I have all the fancy reverb plugins from IK and UA and Izotope, but in fact I never use reverb, and if I do I always end up using my vintage Lexicon 200 reverb on vocals. should stop buying plugins just because they are on sale!

ChudFusk wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:37 pm Gear confession of the day: I think I have a cable fetish. They don't have to be expensive but I derive pleasure from well-appointed patch cables of appropriate length, flexibility, durability, and organization.

Don't. Get. Me. Started!







Have to be "golden" cables, all have to have L shaped jacks and both guitar (5m) and patch (0,3m) cables all have to be the same length.

I hate woven wrapped guitar cables. I also hate cables with super thick jackets. I cannot stand rattlesnake cables which seem very popular. They are so inflexible and feel gross to touch they are expensive for no real reason. I bought a 2500' spool of standard canare shelded mic cable and I use it for both mic and guitar cables and it's great. I use a cut up ac extension cable for speaker cable cause it's green and I can easily tell it from instrument cable.

bassdriver wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:05 am I have all the fancy reverb plugins from IK and UA and Izotope, but in fact I never use reverb, and if I do I always end up using my vintage Lexicon 200 reverb on vocals. should stop buying plugins just because they are on sale!

The only reverb plugin I use is Valhalla classic and meldas free convolution. Occasionally I use spring verb from soft tube. All the rest collect dust. Every UA verb I've tried sounds terrible to me.

penningtron wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 5:34 am

eliya wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:31 amTravis Beans also look cool, however (hot take), aluminum neck guitars are so overrated. FM steve (RIP I miss him) made his sound crazy good. Duane Denison also. Uhh... who else??? In most people's hands they just sound like guitars.

Keith Levene, Agostino Tilotta, Juan Maclean. But in general I agree.

Aaron Turner
MYDISCO
TAR

Okay, confession time.

My band played a couple weeks ago. I brought out my half stack. It sounded great, but was too loud. I loved it, but yeah, it was a bit much for the room. I've always had the desire to build a version of my amp in a 1x12" combo. yeah, I have two 1x12" cabs, and running my head into one or both of them works and sounds great. My desire for a combo is more about a form factor and fulfilling a desire rather than logic or pragmatism.

I began to look for an amp to use as a donor; 1x12" combo, two 6L6 or EL34 tubes. I figure maybe I could find Hot Rod Deluxe in need of repair for a couple hundred bucks. I could gut it and build my amp circuit inside there. While I was looking, I found the Marshall DSL40CR. They can be found used for about $400-ish, and from what I can find online, they seem to sound good to great. They are also known as a not-terrible modern amp.

I know I just complained about the Marshall look in this very thread. I also have gone off the course of building something and just using a ready-made amp. And if I'm gonna do this, why not just get a cheap but good small power amp and use Helix with my 1x12 cabs? After reflection, I realize that I just like to try new things. I also enjoy finding clever and convenient solutions. If this works, it's a platform, that can simplify my setup and make practices easier and more efficient. If it doesn't work, I can flip it. If it breaks on me, well, I'll have no qualms gutting it and building my own circuit inside.

So yeah, confession, I want to get a modern, PCB, Marshall.

ChudFusk wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:37 pm
Gear confession of the day: I think I have a cable fetish. They don't have to be expensive but I derive pleasure from well-appointed patch cables of appropriate length, flexibility, durability, and organization.

Oh man. In the first minute of my first and only pedal steel lesson the guy saw the 15’ cable I brought to go from the guitar to the volume pedal right at my feet and was like, what is this? Where is your shorter cable?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 6:20 pm Oh man. In the first minute of my first and only pedal steel lesson the guy saw the 15’ cable I brought to go from the guitar to the volume pedal right at my feet and was like, what is this? Where is your shorter cable?

I like nice stuff, but that just seems like a shitty, gatekeeping attitude. You're taking lessons, you're probably new at it, you're using gear you have. Perhaps if he said something like, "If you get serious about this and you're out gigging, many players use a short cable between the steel and the volume to keep things tidy. It can make things simpler."

You were there, not me, but I get a shitty vibe.

Pedal Steel guys are usually the type to start griping about cable length and parasitic inductance and capacitance and how it effects tone.

I’ll buy anything if it’s Canadian