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  1. Ooh that's gorgeous! Lovely grain on the fingerboard. I've got one of these in burgundy mist. For the prospective buyer: if you try to fit a new tremolo arm and it turns out that the threads inside the trem block are also chewed (which happened to me), the inexpensive Fender standard series bridge assembly (part # 0071014049) is a drop-in replacement. GLWTS!
  2. Is that someone who's set their profile picture to be the Reverb logo, and their name as "£1,620 + Local Pickup"? 🤔
  3. Direct from Canada 🍁... -- https://www.broughtonaudio.com/product-page/resonant-filter-equalizer So the cool thing this does is let you have a boost in your EQ, immediately followed (or preceded) by a steep cutoff. This can be also be achieved using digital effect like the HX Stomp by combining multiple filters, but to the best of my knowledge the RFE is the only analogue, single-box solution on the market. I couldn't get a head-on photo without shadows or reflections, so here's a bit of the stock one so you can read the labels: Aaaaaaaand here come the graphs... First the high pass filter: Yellow: minimum resonance (-3dB) 7:00 on the dial Green: medium resonance (6dB ish) 12:00 Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00 Left trace: minimum frequency (25Hz): 11:00 on the dial Middle trace: medium frequency (80Hz): 6:00 Right trace: maximum frequency (190Hz): 1:00 The mid filter: Yellow: minimum resonance (-15dB) 7:00 on the dial Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00 Left trace: minimum frequency (200Hz): 11:00 on the dial Middle trace: medium frequency (750Hz): 6:00 Right trace: maximum frequency (2kHz): 1:00 And the low pass filter: Yellow: minimum resonance (-3dB) 7:00 on the dial Green: medium resonance (6dB ish) 12:00 Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00 Left trace: minimum frequency (330Hz): 11:00 on the dial Middle trace: medium frequency (1.5kHz): 6:00 Right trace: maximum frequency (20kHz): 1:00 But what does it sound like? Bypassed: A1 bypassed.mp3 All controls at "default" (12:00 resonance, 6:00 frequency): A2 default.mp3 So what you're hearing is a small bump around 80Hz, with lows beneath that rolled off. And small bump around 1.5kHz, with highs above that rolled off. The mid filter's not doing anything here. And after some twiddling until it sounded nice: A3 adjusted.mp3 High pass at 1:00 resonance (7dB), 7:30 frequency (60Hz) (all values approximate) Mid at 10:30 (-5dB), 5:00 (800Hz) Low pass at 1:00 (7dB), 5:00 (2.5kHz) Bypassed with a plectrum: B1 bypassed.mp3 I forgot to write down the settings here, but it's an example of the odd, characterful sounds you can create: B2 adjusted.mp3 Bypassed with flats, a foam mute, and a Poundland Jamerson impression: C1 bypassed.mp3 The RFE can be used to mimic the way old-school speaker cabinets often had a frequency peak right before they started rolling off the lows and highs: C2 adjusted.mp3 High pass at 3:00 resonance, 7:30 frequency Mid at 1:00, 9:30 Low pass at 12:00, 5:30 Which gives an EQ curve like this: It's pretty cool! As I mentioned, this kind of thing is easy enough to achieve in the digital realm, but there's something very direct and satisfying about having all the physical controls there to be fiddled with. It also works great with guitars, and can be powered with higher voltages in order to take line-level signals - there's probably fun to be had combining this with synths.
  4. A strap doesn't necessarily have to match, but it should co-ordinate 🧐 (Folks who need mega-wide padded straps for health reasons are exempt)
  5. A handy tool: https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyze
  6. The EQ frequencies on the Dirtfixer are really well-chosen - 100Hz, 300Hz, 800Hz, 2.2kHz
  7. That does sound cool! I noticed from the video that JC uses it at minimum gain, but then I guess he's potentially giving it quite a hot input signal.
  8. I chuckled when it turned out that the glow-in-the-dark fret markers were just stickers, and not Luminlay or similar
  9. Yeah, the D'Addario ones are Swiss Army bags for Swiss Bank Account prices
  10. Compression's an effect, and if you approach effects from a position of being "needed", it gets a bit silly. Why do I need tremolo, when I could just twiddle my volume control up and down while I'm playing? Why do I need reverb, when I could just perform all my gigs in a cathedral? Why do I need EQ, when I could just throw a blanket over the speaker? And so on
  11. I believe that's an early prototype of the EHX Freeze
  12. I don't think so - it's one of @disssa's masterpieces
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