit your floor tom and listen. Then lift your floor tom off the floor and hit it again. If it is significantly improved when lifted off the ground, then these $5 nubs will give you that sound.

154 wrote:Does the choking have to do with touching the ground, or is it the tightness of the rubber around the rods? From that pic it appears that the leg is loosely resting in the foot.Pretty sure it's the touching the ground part. The rubber tips are snug on the legs but not any tighter or looser than regular rubber tips. It's really an incredible improvement.The lifting the drum up and comparing part is how to tell if they will improve the resonance of the drum. I have some floor toms that sound the same lifted up or on the floor, and I have others that are pretty choked when on the floor and wide open when lifted up. Now they all sound great! Cheap and easy fix.

Not really gear, but maybe it is...I had a really really slow end of last year and first half of this year freelancing so I haven't bought any gear in a long time, but I took a full time job and have money again, so after going through about 7 different reverb plugins (waves is pure garbage) and hating them all the other day I pulled the trigger on Valhalla Classic Reverb. It is the best plugin reverb I have ever used. It sounds great. Handles pretty much any thing other than a spring sound for which I recommend PSP Springbox. Between these two, I might just delete every other reverb I have just to clear up the list. They really are great. I'm buying Valhalla's Delay for sure and will have time travel under control from here on out.As long as I'm talking about plugins, Everything FabFilter makes is perfect. Between Valhalla, FabFilter, and Ozone, I don't think I need other plugins at all. Maybe Soundtoys for when I'm too lazy to re-amp through a pedal. Good stuff. It's all you need.

Carvin SGB 1Managed to see this one listed just after I sold my old Gretsch and the guy took a few hundred off so it fit my budget better. Had one years ago but sold it in this gear purge before I got my EGC. This one sounds amazing. Rings like a bell! The wiring was already re-done and that pickup ring isn t original and I don t know what that tailpiece is, but it really does have a special sound. Chorusy as you can hear the string up vibrate and down the length of the guitar, past the bridge even. Sounds like reverb on the treble strings when you re not plugged in. They must have added a ground to this one because it isn t as noisy as the last one I had. I thought I would miss the bridge pickup but I don t! And wtf is up with this tailpiece? It looks like a bizarre tremolo. Don t have a bar so I haven t tried it yet. Super happy with this one and it is better than I remember the last one being, even if it s short a pickup.

TylerSavage wrote:llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:thats really interesting - looks like you can adjust the spring tension on the bridge to tension your strings more or maybe let the bridge vibrate more or less? almost looks home made but very cool - any other angle pictures?edit: some smart guy beside me just pointed out it's missing the trem armHa yeah I don t have a term bar yet. I m off this Friday and will take it to locally owned place to see what I can scrounge up. I ll take some pictures when I get home from other angles. I was wondering if it was homemade too. It looks like there s a little sport to plug a cover into between the two springs. I think this guitar has been refinished and while the neck is stil fat, it seems like the back of the neck is sanded flatter then I remember the last one being. This one has definitely had some work done, but I can t stress how cool this guitar sounds, no matter what was done to it.

Looks like it s a Guyatone or Tiesco tailpiece