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331 by TylerDeadPine
penningtron wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 12:23 pm Distortion for synth (think grind-y and metallic results). Every pedal I’ve tried either does nothing cool or goes straight to too much with no sweet spot. Maybe a dry/wet blend is key here?

I think The Screamers just used big muffs but their parts are more monophonic than what I’m trying.

EDIT: I remembered I bought a Red Llama clone from FM Kniferide years ago and that’s the best thing I’ve tried yet. I also boosted the treble and completely cut the mids to the amp it’s going into and may have it dialed in now. 😎
Hell yeah. We use a DMM and just the preamp crunching a bit on that is just enough dirt. Also have a boss bass equalizer to bring up the lows on our Rev2 which was magic for that, some patches then we kick it off

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333 by llllllllllllllllllll
I really liked the Tronographic Boxidizer on synth and keys - it sounded good and the EQ also worked for extreme moves. Enough that I haven’t tried any other pedals for dirt, and I have a lot of crap laying around.

The synth I was using it on is already pretty dirty though, and I had it plugged into a DMM like Tyler mentioned, so it wasn’t doing a bunch of heavy lifting by itself. Mentioning because its great for regular and “always on” guitar sounds too.

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336 by W.L.Weller
Jazzmaster tailpiece & arm. I misplaced the arm from my Squier VM, and I'd apparently rather spend ~$100 on a new tailpiece than ~$10 on another arm (which would have the same looseness problem that caused the original one to fall out, get kicked under something/thrown in some bag and disappear.)

Buy once, cry once and get the $235 Mastery tailpiece, for $35 more than the whole guitar cost me?

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337 by cakes
W.L.Weller wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:41 am Jazzmaster tailpiece & arm. I misplaced the arm from my Squier VM, and I'd apparently rather spend ~$100 on a new tailpiece than ~$10 on another arm (which would have the same looseness problem that caused the original one to fall out, get kicked under something/thrown in some bag and disappear.)

Buy once, cry once and get the $235 Mastery tailpiece, for $35 more than the whole guitar cost me?
Did you like the last one? If so, just get the same thing. Otherwise, spending the money on a nice bridge is sometimes a good upgrade, but could also affect the sound of the guitar in sometimes undesirable ways (speaking moreso to say a flimsy piece of metal vs a thicker piece of metal, or even metal type). Do you have anything upgraded on the Squire?

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338 by W.L.Weller
cakes wrote:Did you like the last one?
It's fine, except that the arm falls out at the slightest provocation. I realize that tolerances/collets that precise do cost money.
cakes wrote:Do you have anything upgraded on the Squier?
Yeah, the original owner had tried to fix the "strings don't stay on the saddles" issue by filing V-grooves halfway through each threaded-rod saddle, so I got a Staytrem bridge. Which was probably the single most impactful mod I've ever done.

I should clean up my areas and inventory my shit, if I found the original rod, maybe a layer of foil tape would keep it from falling out.

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339 by tallchris
Looking for something that I can put in between my amp and cab that has a DI output so sound people can stop harrassing me when I tell them my amp doesn't have a DI. I know there's this old Palmer PDI-09 Junction box but it's not in current production, but maybe there's something else that's passive that folks have experience with.
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