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After hemming and hawing a bit about which device to get myself, decided to go ahead and get the bastl wizard (modular multi-effect):
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I even had a case handy that fits it and my other bastl units, so I have a full tine/portable modular rig ready to go!


Waiting for work to quiet down to start playing with it, but one of the big reasons I decided to get the bastl is that these three little boxes seem ideal to use with the matrix mixer I got for ILFmas! Gonna have some fun next week.

dubkitty wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:24 pm i never played a Peavey amp that was any good at all.

I had a backstage 30 in high school. It was terrible and awesome at the same time. But mostly terrible.

A Peavey Basic 60 combo and a Japanese Squier P Bass got me going and was my rig for a few years. It was nothing special but way better than a lot of beginner amps.

A Mark IV was a part of my bass rig in a death metal band and it was grindy as hell. It really sounded great in that band.

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:53 pm After hemming and hawing a bit about which device to get myself, decided to go ahead and get the bastl wizard (modular multi-effect):
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Ended up at a shop with both a Heritage H-535 and other quality guitars with a Vox AC30 ready to go. I strummed the H-535 and it was as nice as the other I'd played. Tried a Les Paul, too. Then I picked up a Rickenbacker 620. I'd never touched a Ric before. It was transcendent. Then I cleansed my pallette with a Custom Shop Telecaster before trying a Rickenbacker 330.

For less than the Heritage, I have a 330 and a Vox AC30 reserved for me in February.

My partner told me she'd never seen me as happy as I was playing G chords on a Ric.

chuckjaywalk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:18 pm My partner told me she'd never seen me as happy as I was playing G chords on a Ric.

I got a Yamaha AES720 locally for cheap. Nice full neck and fancy Dimarzio pickups. It looks like it was made to play goth rock or perhaps nü metal. I didn't have anything with humbuckers and thought it would be fun for couch shredding. Totally superfluous purchase, I probably should have put the money towards upgrading my desktop amp modeler. Oops!

regarding the prospective WRHB Telecaster, i have noted that Spaceman plays Thinlines with WRHBs. i am very agnostic about the effect of a “soundhole area” the size of a flattened Nerf Ball, though i’m open to persuasion. but i’m still leaning towards a solid body.

interesting looking guitar. it is a bit goth-y now that you mention it, but not overbearingly so. the planes grew on me once i got used to them…it’s the contours that take it from sofa to space. is it comfortable? what color did you get? and just how zippy are those pickups?

i saw another of the exceedingly rare Gretsch 5259 Special Jets—basically a single-cut LP Jr./Duo Jet with two quite decent DeArmond 2000 pickups that are pretty close to real Dynasonics—on Reverb. it’s in much better shape than mine and if i could afford it i’d get it. in this condition it’s a fucking steal at $400, and it may be another 8 or 10 years before you see one again. i searched over a decade for mine. super fun guitar. 1 volume, one tone, no waiting.

https://reverb.com/item/86184411-gretsc ... t=86184411

dubkitty wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:22 pm interesting looking guitar. it is a bit goth-y now that you mention it, but not overbearingly so. the planes grew on me once i got used to them…it’s the contours that take it from sofa to space. is it comfortable? what color did you get? and just how zippy are those pickups?

Yeah the contours are really a beautiful design choice imo! It's very comfortable, solid mahogany but not too heavy. The neck is a proper LP-thick round shape, which I adore. It's hard to get a cheap guitar with a full neck for some reason. It's the gunmetal blue finish, which I don't think looks as cool as the gunmetal gray/green version, but still nice. In dimmer light, you can barely tell that the contoured edges are a different color than the center plane; the effect ends up just accentuating the contours.

The guy I bought it from was keeping it in a storage space (which is how I got to talk him down in price) so the pots are starting to die, especially on the neck pickup volume, which cuts in and out. But when I'm getting full signal, the pickups are juicy and bright! Reportedly, Dimarzio designed them specifically for the model, but some Googling told me that they're most similar to the Super 2 pickups. I've heard 24.75"-scale mahogany guitars can lean on the dark side, so maybe the idea was to balance it with more treble-oriented pickups. I can see now why Super 2s are described as bright Super Distortions, because the output here is similar--spicy, but not napalm. I guess if I need more thiccness in the bridge I can always through a Super D in there but I'm happy with it as is so far.

dubkitty wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:30 pm i saw another of the exceedingly rare Gretsch 5259 Special Jets—basically a single-cut LP Jr./Duo Jet with two quite decent DeArmond 2000 pickups that are pretty close to real Dynasonics—on Reverb. it’s in much better shape than mine and if i could afford it i’d get it. in this condition it’s a fucking steal at $400, and it may be another 8 or 10 years before you see one again. i searched over a decade for mine. super fun guitar. 1 volume, one tone, no waiting.


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https://reverb.com/item/86184411-gretsc ... t=86184411

I remember these guys! It looks like a really solid, meat and potatoes twanger.

it is. if it’s still there on Friday i’m gonna have to do some thinking.

You're gonna drive to York, PA to grab it?

4 hours. not that bad, no real difference to driving to Philly for a show. the big thing mitigating against it is that i already have one that's perfectly playable and that $400 would get me something else.

my gf never bugs me about the whopping amount of effects spending i do, but it would be reasonable to look askance at this.