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TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:26 pm Oh yeah, confessions - I don't care about Beans

YOU TAKE THAT BACK, KIND SIR!

twelvepoint wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:45 pmBongham

I’d like to think that this is a stoner version of Rum Ham

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:26 pm Oh yeah, confessions - I don't care about Beans

I dont care about aluminum necked instruments in general. They're fine just not my cup of tea.

twelvepoint wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:46 pm Bongham

twelvepoint wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:46 pm Also I realize I misspelled “Bonham” but I’m going to let it stand.

Fucking bandname alert.

ChudFusk wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:32 pm

twelvepoint wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:45 pmBongham

I’d like to think that this is a stoner version of Rum Ham

Damn. I should have checked the next page.

Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:27 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:26 pm Oh yeah, confessions - I don't care about Beans

YOU TAKE THAT BACK, KINDA SIR!

Dr Tony Balls wrote:

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:26 pm Oh yeah, confessions - I don't care about Beans

I dont care about aluminum necked instruments in general. They're fine just not my cup of tea.

That's how I feel. Like all I am a big Shellac fan, and have emotional attachment to fm steve's guitar tone. I coveted aluminum instruments for a time in my youth until I made it to Chicago music exchange and they had like 6 beans on the wall. After conferring with them on the rules of engagement I entered one of the iso booths with a TB1000 or something, and a hiwatt Dr103, and kicked out the jams brothers and sisters. it still just sounded like me - not even me with some edgy metallic timbre, just me with maybe a hair more plinky treble, if that. The whole moment killed all fomo for aluminum guitars in me, but made me appreciate CME a lot, and fm steve's much auto-maligned guitar ability (or if he must be believed, writing ability) that much more.

Gear confessions:

#1:

Kniferide wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:13 pmI got a bunch.

This is a very good post indeed.

#2: I have a Bean (Designs). It was my most expensive guitar by a very significant margin. It's not my best guitar - probably not in the top 10, if I'm being honest with myself. It's cool as hell. I am comfortable with the fact that it is cooler than it is good. It's very cool.

#3: My gateway into Travis Beans was not Shellac/Jesus Lizard/etc., although I of course love these bands dearly, but this guy and one of the many hills I will happily die on is that the guitar tone on the first Criteria record is pretty much unimpeachable as far as straightforward rock guitar is concerned (same w/the bass tone [also a Bean] on the first White Octave record, incidentally).

#4. I'm pretty comfortable considering collecting guitars & actually playing 'em discrete, if substantially related, hobbies. I have 40ish guitars & basses, 30ish amps, 60ish mostly boutiquey pedals, etc. To get most of the sounds I make/have historically made in bands, I need a Precision bass, a Jazzmaster, a delay pedal, a YBA-1 and a Rat. (Well, and a tuner.) Like many of you have already pointed out about yourselves, I basically sound the same no matter what I'm playing.

#5. When it comes to gear, I used to believe that the last 10% was really for the player vs. the listener/audience/whatever, but this is not true. The last 90% is for the player (and whatever gear nerds are at the gig/reading interviews/etc.). Most listeners can more or less distinguish between an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar or a Minimoog and a Rhodes and that's about where it stops. I have, again, become very much at peace with the idea that every silly little thing I buy is an indulgence for myself, a fun toy to show off to my friends and to some nice strangers on the internet, (sometimes a pretty flagrant display of privilege,) etc.

#6. I am currently in the middle of making a dumb, dumb record in GarageBand using a guitar, a bass, a Monoprice ribbon microphone (thanks PRF) and two cables. No amplifiers, no pedals, no real drums, etc. I am very happy with the sounds I'm getting - it certainly doesn't sound like I recorded in a lovely studio with a cabinet of expensive microphones/racks upon racks of outboard gear/a 2" tape machine/etc., but it's perfectly fine. I'm okay with perfectly fine.

I’ve used an FX loop once ever and I’ll never use one again.

I think amps with 2 or more gain channels are stupid.

Single ended amps don’t sound as good as push/pull.

Electric guitar strings thicker than 10s are stupid and masochistic for standard tuning.

I'm not particularly keen on flanging. I can't think of many uses that I've heard and liked.


I absolutely LOVE phasing though.

Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:21 am EGC makes crappy instruments that make people bleed when playing them.

Was it the instrument, or were you emulating Townshend?