Lets look at our guitars thread
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I'm about to order one of these Vox Teardrop or Phantom copies by Hutchins, I haven't played anything since I sold my genuine '67 Teardrop a few years ago so I thought it give one of them a try and get back on the horse so to speak....
(They also do some nice looking Ricky 360/12 copies in maple and fireglow finishes).
(They also do some nice looking Ricky 360/12 copies in maple and fireglow finishes).
Alder body, pretty sure it's a one piece neck. Typical Fender construction
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g...
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g...
rsbmw said:
Alder body, pretty sure it's a one piece neck. Typical Fender construction
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g...
Nice, I like the 'Shredder's Cut' , always found the heel a bit of an incumberence on the early Charvels, Ihttps://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-g...
used to have a model 6 with the straight thru neck, a lovely guitar I should never have sold.
I've never really been one for pedals, but now I'm in a covers band I need options for different sounds. I had a few already, but bought a used Nano+ 'board and have recently added the used TC Hall of Fame reverb and Flashback mini pedals. Today received an MXR Timmy (to replace a Soul Food that I found was a bit too nasal sounding for my taste/set up).
Still playing about with the order, but since I like SP compressor into the Timmy and also Timmy into the SL drive the current order seems good. The reverb/echo/boost go in the FX loop of my Marshall so I can boost solos and add ambience after any distortion stages. Got another rehearsal coming up (tiers, etc not withstanding of course), so will try it out properly in a band setting.
I like the little 'RAT' clone pedal; it's a £32 Black Secret with a 'Turbo' mode that uses a red led for distortion (I prefer over the 'vintage' setting). Not something I'll use on lots of songs, but seems to work on a Black Keys one we play (Lonely Boy).
Now back to more practising this weekend.
Still playing about with the order, but since I like SP compressor into the Timmy and also Timmy into the SL drive the current order seems good. The reverb/echo/boost go in the FX loop of my Marshall so I can boost solos and add ambience after any distortion stages. Got another rehearsal coming up (tiers, etc not withstanding of course), so will try it out properly in a band setting.
I like the little 'RAT' clone pedal; it's a £32 Black Secret with a 'Turbo' mode that uses a red led for distortion (I prefer over the 'vintage' setting). Not something I'll use on lots of songs, but seems to work on a Black Keys one we play (Lonely Boy).
Now back to more practising this weekend.
OldSkoolRS said:
I've never really been one for pedals, but now I'm in a covers band I need options for different sounds. I had a few already, but bought a used Nano+ 'board and have recently added the used TC Hall of Fame reverb and Flashback mini pedals. Today received an MXR Timmy (to replace a Soul Food that I found was a bit too nasal sounding for my taste/set up).
Still playing about with the order, but since I like SP compressor into the Timmy and also Timmy into the SL drive the current order seems good. The reverb/echo/boost go in the FX loop of my Marshall so I can boost solos and add ambience after any distortion stages. Got another rehearsal coming up (tiers, etc not withstanding of course), so will try it out properly in a band setting.
I like the little 'RAT' clone pedal; it's a £32 Black Secret with a 'Turbo' mode that uses a red led for distortion (I prefer over the 'vintage' setting). Not something I'll use on lots of songs, but seems to work on a Black Keys one we play (Lonely Boy).
Now back to more practising this weekend.
Nice board. I see you have an EP Booster too; fantastic little pedal that I think (and 'always on' for me).Still playing about with the order, but since I like SP compressor into the Timmy and also Timmy into the SL drive the current order seems good. The reverb/echo/boost go in the FX loop of my Marshall so I can boost solos and add ambience after any distortion stages. Got another rehearsal coming up (tiers, etc not withstanding of course), so will try it out properly in a band setting.
I like the little 'RAT' clone pedal; it's a £32 Black Secret with a 'Turbo' mode that uses a red led for distortion (I prefer over the 'vintage' setting). Not something I'll use on lots of songs, but seems to work on a Black Keys one we play (Lonely Boy).
Now back to more practising this weekend.
How do you power that lot? It all looks very neat, so is there room underneath the Nano+ for a slim power supply?
chemistry said:
Nice board. I see you have an EP Booster too; fantastic little pedal that I think (and 'always on' for me).
How do you power that lot? It all looks very neat, so is there room underneath the Nano+ for a slim power supply?
I use the EP boost for solos, so it's not an 'always on' pedal for me (though I do like how it 'fattens' the sound).How do you power that lot? It all looks very neat, so is there room underneath the Nano+ for a slim power supply?
I've got a slim PSU underneath and cable tied the cables to keep them neat. It <just> fits and with the velcro holding it in. Ideally would have slightly taller 'feet' on the Nano+ to raise up the back end as the board is partly resting on the PSU case.
Talking of PSU: I though the HOF was faulty as I bought it used. It worked at first, then after I put it on the board it only had 'wet' signal. Turned out I'd swapped the power cable and it needs to be plugged into >100mA output. Weird fault though as the reverb was working, just not letting the dry signal through.
Donated by a colleague at work. It was his now grown up sons, so is 20 plus years old. I appreciate it’s a cheap Strat copy, but I thought I’d give it a fresh paint job and new set of strings then let my daughter use it to mess about on instead of my LPJ.
It actually plays pretty well, so will serve her well as a starter guitar.
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After
It actually plays pretty well, so will serve her well as a starter guitar.
Before
After
foreright said:
Just finished this for my 4 year old son - it’s a 20” scale guitar and is incredibly diddy compared to my “real” ones. Plays pretty nicely although I need to put lighter strings on it. The leds in the fingerboard are pretty funky too.
Very cool, what gauge strings are on it now? I bought a Squier mini strat for my daughter, but I had to put heavier strings on it as I couldn't play it without bending the OEM strings (partly coz I'm ham fisted perhaps!)My logic was that with the short scale length the light strings must have far less tension to be in tune, whereas the heavier gauge would need to be tighter... seems to have worked OK
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