scottcald

GLWTS, this is a good price. If I didn't already have one, I'd be looking at it seriously. These are such cool guitars.

I agree with all of this except for the XR18, in my opinion, you NEED another router/wireless. When I had one and used the internal wireless, it's 802.11g, which is about 4 or 5 generations behind current wifi standards. I found it slow to respond. My 2 cents.

I think it looks great. Gives the vibe without being a copycat of Rick's. Beautiful work, murkat!

The thing about the AM4 was that it was just odd. Four blocks, but then tons of videos about how to basically work around that it's 4 blocks. They said it has about half the power of the AxeFX III, but then only 4 blocks? To me, it was just confusing. I never liked their interface on device or the editor.

Terrible to hear. Get well, Rick!

Honestly, if you only need a few, Tonex One with the Mvave chocolate plus 4 button MIDI switch is a good, inexpensive combo. Hell, if you only need 2 sounds, the original Tonex One used and just put the two sounds on it and switch between them. One driven but can clean up with volume roll down and a lead.

I've used a lot of amp sim/modeling units over the years starting back with the Zoom 3030, Boss GT-10, GT-100, GT-1000, Atomic Amplifire, Helix/HX, Fractal, Tonex One and Headrush Core. You can really get good sounds from anything these days. I feel like the NAM stuff is the newest/latest/greatest fad that the social media folk are hyping. A few years back, IRs were the magic elixir and then only certain ones from certain companies or using your own. Now it's NAM captures and in another year or so, it'll be something else that's the pixie dust for modelers. Most folks use 1 to 3 basic live sounds with effects on top of those sounds, so it really shouldn't be difficult to get a good tone with anything that's out.

Hey, it lines up with the second knob, what else do you want?

Saw one guy widen it out under the hole and put jacks there to keep it in place better

This one was pretty good:

I miss when radio stations would just randomly play any song from great albums.

Well, at least you kept level headed like all guitarists. 🤣

For me, bringing in is 99.99% of the time something that's a project that I then never end up doing anything with. Getting rid of probably my 1st year Ibanez RG550 in Atlantic Blue. Looked like this one. I had it with EMGs: 89/SA/89 with splits. It was played a lot for 15 years and I hadn't played it an ages. Great guitar that covered a lot of bases. Any Hamers I've gotten, I've kept figuring I could always sell those later.

Saw a more recent interview with Huff and he said he played on the radio edit version.

Thanks for the detail, Jeff, much appreciated. As with most things, haven't gotten to it as some house projects jumped out of nowhere and of course always take more time than you think they will.

Good Lord, you're like the guitar ad Indiana Jones finding and getting both at once is insane. Was the bound one modified for the extra knob or ordered that way? Both look fabulous. Congratulations!

Will it play like these?

That’s an Accutune Kahler knockoff on the Special.

Leland Sklar tells a couple Dolly stories:

Wow, this one really makes me sad. Like her music or not, Dolly wrote a lot of great songs and when you heard a song of hers, you knew it was her. And she did so much for others when she didn't have to. I'm sure she did plenty that no one ever heard about.

Yeah, because other than the barrel jacks, if you had a Switchcraft, you likely didn't need another one.

That's unfortunate. Have they had management change recently or something?

I'd think at minimum it'd last longer the way they build their jacks.

Thanks, since there were several, I wasn't sure which would be best for it. Appreciate it.

I just meant in general in those days, not Skynyrd specific. "All right, you can play, now lift up that CS800 and put it in the back of the truck outside." 🤣