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  1. sakeido

    The Car Thread

    ooh yeah an E90 would be a great daily. I still think doing whatever you can do keep the S2k is the right move but those older Ms are too cool. the A4 will already pull on the RX, haha. It's slow... needs love. Turbo needs rebuilt, needs both front hubs done, probably a new transmission, and a...
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    The Car Thread

    Don't get rid of the S2k. They don't make cars like that anymore and modern regs ensure they never will. Modern cars have to be ultra fast just have a half decent chance of not being boring.. doesn't matter how much money you throw at it, the equivalent car from the mid-2000s to early 2010s...
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    Why have Dean guitars seemed to have fallen so far out of the spotlight?

    I'm so late to the party I shouldn't have bothered but fuckin hell that rant made me laugh so, so hard because it's 100% right. Hitching your wagon to a dead guy with pretty niche taste - not a great idea., especially when they were heavily into the Confederate stuff and that .. let's be...
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    Jackson/Charvel/EVH 2023

    oh yeah for sure. That's our big national retailer, they don't ship anything back. It all goes to the floor but if you buy from Axe Palace they probably sent 20 back to get 5 good ones on the shelf so you'd be fine buying whatever they have in stock
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    Jackson/Charvel/EVH 2023

    imo their batting average is still very bad they've had so many awesome specs out in those lines lately, but the guitars themselves are almost always trash. I would never, ever buy one without playing it first and I'd go in expecting to have to try half a dozen just to find one good one. It's...
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    Unpopular opinions on gear

    What was that about not windmilling your arm around, again? At what point did I say the entire front face of the guitar needed to be flat? The part where the side of your hand rests should be flat. That's the modern, ergonomic way. This is literally why any modern guitar design uses a flat...
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    Unpopular opinions on gear

    People want flat bridges. Can't argue that. Look at every company's new product offerings, all the bridges are flat unless you're messing around with vintage inspired instruments.. like Gibson still using old, sky high TOMs, Jackson still doing the 80s hair metal thing, or Vai playing the...
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    Unpopular opinions on gear

    Obviously it's related to technique. My first guitar was a tune-o-matic and all I played for 10 years, finally tried an OFR and realized it wasn't gonna work... and there was no point in learning, because double lockers do absolutely nothing interesting while ruining the sound of the guitar and...
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    Unpopular opinions on gear

    nope OFR puts the fine tuners with their stupid sharp edges and rough knurling right where your hand has to go. Ibanez is the only company with the good sense to tuck them way down out of the way and give you the ideal bridge surface: totally flat.
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    Unpopular opinions on gear

    I'm on the "RGs suck train" for sure but they have the Ibanez tremolos, including the lo-pro edge... a trem so vastly, infinitely superior to the Floyd Rose the Floyd shoulda died off overnight upon its release, forever relegated to the dustbin of history. Ibanez should have taken that entire...
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    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    imo it's not at all useful and they always leave out the MOST useful part ... which is the attenuator I SUPPOSE it's less of an issue with new amps. Unlike old ones they don't have to be absolutely cookin for you to get "that" tone out of them so maybe they feel like they don't need it but if...
  12. sakeido

    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    a minor change to the Mark V is all it takes to move the tone from "decent" to "excellent" the V was weird. Always felt stiff and boxy, almost like the mid band on the EQ wasn't centered in the same spot as it was in the other Marks. Moving those mid EQ points just a couple semitones would...
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    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    as much as I want to say unrelentingly negative things about new Mesas and their pricing strategies, the new amps sound just excellent. The Badlander is the most mix ready amp I think I've ever heard. I'd assume the Mark VII is the same. Engls need a bit more work and I've had some tragic...
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    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    I just assumed for almost $6,000 CAD they were all point-to-point inside because otherwise there's zero justification for asking so much.. except greed Options and specs? Older mesas did the same for less. I already pointed out Engl does much more for less. Quality, there has never been any...
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    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    I don't give a shit about it being hand built! These guys must work so goddamn slow to justify the price of the amp... cuz I doubt they're making a super high salary or hourly wage working for Gibson Get with the 21st century. Printed circuit boards have been to the moon. They've explored Mars...
  16. sakeido

    Between the Buried and Me, Rivers of Nihil & Thank You Scientist Announce North American Tour

    now is Rivers of Nihil going to play a decent set list or are they just going to play the Work in its entirety again one of those options I want to see a lot, the other ... not at all, not ever
  17. sakeido

    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    That's not at all surprising. They gotta get more money from fewer buyers, I'd think. 100%. Ditto with the OG Rectos. Classic metal guys are all old and have money now, grunge guys aren't far behind
  18. sakeido

    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    No way. That's crazy fuckin expensive considering Engl will build an amp in Germany with four channels and a zillion voicings, ship it over here, and still sell it for $500 less you have to look at historically mega expensive amps like the SLO-100 or Diezels to go "yeah not bad"
  19. sakeido

    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    $3,500 USD for the head $3,800 for the combo
  20. sakeido

    New Mesa Boogie Mark amp?

    Better be three channels. Badlander was completely ruined by being only two cloned channels Loved my Mark IV, was never a fan of the V. They always sounded boxy in the mids to me. But of course this is gonna be "the really realest IIC+ we've done since the IIC+!" will they drop a blurb in...


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