Garth wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:30 am

penningtron wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:00 pm Tuning slippage, or buzzing, or strings popping off, are frustrating issues worth addressing. It's just funny to me to get huffy about microscopic intonation issues on a guitar yr gonna turn around and do a Kevin Shields/Roland Howard/[fill in the blank] impersonation with.

Fair, I personally don't know if I have a good enough ear to hear it if it's slightly out but I know some folks who can hear that and for them it's a slightly-maddening experience, like being hyper-sensitve to smells or textures.

I'm sure those people exist (I'm a synesthete but can't say I'm picky to that degree) but I don't know how they would deal with any rock guitar, or music before roughly 1980 for that matter.

matttkkkk wrote: Japanese from 2004

I had the exact same guitar but from the mid '90s. It was a lot of replace-this-and-that (including adding a Mastery) but was eventually great!

penningtron wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:01 pm

matttkkkk wrote: Japanese from 2004

I had the exact same guitar but from the mid '90s. It was a lot of replace-this-and-that (including adding a Mastery) but was eventually great!

Here here. I had a 1998 CIJ Jaguar. The neck was fantastic. Every other aspect of it blew compared to their US made counterparts. The basswood body was soft as shit. The electronics sucked. And the tremolo sagged on one side, not to mention the trem arm didn’t click in nor stop itself from being pushed right into the wood. I replaced the pots, a couple switches, pickups, trem, and bridge. It was great when I was done, but I’d never do that again. I’d just save up a little more and grab an AVRI from the same time period.

tommy wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:27 pm

penningtron wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:01 pm

matttkkkk wrote: Japanese from 2004

I had the exact same guitar but from the mid '90s. It was a lot of replace-this-and-that (including adding a Mastery) but was eventually great!

Here here. I had a 1998 CIJ Jaguar. The neck was fantastic. Every other aspect of it blew compared to their US made counterparts. pots, a couple switches, pickups, trem, and bridge.

Yeah. The pickups are really tall strat-y coils in JM disguise, and microphonic. And it took me a few rounds of Duncans to find the right fit for me (vintage neck, Quarter Pounder bridge, despite the funny pole pieces). I learned a lot about guitars in that period!

Anyone ever feel done? Like for once, I actually feel 'done' like I have everything I could need, for awhile.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:03 pm Anyone ever feel done? Like for once, I actually feel 'done' like I have everything I could need, for awhile.

Yep! Enjoy it, it will go away at some point.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:03 pm Anyone ever feel done? Like for once, I actually feel 'done' like I have everything I could need, for awhile.

Forced by unemployment but, yeah. It's been a nice recalibration. I haven't bought anything other than strings/sticks in over a year. Sold a bunch of stuff too.

Not my first rodeo with Japanese JMs, but this one’s a keeper. The bridge is a Mustang but otherwise stock, sounds good and if I have reservations I have a nice set of pickups sitting idle.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:03 pm Anyone ever feel done? Like for once, I actually feel 'done' like I have everything I could need, for awhile.

There is room for improvement on a few fronts, with what I've got gear-wise. Sure. But . . .

I try to remember that I have more to work with now than I ever did when I was regularly playing in bands.

I feel that if someone couldn't make an at least decent/listenable recording with what I have now, then that would say more about them as a musician/artist than any limitations of the gear/setup.


It's a bit like my record collection . . . It doesn't have everything, might not be everyone's cup of tea, but if someone couldn't find anything worth listening to in there, on a lazy afternoon, then, I dunno . . . their taste might come into question.

I feel reasonably content, and at least try to be grateful. Doesn't mean I'll stop looking at gear, but it's not an impulse I want to indulge often.

I rage bought a Royer Dbooster last night. After spending way too long in a deep dive into thinking I had an interface issue with the 3rd input channel… turns out the 40 db of gain I was feeding a hungry passive ribbon pointed the wrong way wasn’t enough to pass the clap test across the room, which I didn’t catch during the trouble shooting. So juggling that and testing the mixer I had been recabling, the fact that a whole other mic I had out really wasn’t working. It was a mess.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:03 pm Anyone ever feel done? Like for once, I actually feel 'done' like I have everything I could need, for awhile.

Yeah for sure. I used to spend more time thinking about gear I want than using what I have. My materialism and GAS has leveled off and the music I’m primarily focused on these days is more about experimentation and repurposing, so I’m less focused on stuff, thankfully.