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Mauzy:
Just thought of something maybe you guys can help me with. I need a "new" amp. Not new in the sense new out of box, but something different. I'm currently using a modified Wal Mart amp. Obvious this leaves a lot to desire. I need something pretty universal playing style wise. I'd like it to be a little larger than a practice amp, but nothing huge. Nothing for performances, but I want something that will sound good without breaking the non-existent bank.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: Jabba on February 11, 2009, 11:46:35 am ---Hmmmm, let me see...
- 1 Classical Guitar (started training as a classical guitarist in high school)
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How far did you get in that?



--- Quote ---That about covers it. I don't play much anymore due to kids and their hockey and work and evil glares from the wife when I leave the family to go downstairs and crank some tunes out...
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That's just evil, man. I love living alone.



--- Quote from: Mauzy on February 11, 2009, 08:32:09 am ---I bought a relatively nice MiM Fender Stratocaster Deluxe for $50 at a garage sale a year ago. It came complete with horribly rusty bridge and corroded pickups...
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I remember in the mid-to-late 90s they were coming out with 'seasoned' pick-ups: rusted and dirty, etc.  Also remember those little smoke pack amps. Never bought any of that stuff, of course.



--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 11, 2009, 02:09:09 pm ---
The group class ended up being $100 to practice cords for an hour a week for a month.


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That's too bad. Unfortunately, learning about music isn't the really important in pop culture.



--- Quote from: Mauzy on February 11, 2009, 07:33:35 pm ---Just thought of something maybe you guys can help me with. I need a "new" amp. Not new in the sense new out of box, but something different. I'm currently using a modified Wal Mart amp. Obvious this leaves a lot to desire. I need something pretty universal playing style wise. I'd like it to be a little larger than a practice amp, but nothing huge. Nothing for performances, but I want something that will sound good without breaking the non-existent bank.

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Universal means modeling amp. Go to your local store that has a decent selection of guitar stuff...or you might go to guitar center....and see what they got, check it out.



--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 11, 2009, 10:47:21 am ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on February 10, 2009, 10:42:56 pm ---So, Ginsu, you heathen! Stock pick-ups??  (Heheheheh.)

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To be fair, I mean "stock" as in "the ones that were in it when I got it...which may or may not be the stock pickups". I bought it from a friend who is a guitar tech. He took excellent care of that guitar (and has begged for it back on many occasions) and I'm just not as technical with guitars. Despite having played for over 19 years, I've barely touched my guitar for most of the last year, ever since I got my MAME cabinet. Any free time is spent drilling, painting, soldering, working on software, or lurking here.

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Stock are pickups that came with it from the manufacturer. If you don't know what they are, then the answer is 'I don't know'. If they have something like V8 and V7 or whatever, then they're likely really stock.

I used to have an Ibanez RG520QS, pictured below, but something happened to it. Seriously, to this day, I just don't know what. I got it back in the end of '99. A few months later, I got an all-mahogany, neck-thru Carvin DC-127 (also below), and currently have a Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge. I almost strictly play high gain, so I don't much care what's in the neck position.


I've been through several set-ups, both solid state and digital. Nothing tube, because of price and necessity of loudness for tone...although I tried an Engl Invader last year, and that was pretty awesome. Pictured below is my current rig - however, I never play it because I live in an apartment, and I besides I don't have anyone to jam with, so I always play through a Rocktron Taboo artist, via headphone. Totally digital preamp, with cabinet simulation, etc.

And, as I've been thinking of playing for a few days now, I'm going to for a spell...

Mauzy:

--- Quote from: Ummon on February 13, 2009, 10:40:49 pm ---

--- Quote from: Mauzy on February 11, 2009, 08:32:09 am ---I bought a relatively nice MiM Fender Stratocaster Deluxe for $50 at a garage sale a year ago. It came complete with horribly rusty bridge and corroded pickups...
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I remember in the mid-to-late 90s they were coming out with 'seasoned' pick-ups: rusted and dirty, etc.  Also remember those little smoke pack amps. Never bought any of that stuff, of course.



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Heh. I don't believe these were seasoned in the same respect...

Heres the original condition:



Edit: I never noticed the plastic wrap still under that tone pot until just now and I even replaced those pots and knobs...

Ummon:
Dude. That looks like it was played with in the sand on the beach. I always wipe mine down after playing. I can use strings for months because of this.

Mauzy:
I know. It also must have been kept in a really humid basement or something. The body and neck have no signs of water damage but every metal surface was either rusted or turning green. Needless to say, it looks a bit better now.

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