What is your next guitar/gear purchase gonna be?

[technomancer]

It does sound ridiculous but in reality my bed was in such a bad spot that I often didn't sleep there, and this way, if we do actually find a new apartment, it cuts down on what needs to be moved. I'm already worried about what sort of weird burden having a bunch of guitars and amps are going to do when we have to hire movers.

I've already decided I'll be moving the guitars and amps myself. I am really not looking forward to it, especially since everything is in my attic office.

 

[Seabeast2000]

I've already decided I'll be moving the guitars and amps myself. I am really not looking forward to it, especially since everything is in my attic office.

 

[technomancer]

^ even funnier because I have actually seen that movie

 

[StevenC]

It does sound ridiculous but in reality my bed was in such a bad spot that I often didn't sleep there, and this way, if we do actually find a new apartment, it cuts down on what needs to be moved. I'm already worried about what sort of weird burden having a bunch of guitars and amps are going to do when we have to hire movers.

Move next week and get some foreign schmuck to help

 

[gnoll]

I think they also sound bigger than my guitars with hardtail bridges (hipshot style), so I think there is something specific to the TOM design.

I think TOM is a safe bet, design wise. Not that other things can't sound as good, but many probably won't. TOM is kind of the golden standard to live up to. And certainly a stock Floyd Rose for example doesn't get there.

Then materials and saddles make some difference too. You could screw up a TOM by making it out of some crappy material, or having a poor guitar-bridge match. Like a too dull sounding bridge for an already dull sounding guitar. But most TOMs that come on non-beginner guitars are probably gonna sound pretty good. Hard to go wrong with a Gotoh for example.

I think bridges are underrated, tone-wise. Most other things on the guitar kind of just affect the eq curve, but the bridge also determines how the string acts when it's picked, so it's gonna affect attack, sustain etc.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Finally found an HX Stomp for a reasonable price, so I grabbed it!

 

[nightsprinter]

Turns out I forgot I ordered an RG550 Genesis from Ibanez Rules awhile ago so that will be coming in soon. Sad state of affairs in my life when I'm so stressed I can altogether forget about a purchase

 

[CanserDYI]

I have an opportunity to possibly trade a 50 Watt 5150 I found in the trash for a JVM410H and just played it and holy shit, my first time playing a JVM and holy shit, guys, holy shit. Played it absolute cranked in the guitar center auditorium and it was glorious. Now to hopefully make a deal....

 

[Shask]

I think TOM is a safe bet, design wise. Not that other things can't sound as good, but many probably won't. TOM is kind of the golden standard to live up to. And certainly a stock Floyd Rose for example doesn't get there.

Then materials and saddles make some difference too. You could screw up a TOM by making it out of some crappy material, or having a poor guitar-bridge match. Like a too dull sounding bridge for an already dull sounding guitar. But most TOMs that come on non-beginner guitars are probably gonna sound pretty good. Hard to go wrong with a Gotoh for example.

I think bridges are underrated, tone-wise. Most other things on the guitar kind of just affect the eq curve, but the bridge also determines how the string acts when it's picked, so it's gonna affect attack, sustain etc.

I kind of wonder if there is more metal to wood contact on the knife edges and thicker posts of the TOM as compared to the little allen screws on the typical hardtail. Maybe those larger posts of the TOM going 1/2" or whatever into the wood transmits more of the vibration to the wood and pickups.

 

[Screamingdaisy]

Going to give a Darkglass Infinity a go. I want to experiment with a few ideas, like multiband compression, and I'd like to have a few different gain levels on tap without a massive shift in tone, so looking forward to the presets.

That said, it's digital and is said to lack the punch of an analog B7K or B3K it's based on (I currently use a B7K), but I'm willing to give it a shot anyway and will judge it based on how it sits in the mix.

 

[mlp187]

@Screamingdaisy if you get this thing please do deliver a report. I’m all for those digital tonal enhancements.

 

[Alberto7]

My Elysian Valkyrie 8 pickup set is finally shipping out tomorrow. They'll be going in my strandberg, and they'll hopefully be a significant improvement over the stock Fluence Moderns that I dislike so much.

 

[gnoll]

I kind of wonder if there is more metal to wood contact on the knife edges and thicker posts of the TOM as compared to the little allen screws on the typical hardtail. Maybe those larger posts of the TOM going 1/2" or whatever into the wood transmits more of the vibration to the wood and pickups.

Hm, yeah maybe! Then there's the question, is there a difference between ABR-1 vs. Nashville style TOM?

Something I've thought about is the sharpness of the saddles. It feels like a sharp saddle gives a different sound compared to a flatter saddle. And in that case I think the smaller area of contact between string-saddle on the sharper saddle might be an advantage, because the pressure that the string puts on the saddle is spread over a smaller area.

I had a guitar with saddles that were kind of like cylinders or barrels that the strings rested on, a bit like a vintage tele bridge. And it sounded so damn strange. It had a kind of weird, plucky attack to it. I hated it. It's hard to know exactly what's what but that made me start thinking more about bridges.

 

[Asdrael]

I've already decided I'll be moving the guitars and amps myself. I am really not looking forward to it, especially since everything is in my attic office.

This is the way. Noone will touch my gear.

 

[The Spanish Inquisition]

I need a Jazz Bass in my arsenal. But which colour...

 

[MaxOfMetal]

I need a Jazz Bass in my arsenal. But which colour...

White/cream gets my vote. My first bass was a Univox J-Bass copy in that same colorway, so I'm partial to it.

 

[technomancer]

White/cream gets my vote. My first bass was a Univox J-Bass copy in that same colorway, so I'm partial to it.

+1 for white

 

[thraxil]

I need a Jazz Bass in my arsenal. But which colour...

Jazz basses exist in colors other than Jaco-style tobacco burst? No thank you.

 

[Wiltonauer]

I need a Jazz Bass in my arsenal. But which colour...

Two thumbs up for the white.

 

[Wiltonauer]

My primitive brain is telling me I need to dust off my neglected love for tube amps and own one again.