Jeff R

Definitely the Parallel Axis sets for my hands and ears.

Shot a buncha out at mathman Kirk too ... c'mon girls, let's PARTY!!!!

Just shot four more songs from the sessions to Feynman. Host, baby, host! These are the rough mixes, non-mastered. The final drafts will hit the band's official page in about a week. I just wanted to share with you lugs in the meantime 'cause it's the weekend and it's time to PARTY!!

LOL ... it's a five minute song ... as for the file size and compressing it, let's just say I'm so challenged I have enough problems trying to compress my guitar signal!

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Okay, somebody try this and see if it works ... http://rapidshare.com/files/296847068/TTLOnly1.mp3

I have a song I'd like to share from TTL's recent stint in the studio but it's a 12MB mp3 (bouncing back undeliverable from many friends' e-mail baskets) and it's a cover song so I can't do a Garageband site or similar. Struck out on YouTube as well (any suggestion on how to disguise it as an video file?) Help? Tips? Am I SOL?

If he's gotta have reverb, have you suggested he run a DigiVerb through the Randall's effects loop? It will sound better than the factory reverb circuit I had in my Randall RM combo. Buncha reverb types and not a bad pedal at all. Just found three completed auctions on eBay where all sold under $60. That's not a corksniffer fix, but then again the Randall ain't corksniffer either Just a quick-fix thought considering the reverb on that amp is not as simple as buying and mounting a tank and plugging it up.

If the amp was adequately insured, I'd say do what you can to assist him in processing the claim. Offer him copies of all shipping receipts, proof of insurance, etc. An amp that suddenly doesn't work probably took a drop and the box would reflect it. Ask him if he took any pictures of the box upon arrival. Remind him that a successful claim will mean he'll likely have to turn over the amp to the shipping company - he can't secure insurance money just to repair it (at least to my knowledge). If he's acting like he wants to keep the amp but still complaining about the absence of a reverb tank, show him this link and offer a refund that reflects the price, shipping, plus a few bucks for the inconvenience. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DIE3XI Assuming the amp was tube - considering the intermittent problem, did you ask him about trying tube substitution or fuse replacement as a possible trouble-shooting measure? Sorry about your predicament, Gray. Good luck out atcha.

Great shots, but you wanna borrow my lime green tux jacket? Everytime I see a shot of that pedalboard, my first thought is how heavy that sucker is.

For cleaning your Gibson, use GHS polish, the stuff in the black bottle, it's a white cream that you use like a common car wax. Follow the instructions on the bottle. It will clean that sticky crud that builds on top of the current Gibson nitro concoction from your skin oils (aka the cloudy shit) with no damage to the finish and it makes it feel great under your hands too. I hit my Flying V's neck and where my arm goes over the body with the GHS and it works like a charm. I use a Hercules hanging stand for my V. Black foam rubber. No surgical tubing.

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Not 100% sure, because the boxes of necks looked suspiciously like imported stuff, but I'd bet the ones we saw yesterday were targeted for higher-end USA models. Check the truss rod access and the carving...these are also 22-fretters instead of 21 fret jobs: And a Floyd Rose nut shelf...

From a fellow HFC'er ... and I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF !!!!!

No kidding, GG, I'd imagine most of the animals there were a little, eh, disrupted by the time we left. At least it was all for a good cause. And we didn't do "Wild Thing" but we woulda darn sure did "Jungle Boogie" if we had a horn section

Some of my Facebook friends heard this story over the weekend. For the rest of youse in the Peanut Gallery... So True Too Life was playing this weekend at a fundraiser for the zoological park in Jackson, MS. We get there and we're on an outdoor stage in the middle of the zoo, so we're surrounded by animal cages kinda like a little amphitheater. We go about our business, setting up the PA system and the lights, you know the drill. Comes time to test the mains and we do what we usually do - load a bouncy dance song on the CD player and start shaking the place up a little to warm up the crowd as we test main volumes, enclosures, eq and monitors, yada yada. So we go after it for about 10 minutes and one of the khaki-clad zoo handlers comes running up to the stage. She's smiling and happy, so we know we aren't like in trouble or anything but we're wondering what's up. "I'm sorry, but can I ask you guys to turn it down just for about 10 minutes? We're gonna put the giraffes to sleep." She explained that the giraffes had a separate sleeping quarters for evening hours and it was time to herd them over, but they were a little spooked by the music and the keepers were worried they might hurt themselves or the keepers making the move. No problem, we turn it down. Coupla minutes later, about 100 yards away over a line of tall shrubs and trees, we see three giraffe heads a-bobbin' over the thicket, making their way away (somewhat swiftly) towards their shelter. The keeper came back about 10 minutes later and told us the giraffes were tucked in for the evening, and she thanked us for helping out. Okay, now who can say they've had a sound check delayed so the giraffes could be put to bed? LMAO!

December 2008... July 2009... I stripped it to just the necessities for my True Too Life gig. Teese wah, DejaVibe2, cheap chorus pedal and a tuner. Helps that my amp has a great onboard delay. Weighs a helluva lot less now too.

Second stab, '48 Fender Broadcaster prototype ...

Howzabout "no" knobs?

Here's my telebastard I threw together about three years ago out of pieces bought on clearance or salvaged from parts bins. Mostly Allparts stuff, hosting a pair of Rio Muy Grandes. One phatass tele... Sold this MIK Tele Esquire GT about a year ago. Now this was a fun guitar to play.

It's fun to throw together parts-o-casters. Here's one I build in December of 2006... If you go the strat- or tele-style kit first time around, you don't need serious guitar-specific tools like fret dressing stuff if you get good stuff from reputable manufacturers. The guitar above is an AllParts "licensed by Fender" body and neck and the fret dressing from the factory was fine for my tastes. Same was the case with a couple of Warmoth necks I've bought over the years. For tools, if you do basic repairs and projects on your home and/or your car, you probably have most of what you need already. A Dremel and a nice power drill with a variety of bits for both is pretty much mandatory. Having or having access to a drill press is definitely nice for these projects. You'll probably need nut files to fine-tune the nut to your action tastes - they're cheap. There are a few books out there. Folks seem to like Dan Erlewine's books a lot from what I read on the forums. You may want to see what resources are online at Stewart-McDonald too. They have every tool for every guitar repair or assembly job, and they just might have some sort of pre-packaged set of necessity guitar tools (I haven't looked). AllParts is a great source for parts too - most of the hardware on my tele project was AllParts stuff If you're buying a neck and a body, I'd recommend getting them from the same manufacturer to make sure the neck and the body pocket match up clean. I've thrown together a bunch of parts bastards over the years and mixing and matching bodies and necks usually gets me a date with a Dremel and/or a router to open up a body more - pain in the butt. Or the opposite - enough air space in the neck pocket to hold a few picks. Looks fugly and will make the neck shift on you while you're playing it. Be careful mixing body and pickguard manufacturers too 'cause sometimes they don't line up right as well. I got my pickguard from AllParts - I still had to modify it to accommodate the extended 22-fret fingerboard but at least all the screw holes and body and hardware contours matched up. Before you start ordering parts too, here's a tip: Hit your local music shops and see what they have lying around in their parts bins/junk boxes/back shelves that they will sell cheap just to move it. I think the only parts I bought as "new" on the guitar above were the pickguard, the keys, the control plate and knobs and the bridge pickup. Everything else was scavenged out of bins for cheap. Scavenging also gets some pleasant surprises often. I wasn't going to use Rio Grandes in the telebastard until I found a used clean Muy Grande neck pickup in a discard bin for around $10 IIRC. It sounded so good after I threw the guitar together I went back and splurged for the new Muy Grande bridge pickup. Turns out this is probably the most tonally versatile guitar I own now.

Muse, look outside...I just sent you smoke signals.

+1 on the Bowen Handle. I got one when I first started playing. It was a wonderful tool for teaching you how to properly tune your guitar - you never stopped.

Agreed on some of the ESPs.... great guitars. +1...